Re: [9fans] thoughs about venti+fossil

2008-03-06 Thread Paul Lalonde
Bruce Ellis wrote: If you stopped to pick up the penny you'd get hit by lightning and fail to cash in your lottery ticket while getting bitten by a moose! But thank god, there would be no collision. I hate getting hit by cars. Paul brucee On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Paul La

Re: [9fans] thoughs about venti+fossil

2008-03-06 Thread Paul Lalonde
You don't have to care about the chance of a collision. Work out the expected value of the collision by estimating the maximum that might cost you. I'll go nuts, and claim that a collision will cost *one BILLION* dollars. Not checking for a collision, assuming a 2**-90 collision rate (which is

Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing

2008-03-03 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:12 AM, Philippe Anel wrote: So, does this mean the latency is only required by the I/O system of your program ? If so, maybe I'm wrong, what you need is to be able to interrupt working cores and I'm afraid libthread doesn't

Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing

2008-03-03 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:49 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: really? to out-predict the cache hardware, you have to have pretty complete knowlege of everything running on all cores and be pretty good at guessing what will want scheduling next. not to mention

Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing

2008-03-02 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 2, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Philippe Anel wrote: I agree with you, taking care about memory hierarchy is becoming very important. Especially if you think about the upcoming NUMAcc systems (Opterons are already there though). But the fact is doesn

Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing

2008-03-02 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 CSP doesn't scale very well to hundreds of simultaneously executing threads (my claim, not, as far as I've found yet, anyone else's). It is very well suited to a small number of threads that need to communicate, and as a model of concurrency fo

Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing

2008-03-02 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 2, 2008, at 3:12 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: C++ is probably the wrong language for the application, then; it should appear straightforward. Almost certainly. And so is C. Programming many-core shared-cache machines in languages with gl

Re: [9fans] GCC/G++: some stress testing

2008-03-01 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a project on the go that would make an awesome plan9 platform. Except that all our users code in C++. The complicated kind, with templates and hideous metaprogramming. And can even show good reason to do so. Makes me weep. Paul On Ma

Re: [9fans] Mouse advice for Acme

2008-02-28 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Airports. Remote offices. The gap between the wall and the desk. Hotel rooms. I'm glad the mice are the only thing I seem to lose this way. Paul On 28-Feb-08, at 7:27 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote: I ordered an extra 5 a couple of years ago whe

Re: [9fans] Mouse advice for Acme

2008-02-28 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I really like Dell's base model optical mouse. Big scroll wheel that's stiff enough not to roll when I middle-click. I ordered an extra 5 a couple of years ago when work got me a system through them; it's almost time to order 5 more. Paul On 2

Re: [9fans] Flash

2008-02-09 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If time is the constraint, then just uninstall all your web browsers, or just run native plan9. Paul On 9-Feb-08, at 2:08 PM, Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote: Steve Simon writes: I turn flash off on all the browsers I use, I find it irritating and s

Re: [9fans] Attempt at making 3D graphics library

2007-11-23 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It's hard to tell what might be wrong with your transformation if you don't also show the transformation matrix you are using, including the camera parameters. What you probably want is for your transform to go from some world space coordinates

[9fans] Multi-core plan9?

2007-11-16 Thread Paul Lalonde
What's the largest number of shared-memory cores plan9 has been run on? I'm guessing the constraint is in fitting all the mach structures in the appropriate reserved memory space. Are there other constraints? Paul

Re: [9fans] A sad story and a question

2007-11-10 Thread Paul Lalonde
textures and vertex buffers and have a cache on the GPU manage those for me. It's a much simpler user model than the current myriad ways of setting up different data types. Paul On 10-Nov-07, at 5:12 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Nov 10, 2007 6:28 PM, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [9fans] A sad story and a question

2007-11-10 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Nov-07, at 4:27 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote: The cheapest ATI card I could find on their website has 128MB of DDR. The lowest of NVidia's modern line comes with 256MB. Clock speeds are in the 400Mhz range and go up from there. You can get GPUs pa

