Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Jack Norton
guys use generic hardware and something like vblade (or those other ones people have made for linux like ggblade or whatever it is called)? -Jack

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2011-12-30 Thread Jack Norton
functionality of raid was added. I know these are trade secrets though so I've never asked. I would still ask that question if it were pcie attached. Curiosity will be my undoing though. -Jack

Re: [9fans] ramfs, fossil, venti etc.

2012-01-04 Thread Jack Norton
venti and be done with it. Couldn't you just push those files onto your venti srv, and access them through other methods besides fossil, bypassing this whole snapshot thing all together? I'm curious also how much ram this beast will have. Are you building a new machine? -Jack

Re: [9fans] Some things never change

2012-02-23 Thread Jack Johnson
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:43 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > pfft.  we've always had find.  we've just called it "du". It's funny, since I learned how to do that via 9fans, I still do it that way on Linux. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Config File parsing

2012-02-27 Thread Jack Norton
shape too! -Jack

Re: [9fans] octopus paper

2012-03-02 Thread Jack Johnson
considering the subsequent cephalopod? :) -Jack

Re: [9fans] Question about usage of Plan 9 based os systems

2012-03-21 Thread Jack Norton
doesn't apply to me. I'm not productive on linux or plan 9. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread Jack Norton
erence card that one 9fan composed long ago... THAT is a great little thing to have handy. I printed it out but removed the file so I don't have a link handy. -Jack

Re: [9fans] Location of plan9.ini

2012-05-10 Thread Jack Norton
d read it. After that, then have a look in /rc/bin as well. Just poke around. Assume that you will probably hose your system a few times in the process. In fact, if you haven't hosed your system yet, you aren't climbing up the learning curve. -Jack

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-10 Thread Jack Norton
e.com/p/plan9front/wiki/usbboot I'd think you would be able to use a lab's plan9 iso in place of the 9front iso listed in that wiki. I've never tried so don't get crabby if it doesn't work. It will work just fine however, as written. -Jack

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-10 Thread Jack Norton
On 5/10/2012 10:15 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: If you're using USB, why would you bother with ISO format? On 10 May 2012 13:57, Jack Norton mailto:j...@0x6a.com>> wrote: The 9front bootloader can boot from a USB disk. You can then throw a plan9 iso on the disk and go

Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience

2012-05-17 Thread Jack Norton
ot', just what you've got available for new writes between dumps to worm. -Jack

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-17 Thread Jack Johnson
ith Chrome on the next monitor over. I know someone out there has a setup they've nestled into and are slightly cringing at the thought of his or her next machine or OS transition because right now life is good. -Jack

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-17 Thread Jack Norton
On 5/17/2012 10:41 AM, Jack Johnson wrote: Quick tangent, is there anyone out there whose favorite environment is non-native? Maybe 9vx or plan9ports on specific hardware? Your secret sam port to Windows 8's Metro UI? For all I know, plan9ports full screen on a MacBook Air is Glenda'

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-17 Thread Jack Norton
ks shows a redirection error page from google. I haven't had any time to look into this problem yet. This works in mothra with webfs. I like mothra much better than abaco. It is included in 9front, or alternatively grab it from the 9front google code page. It uses 9front's webfs as well. -Jack

Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs

2012-07-16 Thread Jack Norton
adcom (not to mention you can actually purchase low qty of this chip if you wanted to). There is a larger version as well (go to Olimex's main site and navigate to the product family 'olinuxino'). I've always had good experiences with Olimex stuff. I am really glad to see them still in operation. -Jack

Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-20 Thread Jack Norton
On 8/20/2012 3:48 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: office productivity suites, relational databases, and, or even a decent web browser like Chromium, or Firefox, modren C++ compiler, good GUI tool-kit or widgets These all have an "all useful features" version on plan9 called catclock.

Re: [9fans] Acme: the way the future actually was

2012-09-14 Thread Jack Johnson
Even with it's "faults" (age?), I still miss Oberon. It was *fun* and elegant. -Jack

Re: [9fans] iwp9

2012-11-19 Thread Jack Johnson
Traditional names always have the edge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwigillingok,_Alaska I think the Yup'ik are half-Welsh. ;) -Jack On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:26:32AM -0800, Brian L. Stuart wrote: > > > > Yeah,

Re: [9fans] 9atom

2013-01-04 Thread Jack Johnson
n you would think the odds of it reoccurring in the future would be non-zero, and you might as well add a comment for future fumblers. :) -Jack

Re: [9fans] Fwd:

2013-01-15 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > This is an outrage. I was promised html parsing and in-line images with > cat. Best mailing list message ever. :) -J

Re: [9fans] anyone attempted to build ghostscript recently?

2013-05-03 Thread Jack Johnson
Is a PS/PDF library something that might benefit from reconstruction in Go? Or is it just a spaghetti mess?

Re: [9fans] anyone attempted to build ghostscript recently?

2013-05-03 Thread Jack Johnson
). > > ghostscript already renders plan 9 produced pdf just fine. > so that problem is solved, and there's no need to do anything. > > what we need is better access to externally produced documents. > So, skipping interactivity, what about a pdf2pdf filter? -Jack

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