Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-31 Thread Uriel
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > Just for the record, nothing's changed: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:44:04PM +0200, Uriel wrote: >> Where did the Go team say explicitly they are not interested in a >> better build system? > > http:

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-28 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 05:36:58PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: >> >> Sure, feel free to make something that isn't shitty, there's plenty >> out there that can be improved. The machinery to install Go (from >> sources) is hardly the most importa

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-28 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 08:48:39PM +0530, Dan Cross wrote: > >> So are you saying that because they use bash to build the system, the >> language is shitty? Or just the build system is shitty? >> > > I have other issues with Go as a language,

Re: [9fans] 8c and elf shared libraries

2012-07-28 Thread Uriel
/code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=256 I'm sure many people, including the core Go team, would be very happy if somebody worked on this. Even given my visceral hatred for dynamic linking, this would be quite useful for things like creating Python modules in Go and other such tasks. So ple

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone

2012-06-01 Thread Uriel
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:18 PM, John Floren wrote: > Some people would love warp-to-location for Undo/Redo, some I'm sure > would hate it. Some people can't stand that up/down arrow keys scroll > the page rather than move the cursor (I'm not one). Acme might benefit > from a config file in $home/

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread Uriel
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:34 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: >>  http://alltom.com/files/misc/chords.png > > a suggestion? > > http://i.imgur.com/hjFJa.png Ah, that is even better, I added a different green to the held button, and updated the version at: http://acme.cat-v.org/mouse But now I'm thi

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread Uriel
anks, this is a quite nice visualization, but i would keep the left button in some shade of green on the paste, cut and copy pictures, to indicate you should hold it. In any case hope you are ok that I added it to http://acme.cat-v.org/mouse Thanks again. Uriel

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-26 Thread Uriel
he whole project a bit too seriously. Which is kind of weird for a project called after an Ed Wood film. uriel

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

2011-11-24 Thread Uriel
This days probably your best chance is to work with Go (designed by some of the creators of Plan 9 now at Google), there are quite a few organizations using it already in production and some are hiring: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go uriel On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Jani

Re: [9fans] shaney turns 30!

2010-12-24 Thread Uriel
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > uriel is shaney incarnate. throw me a snail address and shaney will > send you a solstice card. A shaney solstice card sounds awesome! Uriel Mangado Bråvallavägen 12 182 66 Djursholm (SWEDEN) > > brucee > > On Fri, Dec

Re: [9fans] shaney turns 30!

2010-12-24 Thread Uriel
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > uriel is shaney incarnate. Thanks for the compliment! ;) By the way, shaney has a new home: http://glenda.cat-v.org/friends/mark-v-shaney/ Enjoy! uriel

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-26 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Steve Simon wrote: > I put some historic papers and distribution images (copyright permitting) on > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/steve/historic, and I believe uriel > has more on http://www.cat-v.org All the historical papers I have colle

Re: [9fans] fOSSa

2010-10-26 Thread Uriel
, and so few to do. The EU should setup a CAP program for the software industry that paid programmers not to program. Unlike with the CAP, this would provide an unquestionable net-social benefit to the world. uriel

[9fans] A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ

2010-05-31 Thread Uriel
I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq Enjoy! uriel

[9fans] Plan9 ezine

2010-02-16 Thread Uriel
inetimes > were either signed or didn't contain personal pronouns. Good point, they used to include the name of the author, but I think I removed it a while ago because nobody else was posting, I should add it back, the information is still there (i think) just need to display it. uriel

Re: [9fans] Plan9 ezine

2010-02-16 Thread Uriel
ribing and posted for example). Anyone interested on being able to post articles to 9times just send me an email and I'll create a werc editor account you can use to post stuff. uriel > cu > -- > -- >  Enrico We

Re: [9fans] IWP9 Acid Trips Video

2010-01-18 Thread Uriel
There are mirrors of the videos and other stuff at http://iwp9.cat-v.org but in this case I think the original recording is simply broken, sorry :( uriel On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: > I finally got around to watching Russ' Acid talk, but t