Re: [9fans] A sad story and a question

2007-11-10 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I suspect a lot of eyecandy would be easier to implement on plan9. I have been thinking about openGL on plan9. Has anyone looked at adding openGL to Plan9? Disclaimer: I work for Intel, in a graphics group tied closely to GPUs. All my words a

Re: [9fans] From our "not quite grasping the concept" file

2007-11-08 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Nov-07, at 5:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me or is the whole linux universe stark raving bonkers? Insular is the word you're looking for. Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHM+WCpJeHo/Fbu

[9fans] Plan9 in Virtual PC 2007?

2007-11-08 Thread Paul Lalonde
I'm trying to run the most recent Plan9 image in a Virtual PC 2007 VM. The install went flawlessly, but I'm getting write errors, at which time things just go really bad and the console starts spewing this error every few seconds: command 30 data f18d8520 limit f18da520 dlen 8192 status 0 err

[9fans] Acme-SAC fstat issue?

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What does it mean when acme-SAC says: can't fstat /n/c/dev/Users/plalonde/readme: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed? It failed to find any of my files in /n/c/dev/Users/plalonde, but didn't generate a

Re: [9fans] Memory management questions/not plan-9 specific

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ah, I see the light. I'll give it a shot :-) Paul On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:28 AM, ron minnich wrote: On 11/6/07, Robert William Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Lalonde wrote: On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Robert William Fuller

Re: [9fans] Memory management questions/not plan-9 specific

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Robert William Fuller wrote: In UNIX, set up a signal handler for SIGSEGV. Not quite enough - I still need to reserve some address space. mmap doesn't let me reserve it without backing it. Paul -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [9fans] Q: QEMU on Mac OS X - Shared Disk?

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I connect to my QEMU using drawterm; the mac files show up under /mnt/ term. Drawterm seems to work better, generally, than doing the graphics on the QEMU side. Paul On Nov 6, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: Hello. I freed up about 2

[9fans] Memory management questions/not plan-9 specific

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an application I'm building which requires OS support to allow a user-space function to fill a page on page-faults. Ideally, I could reserve a chunk of address space but not back it with memory, and then on fault my handler would serve o

Re: [9fans] unicode input for OSX-native drawterm

2007-11-03 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Sorry to come in late, I've been on the road all week) One thing about doing this Cocoa port --- I've been reflecting on this since Leopard was announced as dropping Carbon --- is that we should probably take the opportunity to build the front-e

Re: [9fans] Plan9ports under windows/cygwin?

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It works fine as an editor, but if I understand correctly runs command lines under the hosted Inferno; is there some way I can set it up to run windows command line tools? I need to run my compiler... Paul On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Iruata S

[9fans] Plan9ports under windows/cygwin?

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just changed employers (now at Intel, Neoptica having been absorbed late last week), and I'm obliged to work under Windows. Has anyone made progress getting plan9ports going under cygwin? I'd rather not live without a real editor, and I'm no

Re: [9fans] summer of code

2007-09-19 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 inferno/plan9 on cell :-( Too big a project, too little time from me, and me not putting enough pressure on the student. Should probably have gone straight to inferno instead of trying to get the Cell mmu up. The MMU is coming up now, but there

Re: [9fans] 9ee

2007-08-10 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If I'm reading brucee correctly, he's cross compiling using kencc but running natively; there's no "native" compiler involved, just a (very old-school seeming) loader program and his system-call thunks. Clever. Paul On 10-Aug-07, at 6:41 PM, e

Re: [9fans] 9fans content

2007-08-10 Thread Paul Lalonde
On 10-Aug-07, at 3:34 PM, David Leimbach wrote: I'm sorry to hear it's not well structured. Less a problem of structure of gsoc than of a mismatch between how the plan9 community operates, the gsoc expectations, and my over- expectations. I think Uriel did a great job getting something

