Re: [9fans] [GSOC] auth server: connection refused

2014-05-23 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 23 May 2014 05:42, yan cui ccuiy...@gmail.com wrote: which turns out the reason of blocking drawterm, although do not know the detailed reason. Sorry for the noise. /rc/bin/cpurc has # cpu-specific startup if(test -e /cfg/$sysname/cpurc) . /cfg/$sysname/cpurc but that precedes setting up

[9fans] version control debate

2014-05-23 Thread David Hoskin
I propose http://fossil-scm.org/, if only for the fun of the naming conflict. -- David

[9fans] /n/sources/contrib/

2014-05-23 Thread David Hoskin
How does one sign up for a contrib directory these days? I tried the addresses in http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/how_to_contribute/ http://9fans.net/archive/2013/05/231 a few months ago, but never heard anything back. -- David

Re: [9fans] version control debate

2014-05-23 Thread lucio
I propose http://fossil-scm.org/, if only for the fun of the naming conflict. -- David I was shown that a while back, and it had some definite merits. Not enough to convince me to migrate, but enough to make me take notice. L.

Re: [9fans] version control debate

2014-05-23 Thread erik quanstrom
L. have you converted to modula? :-) - erik

[9fans] OT: clive

2014-05-23 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Hi, we have been working on a new system, named Clive, it’s written in Go and includes its new weird file protocol, named zx. I thought that some of you might be interested, so I’m writing this mail. The http://lsub.org/ls/clive.html page has links to everything, and, to avoid noise in 9fans, we

Re: [9fans] version control debate

2014-05-23 Thread lucio
have you converted to modula? :-) I used to like Modula 2, in days preceeding my exposure to C, so maybe that's influencing my search for a new identity that does not involve growth :-) L.

[9fans] dual boot

2014-05-23 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
Hello: I plan to install 9atom natively (until now, I had been using VMs and Rpi, but I want to try it on my home AMD64 desktop machine). I currently have Debian GNU/Linux installed on a hard disk. I am adding a new hard disk on which I plan to install the 9atom. I am wondering if I need to take

Re: [9fans] dual boot

2014-05-23 Thread erik quanstrom
I plan to install 9atom natively (until now, I had been using VMs and Rpi, but I want to try it on my home AMD64 desktop machine). I currently have Debian GNU/Linux installed on a hard disk. I am adding a new hard disk on which I plan to install the 9atom. I am wondering if I need to take any

Re: [9fans] dual boot

2014-05-23 Thread Jacob Todd
The last time I dual booted plan 9 I just had to chainload it with grub like you do with Windows.

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] auth server: connection refused

2014-05-23 Thread yan cui
Finally got the reason. 2014-05-23 3:17 GMT-04:00 Charles Forsyth charles.fors...@gmail.com: On 23 May 2014 05:42, yan cui ccuiy...@gmail.com wrote: which turns out the reason of blocking drawterm, although do not know the detailed reason. Sorry for the noise. /rc/bin/cpurc has #

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] auth server: connection refused

2014-05-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri May 23 14:26:50 EDT 2014, ccuiy...@gmail.com wrote: Finally got the reason. personally, i preferred the big switch statement in cpurc. it scales even to large installations, and has the advantage of being a little easier to get an overview. and there's no need for a bunch of files that

Re: [9fans] [GSOC] auth server: connection refused

2014-05-23 Thread Steve Simon
personally, i preferred the big switch statement in cpurc. it scales even to large installations, and has the advantage of being a little easier to get an overview. and there's no need for a bunch of files I think the argument is that it keeps as much as possible common across all users (who

Re: [9fans] CMS/MMS (VCS/SCM/DSCM) [was: syscall 53]

2014-05-23 Thread Steve Simon
Ok, My take on VCS/SCM and fossil+venti you can copy the repository to a working copy with - dircp. you can tag a release with - dircp (don't forget, copying a directory set is very nearly free in terms of disk space). adding a log message is cat ChangeLog the only bit missing is the ability

Re: [9fans] OT: clive

2014-05-23 Thread Oleksandr Iakovliev
On 2014-05-23 13:54 , Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: and includes its new weird file protocol, named zx. Not sure I have seen some info about zx. What is the protocol? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [9fans] OT: clive

2014-05-23 Thread Fran. J. Ballesteros
streams of operations on dir structures. the zx.rfs package includes the details. the important part is the interfaces or how it can be used, as shown in the examples. El May 23, 2014, a las 11:26 PM, Oleksandr Iakovliev yshu...@lynxline.com escribió: On 2014-05-23 13:54 , Francisco J

[9fans] OT - ATTN: Steve Stallion

2014-05-23 Thread Shane Morris
Hi 9fans, This is more a poke for both Steve and I, concerning some work I have for him. I am moving to a city 500km away from where I am now, and he is travelling, and likely my offer of work could get lost in the cracks. Just so the email doesn't get lost in the cracks, I thought a poke here