Re: [9fans] Accessing Mac OS Extended drives

2014-03-09 Thread blstuart
on it. Naturally, quite a few bugs have been found and sorted out, but I can't make any guarantees about stability or prime-time readiness. The snapshot kernel device is available in contrib/blstuart/snap, and the file system is in contrib/blstuart/θfs. It's also included in 9atom, and we're working on getting

Re: [9fans] Accessing Mac OS Extended drives

2014-03-09 Thread blstuart
- Taking a snapshot is an O(1) operation most interestingly, that is a property of #ℙ, which is not directly tied to θfs. so you could, with arrangements, snapshot any other file system. That's correct. #ℙ doesn't depend on θfs at all. θfs can be used without #ℙ, but it does have some

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-26 Thread blstuart
I do! I'm particularly interested in filesystems in general and would love to work on fossil/venti, perhaps improve fossilcons or fix known bugs? Funny you should mention file systems. As it turns out, I've been working on a new file system for Plan 9 recently. It's too early to make any

Re: [9fans] upas/smtp and gmail

2014-01-23 Thread blstuart
The farthest I have gotten is getting smtp to issue 220 Ready to Start TLS, and then it exits, that's running smtp with the -d flag. /sys/log/smtp reveals a bunch of bad thumbprint x509 lines. I have tried adding the sha1 hash to /sys/lib/tls/mail, but this has had no effect. For outgoing,

Re: [9fans] Anyone porting to Yún?

2013-12-25 Thread blstuart
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardYun?from=Main.ArduinoYUN similar to the routerboard port (MIPS). I thought Arduino was entirely AVR based. But I haven't been following any developments. Mostly they are. But the Yún includes an Atheros module with WiFi, Ethernet, USB, and a MIPS

Re: [9fans] Anyone porting to Yún?

2013-12-25 Thread blstuart
On Dec 26, 2013, at 0:29, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardYun?from=Main.ArduinoYUN similar to the routerboard port (MIPS). I thought Arduino was entirely AVR based. But I haven't been following any developments. Mostly they are. But the Yún

Re: [9fans] VMware and 9atom

2013-10-09 Thread blstuart
I also wasn't aware that qemu could work with out the support from the proc. Is that version dependent also, or only on a Microsquish OS version of qemu? It's been a while since I did much with it, but a few years I used Plan 9 on qemu on the Mac quite a lot, even to the point of setting up

[9fans] EDID

2012-10-22 Thread blstuart
so, if any of you have X11 running, and could do this: xrandr --verbose From an HP laptop running FreeBSD: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1280 VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) Identifier: 0x41 Timestamp: 81746

Re: [9fans] EDID

2012-10-22 Thread blstuart
so, if any of you have X11 running, and could do this: xrandr --verbose From an HP laptop running FreeBSD: Oops. Sorry about that all. BLS

Re: [9fans] SSHv2

2012-03-30 Thread blstuart
You'll also need the backported p9p factotum in: contrib/quanstro/root/sys/src/cmd/auth/factotum How big is the dependency on p9p factotum? Is it just syntactic or is there some needed functionality in p9p factotum which the sources version doesn't provide? Quite big. Actually, ssh is

Re: [9fans] SSHv2

2012-03-30 Thread blstuart
contrib/quanstro/root/sys/src/cmd/auth/factotum Nfactotum misses proto=mschap which is used by cifs(4) for doing NTLM. Isn't mschap implemented in contrib/quanstro/root/sys/src/cmd/auth/factotum/chap.c? There's a Proto structure for it at the bottom of the file. BLS

Re: [9fans] SSHv2

2012-03-30 Thread blstuart
Would it be hard to add cooked mode (-C)? never mind: it's easy to simulate by binding /dev/nul over /dev/consctl. The other thing I've noticed is that when I'm connecting from Plan 9 to a UNIX system, running ssh in vt is handy. It makes all the stuff like readline and color ls happy, plus

[9fans] SSHv2

2012-03-29 Thread blstuart
Thanks to the support of Coraid, I am pleased to announce that a native SSHv2 implementation is now available in contrib. It's available in: contrib/blstuart/ssh You'll also need the backported p9p factotum in: contrib/quanstro/root/sys/src/cmd/auth/factotum Although not strictly necessary

