[9fans] broken contrib source

nstall" in /sys/src/cmd after you put the source in there. Maybe there should be a contrib/verify script which goes through /sys/src and makes sure everything can still build normally? John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] nice quote

ics> > > ... and leave you wondering (or not). I won't. > Oh, yay, a Xah Lee quote, he's surely a trusted source on all things Lisp. Didja read his page about hiring a prostitute in Las Vegas? Or the one about how he lives in a car in the Bay Area because he's too crazy

Re: [9fans] lisp again.

I'll look today... [previous message and grotesque signature snipped] One challenge with SBCL and some other implementations is that you need a Common Lisp system already in place to compile them. I looked into Clisp, which can be compiled with a C compiler, but after fighting configure for a while

Re: [9fans] OMAP35 OSWALD

a little capital to start out; wonder if OSU would spin this out into something similar. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

ell with NO globbing, just to avoid another source of worries. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

that it is an unnecessary evil. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

e new utilities and shell and leave everything else as it is. Is it worth the effort? That's a question which can only be answered by the person who would be doing the work. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

original, concatenating, function of cat with this version? With "my" version I can type `cat -' or at worst `cat /dev/fd/0' to replicate the behaviour of "your" version. An idea more along the lines of your others would be that cat reads a list of files on stdin and conca

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

o reply to posts have read them, and perhaps even attempted to think about them. Some of you may remember when 9fans used to work like that. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

s in current UNIX/p9 seem to cater to simple interactive use at the expense both of scripts and of more complex interactive use. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

also a problem with identifying non-flag arguments. In foo -x bar is bar a non-flag argument or not? You really have to read the man page of foo to find out whether you are dealing with something like foo [-x user ] file ... or something more like for [-x] file ... -- J

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

didn't always fully understand what they were doing. There is nothing radical about suggesting that we try not to repeat their mistakes. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

not going to do this and that I think it would break too many things, including most of my own shell scripts. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] iwp9: getting from Atlanta to Athens

and will be arriving at the Atlanta airport at about 14:30 Tuesday. If anyone is showing up around that time and does not yet have a ride arranged, I can take a few people; email me off-list. If you have a GPS or a GPS-capable phone, all the better. John Floren -- "Object-oriented design i

Re: [9fans] rides

on the 20th, I can take 2 people besides maht, > so let me know. > > ron > > To re-iterate my note from the other day: I'll be in around 2:30 PM on the 20th (Tuesday), so if you're getting in before then and need a ride, let me know. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

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Anyone in yet? -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] Go

or "tissah-go" for that matter :) On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Eris Discordia wrote: >> arabic numeral 9 is very close: ۹ > > Puny pedantry: that's a(n) Hindi/Indic numeral. 9 is already an "Arabic > numeral." > > If playing on numerals is allowed why shouldn't they call it IXgo or even > Kyu

Re: [9fans] MIPS LSB compiler

first person to wonder when the Go ARM compiler will be available on Android... Interesting times indeed. John

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Have any of you run Plan 9 on a Dell Poweredge 1400? I'm looking for a new cpu/auth/file server for home, and I'm being offered a Poweredge 1400 for the cost of shipping and handling. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] Scanners

.  I don't even object > to having cifs as an option.  But when did it become popular > to say that ftp should not be an option for transferring a file? > > BLS > > > The basic little flatbed on the website can scan to FTP. I'm not sure why the original poster chose to menti

[9fans] plan9 on amd64 xen hypervisor and dom0

rect and 2; how difficult is it to fix? I'm really bummed i can't run plan9, as all of my hardware that could support it died off me. Thanks John

Re: [9fans] plan9 on amd64 xen hypervisor and dom0

Sorry, i forgot to add i used the pae version of everything, which got me this far, the normal versions of the xen9 kernel wouldn't boot on amd64 John Soros wrote on Saturday 05 December 2009 > Hello, > I've come around a nice hardware to do VM stuff on, so i installed a D

Re: [9fans] etherigbe.c using _xinc?

