Re: [9fans] 16:9 display and freeze

2012-10-23 Thread tlaronde
the electromagnetic noise impact is, and how shielded are MB components from such perturbations...). -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop

2012-10-18 Thread tlaronde
need ; so what everybody has is obviously what I do need, hence a mass market (the Panurge's sheeps). -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] 16:9 display and freeze

2012-10-17 Thread tlaronde
. I will have to investigate (and see what is producing this). Best, -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] 16:9 display and freeze

2012-10-17 Thread tlaronde
to this information through the edid sideband communication, which is available on almost every video interconnect, including vga. Thank you. I will try to investigate. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95

Re: [9fans] I found this discussion pretty funny

2012-10-17 Thread tlaronde
I like the way the discussion goes. From an outspoken Linus Torvalds saying nonsense, to a diving into details that progressively gives points to some operating system with both a lot of things are files, and namespaces---these are related, but not identical. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde

[9fans] 16:9 display and freeze

2012-10-14 Thread tlaronde
-- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] troff and times roman, need for accented characters

2012-08-31 Thread tlaronde
and with european encodings. And there is TeX for Plan9 via kerTeX: http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html This is probably not the answer if the question is how to do with troff etc.; but this is an answer. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-30 Thread tlaronde
is not only possible: it exists. (This is neither a plea for a wide use of R.I.S.K. since it has been published by side-effect: I didn't want to support it for external uses. But if I make a project public, I publish the framework too...) -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-30 Thread tlaronde
. The basis does not request ftp. The primitives (R.I.S.K. proper) do not use this. But I think we mostly agree on the issues. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-28 Thread tlaronde
in the future). -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-28 Thread tlaronde
Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-08-28 Thread tlaronde
to sketch such a parameters file on a new system.) And this does what no other framework does: be able to remove intermediary products, such that you can compile a resulting n megabytes package with just slightly more than n megabytes of space... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-20 Thread tlaronde
. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-17 Thread tlaronde
tree and you got to follow this one correct path back. Here, this multiplicity is simultaneously valid, and all the paths are the correct answer. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-16 Thread tlaronde
of links, and long enumerations. But the naming of the nodes is always a problem (lengthy names, spaces, discrimining characters being put last and not first bringing identical long prefixes etc.). -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-16 Thread tlaronde
, since it is not the purpose to hide the explication of the union... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-16 Thread tlaronde
ignorant, and the user go wherever he wants. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-16 Thread tlaronde
of a detail, to solve a non directly related problem later. There is a paper by D.E. Knuth, IIRC, speaking about the usefulness of toy programming. This is it. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-15 Thread tlaronde
to be presented? With the convention of .+ and .-, my answer is no: 9P has no hardcoded knowledge of .. if I'm not mistaken. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-15 Thread tlaronde
where the three happen to be the very same machine. But this is a coincidence, not an obligation. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-15 Thread tlaronde
, this is because of this. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] sam, shorten dot by 1 line

2012-08-06 Thread tlaronde
buffer, with only one legitimate direction, .+0 goes from the end to the beginning, but in the correct direction in the circular buffer, and selects nothing (since next to end you have dot). Hoping not saying too much nonsense. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-05 Thread tlaronde
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:29:19AM -0400, Charles Forsyth wrote: There is also http://lsub.org/iwp9/cready/abheyshahplan9.pdf Thank you! Indeed, this is related. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-04 Thread tlaronde
Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-04 Thread tlaronde
.+ for the hierarchical children, and .- for the reverse hierarchical parents (these being only a _view_; storage is another story...). So this could be achieved but by not attempting to provide an ubicuitous view, but only a local view from the file considered. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-04 Thread tlaronde
;-) -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

[9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-03 Thread tlaronde
for intellectual curiosity. Best, -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-03 Thread tlaronde
or symbolic) on Plan9 could seem to suppress some facilities. But since this does not give all, even not a lot (this does not address multidimensional), it happens that it could be easier to implement something like this in a Plan9 world... Thanks! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot

Re: [9fans] higher-end compute server recommendations?

2012-07-26 Thread tlaronde
and more valid everyday---interconnections, ubiquity or lack of locality of resources; terminals vs. CPU vs. fileservers etc. And simplicity... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D

Re: [9fans] empty *

2012-06-14 Thread tlaronde
by some non empty pattern is a Plan9 way to get grep -F ? cpu% echo hola | grep '' grep: empty pattern From the POSIX description, an empty pattern is not allowed. '*' is not an empty pattern. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com

Re: [9fans] empty *

2012-06-14 Thread tlaronde
no intentions of being posix. grep '*' can be seen as a literal escape plus the pattern of ''. this is an empty pattern, thus an error. In this case, shouldn't the error message be exactly the same? -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http

Re: [9fans] Plan X

2012-06-03 Thread tlaronde
is a science, not an art, and will work as long as the enemy does not do unplanned actions, that is as long as there is no war. Can't wait! Lucky U.S. citizens that have still money to waste! (since printing is so cheap these days...) -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox - Clone

2012-05-31 Thread tlaronde
as is since it has established history. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox - Clone

2012-05-31 Thread tlaronde
placed in the already established evolution tree) and by making a proper name a common one. Well, we are far off... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox - Clone

2012-05-31 Thread tlaronde
... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox - Clone

2012-05-30 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:28:47PM -0700, John Floren wrote: Just when you thought every bikeshed had been painted... But we don't agree on the colour... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox - Clone

2012-05-30 Thread tlaronde
to switch to international english ruled by repeated hence agreed on, hence established errors... And when you will have to say sensible things, you will need to use a sensible language...[Demoniac laugh] -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-14 Thread tlaronde
, Plan9 is in part, by design, insulated from entropy. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-14 Thread tlaronde
and the material benefits I can expect, and I will loose my position as a Y system wizard. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] new pc bootstraps

2012-05-11 Thread tlaronde
the upcoming manual pages for more information. I hope no-one will consider saying: Thanks! to be noise on the list! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-10 Thread tlaronde
to be adapted, since they assume that if 9fat is here, everything is already set. This is wrong after the above procedure.] -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-10 Thread tlaronde
) and the -B flag. i have no idea what *bsd tools would want to support this. Thanks, I will read the manpage and update the document when necessary. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-10 Thread tlaronde
, -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-10 Thread tlaronde
... Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-10 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 03:31:14PM +0200, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: 9load has to die. Ideally, yes. I worked, a long time ago, with GRUB and finally realized that adding feature after feature we were just building another kernel... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com

[9fans] KerTeX: new release!

2012-03-22 Thread tlaronde
, -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012

2012-03-19 Thread tlaronde
the wrong direction. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012

2012-03-19 Thread tlaronde
long E.U. will last... My choice on Plan9 (4th or derived systems) is based on technical merits that I feel will still be true in the near or middle future... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF

Re: [9fans] Summer of Plan 9

2012-03-19 Thread tlaronde
in the academic world. Not to mention OS study by itself. So the more Plan9 (or derived) is used---and the TeX framework is instrumental for this---, the more attraction it will have; and, by mere statistics, the more potential about students. And the more -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012

2012-03-19 Thread tlaronde
year legislation, you can not start working, because it is obsolete and you have to load the new(TM), improved(TM) context... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012

2012-03-16 Thread tlaronde
one not here... I see many missing... And as Anthony writes, this does not prevent any doing. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-03-14 Thread tlaronde
that prevent a more versatile installation. And fdisk(8) has still to be fixed (on the stack but too many things going on with KerGIS or kerTeX for me). From what I have seen, it is a light project. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http

[9fans] PostScript rendering on Plan9

2012-03-06 Thread tlaronde
---or the rasterizing routines better? Or perhaps this is simply because it is an old gs(1) without modern improvements... And to simply page the file and see it rendered is an advertising for Plan9! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http

