Re: [9fans] Python

2010-10-11 Thread Michaelian Ennis
> You should be able to add -D _C99_SNPRINTF_EXTENSION to your That worked thanks. Thanks for the overview as well. Ian

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread David Leimbach
Yeah it looks great now. On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > i found the video on demand working fine after people had dispersed > for the lunch break. > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > > unwatchable here too sadly, > > geoff's talk is fine up to

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread andrey mirtchovski
i found the video on demand working fine after people had dispersed for the lunch break. On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > unwatchable here too sadly, > geoff's talk is fine up to the end of the introduction, then it stalls. > > perhaps their server will be in a better state t

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread Steve Simon
unwatchable here too sadly, geoff's talk is fine up to the end of the introduction, then it stalls. perhaps their server will be in a better state tomorrow. -Steve

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > FWIW, it's working fine from here, at Madrid. > Thanks a lot for the broadcast :) > Only thing working fine here is the ads :-). It seems to be archiving ok, but the livestream servers are totally horked for me right now > > >

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Only thing working fine here is the ads :-). It seems to be archiving ok, but the livestream servers are totally horked for me right now Total opposite here. The live stream was running fine. But duriong the lunch break I've been trying to watch Geoff's session from this morning from the arch

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

2010-10-11 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> Oh, and most of the Plan 9 tools were first made > available to use outside the Plan 9 OS through > Russ Cox's plan9 in user space effort > (http://swtch.com/plan9port/). And there's the > virtualisation project vx32 that includes Plan 9 > as an example. Not sure how they fit into a > holistic vi

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
FWIW, it's working fine from here, at Madrid. Thanks a lot for the broadcast :) On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote: > hi john/ron, > > thanks! i am watching the session now. > > dharani > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:19 AM, ron minnich wrote: >> livestream.com/iwp

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi john/ron, thanks! i am watching the session now. dharani On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:19 AM, ron minnich wrote: > livestream.com/iwp9 > > I think > > eric won't let me try it. > > ron > >

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread John Floren
I tried it for a few seconds and it worked, don't tell Eric. On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM, ron minnich wrote: > livestream.com/iwp9 > > I think > > eric won't let me try it. > > ron > >

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread ron minnich
livestream.com/iwp9 I think eric won't let me try it. ron

Re: [9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread John Floren
http://www.livestream.com/iwp9 On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan wrote: > hi, > > is there a link for live streaming of the conference? i tried to > locate one but couldn't. > > thanks > dharani > >

[9fans] live streaming?

2010-10-11 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi, is there a link for live streaming of the conference? i tried to locate one but couldn't. thanks dharani

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

2010-10-11 Thread Karljurgen Feuerherm
Well, I think it depends also on who one is and what one can afford to do at a point in time. And "afford" isn't necessarily only measured in dollars :) I would much rather spend $200 on a slick Plan9 box, but I can't afford, given my current state of texpertise, to risk a government-funded proj

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

2010-10-11 Thread ron minnich
getting it right: - less code in plan 9 than in most configure scripts (hard to believe but true) - plan 9 memory management code is 1 file, linux is 55 - almost no assembly in plan 9 ; # lines assembly is GROWING in linux - growth of linux code size is exponential (this is part of the getting it

Re: [9fans] IWP9 Schedule?

2010-10-11 Thread David Leimbach
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:31 PM, andrey mirtchovski > wrote: > > let me know when the live streaming starts. don't want to miss any of > > the joke made at my expense :P > > > > being as its live, it should start when the conference sta

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

2010-10-11 Thread Bruce Ellis
Very succinct, and better than I could do 'til the coffee kicks in. You could have pointed out that the entire source tree is smaller than the gcc manual. But as I say - do what you like. I know people who would rather spend $5k on an Apple PC than $200 on a slicker plan9 box. I have my FS (venti

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

2010-10-11 Thread Nick LaForge
> why anyone should care about Plan 9 anyway Because: getting things right the first time around is much more of a practical matter than you may at first realize. Nick

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

2010-10-11 Thread Robert Raschke
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Robert Raschke wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Mark Carter wrote: > >> I was reading the suckless.org website the other day, and they seemed >> quite keen on Plan 9. I am running Linux. Is there a useful summary >> document that explains where plan9po

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

2010-10-11 Thread Robert Raschke
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Mark Carter wrote: > I was reading the suckless.org website the other day, and they seemed > quite keen on Plan 9. I am running Linux. Is there a useful summary > document that explains where plan9port fits in with Glendix, and why > anyone should care about Plan

Re: [9fans] So, why Plan 9?

2010-10-11 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Hi Mark ! Plan9 IS (and was) research os prototype. I use it because I'm interested in ideas that was included in original UNIX and Plan9 (inferno) Read more documents at - http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9 Linux is another os, it imported ideas from Plan9 (/proc, private

Re: [9fans] newbie boot question

2010-10-11 Thread yy
2010/10/11 freeasinfreedom : > I don't have the privileges to add a new user with /sys/lib/newuser > when I log in as `none'. Also, I cannot edit edit /usr/glenda/lib/ > profile to stop starting rio automatically until the time I'll fix the > vga problem. Any workarounds? > You can tell Plan 9 to

Re: [9fans] adding new user as none (or modifying glenda)

2010-10-11 Thread Richard Miller
> The problem is that I cannot boot as glenda because of a vga problem. > ... > Any workarounds? Boot as none and edit the startup parameters in plan9.ini to set the monitor and vgasize variables to what you want. Or comment out the monitor variable in plan9.ini so you can boot as glenda without

Re: [9fans] newbie boot question

2010-10-11 Thread freeasinfreedom
I don't have the privileges to add a new user with /sys/lib/newuser when I log in as `none'. Also, I cannot edit edit /usr/glenda/lib/ profile to stop starting rio automatically until the time I'll fix the vga problem. Any workarounds?

[9fans] adding new user as none (or modifying glenda)

2010-10-11 Thread freeasinfreedom
The problem is that I cannot boot as glenda because of a vga problem. When I boot as none, I can start rio after temporarily fixing the vga with aux/vga –m vga –l. I can also create temporary files after executing ramfs. But I cannot create a new user with /sys/lib/newuser or edit /usr/glenda

[9fans] So, why Plan 9?

2010-10-11 Thread Mark Carter
I was reading the suckless.org website the other day, and they seemed quite keen on Plan 9. I am running Linux. Is there a useful summary document that explains where plan9port fits in with Glendix, and why anyone should care about Plan 9 anyway (hope that doesn't come across as rude)?