[9fans] tech writer humor

2011-02-21 Thread erik quanstrom
ah yes, that clears it up 19.4.22 APICID This register uniquely identifies an APIC in the system. This register is not used by OS'es anymore and is still implemented in hardware because of FUD. (IntelĀ® 5520 chipset and IntelĀ® 5500 chipset datasheet pub 321328) -

Re: [9fans] streams

2011-02-21 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:53:30PM +0100, Nemo wrote: > i reply myself; i think they use sst to mix multimedia streams, and > in that case a lost packet in one stream (say text) would > delay other streams (say audio) that do not need to be delayed if > you use sst. > > But otherwise I still thin

Re: [9fans] Is there a reason for the existence of 9atom?

2011-02-21 Thread Jacek Masiulaniec
On 15 February 2011 08:08, Fernan Bolando wrote: > i have always considered 9atom and a few other independent plan9 stuff > as something similar to the openbsd release strategy. Theres a stable > release and a current. 9atom is more like openbsd-current it's > bleeding edge, but it should be _more

Re: [9fans] streams

2011-02-21 Thread Nemo
i reply myself; i think they use sst to mix multimedia streams, and in that case a lost packet in one stream (say text) would delay other streams (say audio) that do not need to be delayed if you use sst. But otherwise I still think that muxing a tcp stream might provide something similar (withou

Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-21 Thread erik quanstrom
> Caching is definitely worth doing but you don't always have > the opportunity to do it. If you are copying a lot of files > across, it would help quite a bit if you can just pipeline > requests (or send fewer bundled requests). If you are copying > very large files, streaming would help. When co