Re: [9fans] Throwing in the Towel

2024-05-29 Thread Steve Simon
in case… so far so good. -Steve > On 29 May 2024, at 4:39 am, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > Finally,. SSDs just die over time. Especially if they are > not powered on and refreshing. JEDEC specs say that they > should retain data for 1 year unplugged when stored at 30 > degrees

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

2024-05-17 Thread Steve Simon
i got very suspicious at the mention of a procinfo syscall - unlikely in plan9, and i couldn't imagine a use for such a thing given we have /proc already. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te051f230f2656bbb

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
i read the paper. i can believe there are still bugs, truth be told there are bugs in most software. all i can say is in my experience i have not hit any since the ephemeral snapshot fix. Honestly fosdil has been solid for me; i hope i have not just jinx’ed it :-) -Steve > On 15 May 2

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
things the community does not wish to support. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tad3dc0c93039a7d2-M2f9ed7280e579942145b6ad1 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-14 Thread Steve Simon
coraid has an interesting history.How Silicon Valley can kill your business, by a man scolded by the machineinformation-age.comBrantley now has the Coraid name back too and is using plan9 to this day.-SteveOn 14 May 2024, at 5:39 pm, arn...@skeeve.com wrote:"B. Atticus Grobe" wrote:As for

Re: [9fans] VCS on Plan9

2024-04-18 Thread Steve simon
a VCS but the ability to get back to an atomic set of files representing a release would help a lot IMHO. -Steve > On 18 Apr 2024, at 21:41, Dan Cross wrote: > > Jujitsu -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/gro

Re: [9fans] dd(1) takes very long

2024-03-01 Thread Steve simon
, though I don't know what blocksize it uses offhand. -Steve > On 1 Mar 2024, at 09:39, Lucio De Re wrote: > > Increasing the dd block size (-bs 1024k or as big as the man pages > allow) could make a big difference. > > > On 3/1/24, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: >>> On

Re: [9fans] happy halloween

2023-11-01 Thread Steve Simon
very fine carving :-)-SteveOn 1 Nov 2023, at 5:51 am, fig wrote:glenda would’ve been way too hard to carve. plus the knife i had could barely have cut butter it was so dull. 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink

Re: [9fans] 9Legacy status

2023-09-04 Thread Steve Simon
hi don, yes it it. 9 legacy is the replacement for the labs sources repository in real terms. it is courteous to cross publish patch descriptions to 9front of course. sadly i have become all but inactive on plan9 these days, but hope i might get back to it. -Steve > On 4 Sep 2023, at 3

Re: [9fans] print() in kernel space doesn't work like I would think

2023-08-31 Thread Steve Simon
trycat /dev/kmesgorcat /dev/kprintOn 31 Aug 2023, at 4:44 pm, dusan3...@gmail.com wrote: I was editing plan9's realtime scheduler in /sys/src/9/port/edf.c and was trying to add a print to log something, but print didn't show anywhere(or I am looking at the wrong place). It has some prints in

Re: [9fans] Plan9 multi-core support

2023-08-29 Thread Steve Simon
think vaxes where becoming rather passé by the time plan9 was born. -Steve > On 28 Aug 2023, at 7:21 pm, Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 12:32:55PM +, G B via 9fans wrote: >> Windows and Linux began on single-core sing

Re: [9fans] Plan9 multi-core support

2023-08-28 Thread Steve Simon
ticore architectures. one of the 1st edition’s target hosts where sgi numa machines (challenge 2s i think) what i am saying is the plan9 kernel supported multiple processors from the very early days. i wonder if the lost vax kernel supported multiple cpu's (or maybe is was kenfs only?).

