Hell, I wish I could figure out what I want!
I need to use Thunderbird as my mailer and that keeps reminding me how
liberating it was some long time back when I was able to move from
Mutt to Acme/Mail: the latter is so much less of a burden across so
many aspects. But today I'd have to change job
The thing is, a UI is a combination of far too many personal tastes
and habits and a GUI multi-dimensionally more so. It's like a marble
slab that needs a Michelangelo to turn it into an image.
We've had one Michelangelo and a Rodin and only a few Greek sculptors
in the past, what, three thousand
On 4/16/19, Marshall Conover wrote:
> [ ... ]
> As an aside, Lucio, I'd second Ethan in that it's probably worth taking a
> look; I'd be surprised if there was more actual code to change than there
> was just ramp-up time to understand what you need to change, and a
> one-or-two hour excursion
On 4/17/19, Michael Misch wrote:
> i tried to solve that problem on Linux, with a wm that tiled set-sized
> windows in a floating grid, but it was always very, very hacky. (For the
> curious, github.com/halfwit/hwwm)
>
A name (halfwit) worthy of the long-forgotten fortune database!
Lucio.
Thank you, Steve.
Lucio.
On 5/30/19, Steve Simon wrote:
> If anyone is interested I fixed a small bug in the xlsx parser that
> generated silly wide columns.
>
> the opc package (xlsx2txt and docx2txt) avaialble in
> http://www.quintile.net/doorstep/opc.tbz
>
> -Steve
&g
I see that error on the workstation side when the switch between the
server and my workstation falls over (power glitches do that). It gets
reported, understandably, when I try to run a task, so yes, I think in
your case your side is trying to use a connection that is no longer
active.
Netstat
move on. Let's just say there shouldn't be
any incentive to push something everyone can learn from to fail...
On 5/8/19, Ethan Gardener wrote:
> On Tue, May 7, 2019, at 5:17 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
>> Keep in mind where Minix-3
>> lurks, before you discount it...
>
> I didn't
On 4/26/19, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>
> It's here now: https://bellard.org/TinyGL/
>
> khm
>
Let me add this correction to that document, this is where my
curiosity found VReng:
http://www.vreng.enst.fr/
Thank you, Kurt.
Lucio.
>
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On 5/5/19, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> you can try to add the etherelnk3 line to the pc64 config and
> rebuild.
>
Done that, partially, jury is still out. But now I have a test bench
to try things out a little more reliably. Watch this space, I need a
bit of time...
> if you
On 5/7/19, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
>
> recently resurrected sshnet(4). yes, it supports listening connections
> now.
>
Thanks, Cinap, nice to hear all that. Did I mention that the rootdir
fix worked like a charm?
And I managed to migrate from 9ants64 to 9ants(32) without losing my
mind.
anyone have experience with
> this area or could point me to information that might help clarify it?
>
> My next step will probably be to figure out how libmemdraw does all of this
> on top of a frame buffer.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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ources?
I understand that developers for Plan 9 are few and far between, but
there must be low-hanging fruit out there, or am I also missing some
other really important factor?
On 5/3/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> actually i take that back, no thanks to skip, i meant dan!
>
>
On 5/3/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i think you mean the devdraw lempel-ziv compressed images. font images
> are just images really (on the memlayer below devdraw), and i also
> tried to understand the compression code (the first i ever looked at),
> but couldn't.
> they did recommend to
On 5/4/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> if they bother to believe in those gods they can also believe in our gods.
>
There's a problem with believing in any gods: once you do, you're
trapped. It took me fifty years, most of them as an atheist, to feel
certain that there is no afterlife.
I
a start.
>
> the boot process is nothing special. we have a bootloader that loads
> the kernel. the loader uses BIOS/EFI calls to get the kernel from the
> boot media so that it does not need drivers. once the kernel
> is taking over, it needs a driver.
>
> --
> cinap
>
&g
On 5/5/19, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
>
> you can try to add the etherelnk3 line to the pc64 config and
> rebuild.
