Re: [9fans] Setting up Mail in Acme on the Raspberry Pi.

2014-10-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Charles Forsyth : On 22 October 2014 15:34, Kurt H Maier wrote: Quoting Mats Olsson : cpu: can't dial: plan9.lanl.gov: The operation completed successfully. this exact error message is in the fortunes file. oh well, that explains that: obviously the rio start-up on t

Re: [9fans] Setting up Mail in Acme on the Raspberry Pi.

2014-10-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Mats Olsson : cpu: can't dial: plan9.lanl.gov: The operation completed successfully. this exact error message is in the fortunes file. khm

Re: [9fans] Setting up Mail in Acme on the Raspberry Pi.

2014-10-13 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Winston Kodogo : Much as I love Plan9, only a masochist would use it for email.I agreed with Carmack as recently as 1997: "I spent a few months running Plan9. It has an achingly elegent internal structure, but a user interface that has been asleep for the past decade." patches welcome

Re: [9fans] Setting up Mail in Acme on the Raspberry Pi.

2014-10-12 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Steve Simon : I am fairly sure the problem is to do with RAM size rather than the raspberry pi per-se. 4000 messages takes up a lot of space - and upas stores messages in RAM. Personally I save needed mail messages in named archives and try to keep the number of messages in my inbo

Re: [9fans] neqn not found

2014-10-10 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Carsten Kunze : Hello, is there no neqn on Plan9? Carsten neqn just runs eqn with -Tascii. Plan 9 uses UTF-8 and eqn has -Tutf as the default. khm

Re: [9fans] shell functions

2014-09-26 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Skip Tavakkolian : you misrepresent. rsc addressed the non-web-centric issue: I don't think it is super important to try to make rc defend against malicious environments, any more than it is to make it somehow defend against malicious $paths. If those are security-relevant, you've a

Re: [9fans] shell functions

2014-09-26 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Russ Cox : The right fix is to eliminate all possible interaction between (1) and (2). The first public fix focused instead on making (1) more robust, and guess what, it wasn't good enough and now there is a *second* CVE about this problem, and a *second* attempt at making (1) more robus

Re: [9fans] silly question

2014-09-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : correct. plan 9 does not bother with leap seconds. seconds(1) "handles" leap seconds in that it will not crash when it encounters them -- it accepts that sometimes there are 61 seconds in a minute. khm

Re: [9fans] silly question

2014-09-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Steve Simon : plan9 has date(1) but there is no tm2sec(1), unless it is called somthing I didn't expect. seconds(1) khm

Re: [9fans] The developers of Plan9 think there was no point in coding in binary code three years ago as they did or make the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia?

2014-08-13 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting françai s : What are the programming languages ​​that were used to develop the Plan9? Probably the Riga Technical University and University of Latvia continue teaching coding in binary code, ie, machine language. I say this because about three years ago the Riga Technical University an

Re: [9fans] Plan9 Sources Repository

2014-07-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting dante : Usable, not bureaucratic. Lots of people already use plan 9, therefore it is already useable. And you don't need to invest work. This seems like a load of garbage, since you're already demanding that other people do work to support your preferences. This all changed

Re: [9fans] simplest disk filesystem

2014-07-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : What is the motivation of choosing a distributed OS without wanting to explain how distributed operating systems work? the standard definition of distributed os rather excludes plan 9. - erik Please document this standard, including which standards body ratified it.

Re: [9fans] simplest disk filesystem

2014-07-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Yoann Padioleau : I’m trying to make a tutorial explaining the code of a not too large kernel (9), but there are too many things to explain so I have to cut things. So having a simple fs which does not require to explain 9p, the rpc, the mount device, etc would be great. I know that expl

Re: [9fans] Fwd: Building a Raspberry Pi image / Keyboard support

2014-07-08 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : oh, editors have a 40 year head start. rpi can't possibly have reached that level of tedium yet, can they have? I think Eternal-September saturation levels may have effected a bit of a steeper curve on the who-cares charts khm

Re: [9fans] other kernel bug

2014-06-09 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Yoann Padioleau : Hi cinap, Would it be possible to change a bit the 9front mercurial repository so that it can work on MacOS filesystem. I get some: abort: case-folding collision between sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/charlib/lH and sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/charlib/LH when hg pull;

