Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jorden Mauro jrm8...@gmail.com wrote: The coffee pot runs windows and there is a virus that causes Coffee Denial of Service on it. That, of course, would be the very most worstcase that can ever happen ;-) cu -- --

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: It's also very easy to run my toaster diskless. hmm, I think the Toasters work w/ SSDs or maybe some kind of nano corememory, at least the mechanical ones. This could also their extreme suspectibility to certain radiations. But no idea what causes that effect

Re: [9fans] Got a phd? getting a phd?

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Sandia has a new deal for new phds. This seems to mean - just got it - just hired on and you have it You can come in and propose something research-y, and you'll get 66% support for two years for whatever. It's a pretty good deal. It's harder if

Re: [9fans] Design of webfs and webcookies

2010-01-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: what's really wanted here is an atomic create/write/close so that one process (we don't care which one) is responsible for the whole file. i think you could get this behavior by creating a temporary keyfile and then an rename (wstat), which is atomic.

Re: [9fans] Design of webfs and webcookies

2010-01-05 Thread erik quanstrom
Just curious: can an 9P server cleanly differenciate between clients ? This would be a great help for transaction isolation, IMHO. w/o having looked at cookiefs yet, but I would do it like that: * get cookies by reading /site-cookies/site * set cookies by writing site: foo=bar to

Re: [9fans] Got a phd? getting a phd?

2010-01-05 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: What are the exact prerequisites ? Especially for, lets say, Germany ? recent phd. That's the starting point. It's best if you are us citizen but definitely not mandatory! ron

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-05 Thread Russ Cox
I am planning to play with an Apple Magic Mouse using Paul Lalonde's patch (soon to be in p9p). Paul's code is now in p9p. Because the code can read where your finger is on the mouse when you click, it can pretend there are three different buttons when in fact there's just one. Chording works

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-05 Thread andrey mirtchovski
I hope that the code will let one use the new clickable laptop trackpads as 3-button mice too, but I haven't tried that. i just did. acme isn't seeing any mouse clicks from a macbook's trackpad. i'll take a look and report in more detail in a bit.

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-05 Thread Jack Johnson
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:20 PM, andrey mirtchovski mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote: i just did. acme isn't seeing any mouse clicks from a macbook's trackpad. i'll take a look and report in more detail in a bit. I'll have to give that a try. It seems acme + trackpad isn't always fun, but my brain

Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review

2010-01-05 Thread andrey mirtchovski
here's a report. i obviously don't know enough about touch controls to be of any use, but i'd like to help with testing. - on my snow leopard macbook pro it appears that the multitouch library is found and devdraw is compiled with -DMULTITOUCH (indeed if i undef this the problem goes away). -