Re: [9fans] Frogs?

2015-10-05 Thread Steve Simon
although this is all true, in the context of my comment needsquote() in libfmt is more relevant. the rc shell has a well defined quoting convention, but this is not shared by awk or sed. Thus tosplit the fields in du's output you need something that understands this convention, like the she

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

2015-10-12 Thread Steve Simon
I think I once saw one at the Chelsea flower show, Designed and produced by a team of 37 spiders... -Steve > On 12 Oct 2015, at 10:49, Staven wrote: > > I thought a web garden was a hobbyist version of a server farm. >

[9fans] off topic - free signed SSL/TLS certs

2015-11-05 Thread Steve Simon
Anyone any experience of a provider of free SSL/TLS certificates they would reccomend? I appologise if my terminology is imperfect, I am new to this game. -Steve

Re: [9fans] Undefined Behaviour in C

2015-11-26 Thread Steve Simon
I don't know about the PDP but the VAX allowed access to address zero. Even more insidious, it allowed you to dereference a null pointer and guaranteed it would contain a zero, which resulted in many tiresome portability issues - I used Interdatas at the time, which faulted on a read at address

Re: [9fans] Peter Bosch's TV software

2015-12-02 Thread Steve Simon
I may have the code, I might even have a haupage card somewhere. The card had an rf tuner and a composite (maybe y/c) input and as such is more than a little dated in these Meg 2/4 broadcast days (in the uk at least). -Steve > On 2 Dec 2015, at 17:35, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > Long ago P

Re: [9fans] Migration of vac score to fossil

2015-12-17 Thread Steve Simon
I have long wanted to do this but on the one occasion I tried I got lost inside fossil. the problem is fossil expects venti to have a hierarchy of the form /active/ and /archive/ where as your venti does not, I guess it has just your home dir. it is easy to create the required placeholder in a

Re: [9fans] contrib/install

2015-12-20 Thread Steve Simon
I wonder, have you installed the contribution package? If not then this is what you need, I think - it's been a few years since I did this... 9fs sources /n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install fgb/contrib Once this completes you should be able to do the installs you wanted. FYI, i ha

Re: [9fans] bug or feature ? --- ip/ping -6

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Simon
If I where redesigning ping I wouldn't repeat any info that is common on each line - I.e. ip addresses or the column titles: rtt, ave etc. consider plan9's ps(1) which has no column titles. they are described in the man page and are obvious from the context once you have read the man page once.

Re: [9fans] bug or feature ? --- ip/ping -6

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Simon
I would display the IP address once only, rather on every line; as it is a common factor. -Steve > On 30 Dec 2015, at 15:26, Kurt H Maier wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 03:05:33PM +, Steve Simon wrote: >> If I where redesigning ping I wouldn't repeat any

Re: [9fans] bug or feature ? --- ip/ping -6

2015-12-30 Thread Steve Simon
> It is not a common factor if you ping broadcast. Yep, fair point. I admit I have never done a ping broadcast. I did hear a story of somone who (in the early days of ethernet) built a ping broadcast packet, with the source address of the broadcast address. This resulted in the mother of all pa

[9fans] bonjour mDNS?

2016-01-01 Thread Steve Simon
anyone done any work to implement mDNS / bonjour on plan9? my rough plan is to write a file server which generates /lib/ndb/mdns which can be included into your /lib/ndb/local. I fear the biggest hassle is the clash of UDP port use may mean mDNS must become part of dns(1) rather than a separate

Re: [9fans] bonjour mDNS?

2016-01-02 Thread Steve Simon
n 1 19:32:25 PST 2016, m...@boschma.cx wrote: >>> >>>> On 2 Jan 2016, at 7:05 am, Steve Simon wrote: >>>> anyone done any work to implement mDNS / bonjour on plan9? >>> >>> No, but I have an interest; just starting out with Plan9 :) >>&g

[9fans] mDNS

2016-01-02 Thread Steve Simon
/ndb/local, just a static spec. my target is porting shairport, and maybe Dnla at a later date. -Steve > On 2 Jan 2016, at 03:42, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> On Fri Jan 1 19:32:25 PST 2016, m...@boschma.cx wrote: >> >>> On 2 Jan 2016, at 7:05 am, Steve Simon wrote:

[9fans] smtpd in modern times.