Re: [9fans] Standalone venti, fossil configuration

2023-08-18 Thread Steve Simon
://9p.io/sources/contrib/steve/doc/Venti-rescue.pdf this describes how they fit together. note this was more about rebuilding after a disc failure than installation but it might help. -Steve > On 18 Aug 2023, at 11:51 am, Marco Feichtinger wrote: > > I have a standalone venti,

Re: [9fans] PXE tftpload: file does not exist

2023-07-17 Thread Steve Simon
are you running the tftp server? > On 17 Jul 2023, at 4:38 pm, Marco Feichtinger wrote: > > I have a standalone file server, and a separate standalone auth server. > > I tried to pxe boot a cpu server. > It gets the /386/9boot to load fine, but then it seems, that it can’t > retrieve the

Re: [9fans] Re: iso expanded, mount list (dd) device

2023-07-07 Thread Steve Simon
9660srv - it mounts an iso as 9p file server in /srv/9660, so you need to do a mount(1) to actually see the contents.-SteveOn 7 Jul 2023, at 7:20 pm, Conor Williams wrote:ok... thank you Steve, well in...that particular train of thought leads me to another question...has you r a'yone

Re: [9fans] iso expanded, mount list (dd) device

2023-07-07 Thread Steve Simon
not quite sure i understand what you are asking, but perhaps ns(1) will show you what you want.-SteveOn 7 Jul 2023, at 6:59 pm, Conor Williams wrote:hello 9fannors...i wish to find the device? which the p9 iso file is mounted from...(a vm boot (i dont think that matters though...)e.g c drive is

Re: [9fans] [PATCH] fossil: fix a deadlock in the caching logic

2023-04-04 Thread Steve Simon
was this hard to reproduce?i have not seen fossil deadlocking and have used it since i installed my first home server in 2004.there definitely _was_ a problem in the snapshot code which was finally resolved around 2015 (roughly), i think perhaps skip, or forsyth found it - i apologise if i have

Re: [9fans] iwp9: papers announced

2023-03-14 Thread Steve Simon
seconded, excellent work all. i would like to buy the proceedings if they are going to be available as a bound volume. -Steve > On 14 Mar 2023, at 4:52 am, Lucio De Re wrote: > > Too far for me to travel, but there is a lot in the list I will be > extremely sorry to miss. &g

Re: [9fans] Mail 447: /mail/fs/mbox/: open: error

2023-01-16 Thread Steve Simon
i think you may not have created your mailbox. every user needs to create their own mailbox with “mail -c”.cron similarly with cron -cthis is usually done by the script /sys/lib/newuser which also creates your $home/lib/profile and some other bits.this needs to be done only once per user.-SteveOn

Re: [9fans] Statistics collection for Plan 9

2022-11-27 Thread Steve Simon
ps://9p.io/sources/contrib/stallion/src/collectd/ > > Usage is fairly straightforward, but I have not yet had a chance to > write a man page. If others are interested, I can also put a contrib > package together as well. > > Include: /tmp/screenshot.png > > Cheers, >

Re: [9fans] How can I compile c code written for plan9 in ANIS C compiler

2022-10-10 Thread Steve Simon
://www.quintile.net/magic/webls?dir=/quintile.net/pkg 9win.tbz These days I work on a Mac so plan9ports does all I need, and sadly I hardly ever touch real plan9 any more :-( -Steve > I think there are two ports of plan 9 utilities to windows, one of them > includes old (2nd ed?), and

Re: [9fans] How can I compile c code written for plan9 in ANIS C compiler

2022-10-06 Thread Steve Simon
apologies for completely missing the point, note to self: coffee first, then reply to mailing lists -Steve > On 6 Oct 2022, at 11:21, Charles Forsyth wrote: > >  > If you look at plan9port (eg, https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/), you'll see > how that's done f

Re: [9fans] How can I compile c code written for plan9 in ANIS C compiler

2022-10-06 Thread Steve Simon
enviroment which you can run ape/psh. this is a subshell which modifies your search path to pick up some different commands. there is a paper in /sys/doc which describes ape more throughly. -Steve > On 6 Oct 2022, at 01:16, _ resun wrote: > >  > Hi there! > > Is there any way

Re: [9fans] 9p server to multiply 9p messages?

