Hi, Just a quick note that I've finally got Plan 9 to load without a lot of hassle (eg some temporary DOS partition w/ a image). It now sees the CD on install. So, I'm ready to do the demo next Thu. We are hot and online people, finally ;)
After that I'll put my energy into getting the Auth functionality working. At that point we'll bring the 9P file server online (ie roswell.ssz.com). It will be 80G. After that I'll get igor (ie general purpose anonymizing remailer under Plan 9) working so we can move all the mailing lists and such over (that's going to take a little longer). In the interim I'll get a irc server and webpage going on saucer. I should have much ready in the next 2-3 weeks. At that point I'll be in a position to start managing keys for other sites w/ respect to namespace/resource access. We need somebody who can do graphics, for the webpage. All work would be contributed in some sort of Open Source license (which we'll have to work out). We need machines with dedicated and reasonably high speed (>= 128kb ISDN) connections. Process serves are probably needed first. I'd suggest that anyone interested create their own public (and private) namespace and then we can transitively mount it through any of them. It would also be nice if anyone has the resources if we could keep a 'lazy update' going so nobody would lose anything in the namespace (at least that stuff that is reasonable to back up). Several archive sites would be even sweeter. With respect to the number of connections per node, we're trying to make this a 'small worlds' network architecture. That means that each node should have ln(n) connections (this is backbone connections as compared to users accessing via a server. Each pair of nodes on a connection should act to minimize common connections. Regarding the irc server we'll have the following channels: #plan9 #inferno #hangar18 #cypherpunks #open-science #cliology We can make other channels on request, provided they seem 'reasonable'...;) If you're receiving this it means that you're on a mailing list which is set to be moved in the near future to a Plan 9 based server. If you're intrested in Plan 9 then please visit: http://plan9.bell-labs.com http://open-forge.org ps If there are any musicians out there, I'm interested in having a demo where muscians pipe their data via Plan 9 servers from distant sites where they each share the n-1 hardware feeds in parallel from the other sites.....this means that any listener would mount the outgoing feeds under /dev/* and then dump them to their local sound card. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------
