Re: [9fans] dd(1) takes very long

2024-03-01 Thread Lucio De Re
re cryptographically signed. Verify them. > -- > You don't need an AI for a robot uprising. > Humans will do just fine. > -- > -- Lucio De Re 2 Piet Retief St Kestell (Eastern Free State) 9860 South Africa Ph.: +27 58 653 1433 Cell: +27 83 251 5824

Re: [9fans] Re: Hello, RPi fixes and bind -b trouble

2024-02-23 Thread Lucio De Re
ell become the foundation. Occasionally Esperanto is mentioned, but my experience suggests that is as hopeless as the adoption of Swahili in Africa. PS: thanks for documenting your efforts, they will save others a lot of brain-ache. -- Lucio De Re 2 Piet Retief St Kestell (Eastern Free State) 9860 Sout

Re: [9fans] Formation of a Plan 9 Core Team

2024-01-26 Thread Lucio De Re
ct identities. I tend to think of 9front and 9legacy along similar lines. I dream of "one Plan 9", but it is an immense and probably pointless exercise. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8d272411830

Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-25 Thread Lucio De Re
thedra, I think you belong in the Middle Ages, the Counter-Reformation at best. We ought to have grown past religious belief by now, and started accepting that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/grou

Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community. [Was:Re: [9fans] Supported Notebooks]

2024-01-24 Thread Lucio De Re
of the message you are responding to, then it is not surprising that people misunderstand your intentions. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T42f11e0265bcfa18-M99e0f5314012c96ca9cd7aaf Delivery options: https://9fans.t

Re: [9fans] odd rwakeup qunlock behaviour in 9vx

2023-11-09 Thread Lucio De Re
e to compose your reply, which is definitely an improvement on the short, insulting exchanges that seem to pop up in this list most of the time. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T7a5bb3cde50a8a9a-M34f4254c3d0c180883

Re: [9fans] odd rwakeup qunlock behaviour in 9vx

2023-11-08 Thread Lucio De Re
ethods. > I assume that such an example, in this context, would be instructive, if not immediately, certainly in the more distant future. I am sincerely hoping you intend to publish your efforts that certainly sound very promising. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9f

Re: [9fans] Remind me how to make the fs writable for `mk install'

2023-08-30 Thread Lucio De Re
or it's already there: "9fs fossil". Lucio. On 8/30/23, Don Bailey wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to `mk install' all cmds/libs. Can someone please remind me how > to tell fossil that an active fs can be written? > > Thank you, > D -- Lucio De Re 2 Piet

Re: [9fans] [PATCH] fossil: fix a deadlock in the caching logic

2023-04-05 Thread Lucio De Re
r ditching the fossil/venti combination and consider centralising permanent storage on something like ZFS instead? Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T354fe702e1e9d5e9-M71e442edb5e1099e40508e7c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] iwp9: papers announced

2023-03-13 Thread Lucio De Re
Too far for me to travel, but there is a lot in the list I will be extremely sorry to miss. Well done to all contributors! Lucio. On 3/13/23, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > The accepted papers are up on the website: http://iwp9.org/ > > For convenience, I'll repeat the list here: >

[9fans] Signature algorithms for P9P ssh-agent

2023-02-10 Thread Lucio De Re
poorly re-inventing the wheel). Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tab0b060ef6f74832-M3af8dfeffd9e4320c74ab94a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Mail 447: /mail/fs/mbox/: open: error

2023-01-17 Thread Lucio De Re
suits you and - using the correct credentials - copy it into /mail/lib/rewrite. This for a Plan 9 native system. I am not familiar with p9p's mail arrangement, but I expect it to differ only a little. Lucio. PS: Again, Plan 9 has an extensive log facility, I'm not sure how P9

Re: [9fans] Re: Mail 447: /mail/fs/mbox/: open: error

2023-01-16 Thread Lucio De Re
I've been using Plan 9 since 1995, you wouldn't be able to pry it from my cold, dead hands. I'm not an expert, like many others on 9fans and its siblings, but I would find it hard to manage without its services. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fa

Re: [9fans] Mail 447: /mail/fs/mbox/: open: error

2023-01-16 Thread Lucio De Re
nfigure and deploy UPAS (the mail server "mail/fs"). Lucio. PS: You're the only other South African based user of p9p I am aware of. Or 9fans member, for that matter. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/gr