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Latchesar Ionkov : Who exactly do you think are the "we" that you are talking about? All the unpopular, irrelevant people who regularly force poor Ron to loudly, manually pipe this list into /dev/null instead of just unsubscribing. khm

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich : I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I think I'm going to resume. thanks for letting us know Enjoy your ever-shrinking place in the world, folks; it's clear that you enjoy it. It's also clear that nobody else cares any more. I'm sorry tha

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich : has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, which means it works on Plan 9. That means it works on *one architecture* of Plan 9. khm

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za: Obvious, good grounds for a conspiracy theory. Such code simply does not exist, no matter how much you harp on it. Next thing, you'll insist I need to prove that it does not exist, putting you squarely in the Creationists camp. I don't need anyone to prove anyth

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-21 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Skip Tavakkolian : i like git. as it is a kind of archival file system, one should be able to build a plan9 file system interface for it. This should be possible for any reasonably sane scm; c.f. cinap's hgfs. But all the DVCS in the world doesn't let us see code that is never uploa

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-21 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za: PS: I have resurrected an old Nokia (5110, but I'm not sure) phone, but it's been borrowed and I have my doubts that I will be seeing it again any time soon. Maybe this forum can help me decide what GSM equipment is safe from interference by the networks and their

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich : Ah well, back to 'm' for this thread, and I now accept that this community is unwilling to solve this simple problem, as so many others have. Bummer. ron Deliberate misdirection then; got it. I'm sorry you're sad, but comparing plan freaking 9 to an operating system ba

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich : I have a different perspective. There are millions of chromebooks out there updating all the time, from the firmware to the kernel to the root file system to everything. It all works. Millions of carefully-crafted machines updating all the time, from the firmware to th

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting andrey mirtchovski : golang-dev has more clout than 9fans nowadays, at least as it pertains to plan9. That's why I'm asking. We now have three go-related new syscalls, while lots of actual hardware support gets flushed down the toilet for unspecified reasons. I'm not complaining;

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich : And, again, I was not inclined to act on any of this until the discussion on the golang-dev list, which boiled down to: "if you can do it with a single system call, you should" with a response of "we put in a patch, was not accepted yet.". I just renewed the request to reex

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use?

2014-05-08 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Jeremy Jackins : On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: thing, javascript is not a thing that happens on this operating system. Here is a screenshot of a javascript interpreter running on plan 9. https://github.com/robertkrimen/ Are you being deliberately

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use?

2014-05-08 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : for what it's worth, i review all the changes made to plan 9 and 9front and apply what makes sense. Some subset of the 9front people also do this with various publicly- available resources, like 9changes and 9atom. I'm not sure of the value of a javascript thing that

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use?

2014-05-08 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Charles Forsyth : On 8 May 2014 13:46, wrote: not enough Internet credits to sustain efforts ... Or a working e-mail supplier (they've blocked Google): This is what happens when people vote for Julius Malema. khm

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use?

2014-05-07 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Charles Forsyth : they weren't "shot down", but saying use MY distribution over here, or use MY distribution over here, haha you said exactly the same thing

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use?

2014-05-07 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Charles Forsyth : I see that I had better explain. I am yan cui's mentor for GSoC on a particular project that is starting with some code that I wrote, and it will greatly assist me initially if he and I are using the same basic source code for the system and the kernel. Sources provides

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use?

2014-05-06 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Charles Forsyth : On 7 May 2014 01:40, erik quanstrom wrote: your options are 9atom or 9front. well no, no they aren't. exactly what value is that comment supposed to add to anyone's day

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] plan9 which arch code to use?

2014-05-06 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting yan cui : My machine is x86_64 and I run Plan9 inside KVM. The architecture of the hypervisor has little bearing on the architecture of the KVM guest environment. Check your kvm configuration (or the options passed to the qemu process) to see which cpu has been specified for the gues

Re: [9fans] what is differece(s) between sources and atom kernel?

