Re: [9fans] where does drawterm get bufimage?

2009-12-30 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM, kokam...@hera.eonet.ne.jp wrote: gcc -o drawterm main.o cpu.o readcons.o secstore.o latin1.o That fails on OS X 10.6, You need to add -m32 option to gcc for OXS 10.6. Oh, boy, I'm just a newbie to OSX world.☺ Kenji Depends actually. If you're on a

Re: [9fans] Broken Hardware List

2009-12-30 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: i believe that richard miller has the intel D945GCLF2 working via some careful hacking. (i.e. a hand-coded mp table.) It was easier to buy something that actually worked. As for that Intel piece

Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug

2009-12-14 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:33 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@coraid.com wrote: what's the replacement for pxe? Why not 9p? BOOTP + 9p? ron

Re: [9fans] SheevaPlug

2009-12-05 Thread David Leimbach
i wonder if there's a complicated volume pricing thing going on where these companies take orders, accumulating volume so they increase their margins before they ship. I can't imagine why else they'd drag their feet on it except that they want to get a good price as a reseller, and don't want to

Re: [9fans] OT concurrent C

2009-12-03 Thread David Leimbach
libdispatch is in FreeBSD now, and people are using it to write concurrent C code. I think they even have blocks, and the clang compiler front end working too. I believe the earliest, least-experimental branch of code is FreeBSD-STABLE for the 8 series, but I'll double check. Dave On Thu, Dec

Re: [9fans] grëp (rhymes with creep) and cptmp

2009-11-30 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:48 AM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/30 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: i used unfold (/n/sources/contrib/quanstro/runetype/unfold.c. % 8c -I ../grepfold unfold.c unfold.c:5 8c: 'utfunfold.h' file does not exist: utfunfold.h % du -a

Re: [9fans] 9P libraries for Go

2009-11-26 Thread David Leimbach
I think they might just be with their families as it's a national holiday here in the USA. :-) Might not hear from them again till Monday. Dave On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Latchesar Ionkov lu...@ionkov.net wrote: I did four days ago. No comments yet. I am sure the go team is pretty

Re: [9fans] Where can i get teh code of the Paln 9

2009-11-23 Thread David Leimbach
For those of us who didn't see TVX, what's TVX? :-) On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:06 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: And, if your hardware won't work, i really strongly recommend you look at 9vx. http://swtch.com/9vx/ Those of you who say TVX at IWP9 last month: on a recent trip to

Re: [9fans] Where can i get teh code of the Paln 9

2009-11-23 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:10 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: I'll put up a youtube movie in the next while, but there is a video of iwp9 I think on the subject. And for those of us using

Re: [9fans] sheevaplug port available

2009-11-17 Thread David Leimbach
Awesome! Thanks Geoff! On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:37 PM, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: If you run replica/pull (or have done so recently), you'll find a new kernel subtree, /sys/src/9/kw, which contains a basic port of Plan 9 to the Sheevaplug, derived from the port of native Inferno.

Re: [9fans] Practical issue on using rc shell

2009-11-13 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tim Newsham news...@lava.net wrote: Hi, I'm new to plan9 from user space. I've started using rc shell for scripts and, for daily use, I would like to solve a problem. I see that rc isn't built with readline or similar. So, do you use some alternative? Or

Re: [9fans] Google Go (off topic, but maybe it could be ported to Plan 9)

2009-11-11 Thread David Leimbach
I'd love to have this anywhere, including plan 9! I was just reading over the ideas this morning, and quite frankly, I'm excited! I've been writing concurrent code in a multi-paradigm system including approaches from Haskell, Erlang, and C at my day job, so I've got my head down in a lot of this

Re: [9fans] Is this the same Russ Cox we know here?

2009-11-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:56 PM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: have you also seen this vid? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s It's amazing. I have the source right now!

