Re: [9fans] Hack font for plan9

2016-11-16 Thread Andrew Simmons
Apples are a citrus fruit? Who knew??? > On Nov 17, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 02:30:08PM +1300, Andrew Simmons wrote: >> What size grapefruit are we talking here? Using grapefruit bought from my >> local supermarket >> (http

Re: [9fans] Hack font for plan9

2016-11-16 Thread Andrew Simmons
What size grapefruit are we talking here? Using grapefruit bought from my local supermarket (http://www.paknsave.co.nz/upper-north-island/auckland/royal-oak/) I could fit at most 5 vertically, 7 horizontally into the screen of a 27 inch iMac. I’m fairly sure I could fit more 9pt lucm runes on my

[9fans] Job interview questions

2016-11-09 Thread Andrew Simmons
I’ve just been asked to respond to the following. Apart from number 8, where the answer is clearly “because they are clinically insane”, I am at a loss. Any hints from the group? 1) What is the base object in .Net 2) Which version of Asp.Net MVC have you used 3) Exp

Re: [9fans] IWP9

2016-11-08 Thread Andrew Simmons
I assume it’s going to be held in Rio?

Re: [9fans] Any demand for a supported Windows version of p9port?

2016-07-28 Thread Andrew Simmons
Steve, thanks for the thoughtful reply. Your solution wouldn’t work for me, but it obviously does for you, so go in peace. And the answer to the question in my subject line is obviously “No”. > On Jul 28, 2016, at 10:49 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > > I have a different approach. > > Personally I

Re: [9fans] Any demand for a supported Windows version of p9port?

2016-07-28 Thread Andrew Simmons
And even though they’re free, you’d presumably say that the price is still too high. > On Jul 28, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Staven wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 01:41:43PM +1200, Winston Kodogo wrote: >> I was kind of wondering if there was an option for people who like Microsoft >> development t

Re: [9fans] Any demand for a supported Windows version of p9port?

2016-07-27 Thread Andrew Simmons
eral weeks installing 3rd >> party tools and then being told how stupid they are. >> > On 28/07/2016, at 1:27 PM, Chris McGee wrote: >> > >> > I was thinking of using Cygwin to see would be capable of compiling p9p. >> > >> > Chris >> > &g

[9fans] Any demand for a supported Windows version of p9port?

2016-07-27 Thread Andrew Simmons
What the subject line says. This is not remotely intended to disrespect Sean Quinlan’s 9pm, or the guys who did pf9. I’m just asking because there are still chunks of p9p that I’d like to have under Windows. Some of the chunks I want (mostly the command line utilities, also sam, not so much acm

Re: [9fans] Compiling ken-cc on Linux

2015-11-26 Thread Andrew Simmons
> the only library on earth that makes me want to bang my head on the floor. > You need to get out more

Re: [9fans] Off topic: Linus rants against GCC-isms

2015-11-04 Thread Andrew Simmons
I had that, but a line break before the 27472 was the problem for me. Try this: http://gizmodo.com/you-dont-need-to-understand-programming-to-appreciate-t-1739927472 But totally unrelated? I think not. Clicking a link on the “wrong” page sent me to “The 9 language monologue” by “a person who spe

Re: [9fans] rpi boot

2015-10-23 Thread Andrew Simmons
> On Oct 24, 2015, at 12:26 PM, da Tyga wrote: > > I might be doing something wrong here, I was just responding to Adriano's > post - which I thought remained at the bottom of my response. > No it was me doing something wrong and top-posting. Sorry, I occasionally slip into the habit.

Re: [9fans] rpi boot

2015-10-23 Thread Andrew Simmons
I’m not sure where you’re up to, so apologies if this isn’t helpful, but to get the image on to the SD I just did what it says here (I use a Mac): https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/mac

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

2015-10-14 Thread Andrew Simmons
This reminds me, should you find yourself in Auckland, be sure to visit Roger the Shrubber in Mangere for all of your Web shrubbery requirements: http://www.localist.co.nz/l/tazcwz > On Oct 14, 2015, at 9:35 PM, Charles Forsyth > wrote: > > > On 14 October 2015 at 09:32, Charles Forsyth >

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

2015-10-12 Thread Andrew Simmons
ote: > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:57:16PM +1300, Andrew Simmons wrote: >> As a diversion from the discussion of the existential essence of Javascript, >> could I ask the group for a view on the meaning of the term "Web Garden"? >> I was just asked about this in a j

[9fans] Web Gardens

2015-10-11 Thread Andrew Simmons
As a diversion from the discussion of the existential essence of Javascript, could I ask the group for a view on the meaning of the term "Web Garden"? I was just asked about this in a job interview. Supplementary question - how would you implement a Web Garden in Plan9? > On 9/10/2015, at 2:48

Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

2015-10-02 Thread Andrew Simmons
Well, colour me confused. I can make no sense of this thread. Would that Boyd were here to explain it. > On Oct 3, 2015, at 5:48 pm, erik quanstrom wrote: > > did you fix the SSL interface in python, too? > > - erik > On Oct 2, 2015 9:37 PM, Nick Owens wrote: > 9front now supports tls 1.2 i

Re: [9fans] copy of 9.txt.gz?

2015-10-01 Thread Andrew Simmons
> On Oct 2, 2015, at 4:53 am, Charles Forsyth wrote: > > > On 1 October 2015 at 15:48, Brantley Coile wrote: > I think he meant the Plan 9 Lion’s commentary, not the Sixth Edition one. > > Yes, and that was in the text I quoted in my reply! This from jmk to the list iin 2001: I would have

Re: [9fans] tls and iphones and ios9 (sigh)

2015-09-17 Thread Andrew Simmons
Such are my limitations, I’m not sure what you mean by "cannot access my email on plan9”. Email works fine for me on my obsolete iPad 4. > On Sep 18, 2015, at 2:33 am, Steve Simon wrote: > > I upgraded my iphone to ios9 and now cannot access my email on plan9 - > no sniggering at the back. >

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-16 Thread Andrew Simmons
> > This list gets downright goddamn surreal at times. > > khm > > You say that as if it’s a bad thing.