Re: [9fans] SVN

2010-01-18 Thread Uriel
In either case one is better off not using any version control system at all (or if you are lucky, kenfs, fossil, hg or git). uriel > >> Has anyone ported SVN to plan9 (I only need the client side), or >> alternatively is anyone using linuxemu to run the Linux binary? > > A

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

2009-10-06 Thread Uriel
y have not independently 'discovered' this fantastic solution to this horrible 'problem' already on their own. Of course, they could also move with the times, and adopt an XML format for command arguments which would be much more extensible and Web 2.0 compliant. That way all commands could share the same dynamically linked parser, and one could write scripts with their favorite XML-editor! uriel

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-17 Thread Uriel
http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/2009/09/07/0-mplayer9/ On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote: > On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >>> >>> Good luck trying to get Plan 9 to play video! >>> >> >> minooka; lc /sys/src/9/pc/*tv*.c >> devtv.c         vgatvp3020.c  

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-08 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:31 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > [snip] > > I guess we'll see what happens. We all know what will happen: more and more layers of crud will be added. Just as Russ predicted: From: r...@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) Subject: Re: [9fans] design clairvoyance & the 9 way Da

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-07 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Eris Discordia wrote: >> if you have quanstro/sd installed, sdorion(3) discusses how it >> controls the backplane lights. > > Um, I don't have that because I don't have any running Plan 9 instances, but > I'll try finding it on the web (if it's been through man2html

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-07 Thread Uriel
ing function pointers >>is BS. > > Even one step further, even if we all agree blocks are BS, As I was reading this thread I kept hearing inside my head boyd's voice screaming this at frequent intervals: "Blocks are bollocks!" uriel > moving more generally,

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-06 Thread Uriel
reeing with you so far on all points you've just made.  And I > think that's why Apple is seeking feedback. Here is some feedback for Apple: Fire your whole software and programming division, they are making the GNU and Gnome crack monkeys look sane, competent and responsible. uriel &

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-06 Thread Uriel
d library? > > I'm actually planning to figure this stuff out a bit more and "blog" about > it, hopefully by Friday sometime (tomorrow). > I don't agree that any of this stuff is strictly needed.  One can plod along > with pthreads and do it wrong all day.

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-06 Thread Uriel
on. But I'm dumber than the Apple geniuses, and grateful for my stupidity. uriel

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-03 Thread Uriel
So libthread must be a figment of 9fan's imagination... Of course, for Apple (or anyone else) to learn from Plan 9 would be impossible, so instead they had to add a new 'feature' to C. uriel On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > Has anyone actually looked

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-03 Thread Uriel
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > 2009/9/2 Uriel : >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Anant Narayanan wrote: >>> Mac OS 10.6 introduced a new C compiler frontend (clang), which added >>> support for "blocks" in C [1]. B

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-03 Thread Uriel
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > I mean HTTP has a small protocol, but if you count all the things you can do > with REST, then it looks like a lot more. HTTP might be many things, small is not one of them. That said, your overall point is correct. Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-02 Thread Uriel
the typical "lets come up with some cute 'feature' and then we will figure out how to hype ourselves all the way to hell". Peace uriel > > How much effort would it be to support a feature similar to blocks in 8c > (and family)? What are your thoughts on the idea in g

Re: [9fans] iwp9 deadline extension

2009-08-28 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Don Bailey wrote: > Is there an IWP9 website for this year that provides information about dates > and locations? > Thanks, I try to keep http://iwp9.cat-v.org updated with information for every year. uriel > D > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 a

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread Uriel
ure. if > the 9pcload is on 9fat, not a problem anymore. Wonderful! Seems that everyone won the fight in the end. Perhaps fighting is not as useless as some make it? Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread Uriel
l to boot somehow precludes the use of the existing 9fat setup, this is not true, and the whole point of the original GSoC project was precisely that: to boot using a kernel without changing anything about 9fat and plan9.ini so we could have a drop in replacement for 9load. And given that such a setup

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
f 9fat (simple, reliable, easily accessible from other systems, etc.) uriel

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:34 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Uriel wrote: > >> plan9.ini is certainly not perfect, and I'm happy to see it changed >> some day, but that was not what the project was about. > > I'm glad to know you define

