Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

2011-03-05 Thread Jack
nd of my abilities, so you'll have to pick it up from there. I'll know tomorrow how my install goes. I do know where exactly it does hang, but it's my bedtime. I'll have to drawterm into my cpu server and check my notes again to post where exactly the boot hung. Cheers, Jack

Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

2011-03-06 Thread Jack
excess options. The support guy set up a cron job to update the floppy image from me, so I can try lots of different stuff (provided it fits in 1.44MB). Thanks, Jack

Re: [9fans] pcie for inter machine comms

2011-07-06 Thread Jack
on to bigger and better things. I know this has nothing to do with your question, but I just wanted to share a point of view. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-30 Thread Jack
that also takes wireless commands. It is useless unless you run the crappy windows software. Any electronics guys know of a work-a-like open source hardware implementation of the cm11? I've got all these x10 modules laying around.... -Jack

Re: [9fans] p9 vhost?

2012-10-22 Thread jack
xen 4.0 and 4.1 as well. That'd be a virtual machine *guest* you're describing there. The answer for plan9 as a vm host is still 'no.' Please post this, however, in the thread concerning the use of plan9 under Xen4. The OP sure would be interested in your usage under Xen4. -Jack

Re: [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort

2009-03-19 Thread Jack Johnson
U.K., I think. Let me see if I can dig it up. -Jack

Re: [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort

2009-03-19 Thread Jack Johnson
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Jack Johnson wrote: > There's some reseller in the U.K., I think.  Let me see if I can dig it up. Whoops, wrong country: http://www.tekmote.nl/epages/61504599.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61504599/Categories/%22Lemote%20product%22 -Jack

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread Jack Johnson
that would be more useful for the device? Inferno plug-in for Safari? Work backwards. What (new) would you do if someone else did the hard bit, and now what does that hard bit look like? -Jack

Re: [9fans] Rails? (was Re: web server)

2009-04-16 Thread Jack Johnson
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > Is Rails even necessary? If all you have is an object, everything looks like a method. ;) -J

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-09 Thread Jack Johnson
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:34 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > the problem i have with "literate programming" is that it > tends to treat code like a terse and difficult-to-understand > footnote. And thus, we have literate programming meets APL. ;) -Jack

Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-10 Thread Jack Johnson
set, it's likely that the easiest way to keep one foot on land and the other in the pool is to run Plan 9 in a virtual machine or to run plan9port on top of your regular OS. Best of luck, -Jack

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-10 Thread Jack Johnson
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Jason Catena wrote: > Rob explains the fonts and colors (inspired by Tufte, no less) a bit > in this reposted message, and mentions Renee French. I wonder if Renee would be interested to know this particular color palette is an ongoing point of discussion? -Jack

Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-10 Thread Jack Johnson
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:10 PM, wrote: > Which model of USB audio?  Is it something available on Amazon? Looks like this might be the new version of the Turtle Beach Audio Advantage: http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Advantage-Micro-Sound-Card/dp/B0002ICGDY Hopefully it works as well. -J

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Jack Johnson
du -a . | grep foo Just out of curiosity, how does find vs du compare for you? -Jack

Re: [9fans] Woes of New Language Support

2009-07-26 Thread Jack Johnson
If I'm reading you right, you're saying it might be easier if everything were encoded as combining (or maybe more aptly non-combining) codes, regardless of language? So, we might encode 'Waffles' as w+upper a f f l e s and let the renderer (if there is one) handle the presentation of the case shif

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-04 Thread Jack Norton
Brian L. Stuart wrote: Just getting something to happen might be training, but it sure isn't education. Thats the best one-liner I have ever heard on the subject. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-04 Thread Jack Norton
it has to perform as well, or better. Or put another way: your boss wants you to compete with backblaze using only plan9 and (let's say) a _large_ budget. Go! -Jack

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-08 Thread Jack Norton
Thanks in advance for patience involving my questions :) -Jack

