Re: [osol-discuss] Bittorrent client for Solaris

2008-08-23 Thread Eric Enright
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Matt Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gizd wrote: >> I wanted to install libtorrent and I believe I did install it, but since >> it's the first time ever I'm installing a package I'm not entirely sure I >> did everything I had to. I downloaded libtorrent-0.11

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling [was Re: Re: joining Sun]

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Enright
ng 2.4 kernels (also packaged by the same organization, and not obsoleted.) The resulting crashes were really quite spectacular. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Free S10 CDs?

2007-02-23 Thread Eric Enright
nd we could have handled the communication better, but my understanding is that we are now filling the back order requests. Thanks for the word, I'll pass it along. Eric Eric Enright wrote: > Hi all, > > Several weeks (months?) ago Sun had some sort of online deal where > they

[osol-discuss] Free S10 CDs?

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Enright
Hi all, Several weeks (months?) ago Sun had some sort of online deal where they would ship free S10 and Sun Studio 11 CDs out for free. A few weeks ago a friend of mine was complaining about not receiving them, and just now another friend of mine is mentioning not receiving them. Is there any kn

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Dual booting an Ultra 10

2007-02-20 Thread Eric Enright
will set your default. I'm not terribly experienced with OBP so I hope someone will correct my if any of that is wrong.. Especially I'm not sure of the nomenclature for booting off a second disk, maybe "boot disk1:a"? -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] help burning opensolaris express

2007-02-20 Thread Eric Enright
know the dvd works because I tested by inserting from the suse dvd and it saw it and was ready to start the install. so pleases let me know if I have missed a simple step either in the download/solarisexpress.iso creation or in the actuall burning of the dvd...thanks much... Did you verify t

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Dual booting an Ultra 10

2007-02-19 Thread Eric Enright
install and then upgrade the clone. You can then choose which installation will be booted with luactivate(1M). live_upgrade(5) has complete information. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] which open solaris for a total newbie

2007-02-18 Thread Eric Enright
pay for" Solaris -- it's all free. With Sun's distribution the only thing you pay for is, optionally, support. So you probably want Solaris Express Community Edition. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?]

2007-01-31 Thread Eric Enright
N at all, even in a degraded state, is libc_i18n.a ) I think what Casper is hinting at, as I have seen many other Sun employee's also hint at, is that we do not need to wait for Sun to fix this problem. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPLv3?

2007-01-30 Thread Eric Enright
d (who wouldn't want more interest here??), but we then must wait and see how they receive the GPLv3... -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPLv3?

2007-01-30 Thread Eric Enright
h convinces me that the GPLv3, whatever it may be, would really bring anything good here at all. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: bzip2 performance on SPARC / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/29/07, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Enright wrote: > On 1/29/07, Bruno Jargot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/29/07, Michelle Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Rich, [snip] > Waiting a little extra time to receive the archiv

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Enright
g both gzip and bzip2 tarballs ? This is an ideal solution, IMO. Many source repositories also do that. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/29/07, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Enright wrote: > Given the option, I'll take gzip over bzip2 without consideration. > Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than > waiting a lot of extra time to unpack it. > Exactly. O

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: 3K man pages available

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Enright
SPARC but can't afford new (fast) processors, gzip is a godsend. Given the option, I'll take gzip over bzip2 without consideration. Waiting a little extra time to receive the archive is far better than waiting a lot of extra time to unpack it. -- Eric Enright ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Newbie Alert!..... question about Sun support contract

2007-01-24 Thread Eric Enright
__ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Newbie Alert!..... question about Sun support contract

2007-01-24 Thread Eric Enright
urces for OpenSolaris are released every other week which include bug fixes. Also worth mention is that the bi-weekly builds (Solaris Express Community Release) have upgrade installs available to make your existing SE install current. -- Eric Enright __

Re: [osol-discuss] Assembler Output

2007-01-23 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/23/07, DEEPAK BHATIA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am not sure if this the right place to ask this question. How can we use cc to product assembler output file ? cc -S -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opens

Re: [osol-discuss] ElReg: "Is Solaris really a bright choice for developers?"