Re: [9fans] Setting acme to a GoMono or DejavuSansMono font

2023-01-15 Thread Lucio De Re
Are you perhaps using an unusual hyphen (m-dash, perhaps)? -- Lucio De Re 2 Piet Retief St Kestell (Eastern Free State) 9860 South Africa Ph.: +27 58 653 1433 Cell: +27 83 251 5824 -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] Setting acme to a GoMono or DejavuSansMono font

2023-01-15 Thread Lucio De Re
It's the "-F" that the invoked "acme" complains about, then the font filename. That just doesn't compute. mnt/font is interpreted by the font management library as a Unix socket to the font server. 9 man fontsrv will help some, it shows how to check which fonts are avai

Re: [9fans] Setting acme to a GoMono or DejavuSansMono font

2023-01-14 Thread Lucio De Re
You probably have a shell alias or a shell function called acme. The p9p acme does accept the -f and -F options, I use them all the time. -- Lucio De Re 2 Piet Retief St Kestell (Eastern Free State) 9860 South Africa Ph.: +27 58 653 1433 Cell: +27 83 251 5824

Re: [9fans] the practicality of plan 9

2022-11-08 Thread Lucio De Re
I frequently encounter situations where a mildly enhanced "proto" feature would be a very fitting approach to address them. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td6c4be6d8502dbd0-Meabb6bfe20002d93db36aa56 D

Re: [9fans] Creating alternative network directories

2022-10-06 Thread Lucio De Re
On 10/7/22, Lucio De Re wrote: > #l and #l0 are identical, the latter is the software (for want of a > better term) instance of the latter, #1 is the second and #2 is the > third. > > If you read the man page carefully - and I'm answering this not out of > experience, but bec

Re: [9fans] Creating alternative network directories

2022-10-06 Thread Lucio De Re
is in the man pages.) Lucio. On 10/7/22, Thorn Avery wrote: > Hello all! > > I recently got a NIC for my tower, and I've been trying to no avail to mount > the devices as /net is. > > I have the following devices: > #l and #I, the motherboards inbuilt port > #l0 and #I0, with

Re: [9fans] 9front hackathon report

2022-09-26 Thread Lucio De Re
a Git development branch for this? Lucio. On 9/27/22, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > the gsoc thread reminded me that I should also probably post the > hackathon writeup that I put together here, for the curious: > > https://orib.dev/9hack1.html > -- Lucio De Re 2 Piet Retief St K

Re: [9fans] Trouble compiling "Hello, world"

2022-08-02 Thread Lucio De Re
identifying those analytical skills I found so useful in my own education. I get to see a lot of youths, but few real gems that are also interested in analytical thinking. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] Trouble compiling "Hello, world"

2022-08-01 Thread Lucio De Re
Thank, Kurt. The SDF home page no doubt needs a small fix. That is a lot of information and seems the product of much effort. I'll find some time to assimilate it, see if there is anything I can contribute. Lucio. On 8/2/22, Kurt H Maier via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote: > On Tue, Aug

Re: [9fans] USB3 1Gb ethernet card working on 9legacy (rpi 4)

2022-08-01 Thread Lucio De Re
On 8/1/22, adr wrote: > > Oh, and thanks for trying with your pi, I know it takes time and > I appreaciate it. > Well, let me say thanks to you for instigating some interesting and seemingly fruitful discussion - a rare gem and a precious

Re: [9fans] Trouble compiling "Hello, world"

2022-08-01 Thread Lucio De Re
education learners with much time on their hands and very little beyond their smartphones to entertain them) away from Tik-Tok, possibly also Whatsapp. SDF bootcamp seems at least a seed for something at least some of these teenagers may find instructive and a little mind expanding. Lucio. PS

Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-21 Thread Lucio De Re
Chinese to make great strides in computing. Lucio. > -- > 9fans: 9fans > Permalink: > https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tba6835d445e07919-Mfd7cc77a83bcefbc998c371e > Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-19 Thread Lucio De Re
I have only one word for all the above: amazing! As a dumb occidental, I have no idea where one starts with ideograms, but I realise how different the concept is and how its complexity can stimulate technical creativity. Well done, all! Lucio. On 7/20/22, s...@9p.sdf.org wrote