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-08 Thread Jack Norton
the filesystem). Sorry for thinking out loud... I should get back to work anyway fun thread though. -Jack

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-09 Thread Jack Norton
round between topics in the same thread. What might be cool is to have an entire year, or an entire months worth of messages downloadable in mbox or similar format. Then you could use your mail reader to view (which consequently may be able to give you that threaded view). -Jack

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-14 Thread Jack Norton
t in the past). If linux is my raid controller, I know that it is _very_ picky about how long a drive takes to respond and will fail a drive if it has to wait too long. By the way I am currently buying a few pieces of cheap hardware to implement my own diskless fileserver. Should be ready to go in about a couple of weeks. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-14 Thread Jack Norton
Russ Cox wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Jack Norton wrote: So when you create a Venti volume, it basically writes '0's' to all the blocks of the underlying device right? In case anyone decides to try the experiment, venti hasn't done this for a few years.

Re: [9fans] fun quote

2009-09-17 Thread Jack Norton
... open source development? It seems like they release code only after they are damn sure they've gotten all they can out of it. So, is Linux the unwanted poster-child of open source development? I think an argument could be made. -Jack

Re: [9fans] fun quote

2009-09-17 Thread Jack Norton
right, as opposed to Linux and related software, which are developed, almost from the ground up, as open source. This is the impression I get anyway. -Jack

Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-17 Thread Jack Norton
the emacs of media players (in that it is all encompassing, there is a church/cult, etc...). Just about the simplest way to play audio on a computer, save for the methods in plan9 :) (I'm _trying_ to get us back on topic...) Ok I'm done. -Jack

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread Jack Norton
n source. I don't think something this large can benifit anymore from open source (as in open 'all the time' to anyone, everywhere -- as opposed to let's say apple's version of open source dev). The development scheme just doesn't scale. In any event, I'm still waiting for the damn thing to fork... -Jack

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-21 Thread Jack Norton
our IT dep (all two people...) that they should try and spread out the drives used among different mfg dates and batches. It shocked me to know that this was news to them... -Jack

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread Jack Norton
s that on OSX I can use jack daemon and get low latency audio right out of the box and on windows I can use low latency drivers such as ASIO and the newer WaveRT. It's even more tragic as there are tons of great linux audio tools, but they are a hard sale because you need to apply the r

Re: [9fans] acme without a heavy grid (SFW)

2009-09-30 Thread Jack Norton
However, I end up with the same conclusion: why? Is the 'grid' that distracting? Also, if you have two text files open side-by-side, and your lines are long enough to wrap, you would have a glob of incomprehensible text in the middle. I think at least a moderately thick grid is a necessary evil. -jack

[9fans] Plan 9 Xen -- Follow up on previous 9fans topic

2009-10-02 Thread Jack Norton
3.0.x for some x. I haven't checked how much the Xen API has changed for 3.2 -- do try recompiling and see what happens! > of the source files are no longer >world readable Sorry, my fault. Fixed now. -- Richard -Jack

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 & VirtualBox

2009-10-26 Thread Jack Norton
'l B. (User, not Programmer) Plan 9 works fine in qemu on both windows (xp at least) and linux. I will vouch for plan 9 working in qemu in windows 7 rc. There is even a nice qemu gui that gives you a virtualbox-like experience (I forget the name -- could it be kqemu?). -Jack

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 & VirtualBox

2009-10-26 Thread Jack Norton
Antonio Hernández Blas wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jack Norton wrote: Jacob Todd wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:28:20PM -0700, Sam'l B wrote: Is anyone working on making them play nice together? Is it possible, even? I get slightly farther

Re: [9fans] parallel systems

2009-10-28 Thread Jack Norton
At least not from what I have seen. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Scanners

2009-11-25 Thread Jack Norton
the 'book open, face up' with camera's from afar method. -Jack

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-05 Thread Jack Johnson
t my brain loves a trackpad for some reason. I keep thinking I want one of these for a desktop machine, but I'd still probably need a mouse hanging around, too: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-45849.html Plus, Mac 2-finger scrolling has ruined me. -Jack

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread Jack Johnson
i-hardware.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_in_Nanonote -Jack

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Jack Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:54 AM,   wrote: >>> http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/ >> >> Okay, Maht.  You just cost me $125 :)  I just couldn't resist. > >

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jack Johnson wrote: > Off-topic-ish, that 320x240 screen is probably the biggest challenge, > trying to find some usable UI in that space. I think the idea of a > native Inferno port is great. Sorry, last of the blather. It also seems ideal for Octop

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-17 Thread Jack Johnson
l to do with Plan 9 - > setting/unsetting the ring tone to/from silent in a cron job. I would like my ringtone volume to adjust periodically to the ambient noise, which also seems fairly trivial. What did you folks with bitsies and iPAQs find useful? Any of you still packing one? -Jack

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-24 Thread Jack Johnson
Thanks to Google's targeted ads: http://www.eglobalwireless.com/p-4333-new-7-mini-netbook-laptop-notebook-wifi-windows-2gb-hd.aspx Also might make a good Inferno device if WinCE isn't too firmly ensconced. -Jack

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-28 Thread Jack Johnson
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > try as you might, the irony is unescapable (see the attached "helpful" > suggestion by google). It sounds like a competition. "Write a program that, when translated by Google into Czech, still produces valid output." -Jack

Re: [9fans] Plan ? (was: native install)

2010-03-30 Thread Jack Johnson
other more popular OSes are evidence of progress, it's interesting to consider the idea of success. The millipede has been around with relatively few upgrades for the past 420 billion years or so. It would be hard to call it unsuccessful, even though it can't (yet?) effectively run, jump, or fly. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Plan ? (was: native install)

2010-03-30 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Jack Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote: > around with relatively few upgrades for the past 420 billion years or s/billion/million/ -Jack

Re: [9fans] tinycore 9vx .tce on sources

2010-04-03 Thread Jack Johnson
this weekend's Easter festivities. Thanks! Maybe I should procrastinate more often -Jack

Re: [9fans] smtpd in modern times.

2016-02-07 Thread Jack Johnson
I'm not running one (at the moment), but I think there's an stunnel port for Plan 9, and that could be an easy way to duct tape TLS support onto your existing setup. -Jack On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:29 PM Steve Simon wrote: > I have been running my a smtp server on plan9 for about &

[9fans] bugs in test command

2008-05-28 Thread lawler . jack
I updated my system today and had trouble with the usbfat:, 9fat:, and pull scripts because of errors by the new test command. term% ls /dev/kfs.cmd ls: /dev/kfs.cmd: '/dev/kfs.cmd' file does not exist term% test -f /dev/kfs.cmd term% echo $status t

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

2008-07-01 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That means that Plan 9 is like porn for hackers. > Now when can I get that on a t-shirt? :) -J

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on Blue Gene

2008-07-30 Thread Jack Johnson
> required part of any HPC system. Any guesses as to just how old Fred is? Or better yet, when is Fred's birthday? It seems like there should be a Ratfor to C translator in Plan 9, if only for nostalgia. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Time travel

2008-11-04 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Make that "Get off of my Wifi!" Those crazy kids with their Hulu loops. -J

[9fans] Amazon EC2?

2008-11-11 Thread Jack Johnson
Has anyone tried injecting a Plan 9 instance into the new Amazon cloud? http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ -Jack

Re: [9fans] Amazon EC2?