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Andrew Simmons
> On Jun 16, 2015, at 3:48 pm, Kim Shrier wrote: > > My copy of the first edition from 1978 has a white cover with blue lettering. > > Kim > > Mine did too. The one on the show is clearly not the second edition, but has a light blue cover with darker blue lettering, apart from the “C”, whic

Re: [9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Andrew Simmons
Thanks, but it seems as if that web page is for the 2nd edition. I have two copies of this, one of which is much thicker than the other, despite having the same number of pages, but that’s a different wildly off-topic topic. I used to have a copy of the 1st edition, and I’m sure that the backgro

[9fans] Wildly off-topic

2015-06-15 Thread Andrew Simmons
As the subject line says, wildly off-topic. But some-one here might know the answer, and it’s been bothering me. Such are my failings, I’ve been watching the second series of “Halt and Catch Fire” in order to catch up with what the kids are up to these days. In the second episode one of the cha

Re: [9fans] iwp9-bondi

2010-01-20 Thread Andrew Simmons
> > my father danced with his great aunt. > OK, so I'm too old and senile and stupid to work out what a great aunt is, although I'm pretty sure it's not the same as a third cousin twice removed. Couldn't you just tell us her name?

[9fans] "Blocks" in C

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew Simmons
>> we'd have been much better off if Apple had instead spent the >> time and effort writing a decent iTunes And no doubt we'd have been much better off if Apple had instead spent the time and effort making a decent iPod. The iTunes on my computer strikes me as at worst perfectly decent, in genera

[9fans] New book (Not entirely OT)

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Simmons
It's probably a bit hypocriticalist of me to post anything off-topic at this point, but why break the habits of a lifetime? Some people here might enjoy a new book from Apress called "Coders at Work". It consists of interviews with people including Ken Thompson, Don Knuth, and Jamie Zawinski (key

[9fans] Chaucer on 9fans

2009-09-13 Thread Andrew Simmons
Namoore of this, for Goddes dignitee!!! Myn eres aken of thy drasty speche! 'By God', quod he, 'for pleynley, at a word Thy drasty posting is nat worth a toord!'

Re: [9fans] clarification needed

2009-02-21 Thread Andrew Simmons
> by the way, which one's kumar? > Kumar is the one with nice pubes.

Re: [9fans] clarification needed

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Simmons
> but, like so many other things plan9, i didn't. so i posted to 9fans. > Evelyn Waugh wrote about "a senile itch to write to The Times". Perhaps posting to 9fans is a modern equivalent, at least for people of my generation.

Re: [9fans] clarification needed

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Simmons
Is this exchange part of the script for the forthcoming reality TV show "Harold and Kumar go to Murray Hill" ? 2009/2/20 : > Since I have only recently come out of retirement I'd like details. > > On Thu Feb 19 00:45:28 EST 2009, bruce.el...@gmail.com wrote: >> You bet your ass. You're not playin

Re: [9fans] Web interface to '/n/sources/contrib' gone??

2009-02-10 Thread Andrew Simmons
Personally, I use Mac OSX because I'm thick, but regardless of that, Pietro et al are quite right. Erik correctly said that if you try to access http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ it works fine. However, if you try to follow the link "browse the source", you, or at least I, get the following: Obje

Re: [9fans] An Observation

2008-11-14 Thread Andrew Simmons
2008/11/15 Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There are those that say too many cooks spoil the broth. > This has been bothering me ever since I was a lad (which I'm pretty sure was well before Ron was born. (Nurse! Turn me over!! Time for my medication!!!) On the one hand, "Too many co

Re: [9fans] An Observation

2008-11-14 Thread Andrew Simmons
And then there are those who don't want to eat most of the dishes on the menu on a regular basis, but wish they could learn to cook half as well as that, and attempt to apply some of the cooking methods in their own dishes. 2008/11/15 Fernan Bolando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There are a few customers

Re: [9fans] mmap

2008-11-03 Thread Andrew Simmons
I don't want to imply that Ron is quite such an old fart as me, but somehow I don't get the impression that he was a kid in 1981, when "Time Bandits" came out. Ron, if you could give some clue as to when you saw the movie, I'm pretty sure that the group could mount a co-ordinated effort to identify

Re: [9fans] volos experiment

2008-11-02 Thread Andrew Simmons
>> how many 9fans can you fit in a small hotel room in Βόλος before the management get upset? If the first 9fan is Boyd packing his normal weaponry, I would imagine the answer is at most one. Ditto for a large hotel room anywhere in the world.

Re: [9fans] Using the Acme Editor

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Simmons
>Anyway, you won't get any more of this. End of transmission. ␄ > Hurrah!

[9fans] Thinkpad 380XD seeks new home

2008-04-10 Thread Andrew Simmons
Sorry to interrupt the fascinating discussions about echo, but: I am about to chuck out an old (circa 1997) IBM Thinkpad 380XD, but before doing so thought it might be worth offering to anyone on the list who might want to give it a good home - the reason being that it runs native Plan 9 quite hap

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

2008-03-19 Thread Andrew Simmons
>interested students should perhaps submit their plan 9 gsoc project >proposals to the Hurd. i hear we have a connection there through a >certain Thomas Bushnell, BSG ;) Bushnell is no longer associated with the Hurd . Ironically, he appears to have been sacked by Stallman after a licensing disput