Re: [9fans] void*

2022-05-16 Thread Lucio De Re
On 5/16/22, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > i still don't understand it. if you want a pointer of size 1 what > keeps you from using a generic char or uint8 pointer? > I think what he's asking is "what's keeping everyone else from using...". I guess we're all eva

Re: [9fans] How to create a different size of Courier font in plan9

2022-03-11 Thread Lucio De Re
is familiar with P9P. Lucio. PS: I found the release of fontsrv on "contrib", yk/lab/fontsrv/. It contains its own version of freetype and, as far as I recall, it compiles out of the box. It does require a configuration list of font archives in /sys/lib/fontsrv.map. Please keep me poste

Re: [9fans] plan9port acme imageinit: can't open font

2022-03-03 Thread Lucio De Re
You nay have to delete the namespace in /tmp that may have been created under root's permissions. I'm guessing, but it seems the most likely culprit. That, or fontsrv, which may also have left something that only root can access. Of course, /mnt/font is a dreadful red herring. Lucio

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 applying to GSoC

2022-02-19 Thread Lucio De Re
self in the process. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td4449edc4863e16e-M23f605304b6f1f5c7288abc1 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] building blocks speaking 9p

2022-01-28 Thread Lucio De Re
ex.com in the past. They specialise in Open Architecture Hardware. Their prices are very reasonable and product range quite broad. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta4e584a373b05553-M84956412e025f516e7cd Deliv

Re: [9fans] building blocks speaking 9p

2022-01-27 Thread Lucio De Re
e knowledge entry bar that Intel and Microsoft - and their allies - have created (that, I make no apologies for, is Politics, the Politics of Technological Domination). Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta4e584a373b05553-Ma7

Re: [9fans] licence question

2022-01-27 Thread Lucio De Re
one interested in giving me a hand consolidating the code into a single, architecture-agnostic tool, please do contact me. What works more or less out of the box is pretty good, it deserves more love and affection. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https:

Re: [9fans] Sponsoring a new Intro book by the Flan 9 Poundationy

2022-01-24 Thread Lucio De Re
defensive, without realising he verged beyond the offensive. As for everyone else needing to voice an opinion - including myself - what is your excuse for insulting people of whom you know only one facet of their personality? Lucio. On 1/25/22, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > adr, you se

Re: [9fans] Problems installing 9legacy on bare metal (Thinkpad X60)

2022-01-24 Thread Lucio De Re
on makes him a friend on facebook. You > made some really lonely sad piece of Mr. Hankey happy today. > We add happiness where we can, I guess. Machines have a right to the occasional belly laugh too. Plus, maybe there are Noddy points one scores against the

Re: [9fans] Problems installing 9legacy on bare metal (Thinkpad X60)

2022-01-23 Thread Lucio De Re
on realise that they may not > have the resources... a bit like my friend sam... /c:2022Jan23 > Thank you for the history lesson and the political savvy. Can we get on with the main topic, now? Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/

Re: [9fans] Problems installing 9legacy on bare metal (Thinkpad X60)

2022-01-20 Thread Lucio De Re
I think I can help you, but right now is a bad moment, maybe nag me over the weekend in private mail? I am running 9front on a T61 I acquired specifically, but I did actually install 9legacy and your problem seems familiar enough that I can at least compare notes with you. Lucio. PS: your

Re: [9fans] 9legacy under OpenBSD's vmm

2022-01-16 Thread Lucio De Re
no disks (in #S) > panic: no disks (in #S) > dumpstack Why does it say "0M user"? Doesn't sound very promising. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te13afbfe31e87665-M60bea51a3e90c6263cccd8b1 Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] Boot CD chokes

2021-12-31 Thread Lucio De Re
ry different from my own. I am however entitled to pursue mine, with no need to draw insignificant comparisons that can so quickly devolve into pissing contests. Just my perspective. I'd like to hear how Vic sees this kind of cyber archeology. Or anyone

Re: [9fans] devtls memory leak bug

2021-09-26 Thread Lucio De Re
Thank you, Cinap. This certainly ought to be of interest to all. Lucio. On 9/25/21, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: > just tracked down kernel memory leak in devtls, > might be of interested to other forks: > > http://git.9front.org/plan9fron

[9fans] 9hybrid on T61 - work in progress (small beginnings?)

