Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-15 Thread John Floren
Secstore really helps here. john On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Federico Benavento wrote: > http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/mail_configuration/index.html > > factotum doesn't have your key, try > % auth/fgui & > % /bin/upas/smtp -as net!smtp.gmail.com dest@dom > > a window will pop

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-15 Thread 9
> http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/mail_configuration/index.html > > factotum doesn't have your key, try > % auth/fgui & > % /bin/upas/smtp -as net!smtp.gmail.com dest@dom > > a window will pop up and ask for your pass... > > you'll have to add the smtp value for your network in your /

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread IainWS
Thank you, I kind of got the idea that Plan 9 is an informal hobby/ research platform, and that the community contributes where they can, unless its something serious like a new release (probably not up to everybody). > Who handles legal issues? The answer's probably "nobody". Or > everyone handle

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon May 14 23:58:41 EDT 2012, mve...@gmail.com wrote: > > On May 14, 2012, at 11:51 PM, John Floren wrote: > > > > If you have a large number of messages, Erik's "nupas" is useful; IIRC > > it will cache messages locally so you don't have to download a ton of > > headers each time you start up

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon May 14 22:57:54 EDT 2012, s...@9front.org wrote: > > > Can you try getting rid of *nomp=1 and setting *msi=1 > > > > > > > I tried removing *nomp and adding *msi and got similar errors, > > but with ioapicenable and mpreenable. The disks got recognized > > a lot faster this time, which was

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> > > On the Thinkpad T61, the hard drive is sometimes not detected on the > > > first attempt. After thirty seconds or so it usually succeeds and > > > boots as normal. > > > > have you done any debugging of this? that sounds like a condition i haven't > > observed. > > On my Thinkcentre M55 the

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> Here's some relevant output of linux dmesg regarding MP on my machine: [...] > [0.00] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information i think this is the salient bit. linux is not using the mp tables. it's using acpi. - erik

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Anthony Martin
Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> once said: > All mentioned words are part of the eternal fight > between DP9IK and SP9SSS. As we all know is DP9IK winning. We mustn't fight each other! Surely we should be united against the common enemy! Anthony

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> I tried removing *nomp and adding *msi and got similar errors, > but with ioapicenable and mpreenable. The disks got recognized > a lot faster this time, which was better, but my keyboard didn't work :-/ > I can't really capture the full output as a lot of it scrolls off the screen > but I can

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread Burton Samograd
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:31 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > i'd be interested in if a 9atom kernel works on this machine. > (hget http://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9pccd.gz)  unfortunately, i don't > think i can easily boot to a cwfs root file system. I trued the 9atom kernel and I got similar messages

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 15 May 2012 14:19:37 +0200 Anthony Martin wrote: > Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> once said: > > All mentioned words are part of the eternal fight > > between DP9IK and SP9SSS. As we all know is DP9IK winning. > > We mustn't fight each other! Surely we should > be unit

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Forsyth
"Thank you, I kind of got the idea that Plan 9 is an informal hobby/ research platform, and that the community contributes where they can, unless its something serious like a new release (probably not up to everybody)." It's more than a hobby/research platform, although we sometimes say that to sa

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Forsyth
That was actually a joke. The real reason not to keep plans open is there are no plans in the conventional meaning of the word. Let's check: " 1. A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread Burton Samograd
In any case my T61 should be showing up today or tomorrow so I'll have dedicated computer for my plan9 experiments. Hopefully that will work better as it was recommended by some others on the list. Eric, I noticed you have a blade server which I would guess means they work with plan9. I was look

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Burton Samograd
My G/F was asking how many people use Plan9. Does anybody have an estimate of the size of the community? I said maybe 20 or 30 to her, but I'm sure that's low. -- Burton Samograd (+1 to community size estimation :)

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 15 May 2012 13:42, Burton Samograd wrote: > My G/F was asking how many people use Plan9.  Does anybody have an > estimate of the size of the community?  I said maybe 20 or 30 to her, > but I'm sure that's low. 19 people (by my count) have posted to this one thread. It's probably quite di

