Re: [9fans] drawterm hangups

2009-08-18 Thread erik quanstrom
every so often using drawterm (mac os version) i've been getting a hangup. it's not a sudden thing - rio continues running, but first i lose keyboard input, then mouse input. wireless connection to the server? - erik

[9fans] drawterm hangups

2009-08-18 Thread roger peppe
every so often using drawterm (mac os version) i've been getting a hangup. it's not a sudden thing - rio continues running, but first i lose keyboard input, then mouse input. it seems to be to do with one window, which was probably in rawon mode. if i get access to the rio session via another

Re: [9fans] drawterm hangups

2009-08-18 Thread roger peppe
2009/8/18 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: wireless connection to the server? nope. the server is VMware on the same machine. the connection itself is fine (i see text appear in the rio windows when writing to their cons files, for example) i've been getting this happening once a week or

[9fans] vmware oddity (Fusion on Mac OS X)

2009-08-18 Thread David Leimbach
Just fired up my plan 9 image in VMWare, and I noticed that gnot is showing a large amount of interrupts, and then the whole tracking of the system interrupts goes to nothing, the mouse stops working, and things are generally frozen. However, the odd bit is at one point time seemed to speed up and

Re: [9fans] vmware oddity (Fusion on Mac OS X)

2009-08-18 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Aug 18 10:28:44 EDT 2009, leim...@gmail.com wrote: now i am getting repeated soverflow for fx-in messages repeatedly. it sounds like the interrupt handler takes long enough that there is no time to process the incoming frames. i wonder, are you running venti? - erik

Re: [9fans] vmware oddity (Fusion on Mac OS X)

2009-08-18 Thread David Leimbach
now i am getting repeated soverflow for fx-in messages repeatedly. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:20 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: Just fired up my plan 9 image in VMWare, and I noticed that gnot is showing a large amount of interrupts, and then the whole tracking of the system

Re: [9fans] vmware oddity (Fusion on Mac OS X)

2009-08-18 Thread David Leimbach
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:32 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: On Tue Aug 18 10:28:44 EDT 2009, leim...@gmail.com wrote: now i am getting repeated soverflow for fx-in messages repeatedly. it sounds like the interrupt handler takes long enough that there is no time to process

Re: [9fans] vmware oddity (Fusion on Mac OS X)

2009-08-18 Thread erik quanstrom
it sounds like the interrupt handler takes long enough that there is no time to process the incoming frames. i wonder, are you running venti? I am, and venti took a long time to start at boot this time around. I suppose I should just run fossil in vmware. well, there are a couple

Re: [9fans] sed oddity

2009-08-18 Thread Uriel
Interesting, this reminds me of a question I had: is there any command that would read from stdin, and write to stdout, but if there was an error when writing to stdout it would ignore it and continue reading stdin? It is trivial to do it in C, but don't want to require an extra program just to

Re: [9fans] drawterm hangups

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Simon
I am using ppc drawterm under osx quite a bit and have never seen this problem. Not sure if that helps or not... -Steve

Re: [9fans] sed oddity

2009-08-18 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Urielurie...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, this reminds me of a question I had: is there any command that would read from stdin, and write to stdout, but if there was an error when writing to stdout it would ignore it and continue reading stdin? It is trivial

Re: [9fans] sed oddity

2009-08-18 Thread erik quanstrom
is there some reason why sed doesn't check for write errors on its stdout? (or at least it doesn't report them) /n/sources/patch/sederrors while i agree that sed seems more complicated that i would like when debugging, eating errors seems like the wrong thing to do. it seems easy enough

Re: [9fans] sed oddity

2009-08-18 Thread roger peppe
2009/8/18 Uriel urie...@gmail.com: Interesting, this reminds me of a question I had: is there any command that would read from stdin, and write to stdout, but if there was an error when writing to stdout it would ignore it and continue reading stdin? It is trivial to do it in C, but don't want

[9fans] The first annual Hello, World challenge

2009-08-18 Thread ron minnich
See this: http://www.wxwidgets.org/docs/tutorials/hworld2.txt Well, they just seem to keep getting longer. Your goal: hello, world in one line. Language of your choice. Linking in a 512 MB library is a violation of the spirit of this contest. Additional rules: - line length is not defined but

Re: [9fans] The first annual Hello, World challenge

2009-08-18 Thread erik quanstrom
Your goal: hello, world in one line. Language of your choice. Linking in a 512 MB library is a violation of the spirit of this contest. Additional rules: - line length is not defined but let's be reasonable - if you can fit it in a standard Hollerith card format (72 chars plus 8 chars of

