Re: [9fans] Ogg/Vorbis ported

2009-02-23 Thread lejatorn
For the record, libogg and libvorbis are now hosted in anothy's contrib as well. /n/sources/contrib/anothy/ufo/ Thanks anothy. Mathieu

Re: [9fans] actionfs

2009-02-23 Thread Bruce Ellis
to make "score" i converted over 30,000 frames from mpg to tiff, using inferno. it took a while, as it was 10 years ago, but nice to wake up to. brucee On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:13 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > this one was an experiment > > /n/sources/contrib/maht/actionfs.c > > invoked with a regex l

Re: [9fans] actionfs

2009-02-23 Thread roger peppe
2009/2/23 Bruce Ellis : > to make "score" i converted over 30,000 frames from mpg to tiff, using > inferno. it took a while, as it was 10 years ago, but nice to wake up > to. what's "score"?

[9fans] Wrong email address in patch

2009-02-23 Thread yy
I submitted a patch for acme this morning, wheel-chording, and I'm sorry but I wrote the wrong email address, is there any way I could change it? My system time was also wrong. (This is my first patch and, I promise, the last one I submit before breakfast...) I should also have written in the descr

Re: [9fans] actionfs

2009-02-23 Thread Bruce Ellis
Score! http://www.chunder.com/stuff/score.html On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:41 AM, roger peppe wrote: > 2009/2/23 Bruce Ellis : >> to make "score" i converted over 30,000 frames from mpg to tiff, using >> inferno. it took a while, as it was 10 years ago, but nice to wake up >> to. > > what's "scor

[9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread hugo rivera
Well, I made an obvious mistake and sent the last email to the wrong address. I apologize for that. -- Saludos Hugo

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
this seems dated to me #w, #H and #b no longer exist and the install is now quite different. - erik

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Raschke
It's got a whole chapter on alef, and the UI is still in B/W. Definitly for an older edition of Plan 9. 'Tis a shame there's absolutley no attribution to be found. I wonder who wrote the book? Seems to be quite readable. Robby

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread Wes Kussmaul
hugo rivera wrote: Hi Maulesel, I just ran into this book and I am sending it to you for two reasons: 1.- It's in german. 2.- It's about Plan 9. 3. You sell hard drives to server operators for a living.

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Feb 23 12:20:19 EST 2009, w...@authentrus.com wrote: > hugo rivera wrote: > > Hi Maulesel, > > I just ran into this book and I am sending it to you for two reasons: > > 1.- It's in german. > > 2.- It's about Plan 9. > > 3. You sell hard drives to server operators for a living. relax. it w

[9fans] nupas failure

2009-02-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
Hugo Rivera's (uai...@gmail.com) latest post to 9fans on Feb 23, 07:42 PDT, repeatedly causes nupas (using nupas/Mail in Acme) to crash with "unexpected line:" messages. ak

Re: [9fans] nupas failure

2009-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Feb 23 14:03:05 EST 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: > Hugo Rivera's (uai...@gmail.com) latest post to 9fans on Feb 23, 07:42 > PDT, repeatedly causes nupas (using nupas/Mail in Acme) to crash with > "unexpected line:" messages. are you running the latest upas/fs/imap.c? it's been

Re: [9fans] page(1)

2009-02-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
If you get to debugging it, that'd be great. For everyone else, the still useful png is in /n/sourcesdump/2009/0201/plan9/386/bin/png. Everything works fine now, thanks FGB. ak --- Begin Message --- hola, I haven't had the time to debug it, but readpng() changed in the last days and it doesn't

Re: [9fans] page(1)

2009-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Feb 23 15:16:16 EST 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote: > If you get to debugging it, that'd be great. For everyone else, the > still useful png is in /n/sourcesdump/2009/0201/plan9/386/bin/png. > Everything works fine now, thanks FGB. i did see that the changes to png.c didn't make

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread michael block
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:01, Robert Raschke wrote: > 'Tis a shame there's absolutley no attribution to be found. I wonder > who wrote the book? Seems to be quite readable. pdfinfo sheds some light on the subject: Title: P9.pdf Author: Wellhoefer Creator:PScript5.dll Ve

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread john
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:01, Robert Raschke wrote: >> 'Tis a shame there's absolutley no attribution to be found. I wonder >> who wrote the book? Seems to be quite readable. > > pdfinfo sheds some light on the subject: > > Title: P9.pdf > Author: Wellhoefer > Creator:

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread Christian Walther
Hello Hugo, 2009/2/23 hugo rivera : > Well, > I made an obvious mistake and sent the last email to the wrong address. > I apologize for that. > Some mistakes can be usefull, at least for other people. ;-) In my case I welcome your mistake, because I didn't know that a german document covering Plan

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread Wes Kussmaul
erik quanstrom wrote: On Mon Feb 23 12:20:19 EST 2009, w...@authentrus.com wrote: hugo rivera wrote: Hi Maulesel, I just ran into this book and I am sending it to you for two reasons: 1.- It's in german. 2.- It's about Plan 9. 3. You sell hard drives to server operators for a living. relax.