>
I tried that, but I suspect there is more to it: no errors are
reported on compiling or booting, but the device is still not
identified.
Well, that's not entirely true. I
Well, I installed all of 9ants (thanks, microftiv), it proved
irresistible, but the Atheros 2414 ethernet adapter isn't supported
and, mysteriously, a 3com 509B isn't detected by the bootstrap
process. It is seen as a PCI device at run time...
And the main goal, really, was TLS/SSH, with quick
;> >
>> Let me add this correction to that document, this is where my
>> curiosity found VReng:
>>
>> http://www.vreng.enst.fr/
>>
>> Thank you, Kurt.
>>
>> Lucio.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> If I remember correctly, there
t; we missed pulling in?
>
>
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Oh! A pact with Tux is far better for instant gratification ;-).
On 5/5/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> that's not my problem lucio. my deal with glenda has been made and i
> am promised great low latency 9p fileservers in my afternamespaces.
>
>
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On 5/5/19, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
> type !rc at the bootargs prompt to get a shell, then run:
>
> grep '^02' '#$/pci/'*ctl
>
> which prints the pci information for all network cards. that
> should get us closer to why the probing code fails.
>
I've been using a handful of those adapters
On 4/21/19, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
> its documented in prep(8)
>
Thanks to you both, Kurt and specially Cinap. As I said, accessing
9front persistently remains on my wish list (no encouragement needed,
I just need to find the time to invest in some research).
It is good news that GPT
On 4/21/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> there's a whole operating system to play with, and all you are busy
> with is complaining that 9front doesn't have a grub theme.
>
Now, having vented my spleen and deleted it (twice, now), let me just
say: Really?!
Lucio.
On 4/21/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i like that 9front has no silly menu
>
And that says it all. De gustibus...
To me, that seems a lot like farting against thunder, but I have yet
to find a timeout/countdown that I can latch onto. But less than three
seconds means that any distraction
Occasionally something restores my faith in sanity: NetBSD has a
simple command line interface for partitioning drives according to the
new canon: GUID.
Now, I've been meaning to install a live(ly) version of 9front and
serve it from my 9legacy server and a few details have interfered with
my
On 4/22/19, Jens Staal wrote:
>
> speaking of backporting ape stuff : has anyone looked into Harvey's "apex"
> [1] for 9{atom,front,legacy}?
>
9^(atom front legacy)
I did not note anything that would put apex above any of those you
mention, do you have something in mind other than providing a
this is ugly:
>
> http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rio/img/20190415.png
>
> sl
>
>
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On 8/9/19, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> Thank you for everything that goes into 9fans' upkeep.
>
Let me add my own gratitude to Skip's. Not just to Russ, who clearly
does all the weight-lifting here, but everyone else that is keeping
9fans and thus everything-9 alive.
Honestly, I can't imagine what
On 8/20/19, raingloom wrote:
>> Board with K210 from Kendryte:
For the curious (and I'm going to bookmark this so I can show my
colleagues what happens when too much data is shipped to a browser,
mindlessly), there are what look like full-sized images reduced to
thumbnails that were still
On 9/15/19, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
> If you really need an inkjet (e.g. for colour), I would still
> recommend finding something that natively supports Postscript.
If I may add my own rage to this: am I the only person who objects to
a growing collection of empty inkjet (and laserjet)
On 8/7/19, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> I've not previously seen an architecture where so many cache and TLB
> control instructions were in the primary space and took up so much of it.
>
I guess the remainder is RISC :-).
Lucio.
On 7/25/19, Jens K. Loewe wrote:
> I tried using kbmap (which is not that easy without < and > on the
> keyboard), but the key still has no function for me. Weird, honestly. :-/
>
Legacy Plan 9, with /dev/kbmap device driver, uses F11 and F12 to
trigger monitoring keystrokes. Maybe that will
I have a version for legacy Plan 9, lightly tested, that I have not
looked at in ages.
