Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-08 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
no joke. TSA is enforcing the no-nickname policy. if you're Robert and your ticket says Rob, prepare to be harassed. Me, I see us sitting in the hotel lobby one evening surrounded by pitchers and wires and boards and maybe soldering irons. I already almost got thrown out a nice hotel for

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-07 Thread Mechiel Lukkien
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:50:18PM -0700, ron minnich wrote: I'd like to have a hack session the wed. morning before IWP9. What I'd like to propose is a sheeva plugfest. People commit to bringing a plug and we get them set up to run Plan 9. Any interest? inferno might be a good target

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-07 Thread Tim Newsham
Me, I see us sitting in the hotel lobby one evening surrounded by pitchers and wires and boards and maybe soldering irons. I already almost got thrown out a nice hotel for doing that sort of thing ... that's all it takes nowadays I guess. http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/paranoia.jpg ron

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
I'll try to get an european version here. But have to check out that I can get it on time. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:04 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros n...@lsub.org wrote: I'm interested, but don't have one yet :( I am  

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Should have come up with that before people booked travel. Thursday night at a pub perhaps? Sent from my iPhone On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:50 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to have a hack session the wed. morning before IWP9. What I'd like to propose is a sheeva plugfest.

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Charles Forsyth
Or is there a way via the usb port to get serial console (does not seem so from block diagram) yes. the mini-usb connector is, in fact, a reverse rs232-usb device that puts the internal rs232 console on that external connector on usb. you can just plug it in to a usb connection on another

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Iruata Souza
i second that. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.com wrote: Should have come up with that before people booked travel.  Thursday night at a pub perhaps? Sent from my iPhone On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:50 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to have a

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Charles Forsyth
I'll try to get an european version here. the device itself still has a US style plug attached to it. the only difference is that it comes with one of those power leads with a figure-8 connector and a plug (UK in my case but presumably euro in yours). to use that, you need to unscrew the US

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread ron minnich
There's nothing says we can not hack thursday night as well. I proposed wed. as I am there at that time and it's an empty slot. By thursday there may be enough things going on that it's hard to do the hack time. Me, I see us sitting in the hotel lobby one evening surrounded by pitchers and wires

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:38 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: oh yeah, I assume the first step to hacking these is cracking them open? Or is there a way via the usb port to get serial console (does not seem so from block diagram) Mechiel told me there was a way to get a serial out

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Or we could just brick Gorka's powerbook again! -eric On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Gorka Guardiola pau...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:38 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: oh yeah, I assume the first step to hacking these is cracking them open? Or is there a

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Joseph Stewart
I have some weird PPC-based IBM devices I'm willing to give away to those inclined to hack on (hey, it's either this or the trash). -joe On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.comwrote: Or we could just brick Gorka's powerbook again! -eric On Tue, Oct 6, 2009

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Joseph Stewart joseph.stew...@gmail.com wrote: I have some weird PPC-based IBM devices I'm willing to give away to those inclined to hack on (hey, it's either this or the trash). bring 'em on. let's see. ron

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
Or you can setup Plan9 on my gumstix cluster :) On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:50 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to have a hack session the wed. morning before IWP9. What I'd like to propose is a sheeva plugfest. People commit to bringing a plug and we get them set up to run

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Latchesar Ionkov lu...@ionkov.net wrote: Or you can setup Plan9 on my gumstix cluster :) bring that one too! ron

Re: [9fans] IWP9 hack session

2009-10-06 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Oct 6 22:34:46 EDT 2009, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Latchesar Ionkov lu...@ionkov.net wrote: Or you can setup Plan9 on my gumstix cluster :) bring that one too! i've got a SAS disk with a dual-core arm processor. it's got 32mb of memory. do you