Re: [9fans] MIPS-64

2009-03-19 Thread Tim Wiess
Yes I started on working the toolchain a couple years ago, based on some earlier work done at the labs. Development stalled due to other work at the time and I never got back to it. But it's on sources (tim/4acl.tgz) if anybody wants to pick it up. I'm happy to provide any help. tim tim

Re: [9fans] has anyone used xmonad?

2008-10-20 Thread Tim Wiess
i stumbled upon this the other day. xmonad is a tiling window manager written in haskell that looks similar to acme, although it can be completely keyboard-driven. if anyone has used it please comment on it. I use it as my X WM. So far I've been pretty satisfied with it. By default you can't

Re: [9fans] apropos of the glendix post

2008-09-04 Thread Tim Wiess
That said, how do we mobilise the community to focus on useful drivers? I suppose we start with Ron's wish list, then we explore Russ' partially complete postings (i386 emulation, Centrino drivers, I'm sure I've forgotten many more) and thirdly we post a list of willing contributors,

Re: [9fans] 9vx vs drawterm

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Wiess
The advantage of 9vx over drawterm, for me, is that 9vx doesn't require a cpu server. You are not using Plan 9 anymore then, rather you are using something similar to Plan 9. I felt that Plan 9 is abused by 9vx, which I felt at first glance, but at that time I didn't want to say this...

Re: [9fans] 9vx on OpenBSD-4.3

2008-06-30 Thread Tim Wiess
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Tim Wiess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can wait a couple days I'll have some time later in the week to port this over to OpenBSD. I'm currently trying to get 9vx work on OpenBSD-4.3 (i386, 750Mhz, 256MB RAM), but each time I want to start 9vx I get

Re: [9fans] telnet vs. godaddy whois

2008-04-17 Thread Tim Wiess
rfc 742 p. 42 says [...] If the the user signals a push function then the data must be sent even if it is a small segment. by illegal i mean goes contrary to an rfc must. perhaps i'm missing something. i don't see how what was sent is contrary to that requirement.