Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread smj
> ack! misread. i've pushed out /lib/radar/genlat which automaticly > generates the latitude listings given the station listing to save you > from guessing. No problem. I'll grab that. > anybody know where a current station listing can be had? i scraped > mine from a pulldown, but there's got

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread Andy Spencer
On 2011-10-05 07:55, s...@9p.sdf.org wrote: > I found this: > > http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/surface/stations.txt > > It also has the new LGX station and looks to be very well maintained. > It is also mirrored by noaa.gov. And its not just US stations, does > that help? (Please excuse my ignor

Re: [9fans] Weird plan9 Xen DonU problems

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Miller
I've put new 9xeninst binaries on sources which should replace the spurious "file does not exist" message with a more accurate (but still not very helpful) "i/o error". I'm sorry I can't provide a better diagnostic, but the xen virtual block device just returns BLKIF_RSP_OKAY or BLKIF_RSP_ERROR.

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Simon
As a UK resident it has occasionaly hit me how some bits of plan9 (and there are only a few) are US centric. perhaps we could have somthing like /adm/country/ (analogous to /adm/timezone) which would have various config files for things like radar, areacodes/stdcodes zipcodes/postcodes, weather, t

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 05 of October 2011 12:47:53 Steve Simon wrote: > As a UK resident it has occasionaly hit me how some bits of plan9 > (and there are only a few) are US centric. > > perhaps we could have somthing like /adm/country/ (analogous to > /adm/timezone) which would have various config files fo

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Simon
I think this goes further that I would (exeutable libraies) I imagined only that we could have a few scripts and "database" files in country specific directories. this model would also allow me to explicitly run usa/radar newyork before going on holiday whilst running radar would tell me its rain

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 05 of October 2011 13:20:45 Steve Simon wrote: > I think this goes further that I would (exeutable libraies) > I imagined only that we could have a few scripts and "database" files > in country specific directories. > > this model would also allow me to explicitly run usa/radar newyo

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> > this would need a new lines in my profile > > (here I agree with dexen completely) > > > > bind -a /386/bin/uk /bin# ? > > bind -a /rc/bin/uk /bin # radar script etc > > bind -a /lib/uk /lib# zipcodes, etc > > > > more idle thoughts. > > i'd advise aga

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> this model would also allow me to explicitly run usa/radar newyork > before going on holiday whilst running radar would tell > me its raining (because it always is). making things country or region specific seems unnecessary to support other radar systems do this all you need to do is tag the st

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> > It also has the new LGX station and looks to be very well maintained. > > It is also mirrored by noaa.gov. And its not just US stations, does > > that help? > > > (Please excuse my ignorance, I haven't had a chance to look at the code, > at least not recently) > > > I don't have the answe

Re: [9fans] copying over 9P using plan9port

2011-10-05 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 04/10/2011 19:08, Jens Staal wrote: When I then try something like cp -ar sources/plan9/sys/src/ape ape I get an error stating: unexpected open flags 050cp: can not open ”sources/plan9/sys/src/ape/9src/mkfile” for reading: Access denied Hi, This is working for me without plan9port (D