Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-28 Thread Greg Comeau
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sander van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the meaning/origin of //GO.SYSIN DD in bundle(1) is? I've seen this on other unix-likes as well, but I thought I'd ask here since the awareness of historical context seems to be quite a bit above average

Re: [9fans] CPU Server Wiki, auth/keyfs,

2008-07-28 Thread erik quanstrom
After expending all this time and energy, it turns out I was just getting the srv command wrong. And even after typing the command about 1000 times, hoping it would work, it never occurred to me that I should be using the port number. What a dope. i didn't see a mistake in what you were

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-28 Thread Sander van Dijk
Charles, Rob, Greg, Thanks for the context. Greetings, Sander.

Re: [9fans] qemu: somebody give bellard a canonical image?

2008-07-28 Thread matt
Bakul Shah wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:32:22 PDT ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so it can go here: http://bellard.org/qemu/download.html might as well make it available .. Not sure why qemu/download.html shows so few bootable images. Another alternative is oszoo.org. See

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-28 Thread ron minnich
more useless crap from memory: the actual correct usage is //GO.SYSIN DD * but of course the * would make things messy. See this and realize this stuff is still being taught! http://www.coba.unt.edu/itds/courses/bcis3690/bcis3690.htm ron

[9fans] discarding snapshots

2008-07-28 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
Hello 9fans, I have started playing with fossil+venti, following the instructions on the wiki, and everything seems to work as it is supposed to, except for the temporary snapshots; they won't get discarded. If I run snaptime after I have connected to the fossil console, I get that: main:

Re: [9fans] qemu: somebody give bellard a canonical image?

2008-07-28 Thread matt
thanks man. I did not expect this to turn into another debate. I just did not have the cycles to do it just now. It will be nice to see plan 9 up there at qemu.org ron Just so happens I was doing an install on to a 1Gb CF today. I haven't done any QEMU specific tweaking for it.

[9fans] current state of thread programming

2008-07-28 Thread andrey mirtchovski
found this snippet today and decided to share it with the list. every once in a while a look at how the rest of the world does things is beneficial :) I don't know about you, but every time I have to program with threads and shared resources, I want to remove my face incrementally with a salad

Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming

2008-07-28 Thread tlaronde
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:11:19AM -0600, andrey mirtchovski wrote: found this snippet today and decided to share it with the list. every once in a while a look at how the rest of the world does things is beneficial :) I don't know about you, but every time I have to program with threads

Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming

2008-07-28 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:11 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: salad fork. Locks, mutexes, the synchronized keyword; all of these things can strike fear into the heart of a green developer. Most That's what you get for using Java. On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to

Re: [9fans] dns exploits (self-promotion remix)

2008-07-28 Thread Wes Kussmaul
erik quanstrom wrote: what is this web 2.0 of which you speak? Web 2.0, n. A space created by artists who got all excited when they heard the word sandbox, not realizing it meant the opposite of what they thought. wk

Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming

2008-07-28 Thread Russ Cox
Don Knuth: I'm unable to judge what ideas about parallelism are likely to be useful five or ten years from now, let alone fifty, so I happily leave such questions to others who are wiser than I. Pietro: By that time, ... If only I could tell him that without having to wait for the snail! I

[9fans] Venti arenas and index guidelines

2008-07-28 Thread Gregory Pavelcak
Obviously I've had time on my hands to play with computers this week. I have a fossil on an 18G hard drive, which from what I've seen, is probably a much larger fossil than I need. However, I wasn't planning on changing it unless it's really trivially easy to do so. I also have another 18G drive

Re: [9fans] Venti arenas and index guidelines

2008-07-28 Thread Russ Cox
I have a fossil on an 18G hard drive, which from what I've seen, is probably a much larger fossil than I need. However, I wasn't planning on changing it unless it's really trivially easy to do so. I also have another 18G drive and two 50G drives. I thought the thing to do would be to mirror

Re: [9fans] current state of thread programming

2008-07-28 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Don Knuth: I'm unable to judge what ideas about parallelism are likely to be useful five or ten years from now, let alone fifty, so I happily leave such questions to others who are wiser than I. Pietro: By that time, ... If only I could tell him that without having to wait for the snail!