Re: [9fans] PostScript rendering on Plan9

2012-03-06 Thread tlaronde
if this is due to the Ghostscript version, to the windowing system of the host or something else. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] kertex on Plan 9

2012-03-05 Thread tlaronde
to know if the difficulties are related to the use of LaTeX---on whatever OS---or of some peculiarities of kerTeX on Plan9. What does not work? Best, -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89

[9fans] AMS-TeX and cyrillic@latex added to kerTeX

2012-03-05 Thread tlaronde
/kertex.html (english) Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

[9fans] kerTeX update: LaTeX fix + babel + Comptes Rendus

2012-03-04 Thread tlaronde
and LaTeX/ AMS-TeX are on the stack for next. Since there were people trying the package, I have hurried to release. This is tested on NetBSD. In theory, this should be OK under Plan9, but in practice... Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http

Re: [9fans] octopus paper

2012-03-02 Thread tlaronde
are not paid for peer review 4 times a shame, at least. If only the result of such a system would be papers worth reading... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

[9fans] [RFC] How to install without

2012-02-02 Thread tlaronde
in a very small size. So keeping it will make a repair tool very handy. [Note: the installation scripts have to be adapted, since they assume that if 9fat is here, everything is already set. This is wrong after the above procedure.] -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com

Re: [9fans] issuing fshalt shuts down rio and gives the following

2012-01-19 Thread tlaronde
9load it seems). [I'm not saying it should not or whatever; it is a constatation and it probably makes sense for a Plan9 terminal.] -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006

Re: [9fans] du vs. ls: duplication or not?

2012-01-16 Thread tlaronde
displays the size of a file (in bytes). -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] du vs. ls: duplication or not?

2012-01-16 Thread tlaronde
? -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] du vs. ls: duplication or not?

2012-01-16 Thread tlaronde
not convinced it makes really sense as a general tool in a Plan9 environment. But let this thread dies. I have some job to do on fdisk. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95

Re: [9fans] du vs. ls: duplication or not?

2012-01-15 Thread tlaronde
. could do the trick. Since ls(1) gives the size of the file; since du(1) can not really or at least not always in an arbitrary context tells the real occupation of disk size, is not ls(1) enough? -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com

[9fans] du vs. ls: duplication or not?

2012-01-14 Thread tlaronde
it promises in the man page; the lack is just a one line caveat that du(1) can not answer a fuzzy question.) -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

[9fans] fossil pb: a clue?

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
the iso registered, and not showing. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

[9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
) is not accurate with the -h flag: term% du -sh / 347.8285G / I have megabytes, not gigabytes. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
at the source) that for Megabytes, it prints a G suffix too... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: a clue?

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
. See the following illustration: [...] Thanks for the clarifications. What puzzles me for now, is the du(1) hole... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
(the only customizations are for the network, the mouse, the keyboard). I do not play with the namespace. Have you an idea where to look to find what are the offending instructions? /boot(8)? -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
way to find the organization of the namespace on Plan9? (What is mount'ed and what is bind'ed? -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
and what is bind'ed? Sure... ns(1) :-) Missed this one... Thanks! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
the sum of each entry it has printed. If the entries are repeated (because of multiple binds), it appears in the sum. So du(1) does what it says; the sum. I never thought that perhaps, under Unices, du(1) with hard links will produce the same misleading result... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:50:34PM +, Charles Forsyth wrote: [...] You can easily build a looped space to test it: mkdir /tmp/y mkdir /tmp/y/z bind /tmp /tmp/y/z # have fun Since this is by error'ing that one learns, I learned a lot today! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
in the listing (but this is arbitrary); whether the sum is incorrect (in the meaning not the sum of the sizes displayed) ;) The devil is in the details. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89

Re: [9fans] fossil pb: FOUND!

