Re: [9fans] Acme: fonts

2013-12-11 Thread sl
.font is welcome simply because the runes are large enough to distinguish on screen. Rob planned for the future. sl

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

2013-12-03 Thread sl
if you are reading this you are committing a crime This is a public mailing list. sl

Re: [9fans] semaphore testing help

2013-09-24 Thread sl
This is from a Thinkpad T43p: term% sysinfo | grep cpu0 cpu0: 1995MHz GenuineIntel P6 (cpuid: AX 0x06D8 CX 0x0180 DX 0xAFE9FBFF) term% 9fs sources post... term% /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/locktest/doalltests P6 1996 1 0.25u 0.82s 3.04r8.lpingpong 0.22u 2.37s 5.54r8.sempingpong

Re: [9fans] p9p export or equivalent

2013-08-01 Thread sl
Or ftpfs. Or, there is an sftpfs in contrib. sl

Re: [9fans] plan9 iso image cont.

2013-06-28 Thread sl
9front.iso - never gave me an option to run from cd or install, it just started launching itself. Several screens of info and it stop on this line: bootargs is (tcp, il, local!device)[local!dev/sdD0/data] _ blinking cursor, doa! Press enter. -sl

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread sl
all i see from you are pronouncements. show us your code. That's how this all started. -sl

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-05 Thread sl
is defending what. I'll stop attempting to moderate. -sl

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-05 Thread sl
is defending what. I'll stop attempting to moderate. -sl

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-03 Thread sl
with the Grand Canyon for hours, but when you walk off the cliff you're still going to plummet to the ground. http://img.stanleylieber.com/src/15358/img/1370274020.jpg -sl

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2013-06-03 Thread sl
with the Grand Canyon for hours, but when you walk off the cliff you're still going to plummet to the ground. http://img.stanleylieber.com/src/15358/img/1370274020.jpg -sl

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-03 Thread sl
No doubt, but you then do then *exactly* the same thing with cwfs. Certainly. And we're back at square one. Everyone has their own story about how they lost data. -sl

Re: [9fans] Go tip build fails

2013-05-01 Thread sl
troubleshooting First * STATE YOUR ASSUMPTIONS. * cat /etc/os-release to verify you are not, in fact, running Ubuntu Linux with a Plan 9 theme. * Try the latest ISO image. -sl

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on laptops/netbooks

2013-04-02 Thread sl
NeXtreme Gigabit (vid/did: 14e4/167b) -sl

[9fans] 9FRONT ANNOUNCES INTEL WIFI DRIVER, WPA/WPA2 SUPPORT

2013-04-01 Thread sl
. In addition, a new utility has been created to handle authentication and key exchange with WPA/WPA2 protected wireless networks: http://man.aiju.de/8/wpa As always, testing and trouble reports are appreciated. -sl

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ``propaganda server'' back on line

2013-03-29 Thread sl
NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9

2013-03-26 Thread sl
-sl

Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9

2013-03-26 Thread sl
but i really like mothra. It's so pure. You just gotta love it. The 9front guys did a really good job with it. To be clear: Tom Duff created mothra. We made some alterations. -sl

Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9

2013-03-25 Thread sl
And how do you manage to browser the web? 9front did some work on mothra. For trivial javascript I try charon (which was sufficient to configure my wifi router). As a last resort I VNC to another operating system. For the vast majority of what I do, mothra is sufficient. -sl

Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9

2013-03-25 Thread sl
and the observed progression of technology. -sl

Re: [9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-12 Thread sl
I can see a use for this in re-inserting broken mounts higher up in the proc tree. -sl

Re: [9fans] these are release of 9front?

2013-01-08 Thread sl
of helping to make Plan 9 better for everyone. So far as I know the only projects not sharing all their source code are semi-official ones. -sl

Re: [9fans] these are release of 9front?

2013-01-07 Thread sl
http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/ in these releases 9front there are customizations to the system or just added firmware and patches? It's a fork. -sl

Re: [9fans] plan9.iso

2013-01-01 Thread sl
I also tried the stormfront image which gave no problems. This seems unlikely. -sl

Re: [9fans] bell stuff off line ?

