[9fans] acid integer

2011-07-29 Thread erik quanstrom
i was looking for an a definition of acid(1)'s integer but i must have missed it. i had always assumed that they were intended to be unsigned. evidently there is some signed arithmetic going on, and this is calculations are subject to the local compiler's rounding rules. i suppose this is

[9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread David Leimbach
I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my not-so-green thumb I have for gardening and was thinking of an interesting home-automation use for Plan 9. What I'd like to do is get the following: 1. Moisture sensor I can embed in some potted plant soil, and read from Plan

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:44:09 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my not-so-green thumb I have for gardening and was thinking of an interesting home-automation use for Plan 9. take a look at styx-on-a-brick. Once you have the basic

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:48 AM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:44:09 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my not-so-green thumb I have for gardening and was thinking of an interesting home-automation use for

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread hiro
I don't get the point of plan9 here. Learning C should be a matter of hours for such an unspoiled mind, so I'd say go with bare hardware.

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:32 AM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't get the point of plan9 here. Learning C should be a matter of hours for such an unspoiled mind, so I'd say go with bare hardware. Consider that I may want to flesh out interfaces to this system later. I could also do

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:22:55 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: Consider that I may want to flesh out interfaces to this system later. I could also do this in Linux, or FreeBSD or even Windows, but why not on Plan 9? It would also be intersting to control these devices via the new Linux 9p

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:44:09 PDT David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my not-so-green thumb I have for gardening and was thinking of an interesting home-automation use for Plan 9. What I'd like to do is get the

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
We had an x10fs for a serial cm11. Might be even in sources. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:44:09 PDT David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com  wrote: I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my not-so-green

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:34:00 +0200 Francisco J Ballesteros n...@lsub.org wrote: We had an x10fs for a serial cm11. Might be even in sources. Thanks. From what I recall a CM11 is quite different from a CP290 but I can probably steal enough to make my task easier. My CP290 has been pretty

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:22:55 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: Consider that I may want to flesh out interfaces to this system later. I could also do this in Linux, or FreeBSD or even Windows, but why not on Plan 9? It would also

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:09:50 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:22:55 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: Heck I could do it from Emacs if I wanted to... actually, I would love to see that as an implementation. I can

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:25:29 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: May be an Arduino to measure the resistance and control a relay to power a solenoid valve? May be it can talk 9p. That said, I am very interested in an el-cheapo building block that talks 9p over USB and can connect to various sensor inputs,

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:34:00 +0200, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: We had an x10fs for a serial cm11. Might be even in sources. All I found on a web search for x10fs was a paper, but no sources. Do you have a pointer to the sources? EBo --

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
I just checked /n/sources/lsr and there is no x10fs. On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:58:32 +0200, Nemo wrote: isnt it in sources? if not ill dig the dump. On Jul 30, 2011, at 1:23 AM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:34:00 +0200, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: We had an x10fs for a