Re: [9fans] git/clone and ssh (g...@github.com)

2025-03-22 Thread Steve Simon
was a couple of hours work given i didn’t know the code structure to start with. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tacaff396dc758b34-M379067794471eae35d2d1e89 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] slides ...

2025-03-18 Thread Steve Simon
i used foils, a venerable package for plan9 presentations: http://www.quintile.net/pkg/foils.tbz i rather liked the look but perhaps it is not to your taste: http://www.quintile.net/papers/9win-foils.pdf -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https

Re: [9fans] Question about rimport

2025-01-30 Thread Steve Simon
do you have ethernet on your embedded systems? i did embedded development using plan9 as my desktop for years. being able to mount the embedded system is a great thing.i just compiled u9fs for the embedded system and it just worked.at one point we had a multiplexed terminal and file sharing interfa

Re: [9fans] Can you plumb a file with a single quote in the filename?

2025-01-26 Thread Steve Simon
i haven’t tried this but i suspect you can put a single quote in by doubling it. e.g. data_matches ‘[abc’’]def’ which should match any of adef bdef cdef ‘def one of the many wonderful things about plan9 is its uniform escaping and regex rules -Steve

Re: [9fans] can i stll golang on plan9?

2025-01-25 Thread Steve Simon
24th, 2025 at 5:04 PM, Bakul Shah via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: I see go1.23.5.plan9-{386,amd64,arm}.tar.gz on go.dev/dl/. Presumably you can cross-build for arm64?See also this long thread: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57540 On Jan 24, 2025, at 12:23 AM, Steve Simon

[9fans] can i stll golang on plan9?

2025-01-24 Thread Steve Simon
hi, does the go compiler and runtime work on 9front, specificly, does it work on the raspberry pi? thanks, -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T6fe601aa30dd8c2b-Mfe15d84b3bb487392d62ac25 Delivery options: https

Re: [9fans] where's that nice plan 9 pdf previewer from iwp9 ?

2025-01-18 Thread Steve Simon
we could call it 9news :-) > On 18 Jan 2025, at 11:58 am, Bakul Shah via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > > Random thought: > May be this can be extended/evolved into a "displayPDF kernel", which > can open up other uses such as a GUI, a better windowing system etc. > > I'm sure you guys must

Re: [9fans] Re: [p9fUsers] 2024 Plan 9 Foundation Board Report

2025-01-18 Thread Steve Simon
idea -Steve > On 18 Jan 2025, at 5:07 am, Noam Preil wrote: > >  >> >> Provide a trivial on-ramp to Plan9. >> Your ideas here (yes, that means you). > > One idea i've flirted with, if only for my own use, is to just add some > tools - similar to 9f

Re: [9fans] V Programming Language (vlang)

2024-10-06 Thread Steve Simon
i can confirm vic is human and predates LLMs by many years. he has been a contributor to plan9 for as long as i can remember. people, be kind. -Steve > On 7 Oct 2024, at 5:10 am, vester.thac...@fastmail.fm wrote: > > No need for a DeLorean, Eli. This fits perfectly on

Re: [9fans] plan9port changes to rc and acme

2024-10-01 Thread Steve Simon
if you need to synchronise two streams you could timestamp them. the timestams need not be realtime they could be just an unsigned event number. applications can then match up the timestamps if they need to. i am not saying this is a perfect solution, but its an alternative approach. -Steve

Re: [9fans] [APExp] which non-9front Plan9 variants are active? (for portability testing)

2024-09-17 Thread Steve Simon
, but i don’t think it fledged. these days go would be a better target imho. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T399a5d787978799e-M4f25bf3e0422914a8a7de9eb Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] Adding lookup() to 9p?

2024-09-03 Thread Steve Simon
can you give some examples of where this new api would be used? nemo added a readfile and (i think) writefile message in his fork. that was aimed at transferring large sequential files from a fileserver. there was also many discussions of doing parallel or chained reads to improve 9p performa

Re: [9fans] Pi Zero - Ethernet?

2024-08-08 Thread Steve Simon
charles, but i couldn't get it to perform anything like how wired ether. having said this things may well have changed, this was about 3 years ago. -Steve > On 8 Aug 2024, at 9:27 pm, adventures in9 wrote: > > Miller's pi code does have a basic spi driver. A 9front one is

Re: [9fans] Pi Zero - Ethernet?