kernel on my terminal for the rest of the summer without trouble; while I didn't notice a blazing speed increase, it didn't slow me down either. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

not sure I understand the resistance to having a find command in plan9. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

> I just tested this and it worked fine. > du -a / | awk '{print "grep something " $2}' |/bin/rc > ron Try touch 'x;reboot' and then see if it still works fine. I don't think I like your version on a system with users I don't trust completel

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

> sneaky. but it won't work. > > ; touch 'x;reboot' > ; du -a . > 0 './x;reboot' > 0 . > > - erik It worked under 9vx on my Mac. I didn't test on real hardware. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

> this rebooted your 9vx? sounds wrong to me. It did, or rather it tried to. Of course, /bin/reboot doesn't work in 9vx. I tested it before I posted. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

e days all the servers run FreeBSD. Although I like plan9, I don't think it's likely to get installed on those servers any time soon. > ron -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

> > And if you like find, write and put it in contrib. > > contrib/pull quanstro/find > > - erik Thanks -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

at the labs. In the end, of course, it's not my call what goes in the base system. I can just express an opinion. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?

made for that reason, but it's something to consider. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Are we ready for DNSSEC ?

> By the end of May, all the root servers should be running DNSSEC > > http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/19/the-internet-is-about-to-get-a-lot-safer/ > > Is Plan9 ready for such a move? Reading what D. J. Bernstein has to say about DNSSEC is always fun. See e.g. this paper http://cr.yp.to/talks/200

Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?

to find my command again so I can fix it). John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

Plan 9 > was fully blessed by one of our advisors. As we grow we will continue > to do a lot to help the Plan 9 community, not to mention revolutionize > storage area networking. That's certainly good news. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] contrib/gui

> against far-away sources. > > ron > Definitely worth a shot. The speed is fantastic and the UI is just simple enough to be nice. Maybe a search function comes next? John

Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site?

ely at the Wiki, maybe creating some pages there and linking them all from a "For New Users" page. John On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Purple_Q wrote: > Greets all. I'll cut straight to the chase for those who don't like > reading long posts, else please bare with m

Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site?

heir newbie resources; if instead Purple_Q creates a "Newbie Resources" page on the wiki, everybody can link in their own stuff as well. I definitely like the idea of having more resources for new users, and if Purple_Q is willing to put in the time, that's excellent. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site?

ed which is not well documented, he makes notes and then describes how he did things and posts it. It would be nice to have something like that for plan9. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Netbook Install Help

ader explicitly where to find the root partition. Then you can boot, at least into single user mode, and change your /etc/fstab to match the new drive numbering. Exactly where in the boot sequence is FreeBSD freezing? -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Has Anyone compiled 9vx on snow leopard ?

I'm using 9vx without problems on Snow Leopard. I never tried compiling. I just copied over the binary when I upgraded from Leopard. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Check out my photos on Facebook

pecially because you don't need a Facebook account to view pictures hosted by Facebook. It is possible to right-click on the desired picture, copy the image URL to the clipboard, and then share that with anyone, no need for a Facebook account. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

ng a "category" file in the package? I'm reading "grouping" as the kind of divisions you get in Ports, i.e. net, editor, util, language, etc. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

for the 9phone. At 32 MB of RAM, it's basically the very lower limit of what we could use for a terminal. Does it have a touchscreen? I didn't see that listed. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

there's a lot of very cheap Android devices coming from China in the near future, so we may be in luck there. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

cell radio + battery, I think life would be nice. The OpenMoko platform is quite cheap, but I don't know that there's much future there; I can't find the reference now, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere on the site that they do not plan to design any more hardware. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Axel Belinfante wrote: > On Mar 17, 2010, at 20:13 , John Floren wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Jack Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Stuart Morrow > > wrote: > > However, there is one "smart"

Re: [9fans] p9p's rio: moving windows across virtual screens

does > not seem to handle virtual screens. > > Thank you in advance, > Lorenzo. Hide the window, change to the workspace you want, then un-hide it. John -- "Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing" -- Rob Pike

