Re: [9fans] slightly on topic: pic preprocessor for drawing electronic circuits

2011-03-21 Thread maht
On 15/03/2011 22:07, Bruce Ellis wrote: Sounds cool. I'm using AVRs in the jeep fit out for the expedition. Anyone else here playing with these chips? yes, I have STK-500 dev kit a pile of chips I have a little runtime Forth-like for writing code

Re: [9fans] shaney turns 30!

2010-12-16 Thread maht
On 16/12/2010 07:57, Bruce Ellis wrote: my little buddy mark v. shany is about to turn 30. what a rascal. i found this today, which is when he was fascinated with kate, http://groups.google.com/group/net.singles/browse_thread/thread/e015681abe01adc6/b4b762de5d50e71d#b4b762de5d50e71d i'll have

Re: [9fans] portability question

2010-06-16 Thread maht
On 06/16/10 10:11, hugo rivera wrote: Can someone clarify why the program included outputs 'AB00' (as I expect) on 32 bit systems and 'AB00' on 64 bit systems? where all those 1's came from? what's the portable way of doing this? sorry for newbie questions like this.

Re: [9fans] Fossil robustness

2010-04-20 Thread maht
On 20/04/2010 11:45, Adriano Verardo wrote: Hi all. I'm building an industrial application hosted by several independent cpu server, each of them booted from a CFlash on sdD0. The application doesn't write on sdD0 and there are no redirection on local files in the cpurc scripts. In this

Re: [9fans] MPI

2010-04-01 Thread maht
On 01/04/2010 17:01, Corey Thomasson wrote: But OTOH, who's still making SOTA VHS players (ignoring the VHS/DVD combos and VHS-USB thingies) Search for : LG MG64 VHS VCR

Re: [9fans] native install

2010-03-29 Thread maht
On 29/03/2010 21:07, Georg Lehner wrote: maht wrote: Until today i'm just a stubborn believer in Plan9. Real world experience with this system is, that nothing else works (out of the box) and nobody else uses it, besides people working with and for Plan9 just for the sake of it. Sorry

Re: [9fans] native install

2010-03-28 Thread maht
Until today i'm just a stubborn believer in Plan9. Real world experience with this system is, that nothing else works (out of the box) and nobody else uses it, besides people working with and for Plan9 just for the sake of it. Sorry to hear you think like that. I've been using Plan9 for about

Re: [9fans] float overflow

2010-03-26 Thread maht
On 26/03/2010 11:58, hugo rivera wrote: maybe this doesn't happen on a native plan 9 installation loop% echo 1.75e308+1.75e308 | hoc hoc 6137: suicide: sys: fp: numeric overflow fppc=0x3004 status=0xb988 pc=0x3a75

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread maht
On 25/03/2010 14:08, erik quanstrom wrote: http://lwn.net/Articles/378219/ [...] anything which combines tricky locking and 30-line preprocessor macros is going to raise eyebrows. But the core concept here is simple: [...] oh, really? - erik Trying to acquire one

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread maht
On 25/03/2010 17:11, Corey Thomasson wrote: Not really related, but I got a good laugh from this. As soon as I opened this email in gmail, the targeted ad changed to Editing xml is difficult. well that is true, the following snippets are not the same, the second has two more nodes

Re: [9fans] native install

2010-03-24 Thread Maht
I'd like something where I could look at a list of components for an entire Plan 9 compatible machine, or see if anybody else is still using component X. John If it's been thrown in the trash, it should work great! I mean that as a slur against the upgrade cycle rather than Plan9, I have

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-17 Thread maht
Shame it doesn't have a cell phone radio built in, or Ron and I might have just what we needed for the 9phone. One of these days I'll have something like this on my desk http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9311

[9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread maht
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/

Re: [9fans] plan9 on qemu and 9vx

2010-03-12 Thread maht
On 12/03/2010 10:53, hugo rivera wrote: Hello, I have a Slackware installation running on my box. On top of it, I often use qemu to run plan9, but it's inconvenient to constantly keep track of the things I do there, like C programs, because many of them are also useful under Slackware (then I

Re: [9fans] Speed of 9pfuse on Linux

2010-02-10 Thread maht
Hi all, I am trying 9pfuse (p9p) on my Linux (Fedora 10), and the access to remote directories/files is extremly slow. Do I make something wrong? Thanks in advance. Pavel Two things you can test with : 1) real plan9 to the same place 2) qemu plan9 on Fedora to the same place It's