2008-11-12 Thread Jack Johnson
en? What's the relationship between kexec and Xen? -Jack

Re: [9fans] An Observation

2008-11-14 Thread Jack Johnson
s it good or bad that we keep eating at the same restaurant, despite the criticism? -Jack

Re: [9fans] An Observation

2008-11-14 Thread Jack Johnson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:46 AM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dang, in a pinch I'll even eat at McDonalds... I think I booted McOS this morning -J

Re: [9fans] plan9 now officially not the OS with the ugliest GUI anymore

2008-11-19 Thread Jack Johnson
I always thought 8 1/2, rio, acme and friends were more, uh, Amish UIs than ugly UIs, but to each his or her own. -J

Re: [9fans] Gmail and upas

2008-11-21 Thread Jack Johnson
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Rudolf Sykora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > seems you use IMAP to read gmail. I usually read my gmail mail through > my web browser, which is not a problem from opera/firefox in linux. > However, I can't do the same from plan9. Neither abaco, nor charon > work. Is th

Re: [9fans] Gmail and upas

2008-11-21 Thread Jack Johnson
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Jack Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and then it follows up with: > > GO TO > https://www.google.com/accounts/'http:/mail.google.com/mail/h/19sso9tatmt7r/?ui=html&zy=l' > > which doesn't seem to match the contin

Re: [9fans] (off-topic) Renée French

2008-12-26 Thread Jack Johnson
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Eris Discordia wrote: > How come the Renée French who appears in Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and > Cigarettes" has nothing to with the Renée French who drew Glenda? Interesting movie. Parts of it I dearly love, other parts not so much. A lot like Night on Earth, whe

Re: [9fans] jjm

2009-03-07 Thread Jack Johnson
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > found object ... > > http://www.chunder.com/text/struggle.html Absolutely priceless. The last line is the winner. -J

[9fans] FOIA request?

2019-11-24 Thread Jack Johnson
This is interesting: *"Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:* *Records, emails, memos and reports relating to or mentioning the operating system Plan 9 from Bell Labs"* https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/foia-cia-plan-9-from-b

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-08-06 Thread Jack Johnson
Anyone know if this project went anywhere? https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_Purge_Proposal.pdf A Hellaphone revisit. On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 12:48 PM sirjofri wrote: > Hello, > > many many really cool ideas. Most of them get a big heart icon, but I > don't want to repeat your ideas. So

Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah!

2010-04-16 Thread Jack Johnson
vability (as I talk out my ass). -Jack

Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!)

2010-04-17 Thread Jack Johnson
war," please kick me off the list, please. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!)

2010-04-17 Thread Jack Johnson
that mindshare? Probably not. I'm naively hoping Go will eventually take us to some future middle ground where folks can dabble in a shared sandbox of sanity from both sides of the fence. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women (was Re: TeX: hurrah!)

2010-04-18 Thread Jack Johnson
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: > p2c (pascal 2 c) Anyone ever peek at one of the Oberon to C compliers? Or maybe the Oxford stuff? http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/corner/Oxford_Oberon-2_compiler -Jack

Re: [9fans] license situation and OSI

2010-05-26 Thread Jack Johnson
nsing. Really there are just two kinds of licenses: ones that allow relicensing and ones that don't. Kinda puts MS and EFF in the same camp. -Jack

Re: [9fans] license situation and OSI

2010-05-26 Thread Jack Johnson
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Nick LaForge wrote: >>Kinda puts MS and EFF in the same camp. > > You mean FSF? Whoops, yes, FSF. -Jack

Re: [9fans] license situation and OSI

2010-05-26 Thread Jack Johnson
re a multitude of facets that affect that choice, and having a multiplicity of licensing options may improve the fecundity/fidelity/longevity of said code in more complex ways than can be readily surmised from the previous perspective. -Jack (continuing to contribute nothing to the good of the order)

Re: [9fans] Go/Inferno toolchain (Was: comment and newline in

2010-06-29 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > FTS, I'm interesting in getting Go here because I'm going to write > the i.e. window system (successor of o/live, o/mero, ...) also in go, to run > at least the viewer native on unix systems. The C version is still cooking. Is ther

Re: [9fans] Small Plan9 box suggestions.

2011-02-25 Thread Jack Norton
the bat I need a webcam. I also need to prototype this very quickly so mucking about in hardware drivers and OS nuances is not an option. Sounds like fun! I'm curious what you come up with! -Jack

Re: [9fans] Small Plan9 box suggestions.