2012-10-31 Thread sl
I have an incomplete mirror of 9fans here: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/archive -sl

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi userland is now open

2012-10-24 Thread sl
From: Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org Sender: owner-m...@openbsd.org http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221 Well, they are lying to everyone. Their open source is nothing but a layer of code which calls into a closed source back-end.

Re: [9fans] Uriel

2012-10-17 Thread sl
Does anyone know what happened? After suffering for some time, Uriel took his own life. -sl

Re: [9fans] rc's shortcomings (new subject line)

2012-08-30 Thread sl
anyway, a meld of Rc shell and mk? crazy idea. What was mash? -sl

Re: [9fans] dejavu sans

2012-06-14 Thread sl
Primarily DVI, but also observed with VGA. LCD screens, in all cases. -sl

Re: [9fans] dejavu sans

2012-06-11 Thread sl
Vera (I think from your contrib) works very well for me, I find that it looks good and has good enough coverage for all my uses. I loved vera until I switched from drawterm to native. Lately, lucidasans is very comfortable. -sl

Re: [9fans] dejavu sans

2012-06-11 Thread sl
I loved vera until I switched from drawterm to native. Lately, lucidasans is very comfortable. why would native make a difference? In native, I no longer benefit from X11's rendering. Here, blurry fonts look blurry. -sl

Re: [9fans] dejavu sans

2012-06-11 Thread sl
sees. Note: I don't really understand the way graphics are put on screen in either operating system. -sl

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

2012-05-30 Thread sl
I'd leave it alone. This. -sl

Re: [9fans] Lucient Ornico PC24E-H-FC-WIFI

2012-05-17 Thread sl
station=x61 irq=11 -sl

Re: [9fans] Lucient Ornico PC24E-H-FC-WIFI

2012-05-17 Thread sl
subtly different hardware on the inside. Who knows? One good way to know would be to look at the PCI device IDs. True, and now that I've taken possession of the IBM card I can check these things. -sl

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-17 Thread sl
Is it possible to copy/paste in mothra? No. But it does have moth mode. -sl

Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience

2012-05-16 Thread sl
=vesa vgasize=1280x800x32 *msi=1 user=sl *mp=400 *mp0=00 00 14 03 fb 06 00 00 ff fb eb bf 00 00 00 00 *mp1=00 00 00 00 00 01 14 01 fb 06 00 00 ff fb eb bf *mp2=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 50 43 49 20 20 20 *mp3=01 03 50 43 49 20 20 20 01 15 50 43 49 20 20 20 *mp4=01 16 49 53 41 20 20 20 02 02

Re: [9fans] rc behavior with rfork

2012-05-16 Thread sl
hi test term% wc -l /env/hi 0 /env/hi -sl

Re: [9fans] rc behavior with rfork

2012-05-16 Thread sl
The confusing part to me is why [2] or [3] or [4] (and so on) captures the stdout of the @{} block. -sl

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-16 Thread sl
I think this conversation has successfully hinted that a benign dictator would eventually be compelled to adopt more ruthless measures. See /lib/theo. -sl

Re: [9fans] non existent feature

2012-05-15 Thread sl
i wonder why such an (important) non-existing feature is falsely advertised We've moved on now to a more modern approach. -sl

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-15 Thread sl
In my experience nupas was definitely nicer to use with gmail. With the old upas, loading the inbox over a slow connection would sometimes take several minutes. With nupas, it usually took only a few seconds. -sl

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread sl
P.S. The Popular Front is not affiliated with 9 People's Front (9front -- which by-the-way is less than 9 people). Splitters! -sl

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-15 Thread sl
the *mp=400 line should be on the top right before *mp0= ... sorry about that. (9boot quirk :-)) Works on my T61. -sl

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-14 Thread sl
EthanG will be disciplined. -sl

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-14 Thread sl
On the Thinkpad T61, the hard drive is sometimes not detected on the first attempt. After thirty seconds or so it usually succeeds and boots as normal. -sl

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-14 Thread sl
simply observing what happens when I try to boot the machine. IIRC there was no such trouble when running in legacy IDE mode. -sl

Re: [9fans] 'no fat' - boot failure

2012-05-14 Thread sl
happen to know which iso you used for the installation? -sl

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-14 Thread sl
tools. -sl

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-09 Thread sl
100 speed 44100 delay 882 --- -sl

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-09 Thread sl
works, but exhibits abysmal performance. Other WaveLAN PCMCIA cards I've tried have not worked at all. I'm not certain if this owes to incompatibility or faulty hardware. It's also possible that support for the specific PCMCIA controllers in my various laptops is buggy. -sl

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-09 Thread sl
What do you think the compatibility of getting an Actiontech 800MiP card and using it in an X60? ThinkWiki says the X60 is Mini PCI Express, not Mini PCI. Unfortunately, the cards are not compatible. You could try to acquire a WaveLAN PC24E-H-FC. -sl

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-09 Thread sl
Also, all I can find on ebay is the 802MiP which looks to be a wifi/modem combo. Any idea if this is compatible with the 800MiP? No idea. -sl

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-09 Thread sl
Another possibility for wifi would be something like the VAP11G wifi bridge dongle. These are small devices that bridge an Ethernet port to wifi. Note: I've never actually used one. -sl

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-09 Thread sl
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X61_Tablet -sl

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-09 Thread sl
ThinkWiki says the X60 is Mini PCI Express, not Mini PCI. mhm, isn't mini pci express the newer smaller slot? I have an X60 and it has the old large slot which I think is called PCMCIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_PCI#Mini_PCI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcmcia -sl

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread sl
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1QVUS-qAuuienlTMHdRYkFzSHM Could this be presented in a format accessible to Plan 9 users? -sl

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread sl
But thanks for your criticism. Next time, trying to be helpful would be nice. But how do Plan 9 users access this chart? -sl

Re: [9fans] Summary of acme chords

2012-04-25 Thread sl
But how do Plan 9 users access this chart? hget -o acme_chords.pdf 'https://doc-0o-3g-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/pub48giqvrap6he53h3mtl8q9g5nlvid/133536960/05011244667098227595/*/0B1QVUS-qAuuienlTMHdRYkFzSHM' Thank you. -sl

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse

2012-04-24 Thread sl
I believe sl wrote a program that lets you group windows onto function keys Specifically, taruti hacked rio to map certain windows to a tag (similar to dwm) by writing stings to /dev/wctl, then switch between the tags by hitting a function key, which brings all the windows in the given tag

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 keyboard and mouse

2012-04-24 Thread sl
sl wrote: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/tagfour.png Wow, I didn't know linuxemu got so good. Ah. I left this one out of my description: spread tag four vncv connected to a headless openbsd machine The available mroot for linuxemu is still based on Debian

Re: [9fans] inferno and ubuntu 11.10

2012-04-20 Thread sl
---BeginMessage--- I'm running Inferno (latest hg from the google code site) on machines running Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit), 11.04 (64-bit), and 11.10 (32-bit) (sounds crazy but I need various Linux versions to support crappy dev environments sensitive to this kind of stuff). I can share emus from

Re: [9fans] nix at lsub

2012-04-16 Thread sl
So what's this fork I'm hearing about? http://9front.org/img/nofork.png -sl

Re: [9fans] SSHv2

2012-04-02 Thread sl
, the key for the remote system is successfully saved in $home/lib/keyring. -sl

Re: [9fans] SSHv2

2012-04-02 Thread sl
After rebuilding nfactotum and starting it in a fresh window, I'm able to login to all of the previously tried remote hosts. -sl

Re: [9fans] SSHv2

2012-04-02 Thread sl
The client side logs will be in /sys/log/ssh This was not created on my system. -sl

Re: [9fans] SSHv2

2012-04-02 Thread sl
: 28080 1 1 0: ctl ssh2: dial: handshake failed -sl

Re: [9fans] SSHv2

2012-04-02 Thread sl
that I have a problem with nfactotum: term% auth/factotum -D -5- Tversion tag 65535 msize 8216 version '9P2000' -5- Rversion tag 65535 msize 8216 version '9P2000' -5- Tauth tag 42 afid 706 uname sl aname -5- Rerror tag 42 ename auth/factotum: authentication not required -5- Tattach tag 42 fid 706

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