Re: [9fans] Venti r/o directory

2010-02-10 Thread maht
so you're completely disk bound? if disk activity on the windows box is also low, your venti machine must be suffering. It took just over 8 hours to copy 2.2Gb of data from an idle system to a mostly idle system. The network is 1gbit. So it's not maxing out the disk, not maxing out the

[9fans] Venti r/o directory

2010-02-09 Thread maht
Hi, I'm doing Windows - Venti using Limbo In general all is well. But when I unvac the resulting score with 9p9 on Debian it segfaults because 'My Documents' is dr-xr-x-- so unvac creates a read only directory and then tries to write into it. I've got round it for now by chmoding 770 'My

Re: [9fans] Venti r/o directory

2010-02-09 Thread maht
wouldn't it suffice to set temporary permissions of 777 and fixup when leavinging that directory? depth first, so it could be a while in between. Not really a massive problem but still an issue btw. it is a great way to backup. 1% of CPU while running, which is doubly fortunate

[9fans] In case anyone worries about block hash collision in venti

2010-02-06 Thread maht
http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6349-Perceived-Risk.html

Re: [9fans] partial cp

2010-01-26 Thread maht
modify the source of fc to specify an offset is probably your easiest solution if you want to carry on copying at the same speed. If you're going to start hacking fcp then just add a switch that says 'resume' and it works out the offset for you

Re: [9fans] partial cp

2010-01-25 Thread maht
On 25/01/2010 01:45, Akshat Kumar wrote: what are some suggested ways to copy just the rest of the file, without starting all over? dd

Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?

2010-01-25 Thread maht
On 23/01/2010 19:01, Rudolf Sykora wrote: Maybe it only happens once in 1000 times, but in that 0.1% of the time, my finger coming down on the return key accidentally hits the up arrow and the timing just so happens that I rerun the previous command instead of the one I just typed, sometimes

Re: [9fans] find command reloaded

2010-01-22 Thread maht
search the archives for mails subjected as : breadth first walking and du and find from December 2009 On 22/01/2010 17:29, Rudolf Sykora wrote: Hello, I've been wondering. The plan9 'replacement' for the (linux/unix-like) find command, according to the faq, is, in a way,

Re: [9fans] Independent study topic

2010-01-21 Thread maht
I've been lurking for the past few months and I've really enjoyed reading the messages from this list. I'm looking for some ideas or advice---here's the story: I'm pursuing a Master's degree in computer science at a small school with limited options for classes. I'm enrolled in a graduate-level

Re: [9fans] dataflow programming from shell interpreter

2010-01-21 Thread maht
On 20/01/2010 21:13, Eris Discordia wrote: Aren't DirectShow filter graphs and programs like GraphStudio/GraphEdit one possible answer to the video processing question? Filter graphs can be generated by any program, GUI or CLI, and fed to DirectShow provided one learns the in and out of

[9fans] Are we ready for DNSSEC ?

2010-01-20 Thread maht
By the end of May, all the root servers should be running DNSSEC http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/19/the-internet-is-about-to-get-a-lot-safer/ Is Plan9 ready for such a move?

[9fans] httpd

2010-01-20 Thread maht
Hi, I updated http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/httpd/* to sync with current source /n/sources/contrib/maht/httpd/* It adds -N option to stop it dropping to none which you have to be the hostowner to kill and logs any 404's to /sys/log/httpd/log I tried to see if it's

Re: [9fans] httpd

2010-01-20 Thread maht
As soon as I posted patch came back I've submitted it as httpd-none and changed -N to -u to match a different patch that does the same thing for another program

Re: [9fans] Just one piece o' help.

2010-01-14 Thread maht
The slightly unobvious part (unless you try man man) is : % man lookman which should lead you to % lookman cd which should logically make you try % man cdfs which explains about CD writing, damn hmm, the See Also sections says something with 9660 in it (your physical CD contains an

Re: [9fans] Just one piece o' help.

2010-01-14 Thread maht
I understand the everything is text idea except therefore, you don't :) everything is a file unless you can read cat /dev/screen

[9fans] pipefrom fun

2009-08-20 Thread maht-9fans
All being well this is a mail routed by my pipefrom /n/sources/contrib/maht/rc/pipefrom It has seen the outgoing address of 9fans and changed it to 9fans@9fans.net It has seen the outgoing address of 9fans@9fans.net and set upasname to be maht-9f...@maht0x0r.net

