Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-16 Thread Sean Sprague
Andrew, I have lost the ability of making a user have access to root on Solaris 11 using the command pfexec. As an adjunct, I have a memory that a number of years ago, that someone high up in Security (Glenn or Scott) said you are not supposed to use pfexec for that. At the time, this

Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-09 Thread Sean Sprague
Peter, ot a good name I guess the name needs to be changed before intrenched views set in.The project needs to be something more professional off the line. How about BorealOS? After all, we have the opportunity to light up the sky; albeit maybe not in a bloosky ;-)... ... Sean.

Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-09 Thread Sean Sprague
Jörg, How about BorealOS? After all, we have the opportunity to light up the sky; albeit maybe not in a bloosky ;-)... Doesn't this sound very similar to BerliOS? About as much as Ubuntu sounds like a fictional African tribe ;-) ... Sean.

Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion sonus

2010-08-05 Thread Sean Sprague
'SONUS' interesting?? My final suggestion is fossos - anyone like it? I am wearing Kevlar underwear... ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-03 Thread Sean Sprague
SolarOS Rolls right off the tongue ;) I didn't want to enter this naming spamfest, but how about Sunshone? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] New onnv distro naming suggestion

2010-08-03 Thread Sean Sprague
I didn't want to enter this naming spamfest, but how about Sunshone? ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org or !sunshoneie where the sun doesn't shine. My tennet was that it was where the Sun used to

Re: [osol-discuss] warning about mail on this list

2010-07-12 Thread Sean Sprague
svein: you need to chill. There is a life outside of forums. Outside of Solaris/BSD/Linux/Windows. Devsk: you should have posted this privately - it is not for this forum's consumption. But ... a life outside forums... does indeed exist; but unfortunately it usually involves

Re: [osol-discuss] Happy Birthday OpenSolaris

2010-06-14 Thread Sean Sprague
Jörg On June 14th 2005, OpenSolaris was made available to the public. Today is June 14th 2010 and OpenSolaris is celebrating it's 5th anniversary. Thanks for the reminder. Happy 5th B'day to OpenSolaris indeed. I hope that OpenSolaris still has a long life to expect in future

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle charging for ODF plugin

2010-04-22 Thread Sean Sprague
Alan Hargreaves wrote: You miss the point. This is a discussion list about OpenSolaris. Not about a Microsoft Office Plugins. Not about Solaris. Not about Solaris patches. The only reason to post this stuff (even without comment) would be to sow FUD or dissention. Quite honestly I'm getting

Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle charging for ODF plugin

2010-04-22 Thread Sean Sprague
Svein, On 22.04.2010 02:27, Alan Hargreaves wrote: You miss the point. This is a discussion list about OpenSolaris. Not about a Microsoft Office Plugins. Not about Solaris. Not about Solaris patches. The only reason to post this stuff (even without comment) would be to sow FUD or

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Erik, Bottom line: it's very premature to bail right now. That's a huge thing to do, given that what is said today may not be the reality tomorrow. I'm not saying sit on your hands and do nothing, but certainly jumping ship at the first sign of trouble is equally foolish. What you say is

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Mike, I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? Aside to AlanC's (always) measured response, I suspect an implicit gagging order might be present. Regards... Sean. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Mark, On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 15:44 +0100, casper@sun.com wrote: Mike, I do not notice anyone from Sun/Oracle making any comment on this thread. Why are you guys so quiet? Aside to AlanC's (always) measured response, I suspect an implicit gagging order might be

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 - no longer free

2010-03-22 Thread Sean Sprague
Edward, This isn't the place to discuss Solaris 10 licensing. This topic has been discussed on comp.unix.solaris yesterday. This is a fine place to discuss anything about solaris or opensolaris, regardless of whether or not it's already been discussed elsewhere. You can't expect people

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-02-18 Thread Sean Sprague
Henrik, One clue could be that you can no longer buy OpenSolaris Support subscriptions from Sun / Oracle. A quick call to our local Sun / Oracle sales team supports this. Or doesn't support it ;-) This effectively means that we no longer will be putting OpenSolaris in production.