Re: [9fans] unable to start plan9 on atom330 in virtualbox

2011-06-11 Thread blstuart
I've been using virtualbox on linux and mac os for a long time. The only issues I have found have been with the ps/2 mouse emulation on mac os. You can try the image we have for our students here: http://lsub.org/plan9alv.tgz You might give the latest version for mac os a try. I've noticed

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread blstuart
On 05/18/2011 05:12 AM, Jacob Todd wrote: Writing/porting web stuff to plan 9 will be hard. Writing something that accesses plan 9 from the web will be less hard. The KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) acronym has been popular in business for decades, but its message has never been more

Re: [9fans] crazy idea - drawterm in javascript?

2011-05-18 Thread blstuart
How useful a research could be which is not backed by a business idea? That's kind of the point I was getting at. Asking how research is useful isn't asking the most telling question. Research isn't always about utility; it's about intellectual contribution. Of course, it's great when

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-01 Thread blstuart
Starting Goal: a modern, standards compliant web engine library for Plan 9 As others have pointed out that's pretty hard to define, but in the current web world, you can cover a surprisingly large fraction of sites if you have good JavaScript and CSS support. Running Java in the browser isn't

Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

2011-01-13 Thread blstuart
him. An even more Plan9-like way of doing it is to net-boot a Plan9 terminal from your cpu/auth/fs machine. If you want to boot your main box that way, you can without installing anything on it. From within Linux, you can do the same thing in virtualbox. In fact, I have a virtualbox

Re: [9fans] off the air

2010-12-31 Thread blstuart
On Dec 31, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 01:28:17PM +, Richard Miller wrote: Although I'd like to try a theremin one day... Lydia Kavina http://www.lydiakavina.com gives occasional tutorials in Oxford, maybe also somewhere closer to you.

Re: [9fans] Plan9 and VirtualBox 4.0

2010-12-31 Thread blstuart
Weird i tried similar settings a few days ago and it didnt work. Can you post the vdi and hdd settings too? I had some success yesterday, but more so with Erik's 9atom ISO than the one from the labs. It handled the VirtualBox disk emulation much better. Anyway, I ended up with a very similar

Re: [9fans] simh old computer simulator

2010-12-25 Thread blstuart
I have ported simh 3.8-1 to plan9. It currently has the following issues Cool! So my Christmas day has already invovled booting up RT-11 and PDP-1 LISP. Thanks for doing the port. BLS

Re: [9fans] another type of static linking: send all the shared

2010-11-13 Thread blstuart
On Sat Nov 13 02:34:14 EST 2010, don.bai...@gmail.com wrote: So now bin/ls is going to weigh 200 megabytes on SomeDistro thanks to a packaging of localities, terminal colours, etc? Sounds great. i can't wait. in 200-odd megabytes you can have (a) a plan 9 distribution, or (b) linux

Re: [9fans] permissions

2010-10-17 Thread blstuart
to elaborate: group permission is not implemented by any kernel file servers in the standard distribution. And yet, it honors others permissions? I can set the r bit on others, and the cat then works... Right. Aside from the persistent data file servers, like kfs, kenfs, and fossil (as Erik

Re: [9fans] permissions

2010-10-17 Thread blstuart
Right. Aside from the persistent data file servers, like kfs, kenfs, and fossil (as Erik mentioned), there's not much that treats groups in the expected way. So if you'll continue to pardon my asking, who exactly tells a given file server what constitutes a user or a group? In this

Re: [9fans] permissions

2010-10-17 Thread blstuart
Chicken-and-egg, just like you said. Of course, that lands us in the current situation, where you can't tweak things such that 100% of all administration activities can be performed remotely via drawterm... for some stuff like setting up disks, one still has to use the local physical

Re: [9fans] permissions

2010-10-17 Thread blstuart
servers out in our datacenter, which is a physically seperate building down the street. While we have physical access if we need it, generally speaking everything can be done remotely, including rebooting a system, because the HMC manages it and provides virtual serial consoles. Real world

