Re: [9fans] sharing the ndb(6) database

2010-09-07 Thread Lucio De Re
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:45:01PM -0700, Akshat Kumar wrote: > > I'm using Google mail servers to send > mail - this shouldn't be in the RBL. > Damn right. The criterion for dumping IP addresses into my private RBL is that an attempt was made to send mail to a local, unregistered address. In th

Re: [9fans] sharing the ndb(6) database

2010-09-07 Thread Lucio De Re
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:09:11AM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:45:01PM -0700, Akshat Kumar wrote: > > > > I'm using Google mail servers to send > > mail - this shouldn't be in the RBL. > > > Damn right. The criterion for dumping IP addresses into my private RBL > is th

Re: [9fans] P9p on Fedora 12

2010-09-07 Thread Pavel Klinkovsky
> > I can confirm that: > > - P9p on Fedora 10 does not echo the input, > > - P9p on Fedora 12 (13) echoes the input. > > Are you using the latest version of 9term? > Delay along the path... I inserted this report one week ago (before you patched the problem). :-/ Now it works fine. Thanks. Pavel

[9fans] iwp9 paper submissions

2010-09-07 Thread erik quanstrom
two requests - please remember that if you've just submitted an extended abstract, now would be a good time to flesh that out. - if you haven't already, please submit your troff (or, grudgingly, tex) source. - erik

Re: [9fans] sharing the ndb(6) database

2010-09-07 Thread erik quanstrom
> Now, the rest of the network also needs much > of the same info as the auth server, in order to > easily call each computer by sysname, etc.. > This means that when a new node is added to > the Plan 9 network, changes will be needed > to be made in two places: the main network's > /lib/ndb/local

[9fans] plan 9 virtual hosting?

2010-09-07 Thread John Osborne
I've been looking around for virtual hosting for plan 9, and I was wondering if anyone knew of anything besides what's available at freeshell/sdf? Thanks! -- John Osborne osbor...@gmail.com/j...@freeshell.org

Re: [9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-07 Thread Russ Cox
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:22 AM, James Chapman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Russ Cox wrote: >>> In drawterm middle-click is option-click and right-click is command-click. >>> >>> In OS X in general right click is ctrl-click and in plan9 under vmware >>> fusion ctrl-click is right-click

Re: [9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-07 Thread EBo
>> Yes but drawterm doesn't agree: command (apple key) means right click >> and option means middle click. > > Oh, I see. I'm not terribly inclined to change that. > Drawterm has used those keys for longer than there > has been OS X support and many people have that > muscle memory well trained

Re: [9fans] plan 9 virtual hosting?

2010-09-07 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
I at one point had a VPS "solution" using 9vx. Jesus Galan expanded on that in his summer of code project using server written in Go. If there is sufficient interest, I'd be happy to start that up again. --dho 2010/9/7 John Osborne : > I've been looking around for virtual hosting for plan 9, and

Re: [9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Lalonde
It's easy to change and recompile. Paul On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:10 AM, EBo wrote: > > > >> Yes but drawterm doesn't agree: command (apple key) means right click > >> and option means middle click. > > > > Oh, I see. I'm not terribly inclined to change that. > > Drawterm has used those keys fo

[9fans] internal error when downloading installation image

2010-09-07 Thread andrey mirtchovski
$ wget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2 --2010-09-07 13:16:05-- http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2 Resolving plan9.bell-labs.com (plan9.bell-labs.com)... 204.178.31.32 Connecting to plan9.bell-labs.com (plan9.bell-labs.com)|204.178.31.32|:80... connected

Re: [9fans] LOCK XADD for i386 incref/decref

2010-09-07 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Apr 28 15:18:01 EDT 2010, m...@endeavour.zapto.org wrote: > Hi, > > A few months ago, I added a patch to inferno-npe to use LOCK XADD > instead of the current lock/add/unlock sequence for incref and decref: > (http://code.google.com/p/inferno-npe/source/detail?r=b83540e1e77e62a19cbd21d2eb54

