I welcome anyone interested in discussing
the nature of typographic interface
to contact me off-list
I simply see untapped potential
and I want to bring it into useful form
(by communication/cooperation more than solitude)
askye
erik quanstrom wrote:
> > The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
>
> poor special effects?
it's just resting!
but maybe it should die
yes
no "modern GUI", &c.
(and I'm grateful for that! :)
but Plan 9 (and other software)
can be much more useful by exposition
within a *typogr
> Attempting to [discuss and speculate on different potential expressions
> of Plan 9] here on 9fans continues to be a traditional source
> of agitation and flames, tempered with a healthy dose of shut up and
> code.
As it appears to me, this mailing list does tolerate such discussion, and I
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> Individual work has a benefit no community work can have; honor. That
> product's success or failure is going to affect the image of who
> created it. When an individual creates a product, it has a desire to
> see it succeed. When a group creates a product, they have a desire to
> get their p
> order is unnatural
The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution
by Stuart A. Kauffman
http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Order-Self-Organization-Selection-Evolution/dp/0195079515
An interesting article on text rasterization algorithms:
http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html
After evaluating many fonts for programming, I found Verdana to be the most
readable, for the same reasons described here (though I use 11pt anti-aliased
by OS X):
>> it supports 4gb of memory.
> of non-ECC memory, so nice terminal, bad server
Any recommendations of similar hardware which does support SECDED ECC?
I'm wondering if/when fossil might become part of plan9port. I found only a
thread from 2007 mentioning that it had not been ported.
It is of particular interest to me because I'm preparing various machines
(which are not supported by Plan 9) to manage data on dedicated disks. My
thought was to
