Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Shane Morris
Hi Kenji, As Joseph said, shorthand for "Thanks for correcting me on that, and giving me the knowledge I needed, or that I asked for..." It is probably a Western-ism, a cultural thing of America/ United Kingdom/ Australia, if not others. I've been using it since I could talk, and started asking th

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] auth server: connection refused

2014-05-22 Thread yan cui
Finally got the reason, I execute a command exec rio at the end of /cfg/$sysname/cpurc, which turns out the reason of blocking drawterm, although do not know the detailed reason. Sorry for the noise. 2014-05-22 23:24 GMT-04:00 yan cui : > Hi all, > >I encountered an error when connecting dra

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread hiro
To get ahead in the game of bullying always single one person out, don't try to even do two at the same time or they might team up. > It is interesting that unpopular and irrelevant > very often comes in combination with loud. No.

[9fans] [GSOC] auth server: connection refused

2014-05-22 Thread yan cui
Hi all, I encountered an error when connecting drawterm with cpu/auth server. Basically, I use drawterm -c super -a super -u bootes but it turns out an error, cpu: can't dial: super: Connection refused goodbye on the plan9 cpu/auth server, I type auth/debug, it outputs p9sk1 key: proto=p9sk1 u

[9fans] [GSOC] auth server: connection refused

2014-05-22 Thread yan cui
Hi all, I encountered an error when connecting drawterm with cpu/auth server. Basically, I use drawterm -c super -a super -u bootes but it turns out an error, cpu: can't dial: super: Connection refused goodbye on the plan9 cpu/auth server, I type auth/debug, it outputs p9sk1 key: proto=p9sk1 u

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Joseph Thompson
On May 22, 2014 10:18:32 PM EDT, kokam...@hera.eonet.ne.jp wrote: >> Ok, I stand corrected. > >Off topic, sorry. > >I saw this phrase some times here. >What it does mean? > >I know it's meaning I think. >What I want to know is why they say just 'thanks'. >Is this something some culture related? > >

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread kokamoto
> Ok, I stand corrected. Off topic, sorry. I saw this phrase some times here. What it does mean? I know it's meaning I think. What I want to know is why they say just 'thanks'. Is this something some culture related? Kenji

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Shane Morris
Just booted the VM using WLAN and my phones wireless hotspot, came up almost instantly. Now the real work begins - configuration... On 5/23/14, Shane Morris wrote: > Ok, I stand corrected. > > On 5/23/14, s...@9front.org wrote: >>> I was under the understanding Plan 9 >>> didn't work under VMWar

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Shane Morris
Ok, I stand corrected. On 5/23/14, s...@9front.org wrote: >> I was under the understanding Plan 9 >> didn't work under VMWare... > > http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/vmware/img/fusion.png > > sl > >

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread sl
> I was under the understanding Plan 9 > didn't work under VMWare... http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/vmware/img/fusion.png sl

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu May 22 17:25:07 EDT 2014, edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: > Aram, if you have a bunch of settings that work under VMWare Fusion > for Plan 9, then I am all ears. I was under the understanding Plan 9 > didn't work under VMWare... the second thing the nix terminal ran on was vmware. i just hav

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Shane Morris
Aram, if you have a bunch of settings that work under VMWare Fusion for Plan 9, then I am all ears. I was under the understanding Plan 9 didn't work under VMWare... On 5/23/14, Jeff Sickel wrote: > > On May 22, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > >>> Ah, ruby, yet another technology I hav

Re: [9fans] θfs vs webfs; θfs vs lookman

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu May 22 16:10:21 EDT 2014, skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: > what types of metadata are/were stored in a typical case? for the object store, any metadata at all would be acceptable, and i don't think there is a typical case. there is no object store fs interface. for the nfs and 9p serv

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> > another key point is that all distributed scms that i've used clone > > entire systems. but what would be more interesting is to clone, say, > > /sys/src or some proto-based subset of the system, while using the > > main file system for everything else. imagine you want to work on > > the ker

Re: [9fans] θfs vs webfs; θfs vs lookman

2014-05-22 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
cool! what types of metadata are/were stored in a typical case? On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:41 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > i think i've fixed the issues preventing > readweb http://www.9atom.org/magic/man2html/4/θfs > and > lookman θfs > from working. it's surprising how many u

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 22 May 2014 08:45:48 EDT erik quanstrom wrote: > > Features such as atomic commits, changesets, branches, push, > > pull, merge etc. can be useful in multiple contexts so it > > would be nice if they can integrated smoothly in an FS. > > > > - Installing a package is like a pull (or if yo

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
camilstore's storage idea is interesting, but i admit i've only played with it and briefly. i think you're referring to the fact it keeps all versions that are put into it and the fact that anything stored can have any metadata (json) associated with it. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:17 AM, ron minni

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 22 May 2014 12:41:05 +0200 =?UTF-8?B?QXJhbSBIxIN2xINybmVhbnU=?= wrote: > > What would be the point of this? Once you have a version (revision) > you can just bind the subtree where you want it. I don't see the > point in having this special switching code inside hgfs. Plan 9 > provides t

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
So that means you and Aram. It is interesting that unpopular and irrelevant very often comes in combination with loud. Lucho On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Quoting Latchesar Ionkov : > > Who exactly do you think are the "we" that you are talking about? >> >> > > Al

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 22 May 2014 09:17:18 PDT ron minnich wrote: > has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, > which means it works on Plan 9. I will take a look at it but Ron, if you are still on this channel, may be you can describe how it will help here? [And, please don't overloa

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
c'mon. there's no point to namecalling. - erik

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting Latchesar Ionkov : Who exactly do you think are the "we" that you are talking about? All the unpopular, irrelevant people who regularly force poor Ron to loudly, manually pipe this list into /dev/null instead of just unsubscribing. khm

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
you're entitled to your opinion, but please don't speak for everyone. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > > I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I > > think I'm going to resume. > > Good riddance, we don't want your insults here. We don't wan

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
Who exactly do you think are the "we" that you are talking about? Lucho On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > > I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I > > think I'm going to resume. > > Good riddance, we don't want your insults here. We do

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I > think I'm going to resume. Good riddance, we don't want your insults here. We don't want your nsec, and we don't want your GPL. > Enjoy your ever-shrinking place in the world, folks; it's clear that > you enjoy it. It's also

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich : I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I think I'm going to resume. thanks for letting us know Enjoy your ever-shrinking place in the world, folks; it's clear that you enjoy it. It's also clear that nobody else cares any more. I'm sorry tha

[9fans] θfs vs webfs; θfs vs lookman

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
i think i've fixed the issues preventing readweb http://www.9atom.org/magic/man2html/4/θfs and lookman θfs from working. it's surprising how many unicode bugs there still are. - erik

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread ron minnich
I'm beginning to remember why I redirected this list to /dev/null. I think I'm going to resume. Enjoy your ever-shrinking place in the world, folks; it's clear that you enjoy it. It's also clear that nobody else cares any more. ron

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:17 PM, ron minnich wrote: > has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, > which means it works on Plan 9. No, it doesn't. I uses FUSE for God's sake. Camlistore is also 65kLOC -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
> in any event, back to the subject at hand. this in-depth discussion of > various > revision control systems seems to assume that revision control is the key > issue. Much as I agree with you that clear objectives are essential to any type of success (a tautology if ever there was one - what d

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting ron minnich : has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, which means it works on Plan 9. That means it works on *one architecture* of Plan 9. khm

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread ron minnich
has anyone looked at camlistore as a starting point? Written in Go, which means it works on Plan 9. ron

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-22 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting lu...@proxima.alt.za: Obvious, good grounds for a conspiracy theory. Such code simply does not exist, no matter how much you harp on it. Next thing, you'll insist I need to prove that it does not exist, putting you squarely in the Creationists camp. I don't need anyone to prove anyth

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
thinking about the idea of a revision control file system brings me back to some work i followed by brian stuart. his θfs has a object store. the object store allows arbitrary metadata and object size. the ℙ snapshot device could be modified to take snapshots based on an arbitrary reference poin

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > % cat /n/hg/versions # list versions > > ... > > % echo version rev1 > /n/hg/ctl # pull + update -r rev1, etc. > > % ls /n/hg/foo > > # list of rev1 files > > % echo version rev2 > /n/hg/ctl > > % ls /n/h

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 22, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: >> Ah, ruby, yet another technology I have zero use for on my systems. > > That technology is already installed on your system. And not used. Wasted bits on the ssd. http://hadihariri.com/2014/04/21/build-make-no-more/

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> Ah, ruby, yet another technology I have zero use for on my systems. That technology is already installed on your system. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 22, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Jeff Sickel wrote: > > On May 22, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Rubén Berenguel wrote: > >> From: >> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/qemu.rb > > Ah, ruby, yet another technology I have zero use for on my systems. And the link returns:

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Rubén Berenguel
It's homebrew, a package repository for OS X. OS X already comes with a ruby interpreter anyway. And this allows anyone to compile from source qemu 2.0.0 without much fuss. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Jeff Sickel wrote: > > On May 22, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Rubén Berenguel > wrote: > > From: >

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 22, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Rubén Berenguel wrote: > From: > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/qemu.rb Ah, ruby, yet another technology I have zero use for on my systems. -jas

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Rubén Berenguel
➜ ~ brew info qemu qemu: stable 2.0.0, HEAD http://www.qemu.org/ /usr/local/Cellar/qemu/1.5.1 (114 files, 90M) Built from source /usr/local/Cellar/qemu/2.0.0_1 (120 files, 98M) * Built from source From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/qemu.rb ==> Dependenci

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 22, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > I have both 1.6.1 and 2.0 on 10.9 (the latest). 1.6.1 is not ancient > and I didn't even need to compile it. Plan 9 runs just fine. 2.0 I > compiled because I needed the new arm64 support. It wasn't hard. What’s your Mac OS X build environme

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-22 Thread Riddler
Some thoughts from a new guy. I would suggest the best way might be to take the 'main' labs sources distribution and build one patch at a time. Should in theory leave behind it a nice linear list of patches from a common base and might get some patches ready to go into sources (if accepted) for fe

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> If by ‘works’ you mean the an ancient version that doesn’t really run > well on OS X 10.9.x, then sure. So far, I’ve not gotten a version of > qemu to build on OS X that would support Plan 9 or any other OS I’m > interesting in testing. I have both 1.6.1 and 2.0 on 10.9 (the latest). 1.6.1 is n

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Sickel
On May 22, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: >> because they're using osx, and don't want to shell out for vmware. > > QEMU works on OS X. If by ‘works’ you mean the an ancient version that doesn’t really run well on OS X 10.9.x, then sure. So far, I’ve not gotten a version of qemu to

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu May 22 09:45:08 EDT 2014, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > the original version is, as far as i know, no longer in use. > > i only mentioned the lineage to credit nemo with the work. > > Out of curiosity, what prompted not using CVS? I can think of a > number of reasons, but none that echo

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
> and go introduces new issues, it's much more in flux than python. > the risk is that a go update could then break the system. > and only runs on 386. it does not run on plan 9 mips, arm, or amd64. These are very valid reservations, I hadn't thought of them. L.

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
> the original version is, as far as i know, no longer in use. > i only mentioned the lineage to credit nemo with the work. Out of curiosity, what prompted not using CVS? I can think of a number of reasons, but none that echo with your comments up to now. L.

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
> you are aware that you can mount the 9atom sources directly these days? Sure, but then I'd have to commit harakiri as self-immolation is the only avenue left to appease the Internet gods in the tip of Africa :-) Still, I'll keep that in mind for occasional experimentation. More seriously, we d

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> Go is in a different league: Heretical as it may seem, we can generate > Go binaries without compelling all Plan 9 installations to include the > Go toolchain, no matter how valuable some of us may perceive it. HG > without Python is a dead rat. that's a partially binary distribution. a proper

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> Is this the right place to discuss the actual procedure to include > apatch in one's private Bell Labs' distribution? > > Is it preferable to use apatch within 9atom, or is it reasonably > portable to the "legacy" (I presume that is what David intends > with that mo

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> With all respect due to you and Mr Coraid (don't make mne look his Coile. - erik

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> because they're using osx, and don't want to shell out for vmware. QEMU works on OS X. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> Branch/merge features evolved in response to people's needs. > Merging is necessary if you (as an organization) have > substantial local changes for your product (or internal > use) and you also want to use the latest release from your > vendor. No amount of namespace manipulation is going to > h

