paul reed kindly dug up his code. it runs as part of the 9load
startup process. it would be difficult to tweak video bios from
the normal kernel. perhaps worthwhile.
i put the code up at /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/src/9loadaoe.
the special file is patchvesa.c.
- erik
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM, John Floren wrote:
> Starting today, my account on my Plan 9 server has been getting tons
> of "free coupons", "free Dell XPS", "Student loans!" spam, apparently
> from one operator, since every domainname is in the form
> .com or , like eggnavajo.com,
> rosydeer.co
> I have not yet gotten around to setting up nupas, but I figured I'd
> try populating /mail/lib/blocked a bit since it is easy, and a lot of
> the spam seems to come from erewards@
> However, after putting the line "*block *!erewards*" into blocked, I
> still keep getting spam from "erewards
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:06 -0800, Russ Cox wrote:
> Super.active is the block number of a VtDirType block:
> a block containing a few (I think 3) VtEntry structs.
Turns out there's one extra level of indirection there,
but your response was exactly what I needed to get
me unstuck. Thanks!
> cd