2014-04-03 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : pae isn't newfangled. it was supported, iirc, by the ppro. And every subsequent x86 chip except Banias, for the exclusion of which I will never forgive Intel. khm

Re: [9fans] Various distributions

2014-02-24 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Peter Hull : Sorry for this extremely basic question but I'm a bit confused about the various plan9 distributions. As I understand it, 9front is a fork of the original plan 9 from Bell Labs and 9atom consists of enhancements to plan9. All three seem to be under development, but: Are chan

Re: [9fans] Inferno on XMOS

2014-02-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : obviously the interconnect is going to be the issue. which gives me a very interesting idea on interconnects. The shitty interconnects are the exact reason I have never been interested in the "pile of awful crap" school of supercomputer design. The only one I'

Re: [9fans] Inferno on XMOS

2014-02-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Peter Hull : It would be interesting to see Plan 9 running on the 40-node Raspberry Pi 'supercomputer'! http://likemagicappears.com/projects/raspberry-pi-cluster/ Pete I'd say that's a groundbreaking new field all its own. Perhaps "LPC" or "subparcomputing" khm

Re: [9fans] misinformation in the discussion about the GPL release of Plan 9

2014-02-13 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich : Just thought I'd toss out a correction, because lots of statements are being made by people who don't know much about the whys and wherefores of the recent UCB announcement of a GPL'ed release or how we got here. I'm not sure what you set out to clarify here. Will the La

Re: [9fans] issues with plan9port issues

2014-02-04 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : it looks like the issues are just a place for spam: http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/issues?status=new&status=open does anyone have any suggestions on reducing or eliminating the spam? In the past, bitbucket has been responsive to someone with admin control of the

Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2014-01-06 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Aram Hăvărneanu : and the 9front guys have everything in a hg repo on Google Code 9front exists precisely because the 9front authors considered Plan 9 closed. Using it as an example of openness is the ultimate in hypocrisy. Nobody considers plan 9 closed. 9front exists because cina

Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2014-01-06 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Lyndon Nerenberg : On Jan 5, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Steven Stallion wrote: There are a few of us that still hold out hope for the Labs distribution. But realistically, for how much longer? The past year has shown the love is gone. I haven't been able to run a labs distribution on p

Re: [9fans] chess?

2014-01-05 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Rudolf Sykora : PS.: It's a pity there isn't such a thing like plan9 that would just work :) Plan 9 works fine. It's gnu crap that is difficult. 9front experimented with providing binary packages for various things and it was more trouble than it was worth khm

Re: [9fans] Adding a new user on 9-Front

2013-12-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : There is value in a community. Irrelevant; the question at hand is whether your specific participation in a community enhances its value. On the other hand, you can live in a cave and do whatever you like if you wish. *This* is a false dichotomy. I choose *not* to

Re: [9fans] Adding a new user on 9-Front

2013-12-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : On Mon Dec 23 17:10:13 EST 2013, s...@9front.org wrote: isn't this a false dichotomy? rudeness doesn't preserve value. Neither does gladhanding. it's easy to point out past mistakes. do you think these were obvious at the time they were made? Whether they were

Re: [9fans] Adding a new user on 9-Front

2013-12-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : Documentation is always clear to people who already know the material but use the documentation as a reminder. It is difficult for a newbie to differentiate out-of-date material, branch specific material, and valid documentation. I am providing feedback from a newbie's

Re: [9fans] Adding a new user on 9-Front

2013-12-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : Or perhaps: echo newuser USER-NAME >>/srv/cwfs.cmd replace USER-NAME with the new user's name. If most commands are in lowercase, it might make sense to use uppercase names as things that need to be specified. Or perhaps we use the documentation as a way to weed out

Re: [9fans] 9Front network (driver?) issue

2013-12-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : I use ASCII. Not on 9front, you don't. khm

Re: [9fans] 9Front network (driver?) issue

2013-12-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : 1.0.0: vid 03.00.00 1002/4c57 11 0:e808 134217728 1:c001 256 2:fcff 65536 Thanks! That's a video card, Blake. khm

Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue

2013-12-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : > I would be much more interested in producing and providing patches if I > wasn't in such fear of upsetting the Plan-9 philosophy. (That is if > improvements were sufficient.) Your total lack of effort in understanding Plan 9 philosophy deftly removes any interest I m

Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue

2013-12-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : Agreed. You also don't owe your grocer, your tailor, or your gas station attendant anything either. There is personal gain we all get by shared contribution. I've selected grocers, tailors, and gas station attendants based on technical merit. How am I to value your i

Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue

2013-12-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : There is a difference between valid arguments and club allegiance. You have not demonstrated a necessity for anyone subscribed to this list to give a particular shit about which of the two are at play here. We don't owe you anything, including a defense of plan 9. Pat

Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue

2013-12-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : What I am beginning to understand from comments like this is that there is a "club Plan-9". Everything ever done by the originators of "club Plan-9" is correct, period. No mater what exceptions, special cases, or good new ideas occur, they are wrong and we will find som

Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue

2013-12-19 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : What I am beginning to understand from comments like this is that there is a "club Plan-9". Everything ever done by the originators of "club Plan-9" is correct, period. No mater what exceptions, special cases, or good new ideas occur, they are wrong and we will find som

Re: [9fans] Problem with mk

2013-12-18 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : I'd be a better judge if I understood the purposeful, thought out reason behind the problems I am experiencing - assuming there is one. "That's just the way it works" or "we do it differently because we are not unix" are stupid as hell arguments. No they aren't. Meanw

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-16 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : From what I saw, the code hadn't changed in a long time, and wouldn't boot in any environment I had. You are not a statistical universe. I now have 9Front running fine, and, in fact, I am renewing a port of an OO language extension to it. We already have python, unf

Re: [9fans] 9front vs. 9atom

2013-12-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : Is one better maintained than the other? Yes. Does one have better hardware support than the other? Yes. khm

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : This whole discussion has devolved into a political left vs. right like debate. Suffice it to say that without a critical mass of users, Bell Labs and/or Alcatel-Lucent will drop it, it will experience insufficient support from the user base at large, and it will suffer

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride : All of this talk sound like someone saying: imagine the hurdles of sending a man to the moon. how can man fly when his weight to strength ratio is so poor The only limit is ones imagination and creativity. Blake No. Lack of training, an inability to learn

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Masters from University of Limerick

2013-12-08 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Conor Williams : My Research Masters from University of Limerick exploring Plan 9 is now uploaded to: http://www.skynet.ie/~will51 Thanks to Russ and the guys Will be adding to that page in the near future... Regards will51 - cw Congratulations! khm

Re: [9fans] SSDs

2013-12-04 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Bruce Ellis : Let's start a fun thread. I wanna know about experience with SSDs and the bunny. Perhaps focusing on a) does it work b) is it worth it. brucee For desktop or laptop use, you don't have to treat SSDs any differently. It's just a hard drive. I've been using various in

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

2013-12-03 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za: Stop being sarcastic and you may stop seeing defensiveness and hilariousness, too. Please identify the sarcasm. As for the Go-vs-Python issue, (a) Python was latest-"language-cum-fashion-accessory" itself not too long ago and (b) enough has been written about i

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

2013-12-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za: Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za: I don't think Go needs to be thrown away, I think it is a motivating force itself, Why? It's my opinion. Do you have a problem with that? Why do you hold this opinion? While your defensiveness is hilarious, it's a simple matt

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

2013-12-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za: I don't think Go needs to be thrown away, I think it is a motivating force itself, Why? khm

Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-09 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Terry Wendt : I have VirtualBox 4.2.6_OSE r82870. I assume the OSE is OpenSuSE Edition. I think I can get some help installing an older version(4.1.24) on the OpenSuse forums. Thanks all. Terry. OSE is "open source edition" as opposed to the one nobody ever buys from Oracle. khm

Re: [9fans] i'm afraid we've had it wrong

2013-09-29 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Rob Pike : He appears not to understand the concept of "research". -rob Or, more to the point, "success." khm

Re: [9fans] how to output NUL byte from awk?

2013-09-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : On Tue Sep 17 10:04:20 EDT 2013, k...@sciops.net wrote: no, awk's printf does not do that: minooka; awk 'BEGIN{printf "%c", utf(0)}' | wc not if you ask it to convert '0' to unicode and then covert the unicode value to a char, no. I'm almost positive if you tell it

Re: [9fans] how to output NUL byte from awk?

