Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VMs
9front works fine in vmware. I've never had a problem (including a very recent install at work). How exactly does it fail in your case? aiju On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Adriano Verardo wrote: In the last two years I've very little used Plan9. All appls I made for clients work, solved all problem thanks to 9fans help, clients don't ask for improvements, ... Now I must install Plan9 in a VM. I'm testing VMware, but it is not a constraint. The Bell distro work fine, all others I tried fail during install. And, worse than this, I see just now that Bell non longer support Plan9 since Jan 2015. So, what's the best Win7-32/64 VM product for Plan9 ? What Plan9 ? Thanks in advance
Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive
Personally, I don't use Plan9, or even p9p, to get stuff done. I just like to look at the code from time to time. I'm with Carmack on Plan9 circa 1997: " It has an achingly elegant internal structure, but a user interface that has been asleep for the past decade." Add a couple of decades to that. Two more decades of what? Unless you count mobile devices, UIs in 2016 still function largely like Windows 95. Incremental improvements, but no major innovations. Some bad mistakes (ribbons...). The best part is web interfaces, which continue to poorly imitate what Win95 could do 20 years ago. I'd rather stick to rio. aiju
[9fans] aijuboard
I am currently collecting funds for a production run of a Zynq based board built specifically with Plan 9 in mind. It has a dual-core ARM CPU and a Xilinx FPGA. We are running 9front, but labs and 9atom would likely work fine too. You can preorder it for $500, buy a glenda or aijuboard t-shirt for $60 or just donate any amount you want. The campaign will be running for 21 more days and we're currently $2300 short. Any contribution would be greatly appreciated. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aijuboard -- aiju
[9fans] Compiler bug
I have found what I believe to be a compiler bug: Comparing an int to a u16int causes the int to be cast to unsigned int, instead of the u16int being promoted to int and then compared (as I would argue the C89 standard specifies). As a result -1 u is false for any u16int u. Or is this intended behaviour? I have verified that 8c exhibits the bug, but have not checked the other compilers. gcc does not seem to have this bug. Julius Schmidt
Re: [9fans] new-topic: typographical interface
the solution is to just stop worrying and love the bitmap font because there are more important things in life. such as not inserting spurious new lines in mailing list posts. On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Albert Skye wrote: erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop? poor special effects? it's just resting! but maybe it should die yes no modern GUI, c. (and I'm grateful for that! :) but Plan 9 (and other software) can be much more useful by exposition within a *typographical interface* i.e., an interface informed by typographical imperative[1] (to increase signal decrease noise) in arranging streams (of text/numbers/symbols/images outputs and inputs) using established patterns of typographical technology for improving the interface/tools between process and user to make it natural/immediate/effortless [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style
[9fans] Uriel
I am very sorry to inform you that uriel has passed away recently. He will be missed.
Re: [9fans] pcc limitation?
Hardware programming is fun. Side effects include nausea and vomiting. you're doing it wrong. :-) - erik Just run Plan 9 on the hardware. Who wanted to create Plan 9 from 8-bit space? Let's do it for AVR. Then mount LEDs and the like... aiju
Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition
On 20 October 2010 11:44, Mark Tuson markfptu...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 19, 7:06Â pm, 23h...@googlemail.com (hiro) wrote: If this is peace I will not soon all of you to blow the whistle on the ss, also why do you all secretly in the basement with the white rabbit contagious! It is FORBIDDEN and a shame for my country! What the hell is this, bad poetry? Sounds more like the semirandom generated/quoted garbage that spammers use to probe email addresses. Of course google translation (or something worse) converts this garbage. If you don't be quiet, I'll tell the SS about you, especially what you're doing to that white rabbit in the basement! This is VERBOTEN [forbidden] and a shame for the homecountry!
Re: [9fans] πp
Perhaps I'm getting this all wrong, but to me this seems like an interesting idea, especially if you consider the impact of being near the files on some classically considered computationally stressy tasks like compiling (esp. with kencc). So moving the code near the data definitely seems worth trying. aiju On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: There are definitely cases when moving the code instead of the data makes sense. But that discussion is mostly unrelated to the one on how to make the file I/O work better over high-latency links. 2010/10/15 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: On Fri Oct 15 12:33:19 EDT 2010, lu...@ionkov.net wrote: What if the data your process needs is located on more than one server? Play ping-pong? one either plays ping pong with the process or data. one could imagine cases where the former case makes sense. - erik
