Re: [9fans] assigning acme windows to columns programmatically

2011-01-18 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Its impossible without modification. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Joseph Xu joseph...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: In acme, is it possible to move an existing window into a specific column using its control file interface? I have a script that spawns several windows every run and I'm getting

Re: [9fans] how to make hardware work?

2011-01-18 Thread sergey . kish
PPP --- If ethernet works fine, why not just plug into a wired connection to your local network? Because ethernet isn't the only choice to connect. It is good to have working wifi and 3g modem. What exactly do you mean, PPP over USB? Google PPP over USB. I've googled, red 9fans archive, wiki

Re: [9fans] `mk` (from Plan9 ports) efficiency related issue

2011-01-18 Thread erik quanstrom
P.S. anyone know a better way to composite images using the plan9/plan9port image tools? what do you mean by better? there's a compose program in contrib quanstro/radar which may compile on p9p just fine. - erik

Re: [9fans] how to make hardware work?

2011-01-18 Thread erik quanstrom
And starts usb/disk term% ls /dev/*u* /dev/sdU6.0/ctl /dev/sdU6.0/data /dev/sdU6.0/raw term% cat /dev/sdU6.0/ctl /dev/usb/ep6.0 lun0: inquiry geometry 1990407 512 No partitions. Checked in Linux this one's easy. unlike the braindamage in linux,

Re: [9fans] bad juju in devproc.c

2011-01-18 Thread erik quanstrom
i forgot to attach the recipie for disaster. sleep 100 cd /proc/$apid while()cat text/dev/null that's about 1000x slower than necessary. you can speed up the crash by using the following program. - erik #include u.h #include libc.h void main(void) {

Re: [9fans] mk (from plan9ports) modification time resolution issue?

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Cox
   But the above statement is true unless you have about 367 targets (for quite a small project -- only 2 tiny and 1 larger Erlang applications), which when built takes about 45 seconds (with NPROC=16), and the second time (without touching a single file in the source directory) takes about

Re: [9fans] how to make hardware work?

2011-01-18 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
What exactly do you mean, PPP over USB? Google PPP over USB. I've googled, red 9fans archive, wiki and docs before posting here. In theory, your 3G data stick should export a serial device interface, and therefore usb/serial should map it to /dev/eiaUx/eiaUx (where x is a small integer). (See

[9fans] Fwd: plan9 go output faults on 9vx with rfork

2011-01-18 Thread ron minnich
Pavel built a reproducer and sent it to me: -- Forwarded message -- From: Pavel Zholkover paulz...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:24 PM Subject: Re: plan9 go output faults on 9vx with rfork To: ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com Hi Ron! I think I've traced the cause of

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-18 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 15 Jan 2011, at 9:35 am, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most electronics dieing of old age. In the days before I took up electronics as a hobby, valves were seated in sockets because it was known

Re: [9fans] plan9 compatible notebook

2011-01-18 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 16 Jan 2011, at 3:24 pm, hiro wrote: For real mobility I learned to use whatever the laptop ships with, and virtual machines. Aside from having installed Slackware, this is what I'm doing with my eee 1005HA. I'm using Ron's 9vx which is looking good and solid, although I haven't had

Re: [9fans] plan9 compatible notebook

2011-01-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
I've tried Thinkpad models X200s, X201, and X300 with Plan 9. Each of them PXE booted over ethernet (with the Intel cards) and using the local file server as root fs. Graphics, input, etc. work very well and Plan 9 runs very smoothly here. I haven't tried sound or anything. I boot into Plan 9 on

Re: [9fans] ohci funny on sb850

2011-01-18 Thread Akshat Kumar
what's the form factor? On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:58 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Sat Jan 15 04:25:22 EST 2011, st...@quintile.net wrote: Its not faulty caps, they just have a limited life, dried up electrolytic caps is the cause of most electronics dieing of old age.