[osol-discuss] Re: Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Bob Palowoda
> Has anyone tried it in BrandZ? > > Adam Why? Do you think BrandZ is going to have a serious supported roadmap into Solaris? ---Bob This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.o

Re: [osol-discuss] skype for opensolaris

2006-06-13 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 13/06/2006, at 10:48 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Hi All, Skype is officially supported on windows, linux & Mac. Did anyone run Skype on Solaris sparc or x86? If not, Is anyone working on porting skype on opensolaris? gag ... something I have been watching closely : see http://www.skype.com/h

Re: [osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Casper . Dik
>Sorry.. these BFUs, >http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/on-bfu-20060612.i386.tar.bz2 > >if I upgrade to this one, does that mean that it'll be all done >automatically for me? No; because you can't "upgrade" to bfus and the "default install" only applies to *fresh installs*, not upgrad

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] OpenSolaris - VMware - VMwareTools?

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 20:01 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Is this using xorg or xsun? configuration using kdmconfig? (or should I > > edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf? - Confusingly, it's labeled > > as /etc/X11/.xorf.conf???) > > /etc/X11/.xorg.conf is a template version used by

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] OpenSolaris - VMware - VMwareTools?

2006-06-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Is this using xorg or xsun? configuration using kdmconfig? (or should I edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf? - Confusingly, it's labeled as /etc/X11/.xorf.conf???) /etc/X11/.xorg.conf is a template version used by xorgcfg to generate the real xorg.conf if needed. If there is no /etc/X1

Re: [osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Dave Miner
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:35 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: SBD (Secure By Default) just integrated into ON two weeks ago: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/20060605/on-changelog-20060605.html#Thu_Jun_1_23:58:06_2006_GMT Which tightens up the default install Cool. Now, time f

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] OpenSolaris - VMware - VMwareTools?

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 21:00 -0400, Bill Walker - Sun Principal Engineer wrote: > No need for VMware tools to do that. :) I use the VESA driver > when running under VMware, and currently run 1280x1024 and > 1280x800 on my boxes. :) I had some wierd things happen with > the "vmware" video driver

Re: [osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, Found this from the links below. Thanks again. http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/public/htdocs/My_Little_SMF_FAQ.html On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 17:30 -0700, Michelle Olson wrote: > Hi, > > More docs are on the Documentation Community here: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/doc_in

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread John Martinez
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm a little bit south though, at San Jose. (vicinity of airport) How many are going anyway? Show of Hands? I can't. MP is a little too far from home for me. Congrats OpenSolaris! -john ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list ope

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] OpenSolaris - VMware - VMwareTools?

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Walker - Sun Principal Engineer
No need for VMware tools to do that. :) I use the VESA driver when running under VMware, and currently run 1280x1024 and 1280x800 on my boxes. :) I had some wierd things happen with the "vmware" video driver a while back, and never tried it again (if it ain't broke...). I am running workstat

[osol-discuss] [OT] OpenSolaris - VMware - VMwareTools?

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Just wondering if there exists a version of vmware tools for solaris? This artile seems to say so, but it's on the ESX version and not workstation. http://wotho.ethz.ch/ESX_solaris/Install_Solaris_on_ESX.html /me just wondering how to set up a larger res than 1024x768. -- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PR

Thanks - Re: [osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 17:04 -0700, Matt Ingenthron wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > Cool. Now, time for me to figure out about Solaris' SMF and where to > > turn these services off. > > > > /me hunts for documentation. > > > Well, there are still man pages! > > BTW, can I use Solaris 10's

Re: [osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi, More docs are on the Documentation Community here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/doc_index Specific to install, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/doc_index/install/ Might also have some SMF doc links here you haven't seen: http://www.opensolar

Re: [osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Cool. Now, time for me to figure out about Solaris' SMF and where to turn these services off. /me hunts for documentation. Well, there are still man pages! BTW, can I use Solaris 10's documentation? I can't seem to find any/much (except for 4 boooks http://www.

Re: [osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:44 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:35 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: > > SBD (Secure By Default) just integrated into ON two weeks ago: > > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/20060605/on-changelog-20060605.html#Thu_Jun_1_23:58:06_2006_GMT > > > > Which ti

Re: [osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 16:35 -0700, Stephen Lau wrote: > SBD (Secure By Default) just integrated into ON two weeks ago: > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/20060605/on-changelog-20060605.html#Thu_Jun_1_23:58:06_2006_GMT > > Which tightens up the default install Cool. Now, time for me to figure

Re: [osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Stephen Lau
SBD (Secure By Default) just integrated into ON two weeks ago: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/20060605/on-changelog-20060605.html#Thu_Jun_1_23:58:06_2006_GMT Which tightens up the default install cheers, steve Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm just experimenting with OpenSolaris (under vmware) and