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:17 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Uriel wrote: >> Because the whole point of the project was to replace 9load, and the >> way plan9 systems tell 9load what kernel to load is using plan9.ini > > no, yes. > the point of

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
Because the whole point of the project was to replace 9load, and the way plan9 systems tell 9load what kernel to load is using plan9.ini On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:57 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Uriel wrote: >> Can it load and parse plan9.ini? > > why

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
Can it load and parse plan9.ini? uriel On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Iruata Souza wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Uriel wrote: >> Er, it doesn't need a new PBS, booting Plan 9 from a Plan 9 kernel >> already worked just fine with what russ did years ago. >&g

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
Er, it doesn't need a new PBS, booting Plan 9 from a Plan 9 kernel already worked just fine with what russ did years ago. uriel On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:05 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > >> I think there's work going on

Re: [9fans] inferno-list

2009-08-26 Thread Uriel
It is fine for some, it isn't for others. uriel On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michaelian Ennis wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:55 PM, hiro<23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Sorry for posting here, but I can't reach you inferno guys. >> I don't know whet

Re: [9fans] sed oddity

2009-08-19 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:00 PM, roger peppe wrote: > 2009/8/18 Uriel : >> Interesting, this reminds me of a question I had: is there any command >> that would read from stdin, and write to stdout, but if there was an >> error when writing to stdout it would ignore it and cont

Re: [9fans] The first annual "Hello, World" challenge

2009-08-19 Thread Uriel
/ld: cannot find -lc > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status What the Fuck?!?! What kind of lunix did that? uriel

Re: [9fans] sed oddity

2009-08-18 Thread Uriel
st to keep werc's error logs clean of spurious noise. I guess based on what you said, that I might be able to use sed, but only until your complaint is fixed :) uriel On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:41 PM, hugo rivera wrote: > Hi, > is there some reason why sed doesn't check for write e

Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC

2009-08-13 Thread Uriel
g simple can do a job that they have convinced themselves needs to be very complicated. uriel

Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC

2009-08-13 Thread Uriel
The software industry is the ultimate recreation of Sisyphus' curse. uriel On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Daniel Lyons wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:56 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> if we're going back there, just take me out back and shoot me now. >> i wa

Re: [9fans] manpages broken/outdated

2009-08-10 Thread Uriel
If it is of any consolation, it seems to be here: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/usbdisk uriel On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Bela Valek wrote: > I have checked it on 3 different installations, the 'usbdisk' manpage > is missing, on fresh installations too. Its not a filesys

Re: [9fans] linux reinvents factotum, secstore ...

2009-08-08 Thread Uriel
r reason for any of it.  Anyone who thought > CORBA was the answer didn't seem to understand the question. The problem with CORBA is that it doesn't use XML, fortunately DBUS fixes that. uriel

Re: [9fans] the old floppy set

2009-08-08 Thread Uriel
>> a set seccond hand (abebooks.com etc). >> >> The floppys are here: >> /n/sources/contrib/steve/historic/2nd-edition/pcdist/ >> >> I found a complete mirror of the old 2nd edition site >> and I think uriel has copied it to cat-v.org. >> >> You wi

Re: [9fans] 9base-3

2009-08-08 Thread Uriel
Perhaps a way to solve this problems and save you work and trouble would be to simply link to: http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/get/tip.gz and let mercurial do the job of building a tarball for the latest repo. uriel On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Uriel wrote: > I haven't used the ta

Re: [9fans] 9base-3

2009-08-08 Thread Uriel
they are simply confused by whatever errors gnu tar spews for who knows what reason, but people that have no problems with other tarballs do have problems with the p9p tarballs, and it has been going on for a while. uriel On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Russ Cox wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at

Re: [9fans] 9base-3

2009-08-07 Thread Uriel
Always get p9p from hg, the tarballs have been partially broken for ages and always have problems being untared in some environments, hg is fast, painless, and makes it real easy to keep your installation up to date. uriel On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Jason Catena wrote: > In recen

Re: [9fans] Acme Configuration

2009-08-07 Thread Uriel
If all you want is to preserve the -a flag, add to your profile: ; fn a { acme -a; } Problem solved. uriel P.S.: Admitedly this doesn't fix up the plumber, but once you have an acme session the plumber will use it, and you can fix it up for the plumber equally simply. On Fri, Aug 7, 20

