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Comment on Never answer surveys! by Bill Rushmore

Bill Rushmore — Sun, 22 May 2011 15:05:00 +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.

Comment on LISA05 Thursday: Reception(s) by Mr. Fudge

Mr. Fudge — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:31:13 +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.

Comment on 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings by Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:39:17 +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.

Comment on 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings by Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:59:42 +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

Comment on 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings by Dan "not Fisher" Price

Dan "not Fisher" Price — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:18:28 +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.

Comment on 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings by Fisher Price

Fisher Price — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:15:54 +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.

Comment on 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings by che kristo

che kristo — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:56:00 +0000

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

Comment on 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings by Felipe Cerda

Felipe Cerda — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:09:08 +0000

Very cool netbook!

Comment on verexec(1): A simple execute-most-recent-version utility by Stephen Hahn

Stephen Hahn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:35:36 +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.

Comment on verexec(1): A simple execute-most-recent-version utility by UX-admin

UX-admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:14:43 +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)...