Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Dec 19 20:54:04 EST 2013, conor.willi...@gmail.com wrote: ack, thanks... On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:44 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: here you go... effectless... apologies from Windows Movie Maker ... also on google+ problem diagnosed. mwait

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-23 Thread Blake McBride
I am having trouble with that link. Is it correct? Thanks. Blake On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:11 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Thu Dec 19 20:54:04 EST 2013, conor.willi...@gmail.com wrote: ack, thanks... On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:44 AM, erik quanstrom

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-23 Thread David Arnold
http://newftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2 resolves (www vs. newftp). d On 24/12/2013, at 9:44 AM, Blake McBride wrote: I am having trouble with that link. Is it correct? Thanks. Blake On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:11 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Thu Dec

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-23 Thread erik quanstrom
http://newftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2 resolves (www vs. newftp). i'm sorry should be ftp, though. thanks for the correction! - erik

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-23 Thread Blake McBride
Thanks for the new boot trial. I am still getting an error on my HP as follows: ehci . qh . timed out (no inter?) It did boot but I am getting those errors on the screen. Please let me know if more info would be helpful. Hope this helps. Thanks! Blake On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:03

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Dec 23 22:14:10 EST 2013, bl...@mcbride.name wrote: Thanks for the new boot trial. I am still getting an error on my HP as follows: ehci . qh . timed out (no inter?) It did boot but I am getting those errors on the screen. Please let me know if more info would be

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-23 Thread Blake McBride
Hope my feedback is a help. I'm ready to try more whenever you are. Thanks! Blake On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:30 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Mon Dec 23 22:14:10 EST 2013, bl...@mcbride.name wrote: Thanks for the new boot trial. I am still getting an error on my HP

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Dec 23 22:37:27 EST 2013, bl...@mcbride.name wrote: Hope my feedback is a help. I'm ready to try more whenever you are. it is, but also as anyone else is, you are welcome to submit patches fixing issues. apatch/create issuename email@sub.domain file - erik

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-19 Thread Conor Williams
cool man, nice follow up... it's the bell-labs one is code 87... your one was fine but it crashed... and that was the pic I sent... don't worry too much about it... gonna get some of my old hardware after christmas, that I know is supported... I will let you know what happens then my friend...

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Dec 19 17:36:48 EST 2013, conor.willi...@gmail.com wrote: cool man, nice follow up... it's the bell-labs one is code 87... your one was fine but it crashed... and that was the pic I sent... don't worry too much about it... gonna get some of my old hardware after christmas, that I

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-19 Thread Conor Williams
sorry, that went horribly wrong, give me a minute... On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Conor Williams conor.willi...@gmail.comwrote: wmv ok?... they are also on my google+ On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Conor Williams conor.willi...@gmail.com wrote: and would you believe, i have

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-19 Thread erik quanstrom
here you go... effectless... apologies from Windows Movie Maker ... also on google+ problem diagnosed. mwait required. perhaps i got a bit exuberant requiring mwait support. i'll take a look at this but this evening i'm taking a look at a few bits with the 40gbe driver. - erik

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-19 Thread Conor Williams
ack, thanks... On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:44 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: here you go... effectless... apologies from Windows Movie Maker ... also on google+ problem diagnosed. mwait required. perhaps i got a bit exuberant requiring mwait support. i'll take a

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-18 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Dec 18 04:48:29 EST 2013, conor.willi...@gmail.com wrote: i'm getting an error code 87 writing usbdisk to my key: according to the web: The second fix prevents USB Image Tool from restoring invalid images in device mode. A valid device mode image has to be multiple of 512. If

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-16 Thread tyrrell t
Well if you can't compile limbo code with GCC, then hey, the idea is the immortal virus. From: dav...@pobox.com Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:54:12 +1000 To: 9fans@9fans.net CC: dav...@pobox.com Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9 On 24/10/2013, at 5:57 PM, Keith wrote: Who here

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-16 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 16 December 2013 19:51, tyrrell t tyrre...@live.com wrote: compile limbo code with GCC gcc? clang, surely!

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-16 Thread Blake McBride
I apologize for that statement. I made it before I knew of 9Front and 9Atom. From what I saw, the code hadn't changed in a long time, and wouldn't boot in any environment I had. All that is false when you take into account 9Front and 9Atom. I now have 9Front running fine, and, in fact, I am

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Dec 16, 2013, at 16:47 , Blake McBride bl...@mcbride.name wrote: All that is false when you take into account 9Front and 9Atom. I run and highly recommend 9atom, but what you'd said is false even just taking into account the mainline distribution from Bell Labs. It is updated regularly, but

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-16 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Dec 15, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Tristan 9p...@imu.li wrote: and then there's chuck moore. I’m still rooting for GreenArrays as there are a few projects where they chips would actually do well. But now that they’re accepting bitcoin, who knows, who knows. -jas

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-16 Thread Bruce Ellis
GreenArrays rocks. I still have no idea what to with all the cores. I've found that writing a go package that generates fun forth is fun. brucee On 17/12/2013 11:32 AM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: On Dec 15, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Tristan 9p...@imu.li wrote: and then there's

[9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Blake McBride
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:55 AM, trebol trebol55...@aol.com wrote: . The lack of a web browser capable of deal with today's madness and the portability limitation of ape (at least for a ignorant like me) forcesme to deal with other OS I have to install and maintaining, so the simplicity

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Bence Fábián
If bringing Plan 9 to the masses will bring forth stuff like C++ and Java, I will fight against it till my dying breath. Jokes aside. People don't want to use computers. People want to use apps. Noone will like Plan 9. Where you have to read manuals. They hate that. If you like Plan 9, and

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Blake McBride
I, respectfully, disagree. The end purpose of any OS, platform, or program is to perform some sort of function. That end function is called an app. An app can be targeted at a programmer or a dumb user. The underlying environment (including tools) determines the available facilities a

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Bence Fábián
Bottomline is this: People would never use software like that. The ones who do are already familiar with Plan 9 and weighted pros and cons years ago. 99,9% of the potential users are already on this mailing list and watched this exact same exchange a dozen times. 2013/12/15 Blake McBride

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Blake McBride
Couldn't agree more. On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Keith orangecal...@gmail.com wrote: Who here remembers/knows of the vision for the apple newton? The iPad realized it when the technology was able and the time was right. Who is to say the same couldn't be said for 9?

