Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-31 Thread Uriel
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Kurt H Maier kh...@intma.in wrote: Just for the record, nothing's changed: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:44:04PM +0200, Uriel wrote: Where did the Go team say explicitly they are not interested in a better build system? http://goo.gl/AtBrC A lot has changed

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-28 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Kurt H Maier kh...@intma.in wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 08:48:39PM +0530, Dan Cross wrote: So are you saying that because they use bash to build the system, the language is shitty? Or just the build system is shitty? I have other issues with Go as a

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-28 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Kurt H Maier kh...@intma.in wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 05:36:58PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: Sure, feel free to make something that isn't shitty, there's plenty out there that can be improved. The machinery to install Go (from sources) is hardly the most

Re: [9fans] 8c and elf shared libraries

2012-07-28 Thread Uriel
toolchain. Uriel Thinking it over, I'd rather use the regular Linux toolchain for the task. You can still write sensible C for gcc to compile, and I think you'll have a lot less work to do. Besides, it's the approach taken by p9p, inferno, and drawterm, it works well for them. If you're concerned

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox - Clone

2012-06-01 Thread Uriel
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:18 PM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: Some people would love warp-to-location for Undo/Redo, some I'm sure would hate it. Some people can't stand that up/down arrow keys scroll the page rather than move the cursor (I'm not one). Acme might benefit from a config

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread Uriel
, this is a quite nice visualization, but i would keep the left button in some shade of green on the paste, cut and copy pictures, to indicate you should hold it. In any case hope you are ok that I added it to http://acme.cat-v.org/mouse Thanks again. Uriel

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread Uriel
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 9:34 PM, andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote:  http://alltom.com/files/misc/chords.png a suggestion? http://i.imgur.com/hjFJa.png Ah, that is even better, I added a different green to the held button, and updated the version at: http://acme.cat-v.org/mouse

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-26 Thread Uriel
for a project called after an Ed Wood film. uriel

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Related Work

2011-11-24 Thread Uriel
This days probably your best chance is to work with Go (designed by some of the creators of Plan 9 now at Google), there are quite a few organizations using it already in production and some are hiring: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go uriel On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Jani

Re: [9fans] shaney turns 30!

2010-12-24 Thread Uriel
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Bruce Ellis bruce.el...@gmail.com wrote: uriel is shaney incarnate. Thanks for the compliment! ;) By the way, shaney has a new home: http://glenda.cat-v.org/friends/mark-v-shaney/ Enjoy! uriel

Re: [9fans] shaney turns 30!

2010-12-24 Thread Uriel
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Bruce Ellis bruce.el...@gmail.com wrote: uriel is shaney incarnate. throw me a snail address and shaney will send you a solstice card. A shaney solstice card sounds awesome! Uriel Mangado Bråvallavägen 12 182 66 Djursholm (SWEDEN) brucee On Fri, Dec 17

Re: [9fans] fOSSa

2010-10-26 Thread Uriel
that paid programmers not to program. Unlike with the CAP, this would provide an unquestionable net-social benefit to the world. uriel

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-10-26 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: I put some historic papers and distribution images (copyright permitting) on http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/steve/historic, and I believe uriel has more on http://www.cat-v.org All the historical papers I have

[9fans] A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ

2010-05-31 Thread Uriel
I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq Enjoy! uriel

Re: [9fans] Plan9 ezine

2010-02-16 Thread Uriel
for example). Anyone interested on being able to post articles to 9times just send me an email and I'll create a werc editor account you can use to post stuff. uriel cu -- --  Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http

[9fans] Plan9 ezine

2010-02-16 Thread Uriel
either signed or didn't contain personal pronouns. Good point, they used to include the name of the author, but I think I removed it a while ago because nobody else was posting, I should add it back, the information is still there (i think) just need to display it. uriel

Re: [9fans] SVN

2010-01-18 Thread Uriel
any version control system at all (or if you are lucky, kenfs, fossil, hg or git). uriel Has anyone ported SVN to plan9 (I only need the client side), or alternatively is anyone using linuxemu to run the Linux binary? After spending way too many years of misspent youth trying to get SVN working

