Re: [9fans] troll paper

2024-04-12 Thread lists
Never mind, https://iwp9.org/10iwp9proceedings.pdf > On Apr 12, 2024, at 06:56, David Arnold wrote: > >  >> >> The vetting process needs some work, lads. > > More heresy than trolling, perhaps? > > It was thought-provoking for me. I wished I was there for the bar session > afterwards. >

Re: [9fans] troll paper

2024-04-12 Thread lists
Where’s the link? I haven’t seen one yet for reading papers in advance. Still one hour to go… > On Apr 12, 2024, at 06:04, Anthony Martin wrote: > > "Do we really have to have our own kernel? What are > the benefits?" ... > > The IWP9 paper titled "centre, left and right" looks like > a

Re: [9fans] nfs timeouts

2021-08-08 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
> I recently set up NFS exports on a server on my local intranet. I can mount > NFS directories after running nfs(4) but when I tried to do a small dircp(1) > it invariably failed at the same point for each of the directories I tried: > > term% nfs -p 666 -u /lib/ndb/glenda.passwd

[9fans] nfs timeouts

2021-08-08 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
I recently set up NFS exports on a server on my local intranet. I can mount NFS directories after running nfs(4) but when I tried to do a small dircp(1) it invariably failed at the same point for each of the directories I tried: term% nfs -p 666 -u /lib/ndb/glenda.passwd

Re: [9fans] Olimex: these guys are keen electronic engineers.

2021-02-28 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
[tswoskow...@gmail.com] > I had a thought a while back: could one pilfer plan 9's libc and > kernel guts to build an embedded c library à la newlib? The idea is a > native hosted plan 9 microcontroller lab similar to arduino and your > microcontroller program would look like a bare metal plan 9

[9fans] 9p(2) and walk1

2021-02-15 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
9p(2) says the following about char* (*walk1)(Fid *fid, char *name, Qid *qid); | Because implementing the full walk message is intricate and prone to | error, the helper routine walkandclone will handle the request given | pointers to two functions walk1 and (optionally) clone. [...] Walk1 |

Re: [9fans] 9pi provenance

2021-02-12 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
[9f...@hamnavoe.com] > A couple of people have speculated about what exactly is in the 9pi SD card > image. Many thanks for this image. I had also been wondering about it until I asked and you kindly answered. I'm very glad to have access to an image that is close to the 4th Edition, while

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-11 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
[lucio.d...@gmail.com] > I think what has kept Plan 9 ticking for the past 25 years or more, is > that this community is small enough to keep connected to the "product" > in its more abstract sense. Whatever that sense is, it is what we > share and, presumably, appreciate, so we ought to preserve

[9fans] which Plan 9 am I running?

2021-02-10 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
I am very grateful for Richard Miller's ready-made 9pi image. When I first got to know about Plan 9 many years ago, there was only a single distribution of it I believe. I had assumed I was running something close to that distribution, with an updated kernel, but I have since been pleasantly

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Foundation

2021-02-10 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
> We are pleased to announce the creation of the Plan 9 Foundation. This is excellent news. I am especially excited to see some familiar names in the signature (the familiarity is one-directional, partly from when I was lurking around Plan 9 lists back in the 2000s). Would be keen to learn

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
[eeke...@fastmail.fm] > I specifically say "more popular" because popularity affects the number of developers available. Off-topic and perhaps unpopular view, but I *like* the fact that Plan 9 is not (significantly) more popular. Popularity has ruined many a promising creation. Although please

Re: [9fans] pi3 b+ and 5ghz wifi

2021-01-30 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
[pouya+lists.9f...@nohup.io] > Worked for 2.4GHz but not for 5GHz. I stand corrected. There was a mix-up with an older 3b, which only has 2.4GHz (too many rpis lying around). Sorry about the confusion. Pouya -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: ht

Re: [9fans] Acme Mail editable from address

2021-01-28 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
Thank you all for your feedback. I have combined my answers to a few responses below. > [pouya+lists.9f...@nohup.io] >> I was looking for a way to send emails from different addresses with >> Acme Mail [9f...@hamnavoe.com] > That's what /mail/box/$user/pipefrom is for. (No

[9fans] Acme Mail editable from address

2021-01-27 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
I was looking for a way to send emails from different addresses with Acme Mail, as I use + address suffixes to sort incoming mail and occasionally need to send emails from the same (e.g. to this mailing list). Not finding a convenient way, I committed a bad hack to include an optional From: line