Re: [9fans] troll paper

2024-04-12 Thread David Arnold
> 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. d -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

[9fans] P9F meetings (was: Re: Charting the Future: Envisioning Plan 9 Release 5 for the 9fans Community)

2024-01-25 Thread David Arnold
> On 26 Jan 2024, at 07:38, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: <…> > If you have specific ways we can support people like you > taking up the torch and carrying plan 9 development forward, > please speak up and let us know; I'll ensure that it gets > discussed at the next P9F meeting. Is there any

Re: [9fans] ARM hardware and SATA

2019-12-13 Thread David Arnold
> On 12 Dec 2019, at 17:32, Lucio De Re wrote: > > I'd like suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost > certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service). > Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always. > > Ideally, storage is where the value will

Re: [9fans] ARM hardware and SATA

2019-12-12 Thread David Arnold
> On 12 Dec 2019, at 17:31, Lucio De Re wrote: > > I'd like suggestions for some hardware on which to run Plan 9, almost > certainly expandable SSD capacity will be a must (Venti service). > Price and quality will be the biggest factors, as always. > > Ideally, storage is where the value will

Re: [9fans] Someone made a Wayland compositor based on Rio, Wio

2019-05-01 Thread David Arnold
It seems like it runs another Wayland compositor (Cage) in its windows, so the ability to nest compositors is there but I saw no mention of nesting itself. No fs yet either although it’s mentioned as a todo. d > On 2 May 2019, at 14:36, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > Can Wio run inside Wio?

Re: [9fans] PDP11

2018-10-08 Thread David Arnold
> On 9 Oct 2018, at 14:08, Digby R.S. Tarvin wrote: <…> > So I don't think it i would be worth a substantial rewrite to get it going. > It is a shame that there don't seem to have been any more powerful machines > with a comparably elegant architecture and attractive front panel :) > > An

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 5th Edition

2016-11-19 Thread David Arnold
On 17 Nov 2016, at 12:18, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:55:38PM -0500, Charlie Lin wrote: >> Also does anyone want to host the source tree in a repository? > > This sounds like a lot of work. Who would undertake this?? GitHub, GitLab, or BitBucket all provide gratis

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-23 Thread David Arnold
http://newftp.9atom.org/other/+usbinstamd64.bz2 resolves (www vs. newftp). d On 24/12/2013, at 9:44 AM, Blake McBride wrote: I am having trouble with that link. Is it correct? Thanks. Blake On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:11 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Thu Dec

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-15 Thread David Arnold
On 24/10/2013, at 5:57 PM, Keith wrote: Who here remembers/knows of the vision for the apple newton? The iPad realized it when the technology was able and the time was right. Who is to say the same couldn't be said for 9? I suspect that Plan9ers will be as disappointed as Newtonians at the

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread David Arnold
On 13/01/2013, at 2:21 PM, John Floren wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Richard Miller 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: Blue Gene hard to fit in the basement. How about an ipengine (mpc823)? I've got one gathering dust here. I caution against working on any hardware which can no

Re: [9fans] sleep(2) historical question

2012-11-28 Thread David Arnold
On 28/11/2012, at 1:58 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: Why not add nsleep() with sleeptime in nanosecond units? And of course, any necessary kernel changes for better accuracy. Is POSIX' nanosleep() or old-POSIX/BSD/XOpen's usleep() out of the question? d

Re: [9fans] C beautifier

2011-09-18 Thread David Arnold
On Sun Sep 18 14:10:06 EDT 2011, n...@lsub.org wrote: anyone is using a C beautifier in Plan 9? I mean, other than gnu indent, which I tried and does not work quite right for me. uncrustify is fairly flexible, but takes some work up front to describe your desired output style.

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-16 Thread David Arnold
On 16/03/2010, at 5:02 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote: Any thought as to using the OpenMoko as a phone platform? Unfortunately, I don't think either the Neo1973 or the FreeRunner are useful as a daily-use phone due to various hardware bugs or limitations. d

Re: [9fans] linux stats in last year from linuxcon

2009-09-22 Thread David Arnold
On 22/09/2009, at 4:47 PM, Jack Norton wrote: In the end I don't care what the linux devs do, but they need to come up with a game plan and either fork (server, desktop linux) or include it all and try and make everyone happy (the latter will end in chaos me thinks). There are several

Re: [9fans] Android / G1

2009-02-16 Thread David Arnold
On 16/02/2009, at 2:26 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: do mobile carriers allow (in a legal sense) unblessed device/OS on their networks? In the Linux-based phones that I'm familiar with, the GSM protocol is implemented as a separate module. It uses a serial interface (and an extended AT