2024-08-08 Thread Steve Simon
fwiw. i am pretty sure there was a plan9 raspberry pi spi driver, though this was for richard millers package - it may not (yet) be ported to 9front.i cannot remember if it was Richard's code or someone else's. check the 9fans archives -generally a good idea for any plan9 related questions.-SteveOn

Re: [9fans] Re: venti/mirrorarenas usage

2024-07-31 Thread Steve Simon
from the same time. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tca0eb0fbb2404e31-M8bf0c1151d93560d0d30c8b5 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-26 Thread Steve Simon
kill your business, by a man scolded by the machineinformation-age.com-steve 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Steve Simon
yes, sorry 9atom not 9front. i am happy for you to use the same license :-) -Steve > On 25 Jul 2024, at 9:26 pm, sirjofri wrote: > > Hi, > > 25.07.2024 20:12:03 Steve simon : >> I am fairly sure the libxml in 9front was from me. > > I guess you mean 9atom

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Steve Simon
sorry, i meantIndex of /quintile.net/pkgquintile.net-SteveOn 25 Jul 2024, at 7:11 pm, Steve simon wrote:I am fairly sure the libxml in 9front was from me.My last code is at http://www.quintile.net/magic/webls?dir=/quintile.netI packaged them as libxml.tbz and xml.cmds.tbzIt contains an (optional

Re: [9fans] 9atom libxml and more xml stuff

2024-07-25 Thread Steve simon
matching json parser and command and a webdavfs which uses the xml code which might be of interest. I hereby license 9front to take and use any parts of this as long as I continue get some credit for my work, and if you make huge profits from this code, you owe me "some beer"

Re: [9fans] Throwing in the Towel

2024-05-28 Thread Steve Simon
case… so far so good. -Steve > On 29 May 2024, at 4:39 am, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > Finally,. SSDs just die over time. Especially if they are > not powered on and refreshing. JEDEC specs say that they > should retain data for 1 year unplugged when stored at 30 > degrees

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Steve Simon
i got very suspicious at the mention of a procinfo syscall - unlikely in plan9, and i couldn't imagine a use for such a thing given we have /proc already. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te051f230f26

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
i read the paper. i can believe there are still bugs, truth be told there are bugs in most software. all i can say is in my experience i have not hit any since the ephemeral snapshot fix. Honestly fosdil has been solid for me; i hope i have not just jinx’ed it :-) -Steve > On 15 May 2

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
things the community does not wish to support. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tad3dc0c93039a7d2-M2f9ed7280e579942145b6ad1 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-14 Thread Steve Simon
coraid has an interesting history.How Silicon Valley can kill your business, by a man scolded by the machineinformation-age.comBrantley now has the Coraid name back too and is using plan9 to this day.-SteveOn 14 May 2024, at 5:39 pm, arn...@skeeve.com wrote:"B. Atticus Grobe" wrote:As for compani

Re: [9fans] VCS on Plan9

2024-04-18 Thread Steve simon
w this is not really a VCS but the ability to get back to an atomic set of files representing a release would help a lot IMHO. -Steve > On 18 Apr 2024, at 21:41, Dan Cross wrote: > > Jujitsu -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9f

Re: [9fans] dd(1) takes very long

2024-03-01 Thread Steve simon
stribution, though I don't know what blocksize it uses offhand. -Steve > On 1 Mar 2024, at 09:39, Lucio De Re wrote: > > Increasing the dd block size (-bs 1024k or as big as the man pages > allow) could make a big difference. > > > On 3/1/24, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: &

Re: [9fans] happy halloween

2023-11-01 Thread Steve Simon
very fine carving :-)-SteveOn 1 Nov 2023, at 5:51 am, fig wrote:glenda would’ve been way too hard to carve. plus the knife i had could barely have cut butter it was so dull. 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink

Re: [9fans] 9Legacy status

2023-09-03 Thread Steve Simon
hi don, yes it it. 9 legacy is the replacement for the labs sources repository in real terms. it is courteous to cross publish patch descriptions to 9front of course. sadly i have become all but inactive on plan9 these days, but hope i might get back to it. -Steve > On 4 Sep 2023, at 3

