Re: [9fans] ns83815: auto neg timed out?

2011-05-18 Thread jake
g...@ghstwlf.com wrote: >*profanity* >What documentation do I need to read to learn how to do that? >/Pär The wiki will suffice.

Re: [9fans] Fifth Edition

2010-09-27 Thread jake
> I've tried pull (copied pull from Glenda's account to mine) but it > didn't work. Can't remember the exact error message, but it couldn't > find the files, apparently. Even after I'd spent ages figuring out how > to do networking. Is there a no way to update from a source other than > the 'net? L

Re: [9fans] native lbl, long text in troff, bold italics in eqn

2010-09-16 Thread jake
> Hello, > so what do you use for cross-references in troff documents under plan9? > Thanks, > Ruda There's two versions of refer in contrib. One version is forsyth/refer.tgz, which is just refer, 'slightly improved,' and the other version is steve/refer, which is refer from forsyth with bin2ref an

Re: [9fans] auth server hardware

2010-07-27 Thread jake
If I had a usb drive that was formatted with fossil or kfs, could I use that as the file system for the sheevaplug? --- Begin Message --- > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:37:07AM -0700, Akshat Kumar wrote: > > So, Plan 9 with storage works on the Guruplug? > > I might grab one of those, then... are the

Re: [9fans] crashing 9vx

2010-05-31 Thread jake
> 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. rebuild without -O3, and it is quite solid May I ask wh

Re: [9fans] du and find

2010-05-03 Thread jake
> On 3 May 2010, at 14:41, Steve Simon wrote: >> Or just apply runs grep -r patch... > > % man 1 grep | grep '\-r' > % > Key word being patch.

Re: [9fans] three sets of windows

2010-04-28 Thread jake
>> > My netbook's trackpad is unacceptable for Plan 9 use, and since it >> > doesn't have a PS/2 port I can't plug in one of my old Logitechs. >> >> I've been using http://www.thehumansolution.com/evoluent.html >> recently, and I do love it. > > How the hell is a shape patentable? This is America

Re: [9fans] three sets of windows

2010-04-28 Thread jake
> you might have seen one and not even known it. Many mice > with a scroll wheel support pressing the scroll wheel as a 3rd > button. its not nearly as pleasant as a real button, but it "works". Sorry for the nitpicking, but isn't the scroll wheel usually button 2? It has been on all of my mice.

Re: [9fans] A simple experiment

2010-04-27 Thread jake
Nice work, but couldn't you just bind /n/sources/plan9/sys/src to the hg repo and push from there?