Re: [9fans] unable to start plan9 on atom330 in virtualbox

2011-06-15 Thread Cr0t daywalker
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/acidpaper.html ©®0t On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Josh Marshall joshua.r.marshall.1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a resource whereby I could pickup this kind of debug skill, or is this experience, and assembly knowledge? On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at

Re: [9fans] Any 9fans at USENIX this week?

2011-06-15 Thread hiro
What are you doing in Aachen? I never managed to go to any 9fans gathering, but I live nearby. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:49, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: Not at USENIX, but any 9fans in Aachen this week? -jas On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:59 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: -Skip

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread Jacob Todd
There's an article on the wiki containing links to related info, also.

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 15 of June 2011 18:23:56 David Leimbach wrote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135 I'm getting tired of the level of groupthink. Yesterday it was about Anthropogenetic Global Warming^W^W^W Anthropogenic Climate Change (with a comment stating pretty much ``whether the

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread Jack Norton
dexen deVries wrote: On Wednesday 15 of June 2011 18:23:56 David Leimbach wrote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135 I'm getting tired of the level of groupthink. Yesterday it was about Anthropogenetic Global Warming^W^W^W Anthropogenic Climate Change (with a comment stating pretty

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread Mauricio CA
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135 I've recently attached a mouse to my computer just to experiment with acme of plan9 from user space, and I really liked it. I wonder, though, if we could operate acme as a window manager like, say, wmii. For instance, could I write a script in acme

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 15 June 2011 20:16:49 Connor Lane Smith wrote: (...) The optimal solution is to use *both* the mouse and keyboard, because they each have their advantages. Doesn't that seem reasonable? Yep. It's the FWD vs. RWD drive depacle all over again. You can stunts drive with RWD, you

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread errno
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 09:27:49 AM Jacob Todd wrote: There's an article on the wiki containing links to related info, also. Does anyone have the actual text of this $50 million dollar research apple performed? Does anyone know the actual parameters and proficiency levels of the human

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread andrey mirtchovski
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, errno er...@cox.net wrote: [words like bazillion] can you summarize what you wrote using less keystrokes? the time spent thinking your message through is certainly worth the delay in clicking send.

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread errno
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 01:30:37 PM andrey mirtchovski wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, errno er...@cox.net wrote: [words like bazillion] can you summarize what you wrote using less keystrokes? the time spent thinking your message through is certainly worth the delay in clicking

Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

2011-06-15 Thread Charles Forsyth
i've just got back to reading the list to find that some people clearly have no difficulty using a keyboard!