Re: [9fans] Alternative Plan 9 Logo

2014-01-07 Thread phineas . pett
At Tue, 7 Jan 2014 06:59:38 +0100, Jens Staal wrote: > > [1 ] > > [2 ] > > It somehow makes me think about Alice in wonderland falling down the > rabbit hole... Will she meet a Glenda nervously looking at the clock? > (The Cat Clock most likely.) Peter Ps. it may be dangerous to stare at i

Re: [9fans] Alternative Plan 9 Logo

2014-01-06 Thread phineas . pett
At Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:30:46 +0100, Bence Fábián wrote: > > Just start using it. That's how things got adopted by a community. > I would be flattered if people did. Since there is apparently some interest I'll clean it up a bit and make the source files available. Peter

Re: [9fans] Alternative Plan 9 Logo

2014-01-06 Thread phineas . pett
At Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:25:29 +0100, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > > On 05/01/2014 19:09, Shane Morris wrote: > > "Plan 9 Inside"? I was trying to suggest `recursion' on one level, and perhaps `expanding development' on another---though `nine inside' is a clever angle. > No, it's just Plan 9 inside 9

Re: [9fans] Alternative Plan 9 Logo

2014-01-05 Thread phineas . pett
At Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:11:02 -0500, Jay Kruer wrote: > > [1 ] > > [2 ] > Looks really nice. However, Glenda will forever hold a special place > in my heart. Perhaps this would be a good logo for 9front? > Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't really intending to replace Glenda (that would be dee

[9fans] Alternative Plan 9 Logo

2014-01-03 Thread phineas . pett
Hi everyone, I'm tinkering with an alternative Plan 9 logo. Any comments or suggestions? Is there even any interest in something like this? http://pdf.multics.org/9_Logo_Concept.pdf Best, Peter

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-30 Thread phineas . pett
> are there larger or pdf versions of these. The full-size PDFs are back on the site. They are linked to files on the 9atom servers where Erik has generously offered to host them to circumvent my immediate bandwidth constraints. Thanks Erik! I have just a couple remarks. These are editable PDF

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-30 Thread phineas . pett
i can only see ads for duckduckgo thre On 3/30/13, phineas.p...@gmail.com wrote: >> I challenge you to come up with a couple more, perhaps around quotes >> by Plan 9 creators (a recent one by Presotto comes to mind) > > Its a dangerous game to start taking requests, but here's a spec > layout. I

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-30 Thread phineas . pett
>> whether we really want something like this before the world > > No. I think that's all the push my teetering creative conscience needed. I've exercised authorial perogative and sent it to the bit-bucket. This is not a dog I really wish to feed.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-30 Thread phineas . pett
> I challenge you to come up with a couple more, perhaps around quotes > by Plan 9 creators (a recent one by Presotto comes to mind) Its a dangerous game to start taking requests, but here's a spec layout. Its certainly not the most elevated thing I've ever done, and still needs some work; but th

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-29 Thread phineas . pett
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4398842 Whoa. Alright then. I'll see what I can do with that. ☺

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-29 Thread phineas . pett
> I challenge you to come up with a couple more, perhaps around quotes > by Plan 9 creators (a recent one by Presotto comes to mind) Ok, I give up; what is this quote attributed to Presotto? (I thought I would find it on cat-v, but I'm not turning up anything...)

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-29 Thread phineas . pett
> http://i.intma.in/images/e94b0201914dde087d6cf55e1c64edf9.gif That's clever. I wanted to do something with Kit-Cat from the start; the best I could manage was to put it on the bulkhead of the flying saucer in the movie poster. I think it has potential as an adjunct mascot—though there might be

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-29 Thread phineas . pett
> are there larger or pdf versions of these. There are, I had to pull them down because I was in danger of over-running my bandwidth quota, and after the server failure yesterday I didn't want any more problems. Since they are editable PDFs, they are large files (the whole package is over 50M).

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-29 Thread phineas . pett
> Good work and funny; BTW, the server is down again. Thanks. Apparently it is time to find a new host ☹ > I challenge you to come up with a couple more, perhaps around quotes > by Plan 9 creators (a recent one by Presotto comes to mind) Not a bad idea, I'll see what I can do.

