Re: [osol-discuss] Microsoft opens ALL protocols!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Ché Kristo
I wouldn't say "open" and I definitely would not say "all". Outside of the very specific patent promises made in the "patent promise" this announcement does not cover all necessary patents required to implement the given protocols or codecs... > Woha!!! MS is opening all their protocols Jus

Re: [osol-discuss] Microsoft opens ALL protocols!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread John Brewer
Does this include codex's for media players to play movies or is this just network? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] SXDE php/mysql Incompatibility

2008-02-21 Thread Christopher Gibbs
Hello all, Has anybody else had problems connecting to mysql from php using the unmodified web stack that comes with SXDE 1/08? If you are using the mysql 5 service (the default mysql SMF service) you have to use the /usr/mysql/5.0/bin/mysql binary to connect to it. If you try to use the /usr/sfw

Re: [osol-discuss] semaphores on solaris 8

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew C. Henle
What does "ipcs -A" show? (I *think* Solaris 8 supports the "-A" option to ipcs...) Maybe there's a hint there. You should at least see the time of the last semop() on the semaphores. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:40:39PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> No it does not. You are making the assumption that world domination can >> not >> happen *with* technical excellence. > > No. User base growth is a goal but technical excellence is a > constraint. I am asserting that reversin

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:40:39PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > No it does not. You are making the assumption that world domination can not > happen *with* technical excellence. No. User base growth is a goal but technical excellence is a constraint. I am asserting that reversing those leads

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-21 Thread Manish Chakravarty
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ultra 10... honestly somebody on eBay will buy it from you. > > Probably a guy like me. Those were fine little boxes for what the > price back then. Of course I wouldn't even consider it unless it > had the Creator 3D

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:37:02PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> that anyone will question the DEC Alpha. Regardless, I can assure you that >> in the world of business, the real world, being right does not matter. How >> can you explain Microsoft ? You can't. I think that you may be sufferi

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:37:02PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > that anyone will question the DEC Alpha. Regardless, I can assure you that > in the world of business, the real world, being right does not matter. How > can you explain Microsoft ? You can't. I think that you may be suffering > fr

Re: [osol-discuss] Microsoft opens ALL protocols!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Woha!!! MS is opening all their protocols Just recently announced. What > are some of the consequences? You clever guys, please write something! > A whole pile of people in the samba project all look with amazement at how they already knew those things. Dennis __

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:06:53PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > >> * A thriving community with sustained growth? >> >> * Nearly instant name recognition among anyone that knows there are >> other operating systems than Windows? > > And Michal's answer: > >> Start with acceptance and userbase ? M

[osol-discuss] Microsoft opens ALL protocols!!!!

2008-02-21 Thread Orvar Korvar
Woha!!! MS is opening all their protocols Just recently announced. What are some of the consequences? You clever guys, please write something! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opens

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:06:53PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > * A thriving community with sustained growth? > > * Nearly instant name recognition among anyone that knows there are > other operating systems than Windows? And Michal's answer: > Start with acceptance and userbase ? My 9 year old

[osol-discuss] What's in a name? Re: [ogb-discuss] Should the OGB respond to Sun's OpenSolaris name-use decision?

2008-02-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Joerg Schilling > > > > > This is why the OpenSolaris cummunity proposed Sun to use a new > > > trademark for > > > an OpenSolaris b

[osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success Re: [ogb-discuss] Should the OGB respond to Sun's OpenSolaris name-use decision?

2008-02-21 Thread Shawn Walker
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:50:53PM +0100, Michal Bielicki wrote: > > > If I would be religious I'd pray that we will have as much susccess as > > those two [Ubuntu and Fedora] :) > > How do you define success? * A

[osol-discuss] Nvidia 9600gt compatibility with OpenSolaris distros

2008-02-21 Thread ken mays
http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9600gt.html The new video drivers might be v174.16 or higher - but not officially posted on the web site yet for Solaris x86/64 (only Windows XP or higher). Test with SXCE 82 and Solaris 10 if possible. ~ Ken Mays _

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-21 Thread Kyle McDonald
UNIX admin wrote: >> Probably a guy like me. Those were fine little boxes >> for what the price back then. >> > > In retrospective, considering the U10 hardware, they were outrageously > expensive back then. Really? For workstations in general, and SPARC in particular they seemed cheap to me

Re: [osol-discuss] Any reason to keep my Ultra 10?

2008-02-21 Thread UNIX admin
> Probably a guy like me. Those were fine little boxes > for what the price back then. In retrospective, considering the U10 hardware, they were outrageously expensive back then. But it was a different time, I was young and "high" on the purple Sun logo. I'm surprised that you'd even consider b

[osol-discuss] semaphores on solaris 8

2008-02-21 Thread Allan
Hi, Is there anyway I can tell post action that when a process does a semget(1207963596, 1, 0666|IPC_CREAT) and does not release the semaphore what process actually locked it. i.e in mdb would a defunct process or parent process have a hook still into the memory segment. I have a situation whe

Re: [osol-discuss] Roadmap for Solaris 10?

2008-02-21 Thread UNIX admin
> I know this is the Open Solaris list, and I use Open > Solaris daily, but I can't find a place that > documents when Sun plans to drop the next Sol10. We > haven't seen a new one since 08/07, IIRC. Does > anyone know how to find this information? >From experience, there are likely to be two to