Happy to haul it out, but I see little value in it. Go may have
idiosyncrasies, but it is much more suited to modern architectures.
That said, had Go not surfaced, I would have much preferred Alef to
many other
so are many
9front supporter. But that is just not enough.
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On 12/3/19, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
>> and nobody is building a
>> release with an "OFFICIAL" stamp on it
>
> What exactly would you want such a stamp to mean?
>
>
If I may hi-jack the question, I think one needs a starting point that
everyone can use as reference. What we have
On 12/3/19, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
>
> Unrelatedly, would there be interest in adding the `$split{cmd} syntax
> from 9atom to 9legacy? I think it's currently the only reason that
> git9 doesn't work out of the box there, and it's very nice syntax.
>
I'm quite obsessed with converging the
I'd like suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost
certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service).
Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always.
Ideally, storage is where the value will reside, the actual processor
could be expendable.
ARM would
likely to do it today?
PPS: I think it was Hiro that contrary to expectations sang the praise
of Richard's Raspberry PI developments and opened one more interesting
door for me. It is precisely these pearls (both Hiro's and Richard's)
that keep me a perhaps undeserving 9fan.
On 11/25/19, Lucio De
On 11/24/19, Ori Bernstein wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 08:34:32 +0200, Lucio De Re
> wrote:
>
>> We just got a mouthful from sl and you about the lack of explanation
>> for the state of the various plan 9 "distributions". It all smacks of
>> expecting Da
On 11/24/19, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>
> The other repos on that site are either user repos run by random people
> who asked me for access, or else various code I've collected around the
> internet and did not want to lose. Some of those repos came from Uriel
> and I never have figured out what they
On 11/23/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i'm not sure you got sl's philosophy here. of course he will deny i
> do, but here's my interpretation anyway: the public generally seems to
> frown upon technology. people don't even want products any more. all
> they need is a flashy name. a future
le on:
>
> http://9legacy.org/download.html
>
> There might be issues when bootstrapping from Go 1.4.
> Also, plan9/arm support started with Go 1.7.
>
> --
> David du Colombier
>
>
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On 10/11/19, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> there's also a plaintext version of this, adding 5 lines to every
> email. all this seems quite redundent if you ask me.
>
I can live with this...
Many thanks, Russ.
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finition. It's a poor
> replacement for a proper AoE shelf, but it has stable since I migrated
> my data in 2015. YMMV.
>
> http://9p.io/sources/contrib/stallion/venti/
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
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>> non-technical reasons.
>
> What are some of the technical reasons?
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And work under p9p. Me too! Plug in a proper X-based WM and I can get
some performance out of my rather dated equipment again.
Lucio.
On 1/24/20, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> The following is all hypothetical. I'm curious about how people
> think auth(2)/factotum(4) could be adapted to support
I made some changes to git9/proto.c that seem to handle
git/fetch git+ssh://g...@git.ff.co.za:23456/waspa/console.git
successfully. What is the procedure to submit such (small) changes for
inclusion?
(I also needed to add the port recognition code to 9front's
/sys/src/cmd/ssh.c to
On 2/2/20, k...@a-b.xyz wrote:
>> git/fetch git+ssh://g...@git.ff.co.za:23456/waspa/console.git
>
> The port can be specified natively through the dialstring technology:
>
> git/fetch git+ssh://git@net!git.ff.co.za!23456/waspa/console.git
>
> It may be useful to add support to git9 for
On 2/3/20, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> since plan9 is different we already have host!port, changing one
> program to host:port without changing all the others does not seem
> consistent to me.
>
I can't argue with that point, except that the ! notation had escaped
me altogether, whereas the
But Unix "scp" has a similar "flaw", except you are compelled to use
the -P (note the case inconsistency) option to provide a non-standard
port, so the leading slash would then pin the "/path" to "/". I guess
I need to brush up on the standards around URLs?