Re: [9fans] print() in kernel space doesn't work like I would think

2023-08-31 Thread Steve Simon
trycat /dev/kmesgorcat /dev/kprintOn 31 Aug 2023, at 4:44 pm, dusan3...@gmail.com wrote: I was editing plan9's realtime scheduler in /sys/src/9/port/edf.c and was trying to add a print to log something, but print didn't show anywhere(or I am looking at the wrong place). It has some prints in sourc

Re: [9fans] Plan9 multi-core support

2023-08-28 Thread Steve Simon
think vaxes where becoming rather passé by the time plan9 was born. -Steve > On 28 Aug 2023, at 7:21 pm, Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 12:32:55PM +, G B via 9fans wrote: >> Windows and Linux began on single-core sing

Re: [9fans] Plan9 multi-core support

2023-08-28 Thread Steve Simon
ges to multicore architectures. one of the 1st edition’s target hosts where sgi numa machines (challenge 2s i think) what i am saying is the plan9 kernel supported multiple processors from the very early days. i wonder if the lost vax kernel supported multiple cpu's (or maybe is was

Re: [9fans] Standalone venti, fossil configuration

2023-08-18 Thread Steve Simon
://9p.io/sources/contrib/steve/doc/Venti-rescue.pdf this describes how they fit together. note this was more about rebuilding after a disc failure than installation but it might help. -Steve > On 18 Aug 2023, at 11:51 am, Marco Feichtinger wrote: > > I have a standalone venti,

Re: [9fans] PXE tftpload: file does not exist

2023-07-17 Thread Steve Simon
are you running the tftp server? > On 17 Jul 2023, at 4:38 pm, Marco Feichtinger wrote: > > I have a standalone file server, and a separate standalone auth server. > > I tried to pxe boot a cpu server. > It gets the /386/9boot to load fine, but then it seems, that it can’t > retrieve the fil

Re: [9fans] Re: iso expanded, mount list (dd) device

2023-07-07 Thread Steve Simon
9660srv - it mounts an iso as 9p file server in /srv/9660, so you need to do a mount(1) to actually see the contents.-SteveOn 7 Jul 2023, at 7:20 pm, Conor Williams wrote:ok... thank you Steve, well in...that particular train of thought leads me to another question...has you r a'yo

Re: [9fans] iso expanded, mount list (dd) device

2023-07-07 Thread Steve Simon
not quite sure i understand what you are asking, but perhaps ns(1) will show you what you want.-SteveOn 7 Jul 2023, at 6:59 pm, Conor Williams wrote:hello 9fannors...i wish to find the device? which the p9 iso file is mounted from...(a vm boot (i dont think that matters though...)e.g c drive is /

Re: [9fans] [PATCH] fossil: fix a deadlock in the caching logic

2023-04-04 Thread Steve Simon
was this hard to reproduce?i have not seen fossil deadlocking and have used it since i installed my first home server in 2004.there definitely _was_ a problem in the snapshot code which was finally resolved around 2015 (roughly), i think perhaps skip, or forsyth found it - i apologise if i have the

Re: [9fans] iwp9: papers announced

2023-03-14 Thread Steve Simon
seconded, excellent work all. i would like to buy the proceedings if they are going to be available as a bound volume. -Steve > On 14 Mar 2023, at 4:52 am, Lucio De Re wrote: > > Too far for me to travel, but there is a lot in the list I will be > extremely sorry to miss. >

Re: [9fans] Mail 447: /mail/fs/mbox/: open: error

2023-01-16 Thread Steve Simon
i think you may not have created your mailbox. every user needs to create their own mailbox with “mail -c”.cron similarly with cron -cthis is usually done by the script /sys/lib/newuser which also creates your $home/lib/profile and some other bits.this needs to be done only once per user.-SteveOn 1

Re: [9fans] Statistics collection for Plan 9

2022-11-27 Thread Steve Simon
https://9p.io/sources/contrib/stallion/src/collectd/ > > Usage is fairly straightforward, but I have not yet had a chance to > write a man page. If others are interested, I can also put a contrib > package together as well. > > Include: /tmp/screenshot.png > > Ch

