Re: [9fans] clarification needed

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Simmons
> but, like so many other things plan9, i didn't. so i posted to 9fans. > Evelyn Waugh wrote about "a senile itch to write to The Times". Perhaps posting to 9fans is a modern equivalent, at least for people of my generation.

Re: [9fans] clarification needed

2009-02-19 Thread balaji
weren't you blissfully semi retired? On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote: > You bet your ass. You're not playing with children here! > > No-one listens to me though. > > I should retire again. > > brucee > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:31 PM, wrote: >> Are you? Native? With wireles

Re: [9fans] clarification needed

2009-02-19 Thread andrey mirtchovski
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Simmons wrote: > Is this exchange part of the script for the forthcoming reality TV > show "Harold and Kumar go to Murray Hill" ? your horrible joke gave me an idea to photochop jmk and brucee in this pic: http://gnathaniel.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/har

Re: [9fans] clarification needed

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Simmons
Is this exchange part of the script for the forthcoming reality TV show "Harold and Kumar go to Murray Hill" ? 2009/2/20 : > Since I have only recently come out of retirement I'd like details. > > On Thu Feb 19 00:45:28 EST 2009, bruce.el...@gmail.com wrote: >> You bet your ass. You're not playin

Re: [9fans] 2 acmes using plan9port

2009-02-19 Thread sqweek
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:23 PM, roger peppe wrote: > On 19/02/2009, Rudolf Sykora wrote: >> what needs to be done in order to be able to run two acme programs? >> When I try to run it twice I get >> >> 9pserve: announce unix!/tmp/ns.ruda.:0/acme: Address already in use >> acme: can't post s

Re: [9fans] RDP

2009-02-19 Thread lucio
> has anyone looked into porting or building an RDP client? I think it would be easy to port the standard Linux offering (I forget the name) if you speak X. It has the screen handling in one module, but I found I didn't have a clue. ++L

[9fans] RDP

2009-02-19 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
has anyone looked into porting or building an RDP client?

Re: [9fans] rc for loop exiting from emu on Plan 9

2009-02-19 Thread roger peppe
2009/2/19 Anthony Sorace : > i get the same behavior if i > replace the entire rc for clause with {emu sh -c date}. did you try @{rfork s; emu sh -c date} ?

Re: [9fans] rc for loop exiting from emu on Plan 9

2009-02-19 Thread erik quanstrom
> for (i in `{seq 1 100}) {echo BEGIN RUN $i ; emu sh -c > /usr/a/bin/sh/emuerr; echo END RUN $i ; echo} > [...] > > what is rc confused about? > i think the question is, what does emu do to rc. i think it kills the note group: minooka; rc -c '@{emu sh -c date}; echo done' Thu Feb 19 17:13:0

Re: [9fans] clarification needed

2009-02-19 Thread jmk
Since I have only recently come out of retirement I'd like details. On Thu Feb 19 00:45:28 EST 2009, bruce.el...@gmail.com wrote: > You bet your ass. You're not playing with children here! > > No-one listens to me though. > > I should retire again. > > brucee > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:31 P

[9fans] small smtp fix

2009-02-19 Thread erik quanstrom
with imap users, it's easy for addresses to be unqualified. this is partially imap4d's fault, but client misconfiguration can also cause this. this patch will send notification of a bad address right away instead of trying this sort of invalid address for days: smtp.c:188,198 - /n/dump/2009/0219/

[9fans] rc for loop exiting from emu on Plan 9

2009-02-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
Trying to help diagnose a race condition in emu, I did this: for (i in `{seq 1 100}) {echo BEGIN RUN $i ; emu sh -c /usr/a/bin/sh/emuerr; echo END RUN $i ; echo} where emuerr is a sh.dis script that raises an exception. on OS X, using p9p's rc, i get a bunch of stanzas that look like: BEGIN RUN

Re: [9fans] 2 acmes using plan9port

2009-02-19 Thread roger peppe
On 19/02/2009, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > what needs to be done in order to be able to run two acme programs? > When I try to run it twice I get > > 9pserve: announce unix!/tmp/ns.ruda.:0/acme: Address already in use > acme: can't post service: 9pserve failed i'd just change $NAMESPACE, as docume

Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C

2009-02-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 19 05:04:15 EST 2009, anooop.ano...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello once again, > > I was wondering whether if there are any libraries that I can include > to call vac and unvac directly from my C code. Currently I am > executing them in the shell using popen and capturing the output. I am > l

Re: [9fans] 2 acmes using plan9port

2009-02-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Feb 19 06:27:09 EST 2009, rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > what needs to be done in order to be able to run two acme programs? > When I try to run it twice I get > > 9pserve: announce unix!/tmp/ns.ruda.:0/acme: Address already in use > acme: can't post service: 9pserve failed t

[9fans] 2 acmes using plan9port

2009-02-19 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello, what needs to be done in order to be able to run two acme programs? When I try to run it twice I get 9pserve: announce unix!/tmp/ns.ruda.:0/acme: Address already in use acme: can't post service: 9pserve failed Thanks Ruda

Re: [9fans] Query regarding vac

2009-02-19 Thread roger peppe
2009/2/19 : > Hello All, > > I was using venti/write to store off small data sets which are less > than a datablock in size earlier. But now I have started using vac for > larger data but I have come across this problem: > > Writing the same datablock to the venti server used to give me the > same

[9fans] contrib/install steve/mysqlfs

2009-02-19 Thread Steve Simon
Mysqlfs available in my contrib area, modeled after inferno's odbc(10.4) though not strictly compatible with it. -Steve

[9fans] Calling vac from C

2009-02-19 Thread anooop . anooop
Hello once again, I was wondering whether if there are any libraries that I can include to call vac and unvac directly from my C code. Currently I am executing them in the shell using popen and capturing the output. I am looking for better ways. ~Anoop

[9fans] Query regarding vac

2009-02-19 Thread anooop . anooop
Hello All, I was using venti/write to store off small data sets which are less than a datablock in size earlier. But now I have started using vac for larger data but I have come across this problem: Writing the same datablock to the venti server used to give me the same score always. But vac does