On 2/3/20, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> we have to decide every time when we interoperate inferior systems
> where to draw the border, how much we want to imitate and how much is
> better hidden when it doesn't fit.
> in this corner-case thankfully the decision is trivial.
> git is full of
On 2/3/20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
>
> Yes. git9 takes URLs. This is why I posted a link to the spec that we
> should follow. I will take patches that bring us in compliance with
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/urls.txt
>
I must have missed that the first time,
On 2/3/20, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
> this was a huge mistake. in plan9 we are lucky not to
> be affected by this too much and we can handle these
> things without much pain and without touching every
> program.
>
I am not challenging the lucky break Bell Labs got with the use of
On 2/3/20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
>
> ssh, like most plan 9 programs, supports net!host!port syntax.
> It making ssh gratuitously different is a bad idea.
>
I beg to differ. It is optionally and compatibly different and pretty
much something the SSH maintainers clearly also think should NOT
On 1/10/20, mycrof...@sphericalharmony.com
wrote:
[ ... ]
>
> - The Present Day, SHA1, community
>
[ ... ]
> [ ...] 2020 seems like a Year of Change and I'm hoping for
> positive change in the Plan 9 community. I'm particularly excited for
> the reincarnation of a real-life Plan 9
On 1/13/20, Steven Stallion wrote:
> All,
>
> I've added arm and 386 packages for go1.13.5 on 9p.io. I decided to
> package the entire GOROOT, so while the archive isn't particularly
> large, it will take some time to install due to the number of files
> contained within.
>
Thank you, Steven.
Let me make sure I'm not misrepresenting this: I have an external USB
drive configured as a Venti device, it is portable to a (small) number
of p9p hosts that have been configured to match its characteristics,
I'm not sure if I actually verified that Plan 9 Venti can also access
it.
I wouldn't
Thanks, mycroftiv.
No one could dream to add anything to such a kaleidoscopic, nay,
psychedelic word minestrone!
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On 4/5/20, Fazlul Shahriar wrote:
> There is a PR open with Plan 9 devdraw support to 9fans.net/go/draw:
> https://github.com/9fans/go/pull/28
> It at least works with the Go acme port Edwood last I tested.
>
There are fourteen open PRs and #28 needs #26 first. That would still
leave 12 for
On 4/2/20, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote:
> I am curious about the problems you have with your Linux Mint.
I presume this is in response to my own:
"Nice stuff, Steven. I found my small Linuxmint workstation not up to
the task, the worst symptom being that shutting venti down takes a
very long
On 4/4/20, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
>
> this breaks for ipv6 addresses. i'd suggest you at least check for ] first
> and then look for the colon. example: "[::1]:22".
>
Well spotted, thank you. I have so far had practically no experience
with IPv6, it hasn't quite sunk in. Seems easy
On 3/31/20, Sean Hinchee wrote:
> [ ... ]
> For now, as a stop-gap, I've made a GitHub organization in which I've
> consolidated most of what I had indexed from Bitbucket and a few other
> places.
>
> Thanks to people like Ori Bernstein, we have a native git client for
> plan9 [3]; without a
On 3/31/20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
>
> I think the lede got buried here, and people went of discussing git
> clients.
>
Entirely your fault: that's the thanks you get for doing such a good job.
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Kudos to you, Dave, in spades!
Could you please contact me off-list with a very brief summary of the
state of shiny for Plan 9 from your advantage point? It deserves a
full conference, but that isn't going to happen, is it?
Lucio.
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On 3/18/20, Steven Stallion wrote:
[ ...]
>
> I've had a lot of luck using venti from plan9port with fossil running
> natively on my plan9 fileserver. I keep a directory on sources (now
> 9p.io) with some notes and example scripts on how to make this work:
>
On 9/7/20, Lucio De Re wrote:
> On 9/6/20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I try not to be too verbose about new features landing in git9, but
>> I think these warrant some noise. Both git/compat and git/serve
>> have landed in the last few days.