2016-02-07 Thread Steve Simon
I have been running my a smtp server on plan9 for about 10 years but I beleive I am having more and more incomming mail bounce because of plan9's lack of support for tls 1.2. What is anyone else doing about this? stop ovvering ESMTP in smptd? Using a 3rd party smtpd supplier (go

Re: [9fans] The Plan 9/"right" way to do Facebook

2016-03-31 Thread Steve Simon
😀 > On 31 Mar 2016, at 03:09, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > > > cd /n/facebook > > cd / > unmount /n/facebook > rm -fr /sys/src/cmd/facebook* /*/bin/facebookfs

Re: [9fans] problem with acme on 9front

2016-05-20 Thread Steve Simon
I started with Sam a sit ran on all the different unixes I used an vi an emacs just felt clunky. I never got into help and when acme replaced that I just never made the transition. I love Sam, though it is because I know it so well. btw, anyone written scripts to allow the plan9 wiki to be ed

Re: [9fans] More about /dev/draw

2016-05-28 Thread Steve Simon
worth remembering that hdmi and DVI are equivalent in terms of what is needed for a computer monitor. hence hdmi to DVI adopters are very cheap. -Steve > On 28 May 2016, at 18:49, Dave MacFarlane wrote: > > That's exactly what I'm doing. I don't have a monitor with HDMI within > network-cabl

Re: [9fans] More about /dev/draw

2016-05-28 Thread Steve Simon
I use the Pi 2 version daily at work with an hdmi monitor. there seem to be a couple of lurking bugs in the sub driver which generate spurious grumbles and seem to prevent sub serial adapters from working, which is a minor annoyance. Other than that it works like a charm. audio out is still broke

Re: [9fans] Any demand for a supported Windows version of p9port?

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Simon
I have a different approach. Personally I have only command line utilities as I keep Plan9 as my desktop (raspberry PI). I need to cross compile on windows so I have a tool to cpu into a windows box (called dos). This allows me to have a rio window onto a a dos shell. It does the trick like cp

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-22 Thread Steve Simon
it has been very quiet, but I am still here. 9front is more active these days. -Steve > On 23 Aug 2016, at 01:00, Adriano Verardo wrote: > > Hi, all > I don'receive from the group since June. > I've changed my subscription, opened another gmail account (mail-dot-com had > problems), > conta

Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

2016-08-23 Thread Steve Simon
hi all. I get less time for plan9 too, a new higher pressure job and twins are my excuses. I still have my home server which is my mail and web presence and maintains my domain, A raspberry Pi at work runs my desktop. I hope fix the broken raspberry Pi audio and write a Dropbox client... and p

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

2016-08-27 Thread Steve Simon
have you done the hack to the registry described in the code manual page. Microsoft keep moving the goalposts and my memory fades, but I use cifs to win7 daily at work. I will look at the config but I am on holiday for a week. I also have the VMware code for plan9 from russ. he felt it is not en

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

2016-08-28 Thread Steve Simon
next week I will help, I wrote CICS so I should be able to sort it out. I am on holiday at the moment so I cannot do much now but sympathise. -Steve On 28 Aug 2016, at 09:16, Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com> wrote: >> * boxB doesn't see no boxA shared folders. > > i would start there. once

Re: [9fans] Musings on Interfaces

2016-09-02 Thread Steve Simon
hi, Sam has been my only editor since the X11 port was released in about 1992. I have not really tried acme, I never gave it a real chance but I used to use it to edit the plan 9 wiki so I have a little skill. I agree scroll select is the one feature I would add - I have a feeling the 9front guy

Re: [9fans] Linker and duplicate symbols

2016-09-02 Thread Steve Simon
the linker rejects later instances of symbols if it had already found an instance. the important point however is that this is done on a per file basis if the symbol is in a library. the case where I have seen this is your code (the kernel code in this case) references another symbol which only

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread Steve Simon
I have a Pi at work and a dual atom file/cpu/auth/etc server at home. it works well, it takes a few seconds to authenticate but is quick once you are connected. I boot from the pi's flash so I don't really have a terminal but I keep almost nothing in the Pi. -Steve > On 30 Sep 2016, at 21:2

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-12 Thread Steve Simon
mine is a dual atom mini itx box, with two mirrored disks - though i have an ssd to add when i get a chance. the server is a combined auth/cpu/venti/fossil/mail/domain/web server. it consumes 26watts which could be better but is not bad. a pi with a few sata3 interfaces would be interesting. -

[9fans] libtask

2016-10-13 Thread Steve Simon
Hi all, I am using libtask on an embedded system with great success, however I would like to add remote file access to the system... 9p seems a good fit ☺ Anyone written or ported a small simple 9p library; I am after client and server but anything would be good. Thanks, -Steve

[9fans] ampl sw

2016-10-18 Thread Steve Simon
hi all, just interested, anyone looked at the sw gui front end to ampl, it is roughly a rio window (9term) for win32. most interesting with rc on the back end i would think. http://www.netlib.org/ampl/student/mswin/readme.sw -Steve

Re: [9fans] Fossil+Venti system memory requirements to be aware of?