Re: [9fans] πp

2010-10-13 Thread blstuart
I guess I'm trying to imagine how specifically you could pipeline, not the general ways in which pipelining will fail with 9P. Well as it turns out, I got inspired by the discussions of streaming and implemented one approach in Inferno on the plane on the way back home. Unfortunately, my

Re: [9fans] regexp doubt

2010-07-13 Thread blstuart
both of them yield a regexp: malformed `[]' error. I forgot to mention and I had an alternative solution from the beginning /stat[abc]?([ ;]|-)/ I'm just wondering the reason the original version failed. As I recall, if you're going to include a hyphen in a character class, it has to be

Re: [9fans] regexp doubt

2010-07-13 Thread blstuart
I think you have found a real bug. I created a new window containing x x+ x- xy and I executed Edit ,x/x[ +\-]/d and sure enough it doesn't delete x-. Interesting. Is that in p9p acme? I just tried it in 9vx and it did delete everything except the xy. BLS

Re: [9fans] Mars Needs Women

2010-04-25 Thread blstuart
It infers that what Corey wants is to bring GNU and Linux into Plan 9. Which isn't true. I must admit to jumping to that conclusion too easily. I guess it's because the most common discussions here start either with I've been beating my head against a wall; has anyone seen this or can tell

Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons

2010-03-29 Thread blstuart
I've been avoiding getting into this discussion, largely because I fail to understand just why it seems to be an issue at all, much less a big deal. But once again, against my better judgement I allow my big mouth to open. On my part I guess I'm assuming complexity will come, whether we like

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread blstuart
It's this kind of intellectual ugliness that makes the teacher in me hang my head in shame. How could we be managing to produce a whole generation of programmers who actually buy into that stuff? And it's not as if it's a fad that's getting better. If anything it's getting worse. Somehow we've

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread blstuart
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:31:20 -0300, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: It's this kind of intellectual ugliness that makes the teacher in me hang my head in shame. How could we be managing to produce a whole generation of programmers who actually buy into that stuff? And ... I assume you

Re: [9fans] quote o' the day

2010-03-25 Thread blstuart
in similar vein, there's this handful guide on how to make your life really hard in 11 easy steps: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html make sure you check out the final copy.c linked at the bottom of the page It's a sign of the apocalypse. The configuration of the

Re: [9fans] interesting qemu problem

2010-03-18 Thread blstuart
I should mention that another person here tried qemu recently and commented that it was dog slow as well. Something changed in qemu I think and it's affecting plan 9. That was a very old qemu image and it was peppy in the old days. I wonder if it's a 0.11 thing or maybe a Linux thing. I've

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread blstuart
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/ Okay, Maht. You just cost me $125 :) I just couldn't resist. Of course, it remains to be seen whether this will be another project that gets pushed onto the stack or we will see something come of it. What

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread blstuart
Shame it doesn't have a cell phone radio built in, or Ron and I might have just what we needed for the 9phone. That would be cool. Unfortunately, the cell phone people seem a lot less friendly about releasing the information necessary to program their chips. At 32 MB of RAM, it's basically

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread blstuart
I was wondering how you'd network one of those things: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_in_Nanonote I thought that was terribly cute. The other option is talking PPP over the USB. You'd be tethered, but you could at least talk. Off-topic-ish, that 320x240 screen is probably the biggest

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread blstuart
As I get it, it does not feauture a USB host controller, but acts like an USB device that you can connect to your PC. Maybe it will work anyhow... I was wondering how you'd network one of those things: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_in_Nanonote I thought that was terribly cute.

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread blstuart
What flavor MIPS is it? 64 bit (I doubt it)? Is it a version that the compilers will like? Good point. I do know it's 32-bit, but so far that's all I know. Honestly, I had noticed it was MIPS and didn't really think any further about it. The good news is that both big-endian and little-endian

Re: [9fans] Binary format

2010-02-17 Thread blstuart
* the whole loader sits in the kernel (maybe w/ some additional helper deamon in userland), but userland can pass parameters like search pathes, etc via env. IMHO having the dynamic loader in kernel-land (in contrary to ELF on GNU) not just removes the need for lots of syscalls, but

Re: [9fans] Binary format

2010-02-17 Thread blstuart
* blstu...@bellsouth.net blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: If you're interested in how to do dynamic loading in a clean and elegant way, take a look at Inferno. hmm, isnt this an interpreter-based system ? The application language is Limbo which is compiled to Dis machine code. Dis is run

Re: [9fans] Binary format

2010-02-17 Thread blstuart
We recompile the relevant executables. The speed of kencc makes this much less painful than you might expect. It also happens very rarely on plan9 - I cannot remember the last time we had a big pull. Okay, but then (as an admin) you have to know which apps have to be recompiled. For a small

Re: [9fans] Shall we fix the use of Up/Dn arrows?