Re: [osol-discuss] Because I don't know where to find help

2010-02-15 Thread Sean Sprague
Chad, I hope someone would know why I cannot get product updates for my purchased staroffice software bundle after Oracle took over the website and now the BigAdmin site is not online for me to ask any questions. So I trouble any of the folks that are here because as my title states where do

Re: [osol-discuss] Sun has set

2010-02-09 Thread Sean Sprague
Jörg, And BTW: I did sign several NDAs that _allowed_ me to create OSS I could otherwise not write. If you are signing an NDA for a OSS project, you just need to make sure that you get permission to publish OSS code that results from knowing details. Only sign the NDA for not disclosing the

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-29 Thread Sean Sprague
Jim, What's interesting about the general statements thus far is this: growth pervades the rhetoric. That's new. I like it. Sorry, but what does growth pervades the rhetoric actually mean? It sounds like something meaningless that would have been put out by the defective British Government

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Sean Sprague
Andrew, Has any one gone to http://www.sun.com today? You get http://www.oracle.com Very quick change Rest In Pieces :-( Sadly won't see you at LOSUG tonite... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-28 Thread Sean Sprague
Ed, Well, I'm glad SUN decided to open source solaris years ago. Does anybody know if opensolaris will remain under the CDDL? I was part of when Sun made avopen bits of Solaris 8a decade ago (the only Solaris source availability thus far - outside OpenSolaris). I hope and trust that

Re: [osol-discuss] What's Going to Happen to OpenSolaris?

2010-01-28 Thread Sean Sprague
All, Apols - new laptop keyboard causing trubs with my typing. avopen and Solaris 8a being gross examples. Regards... Sean. Ed, Well, I'm glad SUN decided to open source solaris years ago. Does anybody know if opensolaris will remain under the CDDL? I was part of when Sun made avopen

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Sean Sprague
Gary, I cannot quite grasp the name Oracle Solaris which they called it in the webcasts, when I've been saying Sun Solaris for many, many years. Statements of ownership in two differing forms. I too cannot accept the former. personally; having been (and remain) a staunch Sun supporter

Re: [osol-discuss] Bad news for running Oracle on Solaris?

2010-01-10 Thread Sean Sprague
Anon Y Mous, It's three years old! Touche! I didn't even look at the date. Still the article was lame. I was hoping for more outrage. Currently very disappointed with the lack of outrage and snide remarks from the OpenSolaris community about this ;-) Apart from echoing RLH's sed

Re: [osol-discuss] Why is using Package Manager such a pain in the A$$?

2009-11-25 Thread Sean Sprague
Stephen, hope that you are very well. [OT] We have seen some ISPs that blacklist occasional specific packets. Can we either kick these ISP's up the ass for being crap, or identify what packets they are refusing (eg. JPEG signatures?) and obfuscate the offensive packets? Whatever,

[osol-discuss] Can we EOL indiana soon?

2009-10-12 Thread Sean Sprague
Hello all, Can we please EOL the use of *indiana* soon, archive all the mailing list entries and website pages, and formally replace it (and rename/reallocate the project) with(in) OpenSolaris? Mike Kupfer recently pointed out the fact the opening sentence on the indiana docs page (

Re: [osol-discuss] Master

2009-06-02 Thread Sean Sprague
Mahan, I have graduated from IT, i am an IT guy, recently i have decided to continue my education, i am taking my master by research, i have lot of interest in open source software, solaris, Linux, and i got some experiences related to Linux and Solaris. unfortunately i do not have any idea

Re: [osol-discuss] Master

2009-06-02 Thread Sean Sprague
Dave! How wonderful to hear from you! [off-list] You've been more than a tad quiet of late. Hope that you are very well, and that it is only work that causes you sleepless nights. IMHO one better, would be working out and security issues in a cloud environment; Every Cloud can have a Kevlar

Re: [osol-discuss] new release

2009-05-28 Thread Sean Sprague
Alan Coopersmith wrote: stephen bond wrote: Does anybody know when the new release scheduled for 5/2009 will actually be released? There is no release scheduled for 5/2009. The 2009.06 release is scheduled for release next week at the CommunityOne conference. And at the same

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b114 post-installation panic

2009-05-21 Thread Sean Sprague
Hello Martin, Hello Sean, this is a known bug since 3 weeks. Please see more information below. I don't think this is related to my panic, as it doesn't appear to relate to ZFS root at boot time. Also my panic happens on raw tin, thus ruling out Virtualbox. Thanks anyways; and regards...