2016-10-20 Thread Steve Simon
> On 20 Oct 2016, at 19:41, Steven Stallion wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:15 PM, wrote: >> Steven Stallion writes: >> >>> Sizing venti is also simple. >> >> I disagree with this. The best way to configure venti depends largely >> on how you plan to use it. I have multiple venti s

Re: [9fans] Fossil+Venti system memory requirements to be aware of?

2016-10-20 Thread Steve Simon
i agree absolutely with steve here, expanding venture arena by arena is easy, the ventibackup scripts show you how. even easier is to add arenas on a different disk partition to the same venti. personally i wouldn't keep music or videos in venti. they don't compress well using the arithmetic te

Re: [9fans] What does your fileserver consist of?

2016-10-22 Thread Steve Simon
hi, mine is the older model which is not passively cooled, a fan is needed (not to hand so i have no part numbers). it has a 40mm cpu fan but that is all. the fan died (got very noisy) and i replaced it but that was the only unreliable part of the server. -steve > On 22 Oct 2016, at 22:06, Ste

Re: [9fans] Venti off-site backups

2016-10-26 Thread Steve Simon
i append my venti arenas to usb memory sticks - only two so far. i don't store music or videos on plan9 so compressed de-duplicated data doesn't take up much space. the only time i had problems was my own fault, over cooling a disk through my own paranoia. > On 26 Oct 2016, at 18:43, Steven St

[9fans] usb serial on raspberry pi (again)

2016-10-27 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I have upgraded my pi desktop to a 3 which is noticable faster. I am using Richard's pi image which as usual works perfectly, but for one wrinkle. I cannot get the usb serial interfaces we use to work. I have never managed to get usb serial adapters to work with the raspberry pi, though nev

Re: [9fans] 9front on raspberry pi

2016-11-02 Thread Steve Simon
hi, this is interesting. can you tell me what the gpio file system looks like (pointer to man page?). also, is the mDNS client the go one discussed recently or a c implementation? i have never go'ed and have been thinking about writing a upnp renderer for plan9 for years... -Steve > On 2 No

Re: [9fans] 9front on raspberry pi

2016-11-02 Thread Steve Simon
Thanks for the info. > mount -a '#G' /dev I think you want bind -a '#G' /dev > using large display is frustrating... FWIW I am happily using 1920x1200x8 on my raspberry pi 3, and its very snappy. -Steve

Re: [9fans] 9front on raspberry pi

2016-11-02 Thread Steve Simon
Hi all, anyone seen some strange TLS issues (when talking to windows boxen). tlsClient: devtls expected ver=301, saw (len=19232) type=2a ver=204f '* OK ����' This is running Richard millers raspberry kernel so no 9front encryption fixes. maybe my TLS needs to be taught more smarts? -

Re: [9fans] q re /sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/prep.c:240

2016-11-04 Thread Steve Simon
The usual process is to use prep first to create a windows etc compatible partition table with one big partition called plan9. then subdivide that. see the recipie near the end of the format(1) manpage. why part does different things in automatic mode I don't know. -Steve

[9fans] oauth2

2016-11-05 Thread Steve Simon
hi, once again i need oauth2. i am thinking of writhing slack and skype messaging clients - i might even finally do a file system api for chat services in c, and include irc. anyone looked at adding oauth2 to webs? for all its faults it seems to be gaining traction. -Steve

[9fans] anyone using jenkins or hudson?