2010-01-23 Thread blstuart
What I'd appreciate, from the user's point of view, would be some kind of history mechanism tied to the up/down keys in rio/win (where I interact with a shell), up arrow bringing up the last command e.g., and a normal movement behaviour when editing a 'text' file (no direct interaction with

Re: [9fans] faces

2010-01-07 Thread blstuart
You can't prove harmlessness in people, hence the joyful collective outcry of all men are potential rapists. It's the halting problem of human interaction Brian! Your computer thinks your face is harmful! I never thought of it that way, but I like that analogy. At least no one has written

Re: [9fans] faces

2010-01-06 Thread blstuart
You can sumbim your own patches, or, alternatively if people want to send me their face files and a list of email addresses that they should be associated with them I will agregate them all into a single patch. This is the one I've been using for myself for a while. It's kind of old, but I

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-06 Thread blstuart
Back to the Evoluents for me. I'm back to using trackballs :-) . And I guess I either have to fix this problem with the trackpad myself or wait for a fix or use an external pointing device. Has anyone tried the Contour Perfit? I've been hesitant to drop $100+ on it without knowing how it

Re: [9fans] faces

2010-01-06 Thread blstuart
Brian! Your computer thinks your face is harmful! another one for cat-v On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: from postmas...@vx32: The following attachment had content that we can't prove to be harmless.  To avoid possible automatic execution, we changed the

Re: [9fans] Thanks for a neat IWP9!

2009-10-25 Thread blstuart
Thanks to everyone who attended and to Erik Quanstrom and Coraid for a rockin' IWP9. I second that! It was a great meeting. BLS

Re: [9fans] mishandling empty lists - let's fix it

2009-10-03 Thread blstuart
Does anyone agree with me that it needs fixing? I don't. I also think that even if it were a problem the usage is far too ingrained to be fixable. Nor do I. Having the no-argument case be filter behavior (stdin/stdout) is the most elegant, consistent, and predictable of the options I've

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment

2009-09-27 Thread blstuart
I don't think there's any inherent reason why 9vx must be unstable, but it certainly has a couple bugs. I haven't had the time to track them down and fix them, but I'm always happy to point in the right direction if you can reproduce one. There have been a few reports about it dying with

[9fans] Mounting Plan9 fs on Inferno

2009-09-27 Thread blstuart
So am I out of my mind or shouldn't I be able to mount a Plan 9 file system on Inferno. I thought that was one of the effects of making 9p2000 and styx the same. But even setting aside the authentication issue, if I do an aux/listen1 on the Plan 9 side, and then try to do a mount -A on the

Re: [9fans] Mounting Plan9 fs on Inferno

2009-09-27 Thread blstuart
The following sequence works for me. I get your bad fversion ... error without `-r root' to skip the root negotiation: On plan 9: % aux/listen1 tcp!*!styx /bin/exportfs -r /usr/glenda On inferno: % mount -A tcp!192.168.1.3! /n/plan9 Excellent; that's the trick. On

Re: [9fans] 9vx as a perfect proto environment

2009-09-26 Thread blstuart
I've had less success using it for real work, at least on MacOS 10.5 and 10.6 - for example running a venti server eventually results in something like 9vx panic: sigsegv on cpu7 I've seen similar on FreeBSD, though I don't think I've see it on Linux. I use 9vx pretty much all the time as

Re: [9fans] scheme plan 9

2009-09-02 Thread blstuart
number of schemes 4 http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/ One that's not in the contrib tree is s9fes (Scheme 9 From Empty Space). BLS

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread blstuart
with vista is not one of them. It may well be in the long term that the best way to remove 9load is to make Plan 9 grub-bootable. The -H5 option to 8l will generate an ELF image. I've used that to boot Inferno using pxelinux/mboot. I'm pretty sure a Plan9 image built using -H5 would be

Re: [9fans] new 9atom.iso

2009-08-28 Thread blstuart
caveats. They're listed on: https://umdrive.memphis.edu/blstuart/htdocs/inf_nat_inst.html BTW, I hope to have another version available soon that includes pretty good USB support and some limited graphics. BLS

Re: [9fans] file server?

