Re: [9fans] 9vx and email

2010-03-18 Thread Russ Cox
your subject says 9vx and email, but your message didn't mention 9vx. assuming you are actually using 9vx, it's important to note that the mail system depends heavily on lock files, and the #Z file system in 9vx, which is what gives you access to the host file system, does not support lock files.

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Tim Newsham
However, there is one smart feature that for me would be useful enough that carrying a big chunky thing that lives for a quarter of a day on battery might actually be worth it, and the feature is so damn trivial to do with Plan 9 - setting/unsetting the ring tone to/from silent in a cron job. I

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Tim Newsham
android on top of L4.  If only p9 was running on top of L4 :) Get cracking Tim! how hard can it be? :-) Honestly, I think it would loads of fun to do, but I probably wouldn't use it myself once done, I don't have the free time to do it, and I don't know of a way to do it for work... ron

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Steve Simon
Honestly, I think it would loads of fun to do, but I probably wouldn't use it myself once done, I don't have the free time to do it, and I don't know of a way to do it for work... The story of my (plan9) life... I should add that there is also lots of stuff I _would_ use that I don't have

Re: [9fans] 9vx and email

2010-03-18 Thread hugo rivera
yes, I meant 9vx. So I'll try to do it with p9p's mailfs. Thanks. 2010/3/18 Russ Cox r...@swtch.com: your subject says 9vx and email, but your message didn't mention 9vx.  assuming you are actually using 9vx, it's important to note that the mail system depends heavily on lock files, and the

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Gabriel Díaz
hello How do I get my employer to need plan9? Given the experiences posted by some of the plan9 inventors in other thread, this seems to be an almost impossible task, unless you make your own business or change you're employer for someone which already uses plan9. I guess. It is a bit

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
my big question is How do I get my employer to need plan9? by careful choise of employer? ☺ - erik

Re: [9fans] install onto P5Q-Pro SATA drives

2010-03-18 Thread kokamoto
(1) It looks like to be able to read SATA CDROM, such that we can see directories, files at the top level of /n/cdrom. However, it fails to read the files under deeper levels, say such as /n/cdrom/sys/src/9/pc/pc. In short we cannot read cdrom correctly. This was my fault to compile

Re: [9fans] install onto P5Q-Pro SATA drives

2010-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
(2) vesa vga driver doen't work for say 1280x1024x16 or x 32 vgasize ( this machine's vga card is ATI Radeon HD 4350(1002/954f). the upper 1/4 part etc... This is still problem. there may be some magic overflow crt register bits that could be set incorrectly. i wonder about

Re: [9fans] DNS dynamic update

2010-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
FWIW there is another weirdness of windows, the windows DHCP server doesn't communicate with the DNS server on windows, it expects the client to send an Inform packet to the DHCP server telling it of the clients chosen name. i guess that's the great thing about standards — there are so many to

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Patrick Kelly
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 08:46 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: my big question is How do I get my employer to need plan9? by careful choise of employer? ☺ Or become the employer Seriously though, ask around, see if theres a use for any old machines at your workplace. Too old to be running

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread David Leimbach
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Gabriel Díaz gd...@rejaa.com wrote: hello How do I get my employer to need plan9? Given the experiences posted by some of the plan9 inventors in other thread, this seems to be an almost impossible task, unless you make your own business or change you're

[9fans] p9p's rio: moving windows across virtual screens

2010-03-18 Thread lbolla
Hi all, I'm using rio from p9p with multiple virtual screens ($ rio -virtuals 9). Is there a way to move a window from one screen to another? In the man, xshove is suggested to move windows around, but it does not seem to handle virtual screens. Thank you in advance, Lorenzo.

Re: [9fans] interesting qemu problem

2010-03-18 Thread blstuart
I should mention that another person here tried qemu recently and commented that it was dog slow as well. Something changed in qemu I think and it's affecting plan 9. That was a very old qemu image and it was peppy in the old days. I wonder if it's a 0.11 thing or maybe a Linux thing. I've

Re: [9fans] p9p's rio: moving windows across virtual screens

2010-03-18 Thread John Floren
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:29 AM, lbolla lbo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm using rio from p9p with multiple virtual screens ($ rio -virtuals 9). Is there a way to move a window from one screen to another? In the man, xshove is suggested to move windows around, but it does not seem to

Re: [9fans] more little hardware

2010-03-18 Thread Jorden Mauro
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:36 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Gabriel Díaz gd...@rejaa.com wrote: hello How do I get my employer to need plan9? Given the experiences posted by some of the plan9 inventors in other thread, this seems to be an

Re: [9fans] 9vx on MacOS X: problem with contrib

2010-03-18 Thread Semka Novikov
best bet is to run this under ktrace/strace or whatever you use on a mac nowadays and let us get a look at it. Funny, when I run 9vx.OSX under dtrace and collect about 48mb of log contrib was successfuly installed. I can send .gz archive of 48mb dtrace log (about 1mb). -- take care of the

Re: [9fans] 9vx on MacOS X: problem with contrib

2010-03-18 Thread Semka Novikov
Heh, I know why. dtrace needs superuser previlegies, so 9vx.OSX war ran under root = no permission problems. -- take care of the brain

Re: [9fans] 9vx on MacOS X: problem with contrib

2010-03-18 Thread Semka Novikov
... previlegies, so 9vx.OSX war ... s/war/was sorry for mail flood. -- take care of the brain

[9fans] Plan 9 in GSoC 2010!

2010-03-18 Thread Anthony Sorace
We're in. In the next few days, we need to polish our materials for students, flesh out our ideas list[1], and confirm our mentors. If you're interested in following progress with Plan 9's GSoC activities, please join the plan9-gsoc google group[2]; if you're interested in becoming a

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 in GSoC 2010!

2010-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
awsome! - erik

[9fans] crash on big images

2010-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
when viewing large images on a real plan 9 terminal, i commonly see ilock deadlocks for example: acid: src(0xf01b9432) /sys/src/9/port/alloc.c:104 99 { 100Private *pv; 101 102pv = p-private; 103ilock(pv-lk); 104pv-lk.pc =

[9fans] crash on big images

2010-03-18 Thread erik quanstrom
sorry, those were the pc and lockpc, respectively. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9vx on MacOS X: problem with contrib

2010-03-18 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Semka Novikov m...@sdfgh153.ru wrote: Heh, I know why. dtrace needs superuser previlegies, so 9vx.OSX war ran under root = no permission problems. What you could do is start the process up as you, then attach it with dtrace (I assume this works as it does on

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 in GSoC 2010!

2010-03-18 Thread Federico G. Benavento
congrats! On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:00 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: awsome! - erik -- Federico G. Benavento