[9fans] vesa bios mode patching

2009-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
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

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-13 Thread John Floren
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

Re: [9fans] dealing with spam

2009-01-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> 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

Re: [9fans] Quick question on fossil

2009-01-13 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
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