Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

2010-01-31 Thread John Stalker
I just want to share with the list that we have announced that Coraid, the largest distributor of Plan 9 systems in the world, has accepted some serious venture funding. See the link below for a short interview with our new CEO. Kevin and I hit it off right away. Our use of Plan 9 was

[9fans] TeX for Plan9: late but not dead

2010-01-31 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Just a note since I'm late vs my initial time frame schedule (I'm still busy doint something else [aka work that makes me eat]). But it is not dropped, neither dead (the matrix---the compilation framework---is already here, and I have done in december enough to know what to do and to be

Re: [9fans] entire cache is busy, 999 dirty

2010-01-31 Thread erik quanstrom
My question is: (a) where these messages come from? venti? fossil. (cache.c) (b) what is the problem? (c) how to fix? good question. are you running the latest version of fossil? if not, this could be caused by slow disk writes which could in turn be caused by the periodic bug that

[9fans] Removing pages from the wiki

2010-01-31 Thread Matt Adams
Folks: I've created a test page on the Plan 9 wiki and now want to get rid of it so it doesn't add to the clutter on the site. I don't see an explicit remove feature - does one exist? Thanks, Matt

Re: [9fans] entire cache is busy, 999 dirty

2010-01-31 Thread Kenji Arisawa
Hello erik, are you running the latest version of fossil? probably not. I will refresh my file server. Thanks Kenji Arisawa On 2010/02/01, at 2:22, erik quanstrom wrote: My question is: (a) where these messages come from? venti? fossil. (cache.c) (b) what is the problem? (c)

[9fans] ftdi

2010-01-31 Thread Jeff Sickel
To all of you who put the FTDI usb/serial driver in place, I thank you. I'll be exercising it significantly over the next week or so. -jas