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> That said, let me add my encouragement to sample apatch as suggested > by Erik, although any valid objections ought to be raised here. One, > from me, comes from Erik himself "a modified version of Nemo's > (a)patch" (I don't have the exact quote handy. Nemo, could we please > start this exerci

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu May 22 06:55:44 EDT 2014, ara...@mgk.ro wrote: > Why do people insist on VirtualBox? How many times it has to be said. > VirtualBox is utter shite. QEMU and VMware work. QEMU is especially > interesting because it can work without a broken kernel driver > (although it can use kvm, a good ker

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> More seriously, though, on the issue of revision control on Plan 9 > (and code review, that being the really important aspect) I'd like us > to keep in mind that being able to interface with existing > repositories, difficult as it may be, would be greatly beneficial. To like i said, a hg gatew

[9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread Riddler
I would throw in a vote in favor of a good git client. It's something I use daily and I find it works well with distributed people working on the same project. Which is a situation Linux and plan9 share. Last time I looked at how it was put together the 'core' was actually just a small handful of

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> Features such as atomic commits, changesets, branches, push, > pull, merge etc. can be useful in multiple contexts so it > would be nice if they can integrated smoothly in an FS. > > - Installing a package is like a pull (or if you built it > locally, a commit) > - Uinstall is reverting the ch

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread peterhull90
Aram Hăvărneanu I don’t know who you are but you seem to be in a very bad mood today. From: Aram Hăvărneanu Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎22‎ ‎May‎ ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎54 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs Why do people insist on VirtualBox? How many times it has to be said. VirtualBox is utter sh

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Why do people insist on VirtualBox? How many times it has to be said. VirtualBox is utter shite. QEMU and VMware work. QEMU is especially interesting because it can work without a broken kernel driver (although it can use kvm, a good kernel driver on Linux). -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] syscall 53

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> I submit not having a proper DVCS is part of the problem for > this. The reason github is so successful is because it is so > easy to upload code and then to collaborate, get bug fixes > etc. While some incomplete code in one's own src tree may not > get looked at for a long time and ultimately

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
> Merely that it would be nice if 8c on Plan 9 was the same utility, > whether Go is installed or isn't. I'm not expecting it to just > happen, but I do think it would be better than what we have now. And what would be the benefit of that? Plan 9's 8c and Go's 8c are different programs. Differen

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > % cat /n/hg/versions # list versions > ... > % echo version rev1 > /n/hg/ctl # pull + update -r rev1, etc. > % ls /n/hg/foo > # list of rev1 files > % echo version rev2 > /n/hg/ctl > % ls /n/hg/foo > ... # list of rev2 files, etc What would be the point of this? On

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
> It would be nice if you didn't hijack other people's threads. Oh, dear, I apologise! L.

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
> What are you talking about? Merely that it would be nice if 8c on Plan 9 was the same utility, whether Go is installed or isn't. I'm not expecting it to just happen, but I do think it would be better than what we have now. L.

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:36 AM, wrote: > ... It would be nice if you didn't hijack other people's threads. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:36 AM, wrote: > (I dislike that Go comes with C > compilers and assemblers that seem to be heading off into the hills - > our little group of Go porters (please forgive me for presuming) ought > to be addressing this issue as well) What "issues"? What are you talking a

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-22 Thread Alex Jordan
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Jeff Sickel wrote: > Git is the closest as it’s just C, > sort of: it’s a whole lot of code. But why would you want to > bring in “178K lines of *.[ch], 20K lines of shell scripts, 100K+ > lines of test scripts” and have to lug in the massive payload > of Python and P

Re: [9fans] VirtualBox, Mavericks, and Plan 9

2014-05-22 Thread Peter Hull
Hi Shane, I just tried an installation from scratch of 9atom - downloaded the ISO from Quanstro.net, installed on VirtualBox 4.3.12 on Mavericks 10.9.3 accepting the defaults as far as possible. It all installed fine and booted fine. I've not had time to setup networking etc. but it certainly doesn

Re: [9fans] hgfs

2014-05-22 Thread lucio
> it would be nice to map as many hg/git operations to file operations as > possible. for the rest providing special files (ctl, versions, etc) and > directives don't seem out of place. I've been thinking about combining synthetic file servers with shell functionality, where Plan 9's rc (but possi