On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:42:06PM +, smi...@zenzebra.mv.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Back in 2009, someone on this list posted about encrypting /usr on a
> Plan 9 laptop they had. Does anyone know how to encrypt a file system
> on Plan 9? (I'm talking about encrypting the storage on disk, not ju
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:53:30PM +0100, Nemo wrote:
> i reply myself; i think they use sst to mix multimedia streams, and
> in that case a lost packet in one stream (say text) would
> delay other streams (say audio) that do not need to be delayed if
> you use sst.
>
> But otherwise I still thin
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:22:25PM -0500, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> usb has advanced a little; we can see usb devices now but attempts to
> read or write them hang. I don't know of progress on flash access or
> anything else.
in the inferno port i've been able to access the nand flash:
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 08:24:45AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote:
> ps. if you wanted to hide this ugliness of passing a buffer and
> fd to a child process instead of just passing an fd, you could
> still solve it in userland without a syscall. Write a library
> that does buffered IO. Include unget()
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:50:18PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> I'd like to have a hack session the wed. morning before IWP9.
>
> What I'd like to propose is a sheeva plugfest. People commit to bringing a
> plug
> and we get them set up to run Plan 9.
>
> Any interest?
inferno might be a good ta
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:50:42AM -0600, Daniel Lyons wrote:
>
> On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Akshat Kumar wrote:
>
> >Suggestions (model, company, etc.) welcome.
> >Although, this thing can do photoscanning, copying,
> >and faxing. I make great use of the former two,
> >along with printing (of
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:30:41AM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> >perhaps i've been asleep at the swtch, but i don't recall seing writes
> >on closed channels terminate programs with a note.
>
> sys: write on closed pipe
>
> mainly to kill off a pipeline when the thing at the end has finished.
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 06:25:19AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> i think the general idea is that if you want to do this between
> arbitrary machines, you provide a 9p interface. you can think
> of 9p as a channel with a predefined set of messages. acme
> does this. kernel devices do this.
>
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:54:34AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> as an old example, i think that the lab's use of worm storage
> for the main file server was incredibly insightful.
>
> what could we do today, but don't quite dare?
stop writing all programs in C, and start writing them in a
highe
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 04:25:40PM -0500, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Again, that's not to say that there aren't other valid motivators
> for some centralized functionality. It's just that in my opinion,
> we're at the point were if it's raw cycles we need, we'll have
> to be looking at a larg
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:29:47AM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
> I am interested in the idea of adding some kind of resource limits
> to plan9. If they existsed I would probably open it up to external
> users, however different things would worry me:
>
> CPU use
> Implement the Fair share scheduler
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:48:54AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > We haven't brought up SSL yet, so Eve can read our exchanged random
> > numbers... now these values get shoved into SHA-1 (along with the 56 bits of
> > entropy from Kn derived from p9any authentication) before being used to make
>
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:22:48PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > > Already part of HTTP
> > >
> > > Accept: application/msword; q=1, application/pdf;
> > > q=0.5,application/x-troff-ms; q=0.3
> > >
> > > q is the level of preference, you'll get word docs first
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Wow. Could it
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:01:55PM -0500, Anthony Sorace wrote:
> if you want to work on it some, this message talks about getting
> inferno working on OpenBSD using the rthreads library (the pending
> replacement for the userland threads russ talked about):
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~mechiel/infer
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 02:16:39PM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2008, at 11:15 AM, John Barham wrote:
> >>>It seems that MS is pushing webdav hard.
> >>
> >>that's what's needed when heavy things run out of fuel.
> >
> >Even as a potential substitute for ftp webdav is a farce. Speaki
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