Re: [9fans] the old floppy set

2009-08-07 Thread Uriel
here: > /n/sources/contrib/steve/historic/2nd-edition/pcdist/ > > I found a complete mirror of the old 2nd edition site > and I think uriel has copied it to cat-v.org. Yes, you can find a mirror of the 2nd ed site at http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/plan9.att.com/ And t

Re: [9fans] off topic: manual sets

2009-08-01 Thread Uriel
ystem (http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc ). Fish also contributed some pages from section 1 of the Unix Writer's Workbench: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_WWB/1/ Thanks again to Fish for this wonderful contributions, and of course to the original authors of all this amazing material. Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] off topic: manual sets

2009-07-31 Thread Uriel
Slightly off topic (of this thread), but I'm looking for troff sources of 8th, 9th, 10th and Plan 9 1st Editions to complete the man page collections at http://man.cat-v.org If anyone knows where I can find copies of any of those, I would be most grateful. uriel On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:

Re: [9fans] Someone let the domain go

2009-07-29 Thread Uriel
It might be worth trying to get control back, I think you can do that for domain squatters that violate trademarks, as is clearly the case here. uriel On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, maht wrote: > Uriel wrote: >> >> Likely Google juice, there are still plenty of high-rank li

Re: [9fans] Someone let the domain go

2009-07-28 Thread Uriel
g there lying around the net. That and probably the amount of mistaken ad clicks are enough to cover their registration fees, so why would they let it go? uriel > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net > To: 9f...@9fans.net > Date: Sat, 2

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-25 Thread Uriel
read-only http 'tree'. uriel On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Steve Simon wrote: > There are several places which have readonly versions of sources available via > http, alternatively there is a socks client or even htfilefs, the former uses > the SOCKS protocol to tun

Re: [9fans] plan9port tools speed

2009-07-24 Thread Uriel
My bet is on file system performance. Where did the data come from? 9vx is also much faster, even if binaries are identical, because fossil is such a dog. uriel P.S.: In my experience with werc ( http://werc.cat-v.org ) statically linking p9p tools further increases performance considerably

Re: [9fans] Question about Plan9 project

2009-07-18 Thread Uriel
han computing your own diffs based on past snapshots). So you are on your own, you can take the code (while the site happens to be up, or from a mirror), do whatever you like with it, but that is all there is and all anyone can count on. uriel >; as such, you get at least > the same baseline &q

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
one* has a right(even a duty!) to complain, and complaints should be both welcome and heed if Plan 9 (or any project) is to be successful. Peace uriel P.S.: I got werc to work with a very simple 'magic' wrapper rc script (I'm sure russ' cgi.c is a much better solution though, b

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
buting their work, and that were feeling directly shunned and unwelcome). uriel

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Uriel wrote: [...] > Maybe you can tell us what *you* have done to help Plan 9? Or is your > greatest contribution to act all obnoxious and condescending towards > people that despite their limited and flawed abilities have tried very > hard to do t

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
ilities have tried very hard to do their best to make Plan 9 and related technologies successful and keep them from dying in total irrelevancy? One of my many flaws is that my memory is very bad, so maybe I'm forgetting what you have done... uriel

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
would not mind if my health got rid my annoying comments, some Lisp-heads have been celebrating the demise of Erik Naggum...). Thanks uriel

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
ly to fuel > some of the less stable elements there. afaik, the correct reporting > method is a *polite* mail to either this list (Adriano's original mail > seemed fine), 9trou...@plan9, or webmas...@plan9 (the address given at > the bottom of the page). This address is a bit difficult to find when the page itself is made of Unobtainium. uriel

Re: [9fans] building plan9port: arch spec, arm vs armv5tel

2009-07-15 Thread Uriel
What about using a public hg repo and letting others pick what changes they are interested in? uriel On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:03 AM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Russ Cox wrote: >>> Should we put patches here, too? >> >> Yes.  I'd like pla