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread dexen deVries
On Tuesday 15 of May 2012 06:42:42 Burton Samograd wrote: > My G/F was asking how many people use Plan9. Does anybody have an > estimate of the size of the community? I said maybe 20 or 30 to her, > but I'm sure that's low. there used to be that `9grid' thingie (can't find much of it anymore), w

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue May 15 08:20:29 EDT 2012, burton.samog...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:31 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > i'd be interested in if a 9atom kernel works on this machine. > > (hget http://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9pccd.gz)  unfortunately, i don't > > think i can easily boot to a cw

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> Eric, I noticed you have a blade server which I would guess means > they work with plan9. I was looking at them yesterday; are there > particular models that work well/at all? the hs23 does work with the intel 82599 or myricom 10gbe mezzanine cards. no emulex support at this time. i have had

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 15 May 2012 14:42:52 +0200 Charles Forsyth wrote: > No, I don't think anything has ever been as concrete as that. Dreams, > perhaps. > We could share our dreams, I suppose. Really, we just make it up as we go > along, I think. There was a need to provide a real »Plan 9 pro

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> On the other side the (now two!) Nixes, 9atom, Plan 9 from (corporate) > Bell Labs are either too academic or dead. They are only fueled by the > business or academic positions of persons in the specific subgroups. > I can’t imagine 9fronters to work under the iron fist of the quality

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread Burton Samograd
> seems pretty clear that your mp table is junk. too bad. Ironic given I bought an Intel MB to keep from having problems like this. -- Burton Samograd This e-mail, including accompanying communications and attachments, is strictly confidential and only for the intended recipient. Any retentio

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Forsyth
I forgot to mention that apart from there actually being no plan as such, no one really was able to afford the time and energy to organise a big community thing and keep it going. (Even sources is not a full-time matter.) On 15 May 2012 13:42, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > There was

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue May 15 10:14:38 EDT 2012, burton.samog...@markit.com wrote: > > > seems pretty clear that your mp table is junk. too bad. > > Ironic given I bought an Intel MB to keep from having problems like this. intel generally doesn't provide complete mp tables. - erik

[9fans] non existent feature

2012-05-15 Thread Jiten Pathy
Hi, After finding this http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6838421761_9c02a4da0b_o.png i became very much interested in plan9 and installed it right away. But my excitement disappeared as soon as i did 'cat /lib/meinkampf'. nein% cat /lib/meinkampf NEIN! can't open /lib/meinkampf : No such file o

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread cinap_lenrek
should add irq type and interrupt counts to a arch file like erik did in 9atom. but for now, some awk did the trick. theres the mp table from sl's t61. (sorry for the raw nature of this dump) processor: 00 00 14 03 FB 06 00 00 FF FB EB BF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 processor: 00 01 14 01 FB 06 00 0

[9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
erik quanstrom wrote: >ignoring the spurious and fallacious arguments, the remaining point is >false. can you specify which one you're addressing? >for example, there are members of at least 4 different organizations >participating in nix. not sure which point this addresses. 9front does not re

Re: [9fans] non existent feature

2012-05-15 Thread sl
> i wonder why such an (important) non-existing feature is falsely advertised We've moved on now to a more modern approach. -sl

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> as i said before, this mp table of this machine identity maps > all irq's to isa interrupts wich are edge triggered. mpintrenablex() > code refused to share edge triggered interrupts causing half the usb > controllers not receiving ther irq's in mp mode. that's probablly just wrong. have you tr

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-15 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 14, 2012, at 23:57 , Matthew Veety wrote: > My 16,000 message inbox usually make nupas and upas > shit the bed. I've never had specific messages kill it though. Note that once updating to nupas, you should then (manually) convert your mailbox to the new format. I've had mailboxes of severa

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-15 Thread sl
In my experience nupas was definitely nicer to use with gmail. With the old upas, loading the inbox over a slow connection would sometimes take several minutes. With nupas, it usually took only a few seconds. -sl

