Re: [9fans] i'm afraid we've had it wrong

2013-10-04 Thread Gabriel Diaz
still is a pity that all that great work is not more widely used.

gabi




 De: Rob Pike robp...@gmail.com
Para: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs 9fans@9fans.net 
Enviado: Domingo 29 de septiembre de 2013 19:39
Asunto: Re: [9fans] i'm afraid we've had it wrong
 

He appears not to understand the concept of research.

-rob



On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote:
 it's good to know where we went wrong.

 On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:55 PM, andrey mirtchovski
 mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote:
 after all these years:

 http://www.di.unipi.it/~nids/docs/the_plan-9_effect.html



Re: [9fans] Acme real estate on 15 macbook pro?

2013-10-04 Thread James A. Robinson
Thank you everyone, it's great to read that there are
folks who are pretty happy with acme in either resolution
on that size laptop.


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Enrique Soriano esori...@lsub.org wrote:

 I use Acme with three columns (fullscreen) and the default fonts on my
 Macbook Pro 15 retina with the maximum scaled resolution (looks
 like 1920x1200). IMHO it's perfect.

 Regards.
 q

 On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Steven Stallion sstall...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:02 AM, marius a. eriksen mar...@monkey.org
 wrote:
  I use a 13” rMBP at the highest resolution setting. I run acme with 3
 columns (though the leftmost column is a shrunk column that’s really only
 useful for directory browsing).
 
  The only annoyance is that I regularly connect to an external display,
 which requires me to restart acme. Instead of messing with -f, -F flags, I
 make dumps (which store font settings). I restart acme with
 
  acme -l lodpi.dump
  acme -l hidpi.dump
 
  depending on where I am.
 
  I do something similar myself:
 
  % whatis D
  fn D { acme -l $home/lib/acme/$* }
 
  As far as screen real-estate goes I have a similar function which sets
  up a base set of windows in rio:
 
  % whatis W
  fn W { . $home/lib/rio/$* }
 
  lib/rio contains files created via wloc. These are really small
  things, but speeds login considerably on my laptop, especially since I
  use a couple of different monitors with different resolutions.
 
  (I've also dealt with the sizing issue by getting used to smaller
  fonts and buying bigger monitors. vera/unicode.12.font and
  veramo/unicode.12.font work very well for me)
 
  Cheers,
 
  Steve
 




Re: [9fans] updated firmware for latest Raspberry Pi boards

2013-10-04 Thread Richard Miller
 But at the moment, it's best not to use the very latest firmware, because
 a change was made on 18 September which breaks usb quite badly for Plan 9.

The firmware developers have now fixed this (by reverting the change, I think),
so it should be safe from now on to use the most up to date start_cd.elf file.