Re: [9fans] Issue 9 ;-)

2009-11-11 Thread David Leimbach
issue9 would be a funny name for a programming language. On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM, andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.comwrote: i was perusing the Go Nuts mailing list briefly, boy that makes 9fans ca. 2000 look like a sensible and clever list ;) On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:54 PM,

Re: [9fans] Announcing ninefs for win32

2009-11-05 Thread David Leimbach
You're a sick man! That's awesome. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Tim Newsham news...@lava.net wrote: I'd like to announce ninefs for win32. This is a Dokan based 9p filesystem driver for win32 systems built with npfs. This is an early release intended for the bolder user. I've set up a

Re: [9fans] dtrace for plan 9

2009-11-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:03 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Some people find the idea of writing their own kernel code scary. To those who don't I imagine d-trace has less appeal. sure thing. plan 9, by being simple, makes the kernel a much less scary place to be. by the

Re: [9fans] go to this site

2009-10-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Wes Kussmaul w...@authentrus.com wrote: ron minnich wrote: How is it that companies that want you to buy their IT expertise outsource their own? It makes no sense. Equally true story. We used to run our own servers. A (name withheld) sysadmin always felt

Re: [9fans] go to this site

2009-10-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:33 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: I mean, say your company has 25 satellite offices... why should they all have to do redundant work to update all the systems across the board. Isn't the repetition going to cause a higher chance of someone missing

Re: [9fans] So quiet!

2009-10-23 Thread David Leimbach
on the contrary... I have always equated the plan 9 crowd as the most punkrock of the alternative OS crowd. On 10/23/09, W B Hacker w...@conducive.org wrote: erik quanstrom wrote: On Thu Oct 22 22:54:41 EDT 2009, eri...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone is busy drinking and debating protocol

Re: [9fans] So quiet!

2009-10-23 Thread David Leimbach
fairly certain that a disproportionately large number of 9fans aren't CS grads. As with Un*x, it's the people who recognise the power and simplicity who are the fans, not the academic dogmatists and fashionistas. D On 23 Oct 2009, at 15:06, David Leimbach wrote: on the contrary... I have

Re: [9fans] Barrelfish

2009-10-15 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:11 AM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: There is a vast range of applications that cannot be managed in real time using existing single-core technology. I'm sorry to interrupt your discussion, but what is real time? Real time just means fast enough to work

Re: [9fans] Barrelfish

2009-10-15 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:52 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Thu Oct 15 09:41:29 EDT 2009, 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: in fact, i believe i used an apple ][ around that time that had ~744k. Are you sure that was an apple II? When I bought mine I remember wrestling

Re: [9fans] Barrelfish

2009-10-14 Thread David Leimbach
Did you find any ideas there particularly engaging? I'm still digesting it. My first thoughts were that if my pc is a distributed heterogeneous computer, what lessons it can borrow from earlier work on distributed heterogeneous computing (ie. plan9). I found the discussion on cache

Re: [9fans] inferno from hg does not build out of the box

2009-10-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:44 AM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/2 Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net: could be removed if anyone fixes hg. from the way the mercurial guys go on about it, it sounds like the fix might not be trivial. it does seem like a ridiculous thing, but it seems

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net wrote: I tried to check out v9fs, but the compressed git repo without checkout is over 300Mb. That's git for you. When you go to git it, you git ALL of it.

Re: [9fans] kencc, inferno hg, v9fs is big?, porting

2009-10-01 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:23 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Sam Watkins s...@nipl.net wrote: I tried to check out v9fs, but the compressed git repo without checkout is over

Re: [9fans] 9vx is really excellent, link it on the bell-labs pages?

