Re: [9fans] iwp9 video (was: iwp9 deadline extension)

2009-10-24 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> eric, thanks for broadcasting it yes, thank you eric and everyone involved in organizing and managing the logistics of the workshop. it was good to be able to listen in.

Re: [9fans] So quiet!

2009-10-24 Thread roger peppe
2009/10/23 W B Hacker : > We can't 'ave two 9'ers actually *agree* on sumat! i found it interesting that face to face there seemed to be much more agreement than disagreement. very constructive. i've had a brilliant time.

Re: [9fans] Plan9 awk vs. GNU awk

2009-10-24 Thread Russ Cox
Back when I still ported software to (instead of from) Plan 9, I lost many hours to this kind of fiddling with making Plan 9 behave the way configure expects. It's not worth it. Start porting any piece of software by rm configure* auto*. Usually a good start is to write a mkfile that lists every

Re: [9fans] Plan9 awk vs. GNU awk

2009-10-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
along that line, you might check out steve's mkmk (contrib/install steve/mkmk). i've only used it lightly, but it often generates a useful starting point for turning a chunk of files into a mkfile.

Re: [9fans] So quiet!

2009-10-24 Thread W B Hacker
roger peppe wrote: 2009/10/23 W B Hacker : We can't 'ave two 9'ers actually *agree* on sumat! i found it interesting that face to face there seemed to be much more agreement than disagreement. very constructive. i've had a brilliant time. ACK. Good to hear! Human nature to get petty, ped

Re: [9fans] So quiet!

2009-10-24 Thread Iruata Souza
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM, roger peppe wrote: > 2009/10/23 W B Hacker : >> We can't 'ave two 9'ers actually *agree* on sumat! > > i found it interesting that face to face there seemed to > be much more agreement than disagreement. > very constructive. > i second that. we could even write cod

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 & VirtualBox

2009-10-24 Thread Jacob Todd
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:28:20PM -0700, Sam'l B wrote: > Is anyone working on making them play nice together? Is it possible, > even? > > I get slightly farther with VirtualBox on Vista Home Basic than on > Fedora 11, but then things come to a complete halt. > > Sam'l B. > (U

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 & VirtualBox

2009-10-24 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:28:20PM -0700, Sam'l B wrote: > Is anyone working on making them play nice together? Is it possible, even? On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 04:53:23PM +, Jacob Todd wrote: > Plan 9 works fine in qemu on both windows (xp at least) and linux. I found 9vx works well so far. S