>&
On 9/6/20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I try not to be too verbose about new features landing in git9, but
> I think these warrant some noise. Both git/compat and git/serve
> have landed in the last few days.
>
You've been doing great work, Ori, thanks and congratulations.
I'm keeping
It would take me a long time to get to grips with the Plan 9 DNS
server (believe me, I've tried) and somehow my situation is getting
more difficult as norms on the Internet are being bent by service
provider that care for their profitability much more than for
interoperation: I get regular
*** no longer on topic ***
On 10/8/20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
>> I'm curious as to why you would say that.
>
> Well, the section of the site that describes
> how to best operate a plan 9 dns server seems
> to have gone offline.
>
There's a difference between Wes making a tangential
On 10/8/20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
>> So the big question, before I commit to something I may not be
>> competent to fix: what is recommended by those in the know?
>
> You've written a lot of text here, but none of it describes
> what exactly is flaky. I'd recommend describing the flakiness
>
That is very sad indeed. The 9fans community has lost an irreplaceable member.
Lucio.
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a virtual city in Switzerland, which is famously neutral (hence
>> > Geneva as location for various international organisations, and indeed
>> > as a setting for several TV series)
>> >
>> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 11:23 PM > > <mailto:cigar562hfsp
On 7/11/20, Ethan Gardener wrote:
> #
> # because the public demands the name localsource
> #
> ip=127.0.0.1 sys=localhost dom=localhost
>
Yes, someone should submit a legacy patch just to correct the comment!
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> Жилкин Сергей
> With best regards
> Zhilkin Sergey
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I guessed my way around the p9p lib9p and libthread facilities and
squeezed some degree of p9p portability into a recent version of Ori's
git9.
It can be found, warts and all: github.com/lootch/git9
My aim was to operate across platforms on a single version of Git, one
with the Plan 9 philosophy
On 7/22/20, Russ Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 7:22 PM Anthony Martin wrote:
>
>> Russ, what did you do to that poor little Acme?! ☺
>>
>> Did you take the less daunting route using
>>
>> - a combined font file with shapes for normal, italic, bold, etc. and
>> - a filter to offset runes
t; Both have almost same functionality and speed etc.
> A page with JS (https://eonet.ne.jp) is almost same as that by JS enabled
> netsurf.
>
> How do you think?
>
> Kenji
>
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>
> I wrote up how it works here:
>
> https://orib.dev/githosting.html
>
> Thanks to everyone for all the testing, patches,
> and reports.
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On 11/27/20, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> one way it will help the bonzai tree grow is in that 9front can soon
> escape the old python, that constantly weighs on us just bec. we want
> to run hg sometimes.
>
I could not agree more.
What I believe is that Git has neither rhyme nor reason, it
On 12/6/20, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org
wrote:
> Lucio De Re writes:
>
>> But do we want a flock of 9front-wielding droids flooding the 9fans
>> mailing list?
>
> Good point. [ ... ] Maybe we should keep Plan 9 a secret. ;)
Well, that's one way of spreadi
On 12/6/20, Ethan Gardener wrote:
>
> I don't know the hypothesis, but very much agree different languages
> influence how you think and even feel.
>
You know, my most memorable and influential mentor was Daniel
Friedman. I'm not sure I have the spelling right and he's probably in
his seventies,
On 12/4/20, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "discipline" is a good keyword.
> it's not about the language IMO.\
> [ ... ]
I watched Uncle Tom, whoever he may be, dissing practically every
language under the sun with very little substance to what he was
presenting. Didn't convince me that he
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> The exact error is "Invalid address length 4 - must be 6 bytes". I tried a
> few others including 0.0.0.0 but none of them worked. Not specifying this
> argument however doesn't trigger any complaints.
>
> Perhaps it's time to peruse the man pages for ip! But I have to put
On 12/9/20, remyw...@cs.washington.edu wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
You're brave!
> And several details:
> 1. I had to hard-code the tap device name "tap5" because `ip tuntap ...`
> doesn't return the interface name.