Re: [9fans] How can I compile c code written for plan9 in ANIS C compiler

2022-10-10 Thread Steve Simon
://www.quintile.net/magic/webls?dir=/quintile.net/pkg 9win.tbz These days I work on a Mac so plan9ports does all I need, and sadly I hardly ever touch real plan9 any more :-( -Steve > I think there are two ports of plan 9 utilities to windows, one of them > includes old (2nd ed?), and

Re: [9fans] How can I compile c code written for plan9 in ANIS C compiler

2022-10-06 Thread Steve Simon
apologies for completely missing the point, note to self: coffee first, then reply to mailing lists -Steve > On 6 Oct 2022, at 11:21, Charles Forsyth wrote: > >  > If you look at plan9port (eg, https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/), you'll see > how that's don

Re: [9fans] How can I compile c code written for plan9 in ANIS C compiler

2022-10-05 Thread Steve Simon
enviroment which you can run ape/psh. this is a subshell which modifies your search path to pick up some different commands. there is a paper in /sys/doc which describes ape more throughly. -Steve > On 6 Oct 2022, at 01:16, _ resun wrote: > >  > Hi there! > > Is there any way

Re: [9fans] 9p server to multiply 9p messages?

2022-06-01 Thread Steve Simon
thought the idea had legs. -Steve > On 1 Jun 2022, at 4:56 pm, Jacob Moody wrote: > > hjfs is not exactly known for it's speed[0]. Running a cwfs > without a worm[1] is likely a more interesting comparison. > > I also would recommend using kvik's clone[2] for copyi

9fans@9fans.net

2022-05-13 Thread Steve Simon
ntohl in libc? say its not so? -Steve > On 13 May 2022, at 10:23 pm, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > Quoth adr : >> so I imagined that some functions >> or macros could be defined already somewhere. > > They exist in fcall.h -- see GBIT/PBIT macros. > > I wou

Re: [9fans] factotum (was: Connect plan9 with Linux SMB resource)

2022-04-10 Thread Steve Simon
or two if i have any patches to contribute. -Steve > On 10 Apr 2022, at 1:15 pm, Tomás S. Javaloyes wrote: > > Thank you very much for the information. > > You are absolutely right: the documentation offered in /sys/doc offers > a lot of useful information to understa

Re: [9fans] plan9port spell and dict

2022-03-11 Thread Steve Simon
- i can dig out the tools i used/wrote but the cd is copyrighted i am afraid. -Steve > On 11 Mar 2022, at 11:40 am, Maurizio Boriani wrote: > >  > Hi all, > I'm playing with spell and dict programs in p9p but... Which kind or > where can I find dictionaries

Re: [9fans] licence question

2022-01-29 Thread Steve Simon
leave it at that. can we not keep 9fans supportive? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3e07bfdf263a83c8-M22900ad3431e89e22362249d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-01-29 Thread Steve Simon
search ebay for beatus mouse On 29 Jan 2022, at 1:22 am, adr wrote: Do you know where to buy the wired model? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T49f3cceea70d2b61-Me3a9d0fbf96e1b424073ffab Delivery options: https://9fa

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-01-28 Thread Steve Simon
still the best I have found. Google will find them quite easily. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T49f3cceea70d2b61-M975d2cab770926e40e414642 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Sponsoring a new Intro book by the Flan 9 Poundation

2022-01-24 Thread Steve Simon
i suggest first you check your facts carefully before publicly accusing anyone of anything. throwing unchecked accusations around is a good way to start an angry mob, and we all know how inclusive those tend to be. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink

Re: [9fans] Unable to load page in Abaco

2022-01-18 Thread Steve Simon
not required for abaco -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1be0869af45e66b9-M96e6b633edb6383737333bc8 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Unable to load page in Abaco

2022-01-17 Thread Steve Simon
li looks like you are not running ndb/dns. you need to start this before webfs, and then start abaco after that. sadly the web has moved on a but since abaco was written - it used to render most pages quite well. These days its lack of javascript is more and more of a problem. -Steve On 17

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-30 Thread Steve Simon
thought experiment: imagine someone was commenting on the 9front mailing list how 9front was not worth bothering with and how the OP should use OSX. that would make the 9front people a little frustrated. > i don't know what aspect exactly of > "classic" computing motivates you > to recommend