2007-01-22 Thread Eric Enright
FUD). Hmm. Solaris has a pretty cool KDE desktop *now*? That is news to me! :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ (2)> ls -ld /opt/csw/kde-gcc drwxr-xr-x 8 root bin 512 Apr 11 2006 /opt/csw/kde-gcc/ -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discus

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Dual-Head on Radeon with Xorg

2006-12-22 Thread Eric Enright
On 12/22/06, Brian Hechinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Option "MetaModes" "1024x768-1280x1024" >The above line is interpreted as the resolution for >"Display0-Display1", so what you would want here is >"1280x1024-1280x1024". I had mistaken that for the range of supported resolutions, not th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: vfork issues

2006-12-21 Thread Eric Enright
memory allocations, though this is tunable. I believe the default setting is to overcommit, which can lead to the random killing of processes in order to retrieve memory should one run out. I forget the terminology used for that particular system. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Dual-Head on Radeon with Xorg

2006-12-21 Thread Eric Enright
want here is "1280x1024-1280x1024". #Option "MergedNonRectangular" "true" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" HorizSync 50-75 VertRefresh 30-82 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "ATI" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" Virtual 2560 1024 EndSubSection EndSection Message was edited by: wonko This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Has the dlc gone bad? http://dlc.sun.com/torrents/ - page not loading.

2006-12-17 Thread Eric Enright
Forgot to hit reply TO ALL ... :| On 12/18/06, Eric Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/17/06, Christian Kujau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Due to licensing restrictions, we can't make the > > Solaris Express ISOs available through BT. > > can elabora

Re: [osol-discuss] SWT On Open Solaris ON XX

2006-11-27 Thread Eric Enright
te work out how to get a simple SWT HelloWord app to compile or even run. Again, I only used the library rather than develop with it. You are welcome to have my x86 build if it might help, though. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss m

Re: [osol-discuss] hg source repository down ?

2006-11-08 Thread Eric Enright
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18346 -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Fwd: NDN: Re: [printing-discuss] Unresponsive Printer

2006-10-29 Thread Eric Enright
: [printing-discuss] Unresponsive Printer To: Eric Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: behn,Internet (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been entered correctly.)

Re: [osol-discuss] SIlly Question about exceptions

2006-10-26 Thread Eric Enright
[ stack ] 0805 288K r-x-- /usr/bin/tcsh 080A7000 28K rwx-- /usr/bin/tcsh 080AE000 476K rwx--[ heap ] D0D7 20K r-x-- /usr/lib/locale/en_CA.ISO8859-1/en_CA.ISO8859-1.so.3 [...] (can also operate on a core) -- Eri

Re: cdrw/cdrecord (Was Re: [osol-discuss] Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!)

2006-08-08 Thread Eric Enright
e nice not to have to specify "dev=whatever". Just thought I'd point out that you can set the default drive in /etc/default/cdrecord so you do not have to specify it every time. Though I do agree that picking a drive when only one ex

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Happy to say I'm posting this from Nexenta!

2006-08-06 Thread Eric Enright
sol lists, and this is the first I have heard about this issue. While Debian is my Linux of choice, I do not currently use Debian or Nexenta. However, the thought of CDDL packages being placed into "non-free" (as was mentioned elsewhere in this thread) is a bit

[osol-discuss] CPU not running at full speed

2006-07-31 Thread Eric Enright
This seems to have failed to make it to the list the first time. On 7/31/06, Eric Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have the following CPU: cpu0: Mobile Genuine Intel(r) processor 1600MHz but psrinfo reports it as running at 600MHz: Status of virtual processor 0 as

[osol-discuss] CPU not running at full speed

2006-07-31 Thread Eric Enright
running so slow, but then again it does have a pretty slow disk so it's hard to tell... Any ideas? -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] key "backspace""->" can't work in all java program under s10u2