Re: [9fans] native install

or an entire Plan 9 compatible machine, or see if anybody else is still using component X. John

Re: [9fans] how about intel D510MO

k. However since the Atom doesn't support ECC RAM (for that matter neither does the mighty Core i7) I'm somewhat cautious about trusting it as an always on file server without additional checksums in software. Pretty much all AMD chips support ECC RAM, although of course mobo/BIOS support is a different matter. John

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Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

I have not explored yet are 1) running a local build and binding $home from the vps or using the vps as a cpu server. -- john weaver -- jwea...@ehzed.com On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Chris McGee wrote: It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The bandwidth requirement is proba

Re: [9fans] 9pfuse adventure

urces with p9p: $ 9fs sources $ 9 mount `namespace`/sources /tmp/sources then ls in a directory in /tmp/sources works, but when i try to copy, attached is the output. I'm open to testing whatever fixes you might suggest. regs John On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:40:27 +0900 sqweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [9fans] DNS server domain

When I used my plan9 server as dns server, it was also my dhcp server, which is quite handy. it communicates some info to the dhcp clents, for example the default search domain, which, in my understanding does just what you want. It firsq querys the dns server for the domain, then tries to prefi

Re: [9fans] DNS server domain

Ah great! add one to lunix quirks, shouldn't it be the system that resolves names? This is pretty weird :-) Cheers! Johnny On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:21:41 +0100 Matthias Teege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I used my plan9 server as dns server, it was also my dhcp server, > > which is quite h

Re: [9fans] bug in echo?

standard output, followed by newline. If -n > is given, no new line is added. > BUGS > To print -n and a newline, use > echo -n ' > ' > A substandard re-writing of the existing echo(1) man page is your ultimate echo? Also, echo

Re: [9fans] hot or not

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > by the way you can give it negative integers > > "By Unix admins, for Unix admins." > In the grand tradition of Unix tools doing exactly what you tell them: > > http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=ugu.hotnot&HN=1113&RT=11e100

Re: [9fans] FTQ benchmark available

of thing. They don't care about word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers, any of the stuff Joe Windowsuser will bitch about; what they really want is fast execution of parallel programs... and probably FORTRAN 77. John -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Re: [9fans] standalone authserver on CF card

der to find. If you need a 5501 you might want to wait for the next BIOS upgrade. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] telnet vs. godaddy whois

> > read the section of the rfc i mentioned earlier. it probably ought to > > probe > > only after a retransmission timeout period > > i believe bsd-based tcp stacks also send 1-byte zero-window probes > but use a persist timer that starts at approx. 5 seconds (*) That's the behaviour that'

[9fans] Timezone file for Riyadh, KSA

one together for me, or (better still) 2) Explain to me the format of the file. Also, are there any other plan 9 users in Saudi? :) Thanks, John Waters, no relation to the director.

Re: [9fans] Timezone file for Riyadh, KSA

gt; AST 10800 AST 10800 > > should do. (C.f. Arizona.) > > > --- Den mån 2008-04-21 skrev John Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Från: John Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Ämne: [9fans] Timezone file for Riyadh, KSA > > Till: 9fans@9fans.net >

Re: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers!

I always thought that rio would look spectacular on an Apollo DN3500... On 4/23/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 24, 7:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Come on, folks, PPC Apple was around for how many years, and the > > only port effort I know of was a university proj

Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

#x27;s a double-edged sword and on balance it's still a big plus. John

Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

> I first saw it in a language in 1978 called Offal, by Aron Insinga. Well with a name like Offal at least he wasn't setting expectations too high...

Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:54 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:41 PM, John Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I first saw it in a language in 1978 called Offal, by Aron Insinga. > > > > Well with a name like Offal at

Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

rect access to registers. Anathema to the Plan 9 philosophy I suppose but given that clock speeds seem to have hit a wall it's one way to wring out more speed. To be fair he seems to intend it to be used only for number crunching inner loops rather than as a general purpose language. John

Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

ate worse assembly in this (common) case. > Finally, there will be two modes: hosted and standalone. The > standalone keyword changes this. Hosted mode can access print to > stdout and stderr, read from stdin, new, renew (like realloc), delete, > and a string type. I don&#x

Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9

Just out of curiosity, why did alef die, or are some of you still using it? -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] Acme and unicode

t is very helpful to know. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] stub function generator

ch > parses C and spits out somthing like this: > > func#a|int a#b|char *b > syspipe#fd|int fd[2] > sysnotify#func|void (*func)(void*, char*) > > I understand knowledge of types is harder but if I use just basic types > this sounds doable to me. Before I writ

Re: [9fans] Laptop advice

till using systems built on Mahmoud's vmware image (for which I am indeed grateful). I would very much like to do clean installs on vmware, especially since I am evangelizing plan9 as much as possible here in Saudi and using it to teach my trainees about operating systems. John On Tue, Jun 10,

[9fans] p9p vbackup on linux

get address for udp!127.0.0.1!2049 $ vmount localhost /mnt/dump mount: mount to NFS server 'localhost' failed: RPC Error: Program unavailable. If anyone has had more luck with this, a little help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks John

Re: [9fans] space glenda - in acrylic

I would like to see a plain white and otherwise unadorned T-shirt with the upper-left corner of an Acme window on the front. I often describe Plan9 (and its fuzzy little mascot) as having an "audi like" aesthetic. While I admit that the painting is cute I prefer the original in soft pencil on paper

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

What can we expect an OctoVX32 distribution? ;) On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Octopus sessions persist by definition as long as you do not > reboot your central PC. All other machines are used to run viewers, but > the layout is preserved by

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

the time I had to install and administer systems myself I already knew a lot. With plan9 you have to learn to be a user and administrator at the same time. That's one reason I would be very reluctant to recommend trying plan9 to most people I know. I'm afraid there's not muc

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

hey've thought up > > If Plan 9 is really an OS only for people of types (5) and (6), and some of > (2), well then my statement is true that "Plan 9 is a 'niche' OS." No one > should wonder why it isn't more widely used or even remembered in less > &

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

Not to mention quoting ESR is not going to win you any friends anywhere, except for ESR's house... jcw On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:01 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, Eris, it is quite possible that you're right. It is also > possible that you never quite got it. > > Or both are p

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

I have always felt guilty about wanting Common LISP on Plan 9; but I am not entirely sure why. John On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:35 PM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>The question is what new function Plan 9, as an OS, defines for >> the end user. >&g

Re: [9fans] sad commentary

He's clearly some ESR clone that's trying to get his "hip right wing guy" polemic on. Move aside, John Malkovich, there's a new a**hole on the map. =) Its obvious to me now that Linux is a victim of its own popularity and development model. I have always preferred BSD&

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Some time ago I was a pen-tester for a govt contractor. After a few months into my then new career I found myself constantly terrified of the state of affairs of our infrastructure. That was 13 years ago, I honestly hope that things have improved. I tell myself that they have just to not hole myse

[9fans] mounts of 9p filesystems under linux

ding on to (even after a kill of the mount)? Thanks, John

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

ently speedy to stifle my desire to build a fast system. John On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:49 PM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In the Linux world kvlade looks the way to go for performance but it >> didn't work on AMD64 when I tried it. I guess the Coraid boxes make

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

Hi Mr Forsyth, I tried to respond to your directly, but the mail bounced. Here in Saudi Arabia tinyurl is blocked (by the govt). Is it possible that you (or someone else) can expand the URL for me and send it to me off-list? Thanks John Waters, No relation to the director On Wed, Jul 16, 2008

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could always import /net from a 9grid node in a (more) free > country ;) (Maybe SA should start filtering 9P connections ;) > > Peace > > uriel > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:13 PM, John Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

Re: [9fans] ilock error/kernel panic (Plan9 hates SciAm)

