[osol-discuss] Re: Sun joins the Free Software Foundation

2007-03-03 Thread UNIX admin
...something smells in Denmark... :) You are quite right, and I'll tell you what it is: the foam from the fuming Slashdot fanboys. Did you read the comments there? The only company I've ever seen spread so much FUD is Microsoft. I've been reading slashdot.org since 1997, and I remember

[osol-discuss] Re: OGB Nomination

2007-03-03 Thread UNIX admin
yeah but he is verbose as hell. He could have just said I'm Rich Teer and that would have been fine. Heheh! The man, the myth, the legend. Yeah, I'll back you up Rich. You've been with us since forever, and you are certainly familiar with Solaris. You've got my vote too. Keep at it. Now

[osol-discuss] Errror in OpenSolaris Device Detection Tool

2007-03-03 Thread Gary Gendel
I was surprised to find that the ddtool said everything except my modem was supported on my laptop. Then I looked further... The broadcom wireless a/b/g miniPCI card was supported by the aac driver. Isn't that a driver for a RAID disk controller? Sounds like the ddtool needs a little more

Re: [osol-discuss] Errror in OpenSolaris Device Detection Tool

2007-03-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Gary Gendel wrote: I was surprised to find that the ddtool said everything except my modem was supported on my laptop. Then I looked further... The broadcom wireless a/b/g miniPCI card was supported by the aac driver. Isn't that a driver for a RAID disk controller? Yup Sounds like the ddtool

Re: [osol-discuss] Errror in OpenSolaris Device Detection Tool

2007-03-03 Thread Shawn Walker
On 03/03/07, James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Gendel wrote: I was surprised to find that the ddtool said everything except my modem was supported on my laptop. Then I looked further... The broadcom wireless a/b/g miniPCI card was supported by the aac driver. Isn't that a

[osol-discuss] Re: Sun joins the Free Software Foundation

2007-03-03 Thread Michael Huff
Why so much blind hate towards Sun and Solaris? It seems that everything Sun does is never good enough, and there is always some nit or fault to find. Is it because Sun hardware was something to drool over, but couldn't be afforded by the average geek? Is it anger towards historically high

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun joins the Free Software Foundation

2007-03-03 Thread Octave Orgeron
Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather---BeginMessage--- And this is where Sun needs to spend some

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Sun joins the Free Software Foundation

2007-03-03 Thread John Sonnenschein
On 3-Mar-07, at 4:07 PM, Octave Orgeron wrote: And this is where Sun needs to spend some $$ on good marketing and reaching out the schools and universities to change these perceptions. I mean when was the last time we saw a Sun commercial on the TV? There are some good ones on-line poking fun