Re: [9fans] 9fans content

2007-08-10 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm one of the "guilty" parties regarding plan9-tech. GSOC requires public communications, but I'm entirely unhappy passing "did you check bit 11 of the VPN register" level of crap to 9fans - it's clearly not where it belongs (I believe it belo

Re: [9fans] Bay Area Plan 9 Users Group Meeting (August '07)

2007-07-31 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (think I (was gorka correct)) On 31-Jul-07, at 7:35 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: either grouping (well-behaved dogs) and interns or well-behaved (dogs and interns) in a rather ambiguous way. Can we bring bad-behaved interns?. The "and" is redundant i

Re: [9fans] The Misused Mouse

2007-07-09 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That depends on if I already had the mouse in my hand. And which window has focus. And if the command had a parameter. Remember: line editing forces higher concentration on the task at hand. Paul On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: [9fans] The Misused Mouse

2007-07-09 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm just annoyed at the repeated fallacy that a pointing tablet & stylus is better than the mouse. That's only true if the display is the tablet - absolute position interfaces are very awkward to navigate with when you're not looking at them.

Re: [9fans] drawterm for macos

2007-06-23 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Control and clover give you 2 more buttons, although I have my version hacked to use F1-F3 as mouse buttons on my macbook pro. I've not had any problems with cut-and-paste. My biggest problem with it is that it doesn't do window-on-top focus co

Re: [9fans] quiz

2007-06-05 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Signed bit field overflow. You (don't) want "unsigned int botch:1;" Yuck. On 5-Jun-07, at 5:36 PM, ron minnich wrote: /* catch the bug */ struct x { int botch:1; }; fun(){ struct x x; x.botch = 0; x.botch = 1; } ok, what's the bug? anyone?

Re: [9fans] Newbie question

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As I said - my first pass at power64 needed /power64. But this should be infrequent. Paul On May 23, 2007, at 11:49 AM, ron minnich wrote: On 5/23/07, Fabrizio Colalucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie in Plan 9. My proble

Re: [9fans] Newbie question

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 23, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Sape Mullender wrote: 1. Why would you want to create a file in the root directory in the first place? it's probably not a good place. I had occasion to do this recently while porting to a new architecture. In

Re: [9fans] Acme question?

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edit r filename will read filename at the current selection. Edit .w filename will write the current selection to filename. Paul On May 22, 2007, at 10:48 AM, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: If there is a file open (being edited) in acme. I want to read-in t

Re: [9fans] Broken auth after replica/pull

2007-05-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm an idjit. cpurc.local gets run *long* before it should try listening...That would be the *wrong* place to put the aux/listen commands for your auth server. ty fgb. Paul On 12-May-07, at 9:46 AM, Paul Lalonde wrote: -BEGI

Re: [9fans] Broken auth after replica/pull

2007-05-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm pointing the drawterm at the correct auth/cpu servers, both p9cpu, and I'm getting a connection. auth/debug tells me "cannot decrypt ticket1 from auth serve (bad t.num=0x3a)" Still digging. I'll be in China soon. Paul On 12-May-07, at 1

Re: [9fans] Broken auth after replica/pull

2007-05-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, just the drawterm. On 12-May-07, at 3:19 AM, Martin Neubauer wrote: * Paul Lalonde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] password. I've been unable to find this string anywhere in my config files anymore, and have rebooted th

Re: [9fans] Broken auth after replica/pull

2007-05-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That changed it back, but my password (after a new auth/changeuser and echo ok>/mnt/keys/plalonde/status) is still rejected. It's odd that I didn't re-specify authdom: et al. after pulling, yet it changed. More digging. Paul On 12-May-07, at 1

[9fans] Broken auth after replica/pull

2007-05-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm getting to add myself into set of people who have botched their latest pull. But I think I might have done it in a novel way. When I try to drawterm in I get "?password mismatch with auth server"; I've reset my password (auth/changeuser), I'v

Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad R60e notebook compatible with Plan9?

