Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-10 Thread kvik
> > What I notice - correct me if I am mistaken - is that any comparison between > 9front and 9legacy seems to needle a few members (very few, there are many > names from that community that have not participated, specifically the ones I > know hand have long respectes, ask them) of the 9front

Re: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front

2024-05-09 Thread kvik
> Installing fossil on 9front is not really difficult. Correct. You only need to grab the source of it from your favorite vendor, place it into right places and build it like any other system program. Here's a script I wrote some years ago to do exactly that: https://hg.sr.ht/~kvik/fossil

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-28 Thread kvik
> Thanks, I know that; I was asking where the list comes from since the > one I remembered to be in the old wiki apparently died with it. I pulled most of the articles into a new wiki, including the unix29 lists. No information considered dead. -- 9fans:

Re: [9fans] Software philosophy

2021-08-19 Thread kvik
Quoth Lucio De Re : > What seems to be harped upon by the vocal defenders of 9front, > however, is this fictional idea that there is another community, let's > call them "9legacy", that is attempting to subvert 9front's efforts to > gain some kind of recognition in the bigger picture. The core

Re: [9fans] Help with a sam cleanup script

2021-07-27 Thread kvik
> Just pushed it to https://github.com/iru-/sam9f-unix. It might be > outdated, but I still use it daily. It seems that you imported two months before '^' and '_' got added (in 758496ecaa42b5f6c17c0bd1e0f43189e50e0745). There have been a few other changes very useful for scripting, like the $%

Re: [9fans] recover(4) go rewrite

2021-05-11 Thread kvik
> I needed recover(4) on windows, I rewrote most if it in go. Where can the original version be found? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1d7bf3c39e885267-Md508afb3d00a30003d676ee0 Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] Transfer of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation

2021-03-31 Thread kvik
> It’s all the code that everyone is using. > The issue is that there is some code in Plan 9 not written at > Bell Labs which doesn't explicitly specify any license. What actual code are you reffering to? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Flakey DNS server

2020-10-08 Thread kvik
> I can tell if 9front has a fixed version of ndb/dns or not myself Other than the 96 patches to cmd/ndb logged into 9front hg repo there's countless others pertaining to dependencies of the ndb set that might have solved your particular issue. FWIW I've been running ndb/dnstcp on 9front as a

[9fans] Simple Way to Naturally Detopicbox Your Mail

2020-05-10 Thread kvik
fn detopicbox { ssam ' ,x@\n\n-+.+\n.+\n.+\n.+\n@ g@^Permalink: https:\/\/.+\.topicbox\.com@ g@^Delivery options: https:\/\/.+\.topicbox\.com@ d' } -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Getting git9 -- moved to github.

2020-02-02 Thread kvik
> git/fetch git+ssh://g...@git.ff.co.za:23456/waspa/console.git The port can be specified natively through the dialstring technology: git/fetch git+ssh://git@net!git.ff.co.za!23456/waspa/console.git It may be useful to add support to git9 for translating :port notation to a

Re: [9fans] /mail/lib/rewrite and net!$smtp

2019-12-06 Thread kvik
I'd start by making sure $smtp is expanded from the environment or the ndb at all. The error message: translating net!$smtp!smtp: seems to suggest it isn't. Try poking the ndb directly, like so: ndb/query ipnet 9front smtp --

Re: [9fans] Gmail vs upas

2019-11-28 Thread kvik
> unfortunately it doesn't look like anything is being logged Turns out I misremembered where upas/fs logs the failure: ; upas/fs -f /imaps/imap.gmail.com/$gmail upas/fs: opening /imaps/imap.gmail.com/$gmail: imap.gmail.com/imaps:cert for imap.gmail.com not recognized:

Re: [9fans] Gmail vs upas

2019-11-28 Thread kvik
Check /sys/log/mail for a fingerprint. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te20476748ab5e4ba-M519efe14ca0b3cb7c3836dee Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Gmail vs upas

2019-11-28 Thread kvik
Adding the fingerprint will work if you are lucky, once, or maybe twice. In my experience almost every new connection required redoing the above -- which wasn't very fun so I ended up forwarding gmail into a sub-mailbox under my control and haven't looked back. Working with their SMTP has the

Re: [9fans] Plan9 global product testing.

2019-11-12 Thread kvik
> I welcome any feedback on the notion After reading your mail I know far less about the "notion" than I did a couple hundred years ago. I'm invested in learning anything at all about the digital product in the future. -- kvik -- 9fans: 9f