Re: [9fans] Hi from a new fan

2011-11-12 Thread L N
Also ... http://www.tcl.tk/about/history.html

Re: [9fans] Hi from a new fan

2011-11-12 Thread L N
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Scott Elcomb wrote: > Just like to take a quick moment to say hello to the list and > introduce myself. Hi there! =D > > For roughly the last 6 years or so, I've been picking away at "Atomic > OS" - a metaphorical OS / abstraction layer for web application > deve

Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-11 Thread L N
> And look at it this way: delegation helps the economy by employing > people and selling processors and memory :-) http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/7/109885-the-case-for-ramcloud/fulltext

Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-08 Thread L N
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > I believe the state of the art is not to use tcl. :-) > I'm having fun writing 9p clients in Go. > > Russ > Sure, tcl isn't as popular as Go right now. Still, tcl is appealing in some ways. http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html Was wondering

[9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-08 Thread L N
Anyone know the state of the art of writing 9p clients/servers in tcl? - Leonard

Re: [9fans] plan9port compilation

2011-09-19 Thread L N
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:00 AM, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com>wrote: > You did not install the libX11-devel package on your distribution. > > -- > David du Colombier > > Ok thanks.

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-15 Thread L N
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:41:29 -0400 > L N wrote: > > > The goal should be a Plan 9 "distro" that runs natively on AMD-64, and > can > > open a web-browser. > > That "goal" is a

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-14 Thread L N
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:33 PM, ron minnich wrote: > > > Although for my money abaco is still really neat ... > > ron > > I wonder if I can get abaco to display pages with a high-contrast-inverse theme. :] - Leonard

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-14 Thread L N
> I think you have seriously misapprehended many things about Plan 9. > What am I misapprehending? > We don't have X. We are not Linux compatible, although there's a > rather decent Linux emulator. There is no GTK, no Qt, no Firefox, no > modern C++ compiler. > I don't need X, Linux compatibil

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-14 Thread L N
> ah, now I see :-) > > http://www.clipartguide.com/_named_clipart_images/0511-0701-3117-1335_Skeleton_Behind_a_Business_Desk_clipart_image.jpg > > ron > Maybe. The web-browser really is a deal-breaker, though. I really enjoyed reading about Plan 9, first at plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/, and lat

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-14 Thread L N
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:57 PM, John Floren wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:55 PM, s s wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Or use xpdf -rv > >> Although I use it for exactly the opposite purpose. > > > > How come no one likes high-contras