Re: [osol-discuss] vim doesn't source ~/.vimrc

2009-03-13 Thread Sean Sprague
Harry Putnam wrote: Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org writes: Harry Putnam wrote: Shawn Walker swal...@opensolaris.org writes: It looks like it's opening it just fine. So maybe there's a syntax error in the file or something causing vim to ignore its contents? What makes

[osol-discuss] Just when you thought Scott had gone quiet...

2009-01-21 Thread Sean Sprague
... he was in fact aiming at the White House! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7841486.stm Scott McNealy Washington CIO, and Simon Phipps his deputy? Cripes! ;-) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Weird bug in VirtualBox on Opensolaris snv96

2008-09-05 Thread Sean Sprague
Maciej, I am trying to run Ubuntu from ubuntu-8.04.1-server-i386.iso on VirutualBox. The installer boots and system installs just fine. When I reboot and try to boot the system from a virtual hardisk, i get: This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: 0:6 Unable

Re: [osol-discuss] blastwave.org - any info?

2008-08-07 Thread Sean Sprague
Chris, I'm making a huge assumption: A brave move. the website says: Legal representation for the affairs of Blastwave.org Inc. are handled by Deeth Williams Wall LLP in Toronto Canada. ( DWW.com ) dww.com http://dww.com is a trademark and patent lawyer. I have the feeling that this

Re: [osol-discuss] grub boot order

2008-07-14 Thread Sean Sprague
Johan Hartzenberg wrote: it is called menu.lst Look in /boot/grub And if you have ZFS boot, it is in /rpool/boot/grub ;-) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org Down?

2008-06-12 Thread Sean Sprague
just a slip up...i shouldn't attempt to communicate with other people after 11PM ; Most people don't want me to communicate with them from 11pm to 11pm on a rolling daily basis. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org Down?

2008-06-11 Thread Sean Sprague
Ché, As for business hours - please define the os.org business hours, with a worldwide community that is 24/7 os.org? I am sure that it is in Dennis's long-term plans to take over os.org; but for the moment it is just genunix.org (well not just, of course...) ;-) Regards... Sean.

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org Down?

2008-06-10 Thread Sean Sprague
down here too, seems like a DNS problem DNS record was updated at 02:56 today... ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] genunix.org Down?

2008-06-10 Thread Sean Sprague
Coy, Remind me again why anybody would work on something so crucial as changing an organisation's nameservers during business hours Dennis Clarke has put much effort into genunix.org in recent times; and to refer to him as the anonymous anybody is tantamount to calling him an idiot, which

Re: [osol-discuss] will there be an sxce build 88 ?

2008-05-08 Thread Sean Sprague
In addition, there is a source release and release notes already up here: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b88/ Not forgetting BFU archives too, if you want b88 quickly... ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] os200805 iso images available at genunix.org

2008-05-05 Thread Sean Sprague
Michael, Hi, Which release of the OpenSolaris is on this CD? It is OpenSolaris RC3, based on Nevada snv_86; although with the accompanying infrastructure now in place (web pages and email contact accounts active at opensolaris.com (I haven't tried the email contact yet)), it is

Re: [osol-discuss] Longest uptime?

2008-03-26 Thread Sean Sprague
przemol, mike:/export/home/przemoluname -a SunOS mike 5.8 Generic_108528-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4 mike:/export/home/przemoluptime 11:11am up 1970 day(s), 8:58, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.01 I like the 1970 days - very epochy ;-) Regards... Sean.

Re: [osol-discuss] In Unix

2008-03-21 Thread Sean Sprague
Raja, Its not working, pls make me clear in this...!! As Andrew absolutely correctly stated, this is not a forum for hand-holding on shell scripts. I just cut'n'pasted your text and Andrew's script solution, and apart from a couple of errant spaces in the awk script, it worked absolutely

Re: [osol-discuss] Longest uptime?

2008-03-21 Thread Sean Sprague
server. It turns out that the sysadmin that set it up in 2000 left in 20002 That's one hell of a SysAdmin! SUNWtts (Sun Time Travel Server) must have been installed ;-) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Longest uptime?