2021-09-04 Thread Lucio De Re
orts described above, I'll try to formulate them so that they can be resolved objectively. Private mail with suggestions, comments, insults and praise will be entertained as best I can. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/

Re: [9fans] porting projects...

2021-09-03 Thread Lucio De Re
You're inviting trouble :-) Maybe if you give us some idea of magnitude you are prepared to work on? Or which sphere of interest/expertise you're contemplating? The wish list is long... Lucio. On 9/4/21, Conor Williams wrote: > anyone got a list/one project to work on... > i'm n

Re: [9fans] Software philosophy

2021-08-19 Thread Lucio De Re
; Thank you for raising them. As I said up front, I am not a P9F member of any kind. But I know that its intentions are far less nefarious than of those who wittingly ascribe nefarious intentions to them. Again, 9front has an "inside", get it to address with P9F their and your reservations. If they don't respond, then you and other 9fronters can bring evidence of ill intentions to this forum. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9ef6430f3025e731-Mc60bc784bcca5bb5b657185a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Software philosophy

2021-08-18 Thread Lucio De Re
to provide a conventional browsing experience for its audience. What does that actually say about Plan 9's future? That incidentally, must be qualified by the reality that NetBSD doesn't fare much better: I have certainly not had the stomach to migrate my workstation from Linux to NetBSD - even le

Re: [9fans] Software philosophy

2021-08-18 Thread Lucio De Re
Yoh! What can I say? I kind of cherish being so wildly misrepresented. At least I'm taken seriously, even if totally misunderstood. Lucio. On 8/18/21, Keith Gibbs wrote: > Come, come, Vester. Please don’t introduce false premises under the guise of > calling them out. I neve

Re: [9fans] Software philosophy

2021-08-18 Thread Lucio De Re
ommon objective. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9ef6430f3025e731-M27deaa7047f5187005d97c77 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Software philosophy

2021-08-18 Thread Lucio De Re
t assumes malice behind such an obvious proposal. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T9ef6430f3025e731-M23c61c84f53dede4954ace32 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Software philosophy

2021-08-18 Thread Lucio De Re
evealing its secrets to me. Unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the money to "call in your services". If this is aimed at the P9F, I cannot possibly speak for them, I can only hope that they share at least some of my own aims. Lucio. --

Re: [9fans] OAuth2 in factotum

2021-08-17 Thread Lucio De Re
On 8/18/21, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > Quoth Lucio De Re : >> Does it work? > > Have you tried it? What bugs do you > have to report? > No. I have neither the 9front platform, nor the Oauth2 requirements that would motivate an outsider to try something like that out. Had

Re: [9fans] OAuth2 in factotum

2021-08-17 Thread Lucio De Re
On 8/17/21, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > Quoth Lucio De Re : >> PS: This does rather sound like we ought to have a lobbying group > > You realize that this *is* the lobbying, right? > Does it work? > Someone did the work, posted a patch, and is > asking for review a

Re: [9fans] OAuth2 in factotum

2021-08-17 Thread Lucio De Re
rop of accidental sanity in an ocean of greed and competition. But, to complete the imagery, I'd rather be plankton in a drop of Plan 9 than a shark in the Linux Ocean. And I am, to the extent that I support and most of all appreciate what makes my ecosystem continue to tick. Including any contribut

Re: [9fans] OAuth2 in factotum

2021-08-16 Thread Lucio De Re
-helper > >> Refresh tokens are not saved to persistent storage when factotum >> exits. The user must provide consent every time factotum is restarted. > > For this, the tokens should probably be persisted into > secstore -- but there are some security implications > in giv

Re: [9fans] OAuth2 in factotum

2021-08-16 Thread Lucio De Re
help in any way, I can be contacted, most conveniently, on whatsapp (+27 83 251 5824) or skype (luciodere), neither being much of a favourite - Plan 9 does rather spoil one, albeit not for choices, thankfully. Lucio. PS: This does rather sound like we ought to have a lobbying group to propo