Re: [9fans] Autoexpand in sam

2021-09-26 Thread Steve Simon
i would use ,|spell which replaces the current window with sam’s output, then, having taken note of the errors, type u to undo and fix the mistakes. this is just personal choice of course. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-09 Thread Steve Simon
pretty much the only major change to sam since 87 was (i believe) the migration from ASCII (on Unix v10 and p9 Ed1) to utf-8. if you are not seeing unicode characters it is most probably because you don’t have a font with the appropriate glyphs. -Steve

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-06 Thread Steve Simon
mac and vnc from the mac does not work as well. thankfully p9p makes life bearable but i feel dishonest. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td6b6b3e98268ecde-M868413a2e84dc268a34a51a9 Delivery options: https

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-04 Thread Steve Simon
documentation, the best info is a very simple example client, but even that has bugs it seems. i even considered writing a new plan9 specific protocol but that would mean delving into the internals of osx to hook it in… -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-04 Thread Steve Simon
i will bite i tried and faild to get cinap’s historic synergy client to work with a current synergy server on windows/linux/osx etc. the biggest pain is the wireshark disector is buggy and there is no real documentation for the protocol. not really selling it am i? -Steve

Re: [9fans] Codebase navigation and using tags files in acme

2021-08-20 Thread Steve Simon
through. i used it when i worked supporting solaris, it allowed me to find error messages and functions anywhere in the sourcecode quickly. i haven't run it in years but maybe it is of use to someone. http://www.quintile.net/pkg/xid.tbz -Steve --

Re: [9fans] How to setup wifi on raspberry pi 4

2021-08-11 Thread Steve Simon
if the second raspberry pi is *not* running plan9 sshnet allows you to use its network interfaces (via ssh) for tcp connections. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3464a8c7bad3062a-M6fb3318c9ffecf7d59c88c82

Re: [9fans] nfs timeouts

2021-08-09 Thread Steve Simon
properly and nfs would fault. i never managed to get to the bittom of it and just used cifs(4) instead. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T060ac082dfe82490-M52b311702c9489b902170f3d Delivery options: https

Re: [9fans] Four numbers in /lib/sky/here

2021-07-28 Thread Steve Simon
hi, i suspect rob or ken would be the ones to ask, maybe something to do with some private flight planning or astronomy tool? -Steve On 27 Jul 2021, at 7:13 pm, Dan Cross wrote:  On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:53 PM Anthony Sorace wrote: > There are a few other things which also use that f

Re: Posix implementation of Plan 9 cpu(1) (Was: [9fans] Command to set samterm label)

2021-07-21 Thread Steve Simon
but i never got round to it - what i have just works. my current employer uses Macs rather than windows so this has fallen into disuse. i am happy to share if anyone has a use for it. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups

Re: Posix implementation of Plan 9 cpu(1) (Was: [9fans] Command to set samterm label)

2021-07-19 Thread Steve Simon
can edit in a nice environment. is this not enough? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T09fcdec9c87bfde4-M1d424bd90cc86bc378222ce4 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-25 Thread Steve Simon
ed in - traditionally there was no graphics support in cpu kernels for example. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T523d6e906a17a7cc-M105752d0fa6af0e964b6b87f Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Miller's 9pi image (rpi4) problems

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Simon
ront with a few small changes > for different kernal interfaces, I checked it was in sync a few months ago > and expect it still is. > > I am afriad my progress stalled there. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/g

Re: [9fans] sam -d for DOS (FreeDOS)?

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Simon
did it so it cannot be that hard. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td3e9e80d496ae732-Mc3730843de0b09334ec57d9c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi400 Ethernet

2021-05-28 Thread Steve Simon
hi Brian, pi4 ether worked out of the box for me with richards kernel, i am running a kernel from Christmas. sadly i have had problems with usb3 which is on my todo list - usb2 devices work fine as do usb3 devices in usb2 sockets. -Steve -- 9fans

Re: [9fans] SFF 9legacy fileserver hardware

2021-04-28 Thread Steve Simon
Atom machine which worked nicely but is a propper desktop machine even though its a mini ITX. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T055ff8c5321ac6a2-Mc7a0e6de37787474b588a3ea Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/g

[9fans] p9f email address

2021-03-31 Thread Steve Simon
hi is there an email address to contact p9f directly? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta6a7f3df36695764-M37542a3e3d005c764b8773fe Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Olimex: these guys are keen electronic engineers.

