Re: [9fans] 9pi + apple keyboard

2013-01-26 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 07:12:50AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > ; >/dev/null time factor 281476419553081 > > > 146.60u 0.01s 148.24rfactor 281476419553081 > > > ; >/dev/null time /sys/src/cmd/5.factor 281476419553081 > > > 1.20u 0.01s 1.22r/sys/src/cmd/5.factor 28147641955

Re: [9fans] 9pi + apple keyboard

2013-01-26 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:10:48PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Wed Jan 23 10:49:47 EST 2013, quans...@quanstro.net wrote: > > > Interesting results, thank you! > > > The difference between the Pi and the Sheeva is quite huge, > > > I wasn't excepting such difference. This seems to confirm my

Re: [9fans] 9pi + apple keyboard

2013-01-23 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:36:52AM +, Richard Miller wrote: > > the rpi is only half as fast as a sheeva plug. > > ... half as fast at doing what? I support that it's only half as fast as a sheevaplug *compiling code*. But of course the pi has a FPU, GPU, ...

Re: [9fans] c++

2012-11-22 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 09:54:34AM +, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: > On 11/20/2012 03:42 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > >>How do you studiously not do something? Doesn't the imply working > >>hard at something? > > > >Indeed, everything I did read about Go made it look very attractive so I am > >ignor

Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs

2012-07-16 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:44:52AM +, opryy...@gmail.com wrote: > Another neat comparison of 44 tiny devices: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4035896/a320_downloads/SBC_comparison44.pdf I think this one looks very good too in terms of price/features, advised by some colleagues: http://www.fanlesstec

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:48:22AM -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > On Tuesday, June 12, 2012, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > > I'm very happy with my Sheevaplug. It works with heavy cpu loads (full gnu > > system builds from time to time) for days, and works very good. It'

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-12 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:12:55AM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Evaluations of the Sheevaplug in particular revealed it tended to > overheat badly if you put any significant load on the networking > components. Heating problems combined with poor quality control would > be my guess as to why that

Re: [9fans] Sad News

2011-10-13 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:19:59PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer > science: no need to be deshonored by this mondaine crap. Or there are shameful "Nobel" prizes, like the economics, started by the Bank of Sweden taking pro

Re: [9fans] NIX 64-bit kernel is available

2011-09-14 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:38:42PM -0400, s s wrote: > Very nice. > > Are you sure you want to call it NIX, though? > > A google search for "nix kernel" returns a lot of unrelated results. > > http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=nix+kernel As google results depend on who searches... I "work" for a p

Re: [9fans] Ken Thompson page

2011-07-27 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:49:03AM -0300, Iruatã Souza wrote: > works for me. Right. Now it works for me too. > 2011/7/27 Lluís Batlle i Rossell : > > http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html > > errstr: '/usr/web/who/ken' does not exist

[9fans] Ken Thompson page

2011-07-27 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hello, I just wanted the article about security and the self-referencing compiler from Ken. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html errstr: '/usr/web/who/ken' does not exist And the Wayback Machine from archive.org does not have it due to robots.txt Is this normal and expected by the site ow

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 02:17:54PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Those knowing how to program well are those who can deal with English > > easily. > > Writing with a latin script without diacritics makes the life easier too. > > Even > > the whole old story about 'char' holds a character can g

Re: [9fans] localization

2011-04-27 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:08:27PM +0200, Gabriel Diaz wrote: > Hello > > We install operating systems in English. Spanish / Catalan localized > systems are a source of problems like: > ... Hello, I think it's easier to find a programmer that wants to fix a program behaviour, than to find someon

Re: [9fans] sheevaplug catatonic

2011-01-16 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:09:50PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > has anyone else had a sheevaplug go catatonic? > mine reset yesterday and now no longer responds > to the usb/serial interface and the ethernet lights > are stuck. After one year of working, in mine some power supply capacitors blew

Re: [9fans] sheevaplug catatonic

2011-01-16 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 02:41:57PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > i haven't cracked the case. does anyone know if there's > a jtag port at all in a sheevaplug? There is. I've used it to debug Linux boots with openocd. The FTDI chip at the the USB-device connector should show you two serial ports.

Re: [9fans] off the air

2010-12-31 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 01:28:17PM +, Richard Miller wrote: > > Although I'd like to try a theremin one day... > > Lydia Kavina http://www.lydiakavina.com gives occasional tutorials in Oxford, > maybe also somewhere closer to you. She was in Lippstadt last November. Thank you! I did not know

Re: [9fans] kirkwood (sheevaplug) configuration changes

2010-04-14 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hello, On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:58:29PM -0400, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > There's been no significant progress on usb, flash access nor > write-back l2 cache, despite several of us banging our heads > against usb and cache walls. > >From what I could follow (little) from the linux-arm

Re: [9fans] SheevaPlug

2009-12-05 Thread Lluís Batlle
Mine I bougth some months ago, also from globalscale. They took more than one month to ship it, but after their notice about the shipment, it came in two days. It came in a nice packaging box, with all the cables, and a CD with the source code. 2009/12/5 Francisco J Ballesteros : > ours is still o

Re: [9fans] not understanding bugs.

2009-01-29 Thread Lluís Batlle
Same here. I totally feel like erik about bugs and writing code. 2009/1/29 erik quanstrom : > from the link > >> But that's what happens when there is no incentive >> for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. >> Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; >> but r