2022-06-01 Thread Steve Simon
thought the idea had legs. -Steve > On 1 Jun 2022, at 4:56 pm, Jacob Moody wrote: > > hjfs is not exactly known for it's speed[0]. Running a cwfs > without a worm[1] is likely a more interesting comparison. > > I also would recommend using kvik's clone[2] for copying > in

Re: [9fans] ntohl, htonl,

2022-05-13 Thread Steve Simon
ntohl in libc? say its not so? -Steve > On 13 May 2022, at 10:23 pm, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > Quoth adr : >> so I imagined that some functions >> or macros could be defined already somewhere. > > They exist in fcall.h -- see GBIT/PBIT macros. > > I wou

Re: [9fans] factotum (was: Connect plan9 with Linux SMB resource)

2022-04-10 Thread Steve Simon
or two if i have any patches to contribute. -Steve > On 10 Apr 2022, at 1:15 pm, Tomás S. Javaloyes wrote: > > Thank you very much for the information. > > You are absolutely right: the documentation offered in /sys/doc offers > a lot of useful information to understa

Re: [9fans] plan9port spell and dict

2022-03-11 Thread Steve Simon
for that - i can dig out the tools i used/wrote but the cd is copyrighted i am afraid. -Steve > On 11 Mar 2022, at 11:40 am, Maurizio Boriani wrote: > >  > Hi all, > I'm playing with spell and dict programs in p9p but... Which kind or > where can I find dictionaries for d

Re: [9fans] licence question

2022-01-29 Thread Steve Simon
leave it at that. can we not keep 9fans supportive? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3e07bfdf263a83c8-M22900ad3431e89e22362249d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-01-29 Thread Steve Simon
search ebay for beatus mouse On 29 Jan 2022, at 1:22 am, adr wrote: Do you know where to buy the wired model? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T49f3cceea70d2b61-Me3a9d0fbf96e1b424073ffab Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-01-28 Thread Steve Simon
but they are still the best I have found. Google will find them quite easily. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T49f3cceea70d2b61-M975d2cab770926e40e414642 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Sponsoring a new Intro book by the Flan 9 Poundation

2022-01-24 Thread Steve Simon
i suggest first you check your facts carefully before publicly accusing anyone of anything. throwing unchecked accusations around is a good way to start an angry mob, and we all know how inclusive those tend to be. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink

Re: [9fans] Unable to load page in Abaco

2022-01-18 Thread Steve Simon
but not required for abaco -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1be0869af45e66b9-M96e6b633edb6383737333bc8 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Unable to load page in Abaco

2022-01-17 Thread Steve Simon
li looks like you are not running ndb/dns. you need to start this before webfs, and then start abaco after that. sadly the web has moved on a but since abaco was written - it used to render most pages quite well. These days its lack of javascript is more and more of a problem. -Steve On 17

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-30 Thread Steve Simon
thought experiment: imagine someone was commenting on the 9front mailing list how 9front was not worth bothering with and how the OP should use OSX. that would make the 9front people a little frustrated. > i don't know what aspect exactly of > "classic" computing motivates you > to

Re: [9fans] Autoexpand in sam

2021-09-26 Thread Steve Simon
i would use ,|spell which replaces the current window with sam’s output, then, having taken note of the errors, type u to undo and fix the mistakes. this is just personal choice of course. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com

Re: [9fans] UTF-8 characters in acme

2021-09-09 Thread Steve Simon
pretty much the only major change to sam since 87 was (i believe) the migration from ASCII (on Unix v10 and p9 Ed1) to utf-8. if you are not seeing unicode characters it is most probably because you don’t have a font with the appropriate glyphs. -Steve

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-06 Thread Steve Simon
mac and vnc from the mac does not work as well. thankfully p9p makes life bearable but i feel dishonest. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td6b6b3e98268ecde-M868413a2e84dc268a34a51a9 Delivery options: https

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-04 Thread Steve Simon
of documentation, the best info is a very simple example client, but even that has bugs it seems. i even considered writing a new plan9 specific protocol but that would mean delving into the internals of osx to hook it in… -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-04 Thread Steve Simon
i will bite i tried and faild to get cinap’s historic synergy client to work with a current synergy server on windows/linux/osx etc. the biggest pain is the wireshark disector is buggy and there is no real documentation for the protocol. not really selling it am i? -Steve

Re: [9fans] Codebase navigation and using tags files in acme

2021-08-20 Thread Steve Simon
through. i used it when i worked supporting solaris, it allowed me to find error messages and functions anywhere in the sourcecode quickly. i haven't run it in years but maybe it is of use to someone. http://www.quintile.net/pkg/xid.tbz -Steve -- 9fans