2007-05-11 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 10, 2007, at 10:13 PM, Uriel wrote: And that problem goes away if people actually puts their damned code somewhere where people can see it, and they can 1) see it for themselves 2) try it for themselves 3) fix/finish it by themselves It's a

Re: [9fans] ICH7

2007-05-10 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Woot. I'm starting to really like Coraid :-) Now the real question: How do we get Coraid interested in USB 2.0 drivers? ;-) Paul On May 10, 2007, at 1:53 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: coraid is pleased to release an intel ahci driver for the 63x

Re: [9fans] Opening p9p acme to a particular geometry

2007-05-08 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sometimes I feel illiterate. Thanks all. Paul On May 8, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Russ Cox wrote: Almost. I was insufficiently specific - I also need to control placement of the window, in order to have it use up nearly my whole screen. -W doesn't seem

Re: [9fans] Opening p9p acme to a particular geometry

2007-05-08 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Almost. I was insufficiently specific - I also need to control placement of the window, in order to have it use up nearly my whole screen. -W doesn't seem to handle the extended X11 -geoemtry string: - geometry 1865x1150+0-0 If that's not ther

[9fans] Opening p9p acme to a particular geometry

2007-05-08 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I'm giving up and asking. I want to start my acme session with a particular geometry. The -l dump.acme option works great for laying out my columns and guide file, but doesn't cover the startup geometry of the window, which means my Holler

Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc

2007-05-04 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 4, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Dave Eckhardt wrote: One possible goal might be a language in which you could describe high-level algorithms of a certain class which could then be compiled to run well on a Cell (and, to be a cool result, on some other t

Re: [9fans] what a surprise

2007-05-04 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been trying to think of ways to evangelize rio and acme. It's a tough sell - there is no "new user" subset. In particular, to be at all effective with rio (and especially acme) you need to be a capable command-line user and understand how to

Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc

2007-05-04 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 4, 2007, at 2:24 AM, C H Forsyth wrote: if it's on (say) a DSP, it's a bit of a mixture of that and people thinking that language design stopped with C, so the language provides too little scope for a compiler sensibly to do the work. Th

Re: [9fans] Mac p9p snarf buffer

2007-05-03 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The right answer is for someone motivated (it won't be me until late summer, I'm afraid) to take the OS X native drawterm back end and drop it into p9p. And maybe fix the couple of bugs left in the

Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc

2007-05-02 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Autohell is caused by an underlying, much more dangerous problem that needs to be addressed: the belief that the myriad POSIX derivatives are somehow "different" systems. The superficial incompatibilities between the lot of them are addressed b

Re: [9fans] Seattle Area Plan9 Users Group

2007-04-30 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Typical. I'm in Seattle tomorrow, before the meeting, and in SF the 14th. But I'll host the Victoria chapter meeting of the P9UG meeting this saturday evening ;-) Paul On 30-Apr-07, at 7:54 PM, Tim Wiess wrote: i'm thinking it should be on

Re: [9fans] code inspection needed/appreciated

2007-04-02 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From someone who pushes pixels every day: You almost certainly don't want a pixel-processing framework that breaks things down to pixels! Most interesting operations on images require a neighbourhood of pixels, or even whole-image information. F

Re: [9fans] non-PC hardware

2007-03-27 Thread Paul Lalonde
ough hoops. Paul On 27-Mar-07, at 2:57 PM, ron minnich wrote: On 3/27/07, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the state of our PPC64 compiler? according to my records, you're doing it :-) You have a milestone! get busy! thanks ron -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [9fans] non-PC hardware

2007-03-27 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would love to boot Plan9 on my PS3 :-) I'm pretty sure it would be straightforward given that a linux already exists to show us how to boot under the LV-1 hypervisor. What is the state of our PPC64 compiler? Paul On 27-Mar-07, at 1:54 PM, Loren

Re: [9fans] cpdir

2007-03-22 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a hideous little hack in my version of drawterm that turn F1- F2-F3 into the three mouse buttons to help with using my macbook. It took some getting used to, but it works. Andrey also added some support for using the option and apple key

Re: [9fans] native graphics drawterm on Mac OS X - a good template for porting p9p to native graphics?

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I looked at this when I did the drawterm back-end. The basic structure of the implementations is similar, but there's a fair bit of tweaking required to move the drawterm back end to P9P. I hacked at it a bit and ran out of time; there's nothing

Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The less cynical part of me says that windows got so huge through the usual process by which software gets huge: hiring. It's really easy to believe you need more manpower on your software project. That eventually leads to dividing your now-unman

Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Preaching to the choir (I hope): The fundamental issue with the GUI isn't one of prettiness. It's one of naive/novice use. Like the rest of Plan9, the GUI assumes an expert user. But ever since t

[9fans] Acme crash under p9p

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I get a pretty regular p9p acme crash on my linux box (from using win for other things than a terminal): Feb 20 11:56:09.507 write error: Broken pipe 9pserve: 9pserve.c:578: connthread: Assertion `c-

Re: [9fans] a quick comparison of qemu and xen

2007-02-14 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The flush after each separate pass is run on each file? That would be my first guess. But this is all theoretical - I've not stopped to actually measure the thing. Paul On 14-Feb-07, at 6:34 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: i wouldn't think so.

Re: [9fans] a quick comparison of qemu and xen

2007-02-14 Thread Paul Lalonde
eb-07, at 6:13 AM, ron minnich wrote: On 2/14/07, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Without kqemu, qemu uses dynamic translation/jit compilation to emulate the target architecture. Right. So once you get a bit of jit compiled you're

Re: [9fans] a quick comparison of qemu and xen

2007-02-13 Thread Paul Lalonde
advantage there. Paul On 13-Feb-07, at 8:42 PM, ron minnich wrote: On 2/13/07, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 IIRC, without kqemu, qemu does actual per-instruction emulation, even if running on the same platform. well, from my reading, t

Re: [9fans] a quick comparison of qemu and xen

2007-02-13 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 IIRC, without kqemu, qemu does actual per-instruction emulation, even if running on the same platform. 15:1 is actually pretty impressive! Paul On 13-Feb-07, at 7:10 PM, ron minnich wrote: this is qemu without kqemu, since I have had problems w

Re: [9fans] s_putc and Runes

2007-02-05 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5-Feb-07, at 11:52 AM, Joel Salomon wrote: Maybe if someone needs/wants to implement a language with a built-in string type… That's crazy-talk. ;-) Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFx6SrpJeHo/Fbu1wRAh

Re: [9fans] $smtp dns failure

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Really that should be "net!¢¢smtp!smtp" But that's just my two cents. On 15-Jan-07, at 11:28 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: '$' seems like an unfortunately choice for dial strings because it is easy to confuse with a shell/environment variable. perhaps

Re: [9fans] AppleScript for Drawterm

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sweet! I never saw that option! Thanks! On 13-Jan-07, at 10:36 AM, Gregory Pavelcak wrote: You need to select "Save As" from the AppleScript editor and save your script as an application instead of a script. Greg How do I use this to be able

Re: [9fans] AppleScript for Drawterm

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have it installed in the AppleScript menu - dropping it into application format is a pain; I'll see if I can't track it down this evening. Paul On 13-Jan-07, at 10:26 AM, Brantley Coile wrote: How do I use this to be able to click on an ico

Re: [9fans] AppleScript for Drawterm

2007-01-13 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an AppleScript command that contains the single line: do shell script "/Users/plalonde/bin/drawterm -a p9cpu -c p9cpu" On 13-Jan-07, at 6:44 AM, Gregory Pavelcak wrote: OK, this may be the h

Re: [9fans] of mouse and mac

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Which was the reason for the original cast to 16 bits :-( What gets reported in the case of the mice that were overflowing? Paul On 12-Jan-07, at 12:44 PM, David Leimbach wrote: On 1/12/07, andrey mirtchovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i fixed th

Re: [9fans] Fuse to 9p bridge?