2006-07-26 Thread Eric Enright
on solaris 10 update 2 is 1.5.06.i suspect that there is something wrong with my java.but i don't know how to do with it. is there any one got the same problem ? any sugestion? thanks .waiting for your reply. Try turning NumLuck off. -- Eric Enright

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: revisiting software issues

2006-06-16 Thread Eric Enright
apps have been updated as well. I just have to bump this. I did an upgrade install from b40 to 41 the other day and was immediately surprised at the upgrades to some of my most frequently used applications, notably gaim. -- Eric Enright ___ ope

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR Download Link Problem

2006-06-05 Thread Eric Enright
net to port 80 and ping both fail (I tried those, but did not mention it). Thanks for the replies in this thread, it's clearly something wrong on my end (or rather, my ISP's). -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] SXCR Download Link Problem

2006-06-05 Thread Eric Enright
There seems to be something wrong with the SXCR download link on opensolaris.org's ON build instructions page. For the past few days, the attempt to connect to javashoplm.sun.com has been timing out for me. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-di

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-05-04 Thread Eric Enright
t were to be included with the main OpenSolaris kernel I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of modifying x86.miniroot every now and then so I can do net installs. It is under a BSD license as well. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] SXCR - Build 38 is now available

2006-05-01 Thread Eric Enright
n this release? (I searched for it in the bug database, 6409425, but no results.) -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Asus A7V8X-X LAN Setup

2006-04-28 Thread Eric Enright
to your installed Solaris proper. He got it working with the rh driver; he mailed me but the list was not CC'd. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-14 Thread Eric Enright
at would work for source code, but would it for machine code? How could one peer review a binary package for anything other than "does what it says"? Going with the example Dennis gave earlier, if someone introduced a back door into something, say,

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-14 Thread Eric Enright
discussion, we can take it off this list.. Privately or on csw-users (I am subscribed). -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-13 Thread Eric Enright
ivity" activated something in my brain like a keyword. I am a happy Blastwave user who has been following most of this discussion. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: how do i update my nevada version?

2006-04-07 Thread Eric Enright
to do a clean reinstall in the future. Just today I did a fresh install of b36 on this laptop, but you wouldn't know it since I was easily able to fully preserve my home directory. I have an 8GB /, 1GB swap, and the rest in a ZFS pool. Installed into /, imported the pool, created a user wit

Re: [osol-discuss] how do i update my nevada version?

2006-04-05 Thread Eric Enright
On 4/5/06, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Enright wrote: > > >On 4/5/06, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>just wondering if you have to re-download and burn the 4 iso's every time > >>you want to get the lat

Re: [osol-discuss] how do i update my nevada version?

2006-04-04 Thread Eric Enright
network installs. It's a fairly easy system to get going, and you can create the install server using the iso images without burning them. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: "-xstrconst" patch / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compiling kernel+tools with "-xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all"

2006-03-18 Thread Eric Enright
or if a program contains no string literals at all). > > You also don't have to do it yourself. Perhaps you can enlist 50 > like-minded people, each of whom can test one or two commands a day. > At that rate you'd have usr/src/cmd cleaned up in just a few wee

[osol-discuss] Re: Driver Porting Question

2006-03-11 Thread Eric Enright
On 3/9/06, Eric Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm currently looking at porting a certain Linux driver to Solaris' > usbser/GSD framework, and am concerned about GPL/CDDL conflicts. I > know that a typical port would not be allowed, however

Re: [osol-discuss] Driver Porting Question

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Enright
My suggestion to Eric is to just contact the author like he thought about > already and go from there. I think I will do that. Rich's post about not being able to GPL magic numbers or algorithms seems reasonable to me, but I want to do things right. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Driver Porting Question

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Enright
On 3/9/06, Patrick Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Enright wrote: > > I'm currently looking at porting a certain Linux driver to Solaris' > > usbser/GSD framework, and am concerned about GPL/CDDL conflicts. I > > know that a typical port would no

[osol-discuss] Driver Porting Question

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Enright
ather than reuse code. Would I be able to do that? I suspect the answer is no, but I would like to get the opinion of some people more knowledgeable on this issue than I am. If I can't do that, I imagine I should then contact the author and discuss dual-licensing with him? Thanks.