2009-09-30 Thread David Leimbach
I think it's officially a port of Plan 9's kernel to the vx32 stuff, so it's not precisely the same as running a Plan 9 box natively, or in another emulator, but it is indeed quite a feat, and close enough that most people won't notice. Personally, I'd love to be able to completely replace

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:33 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem, said Torvalds. So may be Tanenbaum was right, after all, there's a reason we make things modular. rob, presotto, ken and phil did not agree with tanenbaum's

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.comwrote: On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:33 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: We're getting bloated and huge. Yes, it's a problem, said Torvalds. So may be Tanenbaum was right, after all, there's a reason we make things modular. rob,

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:47 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Are these systems more complex to reason about though? Probably :-). But when you've only got 7 system calls (per the original L4 specifications I've read over) you don't really have a lot to debug. Just gotta

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:14 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Tue Sep 22 11:06:37 EDT 2009, leim...@gmail.com wrote: The argument is that if something is logically separable from a larger system, and independently testable, then once you've verified it is correct, and

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: btw, there's even been one ukernel recently that has a formal proof of correctness (against its specification and some containment properties). Roughly a 10 man-year effort for about 7.5kloc. Not something you'd

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-21 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Patrick Kelly kameo76...@gmail.comwrote: On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Jack Norton wrote: ron minnich wrote: 2.7M lines last year 10K lines added a day. 5K lines deleted per day. I keep thinking this can't be sustained. What happens next? At the same

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Charles Forsyth fors...@terzarima.netwrote: we'd have been much better off if Apple had instead spent the time and effort writing a decent iTunes, or opening their platform interfaces enough that someone else could do it (and on Linux, not just Mac or

Re: [9fans] fun quote

2009-09-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:52 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Now, Plan 9's kernel is pretty old too, isn't it? that's the point. age is a red herring. What has saved other 'popular' kernels from this? For instance, no body ever complains about FreeBSD being a complex

Re: [9fans] fun quote

2009-09-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Jack Norton j...@0x6a.com wrote: erik quanstrom wrote: Now, Plan 9's kernel is pretty old too, isn't it? that's the point. age is a red herring. What has saved other 'popular' kernels from this? For instance, no body ever complains about FreeBSD

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-13 Thread David Leimbach
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Anant Narayanan an...@kix.in wrote: On Sep 11, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Roman V Shaposhnik wrote: I still do care very much (and in fact, I've been meaning to provide some of the answers on this mailing list, but apparently one can't upgrade to Snow Leopard over

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Iruata Souza iru.mu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.combakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:31:28 PDT David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: Having wrestled with this stuff

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Roman V Shaposhnik r...@sun.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 15:15 -0300, Iruata Souza wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.combakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com wrote: int x; void trash_x() { x = -42; } ... ^{

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-09 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Charles Forsyth fors...@terzarima.netwrote: if people would leave off moaning about moaning, we'd clear the space for more moaning about lisp although the former did have the advantage that the messages were shorter and didn't quote the bulk of all previous

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-08 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Uriel urie...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Greg Comeaucom...@panix.com wrote: In article 25cf9336-c071-44a5-ab04-6bb042bc5...@kix.in, Anant Narayanan an...@kix.in wrote: I understand the argument that blocks don't feel C-like, but the

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-06 Thread David Leimbach
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.comwrote: In this respect rating the expressive power of C versus LISP depends very much on the problem domain under discussion. Of course. I pointed out in my first post on the thread that [...] for a person of my (low)

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-06 Thread David Leimbach
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Tim Newsham news...@lava.net wrote: I would like to see Haskell fill C's niche: it's close to C's execution speed now, and pure functions and a terse style gives real advantages in coding speed (higher-order functions abstract common patterns without tedious

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-05 Thread David Leimbach
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Jason Catena jason.cat...@gmail.com wrote: Hailed Eris: I was alluding to the expressive power of C versus LISP considered with respect to the primitives available on one's computing platform and primitives in which solutions to one's problems are best

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-04 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.combakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:35:35 PDT David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, reading on a bit more they deal with the variable capture talking about const copies

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-04 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:14 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: But this has no more to do with parallelism than any other feature of C. If you used __block vars in a block, you'd still need to lock them when the block is called from different threads. that's a lot worse than

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-04 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.combakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:47:18 PDT David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com bakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com bakul%2bpl

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Uriel urie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM, David Leimbachleim...@gmail.com wrote: I mean HTTP has a small protocol, but if you count all the things you can do with REST, then it looks like a lot more. HTTP might be many things, small is

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Greg Comeau com...@panix.com wrote: In article 3096bd910909020751o12086713m4291e2f1b77da...@mail.gmail.com, Rodolfo kix k...@kix.es wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM, ron minnichrminn...@gmail.com wrote: Q: Will C continue to be important into the future?

