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Re: Never answer surveys!

Bill Rushmore — Sun, 22 May 2011 11:05:35 -0000

I have been surprised by the number of companies requesting me fill out a lengthy survey without anything in return. Once in awhile places offer a discount or even a contest entry. But I really don't get why a profitable corporation really expects me to spend 10-15 minutes on a survey without any feedback or reward in return.

Re: LISA05 Thursday: Reception(s)

Mr. Fudge — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:31:13 -0000

That man that made balloons at this event is the great Don Caldwell, one of the most amazing entertainers I know. I dream of the day I can have him flown out to an event for me.

Re: 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings

Stephen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:39:17 -0000

@Pablo: You need to add a line or two to /etc/power.conf. I believe "S3-support enable" and "autoS3 enable" are the necessary lines.

Re: 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings

Pablo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:59:42 -0000

I have an NB too (NB200-SP2904) with b123, but it doest't have the suspend option.

And I have not seen a place to enable it.

What is the difference?

Please take a look on other comments about the machine on:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=112293&tstart=0

and

http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11630

Anyway the machine is cool and I'm quite happy with it.

regards

- Pablo

Re: 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings

Dan "not Fisher" Pri — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:18:28 -0000

@fisher - But for $341 on Amazon, it's easy to overlook its non-Eamesian styling. Actually from the product shots I see on Amazon, it does look quite slim and the design is tidy overall.

Re: 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings

Fisher Price — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:15:54 -0000

It's hardly "sleek" with that much bezel around the screen, it looks more like one of those toy laptops you'd buy for your kids.

Re: 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings

che kristo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:56:00 -0000

Now if only we could order these with OpenSolaris by default!

Re: 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings

Felipe Cerda — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:09:08 -0000

Very cool netbook!

Re: verexec(1): A simple execute-most-recent-version utility

Stephen Hahn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:35:36 -0000

@Alan: We use the same ordering as pkg(5), so only "dot sequences" are legitimate. Since we would use verexec(1) for deliveries into a release, I don't think we would want to ship a development version with a verexec(1) link. That is, we can ship the development version, but wouldn't have the link in /etc/verexec.d present--it would never become the default. I wasn't planning to have $HOME/.verexec.d as a default option.

@UX-admin: Yes, that's a flaw with all these hard link-based schemes. Since isaexec and verexec are intended to be open source, third party vendors should feel free to take copies and ship them. Let me know if you have other suggestions, though.

Re: verexec(1): A simple execute-most-recent-version utility

UX-admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:14:43 -0000

"verexec(1) works in a similar manner to isaexec(1), in that dispatch is based on the target command being hardlinked to verexec(1), which then, based on the name of the target command and additional information, will in turn invoke the correct version of the target command."

What if the target binary executable is on a different filesystem? Hard links cannot span filesystems.

This is basically the same problem which isaexec(3C) faces today.

For this reason alone, a third party software vendor would need to keep a private copy in /opt, which, ironically, would disable having the latest revision of verexec(1)...

Re: verexec(1): A simple execute-most-recent-version utility

Alan Burlison — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:41:00 -0000

Interesting idea. A couple of questions:

How do you determine the ordering of version numbers? Some packages use a combination of digits and numbers, so it isn't always straightforward, for example how do you handle something like '1.2.3beta1' and '1.2.3'?

How do you handle the case where od/even numbering is used to distinguish between release and development versions?

Is there a per-user override that doesn't depend on environment variables, for example can I have a private ~alanbur/.verexec directory?

Re: MPK17: Outcome of a long discussion?

Glynn Foster — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:59:34 -0000

Sure someone wasn't just practicing their speedstacks?

Re: MPK17: Outcome of a long discussion?

Rafael Vanoni — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:34:48 -0000

Now the coffee station kinda looks like a boat, or a u-boat, over a Sun blue sea.

Re: MPK17: Outcome of a long discussion?

Shawn Walker — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:43:47 -0000

I don't know whether to be horrified or impressed.

Re: 2009.06: A netbook for meetings

Stephen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:55:47 -0000

@dominik: I have the six-cell version so the battery life has been pretty good. It's easily made it through two full hours of meetings, but I'll try to get you a data-oriented answer.

@Andreas: That's right--thanks.

@Brian: Yes, suspend and resume do work. The bug that afflicted Intel chipsets (so that, while the OS would resume, Xorg would crashed) is fixed in Build 111A.

Re: 2009.06: A netbook for meetings

Brian Leonard — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:54:19 -0000

Does and suspend, or more importantly, resume from suspend :-)?

Re: 2009.06: A netbook for meetings

Andreas — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:35:40 -0000

Windows user can also use

http://devzone.sites.pid0.org/OpenSolaris/opensolaris-liveusb-creator

to prepare a stick.

Re: 2009.06: A netbook for meetings

dominik — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:12:15 -0000

Steven

Do you have data about power consumption? With Linux the AspireOne will run around 2:30h, can I expect the same with OpenSolaris? If yes then I can't await the 06/2009 distribution :)

Re: 2009.06: A netbook for meetings

Stephen Hahn — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:50:15 -0000

@Leon: Thanks for the correction--I've updated the entry.

Re: 2009.06: A netbook for meetings

Leon — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:14:05 -0000

It's not really dual-core... Just dual-threaded.

Re: What I did during my summer vacation: hack hack hack

deedeez — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:17:15 -0000

a7a

Re: 2008.11: terminator is my favourite application

sanjay nadkarni — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:35:53 -0000

@joanie

In OpenSolaris one can restore Boot Environments (BEs). Fire up the package manager,

File->Boot Environment Manager to rollback to an older version. This however does not have all the functionality of beadm(1M) yet.

Re: 2008.11: terminator is my favourite application

Joanie — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:46:02 -0000

Thanks Nico. I use TimeSlider. It's great for recovering earlier versions of a handful of items. However, if I build and install a number of unstable packages, restoring /usr to the Desktop isn't especially useful. :-)

I also haven't found a way in TimeSlider to take a snapshot (which I do before engaging in the aforementioned build/install), to perform a rollback, to examine what snapshots I have, to delete unwanted snapshots, to rename automatically-taken snapshots to something more meaningful so that I can remember the state at the time that snapshot was taken, and so on.

Can I do all of the above in TimeSlider? If so, my apologies. I will go back and reread the docs. Otherwise.... I can live with doing this via ZFS commands; I'd prefer not to though. :-)

Re: 2008.11: terminator is my favourite application

Nico — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:33:22 -0000

Joanie: but a GUI does exist and is in fact shipped with OpenSolaris 2008.11. It's called Time Slider:

http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/zfs_on_the_desktop_zfs

Re: 2008.11: terminator is my favourite application

Joanie — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:44:05 -0000

I gave Terminator a try. It's okay, but it's not in danger of becoming a favorite app for me. I don't mind rearranging a few windows here and there. And, if I did, I suspect I could use DevilsPie to do the work for me.

Coming to OpenSolaris from Linux, what I'm finding to be my favorite functionality is ZFS snapshots. Perhaps it's my fondness for trying bleeding-edge software; perhaps it's being all too willing to answer "I wonder what would happen if..." by slapping a pfexec in front of it and finding out. :-) Regardless, I've done countless Linux reinstalls in my life; with OpenSolaris I can perform a rollback faster than.... well, faster than I can rearrange a handful of gnome-terminal windows. ;-)

Create a GUI frontend for snapshot management and it will instantly become -- and likely remain -- my favorite app.