[9fans] [limbo] I tried keyring, but it was the wrong number

2009-07-30 Thread maht
unknown fn() Module $Keyring PC 1445847206 unknown fn() Module ./sign_test.dis PC 42 externalexec() sh.b:919.2, 30 rsa maht l7w4uJyl+UlC6y4cG/tGYaKRcb5ep1igRvlfumxj3aEBDHu1vKZsmMmHzHGCQZl1B9MlAdY+paCoNqP+In1nCcYdn9S9zIBACz9TLXIk9xGCKKhvPw5rlgSwPOEKVcK7O/kvMhZUOPKm+Woefgx9HaenWX2CqzUr56j8kFyZcN1Ax5

Re: [9fans] channels across machines

2009-07-24 Thread maht
It sounds to me like you have one specific problem you are trying to generalize by sending ADTs across the wire. Microsoft and IBM solved it with Com Corba - later picked up by GNOME for the same job - though, of course, they added RPC into the mix. XML, S-expr, JSON all try and solve the same

Re: [9fans] first timer - editing plan9.ini

2009-07-24 Thread maht
Though I'm guessing that I'll be installing Stefan's vim port asap - I'm _extremely_ happy that this exists. http://vmsplice.net/9vim.html If you want Linux, you know where to find it

Re: [9fans] a few misc. questions...

2009-07-24 Thread maht
ah, the latest n00b writing tutorials :) welcome to the club there is also this... http://www.magma.com.ni/moin/Plan9Tutorial So, I'm beginning with a tutorial

Re: [9fans] Does as little software as possible include a modern

2009-07-24 Thread maht
now if somebody can create a script to lookup words in dictionary.com preformatted without ads. :) cat $home/bin/rc/odict EOF #!/bin/rc hget http://dictionary.com/browse/$1 | htmlfmt | awk ' /dictionary results/, /Cite This Source/ {print } ' EOF chmod 755 $home/bin/rc/odict odict

Re: [9fans] Plan9 as an everyday OS

2009-07-10 Thread maht
Lorenzo Bolla wrote: Hi all, I've just installed (with few difficulties, I must admit) a fresh Plan9 on my Dell Inspiron laptop. I played with it and I'd really like to study it and get used to it. Ideally, I would like to make it my everyday OS, to do all the nice stuff you can do with a

Re: [9fans] ssh v2, using a remote linux server

2009-05-05 Thread maht
the problem with fgb's ssh2 (last time I used it) was that it didn't do many optional things like -L -R -p I had to fiddle with the source to get it to use port 222 (yay FOSS) So there's still room for some work if anyone's up for it

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-28 Thread maht
erik quanstrom wrote: I use ~ patterns for URI matching on my site what are ~ patterns? rc shell pattern matching

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-27 Thread maht
P.S. So far it seems that werc wouldn't be able to manage highly dynamic and volatile URI hierarchies as long as it is run under anything but Plan9. Ironically it doesn't seem to run there. I use ~ patterns for URI matching on my site http://ten.steponnopets.net/ it's a bit of a work

Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user

2009-04-23 Thread maht
Some potential enterprise users might also get interested in running many Plan 9 instances on Microsoft Virtual Server platform after seeing it run on Virtual PC (Due to its light weight Plan 9 may be a good choice for some virtual hosting services). might makes right ?

Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years

2009-04-21 Thread maht
one issue with multiple 9p requests is that tags are not order enforced consider the contrived directory tree 1/a/a 1/a/b 1/b/a 1/b/b Twalk 1 fid 1 Twalk 2 fid a Twalk 3 fid b Tag 3 could conceivably arrive at the server before Tag 2

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-20 Thread maht
cgi is more than parsing query strings, there are at least two other variable passing mechanisms x-www-form-encoded (query string as the POST body) and multipart/form-data - the sort that's required when uploading binary stuff. Common Gateway Interface is a 36 page RFC :

Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years

2009-04-20 Thread maht
9p is efficient as long as your latency is 30ms What kind of latency? For speed of light in fibre optic 30ms is about 8000km (New York to San Francisco and back) in that 30ms a 3.2Ghz P4 could do 292 million instructions There's an interesting article about it in acmq

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc.

2009-04-20 Thread maht
what could we do today, but don't quite dare? a Blue Ray writer does 50Gb per disk (we're supposed to be getting one soon, so maybe I can report back about this later) ArcVault SCSI autoloading tape drives do from 9.6tb - 76tb

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc.

