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Rodney Sparapani | 8 Feb 2008 16:44
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JDS/Gnome Open... Dialog bug?

On Solaris 10, when I open a folder with lots of files, it takes several 
minutes.  CDE was slow too, but this is much slower.  Has anyone found a 
fix for this.  And, it also pops up in the Adobe Reader since it uses 
those widgets.  Thankfully, many apps use their own Open... dialog.

Rodney
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Sandwich Maker | 8 Feb 2008 17:31
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Re: JDS/Gnome Open... Dialog bug?

" From: Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa <at> mcw.edu>
" 
" On Solaris 10, when I open a folder with lots of files, it takes several 
" minutes.  CDE was slow too, but this is much slower.  Has anyone found a 
" fix for this.  And, it also pops up in the Adobe Reader since it uses 
" those widgets.  Thankfully, many apps use their own Open... dialog.

i have heard many rambling rants about how poorly coded gnome is -
hundreds of redundant screen redraws in a single program for example,
the result of countless myopic scratch-my-itch linux programmers with
no interest in the larger picture.  at one point you had to have an
entire working gnome already in order to compile a new rev, because
the dependency graph had cycles in it...

i know someone at sun went through the code and cleaned it up -a-lot-
in porting it to solaris, but perhaps he just couldn't get it as good
as cde [fwiw].  i know it's porkier.
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lz | 8 Feb 2008 17:50
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Sun sparcstation10 & compactflash

hey list-

I have a little sparc 10 here, and I want to swap the disk for something a little less "moving". I was looking at
this thing:
ACARD ARS-2000FU IDE to Ultra SCSI
(http://4onlineshop.stores.yahoo.net/arulscbrfdef.html)

and plugging it into this guy:
CompactFlash (CF) to 40-pin IDE Adapter 
(http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CF2IDE-35-BULK)

I have the CF adapter, so I'd like to use it, but I haven't picked up the ACARD yet.

I'd like to know, does anyone have any experience with the ACARD with a sparc10? I'm running Solaris, but I
could just as easily be running OpenBSD. Will it work? Will it boot?

TIA-
Mario

       
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Sandwich Maker | 8 Feb 2008 18:39
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Re: Sun sparcstation10 & compactflash

" From: lz <lordzorcon <at> yahoo.com>
" 
" hey list-
" 
" I have a little sparc 10 here, and I want to swap the disk for something a little less "moving". I was looking
at this thing:
" ACARD ARS-2000FU IDE to Ultra SCSI
" (http://4onlineshop.stores.yahoo.net/arulscbrfdef.html)
" 
" and plugging it into this guy:
" CompactFlash (CF) to 40-pin IDE Adapter 
" (http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CF2IDE-35-BULK)
" 
" I have the CF adapter, so I'd like to use it, but I haven't picked up the ACARD yet.
" 
" I'd like to know, does anyone have any experience with the ACARD with a sparc10? I'm running Solaris, but I
could just as easily be running OpenBSD. Will it work? Will it boot?

which version solaris?  8 might support cf, but 2.6 won't.  i'm not
sure even 10 can boot from it.
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Mark Benson | 9 Feb 2008 00:00
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Re: Sun sparcstation10 & compactflash

On 8 Feb 2008, at 17:39, Sandwich Maker wrote:

> " From: lz <lordzorcon <at> yahoo.com>
> "
> " hey list-
> "
> " I have a little sparc 10 here, and I want to swap the disk for  
> something a little less "moving". I was looking at this thing:
> " ACARD ARS-2000FU IDE to Ultra SCSI
> " (http://4onlineshop.stores.yahoo.net/arulscbrfdef.html)
> "
> " and plugging it into this guy:
> " CompactFlash (CF) to 40-pin IDE Adapter
> " (http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CF2IDE-35-BULK)
> "
> " I have the CF adapter, so I'd like to use it, but I haven't picked  
> up the ACARD yet.
> "
> " I'd like to know, does anyone have any experience with the ACARD  
> with a sparc10? I'm running Solaris, but I could just as easily be  
> running OpenBSD. Will it work? Will it boot?
>
> which version solaris?  8 might support cf, but 2.6 won't.  i'm not
> sure even 10 can boot from it.

I've successfully used an ACARD SCSIDE (ATA-33 to 50-pin) bridge with  
a 120GB convetional IDE disk in a U10. It worked just fine.