Re: [9fans] How to setup wifi on raspberry pi 4

2021-08-11 Thread Steve Simon
if the second raspberry pi is *not* running plan9 sshnet allows you to use its network interfaces (via ssh) for tcp connections. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3464a8c7bad3062a-M6fb3318c9ffecf7d59c88c82

Re: [9fans] nfs timeouts

2021-08-09 Thread Steve Simon
properly and nfs would fault. i never managed to get to the bittom of it and just used cifs(4) instead. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T060ac082dfe82490-M52b311702c9489b902170f3d Delivery options: https

Re: [9fans] Four numbers in /lib/sky/here

2021-07-28 Thread Steve Simon
hi, i suspect rob or ken would be the ones to ask, maybe something to do with some private flight planning or astronomy tool? -Steve On 27 Jul 2021, at 7:13 pm, Dan Cross wrote:  On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:53 PM Anthony Sorace wrote: > There are a few other things which also use that f

Re: Posix implementation of Plan 9 cpu(1) (Was: [9fans] Command to set samterm label)

2021-07-21 Thread Steve Simon
but i never got round to it - what i have just works. my current employer uses Macs rather than windows so this has fallen into disuse. i am happy to share if anyone has a use for it. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups

Re: Posix implementation of Plan 9 cpu(1) (Was: [9fans] Command to set samterm label)

2021-07-19 Thread Steve Simon
can edit in a nice environment. is this not enough? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T09fcdec9c87bfde4-M1d424bd90cc86bc378222ce4 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-25 Thread Steve Simon
in - traditionally there was no graphics support in cpu kernels for example. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T523d6e906a17a7cc-M105752d0fa6af0e964b6b87f Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Miller's 9pi image (rpi4) problems

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Simon
a few small changes > for different kernal interfaces, I checked it was in sync a few months ago > and expect it still is. > > I am afriad my progress stalled there. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fan

Re: [9fans] sam -d for DOS (FreeDOS)?

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Simon
did it so it cannot be that hard. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td3e9e80d496ae732-Mc3730843de0b09334ec57d9c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi400 Ethernet

2021-05-28 Thread Steve Simon
hi Brian, pi4 ether worked out of the box for me with richards kernel, i am running a kernel from Christmas. sadly i have had problems with usb3 which is on my todo list - usb2 devices work fine as do usb3 devices in usb2 sockets. -Steve -- 9fans

Re: [9fans] SFF 9legacy fileserver hardware

2021-04-28 Thread Steve Simon
machine which worked nicely but is a propper desktop machine even though its a mini ITX. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T055ff8c5321ac6a2-Mc7a0e6de37787474b588a3ea Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups

[9fans] p9f email address

2021-03-31 Thread Steve Simon
hi is there an email address to contact p9f directly? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta6a7f3df36695764-M37542a3e3d005c764b8773fe Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Olimex: these guys are keen electronic engineers.

2021-03-01 Thread Steve Simon
, and a successful project. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tef717f57ede82d4f-M52907a1a4ef038510e38255a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[9fans] git9 to tradational interface wrapper for go

2021-02-28 Thread Steve Simon
. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tecc998fe02d53302-M7d3a411f09bc3810ed0c0545 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] sshnet and the go dns resolver

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Simon
, and if that fails, returns the dns name it was given. i guess this is to allow name resolution to be tried at the remote host. i shall experiment a bit more. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T774469ff9f943e45

[9fans] sshnet and the go dns resolver

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Simon
convince go to use plan9’s own name resolution? can ssh (and thus sshnet) forward udp or is that not possible? thanks for any ideas -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T774469ff9f943e45-Me6b7b01e94fd355714ebf049

Re: [9fans] 2c/2l make sense, but why 1c/1l?