[9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-28 Thread phineas . pett
So I'm down with a fever today—really—and Glenda appeared to me in my fitful dreams and shared its true inner thoughts about the the Earth's inhabitants. It's single poigniant utterance was singularly pithy, and seemed to ring true on some cosmic level. For just a moment, I was at peace, and elev

Re: [9fans] Acme Edit scriptlets

2013-03-28 Thread phineas . pett
> Hi! > > I did a quick writeup on little Edit scripts > (well basicly sam(1) scripts) > If anyone have more feel free to contribute. > Maybe someone could put them on the wiki even. Nice idea... Here's a simple awk bit I use in Acme for centering text (its name is the center-line rune: ℄) #!/b

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Propaganda

2013-03-28 Thread phineas . pett
> 500 error :( Yeah, the server is down I'm afraid. I'll repost when it is back up. Sorry for any inconvenience.

[9fans] Plan 9 Propaganda

2013-03-27 Thread phineas . pett
Hello everyone, I've put together a collection of Plan 9 ``propaganda'' (strictly Bell Labs edition since 9front already has theirs). Its mostly just pastiche with some silly slogans and lines from the film, but it was fun to create. http://pdf.multics.org/Propaganda/

Re: [9fans] fortune nomination

2013-02-01 Thread phineas . pett
> On 31/01/2013 18:44, Rox 64 wrote: > > Anyway, I still love emacs. > Maybe I'm too young?! > Too young an Acme user perhaps! ☺ (I say this as a recovering Emacs user, myself.) -- phin

[9fans] auth/fgui

2013-01-30 Thread phineas . pett
Hello list, I'm experiencing an inconsistency in the behavior of fgui. I'm running Plan 9 native on a couple machines: an IBM ThinkPad (configured as a terminal) and a Raspberry Pi (configured as a CPU server). On both systems, fgui is called with the following line in my riorc file: auth/fgui

[9fans] auth/fgui

2013-01-30 Thread phineas . pett
Hello list, I'm experiencing an inconsistency in the behavior of fgui. I'm running Plan 9 native on a couple machines: an IBM ThinkPad (configured as a terminal) and a Raspberry Pi (configured as a CPU server). On both systems, fgui is called with the following line in my riorc file: auth/fgui

Re: [9fans] 9pi + apple keyboard

2013-01-24 Thread Phineas Pett
On 1/24/13, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: >> I noticed I have this same problem with man -P on the Raspberry Pi >> (though I remember that it worked initially). What exactly did you >> recompile? The Raspberry Pi kernel? > > I just tried man -P cat on my sheevaplug, after rebuilding libraries > an

Re: [9fans] 9pi + apple keyboard

2013-01-24 Thread Phineas Pett
Hi, I noticed I have this same problem with man -P on the Raspberry Pi (though I remember that it worked initially). What exactly did you recompile? The Raspberry Pi kernel? Thanks, Phin On 1/23/13, erik quanstrom wrote: > it appears that i shot myself in the foot with version skew with > the

Re: [9fans] OED2 index?

2013-01-15 Thread phineas . pett
At Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:56:51 -0500, Tristan wrote: > > > Does anyone have an index file for OED2? > > Which version do you have? Mine is from 1992.05.28 01:32. Yes, that's the very one :-) Your index should work. > So I could supply that one. I would very much appreciate it. How large is t

[9fans] OED2 index?

2013-01-14 Thread phineas . pett
Does anyone have an index file for OED2? (I have the CD, and was able to strip out the data using tristan's utilities, but I'm not having much luck generating the index file for use with dict.) Much thanks! phineas

Re: [9fans] [FIXED] Attempts to set timezone don't stick?

2012-11-12 Thread Phineas Pett
On 11/12/12, Phineas Pett wrote: > On 11/12/12, John Floren wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Phineas Pett >> wrote: >>> Hello List, >>> >>> I'm attempting to setup a native Plan 9 system for the first time, but >>> I&#

Re: [9fans] Attempts to set timezone don't stick?

2012-11-12 Thread Phineas Pett
On 11/12/12, John Floren wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Phineas Pett > wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> I'm attempting to setup a native Plan 9 system for the first time, but >> I'm having a bit of trouble getting the timezone to ``stick.'&#x

[9fans] Attempts to set timezone don't stick?

2012-11-12 Thread Phineas Pett
Hello List, I'm attempting to setup a native Plan 9 system for the first time, but I'm having a bit of trouble getting the timezone to ``stick.'' Putting the following in my /lib/profile seemed the intuitive and correct thing to do: bind /adm/timezone/US_Central /adm/timezone/local But it does