On 28 Nov 2009, at 2:28 pm, hiro wrote:
It's also very easy to run my toaster diskless. Does this say anything
about it's elegance or simplicity? I don't remember what my toaster
has to do with 9p, but nevermind.
And somebody always mentions toasters! Or coffee machines... :D
Actually, yes it does say a lot about a toaster's elegant simplicity:
a toaster only has parts to do the job intended. At a minimum a
switched heater, a sprung sliding bread carrier which also switches
the heater, and a thermally-releasing latch for the slider. I have
seen a toaster without even that much complexity; it had glass sides
so you could see when your toast was done how you like it.
Actually there is a link here. Things to share are increasingly
bloated, and applications strangely seem to need access to every
feature of the shared entity. 9p could perhaps help by presenting a
device model with files for different capabilities, or something like
that, but it is only half a solution. OTOH perhaps the need to access
device features is not really strange. Requiring a whole postscript
interpreter on your printer could be seen as just as strange, it was
certainly very expensive to do a few years ago.
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis
<eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
On 26 Nov 2009, at 8:53 pm, ron minnich wrote:
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, erik quanstrom
<quans...@quanstro.net>
wrote:
it is pretty hard to run windows, osx or linux without
a hard drive.
linux is actually quite easy and has been for about 12 years or more
... not sure of the others.
It's certainly possible to run OS X diskless, and knowing Apple
it'll take
less setting up than Linux. ;)
