[9fans] Are acme-sac questions ok here?

2008-03-14 Thread 6o205zd02
Is it ok to post questions about acme-sac on 9fans, or is there some other place that would be more appropriate? I just disovered acme-sac for Windows, and I'm trying to figure out how to customize some of the startup behavrior. thanks, Peter Canning

Re: [9fans] Are acme-sac questions ok here?

2008-03-14 Thread Charles Forsyth
There's an Inferno for the discussion of all aspects of Inferno and Limbo (which would include acme-sac because it's built on that). To subscribe to that list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including the word "subscribe" in the subject or body of the message. There is, however, acme-sac sp

Re: [9fans] Are acme-sac questions ok here?

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Kellermann
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080314 08:24]: > Is it ok to post questions about acme-sac on 9fans, or is there some other > place that would be more appropriate? I just disovered acme-sac for Windows, > and I'm trying to figure out how to customize some of the startup behavrior. Well

Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX

2008-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> I'm asking mainly because of Plan 9, a UNIX-like OS with a C compiler > (but no C++) to which the freetype library has been ported. There's > an old port of TeX that doesn't work too well anymore, so there's been > some talk about porting a modern TeX. (LuaTeX requires C++ for the > PDF library

Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Cox
> I'm asking mainly because of Plan 9, a UNIX-like OS with a C compiler > (but no C++) to which the freetype library has been ported. There's > an old port of TeX that doesn't work too well anymore, so there's been > some talk about porting a modern TeX. don't waste your time unless there is some

Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX

2008-03-14 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:28 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what do you mean "doesn't work too well anymore"? i haven't noticed anything > going broken. But lucio has had trouble. I guess I overstated the case a bit. --Joel

[9fans] dns woes

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Kellermann
Dear List, I am currently having strange problems with my ndb/dns resolver. cpu% ndb/dnsquery can't open /net: '/net' dns: permission denied cpu% ls -l /net [...] --rw-rw-rw- M 24238 ckeen ckeen0 Mar 14 15:44 /net/cs --rw-rw-rw- M 24240 ckeen ckeen0 Mar 14 15:44 /net/dns [...] cpu% ndb

Re: [9fans] dns woes

2008-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> Dear List, > > I am currently having strange problems with my ndb/dns resolver. > cpu% ndb/dnsquery > can't open /net: '/net' dns: permission denied > cpu% ls -l /net > [...] > --rw-rw-rw- M 24238 ckeen ckeen0 Mar 14 15:44 /net/cs > --rw-rw-rw- M 24240 ckeen ckeen0 Mar 14 15:44 /net/

Re: [9fans] dns woes

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Kellermann
* erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080314 16:26]: > > as a matter of fact, i just stumbled on part of your problem this morning. > you need to be the hostowner to start dns. > > as to the permission denied problem, did you have a running resolver > before you tried to start one? This is not a

Re: [9fans] dns woes

2008-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> This is not as reproducible as I thought. I just opened another > window and ran ndb/dnsquery and it works now. Could this be due to > temporary dns failure problems? do you have any other broken dns, other than the one you started? - erik

[9fans] o/mero and o/live distribution

2008-03-14 Thread Fco. J. Ballesteros
Well, finally, I have been able to use this thing for a whole day^H^H^H testing period without seeing it crash or corrupt one of my files. At http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html you may find links to omero.src.tgz and to omero.dis.tgz Also at /n/sources/contrib/nemo/octopus There are man pages includ

Re: [9fans] dns woes

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Kellermann
* erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080314 17:01]: > > This is not as reproducible as I thought. I just opened another > > window and ran ndb/dnsquery and it works now. Could this be due to > > temporary dns failure problems? > > do you have any other broken dns, other than the one you started?

Re: [9fans] Porting XeTeX

2008-03-14 Thread lucio
> But lucio has had trouble. > That's because I am totally unfamiliar with TeX. > I guess I overstated the case a bit. Sorry to have put you in the firing line. ++L

[9fans] LPL

2008-03-14 Thread Iruata Souza
9fans, in 2007's gsoc I started writing o9fs, a 9p-capable virtual filesystem for openbsd. first I used conv* and some other pieces from Plan 9; them I decided to rewrite based on libixp because of possible licensing problems between LPL code and openbsd's. now I've reread LPL and it got me thinki

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-14 Thread Bruce Ellis
is there anything that breaks if we take an adhoc approach to ignoring standards? who needs URLs anyway if you are too lazy for them. you are not too lazy to complain. On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:08 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hola, > > > > "http://9fans.net"; is an URL, "9fan

Re: [9fans] LPL

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Cox
> can I relicense LPL code to, say, the ISC license? No. Just like you can't relicense GPL'ed code to ISC, because the ISC license does not contain all the same restrictions that the LPL (or GPL) does. However, the u9fs source is available under a license which is essentially equivalent to the I

Re: [9fans] LPL

2008-03-14 Thread Iruata Souza
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > can I relicense LPL code to, say, the ISC license? > > No. Just like you can't relicense GPL'ed code to ISC, > because the ISC license does not contain all the same > restrictions that the LPL (or GPL) does. > > However,

Re: [9fans] abaco @ plan9port [WAS: Hi and, plan9-native abaco sources?]

2008-03-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> is there anything that breaks if we take an adhoc approach to ignoring > standards? who needs URLs anyway if you are too lazy for them. you are > not too lazy to complain. i don't see how providing code & and argument for the code is complaining. i didn't bring this subject up. as i see it, co

Re: [9fans] LPL

2008-03-14 Thread lucio
> No. Just like you can't relicense GPL'ed code to ISC, > because the ISC license does not contain all the same > restrictions that the LPL (or GPL) does. I'm sure I heard recently (on a NetBSD mailing list) that something *PL was re-released with a *BSD licence? Surely as the owner of the code,