Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

[Erik Quanstrom]

he he.  Puerto Toledo ftw!

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

[hiro]

> I have a Pi at work and a dual atom file/cpu/auth/etc server at home. it
> works well, it takes a few seconds to authenticate but is quick once you are
> connected.

what's etc server?
where is root, on the fs at home? or do you just cpu in or mount your
user's directory from the fs at home?
what's the latency?

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

[hiro]

since i've never been in a cheap motel room with a keyboard and usable
3-button mouse i tend to just carry my thinkpad around with me that
has a usable inbuilt mouse and keyboard in addition to a display.

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

[John Weaver]

It's not the bandwidth, it's the latency. I have been playing around with 
this for a few weeks now. I have it working on T60 that has the kernel, 
9fat and a cfs partition locally with the root on a vps 80ms away. There 
are pros and cons vs drawterm to the same machine. Things that I have not 
explored yet are 1) running a local build and binding $home from the vps 
or using the vps as a cpu server.



--
john weaver -- jwea...@ehzed.com



On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Chris McGee wrote:


It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The bandwidth 
requirement is probably so low compared to typical traffic from a hotel, 
compared even to smart phones.


On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:49 PM, James A. Robinson  wrote:

Is anyone here using Plan 9 as a terminal to connect to remote CPU / File 
servers over the internet to get work done?

If I set up a small Plan 9 cluster at home, I'm thinking it'd be pretty neat to 
be able to connect to the network at home over the internet.

While I have a laptop and could put 9front on it, I also really like the 
thought of carrying around a little Raspberry Pi and portable keyboard/mouse as 
an alternative.  Sitting here in a cheap motel room, I realized that all the 
hotel rooms I've been in over the past few years have a decent flat screen 
television that takes an HDMI input and has had decent, if not amazing, WiFi to 
the internet.

Jim

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

[Steve Simon]

I have a Pi at work and a dual atom file/cpu/auth/etc server at home. it works 
well, it takes a few seconds to authenticate but is quick once you are 
connected.

I boot from the pi's flash so I don't really have a terminal but I keep almost 
nothing in the Pi.

-Steve


> On 30 Sep 2016, at 21:20, Chris McGee  wrote:
> 
> It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The bandwidth 
> requirement is probably so low compared to typical traffic from a hotel, 
> compared even to smart phones.
> 
>> On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:49 PM, James A. Robinson  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Is anyone here using Plan 9 as a terminal to connect to remote CPU / File 
>> servers over the internet to get work done?
>> 
>> If I set up a small Plan 9 cluster at home, I'm thinking it'd be pretty neat 
>> to be able to connect to the network at home over the internet.
>> 
>> While I have a laptop and could put 9front on it, I also really like the 
>> thought of carrying around a little Raspberry Pi and portable keyboard/mouse 
>> as an alternative.  Sitting here in a cheap motel room, I realized that all 
>> the hotel rooms I've been in over the past few years have a decent flat 
>> screen television that takes an HDMI input and has had decent, if not 
>> amazing, WiFi to the internet.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
> 

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

[James A. Robinson]

Yeah, and and I wonder how the little Raspberry Pi compares to hardware
that was being used for terminals back in the late 90s.  It's certainly got
more memory and local storage available than many personal computers,
though I imagine the i/o bus is slower.

Digging around in my email I found this set of specs from my very first
workstation at my first full-time job in 1997:

Pentium 100MHz
2MB ATI Xpression Graphics
1 GB Disk (<13ms avg seek time, min. 64k cache); EIDE (not SCSI).
32 MB RAM
3com 3c509 combo ethernet card

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM Chris McGee  wrote:

> It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The
> bandwidth requirement is probably so low compared to typical traffic from a
> hotel, compared even to smart phones.
>

Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

[Chris McGee]

It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The bandwidth 
requirement is probably so low compared to typical traffic from a hotel, 
compared even to smart phones.

> On Sep 30, 2016, at 3:49 PM, James A. Robinson  wrote:
> 
> Is anyone here using Plan 9 as a terminal to connect to remote CPU / File 
> servers over the internet to get work done?
> 
> If I set up a small Plan 9 cluster at home, I'm thinking it'd be pretty neat 
> to be able to connect to the network at home over the internet.
> 
> While I have a laptop and could put 9front on it, I also really like the 
> thought of carrying around a little Raspberry Pi and portable keyboard/mouse 
> as an alternative.  Sitting here in a cheap motel room, I realized that all 
> the hotel rooms I've been in over the past few years have a decent flat 
> screen television that takes an HDMI input and has had decent, if not 
> amazing, WiFi to the internet.
> 
> Jim
> 

[9fans] Terminal possibliities...

[James A. Robinson]

Is anyone here using Plan 9 as a terminal to connect to remote CPU / File
servers over the internet to get work done?

If I set up a small Plan 9 cluster at home, I'm thinking it'd be pretty
neat to be able to connect to the network at home over the internet.

While I have a laptop and could put 9front on it, I also really like the
thought of carrying around a little Raspberry Pi and portable
keyboard/mouse as an alternative.  Sitting here in a cheap motel room, I
realized that all the hotel rooms I've been in over the past few years have
a decent flat screen television that takes an HDMI input and has had
decent, if not amazing, WiFi to the internet.

Jim