Re: Posix implementation of Plan 9 cpu(1) (Was: [9fans] Command to set samterm label)

2021-07-20 Thread Lucio De Re
urses into that :-). But from my Plan 9 workstation that is absurdly not possible. Or, I have missed a step and I need somebody to rattle me some: what would it take to serve 9P on Posix (in P9P, in other words) over the network? Fontsrv and gitsrv would b

Re: [9fans] sam label and rio snarf buffer

2021-07-20 Thread Lucio De Re
k to rescue this planet, or will it be too late? I suppose if one omits human exceptionalism, Nature will triumph by default. But it's going to hurt like hell! Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tc809ad6007ccd2bd-Mfedf06

Posix implementation of Plan 9 cpu(1) (Was: [9fans] Command to set samterm label)

2021-07-18 Thread Lucio De Re
erver to initiate an acme session, rather than using SSH to forward X? Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T09fcdec9c87bfde4-M980f0728c312f6f6ca5623f2 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] plan9 and touch screens

2021-06-24 Thread Lucio De Re
nd handwriting may have been discarded in the recent past, but it can be brought back if, say, speech recognition won't work. We've moved on and Plan 9 can catch up. If not, then I think obsolescence looms large. But I don't think so, I think it just needs the ability to absorb lesson

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-23 Thread Lucio De Re
On 6/24/21, un...@cpan.org wrote: > Quoth Lucio De Re : >> On 6/24/21, Romano wrote: >> > [...] But I'm a nobody, so I'm probably not going to persuade >> > anyone. >> > >> [ ... ] >> >> The sentiment implied in the sentence above is a bare

Re: [9fans] p9f mention of 9front

2021-06-23 Thread Lucio De Re
the next generation of hardware that may prevent this generation producing an Atlantis-sized civilisation collapse. Of course, that's not to suggest this must be Nemo's retirement package, it means that the right calibre of humans must undertake to perform such an analysis to its completion. Lucio. PS:

Re: [9fans] Installation problem - partdisk loop - sdC0 QEMU QEMU DVD ...

2021-04-04 Thread Lucio De Re
y know that such a thing is possible, but something about the CDROM was definitely relevant. Lucio. PS: It's confusing to call that situation a loop. All that's happening is that partdisk is failing and expects you to fix the problem before retrying. -- 9fans:

Re: [9fans] Foundation new releases question

2021-04-01 Thread Lucio De Re
, it's been said. This seems to be the place, at least for now, where my fears will be allayed or solidified. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tc472e4a0c0b6f084-Mc2c17a3454be4b4912515379 Delivery options: https://9fa

Re: [9fans] problem with installing plan9 from USB disk image

2021-03-28 Thread Lucio De Re
instructions are meant to be executed. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4a54d17e4c0f6c20-M86e755bfbbbfaa4b78f516bc Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] problem with installing plan9 from USB disk image

2021-03-26 Thread Lucio De Re
ven here in Africa. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4a54d17e4c0f6c20-M5e903e8ef9f873d4aa412a0c Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] problem with installing plan9 from USB disk image

2021-03-26 Thread Lucio De Re
) will be straightforward even for a Windows user. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T4a54d17e4c0f6c20-Mbc6421c02fd8271a4595dd12 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

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

2021-02-24 Thread Lucio De Re
I have no doubt that they will find what they seek, or cope with something near enough. Let me ponder this, see what further suggestions may come from our not-quite-OSS community. Lucio. On 2/24/21, Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com> wrote: >> You could recommend the Plan 9 RISC-V

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

2021-02-24 Thread Lucio De Re
pposite direction. But I think I can find a way. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tef717f57ede82d4f-M336ced25c8d446f6b81279e1 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

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

2021-02-23 Thread Lucio De Re
operate in a rarefied atmosphere of custom design and they have a working formula. I wish I could contribute in a significant way to their success. I have a long wish list revolving around their products and philosophy, just not the funds. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9f

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

2021-02-23 Thread Lucio De Re
e-got-samples-of-the-new-esp32-c3-module-and-it-is-only-13x17-mm/ >From there, many recent and less recent developments can be discovered. They have a neat catalogue and apply pretty good QC. For those in the EU, they operate from Bulgaria. Their Englis