Re: [9fans] IWP9 Acid Trips Video

2010-01-18 Thread Uriel
There are mirrors of the videos and other stuff at http://iwp9.cat-v.org but in this case I think the original recording is simply broken, sorry :( uriel On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: I finally got around to watching Russ' Acid talk

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

2009-10-06 Thread Uriel
move with the times, and adopt an XML format for command arguments which would be much more extensible and Web 2.0 compliant. That way all commands could share the same dynamically linked parser, and one could write scripts with their favorite XML-editor! uriel

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-17 Thread Uriel
http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/2009/09/07/0-mplayer9/ On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Anant Narayanan an...@kix.in wrote: On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:26 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: Good luck trying to get Plan 9 to play video! minooka; lc /sys/src/9/pc/*tv*.c devtv.c         vgatvp3020.c    

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-08 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:31 PM, David Leimbachleim...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I guess we'll see what happens. We all know what will happen: more and more layers of crud will be added. Just as Russ predicted: From: r...@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) Subject: Re: [9fans] design clairvoyance

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-07 Thread Uriel
is BS. Even one step further, even if we all agree blocks are BS, As I was reading this thread I kept hearing inside my head boyd's voice screaming this at frequent intervals: Blocks are bollocks! uriel moving more generally, that something can already be done using feature X had BETTER

Re: [9fans] Petabytes on a budget: JBODs + Linux + JFS

2009-09-07 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Eris Discordiaeris.discor...@gmail.com wrote: if you have quanstro/sd installed, sdorion(3) discusses how it controls the backplane lights. Um, I don't have that because I don't have any running Plan 9 instances, but I'll try finding it on the web (if it's been

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-06 Thread Uriel
, and grateful for my stupidity. uriel

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-06 Thread Uriel
a great job at making their developers keep track of as much Apple-induced crap as possible... uriel seen whole OSes for x86 written in assembly. It all depends on how much crap you want to keep track of. Dave - erik

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-06 Thread Uriel
software and programming division, they are making the GNU and Gnome crack monkeys look sane, competent and responsible. uriel  The advantage of the higher level languages that were designed with concurrency in the language, is that you don't feel like you're twiddling the bits manually so much

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-03 Thread Uriel
uriel

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread Uriel
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Devon H. O'Delldevon.od...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/2 Uriel urie...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Anant Narayananan...@kix.in wrote: Mac OS 10.6 introduced a new C compiler frontend (clang), which added support for blocks in C [1]. Blocks basically

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread Uriel
So libthread must be a figment of 9fan's imagination... Of course, for Apple (or anyone else) to learn from Plan 9 would be impossible, so instead they had to add a new 'feature' to C. uriel On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, David Leimbachleim...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone actually looked

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-02 Thread Uriel
with some cute 'feature' and then we will figure out how to hype ourselves all the way to hell. Peace uriel How much effort would it be to support a feature similar to blocks in 8c (and family)? What are your thoughts on the idea in general? -- Anant [1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread Uriel
anything about 9fat and plan9.ini so we could have a drop in replacement for 9load. And given that such a setup would have all the advantages you list here, plus would retain the advantages people enjoy from 9fat, it is hard to understand why doing something else is such a great idea. uriel

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread Uriel
) signature. if the 9pcload is on 9fat, not a problem anymore. Wonderful! Seems that everyone won the fight in the end. Perhaps fighting is not as useless as some make it? Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] iwp9 deadline extension

2009-08-28 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Don Baileydon.bai...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an IWP9 website for this year that provides information about dates and locations? Thanks, I try to keep http://iwp9.cat-v.org updated with information for every year. uriel D On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
Er, it doesn't need a new PBS, booting Plan 9 from a Plan 9 kernel already worked just fine with what russ did years ago. uriel On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:05 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, David Leimbachleim...@gmail.com wrote: I think there's work