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-11 Thread Uriel
mount flags under a more consistent and clear interface. The ability to mount and unmount 9p file servers without being root is just a great extra. http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/ uriel P.S.: Oh, and I think debian even packages 9mount! On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:03 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote:

Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-11 Thread Uriel
With which ac97 driver? uriel On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM, sqweek wrote: >  lies! we had ac97 working on the t23 at IWP-Bondi! > -sqweek > > 2009/7/11  : >> usb audio... havnt tried it with ac97 on my t23 yet. >> >> -- >> cinap >> >> >&

Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-10 Thread Uriel
> Google -> "list of plan 9 applications" -> click "I'm Feeling Lucky" The result you will get from this is most likely to be extremely outdated and incomplete. Just saying... uriel 2009/7/10 Andrés Domínguez : > 2009/7/10 Lorenzo Bolla : >> Hi all, &g

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > 2009/7/8 Uriel : >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >>> I don't think so. We already have IPv6 support and it's not that bad. >>> Having more drivers and supported commodi

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
have to admit that Coraid is an exception to this, and while they have kept their Plan 9 usage in a low profile they have been rather open about it, and have made huge contributions back to the community (something that can't be said even of Bell Labs, see amd64). Peace uriel On Wed, Jul 8, 20

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
n a 100th of the systems out there, much less suspend or do anything useful). As for amd64, it is already done, we are just not worthy to have access to it. uriel

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
context simply means 'window manager' to keep compatibility with all the plugins, input methods, font management and other junk that X provides. I could be wrong, but I have not seen any evidence that could contradict any of this. uriel On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Richard Miller<9f..

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
d ethernet if it's a cheap broadcom chip. > And sound if it's not usb.  And bluetooth so you can use your phone > as a modem.  And so on. And C++ and Java and Flash and (C++ is assured, given that Chrome itself is all C++) uriel

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
i-gigabyes of linux > libraries and commands.  The optimistic interpretation is that they've > rediscovered Ron's idea of borrowing a linux kernel as a minimal (sic) > device driver layer to put a sensible OS on top of, and throwing > everything else away. You can be sure we wont be so lucky. A huge amount of gnu/gnome guck is assured. uriel

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

2009-07-02 Thread Uriel
Er, that was meant to be the standard *Lunix* mount command. uriel On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Uriel wrote: > The standard Unix mount command sucks (but then, so does v9fs, but > that is another story), use sqweek's wonderful 9mount command that > will make your life much les

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

2009-07-02 Thread Uriel
The standard Unix mount command sucks (but then, so does v9fs, but that is another story), use sqweek's wonderful 9mount command that will make your life much less miserable in the dark world of Linux: http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/ Peace uriel On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:55 AM,

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-02 Thread Uriel
Thanks for the info! I had been wondering about this for many years. And what of ^A and ^E? I have heard them being credited to Emacs, but people believes so many silly things this days... Peace uriel On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Rob Pike wrote: > I believe ^H ^W ^U date back at least

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-01 Thread Uriel
remely annoying mapping of backspace to the back button when a text field is not focused, which is also extremely frustrating when you hit it by mistake and your current page (often with all text) is lost. Oh, and note that unfortunately due to current limitations in the Chrome extensions API, this changes only apply to text fields in the page, not to the url bar :( uriel > > Russ > >

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-01 Thread Uriel
ts and apps. I also would be interested in hearing more details on the exact origins of ^H ^W and ^U. Now back to your usual 9fans schedule, enjoy your keyboard vs. mouse flame uriel P.S.: I even recently wrote a Google Chrome extension to implement the Unix text editing keyboard shortcuts in

[9fans] Audio recordings from a couple of IWP9 talks.

2009-06-12 Thread Uriel
urse to the speakers and workshop organizers. Enjoy uriel P.S.: I also have collected photos taken by various people at: http://iwp9.cat-v.org/2008/photos/ if you have photos that you would like added to collection just send them to me.

