Re: [osol-discuss] eSATA works fine?

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Taylor
Eric Trimble wrote: > > When determining what protocol is spoken over a > physical connection > between a host controller and a drive (or other > peripheral), you look > for the highest common denominator - thus, a 2.0 > controller will speak > 2.0 when talking to a 3.0 peripheral, but will spe

Re: [osol-discuss] [tools-compilers] OS b132: Sun C++ cannot compile C++ source due to linker segfault.

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Taylor
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Maxim Kartashev wrote: > While waiting for that package update, I guess one could just unpack SVR4 > package patch and replace binaries by hand; after all, Sun Studio patches > are just archives with files and directories in them. It's a lousy > workaround, but it

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Yeah, unfortunately it seems that with Sun's large > operating expenses, headcount, and poor sales that > continuing to operate will be rather tricky. To make > matters worse, in this economy most businesses are > dependent on credit for doing things like pay-roll as > the income can vary each

Re: [osol-discuss] The IBM deal is dead, so...

2009-04-15 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Yeah, unfortunately it seems that with Sun's large > operating expenses, headcount, and poor sales that > continuing to operate will be rather tricky. To make > matters worse, in this economy most businesses are > dependent on credit for doing things like pay-roll as > the income can vary each

Re: [osol-discuss] upgrading obp without a operating system

2008-05-14 Thread Ben Taylor
> On May 12, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > > > Is it possible to upgrade obp without having an > Operating system > > installed on a Sparc hardware. I have read that (on > different forums) > > it is not possible. But maybe there is a way for > that? Maybe having a > > bootable live cd

Re: [osol-discuss] VirtualBox

2008-05-14 Thread Ben Taylor
> Took /opt/csw/lib out of my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and it > now works. > > Blastwave is great but it often clobbers > functionality. Blastwave doesn't clobber functionality. Unawareness clobbers functionality. What are you doing with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Solaris. Here's a good read why LD_LIBRARY_

Re: [osol-discuss] Help with Qemu 0.8.2

2008-03-05 Thread Ben Taylor
> I have installed the Qemu binary package, the Kqemu > and managed to get Win2K installed. It is possible to > access the internet via the default DHCP > configuration. Unfortunately I need to reconfigure > Qemu so that it is assigned an IP address in the same > network as the Solaris 10 8/07 host

Re: [osol-discuss] Any interest in a Wine Community for OpenSolaris?

2008-01-03 Thread Ben Taylor
> > I currently maintain the QEMU port for the > > OpenSolaris project, and have also > > been dabbling in Wine for 6 or 7 months. I > monitor > > the Wine-devel list and > > test the builds after a release or two. I've been > > talking to a few other folks off > > line about wine, and know that

Re: [osol-discuss] Cisco VPN Client for Solaris x86, anyone?

2008-01-02 Thread Ben Taylor
> Ben Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > John Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > If something else can get the job done well, > I'm > > > not averse to using it. But it appears at moment > I > > >

[osol-discuss] Any interest in a Wine Community for OpenSolaris?

2008-01-02 Thread Ben Taylor
I currently maintain the QEMU port for the OpenSolaris project, and have also been dabbling in Wine for 6 or 7 months. I monitor the Wine-devel list and test the builds after a release or two. I've been talking to a few other folks off line about wine, and know that there are several other folks

Re: [osol-discuss] Cisco VPN Client for Solaris x86, anyone?

2008-01-02 Thread Ben Taylor
> John Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If something else can get the job done well, I'm > not averse to using it. But it appears at moment I > have no way to access or otherwise using punchin. > Furthermore, does it work with the existing Cisco > based VPN server deployments that are alread

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-13 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Oh, you mean I shouldn't compile any of my own code > > on my own system cause I might have to rm -rf it instead of > > builiding a package every time. I'm really sure the new > > users we are catering too are just *gonna* love that. > > Course, packaging for Solaris is quite a bit of mag

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> > Course, it would help if there was a locate command on Solaris, > > Dear Sir, > if you need to use the `locate` command to find > something, you have a MUCH bigger problem. Dude I know more ways to find stuff than I can count. I'm only recanting the whines from folks who claim that more tha

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> James C. McPherson wrote: > > frank wang wrote: > >> Sun will keep two universes, 1 is "Linux" alike, > >> the other "Solaris" alike. User can just pick what > >> they like or are familiar with. But it > >> can't replace the efforts to scale the train > >> coverage on everyting about > >> Solari

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-11 Thread Ben Taylor
> James C. McPherson wrote: > > frank wang wrote: > >> Sun will keep two universes, 1 is "Linux" alike, > >> the other "Solaris" alike. User can just pick what > >> they like or are familiar with. But it > >> can't replace the efforts to scale the train > >> coverage on everyting about > >> Solari

[osol-discuss] Re: Installing Firefox using Blastwave Breaks System

2007-04-25 Thread Ben Taylor
> Jerry Gardner wrote: > > I installed Firefox using Blastwave ("pkg-get -i > firefox") and it broke the Java Desktop System. > > > > When I try to log in now, I get the initial JDS > splash screen for a few seconds, and then it goes > immediately back to the login screen. CDE works fine. > > > >

[osol-discuss] Re: Web Stack NG Project: Questions for the Community

2007-03-21 Thread Ben Taylor
> The ARC Cases for the WebStack NG Project have been > submitted for review (and hopefully approval), and i would > like to ask our community's input regarding two important > questions which have come up during our discussions: > > 1. Should the initial components released for this projec

[osol-discuss] Re: ze5375 HP Pavillion notebook builtin wireless ethernet support

2007-01-21 Thread Ben Taylor
> I have attached the current output of "prtconf -pv" > for the notebook ze5375 (HP Pavillion). I used the frkit on my ze4100 and it worked fine (well, until the card died). This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing lis

[osol-discuss] Re: Porting Virtualbox to Opensolaris X86

2007-01-20 Thread Ben Taylor
> Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >Mika Borner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Innobox announced today, that their virtualisation > solution will be released under GPL. > >> > >>http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News > >> > >>There is no support for OpenSolaris X86 yet, but I > guess porting