Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-18 Thread Georg Lehner
Another view on software managment: http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/management.html Regards, Jorge-León On 2010-05-16 20:58, Corey wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 10:34:53 EBo wrote: Have you tried Sorcery from Source Mage? No, but I'll definitely look into it. Thanks for the

Re: [9fans] Recommended emulators/VMs for P9 install

2010-04-17 Thread Georg Lehner
Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Federico G. Benavento benave...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Joel C. Salomon joelcsalo...@gmail.com wrote: My computer died, so I'm in the market for a new one. I figure I'd like to get back into hacking on

Re: [9fans] P9P for Windows?

2010-04-07 Thread Georg Lehner
Patrick Kelly wrote: On Tuesday 06 April 2010 17:07:51 Georg Lehner wrote: ... I will be able to throw some time at work on creating either a posix layer or alternatively port Plan9's libc and rc to Windows CE in the next half year. May be I misunderstood, but theres no need

[9fans] P9P for Windows?

2010-04-06 Thread Georg Lehner
some time at work on creating either a posix layer or alternatively port Plan9's libc and rc to Windows CE in the next half year. Regards, Georg Lehner [1] http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons

2010-03-29 Thread Georg Lehner
Patrick Kelly wrote: [..] In my opinion, package managers are only a solution for systems that are already a mess. I've said it before, I downright hate Windows, but it gets by just fine without a package manager; Just install and uninstall 'scripts'. Those scripts wouldn't even need to be

Re: [9fans] native install

2010-03-29 Thread Georg Lehner
erik quanstrom wrote: P.S.: Though the interface is really brilliant, it does not work out well for a lefty with a german keyboard layout :-/ you can change the layout: kbmap(1), kbin(3), kbmap(3). - erik Ok, i know kbmap :) This 'leftys are poor people' feeling comes from

Re: [9fans] native install

2010-03-29 Thread Georg Lehner
maht wrote: Until today i'm just a stubborn believer in Plan9. Real world experience with this system is, that nothing else works (out of the box) and nobody else uses it, besides people working with and for Plan9 just for the sake of it. Sorry to hear you think like that. I've been using

Re: [9fans] native install

2010-03-28 Thread Georg Lehner
David Leimbach wrote: I'm glad there's another person out there with 4 machines running plan 9. That's really great. I never got beyond 2 :-) [..] file/auth/cpu server at home: DFI-ACP Board: G5C100-N, Intel 945GM ICH7M installable only eriks 9atom.iso file/auth/cpu server at work: some

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-28 Thread Georg Lehner
Jack Johnson wrote: Thanks to Google's targeted ads: http://www.eglobalwireless.com/p-4333-new-7-mini-netbook-laptop-notebook-wifi-windows-2gb-hd.aspx Also might make a good Inferno device if WinCE isn't too firmly ensconced. -Jack Anybody interested in porting Inferno emu to WinCE? It

Re: [9fans] interesting qemu problem

2010-03-28 Thread Georg Lehner
ron minnich wrote: [..] I don't see why venti has gotten so memory hungry, this seems new behavior. I realize I can twist the knobs myself but geez, this is a 4 GB disk -- why does it think it needs nearly 400 MB RSS to deal with it? ron Please note that quite a lot of installation problems

Re: [9fans] Aquarela faulting

2010-03-06 Thread Georg Lehner
As far as i understand, cifs(4) is a cifs client, which makes remote Windows shares available to a Plan9 machine, while aquarela(8) is a cifs server, which makes (lokal) Plan9 filesystems available as Windows shares to remote clients. So cifs(4) is the complent of aquarela(8), not a

Re: [9fans] Aquarela faulting

2010-03-05 Thread Georg Lehner
erik quanstrom wrote: perhaps the new cifs server would be better? A pointer please. Already searched mailing list, (8) man pages, and the contrib packages but only found mention to aquarela as a cifs server. Thanks, and Regards, Jorge-León

Re: [9fans] gsoc2010 + plan9

2010-03-05 Thread Georg Lehner
ron minnich wrote: ... I think the opportunities for doing good Plan 9 work on ARM are going to grow quite a bit. It may well prove a better platform for the future than PCs, which are increasingly closed and esoteric. The company i am working for is using ARM processor platforms for

[9fans] Aquarela faulting

2010-03-01 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello! I'm trying to connect to a Plan9 file server via SMB, but cannot get a connection. On plan9, as user glenda i run: % bind /usr/glenda /n/glenda % aquarela -p -n allcmds -w MAGMA and get the following output (shortened to the last view lines) when connecting e.g. from Windows XP Home

Re: [9fans] out of physical memory; no swap configured

2010-03-01 Thread Georg Lehner
Hello! When you are done setting up the system do not reboot right away, rather reconfigure venti (via venti/conf) with small enough memory settings. Then you can restart safely. Regards, Jorge-León Bela Valek wrote: Hi, I used Erik's 9atoms.iso to install Plan 9. When its booting,

Re: [9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site?

2010-02-26 Thread Georg Lehner
Hi! not regularly, though i have updated some bits recently. IMHO the Plan9 Wiki should be the place where to contribute. My tutorial is hosted on my own server, because i came never around to run Plan9 seriously for everyday use and to ask for an account there. Well, i'd miss some MoinMoin

Re: [9fans] walk and find again

2010-02-09 Thread Georg Lehner
erik quanstrom wrote: One usage scenario of walkfs is to implement find, du, walk, rdup and the like. Another usage [scenario] of walkfs, with the -s option, is to add file indexing to a fileserver. this seems more complicated than a straightforward non-fileserver based implementation.

Re: [9fans] parallels and plan 9 install cd

2010-02-09 Thread Georg Lehner
Brantley Coile wrote: Okay, what's the trick to installing the cd on plan 9. I'm using the following version of parallels: build 5.0.9310. Or I should say I'm not using it. Here's a screen shot. use: boot from: sdC1!cdboot!9pcflop.gz You get it from the message: found partition

Re: [9fans] In case anyone worries about block hash collision in venti

2010-02-08 Thread Georg Lehner
About a year ago i wrote a (kind of vapourware) backup system called Baccus, based on content addressed storage. Most ideas are stolen from Plan9/venti, but for the here discussed reasons i used the Salsa family of hashes from Dan Bernstein: http://cr.yp.to/chacha.html Respectively the

[9fans] walk and find again

2010-02-08 Thread Georg Lehner
walk, find, locate and friends try to cope with exploring filesystem metadata at breadth and length effectively, efficiently and with controlled time/space consumption. Proposal: walkfs(4) (or finds, or indexfs, or sphinx, or ...) walkfs serves a filesystem tree similar to network devices. A