2009-04-20 Thread maht
erik quanstrom wrote: what could we do today, but don't quite dare? a Blue Ray writer does 50Gb per disk (we're supposed to be getting one soon, so maybe I can report back about this later) ArcVault SCSI autoloading tape drives do from 9.6tb - 76tb

Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years

2009-04-20 Thread maht
J.R. Mauro wrote: What kind of latency? For speed of light in fibre optic 30ms is about 8000km (New York to San Francisco and back) Assuming you have a direct fiber connection with no routers in between. I would say that is somewhat rare. The author found that from

Re: [9fans] web server

2009-04-17 Thread maht
How difficult would it be to use rails or merb in plan9? Is it feasible? Not Rails or merb or anything non Plan 9 but a few of us are building an rc shell based system that works anywhere CGI and Plan 9 / plan9port is available. http://werc.cat-v.org/

Re: [9fans] security questions

2009-04-17 Thread maht
If you want true isolation between the users you should give them each a VM, not a Plan 9 account. Russ So we chose to use a VM, now we have two problems *http://tinyurl.com/cuul2m or *

Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-14 Thread maht
* * My Internet socializing now is mostly: - email - calling people with Skype - reading and commenting in blogs - posting in my own blogs - reading and posting in the Linux Questions forums - reading and posting on this list - Facebook better keep another system handy, fully

Re: [9fans] extensions of interest

2009-04-09 Thread maht
andrey mirtchovski wrote: i propose an extension to HTTP (call it HTTPeeLite) which allows me to specify in my request to that webpage the format in which i prefer to receive the man page. a 'setup' exchange can be sent beforehand to establish the available types of documentation (.doc, .pdf,

Re: [9fans] Fwd: New Chip (SEAforth 40C18) - New Challenge

2009-04-07 Thread maht
These docs aren't dated. they appeared in the last week or so, before that was a page saying TPL pulled funding and sacked Moore

Re: [9fans] Fwd: New Chip (SEAforth 40C18) - New Challenge

2009-04-07 Thread maht
It is just weird, all very deja vu. The previous generation of Moore's designs went through a similar quagmire to nowhere. Robby poor man, how stressful is that !

Re: [9fans] typed sh

2009-04-06 Thread maht
but rather that using text streams makes A|B possible for any A and any B and any input. What is this text of which you speak ? ASCII EBCDIC UTF-16 UTF-8 ISO8859 etc. etc. etc.

Re: [9fans] Fwd: New Chip (SEAforth 40C18) - New Challenge

2009-04-06 Thread maht
SeaForth is dead already http://colorforth.com/vTPL.htm http://colorforth.com/S40.htm Bruce Ellis wrote: Please share your experience. http://groups.google.com/group/casella brucee On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Pavel Klinkovsky pavel.klinkov...@gmail.com wrote: I am playing with

Re: [9fans] Raw Input Driver

2009-03-20 Thread maht
or perhaps more to the point the 'w' for wheel and 'p' for pedals? you'll never finish. My steering wheel combines 15 digital inputs (buttons) 3 analogue inputs (2 pedals and the wheel itself). My joystick has 3 analogues (2 axes of the stick + a throttle lever) If one presumes that an

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-18 Thread maht
not every environment is Plan 9 so /env is not an option. Arbitrary limits seem a bit, well, arbitrary ! (not that I'm complaining). With a flat memory address space and Gbs of memory chucking a realloc in there is not totally out of technical bounds. Using rc in werc neutralizes OS

Re: [9fans] small node

2009-03-12 Thread maht
From the picture, the thing has USB. Gotta be a way to DIY ethernet or wifi into it... http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/news/2008/12/24/1_New_driver_for_usb_ethernet_devices/

Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009

2009-03-06 Thread maht
* * organizing some bug-fixing weekends or install fests, improving performance and usability of Plan 9 in various VM's (since this is probably the safest way to ensure that a new user's install works the *first* time)... I sent a Plan9 Qemu qcow to the osZoo people a while ago but

Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

2009-03-05 Thread maht
That's a fact. If you have access to The ACM Queue, check out p16-cantrill-concurrency.pdf (Cantrill and Bonwich on concurrency). Or you can rely on one of the hackish attempts at email attachment management or whatever conceptual error lead to this :

Re: [9fans] my /dev/time for Linux

2009-03-05 Thread maht
nice one. Getting it upstream would be great. Another you know Y that's in Linux now, it's from Plan9, but if you want Plan9 you know where to find it (unless it's down today).

Re: [9fans] 9vx dns funny

2008-07-10 Thread maht
Nathaniel W Filardo wrote: Just a reminder, nothing novel: if you don't mind being root on the host briefly (to run ifconfig, brctl, and tunctl commands), you can create a new TAP interface (and use the file descriptor in 9vx to back a devether) and use Linux's bridging to get ethernet frames