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> > relax. it would take 583166 of these messages to > > fill a tb drive. tb drives go for about $100 these days. > > > > - erik > > I forgot the smileys :-) :-) i guess we're even then. i forgot my sense of humor today. - erik

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> It would be great to have the source of the book, maybe it would be > worth it to create a community based 2nd release. But I guess with all > the copyright issues involved this will be next to impossible. i can't think of any advantages of 2e over 4e. perhaps others disagree. if you're after

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
if you're after the historical progression of how the structure of the kernel evolved, the file server kernel is much more interesting. Any bits in particular? Any reason why? -- vs

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Feb 23 17:02:29 EST 2009, m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: > >if you're after the historical progression of how the > >structure of the kernel evolved, the file server kernel > >is much more interesting. > > Any bits in particular? Any reason why? port/proc.c is very interesting, as are pc/lock.c

[9fans] spreading the word

2009-02-23 Thread Akshat Kumar
No discussion involving Einstein and Ken should have spelling mistakes in the topic. It complicates the understanding ak --- Begin Message --- On Mon Feb 23 17:02:29 EST 2009, m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: > >if you're after the historical progression of how the > >structure of the kernel evolved, the

Re: [9fans] spreading the word

2009-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> No discussion involving Einstein and Ken should have spelling mistakes > in the topic. > > It complicates the understanding as does changing the Subject: . there are always tradeoffs. - erik

Re: [9fans] page(1)

2009-02-23 Thread geoff
Sorry about that. I've reverted to the older readpng.c. The new one shouldn't have escaped yet. The new one was an attempt to fix bugs in the old one (there are some png files that the old one can't handle correctly), but the new one has its own bugs.

[9fans] R G Loeliger meets Glenda

2009-02-23 Thread mattmobile
My first stab at a TIL was in AVR assembler but it was more fun to write the code than to find a way to use it. I still don't have a use but at least I don't have to run it on the AVR anymore to experiment first an example run cpu% /n/sources/contrib/maht/rc/til abc¯def 123 emit abc def 123 :

[9fans] (no subject)

2009-02-23 Thread mattmobile
oops I forgot carriage returns get converted in email imagine # is a ^m pu% /n/sources/contrib/maht/rc/til abc¯def#123# emit abc def 123 : emit4 emit emit emit emit # 1 2 3 emit4 321 1 # swp 3 2 swp dup dup drop emit4 emit 3321 does this make sense / of interest to anyone :) matt

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2009-02-23 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:29 PM, wrote: > oops I forgot carriage returns get converted in email > imagine # is a ^m > > > pu% /n/sources/contrib/maht/rc/til > abc¯def#123# > emit > abc def > 123 > : emit4 emit emit emit emit > # 1 2 3 emit4 > 321 > 1 # swp 3 2 swp dup dup drop emit4 emit > 3321 >

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2009-02-23 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Feb 23, 2009, at 6:48 PM, ron minnich wrote: sure but what's the point? Couldn't you grab one of the forth interpreters? Forth on Plan 9? That would be great. Then I'd have a bit more leverage in getting a new PIC based board to talk with Plan 9. (brucee's recent 9p example's

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2009-02-23 Thread sixforty
Jeff Sickel wrote: On Feb 23, 2009, at 6:48 PM, ron minnich wrote: sure but what's the point? Couldn't you grab one of the forth interpreters? Forth on Plan 9? That would be great. Then I'd have a bit more leverage in getting a new PIC based board to talk with Plan 9. (brucee's recen

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread Anthony Sorace
erik wrote: // i can't think of any advantages of 2e over 4e. perhaps others disagree. not "advantages", no, but there are bits and pieces that were interesting ideas, even if they didn't pan out, that are overlooked. the whole streams idea is really educational. nonet was neat. having datakit c

Re: [9fans] (no subject)

2009-02-23 Thread Anthony Sorace
fgb has ported 4th; it's in his contrib dir, both as a tar file and a contrib package. i thought i remembered seeing another, but it's not on the contrib index page.

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread Anthony Sorace
correction: i think nonet was out of the official distribution by 2e. still neat.

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> the whole streams idea is really educational. nonet was neat. having > datakit code in there made the network transparency feel a bit more > real (different world, i know). streams also exist in unix. i find it very educational that plan 9 does well without streams. queue quote from the little

[9fans] plan9 web server down?

2009-02-23 Thread Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
hi, is plan9 web server down? i am not able to do '9fs sources' too. thanks dharani

Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C

2009-02-23 Thread Ben Calvert
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, erik quanstrom wrote: On Fri Feb 20 11:18:41 EST 2009, urie...@gmail.com wrote: One of the main costs of dynamic linking is making fork much slower. Even on linux statically linked binaries fork a few magnitude orders faster than dynamically linked ones. The main source of