2021-03-01 Thread Steve Simon
nment, and a successful project. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tef717f57ede82d4f-M52907a1a4ef038510e38255a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[9fans] git9 to tradational interface wrapper for go

2021-02-28 Thread Steve Simon
of least resistance. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tecc998fe02d53302-M7d3a411f09bc3810ed0c0545 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] sshnet and the go dns resolver

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Simon
, and if that fails, returns the dns name it was given. i guess this is to allow name resolution to be tried at the remote host. i shall experiment a bit more. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T774469ff9f943e45

[9fans] sshnet and the go dns resolver

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Simon
convince go to use plan9’s own name resolution? can ssh (and thus sshnet) forward udp or is that not possible? thanks for any ideas -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T774469ff9f943e45-Me6b7b01e94fd355714ebf049

Re: [9fans] 2c/2l make sense, but why 1c/1l?

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Simon
I don't believe a 68000 compiler was ever released by the labs but there may have been one - some blit terminals had 68000s (and maybe gnots?) so its plausable. There was a port of the plan9 compilers to the VAX but I think its sourcecode was lost (jmk found an executable some years). -

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
> How do we get involved in or become a member of the foundation? I too am interested in supporting plan9 in any form I can. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T973ff41a99053355-Mf8d4170c614f10a8bb00470f Deliv

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
ge is not the same as 9legacy but it is probably very close. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tc82939f1fda0e479-Mc8295ac9bec02a1f3b674a8d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[9fans] tbl page width

2021-02-09 Thread Steve Simon
hi, anyone any ideas how to inform tbl that i am using wide paper - well A4 landscape. i have tried .pl and the LL number register which tells the ms macros but tbl does’t appear to pick up this info. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https

Re: [9fans] Re: GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-02-08 Thread Steve Simon
there was a native plan9 dis interpreter that would run simple command line applications. on Andrey’s website i think. -Steve On 8 Feb 2021, at 8:49 pm, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: "Ethan Gardener" writes: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 7:16 AM, cigar562hfsp952f...@

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread Steve Simon
someone at the land (peter bosch?) dis a haupage video capture card. i am pretty sure i have a copy of the driver and user level app somewhere. this worked on an old pci card i had at one time. -Steve On 1 Feb 2021, at 8:32 pm, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: Anthony Sorace

[9fans] pi3 b+ and 5ghz wifi

2021-01-25 Thread Steve Simon
neighbours on the 2.4ghz band. 5ghz on the other hand looks fairly free. on the same topic - is 5ghz supported on the pi4 ? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tbb87a85e4d7ad382-M2a7471bf4613d890e1160698 Delivery options

Re: [9fans] authoritative source for u9fs?

2021-01-22 Thread Steve Simon
maybe i have missed something but i don’t think u9fs changed much. i added a fix, years ago, adding frogs for some of the weird stuff osx does to filenames. in my world it has been completely replaced by sshfs. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https

[9fans] cfs

2021-01-20 Thread Steve Simon
->server: Tversion tag 65535 msize 8216 version '9P2000' <-server: Rversion tag 65535 msize 8216 version '9P2000' ->client: Rversion tag 65535 msize 8216 version '9P2000' <-client: Tauth tag 13 afid 402 uname steve aname ->

[9fans] now a usb question

2021-01-15 Thread Steve Simon
MacOS. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te4f1ba89eb5fcde2-M75026368e036c6f0a1630d51 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] default profile and factotum

2021-01-14 Thread Steve Simon
ev/secstore. I did't write this code put found it on the net (kudos to the original author). it means you can start drawterm with a just a click linux/osx/windows click and secstore password. It is less secure, but I am using this at home only. -Steve ---

[9fans] default profile and factotum

2021-01-14 Thread Steve Simon
by mistake, but no. Is this by design? is there a reason for not binding in my factotum when I cpu(1) -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T776c75aaf99131e7-Me69fac4bf2f83af5660ae2d6 Delivery options: https://9fans.to