[osol-discuss] NewB - Is this normal - Lots of Open ports on Default Install

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm just experimenting with OpenSolaris (under vmware) and got a default install done (b40). first thing I did was to find out what ports are open. Using nmap from my gentoo laptop #nmap 172.16.124.134 Starting Nmap 4.01 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-06-13 16:21 PDT Interesting ports

Re: [osol-discuss] feedback requested: IRC applet on home page

2006-06-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Tue 06/13/06 at 13:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My suggestion would be to use mozilla, or get a copy of an IRC > client appropriate for your platform-- the better IRC clients > can use an HTTP proxy to help you get out. Xchat can do this. It runs under Solaris or (ObPlug) BrandZ. Nils

[osol-discuss] Our 100th putback

2006-06-13 Thread Bonnie Corwin
Hi, I updated the request-sponsor table this afternoon with pubs work that has been happening that wasn't captured on the table. Those items have been inserted chronologically (and note that some information is missing right now - I still have to finish up some detail). Which brought the total t

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:23 -0700, Ben Rockwood wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:23 -0700, Octave Orgeron wrote: > > > >> Hi Karyn > >> > >> Great idea! > >> > >> For those who are a little further north in SF, would anyone be willing > >> to meet up downtown? > >>

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Ben Rockwood
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:23 -0700, Octave Orgeron wrote: Hi Karyn Great idea! For those who are a little further north in SF, would anyone be willing to meet up downtown? I'm a little bit south though, at San Jose. (vicinity of airport) How many are going anyway

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:23 -0700, Octave Orgeron wrote: > Hi Karyn > > Great idea! > > For those who are a little further north in SF, would anyone be willing > to meet up downtown? I'm a little bit south though, at San Jose. (vicinity of airport) How many are going anyway? Show of Hands? ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Dan Price
On Mon 12 Jun 2006 at 10:58PM, Karyn Ritter wrote: > I'm wondering if people in the Bay Area want together for drinks on the > anniversary (Wed., 6/14). I was thinking perhaps the Oasis Beer Garden > in Menlo Park ( http://www.yelp.com/biz/SaqyQPrK5Byv_wxfeHGYdg ). > > Starting at 6pm for a coup

Re: [osol-discuss] feedback requested: IRC applet on home page

2006-06-13 Thread Dan Price
On Tue 13 Jun 2006 at 09:28AM, Bruce Shaw wrote: > Many of us are behind firewalls that block IRC packets due to justifiable > security concerns. Any chance of a version that would get around this by > doing the IRC-ing for us but give us an HTTP-based display? > > >Note that if you are behind a

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Octave Orgeron
Hi Karyn Great idea! For those who are a little further north in SF, would anyone be willing to meet up downtown? Octave --- Karyn Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if people in the Bay Area want together for drinks on > the > anniversary (Wed., 6/14). I was thinking perhaps

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 05:22 am, Laura Ramsey wrote: > Hey Guys in Burlington (Dave Miner et al...) > How about we step out too? Maybe we can hit the Dandelion Green (they'll > have some world cup going but let's not let that ruin the good time!) Yes, please do get together, we'll be toasting wit

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 12 June 2006 10:58 pm, Karyn Ritter wrote: > I'm wondering if people in the Bay Area want together for drinks on the > anniversary (Wed., 6/14). I was thinking perhaps the Oasis Beer Garden > in Menlo Park ( http://www.yelp.com/biz/SaqyQPrK5Byv_wxfeHGYdg ). > > Starting at 6pm for a coupl

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 12 June 2006 10:58 pm, Karyn Ritter wrote: > I'm wondering if people in the Bay Area want together for drinks on the > anniversary (Wed., 6/14). I was thinking perhaps the Oasis Beer Garden > in Menlo Park ( http://www.yelp.com/biz/SaqyQPrK5Byv_wxfeHGYdg ). > > Starting at 6pm for a coupl

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:15 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Erast Benson wrote: > > Besides, do you really care about of 5-6MB extra memory these days? > > My overpowered machines don't, but I know a lot of people working on > the One-Laptop-Per-Child project who really really do, and they might

[osol-discuss] latest putbacks: 85 total

2006-06-13 Thread Bonnie Corwin
I'm filling in for Jim as he prepares for his move. Thanks to Peter Tribble, Stephen Potter and Yann Poupet for the fixes listed below. And thanks to Craig Mohrman, Carol Fields and April Chin for sponsoring. We're up to 85 - thanks, everyone! Putack 79 ID: 4319640 Desc: */usr/ucb/file* s

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Erast Benson wrote: Besides, do you really care about of 5-6MB extra memory these days? My overpowered machines don't, but I know a lot of people working on the One-Laptop-Per-Child project who really really do, and they might like to see Google Earth as a teaching tool for those machines. --

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Erast Benson
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 18:05 -0700, Matt Ingenthron wrote: > Erast Benson wrote: > > > > I think Google folks did a nice job on Google Earth for GNU/Linux. Their > > applications does not depends on any sort of distribution's permutations > > and installs all needed libraries in a single user home d

