Re: [9fans] NUMA

2011-07-15 Thread Charles Forsyth
that's funny! i was looking at that work last week.--- Begin Message --- http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/porch/ long ago, but I saw it checkpoint between x86 and sparc. ron--- End Message ---

Re: [9fans] plan 9 go and email problems

2011-07-15 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
The same here. Searching Google+ for Lucio's full name returns one person who has a profile that fits. -Skip On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > I'm having problems reaching Lucio by mail > (it gives a warning of temporary DNS problems). > > Any google+ or linkedin

[9fans] plan 9 go and email problems

2011-07-15 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
I'm having problems reaching Lucio by mail (it gives a warning of temporary DNS problems). Any google+ or linkedin account or something? thanks

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

2011-07-15 Thread Wes Kussmaul
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 21:34 +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > > if the user hovers mouse over widget area, it would be understood as > intention to activate widgets, > > > > eeek! > Am I the only one who doesn't like this idea? > You're definitely not the only one. OK, devil's advocacy h

Re: [9fans] NUMA

2011-07-15 Thread ron minnich
http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/porch/ long ago, but I saw it checkpoint between x86 and sparc. ron

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

2011-07-15 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:15:27 +0200 "Peter A. Cejchan" wrote: > > MARGINS! Why is it all the computer nerds are obsessed with eradicating > margins? Do they actually never try to read anything using > > i'm not a comp nerd, rathe a biologist, however, and therefore, i like > simple, yet working

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

2011-07-15 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:45:38 -0400 Anthony Sorace wrote: > On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:16, Wes Kussmaul wrote: > > > Isn't this a perfect case for letting the user set a parameter, > > depending upon his/her preference? > > No. The choice is between two very different user interaction models. Nobod

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

2011-07-15 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:43:51 -0500 Jack Norton wrote: > dexen deVries wrote: > > > if the user hovers mouse over widget area, it would be understood as > > intention to activate widgets, triggering their visibility. > > > >... > > in other words, all the widgets (menus included) of an app turn

Re: [9fans] NUMA

2011-07-15 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 05:15:35PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: >[...] > Writing down an explanation about the differences between the on file > saved version, and the runtime structures, I wrote that portable was for > sharing between whatever CPU architectures, while the in memory was > fi

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Jul 15 12:58:06 EDT 2011, mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote: > EBo, > > switch to 8-bpp mode and take a look in /lib/cmap. the 'getcmap' > command will allow you to switch between the different colormaps and > let you experiment with acme's colors. some monitors really get acme yellow wrong. a c

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread andrey mirtchovski
EBo, switch to 8-bpp mode and take a look in /lib/cmap. the 'getcmap' command will allow you to switch between the different colormaps and let you experiment with acme's colors. andrey

Re: [9fans] awk, big REs

2011-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> it mostly works but part of the configure script fails where it runs > awk over a header file and uses a rather sill RE to find all > defines/undefines. > > /^[\t ]*#[\t ]*(define|undef)[\t > ]+[_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ][_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread pmarin
For a global color change see http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/sl/reverse/rio/ To chance the color of the tick go to /src/libframe/frinit.c in "void frinittick(Frame *f)" look for /* vertical line */ draw(f->tick, Rect(FRTICKW/2, 0, FRTICKW/2+1, ft->height), f->display->black, nil, ZP);

[9fans] NUMA

2011-07-15 Thread tlaronde
This a generic question and not peculiar to plan9. In my main software (KerGIS), there are often two versions of the data. One version is saved, in a filesystem, in a portable format (size of int and float defined; endianness defined) so that the data can be served by a fileserver and used by what

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread EBo
I'll be gone this weekend so Monday would be more than fine. Best regards, EBo -- On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:46:01 +0200, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: i have it somewhere, if you can wait till Monday, have a look: www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/Default.htm ++pac On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM

[9fans] 9fans archive engine

2011-07-15 Thread rbnsw-plan9
> Is the software which powers 9fans web archive publicly available? Which one? :-) I prefer the mailman archive available only to list members since it allows the messages to be sorted by subject/author/date/thread and of course, the source for mailman is available. I'm note sure why there are

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
i have it somewhere, if you can wait till Monday, have a look: www.gli.cas.cz/home/cejchan/plan9/Default.htm ++pac On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM, EBo wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:07:06 +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > >> Can anyone suggest how to change the background window color in acme

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread EBo
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:07:06 +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote: Can anyone suggest how to change the background window color in acme?  The yellow is not quite contrasty enough for me, and I would like to lighten it up a bunch. I think you'll need to change /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/acme/acme

Re: [9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 15 July 2011 15:00, EBo wrote: > Can anyone suggest how to change the background window color in acme?  The > yellow is not quite contrasty enough for me, and I would like to lighten it > up a bunch. I think you'll need to change /n/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/acme/acme.c:868 cls

[9fans] changing acme colors

2011-07-15 Thread EBo
Can anyone suggest how to change the background window color in acme? The yellow is not quite contrasty enough for me, and I would like to lighten it up a bunch. EBo --

Re: [9fans] awk, big REs

2011-07-15 Thread Charles Forsyth
>For some reasone they don't like character class ranges, and if I writing them out explicitly might avoid trouble with some locales.

[9fans] awk, big REs

2011-07-15 Thread Steve Simon
I am trying to run configure for a GNU project on plan9. yes I know, but stay with me... it mostly works but part of the configure script fails where it runs awk over a header file and uses a rather sill RE to find all defines/undefines. /^[\t ]*#[\t ]*(define|undef)[\t ]+[_abcdefghijklmnopqrst

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Go (Was: GNU/Linux/Plan 9 disto)

2011-07-15 Thread Alex Brainman
On Friday, 15 July 2011 06:23:16 UTC+10, Lucio De Re wrote: > > > It is possible to cross-compile Go on Linux for Plan 9, the details are > a bit vague and I, for one, would not mind somebody rehashing them here > or providing a pointer to them. > This is how I build windows executables on linu