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Uriel urie...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Devon H. O'Delldevon.od...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/2 Uriel urie...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Anant Narayananan...@kix.in wrote: Mac OS 10.6 introduced a new C compiler frontend

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:02 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: The blocks aren't interesting at all by themselves, I totally agree with that. However what they do to let you write a function inline, that can be pushed to another function, to be executed on a concurrent FIFO,

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:58 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Apple's using it all over the place in Snow Leopard, in all their native apps to write cleaner, less manual-lock code. At least, that's the claim :-). could someone explain this to me? i'm just missing how

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:36 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Apple's using it all over the place in Snow Leopard, in all their native apps to write cleaner, less manual-lock code. At least, that's the claim :-). could someone explain this to me? i'm just

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:49 PM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Thu Sep 3 17:09:01 EDT 2009, r...@sun.com wrote: Anything can

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Thu Sep 3 17:09:01 EDT 2009, r...@sun.com wrote: Anything can be done using regular C and threads. The trick here is to make everything *scalable* and *painless* enough so that mere mortals can start benefiting

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Thu Sep 3 17:09:01 EDT 2009, r...@sun.com wrote: Anything can be done using regular C and threads. The trick here is to make everything

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:52 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Did you even read the article or any of the examples? There are plenty of things that you can do with blocks that you can't with just function pointers. That's besides the fact that some of them are more elegantly

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:44 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: that sucker is on the stack. by-by no-execute stack. how does it get to the stack? is it just copied from the text segment or is it compiled at run time? I don't think I posted the whole code, so that's

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-03 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:31 PM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:44 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: that sucker is on the stack. by-by no-execute stack. how does it get to the stack? is it just copied from the text segment

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
Has anyone actually looked at the spec or is this just armchair philosophy? I've actually looked at these, and used em a little bit. They're not at all as bad as I once thought they could be, and the reason they're there is to work with a concurrency framework onto which blocks can be scheduled

Re: [9fans] scheme plan 9

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Iruata Souza iru.mu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Eris Discordiaeris.discor...@gmail.com wrote: Although, you may be better off reading SICP as intended, and use MIT Scheme on either Windows or a *NIX. The book (and the freaking

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
One again, have you tried Cilk for exactly this kind of thing? I'd be curious to know your opinion on how what you see in SL compares to it. Nope, but it sounds interesting. Blocks themselves are really not terribly useful, you need the libdispatch library to make the real value in

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:38 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Wed Sep 2 10:33:07 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Q: Will C continue to be important into the future? (Dave Kirk, Nvidia)A: No, I think C will die like Fortran has isn't this the same company that claims

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Robert Raschke rtrli...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:38 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Wed Sep 2 10:33:07 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Q: Will C continue to be important into the future? (Dave Kirk, Nvidia)A: No, I

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.comwrote: Clarifying context: this was at a hpc clusters conference -- their view of fortran is not your view of fortran. Having supported Fortran for MPI implementations before, I know what you mean :-) Sent from my iPhone

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Richard Miller 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009.pdf on p. 43/44 i believe it is claimed that one cannot do CSP without pure functional programming. (p ⇒ q) ⇏ (¬p ⇒ ¬q) That's interesting

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@coraid.com wrote: on p. 43/44 i believe it is claimed that one cannot do CSP without pure functional programming. (p ⇒ q) ⇏ (¬p ⇒ ¬q) That's interesting because pure functional programming doesn't exist at all

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Brian L. Stuart blstu...@bellsouth.netwrote: Q: Will C continue to be important into the future? (Dave Kirk, Nvidia)A: No, I think C will die like Fortran has let me explain the joke. In HPC circles, people have been predicting the death of fortran

