Re: [9fans] the practicality of plan 9

2022-11-09 Thread adventuresin9
You can use a usb to ethernet adapter to add more ethernet to a pi.  The ethernet on a raspberry 3 is actually just a usb to ethernet soldered right onto the board.  -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td6c4be6d8502dbd0-M1dd

Re: [9fans] the practicality of plan 9

2022-11-08 Thread adventuresin9
The Plan9 way of handling internet gateways is to have a machine with 2 network adapters.  One connected inside your network, and one outside.  You configure the internal one, and bind it to /net.  And the internet facing port your bind to /net.alt.  Then any computer on the grid can import (rim

[9fans] Re: the practicality of plan 9

2022-10-30 Thread adventuresin9
I can give some examples of my grid. A big benefit to having a dedicated file server is that no matter what "terminal" I sit at, I always see the same desktop and files.  I can sit at my desk with drawterm on a Linux workstation, or in bed with drawterm on a Windows laptop, or using a raspberry

Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 applying to GSoC

2022-02-18 Thread adventuresin9
If you really want to future proof it, make sure to add a time axis, for potential time traveling mice. But to be serious, the backend stuff assuming there is 1 monitor, a 3 button mouse, and a standard keyboard is going to hold back any interface development.  I would just be happy if there wa

[9fans] Re: Plan 9 applying to GSoC

2022-02-18 Thread adventuresin9
An idea that would fall under rio and interfaces; Replace mouse with movement.  Have the usual X and Y, but also add a Z, which would be equivalent to something like pinch-zoom on a phone.  And also have rotation around an axis, so that a mouse wheel would be interpreted as rotating around the