Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Atom based board, and experiences?

2010-01-29 Thread Tim Foster
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:04 +0100, Matthias Pfützner - Principal Field Technologist - Systems Infrastructure Ambassador - Solution Architect wrote: Super Micro has an attractive board for low power home systems: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H

Re: [osol-discuss] Sparc zfs root/boot status ?

2008-01-25 Thread Tim Foster
Isn't part of the holdup for ZFS boot that SPARC new boot architecture that just got putback: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/newboot_sparc Yep - Lori gave an update on zfs-discuss this week: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-January/045343.html cheers, tim This

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Finding external USB disks

2007-12-13 Thread Tim Foster
:-) cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-02 Thread Tim Foster
the same voices with the same opinions now on this naming discussion, I'm not sure we're getting anywhere. What's next ? cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-02 Thread Tim Foster
to be community? Isn't that taxation without representation? Or is all that insignificant, irrelevant? We haven't given everything, so therefore we've given nothing? I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. Not in the least bit. -ian -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http

Re: [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-02 Thread Tim Foster
-- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Tim Foster
on in, the water's fine! Stop focusing on yourselves; focus on the users. We need to do what's best for the community, not our egos. +1 cheers, tim [1] Don't knock it, there's a precedent :-) http://flickr.com/photos/timf/1638454799/ -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems

[osol-discuss] Developer Conference slides added to Talks Presentations page

2007-03-26 Thread Tim Foster
-to-digest format (to the extent that I just needed to copy/paste them onto the page!) We now have 133 presentations on that page, which I think is pretty good going - if you've got anything to add to the page, please let me know! cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Slides from Seattle OpenSolaris Day

2006-09-23 Thread Tim Foster
://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/os-presentations/) http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/events/techdays/seattle/presos/ is now correct. Hope this helps! cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] New Home Page Graphic

2006-08-31 Thread Tim Foster
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:52 -0400, Bill Rushmore wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Martin Man wrote: could be just me being too busy, but was there any open decision making process that led to this logo being chosen? No idea (I wasn't involved, in case you were wondering ;-) Also, what does it

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-12 Thread Tim Foster
Hi Joerg, Joerg Schilling wrote: Tim Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TimiX scripts that need run on those different distributions could avail of the #! aliasing feature I was mentioning previously (thanks for the hint Casper!) where during execution, we lookup the personality.conf file

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-11 Thread Tim Foster
-complicating the problem, and if so, I'll happily shut up :-) cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris Standards Base

2006-08-10 Thread Tim Foster
copy of the 2nd ed. of the internals book ;-)] cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: where to start?

2006-05-23 Thread Tim Foster
nobody in Sun thinks about the desktop, then I beg to differ :-) cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-01 Thread Tim Foster
do to help! cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operationshttp://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Pointers to user-group presentations/slides/demos ?

2005-09-21 Thread Tim Foster
/roller/page/timf?entry=help_the_opensolaris_marketing_project [2] humour optional -- Tim Foster - Tools Engineer, Software Globalisation, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Project Lead, Open Language Tools https://open-language-tools.dev.java.net/ http://blogs.sun.com/timf http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~timf

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Laptops Article

2005-07-13 Thread Tim Foster
hey nice article, and it's not just about AMD or Sparc laptops either :-) - I'm running Solaris Express on a little Toshiba M100, and it's really pretty fantastic : http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf/20050109#solaris_on_the_desktop - that was written back in January, and laptop support has