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Jonathan Cast jonathancc...@fastmail.fmwrote: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 11:27 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Richard Miller 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Jonathan Cast jonathancc...@fastmail.fmwrote: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 13:02 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: And if you prefer a plea to authority over logic, I haven't said anything that Simon Peyton Jones hasn't himself said about Haskell. Well, I disagree

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2009-09-02 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:16 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: i've pushed an update of my nupas contrib package to sources. imap successful in use with apple mail (snow leper, too), iphone, outlook, opera, ff, upas/fs. note on installing: as devon pointed out, installation is

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:23 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:46 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Also, Eric, the 9atom.iso works on my older AMD machine for installation! THANKS! :-) hey! back to the original story line. that's

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Now that I've had a chance to really examine the system, I'm noticing a rather high interrupt count (1584), and I'm not exactly sure how to figure out what's triggering them. i set HZ=1000. so that accounts for

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:54 AM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: perhaps we should try to boot plan 9 from a linux kernel? Sounds great to me... this probably makes me a troll... I'm pretty sure Ron has done that too... from LinuxBIOS.

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:19 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: I'm pretty sure Ron has done that too... from LinuxBIOS. i'm pretty sure that coreboot neé linuxbios is not linux. Could be, I've never had the luxury of trying it all out... however I thought a minimal linux from

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:33 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:24 AM, David Leimbachleim...@gmail.com wrote: Could be, I've never had the luxury of trying it all out... however I thought a minimal linux from coreboot/linuxbios (I think it was called

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:46 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Also, Eric, the 9atom.iso works on my older AMD machine for installation! THANKS! :-) hey! back to the original story line. that's great, and you're welcome. i'd encourage anyone to report on your success or

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:37 AM, matt maht-9f...@maht0x0r.net wrote: To further report the machine seems to be running after installation quite snappily though I seem to have messed something up and get a lot of messages about failed venti writes, due to a lack of a connection.

Re: [9fans] 9P on android

2009-08-27 Thread David Leimbach
I'm interested in doing some stuff with the Palm Pre. I'm actually looking at the javascript implementations of it as well. I just have practically no time to invest these days in this stuff. I think someone already got some of the plan 9 userspace tools on here though. Dave On Thu, Aug 27,

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: 2009/8/26 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: it contains all the changes from the last 10 days. should fix all reported problems, except béla's. Could you post the link? I am new to this list and plan9, and

Re: [9fans] 9P on android

2009-08-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:59 AM, C H Forsyth fors...@vitanuova.com wrote: I'm actually looking at the javascript implementations of [9p] as well. has javascript finally got support for binary data? I haven't been following. I find a lot of web stuff to be off-putting, so I've not been

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, David Leimbachleim...@gmail.com wrote: I think there's work going on to use plan 9 to load plan 9 (maybe?) to replace 9load. It's a gsoc project for Iruata to which I just gave a

Re: [9fans] 9P on android

2009-08-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:57 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@coraid.com wrote: I haven't been following. I find a lot of web stuff to be off-putting, so I've not been keeping up. base64 encoding stuff is crap but could suffice in a pinch. uh, i don't think so. 9p2000 doesn't have a

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: 2009/8/26 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: it contains all the changes from the last 10 days. should fix all reported problems, except béla's. Could you post the link? I am new to this list and plan9, and

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:20 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: I really don't understand why, from home or work, I can't download this thing... cf819b70c90cedc39e305fb57d38f5df37302f84 Is the checksum I'm getting. that's the same checksum i posted. i guess i don't

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:59 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Yeah, I realized that after I posted I sent the wrong checksum. e4441484b67be72ad0fd62cc828052f6 9atom.iso.bz2 is what I got. that's the proper md5sum. i posed the sha1sum. maybe i didn't make that clear. -

[9fans] vmware oddity (Fusion on Mac OS X)

