Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:15:54PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > all i see from you are pronouncements. show us your code. > I'm not a programmer; however, we here at 9front Technologies have deeveloped a new development paradigm we call "trust-based egalitarian avocational modular wide-area o

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> now we know why this society may exist after all... those who do > something actually get pissed on. why bother even telling the masses > when they know what to expect in return. why bother? because the whining is not important to me, but plan 9 is. so there can be some trollish commentary. i

Re: [9fans] Win starting rc?

2013-06-17 Thread Derek Carter (aka goozbach)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/11/13 1218, marius eriksen wrote: > On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Brian Vito > wrote: > >> Is there a way to have Acme's Win command start an rc session >> rather than bash? Also, is it possible to set the bash prompt to >> PS1=": {\w} %; " if ba

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread sl
> all i see from you are pronouncements. show us your code. That's how this all started. -sl

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
all i see from you are pronouncements. show us your code. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08:20:56PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > > There is code that is neither secret nor published. Code that does "the" > > or "some" job for the wri

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Nemo
You should ask if anyone else did that before doing it, instead of saying they are un-spined life forms. Don't you have a tricorder? On Jun 17, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > It is annoying to have to replicate work someone else has done merely > because they lack the spine to release i

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08:20:56PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > There is code that is neither secret nor published. Code that does "the" > or "some" job for the writer but that the writer does not want to > maintain (for a public audience). There is no Hague Convention specification th

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 02:01:08PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon Jun 17 12:55:25 EDT 2013, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > > > a lot of effort has gone into making code public. > > > > But it would be zero effort if code wouldn't be secret in the first place. There is code that is neither secret n

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Jiten Pathy
Thanks for clearing that up. I haven't looked at the code, but the changes in the paper looked interesting. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Nemo wrote: > It's a modified stock kernel, no need to ask because I made the changes > directly there. ;) > > Now seriously..., no plan 9 secret society

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread balaji
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:01 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon Jun 17 12:55:25 EDT 2013, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: >> > a lot of effort has gone into making code public. >> >> But it would be zero effort if code wouldn't be secret in the first place. > > and usually one gets pissed on for going to th

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jun 17 12:55:25 EDT 2013, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > > a lot of effort has gone into making code public. > > But it would be zero effort if code wouldn't be secret in the first place. and usually one gets pissed on for going to the effort. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> a lot of effort has gone into making code public. But it would be zero effort if code wouldn't be secret in the first place. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:41:27PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Now seriously..., no plan 9 secret society has ever been actually secret > > and hiding code, > > as far as I know, that is. The only times I saw someone was keeping code > > without publishing > > it was because the code was not

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Nemo
That was all I was trying to say, in a single and precise sentence. I should learn english at some point… On Jun 17, 2013, at 6:41 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > a lot of effort has gone into making code public.

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> Now seriously..., no plan 9 secret society has ever been actually secret and > hiding code, > as far as I know, that is. The only times I saw someone was keeping code > without publishing > it was because the code was not considered to be ready enough for others to > try. a lot of effort has

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Nemo
It's a modified stock kernel, no need to ask because I made the changes directly there. ;) Now seriously..., no plan 9 secret society has ever been actually secret and hiding code, as far as I know, that is. The only times I saw someone was keeping code without publishing it was because the cod

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Jiten Pathy
I am just wondering, does the "new Plan9 secret society" approve of the release of code ? On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > >> concat >> us > > Since concat'ing us may be disgusting, I should have wri

[9fans] USB UK keyboard problem, correct fix?

2013-06-17 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I have a shiny new UK usb keyboard but am unable to use it as one of the keys cannot be mapped using kbmap (|\); I'am typing this on a grubby old ps2 keyboard. The key in question seems to generate 0x0e 0x56 on keydown and 0x0e 0xd6 on keyup. This appears to be exactly this problem: