Re: [9fans] Disk backup?

2013-03-28 Thread arisawa
hmm... did you compared incremental backup of gnu tar with pdumpfs? i guess pdumpfs is much reliable and convenient. pdumpfs(pseudo dumpfs, i guess) runs on UNIX, the same mechanism is applied to TimeMachine of Mac. On 2013/03/27, at 8:22, trebol trebol55...@yahoo.es wrote: I see a lot of

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Propaganda

2013-03-28 Thread Bence Fábián
very cool thx 2013/3/28 phineas.p...@gmail.com Hello everyone, I've put together a collection of Plan 9 ``propaganda'' (strictly Bell Labs edition since 9front already has theirs). Its mostly just pastiche with some silly slogans and lines from the film, but it was fun to create.

[9fans] [9pi] standardize \ normalize setting dns in

2013-03-28 Thread c117152
In 9pi, the cmdline.txt allows defining an env var that is evaluated and used by /bin/termrc.local as line arguments for ip/ipconfig. e.g. term% dossrv -f/dev/sdM0/dos term% mount -c /srv/dos /mnt term% cat /mnt/cmdline.txt readparts=1 nobootprompt=local user=glenda ipconfig='-g 10.0.0.138 ether

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Propaganda

2013-03-28 Thread iainws
Excellent, thanks!

Re: [9fans] [9pi] standardize \ normalize setting dns in

2013-03-28 Thread Jacob Todd
Then why don't you add it to termrc.local? That's what it is for.

Re: [9fans] [9pi] standardize \ normalize setting dns in

2013-03-28 Thread Richard Miller
For a machine not receiving net configuration via DHCP, the normal place to define dns= would be in /lib/ndb/local - 'man 6 ndb' for information.

Re: [9fans] Disk backup?

2013-03-28 Thread erik quanstrom
On 2013/03/27, at 8:22, trebol trebol55...@yahoo.es wrote: I see a lot of interesting things on this thread, but all of those are beyond my knowledge. I'm just starting to learn programming (KR), the internal structure of the file system is too much for me now. I'm thinking about mount dump,

Re: [9fans] changes to loader elf generation

2013-03-28 Thread geoff
Sorry, `-Fphys' should be `-Pphys'.

[9fans] GSoC 2013 - ~24 hours left for org application!

2013-03-28 Thread a
Folks: We're down to just about 24 hours remaining until org applicaitons are due for Summer of Code 2013. After tomorrow evening, the fine folks at Google will grab the application and some key pages linked from it, such as the ideas page and student application template, and begin

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Propaganda

2013-03-28 Thread hiro
500 error :(

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2013 - ~24 hours left for org application!

2013-03-28 Thread Steven Stallion
Hey Anthony, I'd be happy to sign up as a Mentor again this year. I haven't added this to the ideas page yet since I've been keeping the project mostly quiet, but I've been working on porting Plan 9 to the ARM Chromebook. It might not be the best project for a student since at the moment, it

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2013 - ~24 hours left for org application!

2013-03-28 Thread Steven Stallion
Damn you Gmail. Damn you.

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2013 - ~24 hours left for org application!

2013-03-28 Thread erik quanstrom
Hey Anthony, I'd be happy to sign up as a Mentor again this year. I haven't added this to the ideas page yet since I've been keeping the project mostly quiet, but I've been working on porting Plan 9 to the ARM Chromebook. It might not be the best project for a student since at the moment,

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2013 - ~24 hours left for org application!

2013-03-28 Thread Steven Stallion
'ish. Samsung's documents are somewhat rough, but enough to get a basic debugging environment setup. I've recently added support to U-Boot for Plan 9 kernel images and submitted a patch (arm-uboot), which adds an option to the loader to generate a uImage. Eventually I need to write everything up

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2013 - ~24 hours left for org application!

2013-03-28 Thread erik quanstrom
So far I believe the only real annoyance is lack of public documentation for the Mali T604, the synaptics touchpad, and of course dealing with the Marvell wireless part. These can all be dealt with down the road, hopefully by more willing individuals! he! does that leave you land-locked, or

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Propaganda

2013-03-28 Thread phineas . pett
500 error :( Yeah, the server is down I'm afraid. I'll repost when it is back up. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2013 - ~24 hours left for org application!

2013-03-28 Thread Steven Stallion
USB has been working quite well so far. The Arndale board has an onboard ASIX, which has been working quite well for tftp booting kernel images. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:15 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: So far I believe the only real annoyance is lack of public documentation

[9fans] Acme Edit scriptlets

2013-03-28 Thread Bence Fábián
Hi! I did a quick writeup on little Edit scripts (well basicly sam(1) scripts) If anyone have more feel free to contribute. Maybe someone could put them on the wiki even. http://bencef.com/blog/4/ bencef

Re: [9fans] Acme Edit scriptlets

2013-03-28 Thread phineas . pett
Hi! I did a quick writeup on little Edit scripts (well basicly sam(1) scripts) If anyone have more feel free to contribute. Maybe someone could put them on the wiki even. Nice idea... Here's a simple awk bit I use in Acme for centering text (its name is the center-line rune: ℄) #!/bin/rc