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The real question is if we can get iPhone to replace Bitsy :-) On 12-Jan-07, at 11:33 AM, Steve Simon wrote: Nice for you (grump), still wishing for Win-Fuse, or even better Win-9p. There is MS technology to do this (IFS) but, when I started to lo

[9fans] Resizing acme tags in plan9

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The P9P version of acme has had multi-line tags for a while now, but there is still a "bug" lurking in the implementation; it's a bit of a semantic issue with allocating lines of pixels to the various windows, which I'll get to below. The bug m

[9fans] Fuse to 9p bridge?

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The nice folks at google keep doing us favours (sort of...), this time with an OS X port of Fuse: http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2007/01/taming-mac-os-x-file-systems.html Do we have a user space 9p-to-Fuse bridge anywhere? Paul -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [9fans] of mouse and mac

2007-01-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe a change to gui-osx/screen.c 73 minutes ago fixes this; Please let me know if it doesn't and I'll track down a mouse to reproduce it. Paul On 12-Jan-07, at 10:31 AM, David Leimbach wrote: On 1/12/07, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [9fans] Re: request: native graphics on OS X

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running it on my MBP just fine; I'll try it on my mini when I get back to Victoria. Paul On 10-Jan-07, at 8:07 AM, David Leimbach wrote: On 1/10/07, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul got the native OS X graphics code worki

Re: [9fans] Re: request: native graphics on OS X

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's already a bug fix in (Thanks Charles), where I missed the qlock around flushmemscreen - you might want to wait until it shows up in cvs before distributing an executable. Paul On 9-Jan-07, at 4:58 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: i just

Re: [9fans] Re: request: native graphics on OS X

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I might add that I witnessed a crash bug today (first in several days of use); of course I didn't have OS X set to generate a core dump. Grr. I'll happily accept core dumps :-) Paul On 9-Jan-07, at 2:22 PM, Russ Cox wrote: Any update here? P

Re: [9fans] python indent acme proportional fonts ah joy

2007-01-05 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It certainly is reactionary. "Hateful in the eyes of God" is how I've come to see it. On 5-Jan-07, at 9:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the intent was to force indentation to match block st

Re: [9fans] I thought people might appreciate the humor in this:

2006-12-23 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guess people are not used to thinking about systems that don't have error numbers :-) Err, no. ron -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFjfRDpJeHo/Fbu1wRAkbqAKCoXqWvyH+vAZuMDmmR9CWGVqAYAwCfUAHk yZE/YM2gkNlfKEuJ

Re: [9fans] Pull?

2006-12-21 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just backed up my VM and gave it a shot. I confirm that behaviour. Yikes. On 21-Dec-06, at 4:53 PM, Dan Cross wrote: Uh, I just ran pull and it deleted nearly every file on my system; something tells me this is not normal. Anyone else jus

Re: [9fans] Wiki standalone CPU/Auth instructions

2006-12-21 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That said, I have vague recollections of adding bootes to the adm group - I don't recall if that is in the wiki. Paul On 21-Dec-06, at 1:49 PM, John Floren wrote: On 12/21/06, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN

Re: [9fans] Wiki standalone CPU/Auth instructions

2006-12-21 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As a data point, I followed the cpu/auth server instructions about 2 weeks ago with complete success, and got a server running in a Parallels machine quite easily (thanks to David Leimbach's patches). Paul On 21-Dec-06, at 1:31 PM, John Floren

Re: [9fans] the JD project: little tiny liinux that is a driver for Plan 9, boots in seconds.

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yowza. Someone slipped something into Ron's coffee! Ron - any chance of the /dev/fb based drawterm making its way to more general distribution? Thanks, Paul On 20-Dec-06, at 2:19 PM, ron minnich wrote: It is called JD for a reason ... a

Re: [9fans] ,m0

2006-12-17 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That doesn't match blank lines. g/^/m0 On 17-Dec-06, at 8:41 AM, Rob Pike wrote: why would moving everything as a block reverse it? try g/./m0 -rob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFhXh/pJeHo/Fbu1wRArvKAKCOx

