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opencsw: all I can find is "unstable" software list; standard one? 56 27 (4/22/2013 8:42:45 PM) comp.unix.solaris Hi there, I just bought two 2500's (red) ($550 each CHEAP), and have (well, a friend has) installed latest (from Oracle) sparc solaris 10 os. (One question: does that include the old "extra software" S... dkcombs

anyone have (a) ONE (b) *WORKING* (c) SPARC computer TO SELL? 7 40 (12/15/2012 5:58:43 PM) comp.unix.solaris Not enterprise-sized. Something to be *used* as a workstation. Sunblade 2500 would be ok. Yes, I know, boxing it up would be a pain. Maybe some company could be paid to do that? (Or, if in reasona... dkcombs

Remaining lifetime of sparc production? (Oracle selling many?) 23 59 (12/12/2012 8:44:30 PM) comp.unix.solaris Just wondering, for how much longer will sparc machines be built? (I suppose that when/if it ends, then x86 is all that's left?) David ... dkcombs

How comes (goes?) Perl 6? 6 39 (11/25/2012 3:03:25 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc What's it been, a decade already, that it's been being worked on? Perl, of course, is one hairy piece of code. But you'd think there'd be something usable by now. (And maybe there is, and I just don't k... dkcombs

New perl books in the last year or two (or three)? [Borders, etc, gone] 5 32 (11/25/2012 2:40:42 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc Used to be, I could discover new books by browsing eg Borders (wonderful bookstore) or, best of all for NYC, the McGraw-Hill bookstore. All gone, M-H *long* gone. And the computer section of Barnes and ... dkcombs

What, if any, improvements has Oracle made to zfs? (S 11, 12?) 1 65 (10/3/2012 4:27:17 AM) comp.unix.solaris Just wondering what kind of effort is Oracle putting into Solaris and especially ZFS. And the other (independent of Sun and Oracle) Solaris-implementation groups -- are they doing much to/for ZFS? Tha... dkcombs

RICH TEER (he or anyone) done or working on a ZFS-INTERNALS book? 27 89 (10/3/2012 4:22:57 AM) comp.unix.solaris His current Solaris book does not cover zfs, I believe. Is he or anyone else working on one -- a zfs internals? Thanks David ... dkcombs

(1) tar to x.tar; bzip2; (2) How to write x.tar.bz2 to tape? 3 65 (9/26/2012 11:15:18 PM) comp.unix.solaris I read somewhere that for a huge tar backup, it's better (or might be better) to do the tar to a on-disk file, and THEN to write that tar-file to the tape. How to write a file to a magtape? All the exa... dkcombs

Net Attached Storage: DLINK DNS-323 -- anything much better? 21 92 (9/18/2012 4:58:40 AM) comp.unix.solaris For an NAS box, is the DLINK DNS-323 a pretty good thing to get? (Holds two disks, contains software to mirror them.) Or is there something (not too expensive) that's a lot more reliable? (p... dkcombs

Here's an old call to ufsdump. Which numbers, etc for gtar to tape? 1 52 (8/21/2012 1:20:23 AM) comp.unix.solaris Here's a ufsdump I used when I had ufs, not zfs: /usr/sbin/ufsdump 0ucnbdsf 126 54000 13000 /dev/rmt/0cn /dev/rdsk/''$slice Suppose I now want to gtar a big file foo.tar onto an empty tape; ... dkcombs

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RICH TEER (he or anyone) done or working on a ZFS-INTERNALS book? 27 89 (10/3/2012 4:22:57 AM) comp.unix.solaris His current Solaris book does not cover zfs, I believe. Is he or anyone else working on one -- a zfs internals? Thanks David ... dkcombs (290)

rot 13'ing all file extensions in a folder 3 44 (11/11/2012 2:11:26 AM) comp.unix.shell Could anyone provide a simple script to rot 13 all file extensions (all alphabetic characters after the last period, preserving case) in the current directory? Sorry not to even try myself. It's been years... lloyd.houghton (28)

New perl books in the last year or two (or three)? [Borders, etc, gone] 5 32 (11/25/2012 2:40:42 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc Used to be, I could discover new books by browsing eg Borders (wonderful bookstore) or, best of all for NYC, the McGraw-Hill bookstore. All gone, M-H *long* gone. And the computer section of Barnes and ... dkcombs (290)

How comes (goes?) Perl 6? 6 39 (11/25/2012 3:03:25 AM) comp.lang.perl.misc What's it been, a decade already, that it's been being worked on? Perl, of course, is one hairy piece of code. But you'd think there'd be something usable by now. (And maybe there is, and I just don't k... dkcombs (290)

Remaining lifetime of sparc production? (Oracle selling many?) 23 59 (12/12/2012 8:44:30 PM) comp.unix.solaris Just wondering, for how much longer will sparc machines be built? (I suppose that when/if it ends, then x86 is all that's left?) David ... dkcombs (290)

anyone have (a) ONE (b) *WORKING* (c) SPARC computer TO SELL? 7 40 (12/15/2012 5:58:43 PM) comp.unix.solaris Not enterprise-sized. Something to be *used* as a workstation. Sunblade 2500 would be ok. Yes, I know, boxing it up would be a pain. Maybe some company could be paid to do that? (Or, if in reasona... dkcombs (290)

Rehabilitating bad Perl code 7 37 (1/8/2013 7:37:57 PM) comp.lang.perl.misc I have inherited some code which has uses several horrible constructs, such as splicing together completely unrelated assignments and statements with commas, like $foo = 1, $bar = 2, print "This is ho... news192 (135)

Will there be another S10 release? 13 40 (1/31/2013 4:20:13 PM) comp.unix.solaris Hey all; Just wondering if anyone knows whether Oracle plans on a S10u11 release at all, or if we've entered the 'legacy' part of the old girl now. Not looking for dates (although I won't say no to them!... cbigam2 (59)

regex to process lines except lines which start with # 3 22 (2/11/2013 8:34:05 PM) comp.unix.shell I have a regex which replaces one or more spaces in /etc/syslog.conf file with tabs: sed 's/ */ /g' /etc/syslog.conf I had to insert tab character as \t isnt supported in my sed (solaris) versio... brumiku (38)

opencsw: all I can find is "unstable" software list; standard one? 56 27 (4/22/2013 8:42:45 PM) comp.unix.solaris Hi there, I just bought two 2500's (red) ($550 each CHEAP), and have (well, a friend has) installed latest (from Oracle) sparc solaris 10 os. (One question: does that include the old "extra software" S... dkcombs (290)