Re: Stepping down as webmaster...

2000-03-20 Thread Steffen Seeger
Steve Cheng wrote: > > As you probably noticed, I haven't been very responsive lately. I'm > really sorry, my school work and other non-GGI projects is just taking > a lot of time. So I should step down before anything bad happens. > > A new webmaster is of course needed. Hopefully somebody w

Re: introductory architecture questions ?

2000-03-20 Thread Steffen Seeger
Hi Jon, you wrote: > I am interested in security and microkernels, so GGI appeals to me because > I like the idea of small kernel modules that securely multiplex graphics. > However I have some concerns I was not able to answer from the online > documentation. > > Firstly, more architectural di

Re: introductory architecture questions ?

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Beck
> I'm sorry if this is the wrong list, but the other GGI lists seem to be > largely inactive. It's o.k. - it's a general architecture question, so the list at least isn't the wrong place :-). > I am interested in security and microkernels, so GGI appeals to me because > I like the idea of small

Re: LibXMI CVS is here + updates + issues

2000-03-20 Thread Andrew Apted
Jon M. Taylor writes: > Bugreports and patches are appreciated. Okidoke: demos/demo gives me a short line of three dashes on the screen, then it segfaults with the missing symbol as you said. xmitest segfaults immediately with a missing symbol. > The first and most important problem are

(very little) info on plan9

2000-03-20 Thread jont
Firstly, Plan 9 isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread*. Plan 9 has a number of clever ideas and an unpleasant license (blame the corporate lawyers). Some of the clever ideas are: - everything is a file, pushed this much further than Unix - per process name space, mount points are per pr

Re: LibXMI CVS is here + updates + issues

2000-03-20 Thread Rodolphe Ortalo
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andrew Apted wrote: > Jon M. Taylor writes: > > Bugreports and patches are appreciated. > > Okidoke: demos/demo gives me a short line of three dashes on the > screen, then it segfaults with the missing symbol as you said. > xmitest segfaults immediately with a missing symbo

Re: LibXMI CVS is here + updates + issues

2000-03-20 Thread Jon M. Taylor
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Rodolphe Ortalo wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andrew Apted wrote: > > Jon M. Taylor writes: > > > Bugreports and patches are appreciated. > > > > Okidoke: demos/demo gives me a short line of three dashes on the > > screen, then it segfaults with the missing symbol as you s

Re: LibXMI CVS is here + updates + issues

2000-03-20 Thread Jon M. Taylor
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andrew Apted wrote: > Jon M. Taylor writes: > > > Bugreports and patches are appreciated. > > Okidoke: demos/demo gives me a short line of three dashes on the > screen, then it segfaults with the missing symbol as you said. See my other post about using the newes

Re: Stepping down as webmaster...

2000-03-20 Thread clubneon
First, I'm sorry, I'm not able to step up as webmaster again, I know how much work it takes and I'm sure it more than I can fit around my job. Though I'll agree with the idea that SourceForge sound like a good idea. Don't they also allow you to use a registered domain named instead of/in additio

Re: LibXMI CVS is here + updates + issues

2000-03-20 Thread Rodolphe Ortalo
Hmmm... This is a followup to my own last mail... (sorry) In fact, I observe the same behavior as Andrew Apted - but after libxmi has been INSTALLED (w/ make install). Without the 'install' there is no segfault, but no pixels drawn. After the install, there are pixels, but also the segfault. R.

OpenAmulet bugs in 8bpp

2000-03-20 Thread Rodolphe Ortalo
I've just noticed that I have strange display problems with the OpenAmulet test programs when running in 8bpp. (CrossBlit behaves strangely it seems.) I usually run X in 16bpp so I did not notice earlier. I'm currently trying 32bpp... :-) ... it runs well also. Well, it seems these problems occu

Re: Stepping down as webmaster...

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Beck
> As you probably noticed, I haven't been very responsive lately. I'm > really sorry, my school work and other non-GGI projects is just taking > a lot of time. So I should step down before anything bad happens. I am a bit sad to hear this, as you did in deed a very good job on it. I'd like to

Re: Stepping down as webmaster...

2000-03-20 Thread Jon M. Taylor
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andreas Beck wrote: > > As you probably noticed, I haven't been very responsive lately. I'm > > really sorry, my school work and other non-GGI projects is just taking > > a lot of time. So I should step down before anything bad happens. > > I am a bit sad to hear this, as