[9fans] thin clints, confession and a freebie

2021-01-09 Thread Steve Simon
... having said this, i am in the uk and postage to the usa is extortionate, so if you need it sent there i may want a contribution to postage. please make use of it, i never did. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] mice

2020-11-27 Thread Steve Simon
e sam, and scroll windows (with the 9front changes). https://www.aliexpress.com/i/404785639.html -Steve > On 27 Nov 2020, at 11:04 pm, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 06:02:13PM -0500, fi...@lojanci.org wrote: >> Anybody has tried Unimouse on plan9port/li

[9fans] venti sealed arenas and ondisk format

2020-11-25 Thread Steve Simon
finally running vacfs what I would like is a vacfs like tool that can read the arenas, build the index in RAM and provide a 9p interface. any chance? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Taa8f31933c21889b

Re: [9fans] osc drawterm big sur

2020-11-20 Thread Steve Simon
submitted pull requests on github for these changes. -Steve > On 19 Nov 2020, at 2:59 pm, sirjofri wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm not on OSX, but: > > 19.11.2020 12:40:00 Steve Simon : >> there is no /mnt/term/dev/secstore device containing my secstore when i > a

Re: [9fans] osc drawterm big sur

2020-11-19 Thread Steve Simon
authenticated to drawterm, so i need to authenticate to secstore again in my profile which is irritating. this may be by design as having drawterm know. all my secrets feels a bit foolish. it idefinitely feels much snappier than the old drawterm. thanks -Steve > On 19 Nov 2020, at 11:25 am, Dan

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi 4 stability dependent in RAM

2020-11-18 Thread Steve Simon
cycle, and fshalt -r can leave it wedged, again needing a power cycle. -Steve > On 19 Nov 2020, at 12:16 am, Thaddeus Woskowiak wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 6:18 PM Anthony Sorace wrote: >>> Richard asked: > ... >> Is this lightning bolt a hardware feature?

[9fans] osc drawterm big sur

2020-11-18 Thread Steve Simon
. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8287ca5a12c53519-M137413bb19ac3e0bccdb5f8e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi 4 stability dependent in RAM

2020-11-14 Thread Steve Simon
> The pi4 is very sensitive to power supply voltage. absolutely, i had loads of problems with a lowly pi3+ until i tried an old ipad charger (2.5A i think), it has been stable since. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/gro

[9fans]

2020-10-20 Thread Steve Simon
import the PEM certificate (profile as apple calls it) into my phone. What have I missed? why can't tlssrv find my key in my factotum? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8c668826e19cec6f-M1d9551c7eaf5e77dabb

Re: [9fans] Flakey DNS server

2020-10-06 Thread Steve Simon
i still use the labs dns server and have no problems, but my configuration is quite straightforward. sorry not to be more help. -Steve > On 7 Oct 2020, at 6:08 am, Lucio De Re wrote: > > It would take me a long time to get to grips with the Plan 9 DNS > server (believe me, I&#

Re: [9fans] Sad news.

2020-09-29 Thread Steve Simon
 Oh hell, Andrey was a great guy, we had some long chats on IRC back in the day. I regret losing contact in recent years. All my best to his family. -Steve > On 28 Sep 2020, at 9:39 pm, Don Bailey wrote: > >  > --89bce305b064cfb9 > Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [9fans] git9: https support

2020-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
fwiw i run something approximating 9legacy -the labs kernel with some patches. i run 9front’s webfs. it it better in every way. -Steve > On 10 Feb 2020, at 1:49 pm, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > >  >> >> >> due to popular demand (...and my own need), I got arou

Re: [9fans] notes on fossil, ANTS, and 9front/Bell labs controversies

2020-01-11 Thread Steve Simon
labs boot procedure of course. 9front booting uses a full kernel to bootstrap (correct me if i am wrong) so tls is not a problem there. anyway, fossil does not have tls and i would like to have. such a change would mean changes to the labs distro boot proceedure -Steve > On 11 Jan 2020, at

Re: [9fans] notes on fossil, ANTS, and 9front/Bell labs controversies

2020-01-11 Thread Steve Simon
fyi i have been running a fossil/venti pair since 2004 and it has been solid. what is too big - honest question. i thought the biggest issues are: performance - the elegance and generality sacrifice some performance, though this is not a problem for me. lack of a tls fs interface - there is

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