Re: [9fans] GSoC 2014: Self introduction

2014-04-28 Thread Jessica Yu
Congratulations Yan! Best of luck to you. :-) On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 3:14 PM, yan cui wrote: > Hi, all > > I am Yan Cui. No words can express the excitement and pleasure when I > received the accept letter from GSoC 2014. This year I will be working on > locks of Plan 9 kernel. I am a student

[9fans] GSoC 2014 update

2014-04-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: A quick update for everyone on what's going on with GSoC. A week ago today, our final selections were announced. This year, we've got five students working on the following projects: Pedro L Coutin-Portuondo will be working on audio for the Raspberry Pi, over its m

Re: [9fans] GPT partitions

2014-04-28 Thread Daryl M
Jens, I am currently working on a UEFI boot loader for Plan9. The initial version will be 32-bit but should be followed shortly by an x64 (64 bit) version. I'm hoping to be able to switch automatically between MBR and GPT schemes. The Plan9 kernel appears to make many assumptions about its envir

Re: [9fans] Need help setting up MacPro to prepare ps files for printing on HP PCL 3 printer (HP 6480)

2014-04-28 Thread Jeff Sickel
Thomas, You should be able to use one of several options: open plotfile.ps # should open in Preview.app, allowing convert/save to pdf /usr/bin/pstopdf ps2pdf# if you’ve installed ghostscript or other toolchains Don’t forget, you may need to add: 9 grap plot

Re: [9fans] Need help setting up MacPro to prepare ps files for printing on HP PCL 3 printer (HP 6480)

2014-04-28 Thread Thomas
Following Steve's lead, I found this works : 9 grap plotfile | 9 pic | 9troff -mm | 9 tr2post > plotfile.ps lp plotfile.ps The OS X lp does not convert postscript. As far as I can see there is no plan9 lp. Thanks, Steve -Tom On Apr 24, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > I am no p9p