2009-08-13 Thread blstuart
Once, it used to be the standard configuration to have one machine as a CPU/auth server, one machine as a file server, and one machine as a terminal, for a total of three systems, if one had the available hardware. The power in that model comes primarily when you have a number of terminals

Re: [9fans] a few Q's regarding cpu/auth server

2009-08-06 Thread blstuart
It also seems that most of organizations I know have that same kind of permanency in place even at HR level. If you leave the company and then get rehired you feel like you've never left -- you badge id and sorts of HR assigned credentials are simply enabled, not created anew. Don't know

Re: [9fans] a few Q's regarding cpu/auth server

2009-08-06 Thread blstuart
Incidentially I may use this at home to protect my servers console against my 2 year old who rather likes keyboards, though this is a different type of security. In that situation, the most important security measure it to place the power switch at an altitude beyond the little one's reach. I

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-01 Thread blstuart
On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:46, Charles Forsyth fors...@terzarima.net wrote: I think Tog's conclusions (the single set of studies put forth whenever this thing comes up) are poorly made ... it turns out that there is rather older work that supports much the same conclusion, which i probably

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-01 Thread blstuart
perhaps i should have taken piano, but i find the That's an interesting observation. As it turns out I do play, and it's certainly possible that it colors my taste in UIs. contortions kbd-based editors such as vi or emacs require to be quite irritating indeed. fumbling for I don't disagree

Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

2009-07-01 Thread blstuart
Arguing about mouse vs keyboard misses the point. I'm very happy with acme's use of the mouse, but acme's power comes from the rest of its design. I think that's why I find acme's use of the pointer to be more paletable than other apps. The one thing that no UI study ever measures is how much

Re: [9fans] off-topic: small is beautiful article

2009-06-25 Thread blstuart
Nils Holm's Scheme interpreter @ http://t3x.org/s9fes has been available for a few months now. It runs on plan9 though not on inferno. For Inferno, look at: http://code.google.com/p/inferno-scheme It's best considered embryonic, and has been that way for a little while as I've been

Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305

2009-05-22 Thread blstuart
Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge 04:00.0 0200: 14e4:16ac (rev 12) Broadcom Corporation 05:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge Broadcom GigE - these are a problem, as I understand it

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread blstuart
What do people think about erik's timeframe versus potentially mid-January / early February / early March 2010? My 1¢ worth (the economy has devalued it from 2¢) is that the time doesn't matter so much for me, since it would probably be on my dime. But Atlanta is a much more feasable trip for

Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user

2009-04-21 Thread blstuart
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.comwrote: I don't who and why one referred you to try 9vx Maybe because it's faster, and easy to install. It only took a few minutes to download it, unpack it, and start using it. It's an easy way to get acquainted

Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user

2009-04-21 Thread blstuart
i'm speculating on the design of the auth system. i wasn't there so i could be wrong. but in order to have a terminal that many people could log into would require either (a) killing off the original factotum on logout and changing eve back to bootes or something. and beware the 1001

Re: [9fans] Adventures of a home user

2009-04-21 Thread blstuart
I've been posting too much for this kind of list. Sorry. Not at all. As long as the questions are genuine and you're learning from it, your questions are welcome as far as I'm concerned. The real flamage comes when a) someone tries to teach their grandmother to suck eggs or b) a person seems

Re: [9fans] (offlist) Re: Adventures of a home user

2009-04-21 Thread blstuart
It was nice to see this message. Thank you! You're welcome. When you've been part of a community for quite a while, it's easy to forget what it's like being new to that community. And I've certainly had my share of questions over the years. Anyway, good luck with your experiments and

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-19 Thread blstuart
The seesion would not be suspended, it would continue to operate as your agent and identity and, typically, accept mail on your behalf, perform background operations such as pay your accounts and in general represent you to the web to the extent that security (or lack thereof, for many

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-19 Thread blstuart
people's ideas about what's complicated or hard don't change as quickly as computing power and storage has increased. i think there's currently a failure of imagination, at least on my part. there must be problems that aren't considered because they were hard. as an old example, i think

[9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
Actually, I have long had a feeling that there is a convergence of VNC, Drawterm, Inferno and the many virtualising tools (VMware, Xen, Lguest, etc.), but it's one of these intuition things that I cannot turn into anything concrete. This brings to mind something that's been rolling around in

Re: [9fans] Help for a home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
Oops: sent too early... Here's the rest It would be nice if someone could point me to some step-by-step instructions for Plan 9 dummies, I don't think such a thing currently exists, but if you keep notes as you go along, you could provide the welcome service of writing one... But there are

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
The definition of a terminal has changed. In Unix, the graphical In the broader sense of terminal, I don't disagree. I was being somewhat clumsy in talking about terminals in the Plan 9 sense of the processing power local to my fingers. A terminal is not a no-processing capabilities (a dumb

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
if you look closely enough, this kind of breaks down. numa machines are pretty popular these days (opteron, intel qpi-based processors). it's possible with a modest loss of performance to share memory across processors and not worry about it. Way back in the dim times when hypercubes roamed

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
Absolutly, but part of what has changed over the past 20 years is that the rate at which this local processing power has grown has been faster than rate at which the processing power of the rack-mount box in the machine room has grown (large clusters not withstanding, that is). So the gap

Re: [9fans] Help for a home user discovering Plan 9

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
There's aquarela which is a CIFS server, but I'm not sure about client. I seem to remember it being worked on at one point, but I'm not sure if it was ever completed. cifs(1) (cifs client) is alive and well at contrib/install steve/cifs I happily stand corrected. BLS

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
I often tell my students that every cycle used by overhead (kernel, UI, etc) is a cycle taken away from doing the work of applications. I'd much rather have my DNA sequencing application finish in 25 days instead of 30 than to have the system look pretty during those 30 days. i didn't

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
What struck me when first looking at Xen, long after I had decided that there was real merit in VMware, was that it allowed migration as well as checkpoint/restarting of guest OS images with the smallest ... The way I see it, we would progress from conventional utilities strung together

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
Absolutly, but part of what has changed over the past 20 years is that the rate at which this local processing power has grown has been faster than rate at which the processing power of the rack-mount box in the machine room has grown (large clusters not withstanding, that is). So the gap

Re: [9fans] VMs, etc. (was: Re: security questions)

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
I'd like to add to Brian Stuart's comments the point that previous specialization of various boxes is mostly disappearing. At some point in near future all boxes may contain identical or very similar powerful hardware--even probably all integrated into one black box. So cheap that The

Re: [9fans] security questions

2009-04-17 Thread blstuart
Principles of Operating Systems: Design and Applications by Brian Stuart ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1418837695 ) I've only just started reading it, so can't really comment on how good it is yet. Looks promising so far though. I recently bought this book and have read most

Re: [9fans] NAT implementation

2009-04-15 Thread blstuart
i think it's a *great* idea, but it doesn't give you the same things nat does and isn't useful in the same cases. but i'd love to be able to import my plan9 /net from my OS X box. It seems a pretty universal opinion that were other OSs capable of importing a Plan9 /net, their _functioning_

Re: [9fans] vgadb woes

2009-04-15 Thread blstuart
I've got a laptop that I (for shits and giggles) decided to put Plan 9 on. Lo and behold, it worked fine (Compal EL80, Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, nVidia video). So, I'm running at 1280x1024x32 right now in VESA, which is reasonable, but I'd like to run at my maximum native resolution, which is

Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap

2009-03-13 Thread blstuart
You will need to sign up for a google maps key, though this is free and no significant demographics are required. I find it useful, YMMV /n/sources/contrib/steve/rc/gmap It appears I'm failing to put the right things on top of the other right things. All I ever get back is a black image

Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap

2009-03-13 Thread blstuart
did you stick your key in /lib/gmapkey? does /lib/sky/here have a sensible value? Yep. In fact I tried a couple different domains to get a key and tried them both there, and I looked up my lat/long to put in /lib/sky/here. How do they determine where you're coming from to see if your key

Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap

2009-03-13 Thread blstuart
Pick up the new code, it reads the key from /lib/gmapkey and gets the longditude and latitude the correct way round (as several people have told me. That got it. Thanks much. This looks like it'll be fun. BLS

Re: [9fans] Installation CD Problems

2009-01-31 Thread blstuart
so I immediately go into rc with `!rc' at the install rio window, and upon trying `mount /dev/sdC0/data', I again get the same I/O read error message, so it is unable to mount the data. And yet, the CD data is readable from a mount within Linux. How is the CD drive installed? /dev/sdC0

Re: [9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal

2009-01-07 Thread blstuart
Just one line in plan9.ini and I was rocking. I'll have to break out my amber-screen vt420 and give it a try. Probably not terribly useful w/o a mouse, though! :) But it's not bad as the console of a file server. My vt220 is on an RS232 switch so it can be the console of a couple of

Re: [9fans] Ethernet card recogition -- Farallon Enet (3C589) -- kernel

2009-01-06 Thread blstuart
I am having trouble getting Plan 9 to recognize my ethernet card in my embarrassingly old Dell laptop. The card is a Farallon Enet, which to the best of my knowledge would be a 3C589 type for the purposes of plan9.ini. I have tried some variations in plan9.ini, such as ether0=type=3C589 or

Re: [9fans] Ethernet card recogition -- Farallon Enet (3C589) --

2009-01-06 Thread blstuart
I used a December 2007 installation CD, so I'll download the latest version and try again. The particular patch I mentioned made it into the source tree in the fall, I think. So any relatively recent one should include it. But I should point out that it only made it possible for the driver to

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2008-12-31 Thread blstuart
I have a bit of free space at the beginning of my hard drive so I wanted to reinstall a native plan9 there, however installing from the iso (dled on 23/12/2008) fails for me. I get some I/O errors at the fmtfossil stage, such as those: sdE0: i/o error d0 @0 sdE0: LLBA 312,581,808 sectors

Re: [9fans] installing from 9vx?

2008-12-31 Thread blstuart
I suppose this happens because of some changes with the sata driver since I was able to install with the iso something like one year ago. I guess I I would doubt that it's got to do with the sata driver, since the actual access to the disk controller is handled by the underlying UNIX OS.

Re: [9fans] Changelogs Patches?

2008-12-26 Thread blstuart
I use CWEB (D. Knuth and Levy's) intensively and it is indeed invaluable. It doesn't magically improve code (my first attempts have just shown how poor my programming was: it's a magnifying glass, and one just saw with it bug's blinking eyes with bright smiles). Back when I used CWEB on a

Re: [9fans] Changelogs Patches?

2008-12-26 Thread blstuart
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:20:17PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: appropriately, this being a plan 9 list and all, i find code written from the bottom up easier to read. Depending on the task (on the aim of the software), one happens to split from top to bottom, and to review and amend from

Re: [9fans] Changelogs Patches?

2008-12-26 Thread blstuart
building a pyramid, starting at the top is one of those things that just doesn't scale. But if you figure out how, it's probably worth a Nobel. BLS

Re: [9fans] Changelogs Patches?

2008-12-25 Thread blstuart
using fossil for your root, instead of #Z, will obviously cost you the benefits of #Z - namely, the pass-through transparency. if your primary interest is for replica/*, though, you might consider the direction i've been headed: root from fossil, but import $home or /usr from #Z. That's

Re: [9fans] Grid computing architecture w/ 9P + Java ;-)

2008-12-01 Thread blstuart
On Mon Dec 1 12:10:13 EST 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Speaking of Inferno -- I have always wanted to run it natively on these puppies: http://www.sunspotworld.com/ That's a seriously cool idea. I just discovered we have a dev kit here at work. I can't say for sure

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

2008-11-19 Thread blstuart
Perhaps my choice of wording wasn't exactly correct. Make it does not function in this capacity unless modified. But there's a missed point: add in packet analysis and you're doing NAT. The boasted transparency of Plan 9 is a product of bringing most (or really all?) functions, including

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