Re: [9fans] Principles of Operating Systems

2009-10-13 Thread blstuart
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:01 PM, wrote: >> >> As I said, I'm only the author, so I don't have all the numbers >> to these things, but after being a little closer to the process, >> I understand a little better where the cost comes from.  At the >> same time, as the dad of a girl headed for coll

Re: [9fans] Principles of Operating Systems

2009-10-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:01 PM, wrote: > > As I said, I'm only the author, so I don't have all the numbers > to these things, but after being a little closer to the process, > I understand a little better where the cost comes from.  At the > same time, as the dad of a girl headed for college nex

Re: [9fans] Principles of Operating Systems

2009-10-13 Thread blstuart
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Re: [9fans] Principles of Operating Systems

2009-10-13 Thread Jason Catena
>> I know you said you bought yours for $10, but why is the book $101.60 in >> the first place? >> >> Jake Todd > > Why is any college textbook ridiculously priced? Supposedly captive audience, and a monopoly purveyor. Usually only the university bookstore sells the latest edition, which professo

Re: [9fans] Venti over DHT

2009-10-13 Thread Russ Cox
> I remember Russ authoring a paper on running Venti over distributed hash > tables, > but I can't find the pdf anymore. All Google gives me is this: >   > http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:6Wu_j9JaaUcJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en The paper you've found there was an internal MIT workshop subm

Re: [9fans] Principles of Operating Systems

2009-10-13 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jacob Todd wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:24:17PM -0700, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > > To all those who might have hesitated (for all the wrong reasons I might > add) > > to buy this book before, now is an ideal time: > > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi

[9fans] can't capture drawterm window image

2009-10-13 Thread erik quanstrom
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Re: [9fans] Principles of Operating Systems

2009-10-13 Thread Jacob Todd
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:24:17PM -0700, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > To all those who might have hesitated (for all the wrong reasons I might add) > to buy this book before, now is an ideal time: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1418837695/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=125546150

Re: [9fans] Principles of Operating Systems

2009-10-13 Thread Josh Wood
On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: To all those who might have hesitated (for all the wrong reasons I might add) to buy this book before, now is an ideal time: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1418837695/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255461503&sr=8-1 I'd

[9fans] iwp9 room finalized

2009-10-13 Thread erik quanstrom
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[9fans] Principles of Operating Systems

2009-10-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
To all those who might have hesitated (for all the wrong reasons I might add) to buy this book before, now is an ideal time: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1418837695/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255461503&sr=8-1 Just got mine from bookbyte123 and it really is in a brand new c

Re: [9fans] usb/print problem since last update

2009-10-13 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
I think it should. But let me know if the problem persists. thanks On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > I haven't updated the kernels. Will do. > > Furrthamoa... > With the old usb/print (and the old kernel stuff), I get this > each time I try to print: > > cat: write error cop

[9fans] Venti over DHT

2009-10-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Guys, I remember Russ authoring a paper on running Venti over distributed hash tables, but I can't find the pdf anymore. All Google gives me is this: http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:6Wu_j9JaaUcJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en Help? Thanks, Roman.

Re: [9fans] usb/print problem since last update

2009-10-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
I haven't updated the kernels. Will do. Furrthamoa... With the old usb/print (and the old kernel stuff), I get this each time I try to print: cat: write error copying /tmp/pdf178624: request timed out and there seems to be no way of shaking it. Was this perhaps addressed in the latest kernel and

Re: [9fans] 9P in lua

2009-10-13 Thread Iruata Souza
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Sergey Zhilkin wrote: > There is a LUA for P9 > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/iru/lua-5.1-plan9.tgz > > But ... 9P on LUA maybe iRu knows ? > i don't. not yet. > 2009/10/13 Roman Shaposhnik : >> Guys, >> >> has anybody seen 9P implemented in Lu

Re: [9fans] usb/print problem since last update

2009-10-13 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Have you updated your kernel? We increased the size of the max ctl request in both the usb library and also in usb[ueo]hci.c You seem to have a new library but an old kernel. The library is asking for more max size than the kernel can afford now. I'm sorry, I should have teached the kernel how t

[9fans] usb/print problem since last update

2009-10-13 Thread Akshat Kumar
Last time I played with printing, was quite a while before the last update to usb/print (apparently Sep. 25). And stuff worked back then. Here's the output now: cpu% usb/print usb/print: startdevs: opening #0 /dev/usb/ep7.0 usb/print: /dev/usb/ep7.0: config: d2h data too large to fit in uhci usb/

Re: [9fans] 9P in lua

2009-10-13 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Sergey Zhilkin wrote: > http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations - may be usefull :) Not in this case: "Implementations in progress for: lua and others. But don't let that deter you from writing your own!" However, I've seen this thread: http://hn.whyslow.net/item

Re: [9fans] vesa: can't get 1680x1050x32

2009-10-13 Thread erik quanstrom
when trying (unsuccessfully) to get the nvidia driver working correctly for my card, i wondered if a few registers weren't slightly off. i could be wrong and this was a long time ago, but fwiw: vga->crt[0x04] = mode->shs/8 - 1; /* differs by -1 */ vga->crt[0

Re: [9fans] 9P in lua

2009-10-13 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
http://9p.cat-v.org/implementations - may be usefull :) 2009/10/13 Roman Shaposhnik : > Guys, > > has anybody seen 9P implemented in Lua? Either client, server or both? > > Thanks, > Roman. > > -- С наилучшими пожеланиями Жилкин Сергей With best regards Zhilkin Sergey

Re: [9fans] 9P in lua

2009-10-13 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
There is a LUA for P9 http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/iru/lua-5.1-plan9.tgz But ... 9P on LUA maybe iRu knows ? 2009/10/13 Roman Shaposhnik : > Guys, > > has anybody seen 9P implemented in Lua? Either client, server or both? > > Thanks, > Roman. > > -- С наилучшими пожеланиями

[9fans] vesa: can't get 1680x1050x32

2009-10-13 Thread yaroslav
(correction): can do 1680x1050x8, 1280x800x32. I can't get 1680x1050x32 with monitor=vesa. Attempt to load 1680x1050x32 mode sets the VGA mode and hangs, displaying just a noise. Tried the recent 9pc as well as the ½ yr old one. Please advice. The vga is: 3.0.0: vid 03.00.00 10de/06e4 10 0:

[9fans] vesa: can't get 1680x1050x32

2009-10-13 Thread yaroslav
Hi, I can't get 1680x1050x32 with monitor=vesa: can do either 1680x1050x8 or 1280x800x8. Attempt to load 1680x1050x32 mode sets the VGA mode and hangs, displaying just a noise. Tried the recent 9pc as well as the ½ yr old one. Please advice. The vga is: 3.0.0: vid 03.00.00 10de/06e4 10 0:cf0