[9fans] [acme] growing columns

2009-09-12 Thread yy
After a long time seeing how nothing happened after clicking on column tags I have finally patched acme so that its columns grow as windows do. You can see how it works in this video: http://4l77.com/pub/acme-growcol.mpeg If you want to try it yourself the only thing you will need is the file /n/so

Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

2009-09-12 Thread Nick LaForge
PLEASE ERIS!! Your cerebral core-dumps are making me claustrophobic!

Re: [9fans] Kernel regression on nforce2 motherboard

2009-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> 9atom boots fine so I think I owe Erik another beer :) > > Just for completeness, the system is an oldish amd - nforce2 > motherboard, SIL3112 SATA with a couple of 300g ST3300831AS disks. take a look on segate's site for a firmware update for those drives. i'm not saying that's your problem,

Re: [9fans] sd(3) and concurrent readers/writers?

2009-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Sep 12 14:10:20 EDT 2009, sqw...@gmail.com wrote: > I have a fairly simple task - I'm trying to mirror a disk. So I run > the obvious: > > dd -if /dev/sdE0/data -of /dev/sdF0/data -bs 1048576 > > That's sitting there on it's merry way, and I get curious as to how > much progress it has m

[9fans] sd(3) and concurrent readers/writers?

2009-09-12 Thread sqweek
I have a fairly simple task - I'm trying to mirror a disk. So I run the obvious: dd -if /dev/sdE0/data -of /dev/sdF0/data -bs 1048576 That's sitting there on it's merry way, and I get curious as to how much progress it has made. I think about acid briefly but I don't have much experience with i

[9fans] Kernel regression on nforce2 motherboard

2009-09-12 Thread sqweek
So, I'm trying to get my file server back up and running since my old hardware died. I know I've had plan 9 running on my desktop before, and it's a little aged so I decided to upgrade to some new hardware and convert the desktop to a file server. As it turns out, not that simple. But at least now

Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

2009-09-12 Thread Eris Discordia
i think you need to read some chaucer. you are the boiling frog in a pot of words. English isn't my native tongue. It's a bit too much to expect me to read 14th century "stuff" only to understand what probably amounts to an affront. You tell me what is "the boiling frog in a pot of words."

Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

2009-09-12 Thread Eris Discordia
Once again, words you use recklessly turn out to have actual definitions. I am aware of those definitions. Please refer to the Jared Diamond lecture titled "The Great Leap Forward" to (gracefully) understand what I am talking about. It is supposed in the discussion of language evolution I ref

Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

2009-09-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> > These are novel and amusing orthographies and in-crowd jargon and nothing > > more [...] > > I think we agree there: I said they were fad. i think you need to read some chaucer. you are the boiling frog in a pot of words. - erik

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-12 Thread Anant Narayanan
On Sep 11, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Roman V Shaposhnik wrote: I still do care very much (and in fact, I've been meaning to provide some of the answers on this mailing list, but apparently one can't upgrade to Snow Leopard over the net so I have to physically drive to the Mac store :-(). Anyway, for a

Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

2009-09-12 Thread Daniel Lyons
On Sep 12, 2009, at 1:05 AM, Eris Discordia wrote: There's a discussion of evolution of languages that involves a language going from pidgin to creole to full-blown. Maybe "text-ese" is some sort of pidgin, or more leniently creole, that draws on the "speakers'" native language but the poi

Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

2009-09-12 Thread Eris Discordia
i believe this distinction between "natural" and "artificial" languages is, uh, arbitrary. Well, I don't think this is true. The distinction is strong enough for everyone to be able to immediately tell apart a language from a non-language. Actually, I think the term "artificial language" is ki