2016-11-12 Thread Steve Simon
hi i put together a hudson/jenkins client which, (because i had the framework to hand) i implemented as a file system. currently it has been tested against exactly one jenkins instance. anyone willing to test against their build servers, i am particularly interested in a hudson test. -Steve

[9fans] tls 1.2

2016-11-15 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I am trying to get tls 1.2 working on a labs build of plan9. What is most infuriating is I am sure I did this a few years ago but I cannot remember how (or even if) I got it working. what I have done is to install the following patches from 9legacy: libsec-chacha.diff

Re: [9fans] tls 1.2

2016-11-15 Thread Steve Simon
> Just to be sure. Have you rebuilt libsec as well? yep. Wireshark sees TLS 1.2 packets from plan9 so I have that much right... -Steve

Re: [9fans] tls 1.2

2016-11-15 Thread Steve Simon
> The libsec-chacha.diff patch is not useful, since it's not used yet. I suspected as much but thought it wouldn't hurt. > Does it works when you connect to https://9p.io/? > This machine have the same patches applied. yes, this works fine. I am trying to connect to davmail - an exchange / imap

Re: [9fans] tls 1.2

2016-11-15 Thread Steve Simon
Sorry, I don't have a 9front so I don't know. -Steve

Re: [9fans] Maintenance of an auth server files vs a dns+dhcp+tftp server

2016-11-15 Thread Steve Simon
I have a single cpu/auth/dns/dhcp/tftp/file server. and a raspberry pi terminal. The obvious change would be to add a seperate raspberry pi as an auth server, booting off its own sdcard (if memory serves, the auth server needs to be up first). If I were to do this I would probably make it backup

Re: [9fans] Hack font for plan9

2016-11-16 Thread Steve Simon
> I have converted the open source font called Hack to plan 9 font format. Thats nice, not sure if I will switch, I will try it for a week or so... I think the sizes are wrong, the 14 point in the hack directory looks close to 9 point in the plan9 pelm font. -Steve

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread Steve Simon
Cinap, I salute you and the good sense you write. -Steve > On 19 Nov 2016, at 16:57, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > > calling into firmware code is a big can of worms because firmware is full > of bugs and only works with a small set of the major operating systems that > the firmware auth

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread Steve Simon
Almost all of the original plan9 team work for google now. some of them work on Go, a language which has shared ancestry with alef and limbo. there are not maintainers as such, though some people do maintenance and some still develop new features and ports. plan9 is ad hoc. i still think it'

[9fans] Partition problems

2016-11-20 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I run a modified labs kernel with a few bits of 9atom to support my atom Motherboard. I have added an ssd to the mirrored disks in my plan9 server. The initialisation of devfs fails without a helpful error message (something I will sort out) However the source of the problem seems to be boo

[9fans] partitioning problems - fixed

2016-11-21 Thread Steve Simon
hi all, well, after a long slog, and a few wrong turns, it is all obvious. 9load reads the partition table and writes the disk config. it reads into a 2k buffer but it only reads one sector -512 bytes on my disks, which is not enough for the large number of partitions i have. the solution is is

Re: [9fans] How to take a portion of a screenshot

2016-11-23 Thread Steve Simon
kudos for the use of m4. sadly my o2s went the way of ebay years ago, nice machines though. -Steve > On 23 Nov 2016, at 21:30, Jules Merit > wrote: > > I ported doom, after someone Runed plan9. Trying to get 9front Jurassic Park > on MIPS r12k now. > > Also plan9 clearly needs EEG for use

Re: [9fans] raspberry pi root over tcp

2016-11-24 Thread Steve Simon
hi, i haven't tried using a pi as an authority server, i have run one as a disk less terminal booting off my file server. i will try this again tonight as i have been meaning to do so, i will report back later... -Steve > On 24 Nov 2016, at 17:48, James A. Robinson wrote: > > Hi folks, > >

Re: [9fans] Using plot(1)

2016-11-27 Thread Steve Simon
hi, not sure what you mean by pipe the output, if you want to save the graph you need to do that by grabbing the window, there could be things like gifplot which render the plot command stream into a gif, but it doesn't (yet). i am pretty sure graph has a "don't clear the screen" option if that

[9fans] (no subject)

2016-12-02 Thread Steve Simon
Hi all, Anyone have some small and neat code (in C) to parse ISO8601 date/time notation with all its glorious options? Its not hard to write, but it would be time consuming to test all the varients so if anyone has some code, or knows of some in /sys/src that I have missed, please tell me. Than

Re: [9fans] usb serial on raspberry pi (again)

2016-12-15 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I have tried the usb->serial adapters I could find lying around the office. Using the code you sent me, not the very latest from sources. The FTDI chips we use in our products work fine ep13.0 255 csp 0xff vid 0x10c4 did 0xea60 'Silicon Labs' 'CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controlle

