I welcome anyone interested in discussing
the nature of typographic interface
to contact me off-list
I simply see untapped potential
and I want to bring it into useful form
(by communication/cooperation more than solitude)
askye
erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
poor special effects?
it's just resting!
but maybe it should die
yes
no modern GUI, c.
(and I'm grateful for that! :)
but Plan 9 (and other software)
can be much more useful by exposition
Attempting to [discuss and speculate on different potential expressions
of Plan 9] here on 9fans continues to be a traditional source
of agitation and flames, tempered with a healthy dose of shut up and
code.
As it appears to me, this mailing list does tolerate such discussion, and I
find
it supports 4gb of memory.
of non-ECC memory, so nice terminal, bad server
Any recommendations of similar hardware which does support SECDED ECC?
An interesting article on text rasterization algorithms:
http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html
After evaluating many fonts for programming, I found Verdana to be the most
readable, for the same reasons described here (though I use 11pt anti-aliased
by OS X):
I'm wondering if/when fossil might become part of plan9port. I found only a
thread from 2007 mentioning that it had not been ported.
It is of particular interest to me because I'm preparing various machines
(which are not supported by Plan 9) to manage data on dedicated disks. My
thought was
