Re: [9fans] Plan 9 history question

2008-10-13 Thread Rob Pike
All the Plan 9 work was done in Murray Hill. -rob

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

2008-10-13 Thread Eris Discordia
What makes you think that? The latest available Plan 9 ISO image is from September 01, 2008. The sources were last updated on April 12, 2008. Which _could_ be outdated, but then if Anant Narayanan cares enough to mirror the ISO and the sources at his own expense-

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

2008-10-13 Thread Eris Discordia
You're all taking the bait again. Come _on_. I'm not that subtle a "baiter," or... am I? --On Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:35 PM -0400 Wes Kussmaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uriel wrote: Although, the last update to sources is dated April 12, 2008. What makes you think that? You're a

[9fans] fortune worthy

2008-10-13 Thread Steve Simon
If you cannot read this, reply. Otherwise, disregard. - Pietro Gagliardi "Come _on_. I'm not that subtle a 'baiter,' or... am I?" [Eris Discordia] "You're a master baiter." [Skip Tavakkolian] -Steve

[9fans] conference logistics

2008-10-13 Thread erik quanstrom
i'll be driving from ATH to volos on 2008.10.28 in the afternoon and back on 2008.11.01, if anyone is interested in a ride. i have room for 2. perferred seating is available for anyone with local knowledge. - erik

Re: [9fans] conference logistics

2008-10-13 Thread Jeff Sickel
What time is afternoon for you? If all goes well I'll be arriving in Athens at 4:30. No idea how long it will take to get through customs. As for local knowledge, I have none. But an old friend who lived in Athens about ten years ago says "It's a straight, well-marked highway trip from t

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9

2008-10-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon Oct 13 08:03:02 PDT 2008 > To: 9fans@9fans.net > Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 > >> You're all taking the bait again. > > Come _on_. I'm not that subtle a "baiter," or... am I? you're a master baiter.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 history question

2008-10-13 Thread a
The Inferno Business Unit had a very small group down at Holmdel, about 5 people. They were part of the "applications group". I believe they worked on some of the applications specific to the screenphone-type devices we were running on, as well as the pre-Charon web browser. I can't say about Plan

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 history question

2008-10-13 Thread vhaas
> All the Plan 9 work was done in Murray Hill. > > -rob And Holmdel is a (literal) ghost town. I doubt even the birds have survived inside. -- Mark H .

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9

2008-10-13 Thread Eris Discordia
you're a master baiter. I didn't get it after the first reading. Not even after the third reading did it dawn on me. When it did I thought to myself, "the man must be a pervert to think even mailing lists can be used to that end." But I admit it was _totally_ shrewd. --On Monday, October 13

[9fans] several things

2008-10-13 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello few questions: 1) Having a window with rc and pressing CTRL+d usually closes the window. However, from time to time it does not. Instead, I can see EOT (one character; diagonally) written after the prompt, the window stays, I can write anything into the window, but my commands are not execu

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> 1) Having a window with rc and pressing CTRL+d usually closes the window. > However, from time to time it does not. Instead, I can see EOT (one > character; diagonally) written after the prompt, the window stays, I can > write anything into the window, but my commands are not executed. When does

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-13 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 13, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: Hello few questions: 1) Having a window with rc and pressing CTRL+d usually closes the window. However, from time to time it does not. Instead, I can see EOT (one character; diagonally) written

[9fans] iwp9 hotel info

2008-10-13 Thread erik quanstrom
is there any way to contact or get reservation information for the the park hotel, recommended by the iwp9 website, via email or over the web? neither method has worked for me. no answer to the email, and the web site appears nonfunctional with multiple browsers. - erik

Re: [9fans] several things

2008-10-13 Thread erik quanstrom
* This comment might belong somewhere else. > > in the namespace (see the result of the 'ns' command; there you can > > also spot that after issueing the 'mntgen' command a line > > 'bind /usr/ruda/a /usr/ruda/a/' appears; that relates to my 4th > > question; this bind is the one removed by t

Re: [9fans] iwp9 hotel info

2008-10-13 Thread Jeff Sickel
Go directly to http://www.amhotels.gr/index_ENG.htm. It's a flash site that can through browsers off, but there is a link to a form that you may want to use: http://www.volosnet.gr/amhoteliers/Reservation%5FENG/ I used that and got a response in email within a few hours. Now I just n

Re: [9fans] iwp9 hotel info

2008-10-13 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:34 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there any way to contact or get reservation information for the > the park hotel, recommended by the iwp9 website, via email > or over the web? neither method has worked for me. > no answer to the email, and the web si