Re: [9fans] [9front] DHCP not working on usb ethernet dongle

2017-01-04 Thread Steve Simon
Its not the same problem, but just in case it helps, adding a second usb ether adapter onto a raspberry pi, which runs the labs distro not 9front. I need to add ether1=type=usb to cmdline.txt and then add the following to /cfg/$sysname/termrc if(! ~ `{cat '#l1/ether1/addr'}

Re: [9fans] QIC-80

2017-01-31 Thread Steve Simon
qic? not for years of course. last time i did so it was using a simbios/tekram scsi card. i may have a spare of these, i can look if you need one. i have no tape drives though. -Steve > On 31 Jan 2017, at 19:24, Anthony Sorace wrote: > > This is a bit of personal archeology, but has anyone

Re: [9fans] QIC-80

2017-01-31 Thread Steve Simon
ahh, 1542. i remember upgrading the firmware in mine to fix reliability issues, UV box and eprom programmer at the ready. having said this, i did have to get up 6 hours before i went to bed... -Steve > On 31 Jan 2017, at 22:37, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > a qic-120 drive or better and the sy

Re: [9fans] Acme and Git

2017-02-15 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I am a sam user who uses subversion (via a substandard OS). when I do an update I always do 'X/./e' to re-read all files - bit of a sledgehammer but at least it stops me getting quite so angry at svn. -Steve

Re: [9fans] Update APE

2017-02-20 Thread Steve Simon
sadly there doesn't seem to be a way to add users to the labs sources server, unless somone knows different. I think the best thing would be to post diffs to this mailing list. I have some small changes to APE I have been meaning to post, nothing substantial mut enough to make porting some tools

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi plan9, keyboard not working.

2017-03-07 Thread Steve Simon
i use pi3s with richard miller's package and have had no keyboard or mouse issues. keyboards are so cheap now, try another? -steve > On 7 Mar 2017, at 06:09, Bakul Shah wrote: > >> On Tue, 07 Mar 2017 01:55:49 GMT kraftkl...@memeware.net wrote: >> Dear, >> >> I just put plan9 onto my raspi.

[9fans] diff side-by-side, an rc challange

2017-03-09 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I am having to dig through some data files comparing similar results, I really need a side-by-side compare. I believe adiff does this for acme, but I am not an acme-ista so I thought "How hand can it be?". I wrote the script below, but then I thought "I should be able to do this without temp

Re: [9fans] diff side-by-side, an rc challange

2017-03-09 Thread Steve Simon
Good grief, I never do stop learning I knew the name but I had never really understood what comm does. Perfect. Thanks Kurt. -Steve

Re: [9fans] DNS

2017-04-01 Thread Steve Simon
possibly. however it didn't take the plan9 community long to figure out what needed to be changed. Thus, by definition, it was not too obscure. -Steve > On 1 Apr 2017, at 10:46, Alexandru Gheorghe wrote: > > That's a weird name for CNAME traversing. Should've been (maybe more > appropriately)

Re: [9fans] 9front sources (9p importable)?

2017-04-01 Thread Steve Simon
just to add that these multiple mounts are a function of 9fronts 9fs command. see https://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/raw-file/39e9c78542d8/rc/bin/9fs -Steve > On 1 Apr 2017, at 10:00, Kurt H Maier wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 08:53:46AM +, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> is there a "

Re: [9fans] Pi3 with 2 nics

2017-04-15 Thread Steve Simon
could you explain this? what is 9snuf? -Steve > On 15 Apr 2017, at 00:06, Jules Merit > wrote: > > 9snuf faces of death just got updated > >> On Apr 14, 2017 3:39 PM, "Adriano Verardo" wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have a pi3 with normal and wifi eth interfaces under the same stack. >> Wifi addre

Re: [9fans] Pi3 with 2 nics

2017-04-18 Thread Steve Simon
Ah, Mr Shaney lives! > On 18 Apr 2017, at 05:37, Jules Merit > wrote: > > #cnn #facebook > Sister Myriam Godwin son > Kill -9 > > On Apr 15, 2017 9:06 AM, "Steve Simon" wrote: > > could you explain this? > what is 9snuf? > > -Ste

[9fans] TLS 2.x

2017-04-21 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I am running richard Miller's Raspberry pi kernel. I want to update my TLS so I can use modern https. I have lifted the /sys/src/libsec from 9front, built that and rebuilt my kernel to use it - devssl.c doesn't seem to have changed. Unfortunately I still have problems: hget https://

