Re: [9fans] sam: mouse focus, chords

2010-09-20 Thread Jorden M
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > Hello, > > If I am right, there are some patches enabling mouse chords in sam as > well as using focus follows mouse (like acme). > I found some kind of the former in Steve Simon's contrib. > What about the latter? > > Thanks > Ruda > > The

Re: [9fans] xml

2010-07-01 Thread Jorden M
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Rob Pike wrote: >> `Interfaces', the way they are invariably implemented, don't cut it -- >> too limiting and imposing. > > I do not claim that Go's interfaces can match the type system of > Haskell but this sentence tells me you aren't very familiar with them. >  T

Re: [9fans] xml

2010-07-01 Thread Jorden M
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:12:00 PDT Russ Cox  wrote: >> > I do wonder if this is what the Go authors are trying to do in a >> > different area to xml; reintroduce good practice under new terminology. >> >> I'd like to know which good practices Go i

Re: [9fans] Inducing artificial latency

2010-06-15 Thread Jorden M
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John Floren wrote: > I'm going to be doing some work with 9P and high-latency links this > summer and fall. I need to be able to test things over a high-latency > network, but since I may be modifying the kernel, running stuff on > e.g. mordor is not the best optio

Re: [9fans] A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ

2010-05-31 Thread Jorden M
You spent an interesting evening recently with an FAQ, I see. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Uriel wrote: > I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery: > > http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq > > Enjoy! > > uriel > >

Re: [9fans] crashing 9vx

2010-05-31 Thread Jorden M
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:32 PM, ron minnich wrote: > So can we sum up the 9vx state? > > Here's my summary: > tinycore, 2.6.32, gcc 4.4.3 > 1. pretty easy to blow up with an hget of the plan 9 iso on SMP, -O3 > 2. lotsafiles *sometimes* fails, other times runs with no trouble on SMP, -O3 > 3. re

Re: [9fans] Tvx update

2010-05-27 Thread Jorden M
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:30 AM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I don't think the tinycore guys would refuse tvx because of included > man pages or source. > > Unless they like emacs.

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-18 Thread Jorden M
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:59 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Federico G. Benavento > wrote: >> just a comment, the python port includes some hg bits because of my lazyness >> the thing is that hg isn't just python, it has some c modules that had >> to be built >> in in p

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-16 Thread Jorden M
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:21 AM, EBo wrote: > >> portage is horrid.  i hate it more every time i use it. >> and it doesn't work.  revdep rebuild is proof. > > it is a lot more dependable than any other package maintenance system I've > used on *NIX based systems.  The fundamental problem requirin

Re: [9fans] nupas update

2010-05-16 Thread Jorden M
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > portage is horrid.  i hate it more every time i use it. > and it doesn't work.  revdep rebuild is proof. > > it's not clear to me that this is gentoo's fault.  linux and > gnu together are one heck of a difficult place for > a distribution

Re: [9fans] off-topic: Comparing genomes to computer operating systems

2010-05-05 Thread Jorden M
>From the graph on page 2, Linux has a lot of middle management going on.

Re: [9fans] Distributed Pipelines

2010-05-04 Thread Jorden M
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:10 AM, David du Colombier <0in...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Does it mean IL has performance issue on long-distance networks? >> >> As I understand it, the real problem is that Internet >> doesn't handle IL well. > > They are b

Re: [9fans] du and find

2010-05-04 Thread Jorden M
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 3 May 2010, at 19:34, Jorden M wrote: > >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, erik quanstrom >> wrote: >>>> >>>> It's always been easier for me to use python's/perl's r

Re: [9fans] du and find

2010-05-03 Thread Jorden M
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> It's always been easier for me to use python's/perl's regular >> expressions when I needed to process a text file than to use plan9's. >> For simple things, e.g. while editing an ordinary text in acme/sam, >> plan9's regexps are just fine.

Re: [9fans] A simple experiment

2010-04-27 Thread Jorden M
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM, John Floren wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> On Tue Apr 27 13:58:39 EDT 2010, slawmas...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:54 PM,   wrote: >>> > Nice work, but couldn't you just bind /n/sources/plan9/sys/src >>> > to

Re: [9fans] C++ support [was: TeX: hurrah!]

2010-04-18 Thread Jorden M
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 4:52 AM, wrote: >> I had the thought "why not write a C++ to C converter" > > CFront was the original front end and it has been enhanced somewhat > since its early days.  But I believe it isn't likely to support all of > G++'s features.  You'll find it on sources: > >    

Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah!

2010-04-16 Thread Jorden M
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: > It occurred to me that a profitable thing to do here would be to mention some > things that would be nice to see in a new improved TeX... I believe > bidirectional was mentioned already. > > The other thing that is essential for folk

Re: [9fans] bootiso.s fixed

2010-04-08 Thread Jorden M
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:35 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > I wonder if it will boot with rEFIt though. > rEFIt is enough to fool all the other bootloaders.

Re: [9fans] MPI

2010-04-01 Thread Jorden M
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:19 PM, EBo wrote: > >> > These new flint arrowheads are state of the art! I always use them for >> > HPC with my MPI code! >> >> With some ancient Fortran sprinkled in?  :-) > > Now were were those Jacquard loom plates I had sitting around? Under the pile of Hollerith car