Thanks Russ, I'll try this once I am out of the office (gmt +3 here, what are you doing up?? :) ) and write back int the problem persists. The build that I used is probably 2 weeks old. John On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think thi

Re: [9fans] lguest port broken due to some change in last 6 months; any ideas?

uest ports but this one takes the cake. > > oh yeah I have fixed the port with the new bits in memory.c, l.s, etc. > for handling 8 MB of initial mappings. > > ron > Thanks, John

Re: [9fans] lguest port broken due to some change in last 6 months; any ideas?

recipe to make 'il.8' in directory /usr/johnny/src/lguest/src/lguest25 So i guess i am doing something wrong? Thanks John On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:16:13 -0700 "ron minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > note that you really need to run latest now, e.g. 2.6.25 with the > newest lguest port. > > ron >

Re: [9fans] 2nd Edition

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:58 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mean like this? > Low cost 200MHz ARM single board computer, LAN, USB, UARTs, D-IO, A/D, > D/A, from $65. > >* 200MHz ARM 9 processor 100MHz system bus. 32-64MB SDRAM,4-32MB FLASH >* 10/100 baseT Ethernet >*

[9fans] Porting Plan 9 to the TI Beagle Board

current Plan 9 ARM compiler be up to the task? John

Re: [9fans] Porting Plan 9 to the TI Beagle Board

> Is this not the basis of http://openpandora.org 's devices? The core chips seem to be the same, but otherwise they're separate projects AFAIK. Back in the PC world, a motherboard w/ Intel's Atom chip can be had for $80: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121342. Amazing h

Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor

Small correction, it is actually " ال سلام " , or "As-Salaam" (the L in AL elides with "shams" letters). It would also be inappropriate for you to receive such a greeting, which is a du'a reserved for muslims only. Since you are using the name "Eris, is the name of a "deity", it is safe to assume y

Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor

a" (= "نکره", > "unknown"). When "Salam" has the definite article "Al" it is considered > "Ma'rafa" and therefore receives the "damma" but when it is used without > that article it is "Nakara" and receives the "

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

method only works for static networking, also you will need to install the iproute2 utilities. These command also assume the your net is 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0, change that to whatever suits you. Cheers, John > > better. More I do not recall and the machine is not nearby ... &g

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

cpu% mkdir src/port cpu% rc bin/rc/lguest cpu% mk 'conf=lguestcpu' . 8c -FTVw lgkbd.c ../port/portdat.h:536 dat.h:130 lgkbd.c:4 syntax error, last name: Tval mk: 8c -FTVw lgkbd.c : exit status=rc 887: 8c 889: error Any help would be appreciated, this timesync problem is causing me qui

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

ce of itself. > > Would it hurt you to run without timesync? will try, thanks :-) > > ++L > > John

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

Hello. For one timesync couldn't write to the rtc, so I commented out the lines in cpurc. Well, here timesync is not the problem, time is reported incorrectly, and I do not really know how to set it. I tried echoing unix time into '#r' and /dev/rtc, with no luck: $sysname# ls -l /dev/rtc --rw-rw

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

Ok, still, it would be great to know how to set the time, as my time is way off (by more than 4 hours). Best++ John On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:44:39 -0700 "ron minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:http://www.unixtimestamp.com/ > I just realized that even one timesync is too much. Y

[9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

ion on Linux as well as "fresh" installs from iso images downloaded as recently as two weeks ago. I have not seen this problem with VMWare workstation. 1) Has anyone else seen this behavior? 2) Is there any known fix for the problem? Thanks, John

Re: [9fans] mouse trouble in VMWare Fusion

Actually I used Plan9 on VMWare workstation for Linux for quite a while without too many problems. Then again all I was doing was working though Nemo's book. :) VMWare Fusion is definitely not yet ready for prime time, I have noticed some interoperability problems with other Guest OSes (FreeBSD) a

Re: [9fans] lguest on 2.6.25

Hi again, 9fans On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:28:42 -0500 "Alex Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:44 AM, John Soros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, still, it would be great to know how to set the time, as my time is way > > off (by mo

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