> 2. I have no idea what 0.0.0.0 is, or where to pass it in. (tried `ip link
> set tap5
On 12/3/20, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org
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> cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org writes:
>
> [ ... ]
> It would require a little bit of coding, and a LOT of Tweeting, but if
> 9fans now have a Twitter account... creating a 9-demic is within the
> realm of possibility.
>
But do we want a
On 12/3/20, Bakul Shah wrote:
>
> Finally, I very much doubt he would have liked C!
>
I had an electrical engineering friend, back at university, who used
array subscripts in C because he couldn't get his head around
pointers. Like me, his migration was from Pascal to C.
I would prefer a
sting a link to the manuscript/transcript of the
> essay where he discusses this?
>
> Thanks,
> Mart
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On 11/12/20, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FYI, for those of you who are on twitter, I've set up the twitter handle
> @Plan9_OS to push news and announcements to the community. Please
> consider following it; and if you tweet about Plan 9 or related topics,
> please try to include this
On 10/21/20, Steve Simon wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I have had to renew my certificate for tls and am getting a strange error
> from imap4d
> when trying to collect email from my iphone.
>
> tls reports failed: factotum_rsa_open: no key matches proto=rsa
> service=tls role=client
>
> Which
You'll be amazed how quickly you get used to not having the Caps Lock
key causing you grief, as it then starts doing on every other
platform.
Except that Ctrl-A (well, Caps-Lock-A) then becomes a bit of a
nightmare. And the Insert key as Expand is not my favourite, either.
Erik Quanstrom long
On 1/25/21, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> I've just accepted an important pull request to it that I missed, until I
> looked at it in response to this, so you should do another pull to get
> that.
> Generally, though it has been reasonably stable for some time. Changes are
> often just to cope with
No the source code differences are pretty vast as well, although right
now I couldn't tell you what the main theme of the changes might be.
Lucio.
On 1/27/21, Ethan Gardener wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, at 5:10 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
>>
>> PS: The new executable seems noticea
On 6/24/21, un...@cpan.org wrote:
> Quoth Lucio De Re :
>> On 6/24/21, Romano wrote:
>> > [...] But I'm a nobody, so I'm probably not going to persuade
>> > anyone.
>> >
>> [ ... ]
>>
>> The sentiment implied in the sentence above is a bare
Eish! I really can't resist, can I?
On 6/24/21, Romano wrote:
> [...] But I'm a nobody, so I'm probably not going to persuade
> anyone.
>
Let me try and keep this short, but it won't be easy.
Firstly, this is not intended as an offence, particularly against
Romano, it is merely an alert
On 6/24/21, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> Inferno can work quite comfortably with a touchscreen and a virtual
> "bitsy" keyboard. It's a different user interface from rio, but not
> horribly worse. Likely Plan 9 could be adapted to do the same.
>
And handwriting may have been
On 2/10/21, Eli Cohen wrote:
> I noticed the patches from 9front to 9legacy are not well-maintained. I'm
> trying to figure out if this would be an appreciated exercise from someone
> (me) who doesn't know all that much and would learn from doing it, and if
> so, what are priorities for things to
On 2/10/21, Eli Cohen wrote:
>
> I'm not even sure where or how to start. dp9ik seems important if
> 9legacy doesn't already have something similar. that's probably both a
> bug fix and feature... and quite a task! but I would be interested in
> porting patches back to learn more
>
I guess you
On 2/11/21, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
> Quoth David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com>:
>> 9legacy patches are available as "unified diff" format and
>> are generated with "ape/diff -Nru".
>
> Alright, noted for the future.
>
Here's what I' ve been thinking about that may be worth sharing: I'd
On 2/11/21, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like
>> to think that there is "One plan 9" struggling to be born from these
>> variations.
>
> it there's any "One plan 9" it's clearly called golang. cause all
> added syscalls to any of the distributions came from there...
>
Well, I'd love to
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