Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

2008-12-04 Thread Juan Céspedes
Hey, doesn't anybody like Orson Scott Card? His books (specially Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow) are probably among my top-5. -- Juan Cespedes http://www.cespedes.org/

Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

2008-12-04 Thread Robert Raschke
I very much enjoy Samuel R. Delany (http://www2.pcc.com/staff/jay/delany/); especially Babel-17, Nova, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand and Dhalgren. The latter one is a good one for the holiday, as it's a tad longer. His short stories are well worth seeking out as well. His stories are

[9fans] initialization of anonymous structs.

2008-12-04 Thread Gorka Guardiola
Say I have a couple of structs like: typedef struct A A; typedef struct B B; struct A { int a1; int a2; }; struct B { A; int b1; int b2; }; Now I want to declare a variable of kind B with parts initialized. Is there anyway to initialize the A inside the B?. I have

Re: [9fans] initialization of anonymous structs.

2008-12-04 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Gorka Guardiola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Say I have a couple of structs like: typedef struct A A; typedef struct B B; struct A { int a1; int a2; }; struct B { A; int b1; int b2; }; Now I want to declare a variable of kind B

Re: [9fans] initialization of anonymous structs.

2008-12-04 Thread Sape Mullender
typedef struct A A; typedef struct B B; struct A { int a1; int a2; }; struct B { A; int b1; int b2; }; B bvar = { .B = { .a1 = 2, .b1 = 2, }, }; ---BeginMessage--- On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Gorka Guardiola [EMAIL

Re: [9fans] initialization of anonymous structs.

2008-12-04 Thread roger peppe
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Sape Mullender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B bvar = { .B = { .a1 = 2, .b1 = 2, }, }; that doesn't work for me. i get: x.c:18 structure element not found B x.c:18 more initializers than structure: bvar changing the .B

Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

2008-12-04 Thread roger peppe
i feel extremely hypocritical responding to this thread, because it really *is* so very off topic, but i have to put in a plug for Greg Egan. absolutely brilliant for extreme (and well thought out) technological extrapolation. he's got a computer-sciency background (he might even have heard of

Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter

2008-12-04 Thread Steve Simon
AFS has its warts, but, trust me, if you've used it for a while, you will not find yourself excitedly perusing the volume location database to see where your bits are coming from. Is there an AFS client for plan9 anywhere? Just curious. -Steve

Re: [9fans] initialization of anonymous structs.

2008-12-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Sape Mullender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B bvar = { .B = { .a1 = 2, .b1 = 2, }, }; that doesn't work for me. i get: x.c:18 structure element not found B x.c:18 more initializers than structure: bvar

Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

2008-12-04 Thread Kim Shrier
On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:01 AM, roger peppe wrote: i feel extremely hypocritical responding to this thread, because it really *is* so very off topic, but i have to put in a plug for Greg Egan. absolutely brilliant for extreme (and well thought out) technological extrapolation. he's got a

Re: [9fans] APE and listen(2B)

2008-12-04 Thread lucio
secondly, reveal is meant to drop into background, accepting connections on TCP/4523 where it replies with the concatenation of the originating IPv4 address and port number. is there a reason for not using listen(8)? all that is needed is a script in /bin/service/tcp4523 nearly identical

Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter

2008-12-04 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 02:39 -0500, Dave Eckhardt wrote: P.S. I've seen this disbelief in the fact that automoter + NFS actually can be really convenient mostly come from Linux people. Perspective depends on experience. AFS has its warts, but, trust me, if you've used it for a while, you

Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

2008-12-04 Thread john
Hey, doesn't anybody like Orson Scott Card? His books (specially Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow) are probably among my top-5. -- Juan Cespedes http://www.cespedes.org/ Ender's Game is fine. I don't think I read Ender's Shadow. However, I read the Homecoming books and got suspicious

Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter

2008-12-04 Thread Dave Eckhardt
At some distant point in the past (last century, actually) I was drawn to AFS because of the features, but left in horror because of the complexity. The goal was adding an enterprise-scale distributed file system to an existing operating system (Unix), where enterprise-scale meant 5,000 users

Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter

2008-12-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Dec 4 23:37:02 EST 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: supported 400 users on 120 workstations in 1984; this evening CMU's AFS cell hosts 30,821 user volumes, roughly half a gigabyte each; there are cells with more users and cells with more bits. 31000/2 is about 15tb. that seems pretty

Re: [9fans] How to implement a moral equivalent of automounter

2008-12-04 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:58:15PM +, Steve Simon wrote: AFS has its warts, but, trust me, if you've used it for a while, you will not find yourself excitedly perusing the volume location database to see where your bits are coming from. Is there an AFS client for plan9 anywhere?

Re: [9fans] image/memimage speed

2008-12-04 Thread sqweek
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the real performance issue for hardware where the frame buffer is in the PCIe shared memory apperture is that writes are write-through/coalesced on their way across the PCIe, but reads can't be, and so incur huge stalls. Hah,

Re: [9fans] image/memimage speed

2008-12-04 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:33 AM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very true, the only exception to this I know of is some of the modern Dual PCIExpress cards which use a bus in each direction. do you have a reference for dual pciexpress? as far as i know, pcie/agp/pci cards only have