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
Can it load and parse plan9.ini? uriel On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Iruata Souzairu.mu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Urielurie...@gmail.com wrote: Er, it doesn't need a new PBS, booting Plan 9 from a Plan 9 kernel already worked just fine with what russ did years

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
Because the whole point of the project was to replace 9load, and the way plan9 systems tell 9load what kernel to load is using plan9.ini On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:57 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Urielurie...@gmail.com wrote: Can it load and parse

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
(if I'm not mistaken) just fine in a backwards compatible fashion using russ' boot scheme. uriel

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
needed to fulfill russ original idea, so I'm happy because if I understood this correctly, it should be possible to put that together with russ loader and have a backwards compatible replacement for 9load. uriel

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread Uriel
accessible from other systems, etc.) uriel

Re: [9fans] inferno-list

2009-08-26 Thread Uriel
It is fine for some, it isn't for others. uriel On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michaelian Ennismichaelian.en...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:55 PM, hiro23h...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry for posting here, but I can't reach you inferno guys. I don't know whether it could

Re: [9fans] The first annual Hello, World challenge

2009-08-19 Thread Uriel
-lc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status What the Fuck?!?! What kind of lunix did that? uriel

Re: [9fans] sed oddity

2009-08-19 Thread Uriel
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:00 PM, roger pepperogpe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/18 Uriel urie...@gmail.com: Interesting, this reminds me of a question I had: is there any command that would read from stdin, and write to stdout, but if there was an error when writing to stdout it would ignore

Re: [9fans] sed oddity

2009-08-18 Thread Uriel
to keep werc's error logs clean of spurious noise. I guess based on what you said, that I might be able to use sed, but only until your complaint is fixed :) uriel On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:41 PM, hugo riverauai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is there some reason why sed doesn't check for write errors

Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC

2009-08-13 Thread Uriel
The software industry is the ultimate recreation of Sisyphus' curse. uriel On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Daniel Lyonsfus...@storytotell.org wrote: On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:56 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: if we're going back there, just take me out back and shoot me now. i want to remember some

Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC

2009-08-13 Thread Uriel
to be very complicated. uriel

Re: [9fans] manpages broken/outdated

2009-08-10 Thread Uriel
If it is of any consolation, it seems to be here: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/usbdisk uriel On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Bela Valekbval...@gmail.com wrote: I have checked it on 3 different installations, the 'usbdisk' manpage is missing, on fresh installations too. Its not a filesystem

Re: [9fans] 9base-3

2009-08-08 Thread Uriel
they are simply confused by whatever errors gnu tar spews for who knows what reason, but people that have no problems with other tarballs do have problems with the p9p tarballs, and it has been going on for a while. uriel On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Russ Coxr...@swtch.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009

Re: [9fans] 9base-3

2009-08-08 Thread Uriel
Perhaps a way to solve this problems and save you work and trouble would be to simply link to: http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/get/tip.gz and let mercurial do the job of building a tarball for the latest repo. uriel On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Urielurie...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't used

Re: [9fans] the old floppy set

2009-08-08 Thread Uriel
might find a set seccond hand (abebooks.com etc). The floppys are here: /n/sources/contrib/steve/historic/2nd-edition/pcdist/ I found a complete mirror of the old 2nd edition site and I think uriel has copied it to cat-v.org. You will need 16Mb to install and 8Mb to run a terminal though

Re: [9fans] linux reinvents factotum, secstore ...