2021-02-23 Thread Steve Simon
I don't believe a 68000 compiler was ever released by the labs but there may have been one - some blit terminals had 68000s (and maybe gnots?) so its plausable. There was a port of the plan9 compilers to the VAX but I think its sourcecode was lost (jmk found an executable some years). -Steve

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
> How do we get involved in or become a member of the foundation? I too am interested in supporting plan9 in any form I can. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T973ff41a99053355-Mf8d4170c614f10a8bb00470f Deliv

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
is not the same as 9legacy but it is probably very close. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tc82939f1fda0e479-Mc8295ac9bec02a1f3b674a8d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[9fans] tbl page width

2021-02-09 Thread Steve Simon
hi, anyone any ideas how to inform tbl that i am using wide paper - well A4 landscape. i have tried .pl and the LL number register which tells the ms macros but tbl does’t appear to pick up this info. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https

Re: [9fans] Re: GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-02-08 Thread Steve Simon
there was a native plan9 dis interpreter that would run simple command line applications. on Andrey’s website i think. -Steve On 8 Feb 2021, at 8:49 pm, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: "Ethan Gardener" writes: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 7:16 AM, cigar562hfsp952f...@

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread Steve Simon
someone at the land (peter bosch?) dis a haupage video capture card. i am pretty sure i have a copy of the driver and user level app somewhere. this worked on an old pci card i had at one time. -Steve On 1 Feb 2021, at 8:32 pm, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: Anthony Sorace

[9fans] pi3 b+ and 5ghz wifi

2021-01-25 Thread Steve Simon
neighbours on the 2.4ghz band. 5ghz on the other hand looks fairly free. on the same topic - is 5ghz supported on the pi4 ? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tbb87a85e4d7ad382-M2a7471bf4613d890e1160698 Delivery options

Re: [9fans] authoritative source for u9fs?

2021-01-22 Thread Steve Simon
maybe i have missed something but i don’t think u9fs changed much. i added a fix, years ago, adding frogs for some of the weird stuff osx does to filenames. in my world it has been completely replaced by sshfs. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https

[9fans] cfs

2021-01-20 Thread Steve Simon
5 msize 8216 version '9P2000' <-server: Rversion tag 65535 msize 8216 version '9P2000' ->client: Rversion tag 65535 msize 8216 version '9P2000' <-client: Tauth tag 13 afid 402 uname steve aname ->server: Tauth tag 13 afid 402 uname steve aname &l

[9fans] now a usb question

2021-01-15 Thread Steve Simon
with MacOS. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te4f1ba89eb5fcde2-M75026368e036c6f0a1630d51 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] default profile and factotum

2021-01-14 Thread Steve Simon
cstore. I did't write this code put found it on the net (kudos to the original author). it means you can start drawterm with a just a click linux/osx/windows click and secstore password. It is less secure, but I am using this at home only. -Steve -- 9fans:

[9fans] default profile and factotum

2021-01-14 Thread Steve Simon
, but no. Is this by design? is there a reason for not binding in my factotum when I cpu(1) -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T776c75aaf99131e7-Me69fac4bf2f83af5660ae2d6 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com

[9fans] thin clints, confession and a freebie

2021-01-09 Thread Steve Simon
it... having said this, i am in the uk and postage to the usa is extortionate, so if you need it sent there i may want a contribution to postage. please make use of it, i never did. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] mice

2020-11-27 Thread Steve Simon
, and scroll windows (with the 9front changes). https://www.aliexpress.com/i/404785639.html -Steve > On 27 Nov 2020, at 11:04 pm, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 06:02:13PM -0500, fi...@lojanci.org wrote: >> Anybody has tried Unimouse on plan9port/linux?

[9fans] venti sealed arenas and ondisk format

2020-11-25 Thread Steve Simon
finally running vacfs what I would like is a vacfs like tool that can read the arenas, build the index in RAM and provide a 9p interface. any chance? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Taa8f31933c21889b

Re: [9fans] osc drawterm big sur

2020-11-20 Thread Steve Simon
submitted pull requests on github for these changes. -Steve > On 19 Nov 2020, at 2:59 pm, sirjofri wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm not on OSX, but: > > 19.11.2020 12:40:00 Steve Simon : >> there is no /mnt/term/dev/secstore device containing my secstore when i > authen

Re: [9fans] osc drawterm big sur

2020-11-19 Thread Steve Simon
authenticated to drawterm, so i need to authenticate to secstore again in my profile which is irritating. this may be by design as having drawterm know. all my secrets feels a bit foolish. it idefinitely feels much snappier than the old drawterm. thanks -Steve > On 19 Nov 2020, at 11:25 am, Dan