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Anthony Sorace
> there used to be that `9grid' thingie (can't find much of it anymore), which > offered free accounts to anyone who bothered asking. > > there was a public list of user accounts on some page; IIRC well over 50. > some > had custom face(7)s. 9grid is a bit of an overloaded term, but I think yo

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread cinap_lenrek
no. the i/o apics are programmed like before as specified in the iointr entry from the mp table. i have no way differentiating if this is a real isa bus or some compatibilty hack or just plain wrong mp table. i looked in openbsd code and just figured they allow sharing edge interrupts so i just re

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Charles Forsyth
Yes, I see you've realised that "Nemo" has nothing to do with that nautical fellow, but refers to the Latin motto "Nemo me impune lacessit"! On 15 May 2012 13:42, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > I can’t imagine 9fronters to work under the iron fist of the quality > rulers in Nix.

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
damn, I'll have now to seek for another uid it's all in the open. On May 15, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: > Yes, I see you've realised that "Nemo" has nothing to do with that nautical > fellow, > but refers to the Latin motto "Nemo me impune lacessit"! > > On 15 May 2012 13:42

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread cinap_lenrek
wrote a awk script that generate iointr mp table entries from linux dmesg output. i merged the info into the mp table from that T61, but i got the dmesg from the a random google search so it might be wrong. someone provide me with a linux dmesg of that machine? anyway, theres the mptable override

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread Burton Samograd
> i merged the info into the mp table from that T61, but > i got the dmesg from the a random google search so it > might be wrong. someone provide me with a linux dmesg > of that machine? I should be getting my T61 tonite so I can provide the output for you in case nobody responds before then. -

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread cinap_lenrek
excellent, thanks. - boot linux, save dmesg. - boot 9front with *dumpmp= option, then save /dev/kmesg output. -- cinap

Re: [9fans] new pc bootstraps on sources

2012-05-15 Thread Richard Miller
> 9load and 9loadusb should behave much as the old ones > did, though I hope that the new ones will run on more machines. With either of these, I get panic: RMCODE < 2070 bytes It seems that the real-mode code is a bit large: term% nm -ng /386/9loaddebug 8001 T _start16r 8001 T _

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread hiro
what is this about? goes back to TV.

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
I would like to point out that The Popular Front for Plan 9 - General Command (T.P.F.P.9 - G.C.) has stated its position regarding B.D.F.L in the past; please see the 9fans archive (search for "halibut"). P.S. The Popular Front is not affiliated with 9 People's Front (9front -- which by-the-way is

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread sl
> P.S. The Popular Front is not affiliated with 9 People's Front (9front > -- which by-the-way is less than 9 people). Splitters! -sl

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread cinap_lenrek
the *mp=400 line should be on the top right before *mp0= ... sorry about that. (9boot quirk :-)) -- cinap

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread sl
> the *mp=400 line should be on the top right before *mp0= ... sorry > about that. (9boot quirk :-)) Works on my T61. -sl

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread kokamoto
> but refers to the Latin motto "Nemo me impune lacessit"! Sorry, off topis. What does this Latin motto mean? I have no Latin based culture... Kenji -- still learning octopus and inferno☺

[9fans] rc behavior with rfork

2012-05-15 Thread 9
Hi, Here is some thing that tripped me up. First from a shell script, execute an echo and direct it to a file in /env (essentially setting that variable). However the command does not seem to have any effect cpu% @{rfork e; echo hi} > /env/hi cpu% cat /env/hi And it is specific to the filesyst

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread cinap_lenrek
http://3cx.org/media/1/20040203-Nemo-Found.jpg -- cinap

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> http://3cx.org/media/1/20040203-Nemo-Found.jpg I like this new "let's not take ourselves too seriously" 9fans mailing list much more enjoyable.

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread cinap_lenrek
there might be more plan9 users than you think. ever used the web? ever used google chrome? well, turns out, google chrome is just a covered up drawterm! why does google run all these data centers? thats because they'r running webkit (which is really written in go) on google servers wich are all

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue May 15 21:44:21 EDT 2012, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: > there might be more plan9 users than you think. all kidding aside, take a job in athens. see for yourself. - erik