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Oleg
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:05:53AM -0600, Blake McBride wrote: In spite of some really great ideas, I think we'd all agree that Plan-9 has no real future. On the other hand, I believe that some of the best ideas Plan-9 brings us can and should be a part of the future. I think the best, most

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Blake McBride
All of this talk sound like someone saying: imagine the hurdles of sending a man to the moon. how can man fly when his weight to strength ratio is so poor The only limit is ones imagination and creativity. Blake On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Oleg lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: On

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Steve Simon
I have no desire to develope c++ code on plan9 but if there was a simple way to cross compile c++ applications for plan9 that would be great - firefox being the obvious one. This has been done to death, and the closest we ever came to it (IMHO) was cinap's linuxemu - this allowed you to run the

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Blake McBride
Linux, android, Windows, and iOS all reached a critical mass in terms of programmer and end-user apps in order to survive. Plan-9 did not. A quality web browser on Plan-9 is critical to its usefullness by many. But this is just one major piece among many. On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:18 PM,

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Steve Simon
But this is just one major piece among many. Perhaps for you but not for me, the only thing is really missi s a browser. Very occasuinally I need to edit word documents but this is rare enough that I don't really care. -Steve

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Blake McBride
major piece among many can be more precisely stated as many pieces among many in order for the platform to achieve a critical mass of users. On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: But this is just one major piece among many. Perhaps for you but not for me,

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Oleg
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 01:13:38PM -0600, Blake McBride wrote: All of this talk sound like someone saying: imagine the hurdles of sending a man to the moon. how can man fly when his weight to strength ratio is so poor No. This sounds like: why do much of useless work? To not lose

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread erik quanstrom
I, respectfully, disagree. The end purpose of any OS, platform, or program is to perform some sort of function. That end function is called an app. the distinction between the os an application is illusionary. redefineing terms a little bit doesn't clear anything up. what an os allows one

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Bence Fábián
Linux already has many good things, like a namespaces, Have you tried using *CLONE_NEWNS* in Linux? I did. It's a joke. You need to have *CAP_SYS_ADMIN.* And you need to hack back Constants what has since have been missing from headers. You need to allocate your stack. Backwards! It's not even

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride bl...@mcbride.name: All of this talk sound like someone saying: imagine the hurdles of sending a man to the moon. how can man fly when his weight to strength ratio is so poor The only limit is ones imagination and creativity. Blake No. Lack of training, an

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Oleg
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 09:43:27PM +0100, Bence F??bi??n wrote: Linux already has many good things, like a namespaces, Have you tried using *CLONE_NEWNS* in Linux? I did. It's a joke. I didn't say that this things are implemented well :-). I just say that linux has good things in direction

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Bence Fábián
Ok. Make wonders, then demo them next year on iwp9. 2013/12/15 Oleg lego12...@yandex.ru On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 09:43:27PM +0100, Bence F??bi??n wrote: Linux already has many good things, like a namespaces, Have you tried using *CLONE_NEWNS* in Linux? I did. It's a joke. I didn't say

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Lee Fallat
...Tell that to the people who are maintaining 9front and 9atom. Oh wait, you just did. My personal opinion: Plan 9 in its forked form will continue to be used and worked for a long time. Hell, there are people still using Amigas for serious computing! I too many times thinking about bringing

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Blake McBride bl...@mcbride.name: This whole discussion has devolved into a political left vs. right like debate. Suffice it to say that without a critical mass of users, Bell Labs and/or Alcatel-Lucent will drop it, it will experience insufficient support from the user base at large,

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Blake McBride
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Lee Fallat ircsurfe...@gmail.com wrote: ...Tell that to the people who are maintaining 9front and 9atom. I wasn't aware of those two. Thanks!

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Matthew Veety
On 12/15/2013 4:17 PM, Blake McBride wrote: This whole discussion has devolved into a political left vs. right like debate. Suffice it to say that without a critical mass of users, Bell Labs and/or Alcatel-Lucent will drop it, it will experience insufficient support from the user base at large,

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Tristan
Suffice it to say that without a critical mass of users, Bell Labs and/or Alcatel-Lucent will drop it, it will experience insufficient support from the user base at large, and it will suffer bit-rot until it won't boot anywhere anymore. plan 9 is sane enough that one person can maintain it

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread erik quanstrom
plan 9 is sane enough that one person can maintain it for their own use. given the state of other systems that probably doesn't appear possible. that's probably the most important idea that i've taken from plan 9. +1. - erik

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread Blake McBride
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Bence Fábián beg...@gmail.com wrote: This whole discussion has devolved into all the exact same discussions when someone comes to save us from ourselves. If you are too lazy to look into the archives at least read this: http://jfloren.net/b/2012/4/27/0 Yes,

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread David Arnold
On 24/10/2013, at 5:57 PM, Keith wrote: Who here remembers/knows of the vision for the apple newton? The iPad realized it when the technology was able and the time was right. Who is to say the same couldn't be said for 9? I suspect that Plan9ers will be as disappointed as Newtonians at the