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi 4 stability dependent in RAM

2020-11-18 Thread Steve Simon
cycle, and fshalt -r can leave it wedged, again needing a power cycle. -Steve > On 19 Nov 2020, at 12:16 am, Thaddeus Woskowiak wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 6:18 PM Anthony Sorace wrote: >>> Richard asked: > ... >> Is this lightning bolt a hardware

[9fans] osc drawterm big sur

2020-11-18 Thread Steve Simon
. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8287ca5a12c53519-M137413bb19ac3e0bccdb5f8e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi 4 stability dependent in RAM

2020-11-14 Thread Steve Simon
> The pi4 is very sensitive to power supply voltage. absolutely, i had loads of problems with a lowly pi3+ until i tried an old ipad charger (2.5A i think), it has been stable since. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/gro

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2020-10-20 Thread Steve Simon
to import the PEM certificate (profile as apple calls it) into my phone. What have I missed? why can't tlssrv find my key in my factotum? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8c668826e19cec6f-M1d9551c7eaf5e77dabb75593

Re: [9fans] Flakey DNS server

2020-10-07 Thread Steve Simon
i still use the labs dns server and have no problems, but my configuration is quite straightforward. sorry not to be more help. -Steve > On 7 Oct 2020, at 6:08 am, Lucio De Re wrote: > > It would take me a long time to get to grips with the Plan 9 DNS > server (believe me

Re: [9fans] Sad news.

2020-09-29 Thread Steve Simon
 Oh hell, Andrey was a great guy, we had some long chats on IRC back in the day. I regret losing contact in recent years. All my best to his family. -Steve > On 28 Sep 2020, at 9:39 pm, Don Bailey wrote: > >  > --89bce305b064cfb9 > Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [9fans] git9: https support

2020-02-10 Thread Steve Simon
fwiw i run something approximating 9legacy -the labs kernel with some patches. i run 9front’s webfs. it it better in every way. -Steve > On 10 Feb 2020, at 1:49 pm, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > >  >> >> >> due to popular demand (...and my own need), I got arou

Re: [9fans] notes on fossil, ANTS, and 9front/Bell labs controversies

2020-01-11 Thread Steve Simon
boot procedure of course. 9front booting uses a full kernel to bootstrap (correct me if i am wrong) so tls is not a problem there. anyway, fossil does not have tls and i would like to have. such a change would mean changes to the labs distro boot proceedure -Steve > On 11 Jan 2020, at 10:42

Re: [9fans] notes on fossil, ANTS, and 9front/Bell labs controversies

2020-01-11 Thread Steve Simon
fyi i have been running a fossil/venti pair since 2004 and it has been solid. what is too big - honest question. i thought the biggest issues are: performance - the elegance and generality sacrifice some performance, though this is not a problem for me. lack of a tls fs interface - there

[9fans] go on plan9 - what doesn’t work?, ports list?

2019-12-28 Thread Steve Simon
server for music and movies on plan9. there is a nifty ine in go (DMS) but anyone already tried porting it? thanks for any/all help, -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T25dc9fda4f99337a-Mb42f463b44f03868803a504c

Re: [9fans] Gmail vs upas

2019-11-28 Thread Steve Simon
hi, i receive mail on plan9 so i dont use gmail. you sure you didn't forget to install a new x509 thumbprint in /sys/lib/tls/mail? -Steve On 28 Nov 2019, at 3:40 pm, Steven Stallion wrote: > > All, > > Is anyone still fetching Gmail these days? After bringing my old >

[9fans] mice

2019-11-26 Thread Steve Simon
buy a contour mouse one of these days. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9911dd6a42b7bc91-M08e2048b49deb783537c9890 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

[9fans] plan9port on osx

2019-11-08 Thread Steve Simon
misfires. anyone found better software, or do i have just go back to traditional mouse? -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Teef4e32e6f6c10de-M7f073acf64051bcc74efd622 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com