It is irrelevant what version of Solaris you use as the ACARD adapters  
are transparent - the device just reports as a SCSI disk of xMB in size.
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Adam Victor Reed | 18 Feb 2008 19:25
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Getting F3bitmaps in gnome-terminal on Solaris 10

I like having side-by-side gnome-terminal windows on the desktop, so I
need glyph widths of 6 pixels on a 1024-pixel-wide screen and 7 pixels
on a 1280-pixel-wide screen.  When using glyphs of those widths I am
most productive with fonts

-b&h-lucida sans typewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-10-100-72-72-m-60-iso8859-1

and

-b&h-lucida sans typewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-12-120-72-72-m-70-iso8859-1

(from F3bitmaps) respectively.  I do get those fonts in gnome-terminal
on my Solaris 10 JDS desktop when I ssh to an Ubuntu 7.10 machine and
run my gnome-terminals from there.  So I know that it ought to be
possible to get them directly on the Solaris JDS desktop also.
However, getting those fonts into gnome-terminal directly on Solaris 10
has proved challenging, and I need help.

First, by default Lucida Sans Typewriter glyphs in JDS are derived
from outline fonts and anti-aliased, so if small they are hopelessly
smeared.  When I set prefer_bitmap true and antialias false for
Lucida Sans Typewriter in $HOME/.fonts.conf, I get an ugly, totally
unusable bitmap derived from the outline font, rather than the
F3bitmaps I need.

I seem to be getting the bitmaps from Ubuntu 7.10 because there are no
Lucida outline fonts there.  But just hiding the Lucida outline fonts
on Solaris 10 does not work - I still get them, even after rebooting.
My best guess is that Pango keeps its own repository of pre-processed
fonts somewhere, but I have not been able to find out how to
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Rodney Sparapani | 19 Feb 2008 16:58
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Backup Choices?

We're looking to buy a Thumper server and we will need to backup 24TB.
So, I'm looking at the following backup options:

#1: Sun StorageTek SL24, LTO-3, SAS interface with StorEdge EBS 
Workgroup software

#2: HP StorageWorks MSL2024-1, LT0-4
interface options Ultra320 LVD/SE SCSI or 4GB Native FC
software: Atempo TimeNavigator or Bacula?

The cost of the HP tape drive is a little more for Ultra-SCSI (is that 
what that is, boy SCSI sure has changed) to a lot more for FC.  So, I
think we would go with the cheaper option, any opinion?

We currently use EBS software and I'm not a big fan.  However, without 
trying something else, I don't know what I am missing.  Is TimeNavigator 
any better?  How about FOSS like Bacula?

Any advice will be appreciated.

Rodney
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Phil Stracchino | 19 Feb 2008 18:52

Re: Backup Choices?

Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> We're looking to buy a Thumper server and we will need to backup 24TB.
> So, I'm looking at the following backup options:
> 
> #1: Sun StorageTek SL24, LTO-3, SAS interface with StorEdge EBS 
> Workgroup software
> 
> #2: HP StorageWorks MSL2024-1, LT0-4
> interface options Ultra320 LVD/SE SCSI or 4GB Native FC
> software: Atempo TimeNavigator or Bacula?
> 
> The cost of the HP tape drive is a little more for Ultra-SCSI (is that 
> what that is, boy SCSI sure has changed) to a lot more for FC.  So, I
> think we would go with the cheaper option, any opinion?

If the LTO-4 is "only a little" more than the LTO-3, I'd go with the 
LTO-4.  Backing up 24TB, you want all the transfer rate you can get. 
Also, double the native cfpacity per tape means half as many tapes to 
buy and half as many tape changes during full backups, and LTO-4 tapes 
aren't twice the cost of LTO-3 tapes.  (Plus, you can use LTO-3 tapes in 
an LTO-4 drive, but not vice versa.)

> We currently use EBS software and I'm not a big fan.  However, without 
> trying something else, I don't know what I am missing.  Is TimeNavigator 
> any better?  How about FOSS like Bacula?

I haven't used EBS.  My experience is that most of the commercial 
enterprise backup software out there pretty much sucks.  Bacula is very 
good; but I should make the disclaimer that I'm a Bacula early-adopter 
and past Bacula developer myself, so I'm not 100% unbiased.
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