Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-05 Thread andrey mirtchovski
here's a report. i obviously don't know enough about touch controls to be of any use, but i'd like to help with testing. - on my snow leopard macbook pro it appears that the multitouch library is found and devdraw is compiled with -DMULTITOUCH (indeed if i undef this the problem goes away). - mul

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-05 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:20 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > i just did. acme isn't seeing any mouse clicks from a macbook's > trackpad. i'll take a look and report in more detail in a bit. I'll have to give that a try. It seems acme + trackpad isn't always fun, but my brain loves a trackpad for s

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-05 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> I hope that the > code will let one use the new clickable laptop trackpads as > 3-button mice too, but I haven't tried that. i just did. acme isn't seeing any mouse clicks from a macbook's trackpad. i'll take a look and report in more detail in a bit.

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-05 Thread Russ Cox
> I am planning to play with an Apple Magic Mouse > using Paul Lalonde's patch (soon to be in p9p). Paul's code is now in p9p. Because the code can read where your finger is on the mouse when you click, it can pretend there are three different buttons when in fact there's just one. Chording work

Re: [9fans] Got a phd? getting a phd?

2010-01-05 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > What are the exact prerequisites ? > Especially for, lets say, Germany ? recent phd. That's the starting point. It's best if you are us citizen but definitely not mandatory! ron

[9fans] Block->flags, Block->checksum

2010-01-05 Thread erik quanstrom
it appears that we can mistakenly declare a packet's checksum to be ok in the following drivers - ether82563.c - ether82598.c - etherigbe.c - etherm10g.c (saved by hw that eats packets with bad checksums) - ethervt6105m.c the problem is that the Block->flags are not cleared. so if a Block receives

Re: [9fans] ideas for helpful system io functions

2010-01-05 Thread Steve Simon
> I'm thinking about whether it's worth to change uclibc in a way > that it allows to plug-in userland-vfs'es. Nothing new under the sun I'am afraid, however if you go ahead this might be interesting. http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/articles/papers/399.pdf -Steve

Re: [9fans] Design of webfs and webcookies

2010-01-05 Thread erik quanstrom
> Just curious: can an 9P server cleanly differenciate between clients ? > This would be a great help for transaction isolation, IMHO. > > w/o having looked at cookiefs yet, but I would do it like that: > > * get cookies by reading /site-cookies/ > * set cookies by writing ": foo=bar" to

Re: [9fans] Design of webfs and webcookies

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Russ Cox wrote: > > what's really wanted here is an atomic create/write/close so that > > one process (we don't care which one) is responsible for the whole > > file. i think you could get this behavior by creating a temporary > > keyfile and then an rename (wstat), which is atomic. > > what's

Re: [9fans] Got a phd? getting a phd?

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* ron minnich wrote: > Sandia has a new deal for "new phds". This seems to mean > - just got it > - just hired on and you have it > > You can come in and propose something research-y, and you'll get 66% > support for two years for whatever. It's a pretty good deal. > > It's harder if you're not

Re: [9fans] ideas for helpful system io functions

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Tim Newsham wrote: > ps. if you wanted to hide this ugliness of passing a buffer and > fd to a child process instead of just passing an fd, you could > still solve it in userland without a syscall. Write a library > that does buffered IO. Include unget() if you like. Write the > library in a

Re: [9fans] remote access to audio devices

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jorden Mauro wrote: > I saw a paper once that described speedups > in X11 when hooked up to the Boehm collector. hmm, do you know how did it and if there's any code on that yet ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > It's also very easy to run my toaster diskless. hmm, I think the Toasters work w/ SSDs or maybe some kind of nano corememory, at least the mechanical ones. This could also their extreme suspectibility to certain radiations. But no idea what causes that effe

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jorden Mauro wrote: > The coffee pot runs windows and there is a virus that causes Coffee > Denial of Service on it. That, of course, would be the very most worstcase that can ever happen ;-) cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux