[9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread dexen deVries
http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/ > The object /plan9/ does not exist on this server. > errstr: '/usr/web/plan9/' Hangup > uri host: > header host: cm.bell-labs.com > actual host: plan9.bell-labs.com ...all i wanted was to grab u9fs from contrib. What's the second best source for u9fs? -- dex

Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread Charles Forsyth
i put a copy on u9fs.googlecode.com--- Begin Message --- http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/ > The object /plan9/ does not exist on this server. > errstr: '/usr/web/plan9/' Hangup > uri host: > header host: cm.bell-labs.com > actual host: plan9.bell-labs.com ...all i wanted was to grab u9fs from

Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread dexen deVries
On Friday 24 June 2011 16:12:05 Charles Forsyth wrote: > i put a copy on u9fs.googlecode.com thanks from one of the ``been meaning to try this Plan 9 thing'' guys ;-) any idea what's up with bell lab's plan 9 server? cheers, -- dexen deVries ``One can't proceed from the informal to the forma

Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread Paul Lalonde
Works for me. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:19 AM, dexen deVries wrote: > On Friday 24 June 2011 16:12:05 Charles Forsyth wrote: > > i put a copy on u9fs.googlecode.com > > > thanks from one of the ``been meaning to > try this Plan 9 thing'' guys ;-) > > any idea what's up with bell lab's plan 9 ser

Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread andrew zerger
I was going to speculate the ROI value was erroneously null and an energy management system shut it down thoughtlessly, but it might just be a 0 anyway.. but yeah, works for me too at the moment. ;) -- ⎼⎺⎺├@┼␊├├≤-␍⎼␊▒␍:/␤⎺└␊/⎼␤⎺#

Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:19 AM, dexen deVries wrote: > any idea what's up with bell lab's plan 9 server? I checked with Central Services and they told me this: "… an Internet was sent by ... staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday it got tangled up with all these things going on the

Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
That was a comment in nix source code :) On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:34 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:19 AM, dexen deVries > wrote: > >> any idea what's up with bell lab's plan 9 server? > > I checked with Central Services and they told me this: > > "… an Internet was sent b

[9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

2011-06-24 Thread Jack Norton
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Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread andrew zerger
Rofl, that is cool to know. All I see (which might not even be there,) is a reference to "Central Services," in the only and funniest cyberpunk movie ever made, Brazil.. okay funny up until the end .. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > That was a comment in nix sour

Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread Bakul Shah
Check out the original transcript of what late Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2006/06/your_own_person/ On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:52:39 +0200 Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > That was a comment in nix source code :) > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:34 PM, ron m

Re: [9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

2011-06-24 Thread ron minnich
we used to buy lots of stuff from that company, they are really good to deal with. Geoff, does that cpu look vaguely compatible? Can you tell if there is a JTAG port? ron

Re: [9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

2011-06-24 Thread Nicolas Bercher
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Re: [9fans] Survey: Current Fossil+venti Filesystem

2011-06-24 Thread Akshat Kumar
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Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX]

2011-06-24 Thread Mauricio CA
>> i'm not sure what the hard part is. just front the normal input function >> with one that calls chartorune and rejects anything above codepoint 255. >> that can't be more than 10 lines of code. [...] > Yes, "casting" to byte can do and this is almost trivial since the input > is buffered and h

Re: [9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

2011-06-24 Thread hiro
Do they really provide astonishingly great documentation or why do you think are these boards worth the bucks?

Re: [9fans] this is kind of sad

2011-06-24 Thread hiro
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Re: [9fans] [RFC] fonts and unicode/utf [TeX]

2011-06-24 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:05:23PM +, Mauricio CA wrote: > > I found this text in TeX by Topic[1] that seems to support Quanstrom's > idea. It describes how TeX reads input, and says it's done one line at > a time (where it follows what the system defines as lines) and then for > each line it