[9fans] cheap MIPS machines...

2009-03-29 Thread Geoffrey Avila
Someone was talking about the MIPS port recently... Does this meet the criteria for someone's toy budget? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ALPHA-400&cat=NBB -GBA

Re: [9fans] go to this site

2009-10-26 Thread Geoffrey Avila
I see FOUR lights!! I see that NASA has enough funding to sell itself as a supplier of IT services of last resort. At least, I think that's what it says, given that the encrustation of B-School logorrhea on that site is making me dizzy.* I'm interested in what their terms of service might be. Ho

Re: [9fans] thoughs about venti+fossil

2008-03-10 Thread Geoffrey Avila
This reminds me of a joke: A man was asked by his neighbor to watch the neighbor's house while he went away to a conference. The conference was only for one day, but the neighbor was gone a week. He explained to the man that the extra time was due to driving there and back. The neighbor, a st

Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor

2008-08-20 Thread Geoffrey Avila
Not (currently) a Plan 9 user, but I gotta chime in: It seems the security ascribed to disposable machines comes from that "user data" is stored on a different, presumably safer, machine in, for example, some sort of data warehouse at a data center. This isn't a new idea--actually, it's _very

Re: [9fans] apropos of the glendix post

2008-09-03 Thread Geoffrey Avila
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there are more people working on stop-gap solutions than drivers so I wonder how long we'll have to wait for the drivers to be written :) given the increasing use of binary blobs, maybe forever. ron Perhaps integr

Re: [9fans] Westin lax for scale 7

2009-02-20 Thread Geoffrey Avila
When will you be there? Does Sandia have a booth? -GBA > Any 9fans here? We could do a bof. > > Ron > >