2013-09-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting dexen deVries : awk(1) says, ``[s]tring constants are quoted " ", with the usual C escapes recognized within.'', but \0 seems to terminate internal string reprezentation... so how do i output a real NUL byte? Does printf not do this? khm

Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult

2013-09-07 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Bruce Ellis : I'm not sure how to negotiate this. Tiger says: 1) Go back to 1988. 2) Apply for a license. 3) Run it/enjoy it. 4) Stop being a dick brucee I agree to these terms. As soon as I can go back to 1988, I'll stop being a dick. khm

Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult

2013-09-07 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Bruce Ellis : I was disturbed by the claim that v10 had been lost because of bullshit, but said nothing. If indeed someone has lost their v10 I can replace it. If you are in australia it's easy. Contact me with the details of your import license and I will arrange for a copy on TK50 for

Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult

2013-09-06 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Steve Simon : Don't get me wrong, I am all for sharing code but its to authors right to decide not to share if they wish. You're preaching to the choir there. My personal opinion is the last thing the world needs is more computer software; it merely encourages people to create mo

Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult

2013-09-05 Thread Kurt H Maier
I was going to post something along the lines of "if you can't increase the quality of a product, you can increase its value via artificial scarcity," but I've been out-trolled already: Quoting Francisco J Ballesteros : Sorry to hear that working on it is insulting. This is either the dum

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting dexen deVries : On Wednesday 28 of August 2013 10:26:01 Erik Quanstrom wrote: the claim that the devices are in the directories and thus the file system is still false. even if explorer has some unnecessary code. and plan 9 is not immune from unnecessary weird bits e.g. the export pro

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : > cifs is Windows, i think. > If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit > filenames. Search «aux tale», or browse > . as entertaining as this is, is isn't true for dos. there are no device files on dos in *any* directory. they are a fiction of

Re: [9fans] MirOS ksh (mksh) building out-of-the box on Plan9/APE

2013-07-27 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:23:03AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat Jul 27 11:12:59 EDT 2013, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > > > go does not use ape. > > > > That is irrelevant to what he said. > > the question at hand was the emulation of SIGCLD, > which on plan 9 is an ape-specific question. > i

Re: [9fans] off topic: full unicode support isn't easy

2013-07-24 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 05:59:32AM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote: > FYI > > Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking > http://labs.spotify.com/2013/06/18/creative-usernames/ > > > Arnold > Seems the thrust of this article is more like "writing secure public-facing authentication mechani

Re: [9fans] Moderator's Note: comp.os.plan9 Newsgroup.

2013-07-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:07:38PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > the nature of any large, all encompassing thing is to be good and evil all > at the same time. proof: imagine a company (Google, Microsoft, Oracle, GE, > etc.) that spans the universe. your perception of whether that thing is > mos

Re: [9fans] How useful is a scroll wheel?

2013-07-08 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 06:09:14AM -0400, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > Although I spend a large part of my time on a Mac laptop, I'm a little > puzzled at how or why one would use two hands with the trackpad > doohickey. I just have the trackpad built-in -- I don't have the > wireless trackpad -- but I

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:15:54PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > all i see from you are pronouncements. show us your code. > I'm not a programmer; however, we here at 9front Technologies have deeveloped a new development paradigm we call "trust-based egalitarian avocational modular wide-area o

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08:20:56PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > There is code that is neither secret nor published. Code that does "the" > or "some" job for the writer but that the writer does not want to > maintain (for a public audience). There is no Hague Convention specification th

Re: [9fans] 9n

2013-06-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:41:27PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > Now seriously..., no plan 9 secret society has ever been actually secret > > and hiding code, > > as far as I know, that is. The only times I saw someone was keeping code > > without publishing > > it was because the code was not

Re: [9fans] werc performance with rc on linux

2013-06-07 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:19:22AM +, visphatesj...@gmail.com wrote: > is it decent? > > The performance of a web service is the least relevant factor in determining quality. All web frameworks are performant if set up behind a proper caching service. khm

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-03 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:41:39PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > which is to say that the thesis that fossil sucks is refuted. > > - erik *now* I know what you guys meant by 'snarky comments.' "Just the place for some Snark!" the 9fan cried, As he landed his Apples with care; Supporting each ma

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-03 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 10:45:53PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > sorry, what point was he making? i saw a clearly false claim unsupported > by evidence or anecdote that fossil is not stable. but that's not making > a point. > It's been shown that this mailing list is unwilling to admit that

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 10:01:12AM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > but was probably abused as a child. > This is a perfect counterexample to "it takes no skill to make snarky comments." You clearly need practice; this one was clumsy.