Re: [9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-07 Thread EBo
> It's easy to change and recompile. I should have stated "to reconfigure function keys without recompiling the system". For the original posters needs this is likely the way to go, but I wondered about multi-user systems (if that is even meaningful with drawterm). EBo --

[9fans] double spacing troff documents

2010-09-07 Thread EBo
One of my reviewers always prefer to get documents double spaced. How do you do this in troff? I tried .v and .vs (with 2, 12pts and 24pts arguments) as implied by Ossanna and Kernighan's Troff manual... EBo --

Re: [9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-07 Thread EBo
ack... I meant that changing and compiling is the way to go, not mucking with user specific settings. Time for a break... >> It's easy to change and recompile. > > I should have stated "to reconfigure function keys without recompiling the > system". For the original posters needs this is likel

Re: [9fans] other mouse buttons in drawterm on a one mouse button mac laptop under OS X

2010-09-07 Thread Paul Lalonde
You could intercept /dev/mouse on the cpu server and swap the buttons there before starting rio. That's per-user. Paul On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:14 PM, EBo wrote: > > > > It's easy to change and recompile. > > I should have stated "to reconfigure function keys without recompiling the > system".

Re: [9fans] double spacing troff documents

2010-09-07 Thread Gregory Pavelcak
I think that, if you're using -ms, the value probably gets reset. Try setting VS too. E.g. .nr VS 24. Greg On Tuesday, September 7, 2010, EBo wrote: > > One of my reviewers always prefer to get documents double spaced. > > How do you do this in troff?  I tried .v and .vs (with 2, 12pts and 24pts

[9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-07 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, I want to 'print' the 'page' program, i.e. put /sys/src/cmd/page/* on paper. I want different files start on new pages, with the header of every page being the file name and the page. For this the command a=`{ls} pr $a | lp -dstdout > toprint.ps is almost ok. That 'almost' is in the fact th

Re: [9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-07 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello, > > I want to 'print' the 'page' program, i.e. put /sys/src/cmd/page/* on paper. > I want different files start on new pages, with the header of every > page being the file name and the page. > For this the command > a=`{ls} pr $a | lp

Re: [9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-07 Thread Rudolf Sykora
also, a nice feature of 'fmt' is that long lines are broken AND indented according to the start of the just-being-processed line; this is welcome... R On 7 September 2010 23:00, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello, > > I want to 'print' the 'page' program, i.e. put /sys/src/cmd/page/* on paper. > I want

Re: [9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-07 Thread erik quanstrom
> (btw. why > fmt <>afile > doesn't work?) sure it does. fmt <>file will open file for reading and writing on fd 0. fd 1 will be your terminal. if you want fd1 to be the same channel, you can add >[1=0], but this will not have the intended effect in this case. why is left as an exercise. - er

Re: [9fans] double spacing troff documents

2010-09-07 Thread EBo
Greg, ".nr VS 24" worked like a charm. Thanks! EBo -- > I think that, if you're using -ms, the value probably gets reset. > Try setting VS too. E.g. .nr VS 24.

Re: [9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-07 Thread Rudolf Sykora
> Run it through cb before you print it and give cb a length argument. I > did basically this same thing just the other day. > > John ok. this will be enough for now, I hope. Nonetheless, generally, there may be not-c files present (other languages...; even in my case there is a .ps file, which I

Re: [9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-07 Thread erik quanstrom
> (Is awk line length-limited?) you can test stuff like this yourself: ; dd -if /dev/zero -bs 8192 -count 10 | tr '\0' 'x' | awk '{print length($1)}' 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 81920 - erik

Re: [9fans] internal error when downloading installation image

2010-09-07 Thread andrey mirtchovski
Thanks to Geoff the image link is fixed. I am happy to report that the current image installs just fine under the latest Parallels virtualization environment. Only change required was to specify sdC1 as the installation media. I'm also very happy to report that Plan9's install continues to be the

Re: [9fans] how to print a program

2010-09-07 Thread Rudolf Sykora
> Run it through cb before you print it and give cb a length argument. I > did basically this same thing just the other day. > > John also, just note that cb doesn't always work even for c source: running on /sys/src/cmd/page/gfx.c produces crap... thanks ruda