[9fans] Planet 9 from Blog Space

2009-05-28 Thread Uriel
know and I will add you to the Planet 9, if you know of any Plan 9 or Inferno related blogs that are not included, let me know too. Enjoy http://planet9.cat-v.org uriel

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Uriel
mpt to coerce people by shaming them in a > public situation. It's what my kids used to do when they could not get > their favorite dessert in the store. It doesn't make anyone feel any > better. It's why so many people have Uriel in their kill files. It makes people aware of a problem that many keep denying and demeaning. If people can't deal with reality, there are always kill files, as you point out. uriel

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Uriel
le reason for Plan 9 servers to be unreliable, others with very little resources have managed to run public Plan 9 servers in their spare time that have proved to be much more reliable than sources. Peace uriel On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:52 PM, wrote: >> You may think it's a questio

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Uriel
t that Plan 9 clearly wants no users and no developers, so reliability is to be avoided, or it might attract some interest from people that might help, and that would be bad. Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Uriel
welcome. If you expect people to contribute to Plan 9 on their copious spare time while they are being treated with this kind of contempt, good luck to you, you are going to need it. Thank you uriel On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:51 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Rud

Re: [9fans] rc break

2009-05-11 Thread Uriel
Ah, very cool, break is one of the few things I have missed in rc some times. What do you think of adding return? I have wanted it a few times and Rob seems to think it makes sense to add it: http://9fans.net/archive/2003/03/44 Thanks! uriel On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:52 AM, erik quanstrom

[9fans] Manual pages and and old docs

2009-05-04 Thread Uriel
can email it to me or tell me where I could find it. The source for the app that displays the manual pages can be found as part of the standard werc distribution at http://werc.cat-v.org under apps/wman/, patches, bug reports and suggestions are very welcome too ;) Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-27 Thread Uriel
are 'synthetically' generated on the fly. > is run under anything  but Plan9. Ironically it doesn't > seem to run there. It does run under any CGI environment, there are various ways to provide a CGI environment in Plan 9. uriel

Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years

2009-04-20 Thread Uriel
ck.  i believe with > the current state of the Internet -- e.g.  lack of speed and security > -- service abstraction is the right level of distributedness. > presenting the services as file hierarchy makes sense; 9p is efficient 9p is efficient as long as your latency is <30ms uriel &g

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-20 Thread Uriel
We can't tell you who uses Plan 9, because it is a secret and they don't want anyone to learn about their secret competitive advantage. /sarcasm (But still sadly true.) uriel On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: > On 04/18/2009 01:02 AM, Gorka Guardiola wro

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-18 Thread Uriel
a more detailed howto, patches and docs welcome ;) Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-18 Thread Uriel
n using all along were really aberrations of the real idea, which is quite neat and interesting. Sort of similar to the process of going from various (l)unixes to Plan 9. Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-18 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: >> Writing the core of a blog engine in three lines of rc is hard to >> beat, plus you get the benefit of being able to manipulate and manage >> all your data using the tools any self respecting Unix user loves. >> >

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-18 Thread Uriel
e designed to work on and with files and file paths. uriel On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:22 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Fri Apr 17 08:33:12 EDT 2009, urie...@gmail.com wrote: >> And then you would need some hideous SQL database. >> >> As ken said: we have persistent objects

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-17 Thread Uriel
ur data using the tools any self respecting Unix user loves. uriel

Re: [9fans] yet another cheapo mips board

2009-04-10 Thread Uriel
For 37EUR you can get a more minimalist board: http://landashop.com/catalog/routerboard-rb411-p-73.html Still plenty of power to run Inferno... uriel On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Uriel wrote: > Very nice, found it in Europe for ~50 EUR: > http://landashop.com/catalog/ub

Re: [9fans] yet another cheapo mips board

2009-04-10 Thread Uriel
Very nice, found it in Europe for ~50 EUR: http://landashop.com/catalog/ubiquiti-routerstation-p-848.html And for a few EUR more you can get the 'Pro' version with four Gigabit Ethernet ports and 256Mb of RAM: http://landashop.com/catalog/ubiquiti-routerstation-p-916.html uriel On

Re: [9fans] J9P/StyxLib

2009-04-01 Thread Uriel
nd resources. I agree with Alex that the best is Public Domain, or at least BSD/MIT/ISC-style license, which is as close as you can get to Public Domain while retaining copyright. Peace uriel On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 04:42:18PM -0400, J.R. Maur

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