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] ON Mercurial changeset bundles

2006-06-13 Thread Felix Schulte
On 5/31/06, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Starting with yesterday's nightly delivery, we will be delivery Mercurial (Hg) changeset bundles [1] in addition to the raw source tarball. You should be able to unpack these bundles and have a Mercurial repository of ON dating back to OpenSolar

[osol-discuss] Re: Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Jim Grisanzio
> I'm wondering if people in the Bay Area want together > for drinks on the > anniversary (Wed., 6/14). I was thinking perhaps the > Oasis Beer Garden > in Menlo Park ( > http://www.yelp.com/biz/SaqyQPrK5Byv_wxfeHGYdg ). > > Starting at 6pm for a couple of hours? > > Hope to see you there! > >

[osol-discuss] Re: [install-discuss] Non-root install for Solaris packages and patches

2006-06-13 Thread Eric Boutilier
[ Note: This proposal/discussion are on install-discuss ] Thanks, James. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Tue, 30 May 2006, James H. Falkner wrote: All, I am proposing a new project to modify the Solaris packaging and patching utilities (pkgadd, patchadd,

Re: [Security-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new OpenSolaris project: modernise syslogd

2006-06-13 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 08:13:05AM -0700, Gary Winiger wrote: > > They don't duplicate the info in the syslog files though? > > Just to this point. Solaris Audit records a local binary > file (possibly remote via NFS). > In parallel it will write some subset of that file >

Re: [Security-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new OpenSolaris project: modernise syslogd

2006-06-13 Thread Gary Winiger
> > We already have binary audit files that "BSM" audit creates and for > > Solaris 10 added the ability to export them in XML. > > They don't duplicate the info in the syslog files though? Just to this point. Solaris Audit records a local binary file (possibly remote via NFS).

[osol-discuss] RE: wikipedia article

2006-06-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mipam >Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:45 AM >To: Nikolas Britton >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; >opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org; misc@openbsd.org; >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Hámorszky Balázs; >freed

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal for new OpenSolaris project: modernise syslogd

2006-06-13 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Darren. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. -Eric On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Darren Reed wrote: To bring the syslogd shipped with Solaris up to a level that is more in line with what is found in other systems today, I'd like to propose a project to upgrade it. Tasks

Re: [osol-discuss] Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
Yes, and it works. I don't have native OpenGL drivers on my desktop machine, so the performance is pretty terrible. I'll have to find a machine with an Nvidia card and see how it performs then. On Mon 06/12/06 at 17:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone tried it in BrandZ? > > Adam > >

Re: [osol-discuss] skype for opensolaris

2006-06-13 Thread Dennis Clarke
>> 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. so then .. who has the production quality s

RE: [osol-discuss] feedback requested: IRC applet on home page

2006-06-13 Thread Bruce Shaw
Many of us are behind firewalls that block IRC packets due to justifiable security concerns. Any chance of a version that would get around this by doing the IRC-ing for us but give us an HTTP-based display? >Note that if you are behind a firewall (like, sadly, Sun's), this applet will fail to con

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Dave Miner
Laura Ramsey wrote: Hey Guys in Burlington (Dave Miner et al...) How about we step out too? Maybe we can hit the Dandelion Green (they'll have some world cup going but let's not let that ruin the good time!) Coincidentally, Liane Praza is going to be here on the 14th and I was rounding up a

Re: [osol-discuss] Anniversary meet up for Bay Area locals?

2006-06-13 Thread Laura Ramsey
Hey Guys in Burlington (Dave Miner et al...) How about we step out too? Maybe we can hit the Dandelion Green (they'll have some world cup going but let's not let that ruin the good time!) LKR Karyn Ritter wrote: I'm wondering if people in the Bay Area want together for drinks on the annive

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Rushmore
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: Something even more freaky .. I know that if I search around in my backup tapes I can find a copy of MSIE 5.0 for Solaris in there somewhere. I wonder if the people at Microsoft will port MSIE 7 to Solaris. Don't laugh. The penetration of MSIE 7 into

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Bill Rushmore
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Hey, Google engineers, any chance of getting http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html";>Goo gle Earth v4 ported to OpenSolaris? Do you really want this stuff on your employees' computer? Nah. Absolutely! I work for a construction company and

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. ___ opensolari

[osol-discuss] Re: Google Earth

2006-06-13 Thread Ché Kristo
Surely they could manage that. I'll add my voice for what its worth. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris for pocket PC's?

2006-06-13 Thread James Carlson
John Brewer writes: > Is it possible in getting support for Reduced Network Support Software Group > SUNWCrnet in being able to use Solaris for AMD and or Intel based pocket PC's? I'm not sure why that metacluster is interesting, but I think you should probably follow up with the appliances comm