Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-20 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 08/18/2012 09:27 AM, Matthew Veety wrote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390 For what it's worth, our beloved operating system is on Hacker News. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to Unix® users but at the same time quite foreign, because it indeed is

Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-20 Thread cinap_lenrek
ahci works. richard miller wrote a bluetooth stack. wifi and usb just need more drivers. ipv6 is supported. -- cinap

Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-20 Thread cinap_lenrek
theres also a commercial c++ compiler if you really need one. http://www.comeaucomputing.com/ -- cinap

Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-20 Thread hiro
decent web browser is an oxymoron.

[9fans] sam command language question

2012-08-20 Thread Steve Simon
Tis the season for exotic sam command language questions, though mine is not that exotic. I want to edit some xml (yes I know) and capitalise all the labels in it. I only want to do this once so I don't care that it will envoke tr thousands of times and take a minuite or so. This is what I

Re: [9fans] sam command language question

2012-08-20 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 20 August 2012 13:12, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: Tis the season for exotic sam command language questions, though mine is not that exotic. I want to edit some xml (yes I know) and capitalise all the labels in it. I only want to do this once so I don't care that it will envoke

Re: [9fans] sam command language question

2012-08-20 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 20 August 2012 13:12, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: This is what I tried: ,x/label=[^]+/ { x/ [a-z]/ | tr a-z A-Z } sadly the inner 'x' searches onward in the file and not in the selection (dot) generated by the outer 'x'. I do not see the

Re: [9fans] sam command language question

2012-08-20 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 20 August 2012 13:12, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: ,x/label=[^]+/ { x/ [a-z]/ | tr a-z A-Z } Perhaps, also, I haven't correctly understood what you are after. If what I wrote doesn't solve the problem, an example of what is needed would help. Ruda

Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-20 Thread Jack Norton
On 8/20/2012 3:48 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: office productivity suites, relational databases, and, or even a decent web browser like Chromium, or Firefox, modren C++ compiler, good GUI tool-kit or widgets These all have an all useful features version on plan9 called catclock.

Re: [9fans] sam command language question

2012-08-20 Thread Steve Simon
I am confused, and appologise to all for the noise. ,x/label=[^]+/ { x/ [a-z]/ | tr a-z A-Z } does exactly what I wanted, I don't understand why in my toy tests it didn't appear to work, probably a typo. for the record I was tring to do this: label=Hello

Re: [9fans] sam command language question

2012-08-20 Thread Rudolf Sykora
On 20 August 2012 14:25, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: I am confused, and appologise to all for the noise. ,x/label=[^]+/ { x/ [a-z]/ | tr a-z A-Z } does exactly what I wanted, I don't understand why in my toy tests it didn't appear to work, probably

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-20 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:48:33AM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote: The question here is how to enhance the Unix-like hierarchical directory to embrace multi-dimensionality. I have no doubt that the changes to 9P that will almost certainly be required for this will be fairly obvious and from there

[9fans] Kmouse?

2012-08-20 Thread erik quanstrom
in pc/kbd.c, there are the scan codes Kmouse|button. where button in {1, .., 5}. i am not sure where it is documented how these scan codes could get generated. does anyone remember? - erik

Re: [9fans] Kmouse?

2012-08-20 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
those were added to let use keys in the laptop as mouse keyboards. they are configured using /dev/kbmap I have a couple of kbmaps using those. On Aug 21, 2012, at 12:46 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: in pc/kbd.c, there are the scan codes Kmouse|button. where button in {1, .., 5}. i am not sure

[9fans] dns

2012-08-20 Thread Jeff Sickel
Has anyone else been seeing their Plan 9 dns servers work for a little while and then stop responding? I've seen this happen after delegation loops show up in the logs: Aug 20 00:24:10 delegation loop 68.23.115.in-addr.arpa ns rev1.kornet.net - ns H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET from 211.216.50.180

Re: [9fans] dns

2012-08-20 Thread erik quanstrom
i'm using a modified version of dns. i found that aktomi redirections too unreliable. even so, i still get crashes, which have become more frequent in recent weeks. i've attached a copy of restartdns which is ment to be called from cron on short intervals. contrib quanstro/ndb has the whole

Re: [9fans] dns

2012-08-20 Thread arisawa
Hello Recent version of dns crashes. Old version (for example, Apr this year) is OK. It seems crashed dns make other side effect: Many processes stop with Fauth status. # I don't know the reason. Kenji Arisawa On 2012/08/21, at 10:51, Jeff Sickel wrote: Has anyone else been seeing their Plan

Re: [9fans] dns

2012-08-20 Thread Jeff Sickel
As in using: Apr 12 22:46:05 CDT 2012 /n/sourcesdump/2012/0501/plan9/386/bin/ndb/dns 310819 [jmk] Oct 14 13:32:38 CDT 2011 /n/sourcesdump/2012/0412/plan9/386/bin/ndb/dns 310519 [sys] There are a few differences if you compare with sourcesdump. Knowing one that works should help narrow down the

Re: [9fans] dns

2012-08-20 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
Has anyone else been seeing their Plan 9 dns servers work for a little while and then stop responding? I had that, and other problems with it left and right. I probably had to restart DNS a few times per week. I was able to get it to support a local Windows Active Directory domain though,