Re: [9fans] some group photos

2010-10-14 Thread Steve Simon
> Don't know if everyone heard but next year it's Europe again. Excellent! I was very disappointed not to make it this year, the cost turned out to be prohibitive. I shall get writing my paper ASAP. -Steve

Re: [9fans] DYNDNS - re-invent the wheel?

2010-10-14 Thread Steve Simon
This may do what you want - I don't know anything about BIND, but it works for Active directory. /n/sources/contrib/steve/inform.c.bz2 -Steve

Re: [9fans] some group photos

2010-10-14 Thread David du Colombier
And many thanks to ericvh that allowed people like me, who could not afford the trip, to attend every talk through livestream.com. It was a lot of fun for us too. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] some group photos

2010-10-14 Thread Axel Belinfante
On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:32 , David du Colombier wrote: And many thanks to ericvh that allowed people like me, who could not afford the trip, to attend every talk through livestream.com. It was a lot of fun for us too. amen to that. Axel.

[9fans] xga or vesa?

2010-10-14 Thread freeasinfreedom
What are the pros and cons of using xga versus using vesa? Which xga version does actually plan9 support (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Graphic_display_resolutions)? In my case, both xga and vesa work, but when I tried to use xga with a 24 bit depth I got an error. What I actually care about is to

Re: [9fans] some group photos

2010-10-14 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Axel Belinfante < axel.belinfa...@cs.utwente.nl> wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:32 , David du Colombier wrote: > > And many thanks to ericvh that allowed people like me, >> who could not afford the trip, to attend every talk through >> livestream.com. >> >> It

Re: [9fans] beagleboard

2010-10-14 Thread erik quanstrom
> so, in summary, it looks like while beagleboard port is close to be > ready, it is not going to be too attractive to run plan9 (from > price/speed/device-support point). am i right? that sums it up. - erik

Re: [9fans] wiki down?

2010-10-14 Thread Peter A. Cejchan
http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/plan_9_wiki/

[9fans] IWP9 Presentations

2010-10-14 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Erik has a copy of the slides and will be updating the iwp9.org site with them shortly. In the meantime, you can grab them here: http://goo.gl/QC3P Give me a couple of weeks to dump the raw video (hell, I may even do the video from last time while I'm at it) - if you don't hear from me by then, p

Re: [9fans] xga or vesa?

2010-10-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
They're different things. monitor=vesa is "special" in that it tells vga(8) to use the VESA bios calls; xga is just another monitor definition and will try to go through a card-specific driver. All other things being equal, non-vesa stuff will generally yield better performance. Some of the driv

Re: [9fans] inferno status/roadmap?

2010-10-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Oct 13 20:03:17 EDT 2010, fors...@terzarima.net wrote: > > if i am right, charles was planning to give a session on inferno > > roadmap or something in the 5th plan9 workshop. did it happen? > > i was asked to do it some time ago, but it wasn't in the schedule, > and i didn't notice that un

[9fans] Status of 9vx on Windows?

2010-10-14 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Has anyone attempted to get it running on Windows?

Re: [9fans] IWP9 Presentations

2010-10-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Oct 14 13:01:31 EDT 2010, eri...@gmail.com wrote: > Erik has a copy of the slides and will be updating the iwp9.org site > with them shortly. In the meantime, you can grab them here: > http://goo.gl/QC3P > > Give me a couple of weeks to dump the raw video (hell, I may even do > the video f

Re: [9fans] inferno status/roadmap?

2010-10-14 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:55 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > blame me.  i must have dropped the ball. We all did. We all reviewed the sched and got caught up in the rush and just missed it. And I'm very sorry we did, I was looking forward to the talk. Next year! ron

Re: [9fans] πp

2010-10-14 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
It can't be dealt with the current protocol. It doesn't guarantee that Topen will be executed once Twalk is done. So can get Rerrors even if Twalk succeeds. 2010/10/13 Venkatesh Srinivas : >> 2) you can't pipeline requests if the result of one request depends on the >> result of a previous. for in

Re: [9fans] πp

2010-10-14 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Oct 14 17:21:35 EDT 2010, lu...@ionkov.net wrote: > It can't be dealt with the current protocol. It doesn't guarantee that > Topen will be executed once Twalk is done. So can get Rerrors even if > Twalk succeeds. exactly. a set of outstanding can be overlapped in the current protocol iff t

Re: [9fans] πp

2010-10-14 Thread dorin bumbu
isn't tag field for this intended? so if Twalk succeeded and Topen failed, souldn't the client be able to track the failure of Topen based on tag? in intro(5) it says: " Each T-message has a tag field, chosen and used by the client to identify the message. The reply to the message

Re: [9fans] inferno status/roadmap?

2010-10-14 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi, not a problem! i guess charles can still brief us in the mailing list. anyway, i had some thoughts/questions that i will post in the inferno list. regards dharani On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:22 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:55 AM, erik quanstrom > wrote: > >> blame m

Re: [9fans] amd64 port

2010-10-14 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi, i think we could stress on a specific architecture (and aim to provide basic and improved support) based on these criteria: - mainline architecture - cheap and affordable both for companies and individuals (also, single board orders as well as bulk orders) - widely deployed and used - has fut

[9fans] de-duplication/archival software

2010-10-14 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi, about a year back, someone mentioned about a tool or utility for archiving/storage like venti. it has de-duplication and uses hashing mechanism. i think it runs on linux mainly. can someone give me some details on this if you remember? sorry, i tried to dig as much as i can but couldnt locate

Re: [9fans] de-duplication/archival software

2010-10-14 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:35:57 PDT Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote: > hi, > > about a year back, someone mentioned about a tool or utility for > archiving/storage like venti. it has de-duplication and uses hashing > mechanism. i think it runs on linux mainly. can someone give me some > details o

Re: [9fans] de-duplication/archival software

2010-10-14 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi bakul, thanks for the quick response. i did see the thread on zfs but what i remember is a tool rather than a file system. i even remember green letter over black background webpage that talked about this tool (manpage?). i will try for a little more time and then probably give up. regards dh