Re: [9fans] Plan9 under parallels; kernel rebuild

2006-12-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
it into a CPU server. Paul On 12-Dec-06, at 4:33 PM, David Leimbach wrote: keep in mind that the source that runs well on parallels is not the same as the source on sources. I don't know if the BIOS changes JMK did ever got merged in. Dave On 12/12/06, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[9fans] Plan9 under parallels; kernel rebuild

2006-12-12 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been following David Leimbach's directions on getting plan9 to run under parallels, and have run into a glitch while rebuilding the kernel. At link I get: configure: undefined: pcibussize in configure Any quick clues as to what's up? It's

Re: [9fans] IWP9 talks?

2006-12-11 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victoria, BC might be possible; but that's a lot of timezones for our european friends. Paul On 11-Dec-06, at 7:22 PM, ron minnich wrote: is canada easier for people? toronto or even somewhere really cool like newfoundland? ron -BEGIN PG

Re: [9fans] IWP9 talks?

2006-12-08 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ham, beer, wine, and arguments ;-) All the best bits were there! A big thank-you to the organizers, and to Gorka especially for finding a restaurant to seat 30 on short notice. Fabulous to meet you all. And Uriel - g/^/m0 is the best I've manag

[9fans] IWP9 cameraderie.

2006-11-27 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm soon to be Madrid-bound. Is there anyone kicking about being a tourist on Sunday who'd like to get together? I was thinking of spending a couple of hours in the Prado in the morning, and the afternoon discovering local food and beverage.

[9fans] Synthetic file systems in linux?

2006-11-19 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm fed up with having to use an ugly GUI for running perforce, and I've just realized that a synthetic file system interface to it would let me automate a lot of my acme-side connection to it, reasonably cleanly. On plan9 I'd just crib one of t

Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But that's good style - if he changes the fundamental theme, he can fix it in just one place! On 14-Nov-06, at 11:14 AM, Sape Mullender wrote: shoenberg's "Style and Idea" is a good reference. he had lots of both, and knew how to distill them. n

Re: [9fans] who what where?

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Lalonde
On 14-Nov-06, at 8:39 AM, elbing wrote:Of course, if you drink DYC with Bruce, you won't need Taj Mahal when sleep time comes. Although, given that the Taj Mahal is a mausoleum, that might be more appropriate than the hotel!Ahm, about spanish beer: it has too much CO2 (heh).2006/11/14, Gorka guardi

Re: [9fans] who what where?

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Lalonde
"Ear to the floor"?  That sounds like it's for later in the evening!On 14-Nov-06, at 7:07 AM, elbing wrote:You can drink spanish whisky too (be carefull). Try "oreja a la plancha" too.2006/11/14, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Has

Re: [9fans] who what where?

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14-Nov-06, at 1:26 AM, Bruce Ellis wrote: i'll be in madrid for a week. others will be. we should collaborate glenda strangers speaking bad spanish (e.g. me). i can't hang out too much longer, i have to preside my sister's wedding, and a day

Re: [9fans] sc2006

2006-11-13 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Nov-06, at 3:06 PM, David Leimbach wrote: Not this year sadly. I still have the glenda tatoos from last year's though :-) That's the thing about tattoos, there's a kind of permanence. At least it's not particularly embarrassing expla

Re: [9fans] winclear in p9p

2006-10-31 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Looking at this briefly, I discovered that the p9p version of acme doesn't make available body/addr/ctl/event of the current selected window. So the straightforward "substitute 9p commands" fails. What is the correct way for a script to discove

Re: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics)

2006-10-30 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30-Oct-06, at 7:16 AM, Russ Cox wrote: Say...Does anyone know of a patch for OS X that makes chording work? Then I could bind to copy and paste properly. See #define chording in http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/samterm/main.c That wi

Re: [9fans] Anyone to try to convert Acme to full UI (w/graphics)

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Because some people like the tag/command line per window (acme) and others like the single command window (sam)? I occasionally use sam as a stream editor, but I couldn't imagine doing all my work in it. The cut and paste mechanic feels so awkw

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