2012-01-13 Thread tlaronde
and only here (since I have other means to know with the console). But this was obviously not clear for me till now! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

[9fans] kerTeX: get_mk_install.rc

2012-01-12 Thread tlaronde
side (via pkg_latex the kerTeX packaging system). As usual, everything is here: http://www.kergis.com/kertex.html http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html If something goes wrong, you have some clue who to contact about... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com

Re: [9fans] kerTeX: get_mk_install.rc

2012-01-12 Thread tlaronde
And get_mk_install.rc with an obvious typo (for english doc): READEM - README hence hget fails. Fixed version online. (Should test all paths...) -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89

Re: [9fans] fossil (again)

2012-01-12 Thread tlaronde
! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] fossil (again)

2012-01-12 Thread tlaronde
it! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Fwd: Call for Papers: LASER 2012?Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results

2012-01-11 Thread tlaronde
, it jumps. He cuts one more. Jump!---and the flea doesn't jump. Scientific conclusion: when one cuts legs to a flea, it becomes deaf. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006

Re: [9fans] fossil (again)

2012-01-10 Thread tlaronde
at work here. the amount of space wasted off the tail of the last block, and the amount of blocks required to map the data into the inode completely. it seems that for my mix of files, 8k is a winner. Thanks for the data, Erik! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com

Re: [9fans] fossil (again)

2012-01-10 Thread tlaronde
. After disabling snapshots, have you removed the old snapshots with snapclean 0 in fossilcons? No. I thought that if low == high epochs, there is no room left for cleaning? How do you measure disk usage? Do you use df in fossilcons? Yes. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot

Re: [9fans] fossil (again)

2012-01-10 Thread tlaronde
space requirements of the thing ;) -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] fossil (again)

2012-01-10 Thread tlaronde
the remaining temporary snapshots with: % 9fs snap % ls /n/snap Thanks for the explanations! -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

[9fans] fossil (again)

2012-01-09 Thread tlaronde
of small text files, so 8kb is perhaps too much. TIA -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

[9fans] Fossil defaults (again)

2012-01-08 Thread tlaronde
will lead to: m=256 # 2MB for fossil (this will be slow) wouldn't it be better to increase the minimal size of swap? -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] Fossil defaults (again)

2012-01-08 Thread tlaronde
to wedge your machine with it. Since the installation is for the general case, probably swap can be dropped. [BTW, the scripts in sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/, for newcomers, are IMHO opinion a good place to start to learn more about Plan9.] -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com

[9fans] BUG: disk/fdisk.c: corrupts MBR

2012-01-07 Thread tlaronde
the Plan9 partition before with another system present on disk (and do print the layout of the MBR) in order to skip this step in installation. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D

Re: [9fans] BUG: disk/fdisk.c: corrupts MBR

2012-01-07 Thread tlaronde
patch the existing with changed values (no need to be efficient for 4 * 16 bytes), and leave clearly alone values set by others. And to verify the magic signature for, at least, the active partition (it would have spot the problem). -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com

Re: [9fans] BUG: disk/fdisk.c: corrupts MBR

2012-01-07 Thread tlaronde
(but perhaps not the well known one ;). -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

[9fans] venti and contrib: RFC

2012-01-05 Thread tlaronde
in backups. While here, powerful tools are there, by default, but user may be unaware of consequences. Perhaps should it be proposed by default, for the let's see what is Plan9, to get fossil only, and to switch to venti when things are clear? Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde

Re: [9fans] venti and contrib: RFC

2012-01-05 Thread tlaronde
enough. If he's hooked to Plan9---that happened to me ;)---sooner or later a problem will occur. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] venti and contrib: RFC

2012-01-05 Thread tlaronde
failure. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] venti and contrib: RFC

2012-01-05 Thread tlaronde
is burnt. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] venti and contrib: RFC

2012-01-05 Thread tlaronde
. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] venti and contrib: RFC

2012-01-05 Thread tlaronde
, that was not for the archival features. And I spent my time on Plan9 looking for the distributed system, the namespace and so on, not on venti. The question is more about the defaults and/or the documentation. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http

Re: [9fans] venti and contrib: RFC

2012-01-05 Thread tlaronde
the archival features will not hurt either. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: [9fans] venti and contrib: RFC

2012-01-05 Thread tlaronde
... -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

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