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 09:49:26AM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > my guess is that it's a mutated gene. > Ah, a Chomskyite.

Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

2013-06-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 05:54:14PM +0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > I should not be doing it rather than give me an incorrect answer that > I then use to fire a ballistic missile at the wrong target? I knew Google was up to something. khm

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 04:55:59PM +0100, Richard Miller wrote: > > This paragraph has more qualifiers than your average winter olympics > > If you prefer snarky insinuations rather than an attempt to convey > accurate information, I think you're reading the wrong mailing list. > I disagree.

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-01 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 07:09:41AM +0100, Richard Miller wrote: > Nonsense. > > I've been using fossil on my main system since 2008, and on a thinkpad > which I used daily when working at clients' offices for some years > before that. My professional livelihood depends on the integrity of > those

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-05-31 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:53:03PM -0700, Steven Stallion wrote: > long-lived fossil (approximately 9 months) :)

Re: [9fans] broken floating point exceptions and fpregs

2013-05-25 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:02:16AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > now that the 64-bit kernel is real, Where can I find it?

Re: [9fans] broken floating point exceptions and fpregs

2013-05-25 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 09:47:05AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > why don't we just let the 386 kernel rest in peace and use > 64-bit for sse? > Let's all go buy new computers instead of using the ones we have?

Re: [9fans] Public access Plan 9 on VPS (or Pi) available?

2013-05-24 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:45:07PM +0400, Ruslan Khusnullin wrote: > Hello, 9 fans! > > If I wanted to play with native Plan 9 installation or demonstrate it > to someone, does anyone have a Plan 9 installed on a VPS or a Pi with > free guest access? It would be nice to be able to drawterm to it.

Re: [9fans] Go for systems programming

2013-05-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:05:19PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2013 16:46:25 EDT Matthew Veety wrote: > > Oh lord this is degenerating to lisp machines. > > And the problem with that is? > you are a master troll this is awesome

Re: [9fans] Go for systems programming

2013-05-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:45:06AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > I don't see what's the big deal about doing GC In an OS kernel. > This is a fantastic troll. khm

Re: [9fans] anyone put their venti on an SSD?

2013-05-03 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:00:41PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > On 2013-05-03, at 6:51 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > > > imho, applying 50 years of experience with spinning hard drives with > > > the relatively new flash memory drive is a suspect comparison. > > > > Is it? Cheap SSD seems

Re: [9fans] anyone attempted to build ghostscript recently?

2013-05-03 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:22:13AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > one question, though. are there better alternatives than ghostscript evince is a poppler frontend; poppler's problematic dependencies include glib and cmake. poppler is descended from xpdf, whose problematic dependencies are in

Re: [9fans] CODE AS THOU WILT summer sponsored by the Loonie Revolution

2013-05-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:46 PM, mycroftiv 9gridchan > wrote: > > The Loonie Revolution is proud to announce and sponsor: > > > > CODE AS THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW summer > > Is this statement available on a web page so

Re: [9fans] Octets regexp

2013-05-02 Thread Kurt H Maier
Why does this functionality have to be overloaded into existing tools that are already in common use? khm

Re: [9fans] [GSOC 2013] Implement plan9 commands in Go, Goblin

2013-04-30 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:31:48AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > > with Plan 9 (but then almost nothing posted on 9fans does) and > > nominated for the the geekier-than-thou meme of the week. > > - erik > I thought 9fans was a raspberry pi support list. khm

Re: [9fans] [GSOC 2013] Implement plan9 commands in Go, Goblin

2013-04-29 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:52:32PM -0600, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > I wish the "goblin" project was used to re-imagine how the old plan9 > commands may be done in a new language, rather than simply rewriting > the commands almost line-for-line while introducing errors. Most of the code in goblin

Re: [9fans] [GSoC] sorry for the last email

2013-04-23 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:36:23PM -0400, Matthew Veety wrote: > > That's fucking stupid. Can he still work on a project with out getting paid > for it? I'm pretty certain gsoc mentors don't have to sign noncompetes. khm

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