2009-08-08 Thread Uriel
for any of it.  Anyone who thought CORBA was the answer didn't seem to understand the question. The problem with CORBA is that it doesn't use XML, fortunately DBUS fixes that. uriel

Re: [9fans] the old floppy set

2009-08-07 Thread Uriel
: /n/sources/contrib/steve/historic/2nd-edition/pcdist/ I found a complete mirror of the old 2nd edition site and I think uriel has copied it to cat-v.org. Yes, you can find a mirror of the 2nd ed site at http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/plan9.att.com/ And the floppy is available at http

Re: [9fans] Acme Configuration

2009-08-07 Thread Uriel
If all you want is to preserve the -a flag, add to your profile: ; fn a { acme -a; } Problem solved. uriel P.S.: Admitedly this doesn't fix up the plumber, but once you have an acme session the plumber will use it, and you can fix it up for the plumber equally simply. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009

Re: [9fans] 9base-3

2009-08-07 Thread Uriel
Always get p9p from hg, the tarballs have been partially broken for ages and always have problems being untared in some environments, hg is fast, painless, and makes it real easy to keep your installation up to date. uriel On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Jason Catenajason.cat...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [9fans] off topic: manual sets

2009-08-01 Thread Uriel
(http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc ). Fish also contributed some pages from section 1 of the Unix Writer's Workbench: http://man.cat-v.org/unix_WWB/1/ Thanks again to Fish for this wonderful contributions, and of course to the original authors of all this amazing material. Peace uriel P.S.: I'm

Re: [9fans] off topic: manual sets

2009-07-31 Thread Uriel
Slightly off topic (of this thread), but I'm looking for troff sources of 8th, 9th, 10th and Plan 9 1st Editions to complete the man page collections at http://man.cat-v.org If anyone knows where I can find copies of any of those, I would be most grateful. uriel On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM

Re: [9fans] Someone let the domain go

2009-07-29 Thread Uriel
It might be worth trying to get control back, I think you can do that for domain squatters that violate trademarks, as is clearly the case here. uriel On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, mahtmattmob...@proweb.co.uk wrote: Uriel wrote: Likely Google juice, there are still plenty of high-rank

Re: [9fans] Someone let the domain go

2009-07-28 Thread Uriel
there lying around the net. That and probably the amount of mistaken ad clicks are enough to cover their registration fees, so why would they let it go? uriel -- Forwarded message -- From: aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net To: 9f...@9fans.net Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:08:08 -0700

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-25 Thread Uriel
-only http 'tree'. uriel On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Steve Simonst...@quintile.net wrote: There are several places which have readonly versions of sources available via http, alternatively there is a socks client or even htfilefs, the former uses the SOCKS protocol to tunnel through

Re: [9fans] plan9port tools speed

2009-07-24 Thread Uriel
My bet is on file system performance. Where did the data come from? 9vx is also much faster, even if binaries are identical, because fossil is such a dog. uriel P.S.: In my experience with werc ( http://werc.cat-v.org ) statically linking p9p tools further increases performance considerably

Re: [9fans] Question about Plan9 project

2009-07-18 Thread Uriel
(other than computing your own diffs based on past snapshots). So you are on your own, you can take the code (while the site happens to be up, or from a mirror), do whatever you like with it, but that is all there is and all anyone can count on. uriel ; as such, you get at least the same baseline

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
rid my annoying comments, some Lisp-heads have been celebrating the demise of Erik Naggum...). Thanks uriel

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
their best to make Plan 9 and related technologies successful and keep them from dying in total irrelevancy? One of my many flaws is that my memory is very bad, so maybe I'm forgetting what you have done... uriel

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
their best to make Plan 9 and related technologies successful and keep them from dying in total irrelevancy? One of my many flaws is that my memory is very bad, so maybe I'm forgetting what you have done... uriel Disregard this, my memory does totally suck, and I just have been reminded by others

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
directly shunned and unwelcome). uriel

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com down

2009-07-17 Thread Uriel
a right(even a duty!) to complain, and complaints should be both welcome and heed if Plan 9 (or any project) is to be successful. Peace uriel P.S.: I got werc to work with a very simple 'magic' wrapper rc script (I'm sure russ' cgi.c is a much better solution though, but wanted something that would

Re: [9fans] building plan9port: arch spec, arm vs armv5tel

2009-07-15 Thread Uriel
What about using a public hg repo and letting others pick what changes they are interested in? uriel On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:03 AM, J.R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Russ Coxr...@swtch.com wrote: Should we put patches here, too? Yes.  I'd like plan9port

Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-11 Thread Uriel
With which ac97 driver? uriel On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM, sqweeksqw...@gmail.com wrote:  lies! we had ac97 working on the t23 at IWP-Bondi! -sqweek 2009/7/11  cinap_len...@gmx.de: usb audio... havnt tried it with ac97 on my t23 yet. -- cinap -- Forwarded message

Re: [9fans] v9fs question

2009-07-11 Thread Uriel
flags under a more consistent and clear interface. The ability to mount and unmount 9p file servers without being root is just a great extra. http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/ uriel P.S.: Oh, and I think debian even packages 9mount! On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:03 PM, J.R. Maurojrm8

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
interpretation is that they've rediscovered Ron's idea of borrowing a linux kernel as a minimal (sic) device driver layer to put a sensible OS on top of, and throwing everything else away. You can be sure we wont be so lucky. A huge amount of gnu/gnome guck is assured. uriel

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
. And sound if it's not usb.  And bluetooth so you can use your phone as a modem.  And so on. And C++ and Java and Flash and (C++ is assured, given that Chrome itself is all C++) uriel

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
'window manager' to keep compatibility with all the plugins, input methods, font management and other junk that X provides. I could be wrong, but I have not seen any evidence that could contradict any of this. uriel On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Richard Miller9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: You can

Re: [9fans] Google finally announces their lightweight OS

2009-07-08 Thread Uriel
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Devon H. O'Delldevon.od...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/8 Uriel urie...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Devon H. O'Delldevon.od...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think so. We already have IPv6 support and it's not that bad. Having more drivers and supported

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-02 Thread Uriel
Thanks for the info! I had been wondering about this for many years. And what of ^A and ^E? I have heard them being credited to Emacs, but people believes so many silly things this days... Peace uriel On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Rob Pikerobp...@gmail.com wrote: I believe ^H ^W ^U date

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

2009-07-02 Thread Uriel
The standard Unix mount command sucks (but then, so does v9fs, but that is another story), use sqweek's wonderful 9mount command that will make your life much less miserable in the dark world of Linux: http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/code/9mount/ Peace uriel On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:55 AM, lu

Re: [9fans] 9p on Yeeloong (gNewSense Linux)

2009-07-02 Thread Uriel
Er, that was meant to be the standard *Lunix* mount command. uriel On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Urielurie...@gmail.com wrote: The standard Unix mount command sucks (but then, so does v9fs, but that is another story), use sqweek's wonderful 9mount command that will make your life much less

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-01 Thread Uriel
be interested in hearing more details on the exact origins of ^H ^W and ^U. Now back to your usual 9fans schedule, enjoy your keyboard vs. mouse flame uriel P.S.: I even recently wrote a Google Chrome extension to implement the Unix text editing keyboard shortcuts in web pages, it works fairly

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-01 Thread Uriel
and your current page (often with all text) is lost. Oh, and note that unfortunately due to current limitations in the Chrome extensions API, this changes only apply to text fields in the page, not to the url bar :( uriel Russ

[9fans] Audio recordings from a couple of IWP9 talks.

2009-06-12 Thread Uriel
and workshop organizers. Enjoy uriel P.S.: I also have collected photos taken by various people at: http://iwp9.cat-v.org/2008/photos/ if you have photos that you would like added to collection just send them to me.

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Uriel
not welcome. If you expect people to contribute to Plan 9 on their copious spare time while they are being treated with this kind of contempt, good luck to you, you are going to need it. Thank you uriel On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:51 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:34

Re: [9fans] rc break

2009-05-11 Thread Uriel
Ah, very cool, break is one of the few things I have missed in rc some times. What do you think of adding return? I have wanted it a few times and Rob seems to think it makes sense to add it: http://9fans.net/archive/2003/03/44 Thanks! uriel On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:52 AM, erik quanstrom