2011-02-25 Thread Jack Norton
Jacob Todd wrote: Does inferno have support for (a) webcam(s)? Or are you using linux for capturing things from the webcam? On Feb 25, 2011 9:14 AM, "Jack Norton" <mailto:j...@0x6a.com>> wrote: > Jason Dreisbach wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Can anyone

Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

2011-03-07 Thread Jack Norton
support and waiting up to 24 hours for a response. I've been told allowing users to dynamically change CD-ROM images is not an option. Jack: If you reading this, do you want to try this with your cron-swapped floppy images? -sl I would be willing, definitely. However, I am committed to finis

Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

2011-03-07 Thread Jack Norton
plugged into it, so I naively put "ether0=type=igbe" in plan9.ini. Now it hangs right where 9load would normally say "no ethernet devices found" or something similar. How odd. -Jack

Re: [9fans] off list - Re: recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

2011-03-07 Thread Jack Norton
Stanley Lieber wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Jack Norton wrote: erik quanstrom wrote: On Sun Mar 6 22:33:33 EST 2011, stanley.lie...@gmail.com wrote: 9atom's 9load prints "%d e820 entries" on boot. is that number 0? found 7 e8s0 entries Then it freezes. it'

Re: [9fans] recent plan9.iso on hosted kvm/qemu

2011-03-08 Thread Jack Norton
ike to boot this thing without all those workarounds (though it runs great -- well ran great...). All in all, I think they've got a working setup for Plan 9 hosting. So my current troubles aside, this is big news. -Jack

Re: [9fans] slightly on topic: pic preprocessor for drawing electronic circuits

2011-03-21 Thread Jack Norton
that you wrote? Sounds interesting. You don't do any of this dev on Plan 9 do you? I've got a pile of atmega168's and a icsp flasher board + some flasher made by olimex. I've just been using avr-gcc. Haven't touched it in a while though. -Jack

Re: [9fans] namespaces, Alef

2011-03-23 Thread Jack Norton
e is no Limbo either. I could be wrong. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-02 Thread Jack Norton
e web. Frankly I'd be more interested in a video player (just a few common codecs that's all) than a modern web browser. -Jack

Re: [9fans] freedom (was Re: Compiling 9atom kernel)

2011-05-06 Thread Jack Norton
ld. There is a certain zen to saying "well I don't really think that is necessary" and to forgo a "hop on the bandwagon" or "me too!" existence. In the end though, the list will eventually say it: start hammering out some code and we'll see what you come up with. Proof in the pudding. Good luck, Jack

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 IRL

2011-05-09 Thread Jack Norton
ki/plan9/people/index.html Not guaranteed to be exhaustive, but a start nonetheless. That might be the closest thing to a Plan 9 real world application database. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Jack Norton
As for the OP, I'm with Peter C. Install it native and forget all of this other nonsense for now. You could probably find a good candidate PC in a dumpster somewhere. Or a $70 atom board with a bit of memory could do you just fine (the plain intel ones -- not those omg-ION graphics ones). I know the NMO510 guy works with only one core (but it works). Cheers, Jack

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread Jack Norton
ared touchscreens of today and tomorrow (single, double, triple finger taps on the screen, etc...). That is my take anyway. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread Jack Johnson
ware. The number of UI variables are mind boggling, which is why I find it hard to get hot headed over any of the assertions, but tend toward trusting the research. Beating the dead horse, -Jack

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users not believe it

2011-06-21 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:42 AM, errno wrote: > On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:20:27 AM Jack Johnson wrote: >> which is why I find it hard to get hot headed over any of the assertions, >> but tend toward trusting the research. >> > What research? The rabbit hole is pretty d

[9fans] Survey: Current Fossil+venti Filesystem

2011-06-22 Thread Jack Norton
as my "stream of thought" manual for plan 9 with permanent records of damn good information. Plus I am tired of this damn mousing debacle -- I'm about to filter out that thread. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Survey: Current Fossil+venti Filesystem