Re: [9fans] banishment of nuisance IP addresses

2019-11-05 Thread Steve Simon
no “fw” not sure what that is. as it happens i turned off ipv6 last night. it was causing problems with smtp which i fail to understand, maybe tls certificate, i am not sure. the banishment code works fine for ipv6 -Steve > On 5 Nov 2019, at 10:02 am, Sergey Zhilkin wrote: > >  &

Re: [9fans] banishment of nuisance IP addresses

2019-10-29 Thread Steve Simon
(if the incomming connection is successful). ugh. Even _if_ that would work its a real pain. oh well, nice idea, but no bananna. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te00ed62cf5d85d9e-M4d3ca138d4a82de48a303955 Delivery options

[9fans] banishment of nuisance IP addresses

2019-10-29 Thread Steve Simon
, but feels a little crude. I would be interested if anyone has a more elegant solution. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tdfbfcf822b637ab5-M4e4c1663200a71a70be33a38 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] Request for (constructive?) comments: Plan 9 : 2020

2019-10-23 Thread Steve Simon
hi, i love the idea, what concerns me is the cost of a flight from the UK to Michigan. we shall see what tickets i can find. -Steve > On 23 Oct 2019, at 6:49 am, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > >  >> >> Jeff (jas) and I have been chatting about organizing a "

[9fans] lets encrypt

2019-10-17 Thread Steve Simon
hi anyone using let's encrypt to generate signed certificates for tls, and is using a scripted interface on plan9 to refresh them every 60 days? care to share the details. -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

[9fans] auth server on a different port

2019-10-17 Thread Steve Simon
but maybe the auth entry that ties to needs to have tcp!host!port ? ta, -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td2f34428c3bf5dfa-M43009dc9c8d656e871446b73 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-10-08 Thread Steve Simon
if you mount an iso containing a _CONFORM.MAP on plan9 with 9660srv it translates the filenames for you. -Steve

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-25 Thread Steve Simon
> http://9p.io/sources/contrib/steve/historic/2nd-edition/pcdist/README t  that was my stuff, but its only the documentation that was published, not the code. there was a single floppy demo which might be around. I do have a 2nd edition license but i would not release the code without s

Re: [9fans] building Alef language

2019-09-24 Thread Steve Simon
You need a license to run the 1st and 2nd ed. The 2nd ed books/cds (and thus the license) have not been printed for a long time. the images may have leaked but i think we should still try to respect the terms of the license. -Steve > On 23 Sep 2019, at 2:01 am, Sean Hinchee wr

Re: [9fans] go under plan9 on the radpberry pi?

2019-09-20 Thread Steve Simon
hi, thanks richard, this is perfect i could not have asked for more. -Steve On 20 Sep 2019, at 9:43 am, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >> Only lightly tested. > > In a sense, plan9/arm go is tested as well as any other platform: > under the go continuou

Re: [9fans] go under plan9 on the radpberry pi?

2019-09-19 Thread Steve Simon
it is painful, you mean the pi is slow? thanks for the help. -Steve > On 20 Sep 2019, at 5:37 am, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > Matthew Veety writes: > >> Building anything on a raspberry pi is a bit of a chore. I highly=20 >> recommend running go on your cpu server and/or

[9fans] go under plan9 on the radpberry pi?

2019-09-19 Thread Steve Simon
hi all, does go run under plan9 on the radpberry pi or only on x86? thanks, -Steve

Re: [9fans] raspberry pi 4 arm64 test image

2019-08-22 Thread Steve Simon
hi all just to say i am very excited abou the pi4 port but am on holiday in France at the moment so i cannot even help with testing. -Steve On 22 Aug 2019, at 9:07 am, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >> oh dear. i dont even know the expected physical memory map..

[9fans] 5c bug

2019-07-25 Thread Steve Simon
ut the worry is that this bug might be affecting other things. I have no knowledge of the internals of the compilers so I am afraid I have made no attempt to dig deeper. -Steve

Re: [9fans] Git/fs: Possibly Usable

2019-07-12 Thread Steve Simon
I agree 100%, well done Ori, I will be trying this soon, I am in the process of changing jobs at the moment so I am a bit distracted but the new job will include git so I Will be needing it. -Steve > On 12 Jul 2019, at 19:27, Patrick Marchand wrote: > > Hi Ori, > > On 07/08

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