Re: [9fans] The first annual Hello, World challenge

2009-08-18 Thread John Floren
In rc: % window 'echo hello world; sleep 5' It's probably against the spirit, but hey, it fits on a Hollerith card! Technically. In C, the quickest thing I came up with using draw is: #include u.h #include libc.h #include draw.h void main(void) { initdraw(0, 0, hello);

Re: [9fans] The first annual Hello, World challenge

2009-08-18 Thread andrey mirtchovski
i have some variations on a theme: linux, i386: main() { syscall(4, 1, hello world\n, 12); } (~6KB dynamically linked) linux, x86: main() { syscall(1, 1, hello world\n, 12); } (~6KB, 4KB stripped; 2.4megs statically linked, 400KB statically linked and stripped) p9, shell: % syscall write 1

[9fans] suggestion for a video card

2009-08-18 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi, i am looking for a video card for plan9. here are my requirements: - should do 1920x1080 at 60Hz so i can connect to my LCD TV via HDMI - HDMI connector preferable but if the card does 1920x1080, i can use DVI to HDMI adapter - would be nice if it can also do 1920x1200 has anyone played

Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9

2009-08-18 Thread Benjamin Newman
Hello On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 at 13:23:42 +, xiangyu wrote: Hi, everyone: How to make slides in plan 9 ? I always use ConTeXt in linux, but it doesn't contained in the TeX distrbutions that plan 9 provides. so how to make slides in plan 9 ? I'm looking forward for the

Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9

2009-08-18 Thread andrey mirtchovski
looking at my archives, i seem to have used \documentclass[slidesonly, semlayer]{seminar} for slide creation some time in the past. no idea whether it still works :) sample: \begin{slide}\heading{Why Plan 9?} \begin{itemize} \item Distributed OS \item Service Oriented

Re: [9fans] USB Input Devices Support

2009-08-18 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Also, usb keyboard/mouse start at boot using a `boot protocol', IIRC, they look to software as older keyboard/mouse as long as you don't touch the usb bus. One way to go would be to remove usb code during install, but I didn't try this as don't know if it will work on your machine. On Sun, Aug

Re: [9fans] USB Input Devices Support

2009-08-18 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Aug 18 18:18:50 EDT 2009, n...@lsub.org wrote: Also, usb keyboard/mouse start at boot using a `boot protocol', IIRC, they look to software as older keyboard/mouse as long as you don't touch the usb bus. One way to go would be to remove usb code during install, but I didn't try this

Re: [9fans] The first annual Hello, World challenge

2009-08-18 Thread James Tomaschke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andrey mirtchovski wrote: i have some variations on a theme: linux, i386: main() { syscall(4, 1, hello world\n, 12); } (~6KB dynamically linked) linux, x86: main() { syscall(1, 1, hello world\n, 12); } (~6KB, 4KB stripped; 2.4megs statically

[9fans] contrib tracker

2009-08-18 Thread John Floren
I've written a little script to go through contrib and generate a markdown page showing what the last update time for the files it finds, all the way back to the start of the year. At some point I may extend it to go into previous years as well, but except for during early January of each year the

Re: [9fans] The first annual Hello, World challenge

2009-08-18 Thread Abhishek Kulkarni
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:26 AM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: See this: http://www.wxwidgets.org/docs/tutorials/hworld2.txt Well, they just seem to keep getting longer. Your goal: hello, world in one line. Language of your choice. Linking in a 512 MB library is a violation of the

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-18 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: boot: can't connect to file server: '#S/sdD0' file does not exist panic: boot process died: unknown panic: boot process died: unknown dumpstack disabled cpo0: exiting fixed.  you should now be able to boot from the

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-18 Thread erik quanstrom
Does this include the cd writer bug fixed that we had recently? i'm not sure what you're referring to. it includes all the fixes that have been made. Will i break my installation if I do replica/pull? it should not. local changes are supposed to be preserved. i have not tried a pull

Re: [9fans] Dell E4300?

2009-08-18 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:13 AM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: Does this include the cd writer bug fixed that we had recently? i'm not sure what you're referring to.  it includes all the fixes that have been made. I was referring to this thread

[9fans] p9p on MIPS

2009-08-18 Thread lucio
I had occasion to re-install P9P on the YeeLoong (Lemote netbook, www.lemote.com) and the only changes I needed were the addition of a getcallerpc-mips.c (or equivalent, see below) and the adjustments of src/mkhdr and the related dist/buildmk. Took me a long time to note the comment at the