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-13 Thread Lucio De Re
nality or merely cosmetic, irrelevant decorations. That's all that I believe needs saying, the details will make for interesting archeology, a few hundred years, if that many, from now. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicb

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-12 Thread Lucio De Re
want to spend more time on work others have already done. Is that an unreasonable desire? Should I simply feel privileged that I have been able to play with a pointless Plan 9 network, throw away twenty-odd years of Plan 9 experience and simply cross over to the Dark Side, instead, as my co

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-11 Thread Lucio De Re
unity agreement, even when guided by a "foundation". 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,

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-10 Thread Lucio De Re
project path to achieve this objective? Could there be much smaller portions of such an objective that could be progressively achieved in a distributed, centrally managed manner? Lucio -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tc82939

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-09 Thread Lucio De Re
etting the outcome approved. I would aim at a well documented plan of attack, maybe the community (this community) would be willing, certainly able, to help. Github, perhaps? Lucio. PS: You don't have to succeed immediately, real progress moves slowly and in

Re: [9fans] patches from 9front

2021-02-09 Thread Lucio De Re
"branches" as would apply in this complex case. Perhaps I can recommend isolating bug fixes as distinct from adding features, but where does one draw the line? Best of luck, if you intend to proceed. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox

Re: [9fans] authoritative source for u9fs?

2021-01-27 Thread Lucio De Re
No the source code differences are pretty vast as well, although right now I couldn't tell you what the main theme of the changes might be. Lucio. On 1/27/21, Ethan Gardener wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021, at 5:10 AM, Lucio De Re wrote: >> >> PS: The new executable seems noticea

Re: [9fans] authoritative source for u9fs?

2021-01-24 Thread Lucio De Re
en just to cope with this year's #ifdefs or feature defines. > Under NetBSD 9.1, I needed to add -D_NETBSD_SOURCE to get rid of warnings for undefined initgroups() and ruserok(). The compiler seem to recommend getgroups() and cuserid() as alternatives. I'm not sure how best to deal with this for other

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on Raspberry Pi 400?

2021-01-18 Thread Lucio De Re
or the tiny backspace, so that isn't quite the keyboard layout I would choose. Sometimes I wish we'd stuck to the clunky original IBM 3270-style keyboard... Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T0178132f3d2ed689

Re: [9fans] netsurf or opossum

2021-01-07 Thread Lucio De Re
I can't find opossum by simple google, that's as much as I can contribute. Possum seems to be a web library, so I can't comment, at least not yet. Lucio, On 1/7/21, kokam...@hera.eonet.ne.jp wrote: > I got now rwo new web browsers which can do css and/or js on my > 9front box. > &g

Re: [9fans] Raw ethernet on 9vx

2020-12-09 Thread Lucio De Re
"ip link ..." can optionally set or select the ethernet address, which is indeed 48 bits (6 bytes) long. I can see how that may be linked to the DHCP failure, but only as an educated guess. Lucio. On 12/9/20, remyw...@cs.washington.edu wrote: > Sorry, I should have quoted th

Re: [9fans] Raw ethernet on 9vx

2020-12-09 Thread Lucio De Re
devices for VMs, in the new lingo (or in the old) even though my TCP/IP experience goes back to 1990. But then I think the RFCs at that stage were still below one thousand. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T84b4492f91f2

Re: [9fans] Raw ethernet on 9vx

2020-12-07 Thread Lucio De Re
On list, please, Devon and Remy. I'd also like to get 9VX working. Lucio. On 12/8/20, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > Ah, neat. David's repo seems more up to date. > > Linux has undergone a few network subsystem and tool revelations in the > intervening decade, so may be worth upda

Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-06 Thread Lucio De Re
roid will hit this planet before we have a chance to sterilise it beyond recovery. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3fd028fcf2eeb24c-Mdbea50e3d7f1d82597fefd6d Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-05 Thread Lucio De Re
On 12/6/20, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: > Lucio De Re writes: > >> But do we want a flock of 9front-wielding droids flooding the 9fans >> mailing list? > > Good point. [ ... ] Maybe we should keep Plan 9 a secret. ;) Well, that's one way of spreadi