2008-03-21 Thread Sean Sprague
Dennis, I think that getting uptime to report 5000 days should be no problem. I wonder what happens if I set the time to a date previous to the epoch? That would sort of force a negative number as the UNIX time. snv_77 will not let you set the time to before 01:00 on the date of the

Re: [osol-discuss] In Unix

2008-03-20 Thread Sean Sprague
Mike, cat filename | grep -v ^# or grep -v ^# filename Careful! The first example put you at risk of retribution from the UUoC (Useless Use of Cat) brigade... Fortunately you redeemed yourself just in time ;-) Regards... Sean. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] How to edit files inside a ISO-image?

2008-02-07 Thread Sean Sprague
David, You could try a program called isomaster As a Solaris X86 Evangelist, you suggest a program that is only currently available for Linux and Windows? Very poor indeed IMO. Regards... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] How to edit files inside a ISO-image?

2008-02-07 Thread Sean Sprague
David, Apols, I did not mean/wish to impune you earlier - I was just feeling a little subversive ;-) Regards... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Torrent - was Re: on/downloads/current/ is missing

2008-02-05 Thread Sean Sprague
Al, [Snip!] [the in-test-199.iso.torrent link is MIA and I'd rather just get a copy of the iso file than mess with bittorrent] +1 - I don't think that anyone in their right mind would prefer a Torrent-based acquisition method for our ISO's... Regards... Sean.

Re: [osol-discuss] Torrent - was Re: on/downloads/current/ is missing

2008-02-05 Thread Sean Sprague
Shawn, As was noted in the release announcement, the test image was released via torrent only on purpose. Ahh... missed that one. Apols. When the actualy preview2 image is posted, there will be other methods to get it available. Cool. Many thanks for the clarification. Regards...

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is the magic ?

2008-01-07 Thread Sean Sprague
Akhilesh, I have been dealing with Sun for quite some years now, and I can say that from my perspective, Sun is absolutely head and shoulders above any other producer of operating environments in the following areas (amongst others): a) Raw technical skills - the Sun techs are absolutely the

Re: [osol-discuss] Where is the magic ?

2008-01-07 Thread Sean Sprague
John, I wonder if it is perhaps because the primary users of OpenSolaris at this point are system administrators ( who are paid by their various employers specifically to understand the system and diagnose problems ) and the people who write the thing. One could argue that the primary

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE V76 DVD Download

2007-11-09 Thread Sean Sprague
I just wanted to put in another positive vote for the SDM. I makes the downloading procedure more predictable and a clean process. +1 - no probs at all with the DVD creation and installation. Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] b75 is a desaster

2007-10-29 Thread Sean Sprague
Roman, Hi, as I sincerely love SX[CD]E but b75 has several severe bugs. First the installer crashes with the developer version while configuring and then the version with the old installer does not install the developer tools. After trying to install the developer tools manually even this

Re: [osol-discuss] Should B72 be here any day now?

2007-08-29 Thread Sean Sprague
Dennis, I'm in no rush ... snv_70 seems to work wonderfully well .. with a few glitches here and there .. but geez. What do people want? Perfection? Yes. Today and right away and for *free* also? Then users complain about it. People bitch more in general about stuff that is free. If

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Shawn, On 23/08/07, Sean Sprague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn, I would like to hope someday that Sun might consider having one that wasn't conveniently located near their offices, such as, I don't know, the midwest :) London would suit me fine ;-) Hey, at least it'd be somewhere

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-23 Thread Sean Sprague
Shawn, I would like to hope someday that Sun might consider having one that wasn't conveniently located near their offices, such as, I don't know, the midwest :) London would suit me fine ;-) Regards... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Ombudsman: Contribution agreement boundaries.

2007-08-16 Thread Sean Sprague
Matthew, What is APOC? I went to the website and was informed that I'm not allowed to view it? Do Sun realise the key component in OpenSource is Open? I got the same, but then put a in the search box and clicked Titles, and got a whole load of viewable pages back (all with

Re: [osol-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-16 Thread Sean Sprague
Stephen! Sean Sprague wrote: You should get out more! But watch out for the potters ;-) Hey! We're not so bad! Just because that Rowling lady decided to make us look bad with those witches James and Lily and family. :-) -spp, Potter and Proud :-) Do you have a beard? You could

Re: [osol-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-15 Thread Sean Sprague
Alan, So the solution is to list support forums above or otherwise adjacent to the discussion forums. That's what makes sense, and that's what works for others. I agree, the opensolaris-help forum is *not* well signposted enough, and the first one we point people at is