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

2006-03-02 Thread Eric Enright
's driver obviously could only be included binary-only, but from what I understand Masayuki's and Garrett's drivers are (for the most part) BSD licensed and should be able to be included in Solaris and even OpenSolaris/ON with little trouble. T

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing the language of text from Hindi to English in solaris 10

2006-03-01 Thread Eric Enright
hout reinstalling the solaris once > again. > if any one knows please help me. You can set the default locale by editing /etc/default/init. For example, mine contains: LC_COLLATE=en_CA.ISO8859-1 LC_CTYPE=en_CA.ISO8859-1 LC_MESSAGES=C LC_MONETARY=en_CA.ISO8859-1 LC_NUMERIC=en_CA.ISO8859-1 LC_TI

Re: [osol-discuss] Can someone please explain ? I love to know, really I would ...

2006-02-18 Thread Eric Enright
per line is simplified chinese, and the lower is traditional. It probably says just that, since the three characters in the upper left mean "japanese language". -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Cannot play audio cd

2006-01-13 Thread Eric Enright
ellent tools and I can honestly say they blow the best tools on > Windows away. FWIW, Blastwave's grip package uses cdrtool's cdda2wav to rip by default. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] building licq on Solaris

2005-12-25 Thread Eric Enright
tely there is no precompiled package on blastwave.org I tried to sign up to maintain Licq for Blastwave last year but was rejected. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [osol-announce] build 28 (2005-12-07) available

2005-12-07 Thread Eric Enright
.. > > This is fixed. Sorry for the mixup. Speaking of mixup, the release notes state that snv16+ is required while the download page states that 18+ is required. Which is correct? -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris - Why should I care? More questions.

2005-11-27 Thread Eric Enright
ed security > risk if you make a typo. Why would someone want to unlink a non-empty directory? -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Installation Issues on Pentium III 128 MB PC

2005-10-30 Thread Eric Enright
> Solaris express and opensolaris currently require 256MB of ram for > install... after that it will run in less... but because of the way > grub works duing the install it needs 256, you can use solaris 10 i > think, but for now

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: How To Mount CDROM?

2005-10-19 Thread Eric Enright
#x27;s in the SUNWvolr and SUNWvolu packages. It could already be installed. vold was just recently put under SMF, and perhaps the OP isn't running the latest community release. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop WIFI

2005-10-13 Thread Eric Enright
or this company > store on ebay is http://stores.ebay.com/Prime-Electronic-Components . > They have about 10 - 15 of them posted right now, you have to scroll > through various pages to find them. Sorry if this sounded like a plug, > it wasn't, I'm just so happy it works now.

Re: [osol-discuss] irssi

2005-10-08 Thread Eric Enright
ff > Do this in src/perl/common,src/perl/ui,src/perl/textui,src/perl/irc > Only by doing this i've solved the problem with irssi Or use the Sun Studio compiler. -- Eric Enright ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Is the nei driver removed from solaris?

2005-09-19 Thread Eric Enright
On 9/19/05, Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You can try Masayuki Murayama's open-source ni/pcni drivers that >should support NE2000 compatible cards. Does anyone know if there are any plans to integrate any of these drivers into ON? Eric __

Re: [osol-discuss] Wireless situation?

2005-09-13 Thread Eric Enright
On 9/12/05, Andrei Dorofeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently working on releasing binaries for the ath(7D) driver for > Atheros AR53xx chipsets and the wificonfig tool for Beta testing. > I've got all required legal approvals and expect that this package > will hit SDLC next if not this w

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: [osol-mktg] ALL of the 1st 5000 t-shirts have shipped]

2005-09-07 Thread Eric Enright
On 9/7/05, Wez Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > Me three, from as far away as the exotic locale of Maryland! > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > I'm also in MD, but haven't seen mine yet. Luckily, I got one from OSCON :) > I don't know why, but I