[9fans] Installation on disk-less laptops

2013-07-15 Thread faif
I have seen some tips here and there about installing Plan 9 on a disk-less computer but are there any guides? I have an eee pc 1000h and I am interested in installing Plan 9. Whether it will be the standard installation, 9atom, or something else is not very important. I just want to try Plan 9

Re: [9fans] 9atom

2013-01-04 Thread faif
On Thursday, January 3, 2013 9:17:28 AM UTC+1, Bence Fábián wrote: http://ftp.quanstro.net/other/9atom2.iso.bz2 you mean ;) 2013/1/3 erik quanstrom quan...@quanstro.net i have a test image of a new and hopefully improved 9atom @        

Re: [9fans] C++

2012-12-03 Thread faif
IMHO Go as a system programming language would be a step forward, but C++, obviously not... It's a beast and there are no good compact books about it.

[9fans] code highlighting

2012-06-06 Thread faif
How can I add support for C code highlighting to Sam or Acme?

[9fans] code highlighting and copying text from PDF files

2012-06-06 Thread faif
I asked 2 questions a couple of days ago but strangely not of them was published! So I'll try again but this time the topics are merged :) 1. How can I get C code highlighting to Sam or Acme? 2. Is there a client like page(1) that allows me to copy text from a PDF file? Very useful while

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread faif
Τη Δευτέρα, 19 Μαρτίου 2012 3:50:35 μ.μ. UTC+1, ο χρήστης erik quanstrom έγραψε: i'm not sure i understand the concept of reincarnation. on the one hand, hardware by its nature can lock your machine up solid and there's nothing the os can do about it. so how do you test driver

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012

2012-03-19 Thread faif
Τη Παρασκευή, 16 Μαρτίου 2012 8:36:46 μ.μ. UTC+1, ο χρήστης (άγνωστος) έγραψε: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 03:17:13PM -0400, Anthony Sorace wrote: Folks: Unfortunately, Plan 9 was not selected to participate in this year's Summer of Code. I don't know the exhaustive list of rejected, but

Re: [9fans] Plan 9/plan9port coding conventions

2012-01-16 Thread faif
I haven't developed anything for Plan 9 yet but these are my thoughts. IMHO there's nothing wrong with using i and j as names for local variables with a short life. If a function is as short as it normally should be, you will generally search for functions instead of variable names. And

[9fans] C library function that reads up to a newline

2012-01-09 Thread faif
read(2) reads up to N bytes but doesn't stop on newlines. Brdline(2) looks like a good candidate for that. Are there any functions outside Bio that behave similarly?

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-11-29 Thread faif
OK that was silly. I noticed that instead of /n/sdU0.0 I was typing /n/sdV0.0 Those rio fonts look so alike! And lc /n/sdU0.0 is not complaining so at first I didn't notice that this directory doesn't exist at all :) Thanks everyone

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-11-29 Thread faif
Thanks cinap, interesting. I'll retry with fat16 and see if the joke still insists :)

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-11-29 Thread faif
Hi Erik, The output might not be 100% correct since I manually copied it. Using qemu and still investigating how to achieve copy-pasting in the clipboard between guest-host... AFAIU you mean that if I mounted the drive on one rio window and tried to do anything with it on another it won't

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-11-28 Thread faif
Back after some (actually a long) idle time... :) FTR: My host system is GNU/Linux and i found out that apart from unmounting the usb drive I also need to execute qemu with full privileges to make the device available. An example: sudo qemu -usb -usbdevice host:0e34:1025 plan9.img Now... It

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-09-26 Thread faif
Hmmm... I'm still missing something. If usb support is fine and usbd is running, do I need any other commands than 'usbfat:'? The latter gives the output 'no usb disks found'.

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-09-22 Thread faif
Thank you for guiding me to the right path guys. The problem was with qemu which needs special settings (http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:qemu#using_an_usb_device_in_qemu) for recognizing USB devices

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-09-21 Thread faif
Thanks for the tips. By trying to avoid thinking about UNIX when I'm on Plan 9 I forgot that some userspace utilities are the same :) No, the existence of '#u' just shows that the kernel usb driver exists and a usb interface has been found. The user-level usbd program is needed in order to

Re: [9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-09-20 Thread faif
I removed the similar topic, sorry for posting twice but the delay was long thus I assumed that this one never reached the group. I found out that `ls #u' is useful since #u is the short name bound to the usb directory. So if it works it means that usbd is up? Nevertheless the problem still

[9fans] qemu usb flash drive (stick)

2011-09-19 Thread faif
It seems that I have the same problem with https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.os.plan9/usb/comp.os.plan9/dBpkbPyQrzw/0TagYRLa02MJ term% usb/usbd usb/usbd: /dev/usb: no hubs `ls #u' works (but why is that important?) I'm also missing the /srv/usb file: term% usbfat: mount: can't

[9fans] qemu usb

2011-09-19 Thread faif
It looks like I have the same problem with https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.os.plan9/usb/comp.os.plan9/dBpkbPyQrzw/0TagYRLa02MJ usbd is running and I'm getting usb/disk: /dev/usb: no devs, 2) usbfat: says can't open /srv/usb: '/srv/usb' file does not exist, and 3) ls #u works

[9fans] stream alternative?

2011-04-11 Thread faif
From The Organization of Networks in Plan 9: a. Asynchronous communications channels such as pipes, TCP conversations, Datakit conversations, and RS232 lines are implemented using streams. b. Streams remain in our kernel because we are unable to devise a better alternative. Also, in a previous

[9fans] more Plan 9 from Bell Labs questions

2011-04-04 Thread faif
9P has two forms: RPC messages sent on a pipe or network connection and a procedural interface within the kernel. Since kernel device drivers are directly addressable, there is no need to pass messages to communicate with them; Are the device drivers really in kernel space? It seems that Plan 9

[9fans] namespaces, Alef

2011-03-23 Thread faif
Some questions that came up while reading the first paper (Plan 9 from Bell Labs): a) It seems that the potential of namespaces can be exposed only when using a distributed environment with multiple machines (CPU servers, file servers, terminals, etc.). Can I get a feeling about what a namespace

Re: [9fans] Plan9 CPU server

2011-02-14 Thread faif
On 11 Φεβ, 18:30, Nyan Htoo Tin nyanhtoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've successfully tried plan9 on qemu/virtualbox. But I don't understand what is CPU server that I usually saw in plan9 doc/manual?? I'd like to know details...link/pointer would be appreciated. I've