[9fans] Manual pages and and old docs

2009-05-04 Thread Uriel
if they can email it to me or tell me where I could find it. The source for the app that displays the manual pages can be found as part of the standard werc distribution at http://werc.cat-v.org under apps/wman/, patches, bug reports and suggestions are very welcome too ;) Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-27 Thread Uriel
it doesn't seem to run there. It does run under any CGI environment, there are various ways to provide a CGI environment in Plan 9. uriel

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-20 Thread Uriel
We can't tell you who uses Plan 9, because it is a secret and they don't want anyone to learn about their secret competitive advantage. /sarcasm (But still sadly true.) uriel On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/18/2009 01:02 AM, Gorka Guardiola

Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years

2009-04-20 Thread Uriel
of the Internet -- e.g.  lack of speed and security -- service abstraction is the right level of distributedness. presenting the services as file hierarchy makes sense; 9p is efficient 9p is efficient as long as your latency is 30ms uriel and so the plan9 approach still feels like the right

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-18 Thread Uriel
paths. uriel On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:22 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Fri Apr 17 08:33:12 EDT 2009, urie...@gmail.com wrote: And then you would need some hideous SQL database. As ken said: we have persistent objects, they are called files; and that is what werc uses. i

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-18 Thread Uriel
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: Writing the core of a blog engine in three lines of rc is hard to beat, plus you get the benefit of being able to manipulate and manage all your data using the tools any self respecting Unix user loves. uriel well

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-18 Thread Uriel
of the real idea, which is quite neat and interesting. Sort of similar to the process of going from various (l)unixes to Plan 9. Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-18 Thread Uriel
howto, patches and docs welcome ;) Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-17 Thread Uriel
respecting Unix user loves. uriel

Re: [9fans] J9P/StyxLib

2009-04-01 Thread Uriel
agree with Alex that the best is Public Domain, or at least BSD/MIT/ISC-style license, which is as close as you can get to Public Domain while retaining copyright. Peace uriel On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM, J.R. Mauro jrm8...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 04:42:18PM -0400, J.R. Mauro

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-31 Thread Uriel
it is. Peace uriel

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-30 Thread Uriel
ends before it is finished? And in this case it would be another abandoned dead end. So far I see many people posing very substantive objections, and others saying 'it would be nice' uriel

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-27 Thread Uriel
is the one better tested, in better shape and a better starting point, but I'm mostly guessing. uriel

Re: [9fans] 9P writes for directories

2009-03-27 Thread Uriel
. uriel On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Roman Shaposhnik r...@sun.com wrote: On Mar 26, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: I have thought about that too, but became convinced that POST is more like create (or more like write on a subdirectory -- hence the original question

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Uriel
of an Octopus port. Porting drawterm is a dead end with very little potential of either learning anything interesting or being useful in the future. uriel On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Federico G. Benavento benave...@gmail.com wrote: My personal belief is that this is a really bad

Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Uriel
A 9vx, p9p or inferno cocoa port is a project that seems fairly reasonable and I think everyone (even those that don't use Macs) can agree on (and then if somebody wants they can port it to the other draw users). uriel On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:50 PM, andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.com

Re: [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort

2009-03-20 Thread Uriel
contributions. uriel

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-18 Thread Uriel
wonder, would it be excessive to double the current limit? While 8k is quite ample, 16k would be even more so :) Thanks everyone for all the ideas and suggestions uriel On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:25 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Tue Mar 17 20:29:50 EDT 2009, urie...@gmail.com

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread Uriel
Thanks Geoff for the prompt explanation, but I'm getting the same results with ifs=() Not sure why, but I'm not sure I understand the difference between setting ifs to '' and (). Thanks again uriel On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:40 AM, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: Setting ifs='' defeats rc's

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-17 Thread Uriel
this small change would be worth consideration. I will give it a try when I get a chance, but if it fixes the lost chars, I'll be happy. Thanks! uriel ; diffy -c havefork.c /n/dump/2009/0317/sys/src/cmd/rc/havefork.c:74,80 - havefork.c:74,80  Xbackq(void)  {        char wd[8193

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