Re: [9fans] why sources and the plan 9 web server have been up and down lately

2009-02-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
and thank god for that.

Re: [9fans] why sources and the plan 9 web server have been up and down lately

2009-02-12 Thread andrey mirtchovski
you're taking all the fun out of complaining :(

[9fans] why sources and the plan 9 web server have been up and down lately

2009-02-12 Thread geoff
We're suffering machine room renovation, major electrical work and high winds. As a result of some combination of these, we've had two major power outages and three minor ones today. As a result of moving machines around recently, we hadn't had all of our networking equipment and our computers on

Re: [9fans] reminder: internships in sunny california (but you gotta be

2009-02-12 Thread john
> I'm still looking for undergrad/grad students who'd like to spend some > time here in wine country. > > http://www.eagleridgeproperties.com/admin/housepictures/355707CA54.jpg > > I can pay you if you are a us citizen. If not, you can come here as a > visitor (yeah, I know, no money sux but > t

[9fans] reminder: internships in sunny california (but you gotta be a US citizen or visitor ...)

2009-02-12 Thread ron minnich
I'm still looking for undergrad/grad students who'd like to spend some time here in wine country. http://www.eagleridgeproperties.com/admin/housepictures/355707CA54.jpg I can pay you if you are a us citizen. If not, you can come here as a visitor (yeah, I know, no money sux but there are some fu

[9fans] SDnosense

2009-02-12 Thread erik quanstrom
SDnosense is used by devsd for access to the raw device. it's used to keep a device from returning sense data. for many drives this means squirreling away the sense data because it comes along with the status. is there any particular reason why devsd can't do this? maybe i'm missing something.

[9fans] ata vs. ide

2009-02-12 Thread erik quanstrom
there's a little confusion with ata vs. ide. the short 2008 story is that ata is a command set, ide is a programming interface. the history is much more complicated and riddled with backronyms like “pata.” so i think it would be a good idea to at least make this change in sd(3) ; diffy -c sd /

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread Bruce Ellis
bellisimo! On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:50 AM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: >> On the first hand again, given the occasional reports of "replica hosed me" >> I'm not terribly keen on trusting > > given the occasional reports of "software X hosed me" (for any and all > X), i don't think we should be ter

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:49:58AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > exactly. the point i was trying to make, and evidently > > was being too coy about, is that 330 odd gb wouldn't > > be as useful a number as the sum of the sizes of all the > > new/changed files from all the dump days. this wou

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> > On the first hand again, given the occasional reports of "replica hosed me" > > I'm not terribly keen on trusting > > given the occasional reports of "software X hosed me" (for any and all > X), i don't think we should be terribly keen on using computers at > all. or, being a programmer, one

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:50:50AM -0700, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > > On the first hand again, given the occasional reports of "replica hosed me" > > I'm not terribly keen on trusting > > given the occasional reports of "software X hosed me" (for any and all > X), i don't think we should be terr

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> On the first hand again, given the occasional reports of "replica hosed me" > I'm not terribly keen on trusting given the occasional reports of "software X hosed me" (for any and all X), i don't think we should be terribly keen on using computers at all.

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:49:58AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > exactly. the point i was trying to make, and evidently > was being too coy about, is that 330 odd gb wouldn't > be as useful a number as the sum of the sizes of all the > new/changed files from all the dump days. this would > be a

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 07:49 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > exactly. the point i was trying to make, and evidently > > was being too coy about, is that 330 odd gb wouldn't > > be as useful a number as the sum of the sizes of all the > > new/changed files from all the dump days. this would > >

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 07:49 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > exactly. the point i was trying to make, and evidently > was being too coy about, is that 330 odd gb wouldn't > be as useful a number as the sum of the sizes of all the > new/changed files from all the dump days. this would > be a useful

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 source history (was: Re: source browsing via http is back)

2009-02-12 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 07:07:48PM +0100, Uriel wrote: Oh, glad that somebody found my partial git port useful, I might give it another push some time. Having a git/hg repo of the plan9 history is something I have been thinking about for a while, really cool that you got something going already.

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread Bruce Ellis
Stop being sensible! There is no room on this list for such behaviour. brucee On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:49 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, erik quanstrom >> wrote: >> >> > what extra work would that be, >> >> >> >> that it pulls files in their entirety (IOW: cp /

Re: [9fans] source browsing via http is back

2009-02-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:28 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> > what extra work would that be, > >> > >> that it pulls files in their entirety (IOW: cp /n/sources/... /) > > > > i would be very suprised if a single copy of sources had many shared > > blocks. > > He doesn't want a single copy tho

Re: [9fans] Aquarela patches

2009-02-12 Thread Federico G. Benavento
patch(1) (diff. from the lunix patch...) On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Andreas Zell wrote: > Hello, > > i fixed some bugs in aquarela. > Is this the right place to post the patches ? > > AZ. > > -- Federico G. Benavento

[9fans] Aquarela patches

2009-02-12 Thread Andreas Zell
Hello, i fixed some bugs in aquarela. Is this the right place to post the patches ? AZ.