2009-08-18 Thread David Leimbach
Just fired up my plan 9 image in VMWare, and I noticed that gnot is showing a large amount of interrupts, and then the whole tracking of the system interrupts goes to nothing, the mouse stops working, and things are generally frozen. However, the odd bit is at one point time seemed to speed up and

Re: [9fans] vmware oddity (Fusion on Mac OS X)

2009-08-18 Thread David Leimbach
now i am getting repeated soverflow for fx-in messages repeatedly. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:20 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: Just fired up my plan 9 image in VMWare, and I noticed that gnot is showing a large amount of interrupts, and then the whole tracking of the system

Re: [9fans] vmware oddity (Fusion on Mac OS X)

2009-08-18 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:32 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Tue Aug 18 10:28:44 EDT 2009, leim...@gmail.com wrote: now i am getting repeated soverflow for fx-in messages repeatedly. it sounds like the interrupt handler takes long enough that there is no time to process

Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC

2009-08-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Uriel urie...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, David Leimbachleim...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/13/09, erik quanstrom quans...@coraid.com wrote: we don't use te*xt for 9p, do we? the difference being, 9p is the transport not the

Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC

2009-08-17 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:44 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: It had to happen: System and method for accessing SMASH-CLP commands as a web service United States Patent Application 20080016143 Oh there's absolutely no prior art there ... in the namespace thing. I think I'm going

Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC

2009-08-13 Thread David Leimbach
On 8/13/09, erik quanstrom quans...@coraid.com wrote: we don't use te*xt for 9p, do we? the difference being, 9p is the transport not the representation of the data and 9p has a fixed set of messages. Also 9p aims at file systems pretty obviously where Thirft is a generic RPC mechanism with

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 hg with private repositories

2009-08-13 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fmwrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:13:58 +0200 Bela Valek bval...@gmail.com wrote: Correct me if I am wrong, but an sshv2 server is also providing sshv1 too. I vaguely remember reading that some ssh software would refuse

Re: [9fans] Using proportional fonts in Acme for Programming

2009-08-13 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Lyons fus...@storytotell.orgwrote: On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:14 AM, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: So, I was browsing around the other day looking at Acme resources, and I discovered an old post from 1995 wherein someone advocated the use of proportional fonts for

Re: [9fans] oh, no! (again)

2009-08-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:57 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: i don't know where it's getting the 9pcf that it's putting in 9fat. it doesn't appear to be the same as /386/9pcf from the cd. (there's only one.) as soon as i figure that out, this will probablly all work.

Re: [9fans] Acme niceties

2009-08-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:24 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: (Did you ever notice it puts it back when it's done? Error window pops up, mouse moves there; delete the window, mouse moves back.) worth one smile per day, after all these years. ☺ - erik

Re: [9fans] linux reinvents factotum, secstore ...

2009-08-08 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Daniel Lyons fus...@storytotell.orgwrote: On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:06 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: X11 isn't a desktop, it tries very hard not to define a look and feel, but it has to include inter-app communications to support the supposedly desirable drag

Re: [9fans] a few Q's regarding cpu/auth server

2009-08-07 Thread David Leimbach
Now here's the point. I and a billion other people HAVE MORE FUN THINGS TO DO THAN FRET ABOUT SECURITY. A weak OS needs me to put in boring work... Hah... yes, that would be why I'm merely reading this thread instead of adding to it... Oh crap, nevermind :-) -- Ethan Grammatikidis

Re: [9fans] more time amusement under vmware

2009-08-04 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:56 PM, roger peppe rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: the time problem i was having before (fast clock) had seemed to be irreproducible. however just now, i noticed the following odd behaviour: fiddle% date -u Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 1970 fiddle% cat /dev/time 0

Re: [9fans] Parallels Vesa driver question

2009-08-04 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Bakul Shah bakul+pl...@bitblocks.combakul%2bpl...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:12:08 PDT David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: Wow Where's parallels 4. I doubt I qualify for a free one. And VMWare Fusion really sucks with Plan 9

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