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-15 Thread Sean Sprague
James, Alan Burlison wrote: Alan Burlison wrote: OK, here's a first stab, not currently linked to from anywhere else on the site. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/newbies/ Updated with Brian's list of links. Is it ok to mention this on blogs yet, or should I/we/... wait until it's

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-15 Thread Sean Sprague
Alan, Sean Sprague wrote: James, Alan Burlison wrote: Alan Burlison wrote: OK, here's a first stab, not currently linked to from anywhere else on the site. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/newbies/ Updated with Brian's list of links. Is it ok to mention this on blogs yet, or should I

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-15 Thread Sean Sprague
Alan, Garrett D'Amore wrote: Btw, on the topic of this page, newbies might not be the best name for this page. newbie or NOOB is often perceived as a derogatory term... I don't want us to be perceived as elitest... I don't personally feel it is derogatory, but please feel free to

Re: [osol-discuss] COBOL?

2007-08-07 Thread Sean Sprague
The former is actually from Micro Focus (www.microfocus.com). Cripes! I used to teach Microfocus COBOL (Completely Over and Beyond Obvious Logic (tm)) 25 years ago! If anyone needs a trainer, I could brush up very quickly; given the right resources ;-) Regards... Sean.

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-07-31 Thread Sean Sprague
Hi andrewk9, Comments inline: Ditto (as they should be ;-) ) with snippages... No software is perfect, as I think you acknowledge. I totally that it is up to the community to engage itself in the process. I remember a piece of software 25 years ago called The Last One. I think that its

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-07-31 Thread Sean Sprague
Hey tripivceta, Whenever the group *for* Solaris==Server==Xterm==Niche_product ecomes very vocal it concerns me. Why? Are you afraid of the command line? If you are (note the IF), don't reject an opportunity to learn something. Learn, be enlightened, and be a better person for it. I'm

Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.

2007-07-30 Thread Sean Sprague
Hey andrewk9, I shall reply to you, but my 2 cents applies to other comments in this thread; so apols if I bang on about stuff that you have not directly or indirectly commented on. 1. We in the community should not be expecting Sun to be addressing all of the shortcomings in OpenSolaris.

Re: [osol-discuss] problem installing nv-68

2007-07-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Mike, Just a stupid thing to check, are you sure you did not download the sparc version? Bill's CD does actually boot, and apparently displays a menu and stuff; so can't be this problem. Regards... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Reminder: June LOSUG meeting this Wednesday 20/06/2007

2007-06-18 Thread Sean Sprague
Hello All, This is just a reminder that this month's LOSUG meeting will take place this Wednesday, 20/06/2007, and is entitled Solaris Troubleshooting – The Unofficial Tourist Guide. I am certain that it will prove to be very informative indeed. If you would like to attend, please visit

Re: [osol-discuss] BASH as root shell

2007-05-23 Thread Sean Sprague
Gerard, How can I make BASH the root's default shell? This question has come up more times than possibly any other. The answer is invariably (and correctly) Don't do it!. Root's default shell should _only_ ever be /sbin/sh for many reasons; including system recovery after panic. This

Re: [osol-discuss] BASH as root shell

2007-05-23 Thread Sean Sprague
Dick, On 23/05/07, Sean Sprague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerard, How can I make BASH the root's default shell? This question has come up more times than possibly any other. The answer is invariably (and correctly) Don't do it!. What's the technical reason for that? Because all I've heard

Re: [osol-discuss] archives of older Nevada builds

2007-05-22 Thread Sean Sprague
Steffen, A community member or two need access to an older Nevada build, specifically build 61. Are they archived anywhere that they could download them from? I haven't found anything in my searches. Try: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b61/ Regards... Sean.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: archives of older Nevada builds

2007-05-22 Thread Sean Sprague
Steffen, A community member or two need access to an older Nevada build, specifically build 61. Are they archived anywhere that they could download them from? I haven't found anything in my searches. Try: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/b61/ Thanks Sean, But this is for the tools.

Re: [osol-discuss] archives of older Nevada builds

2007-05-22 Thread Sean Sprague
Steffen, A community member or two need access to an older Nevada build, specifically build 61. Are they archived anywhere that they could download them from? I haven't found anything in my searches. Hi, me again... ;-) I have hunted further, and all the posts from Derek Cicero about

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and Sunrays

2007-05-17 Thread Sean Sprague
Alan, Find out all about it next week when Ian Murdock presents project Indiana to the SVOSUG, one week from tonight. For us nowhere near SV (and those who haven't made the technological leap to viewing webcasts yet ;-) ), will a video of the presentation be made (available)? Thanks...

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and Sunrays

2007-05-17 Thread Sean Sprague
Alan, On Thu, 17 May 2007, Sean Sprague wrote: Alan, Find out all about it next week when Ian Murdock presents project Indiana to the SVOSUG, one week from tonight. For us nowhere near SV (and those who haven't made the technological leap to viewing webcasts yet ;-) ), will a video

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Its 2007, with an article vi on slashdot ?

2007-01-09 Thread Sean Sprague
Interestingly, all 3 of the above are based on variants of the venerable 6502. Z80s were for pansies! :-) HAHA, yo, 6502s are forever! LDA #$37 STA $01 CLI RTS (:-) Not to mention the undocumented operation HCF opcode 0x22. HCF was Halt and Catch Fire: if you stuck one of those into your

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Its 2007, with an article vi on slashdot ?

2007-01-09 Thread Sean Sprague
Dennis, Drats! foiled again... you'll rue the day! ( start rue-ing!!) I sense impending rueage Sore rueage? Nasty stuff... ;-) Regards... Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Its 2007, with an article vi on slashdot ?

2007-01-09 Thread Sean Sprague
For the record, I use vi. Not just any vi either but THE vi in /usr/xpg4/bin/vi and I set my env var EDITOR that way too. `vi` has this property that it can become ingrained in one's muscle memory. And once that happens, one starts punching in `vi` keystrokes... in any editor. Can't imagine

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Its 2007, with an article vi on slashdot ?

2007-01-09 Thread Sean Sprague
David, Hmmm... `vi` has this property that it can become ingrained in one's muscle memory. And once that happens, one starts punching in `vi` keystrokes... in any editor. Can't imagine how I ever did without `vi`. I used to be the same with Wordstar ^KB ^KK ^KY... Now my M$ Word documents

Re: [osol-discuss] Its 2007, with an article vi on slashdot ?

2007-01-07 Thread Sean Sprague
Pawel, What the interesting mix of technology. Aapparently your hardware was updated recently. I remember toggle switches on the front panel and ferromagnetic core memory. ;) I still own a PDP 11 Front panel with purple switches and a 4K core memory board :-) Regards... Sean.

Re: [osol-discuss] Unkillable Processes

2006-12-17 Thread Sean Sprague
Bryan, [Snip!] And there you have it. To verify Matt's hypothesis, run the DTrace one-liner that I sent you; if it's the bug that Matt suggested (which certainly matches the symptoms you describe), you'll see stack traces like this one in the output: issig_forreal+0x5c0()

Re: [osol-discuss] Unkillable Processes

2006-12-17 Thread Sean Sprague
Al, You must have missed an email. Here it is (again) [edited]: Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:45:49 -0800 From: Bryan Cantrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben Rockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Unkillable Processes Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [osol-discuss] Unkillable Processes

2006-12-17 Thread Sean Sprague
Matt, Actually, he did in the message at 10:45PM PST: # dtrace -n profile-1234hz'/pid == 4308/[EMAIL PROTECTED]()] = count()} Interestingly, the only difference between that and one Ben had tried is he used stack() instead of ustack(), which is much more appropriate for this situation.

Re: [osol-discuss] I/O errors on CD causing loss of CD device

2006-11-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Bob, I built grip a while ago, If I eject a cd in grip the I get a dialog to insert volume audio CD, if I reinsert the CD, it tells me I have the wrong CD inserted, then if I cancel the insert volume audio CD dialog the CD is locked in the drive and I can't eject it. Anyone know a workaround

[osol-discuss] Reminder: November LOSUG meeting tomorrow, 15th

2006-11-14 Thread Sean Sprague
an email ASAP to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We hope to see you tomorrow! Thanks and regards... Sean Sprague. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Reminder: one week to go to next LOSUG meeting, 15th November!

