[9fans] It looks like our GSoC application was rejected

2008-03-18 Thread Dave Eckhardt
Since we didn't hear back, and our name is not on the list of accepted projects, it appears that Google rejected our application. Of course we'll try to figure out why and how we can do better next year. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2008-06-24 Thread Dave Eckhardt
using the Windows driver (as if!), but does not make a general warning. It's an interesting device, but when using some (maybe all?) KVM switches you're better off with an $8 Logitech throwaway. Too bad. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Eckhardt
, it *would* be interesting to know exactly what is going wrong. First I should probably walk around trying other KVM switches. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] 9vx

2008-06-27 Thread Dave Eckhardt
libvx32/freebsd.c:20:2: warning: #warning libvx32 and FreeBSD 5 and 6's libpthread are not compatible. I guess the priority of my upgrade laptop's FreeBSD thread has just increased. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] WYSE Winterm 9150SE graphical problem

2008-07-01 Thread Dave Eckhardt
driver doesn't work you might pursue getting a data sheet and seeing if it looks enough like some other chip. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] WYSE Winterm 9150SE graphical problem

2008-07-01 Thread Dave Eckhardt
Can you say more about what you are doing to try a given configuration? I tried xga, vesa, multisync and other modes. Can you say exactly what you mean by tried xga and tried vesa? Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] lisp

2008-07-08 Thread Dave Eckhardt
realize that's not an answer to the question as posed, but... Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] dns failure in smtp

2008-08-24 Thread Dave Eckhardt
query or to return zero records. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] starting 9vx in FreeBSD :Shared object libthr.so.3 not found

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Eckhardt
Looks like the binary is for FreeBSD ?7.0. And you can't build it for FreeBSD 6 because the architecture of the thread library is different. Time to upgrade anyway, at least for me. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9?

2008-10-20 Thread Dave Eckhardt
looking for a way-out thesis project and help them design something interesting. Where are you located? Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-17 Thread Dave Eckhardt
connections. Especially since you get only 64k TCP connections between any pair of IP addresses, e.g., between a NAT box and www.cnn.com. Are there any NAT solutions which handle millions of hosts? Are we having a discussion about unicorns? Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-17 Thread Dave Eckhardt
I believe your are a little late with your remark. The issue has been resolved. Oops! Hopefully as list moderator you will accept my apologies for having drawn out a discussion beyond its useful time!! Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter

2008-12-03 Thread Dave Eckhardt
database to see where your bits are coming from. In fact, you generally will not notice when your volume moves from one server to another, even if you are reading from and writing to it at the time. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Eckhardt
systems. Dave Eckhardt P.S. Here's some rationale behind the horrific complexity: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya/docdir/p35-satyanarayanan.pdf

[9fans] (no subject)

2008-12-06 Thread Dave Eckhardt
, that it isn't possible to meet the same goals with less complexity now that we know more. Dave Eckhardt

[9fans] RFNOMNT and/or least privilege

2009-01-06 Thread Dave Eckhardt
with exactly the privileges they need but no more. Or am I doing it all wrong? Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] venti

2009-01-09 Thread Dave Eckhardt
have one reference, and would go away when the venti did? Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] venti

2009-01-09 Thread Dave Eckhardt
run at system boot time could turn on DMEXCL for appropriate things in /dev/sd*/*? Dave Eckhardt

[9fans] acme dump/reload vs. Wiki

2009-01-12 Thread Dave Eckhardt
main.c) to address #1 and #3 in a mutually supportive way to get this to work? Is there some other way I'm overlooking? Is this a bad thing to want? Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] pull doesn't work due to unavailable sources; travelmate 291LCi specials

2009-01-28 Thread Dave Eckhardt
at some point). The other one has better code quality, and will try to run on more chips, but it's not clear how many of them it has been tested on. If somebody has time to do a merge, that would be great. I still have handy one of the machines with busted clocking. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Dynamic loading et al (Was: Pegasus 2.6 is released)

2009-02-01 Thread Dave Eckhardt
http://9fans.net/archive/2008/07/773 Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?]

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Eckhardt
of checksum than CRC-32. CRC's are designed to defend against accidental corruption, but SHA-1 really is designed to make deliberate collisions hard. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009

2009-03-06 Thread Dave Eckhardt
* time)... Next year maybe we'll be different, and maybe GSoC will be different. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Google Summer of code 2009

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Eckhardt
student projects in 2009. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2009: Plan 9 is in!

2009-03-19 Thread Dave Eckhardt
Congratulations! I'm glad to have been so totally wrong about our prospects. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] vmware snarf problem

2009-07-30 Thread Dave Eckhardt
unfortunately the source for vmwarefs doesn't seem to be available, so i can't investigate further. http://9fans.net/archive/2008/12/180 Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread Dave Eckhardt
pbs32 (9null's pbs) now works with 9fat without caring about it. it loops reading a block and checking for the a.out(8) signature. if the 9pcload is on 9fat, not a problem anymore. Twt! 5-yard penalty for making something work better instead of complaining! Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] plan9 on vmware esx

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Eckhardt
network packets. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] /sys/include/ip.h 5c(1)

2009-10-06 Thread Dave Eckhardt
-dependent whether floating-point errors are traps or faults. The BSD guys patched the microcode. For something nobody would want to do, there sure are a lot of hits for pcs750.bin. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Two suggestions for ape (was: egrep for Plan9)

2009-10-27 Thread Dave Eckhardt
reducing the utility of some CMU-derived code for a project here at CMU, but I digress). If you are looking for an approximation of the last non-GPL'd OSkit, I think this is probably it: http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/download/fiasco-1.1-oskit.tar.bz2 Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] JVC Netbook works fine, except PCMCIA

2009-12-30 Thread Dave Eckhardt
. You want ether0=type=rtl8319. Can you send us the output of aux/pcmcia? Also of cat /dev/ioalloc? Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on L4

2010-01-08 Thread Dave Eckhardt
actually, code that uses gcc seems to require massive rewrite just to accommodate different versions of gcc. I think the most fun I had was when the meaning of some inline asm() changed. Not a massive rewrite, since it was only one line, but it was none the less painful. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] pineview atom

2010-02-18 Thread Dave Eckhardt
, machines do differ. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] pineview atom

2010-02-19 Thread Dave Eckhardt
of parity errors in their TLB's. 750's running VMS didn't have this problem, because VMS would silently work around it; BSD grew that code--see, for example, 2...@astrovax.uucp. Then bits could flip all the time with nobody noticing! Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] pineview atom

2010-02-21 Thread Dave Eckhardt
the operation enabled successful computation on somewhat sketchy hardware. Dave Eckhardt

[9fans] How 'bout a 9 USER site?

2010-02-23 Thread Dave Eckhardt
anybody could get an account on a Plan 9 machine. They seem down now... if it's not temporary, something like that could be a real service. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] pineview atom

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Eckhardt
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipkill Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] permissions

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Eckhardt
certs your CA may refuse to sign a key that small these days. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] p9p factotum available for plan 9

2010-11-13 Thread Dave Eckhardt
implementation is an approximation of the design goals. Dave Eckhardt

[9fans] On a clear disk, you can seek forever

2013-10-14 Thread Dave Eckhardt
% cmp fossil /dev/zero EOF on fossil after 1794302464 bytes term% cmp 9fat /dev/zero 9fat /dev/zero differ: char 1 term% cmp fscfg /dev/zero EOF on fscfg after 8192 bytes Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2014-01-06 Thread Dave Eckhardt
Ethernet card for $5 from eBay/NewEgg/etc. Having a working Ethernet makes it easier for you to get started, and once you're started you can go back and figure out what's wrong with the built-in Ethernet. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Alternative Plan 9 Logo

2014-01-07 Thread Dave Eckhardt
Will t-shirts be available? Hopefully not just white? Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] bug or feature ? --- ip/ping -6

2015-12-30 Thread Dave Eckhardt
ersion of ping reports the identity of the machine who issued the ICMP response. Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] subtracting pointers on amd64 6c

2016-01-05 Thread Dave Eckhardt
lt in undefined behavior in practice. Unfortunately AMD64 VM is a hack. The 2^48 addressable bytes aren't contiguous! 2^47 of them go up from 0 and the other 2^47 of them go down from (64-bit) -1. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Canonical_form_addresses Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-19 Thread Dave Eckhardt
e of them are cheap enough, and switching from the vendor ROM to GrapheneOS is easy enough. Compared to AOSP, GrapheneOS has some genuine usability features, e.g., a usable backup/restore solution. Hopefully some of this is useful. Sorry I can't provide more! Dave

Re: [9fans] mounting a 9660 file system - writeable

2023-07-08 Thread Dave Eckhardt
contained their source changes and also their object files. The overlay file system will still need somewhere to store files, though. Dave Eckhardt -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T49170188f63f430d-M225108264fd4c3ddf4a231f

Re: [9fans] VCS on Plan9

2024-04-18 Thread Dave Eckhardt
> One thing i did was sometimes to create a skeletron directory > tree and bind *before* each single directory in /sys/src/9. > > when i needed to modify a file, you copy it in your "overlay" > tree. https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/

Re: [9fans] Balancing Progress and Accessibility in the Plan 9 Community. (Was: [9fans] Interoperating between 9legacy and 9front)

2024-05-17 Thread Dave Eckhardt
n't seem clearly accurate. Is accuracy a goal? If so, how will it be determined whether or not that goal has been achieved? Dave Eckhardt -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te051f230f2656bbb-Me5cc575537394d7a0803f2c0 Deliver

Re: [9fans] Throwing in the Towel

2024-05-26 Thread Dave Eckhardt
would be interesting to get a dump of the SMART data for the drive(s) that went bad, and also drive(s) that didn't go bad. Dave Eckhardt -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T2ca67486c7a13a77-Mda9b0251a0482ce40f14c606 Delivery o

Re: [9fans] Throwing in the Towel

2024-05-28 Thread Dave Eckhardt
mber of failures in two sets of SSDs of unknown brand and model. I don't think we know that it was venti SSDs that went bad as opposed to fossil SSDs, let alone knowing it was index SSDs for venti. > It seems, venti in its current form is a ssd killer, if they > are used for the isects. I don't thi