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-05 Thread Lucio De Re
nd I don't think I'm up to the task. But I like to hear about other people's experiences and opinions, even if I tend to seek the weaknesses in other people's arguments, rather that to reinforce them. By all means mail me privately if you want a sounding board. Lucio.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-04 Thread Lucio De Re
rejected, but a lot was included that opened far too many doors, in my opinion, of course. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3fd028fcf2eeb24c-Mc2558e37824facff420258c8 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-03 Thread Lucio De Re
ewd498 - should suffice for a search. cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/index00xx.html seems an interesting place to look. And I may have paraphrased Dijkstra more strongly than he would have intended, but I'm sure he'll forgive me. Lucio. On 12/3/20, Mart Zirnask wrote: >> PS: I concur with th

Re: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-02 Thread Lucio De Re
. > But do we want a flock of 9front-wielding droids flooding the 9fans mailing list? Lucio. PS: I concur with the late Dijkstra that the programming language(s) you learn shape(s) your ability to construct abstractions in your mind. We're kind of safe for as long as C remains the base language

Re: [9fans] git9: self-hosting.

2020-11-27 Thread Lucio De Re
aders and question not. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Te1830283b1d3653f-Md629b00c8a699744cb9602f5 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] git9: self-hosting.

2020-11-26 Thread Lucio De Re
would be significant. In Ori's own git9 are but the seeds for that. And Github has shown what Git can facilitate, imagine what the next generation could mean for development. Lucio. PS: in case it got swamped, Ori, all I really started with was to say "thank you". I tend to slip

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-12 Thread Lucio De Re
ase try to include this handle in your announcements. > Is that a good idea? I, for one, have no intention of ever sharing a medium with Donald Trump. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T3fd028fcf2eeb24c-M1b6eccfdd6454d3dd503

Re: [9fans] Re: Flakey DNS server

2020-10-27 Thread Lucio De Re
rdly worth switching to the secondary. Since I switched to what used to be the secondary link for all my desktop work and reserved the primary for Netflix and my partner's obsession with Trump's misdemeanours, the DNS server has shown a different pattern of failures, all seemingly related to flakey connectivity

Re: [9fans]

2020-10-20 Thread Lucio De Re
e to help in some way, please let me know. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T8c668826e19cec6f-Mf4c8670242ea8ec856380ef4 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription

Re: [9fans] Flakey DNS server

2020-10-07 Thread Lucio De Re
and the change has really given me cause for concern. I do plan to stop receiving those notifications as soon as I can figure how to unsubscribe in bulk. My heart goes out to Russ, Rob and Ian Taylor as well as the many others who need to deal with that flow of consciousness. Lucio. --

Re: [9fans] Flakey DNS server

2020-10-07 Thread Lucio De Re
21524542 message appears in the logs and causes an assert exception. Which is what I have been unable to fix in the past. Or determine if it's something I can fix by tidying up a very bloated network database. That said, thanks to all who have replied to me, it has bee

[9fans] Flakey DNS server

2020-10-06 Thread Lucio De Re
but I have in fact compiled the 9front sources in the Bell Labs context and only a minor warning was reported. So the big question, before I commit to something I may not be competent to fix: what is recommended by those in the know? Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans

Re: [9fans] Sad news.

2020-09-28 Thread Lucio De Re
That is very sad indeed. The 9fans community has lost an irreplaceable member. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T89f7af873f4109c5-M91dfb4a8cff9c7fefe49546e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

Re: [9fans] git/serve, git/compat

2020-09-06 Thread Lucio De Re
On 9/7/20, Lucio De Re wrote: > On 9/6/20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I try not to be too verbose about new features landing in git9, but >> I think these warrant some noise. Both git/compat and git/serve >> have landed in the last few days. >&

Re: [9fans] git/serve, git/compat

2020-09-06 Thread Lucio De Re
ions. I'm keeping a keen eye on this as it is something I know has already had and will eventually have an even greater impact, not only on the 9 community. And, of course, I'm hoping to merge my own, much lesser contributions with your work. Lucio. -

Re: [9fans] Acme fonts

2020-07-22 Thread Lucio De Re
ly resisted by my reluctance to tackle a task I may not be sufficiently competent to complete. And for other ".go" developers, how many of you have found renaming a module from ".go" to ".no" a practical approach to get it, temporarily, perhaps, out of the way of th

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