2006-11-08 Thread Sean Sprague
... Sean Sprague. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Next LOSUG meeting 15th November!

2006-11-06 Thread Sean Sprague
topic and a star presenter; I promise. And even better, I will say very little in comparison to the last event ;-) For more information, please visit: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug/ We hope to see you on the 15th! Thanks and regards... Sean Sprague

[osol-discuss] Reminder: LOSUG meeting tonight 18th October 2006!

2006-10-18 Thread Sean Sprague
All, Please remember that tonight is the occasion of the next meeting of the London OpenSolaris User Group! Please go to the LOSUG user group page at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug for more information. We hope to see you later! Regards... Sean Sprague

[osol-discuss] Next LOSUG meeting less than a week away!

2006-10-11 Thread Sean Sprague
Well, the next meeting of the London OpenSolaris User Group (LOSUG) is less than one week away. Please visit http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug/ for more information. Hope to see you on the 18th October! Best regards... Sean Sprague. This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: KINDLY LOOK INTO THIS SIR (NEED TO FINISH IT SOON)

2006-09-21 Thread Sean Sprague
Dennis! I asked him to join [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then I sorted out his woe for him quite neatly. He is running fine now. Well done, Mr. Samaritan! ;-) Why people use the OpenSolaris discuss list as a general support dump zone is beyond me. Because finding (or being bothered to locate)

[osol-discuss] LOSUG Lives! Next meeting 18th October 2006 !!!

2006-09-13 Thread Sean Sprague
://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug Please come along; and bring your friends ;-) Thanks and regards... Sean Sprague. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] upcoming source and binary distributions

2006-07-26 Thread Sean Sprague
Hey Karyn! Hope that you are very well, and not too snowed under. I'm sorry I haven't sent a weekly update about source and binary deliveries for several weeks. I know everything has been going smoothly, so I hope there weren't any problems due to my lack of status. Everything appears from my

Re: [osol-discuss] skype for opensolaris

2006-06-13 Thread Sean Sprague
i havent tested it but theoretically you could try and run skype from a Linux branded zone. According to http://opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/applications/ Skype is Yellow - functional, but with poor latency Regards... Sean. ___

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR Download Link Problem

2006-06-05 Thread Sean Sprague
Eric, There seems to be something wrong with the SXCR download link on opensolaris.org's ON build instructions page. For the past few days, the attempt to connect to javashoplm.sun.com has been timing out for me. Just gave it a shot without problem... Can you ping it, or telnet to it on port

[osol-discuss] Schwartz new Sun CEO

2006-04-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Hello all, I am sure that we would all like to send congratulations to Jonathan in his new position as CEO of Sun. I am also sure that his appointment means that OpenSolaris will have a certain future in Sun's roadmap. Regards... Sean. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] B35 install: Entire Group + OEM Size correct?

2006-03-28 Thread Sean Sprague
Hey All, I am just installing B35 (X86), and noticed that the installer reports that Entire Group and Entire Group Plus OEM are the same size at 3376.6 MB. I guess that this is not quite correct...? Regards... Sean. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Replacement name for Band of Brothers

2006-03-17 Thread Sean Sprague
Hello all, As Dennis suggested, Band of Brothers is not a suitable name for the DVD containing BeleniX, Nexenta and SchilliX; and that a replacement name should be sought. Well here's the thread, and a couple of kickoffs that my brain (term used loosely) has dumped (each with a reason for

Re: [osol-discuss] Replacement name for Band of Brothers

2006-03-17 Thread Sean Sprague
Jasse, Ehh, please skip the religious overtones please. If you had read carefully, I did state that religious connotations were reasons for _unsuitability_; and that holy is not exclusively for religious usage. Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Replacement name for Band of Brothers

2006-03-17 Thread Sean Sprague
LKR! You'll despise me for this, but this does not rock my boat; and I have just worked out why... OpenSolaris Collective Force 1 This sounds just like a Sun Microsystems product, and not something that has been born out of the OpenSolaris Community - it's not funky or quirky enough (or at

Re: [osol-discuss] Band of Brothers DVD--Update

2006-03-16 Thread Sean Sprague
Dennis Clarke wrote: All three OpenSolaris Distro's on one DVD along with everything else that one would want. Has Chandan done the artwork for the Band of Brothers t-shirt yet? Sean. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

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