Re: [9fans] Postscript and troff

2017-05-02 Thread Steve Simon
If it's a diagram i would use the mpictures macros on plan9. if it is a group of pages, then i am at a loss, sorry. http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/6/mpictures -Steve > On 2 May 2017, at 09:59, Bruce Ellis wrote: > > Is using \X what I'm looking for, with -Tpost (default)? > > brucee > >> On

Re: [9fans] equality sign in Rc

2017-05-06 Thread Steve Simon
i would have expected this to work: cc '-DFOO=bar' file.c -Steve > On 6 May 2017, at 08:43, Sean Callanan wrote: > > I can't speak for dexen, but I would love to be able to run > > cc -DFOO=bar file.c > > or similar commands with button 2 in Acme. What I get instead is > > rc: line 2: tok

[9fans] (no subject)

2017-08-30 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I haven't looked for a while, but http://plan9.bell-labs.com has gone, and http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/ is broken - /usr/web/plan9/sources.html has disappeared from the web server. Is there anyone left at the labs who might be able to fix at least the web access to sources, it does loo

[9fans] git

2017-11-29 Thread Steve Simon
A few years ago there was some discussion about plan9 git clients. Is there any solution for using git from plan9, or do I have to use an inferior OS? -Steve

Re: [9fans] git

2017-11-29 Thread Steve Simon
>> wrote: >> David du Colombier (djc) has a rc script. I've used it to keep up with Go. >> >> http://9legacy.org/9legacy/tools/git >> >> driusan has written one in Go: >> >> https://github.com/driusan/dgit >> >> >>>

Re: [9fans] smtpd using 9front

2017-12-10 Thread Steve Simon
I am on the Labs distribution rather than 9front but I use plan9 as my mail server. > > 7.7.1 > For the smtpd.conf file the line would read: > ourdomains domain1.org, domain2.net, domain3.com > Yep > 7.7.2 > For the rewrie, the line would read: > (ttr|domain1.org|domain2.net|domain3.c

Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Simon
printarenas is a script - it walks through all your arenas at each offset. You could craft another script that remembers the last arena and offset you successfully transferred and only send those after that. I think there is a pattern where you can save the last arena,offset in the local fossil.

Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Simon
Interesting. how did you do the import? did you use vac -q and vac -d previous-score for each imported day to try and speed things up? Previously I imported stuff into venti by copying it into fossil first and then taking a snap. I always wanted a better solution, like being able to use vac and t

Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Simon
ts while > checkpointing to venti, or even better, starts a snapshot before it runs out > of space? > >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Steve Simon wrote: >> printarenas is a script - it walks through all your arenas at each offset. >> >> You could craft another

Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Simon
r sorry I meant /sys/src/cmd/venti/words/dumpvacroots of course.

Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Simon
Re: fossil Fossil must not fill up, however I would say that the dropoff was the lack of clear documentation stating this. Fossil has two modes of operation. As a stand alone filesystem, not really intented (I believe) as a production system, more as a replacement for kfs - for laptops or insta

Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Simon
The best solution (imho) for what you want to do is the feature I never added. It would be great if you could vac up your linux fs and then just cut and past the vac score into fossil's console with a command like this: main import -v 7478923893289ef928932a9888c98b2333 /active/usr/ole/linux the

[9fans] two ventis?

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Simon
Can a venti instance be configured to service to two seperate venti filesystems? They would need different names and different listner names but can they share a process / buffer cache? I guess the alternative is to run two seperate instances. -Steve

Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Simon
y > * for just one venti file, that itself contains the expected > * three directory entries. Sigh. > */ > VacFile* > _vacfileroot(VacFs *fs, VtFile *r) > > Ole-Hj > >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Steve Simon wrote: >> The best solution (imho) for what y

Re: [9fans] two ventis?

