Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
Tiny Core Linux looks interesting. Played around a bit in a VM tonight and will be trying it on the ThinkPad tomorrow. I'm curious about your setup. I assume you're using 9vx directly for graphics, no more drawterm? You run within X? My attempt tomorrow is going to be giving a GB or two to Linux a

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread erik quanstrom
> NetBSD runs on ESX at the same time as Plan 9 and it switches off > reproduceably pretty abruptly when I try to FTP the GNU directory from > gnu.org, good to see the netbsd guys have taste! - erik

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread lucio
> You say 'skip lguest' -- that's fine. But what's the best alternative > for running Plan9 server > on the same bare metal that needs to run something else? I find VMware ESX (server 3i) pretty robust, whereas VMware server under Ubuntu makes Ubuntu somewhat more fragile than if I don't start an

[9fans] acme: loading sets of windows

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Brown
Recently I've been finding it useful to open sets of windows in acme via an rc script, but I have the feeling I'm doing it in a pretty inelegant way (see basic version of my script below). This has led me to the following questions: 1. Is there a way to load dumps into a current acme instance via

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread ron minnich
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > You say 'skip lguest' -- that's fine. But what's the best alternative for > running Plan9 server > on the same bare metal that needs to run something else? > OK, for that, lguest is great. I am thinking entirely in terms fo supporting

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Neubauer
On second thought (and in the light of Geoffs reply) I probably won't. If you do care, the following change to the loop in question will at least preserve all input: while((c = rchr(f))!=EOF){ if(strchr(stop, c)){ if(s!=wd){

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread erik quanstrom
> You say 'skip lguest' -- that's fine. But what's the best alternative > for running Plan9 server > on the same bare metal that needs to run something else? more hardware ☺ - erik

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On 03/16/09 06:01 PM, ron minnich wrote: skip lguest. What I'm looking at now is tinycore linux: tinycorelinux.org and vx32. Much easier. Makes a nice terminal. I have to add some things to it, it doesn't come w/wireless. That is all fine for the terminal (I suppose you really mean running t

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Neubauer
Hi, I think the following gives a clue: % cmp f f2 f f2 differ: char 8193 The following snippet from the Xbackq code seems to be the culprit: char wd[8193]; int c; char *s, *ewd=&wd[8192], *stop; ... while((c = rchr(f))!=EOF){

Re: [9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread ron minnich
skip lguest. What I'm looking at now is tinycore linux: tinycorelinux.org and vx32. Much easier. Makes a nice terminal. I have to add some things to it, it doesn't come w/wireless. ron

[9fans] THnX status?

2009-03-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
I recently got a relatively modern ThinkPad. I figured it might be a good chance to play with something new, and THnX has always looked interesting. I have Ron's stuff from August or so; is that still the latest? Is there a better way to run Plan 9 in lguest, with as minimal a Linux underneath as p

Re: [9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-16 Thread geoff
Setting ifs='' defeats rc's tokenisation, so the result of `{} will be a series of rc `words', each limited to Wordmax (8192) bytes and with the next byte of the input stream after each word set to NUL. Did you perhaps intend to write ifs=(), which has different meaning?

[9fans] Strange rc bug for the 9fans bug-squashing squad

2009-03-16 Thread Uriel
At first I thought very big rc variables seem to become strangely corrupted. % for(i in `{seq 1000}) { echo 0123456789 >> f } % ifs='' {x=`{cat f}} % echo -n $x > f2 % diff f f2 745c745 < 0123456789 --- > 01234567 9 But the bug seems to be in `{ } because replacing the use of the x var with simpl

Re: [9fans] log oversight

2009-03-16 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:30 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:18 PM, ron minnich wrote: >>> note that those files are append-only. >>> >>> logs on unix are writeable by everyone: >>> [rminn...@panzer ~]$ logger -p kern.err

Re: [9fans] log oversight

2009-03-16 Thread erik quanstrom
> An alternative for the paranoid perhaps would be to make an additional fs > (in fossil) containing the log files. This fs could be set to accept only > the hostowner's credentials for attach requests. The hostowner, meanwhile, > when constructing namespaces, could bind the right file(s) into th

[9fans] Important Project

2009-03-16 Thread imbcmdth
I keep hearing that Plan9 needs animated whosits and transparent whatsits in order to compete with modern operating systems. Taking the initiative, I have added some polish to the clock. New features include a second hand and second tick marks, new mellow color scheme, miniature display mode, and d

Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap

2009-03-16 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 03/13/2009 05:39 AM, Steve Simon wrote: New toy, a google maps client in a few lines of script - thanks to them rather than plan9. With no args it looks in /lib/sky/here and displays where you are, with some args describing a place on the planet it tries to show you the local roads. It sho