2011-06-23 Thread Jack Norton
B 2.5" consumer drives out for just north of $100! What a world we live in. By the time I fill that, there will be 2TB 2.5" drives... Cheers, Jack

Re: [9fans] Survey: Current Fossil+venti Filesystem

2011-06-23 Thread Jack Norton
ptop motherboards and hot swap isn't even a useful feature in that case. -jack

[9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

2011-06-24 Thread Jack Norton
rd working under plan 9 so I am hesitant. If I can convince myself I've got the time, I will buy one. They've even got schematics posted on their wiki (link can be found if you follow the above URL). -Jack

Re: [9fans] novel userspace paradigms introduced by plan 9

2011-07-02 Thread Jack Johnson
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:29 AM, dexen deVries wrote: > disclaimer: i'm not a plan 9 person for any viable value of `p9 person' I'm in the same boat, but I aspire to be in the other boat. :) -Jack

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

2011-07-12 Thread Jack Norton
ly subscribe to that idea whole heartedly. In a sense, margins to add to such a technique. Obviously though, it can be over done. -Jack

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

2011-07-13 Thread Jack Norton
(bad) summary of folder contents/size. It's a crap shoot. Hover-only stuff is a disease. -Jack

Re: [9fans] 9fans archive engine

2011-07-14 Thread Jack Norton
Russ Cox wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Yaroslav wrote: Is the software which powers 9fans web archive publicly available? it's not. ahem... let me put on my pedantic shoes... 9fans.net/archive wrote: > "powered by grep(1) "

Re: [9fans] cheep ssds

2011-08-03 Thread Jack Norton
a cache (or a worm when prices come down on high capacity guys) on an ssd in plan 9, but I am expecting it to quit after a few months for some reason... I'm not very trusting for some reason. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Fossil fs recovery

2011-08-11 Thread Jack Norton
e 9fans archive as my own personal manual next to the man pages (and at last resort the wiki). I for some reason always get the impression that the wiki is missing bits... so I use it only has a means of discovering just what man page exactly I should be reading :) -Jack

[9fans] Those power-saving USB drives and Plan 9

2011-08-18 Thread Jack Norton
. Also, I'll mention that I am not interested in "cheating" this feature by touching a file every 30 seconds or some other hack. I've not purchased yet, so I've an opportunity to do it right from the start. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Intel atom system

2011-08-26 Thread Jack Norton
rdware, but hang right after memory capacities are printed (gee, I've seen this before... what could it be this time... :)). Without me having to try a zillion different kernel/bootloader combinations, would the people who use the D510MO sound off what kernel/loader they are using? I'd be much obliged. THanks, Jack

Re: [9fans] Intel atom system

2011-09-06 Thread Jack Norton
me... :)). Without me having to try a zillion different kernel/bootloader combinations, would the people who use the D510MO sound off what kernel/loader they are using? I'd be much obliged. THanks, Jack As an update I'd like to point out that the D510MO works fine with 9atom

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 is dead

2011-09-15 Thread Jack Norton
Christoph Lohmann wrote: Hello, now that an academic non-polished Plan 9 remake with idiotic dependencies and the fun OS, which has its only goal to add political jokes, are taking all the pace, I hereby declare, that Plan 9 is MORE ALIVE THAN EVER. Rest In Peace. Sincerely, Christoph Lohman

Re: [9fans] NIX 64-bit kernel is available

2011-09-16 Thread Jack Johnson
minimal collisions, it's possible that the first rabbit in space was named Marnushka (and not Glenda). -Jack

[9fans] is there a at91 port?

2011-10-27 Thread Jack Norton
like this, so don't expect anything out of me. By the way, any tips (i.e. links to literature) would be greatly appreciated. This is a learning experience. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions

2011-11-22 Thread Jack Norton
t required nothing out of the ordinary in the end. Choose your virtualized NIC wisely I suppose. -Jack

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