2017-12-12 Thread Steve Simon
tly speaking, isn't venti just content-addressable block storage, not a > file system? Anyway, I'm curious to know what you are going to use this for. > >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Steve Simon wrote: >> Can a venti instance be configured to service to two sepera

Re: [9fans] A potentially useful venti client

2017-12-13 Thread Steve Simon
I don't think there is any difference between vac and what fossil uses, just where it appears in the hierarchy (though maybe I am wrong). Fossil adds a fixed upper layer of hierarchy active dump snap

[9fans] drawterm on osx

2017-12-18 Thread Steve Simon
Anyone built drawterm on osx recently. On High Serria I get: screen.c:9:10: fatal error: 'QuickTime/QuickTime.h' file not found #include // for full screen Thanks, -Steve

Re: [9fans] Inferno on microcontrollers

2017-12-31 Thread Steve Simon
mmm, not sure i agree. i would be very happy to see a modern browser on plan9, though i would not want anyone to spend a lot of time supporting one. a few years ago cinap got opera and firefox to run as linux binaries under linuxemu. i spent some time tweaking that code to run more recent releas

Re: [9fans] Inferno on microcontrollers

2017-12-31 Thread Steve Simon
Russ had a set of diffs to kfs to make it an encrypted filesystem... -Steve

[9fans] (no subject)

2018-01-04 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I haven't tried for a few weeks but sources.cs.bell-labs.com has gone (from DNS), I don't know about the server behind it as I never kept a record of the IP address. has the labs server gone for good? (RIP). -Steve

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2018-01-04 Thread Steve Simon
I found the old addresses here: https://dnshistory.org plan9.bell-labs.com was 204.178.31.16 and sources.cs.bell-labs.com was 204.178.31.32 Both gone too, its not just DNS. I think it has fallen off its perch, it is are pine-ing for the fjords, it is an ex OS research group. -Steve

Re: [9fans] smtpd

2018-01-14 Thread Steve Simon
i still run a plan9 based mail server too, and have dome a lot to mitigate the amounts of spam and bots trying to brute force my email auth. i will post details later but plan9 sill does good service as a mail relay. -Steve > On 13 Jan 2018, at 23:30, G B wrote: > > Besides my mail receivin

[9fans] printer sharing

2018-01-15 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I am in a rather strange situation where I want to share a plan9 printer to windows. This much I have been able to do. The difficulty is the printer is on a different physical network (/net.alt) and the plan9 BSD LPR daemon runs as none, and so cannot bind/mount the filesystems to allow it

Re: [9fans] Why is the tcp/ip stack of plan9 implemented in kernel?

2018-01-27 Thread Steve Simon
in early versions of plan9 the tcp/ip stack in Streams, inherited (I assume) from V10. This turned out not to be as clean nor as efficent as hoped and this was dropped for a more traditional implementation in later releases. Maybe the bad experiences of poor performance informed the decision for

Re: [9fans] Is fossil/venti file system a good choice for SSD?

2018-02-03 Thread Steve Simon
i would say ssd is an excellent chiice for venti, the argument is less clear for fossil which us much more like a traditional filesystem. fossil and venti do not have the performance if a modern filesystem bur an ssd can make them fast enough for most use (i dont stream movies from my plan9 sys

Re: [9fans] Is fossil/venti file system a good choice for SSD?

2018-02-03 Thread Steve Simon
More the lidea of reading from the ssd first. The way fs(4) driver works is you order your drives with the first written at one end of the queue and first read at the other. I assume the read rate and rotational latency of an ssd should be better than hdd so I get the best performace. I should ad

Re: [9fans] RasPi why?

2018-02-04 Thread Steve Simon
i bought one (well, my employer bought me one) as a desktop machine. i don’t know where i could buy a headless pc or a used laptop for £30. i also have drivers for the hardware and an install process that takes 10 mins (copy the image to an sd card). they are not perfect, but a good comprise fo

Re: [9fans] software archaeology

2018-02-05 Thread Steve Simon
hi, i have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ed floppies, a bigger problem will be to find a floppy drive... i will try and generate some images. -Steve > On 5 Feb 2018, at 04:24, Benjamin Huntsman > wrote: > > Bizarre and random question, but anyone still have any of the original 3rd > Edition floppy

Re: [9fans] software archaeology

2018-02-11 Thread Steve Simon
x and will gladly send to you on my own dime without any > strings attached. > -joe > >> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 12:20 AM, Steve Simon wrote: >> hi, >> >> i have 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ed floppies, a bigger problem will be to find a >> floppy drive... &

Re: [9fans] software archaeology

2018-02-12 Thread Steve Simon

Re: [9fans] software archaeology

2018-02-12 Thread Steve Simon
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Re: [9fans] There is no fork

2018-02-12 Thread Steve Simon
rob’s sam editor for X11 circa 1993 was a revelation for me. beautifully written and trivial to port to a dozen different platforms. a salutatory lesson to all. autotools is horrid, though, fgb’s config script can often get foreign stuff to build. if you want to import code rather than just po

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