Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-04 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 04/29/11 00:21, Brian L. Stuart wrote: > Ron wrote: >> andrey mirtchovski >> >> wrote: This is great! >>> >>> it is, isn't it? 6 seconds kernel compile, 15 seconds >> turnaround time >>> when developing anything in the kernel (with PXE >> boot). beat that, >>> modern operating systems :) >

Re: [9fans] dns SRV records

2011-05-04 Thread Pavel Klinkovsky
On 3 kvě, 10:33, roo...@gmail.com (Sergey Kornilovich) wrote: > So far, everything looks like a bug in the dns ... > Does anyone have ideas how to fix the situation? The behavior is very similar to my problematic situation: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/thread/a6aeb2ea

[9fans] 9vx Binary for Mac OS X

2011-05-04 Thread Brian Vito
Is there any way someone could post a binary of rminnich's vx32/9vx for Mac OS X 10.6/Intel to the bitbucket site at https://bitbucket.org/rminnich/vx32, or provide detailed instructions on how to build it for a non- programmer? I use 9vx 0.12 to run sam, but I am not a programmer, so I haven't b

Re: [9fans] Additional compilers under 9vx.OSX

2011-05-04 Thread Greg Comeau
In article , Greg Comeau wrote: >In article , >Greg Comeau wrote: >>In article , >>Greg Comeau wrote: >>>As mentioned in a post yesterday, we seem to have succeeded in getting >>>5c et al built. However, in resuming playing around at least one case >>>/bin/ape/sh is producing: >>>./command-name

Re: [9fans] wiki...

2011-05-04 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 04/26/11 12:03, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > On 24 Apr 2011, at 9:16 am, hiro wrote: > >> In http://plan9.bell-labs.com/robots.txt you will find: >> >> User-agent: * >> Disallow: / > > *facepalm* I wondered if this was the case; didn't think to check. > Anyone have any idea why this is ther

Re: [9fans] lenovo or other laptop support

2011-05-04 Thread antonio....@gmail.com
On Apr 30, 6:08 am, smi...@zenzebra.mv.com wrote: > Has anybody come across a ThinkPad that ISN'T well-supported by Plan 9? > IBM TPs are notorious for being Linux-friendly; it makes sense that > they'd tend to be 9-friendly, too. I have a Thinkpad X31: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X31.

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-04 Thread Greg Comeau
In article , Jacob Todd wrote: >On Apr 29, 2011 6:21 AM, "errno" wrote: >> On Friday, April 29, 2011 02:18:26 AM Charles Forsyth wrote: >> > > complaining is because you _need_ linux... to furnish all the things >> > > you can't do with plan 9 - either personally, or within your >> > > organizati

[9fans] nm "L symbols"

2011-05-04 Thread Greg Comeau
man nm shows a symbol type of L that is possible denoting it as a "leaf function text segment symbol". Often a leaf function is distinguished by being at the end of a call hierarchy and can sometimes yield difference in code generation regarding stack space and such. Is this the case here? If s

Re: [9fans] Compiling 9atom kernel WAS: Re: spaces in filenames

2011-05-04 Thread erik quanstrom
> > Life is too short to configure and compile Linux and > > GNU software. > > And they people (the developers, distributions as well as users), > however, are doing it since 1991 :P so in conclusion, perhaps one of the following is true - linux has gotten slowly worse over the years, - some peop

Re: [9fans] nm "L symbols"

2011-05-04 Thread Anthony Martin
Greg Comeau once said: > man nm shows a symbol type of L that is possible denoting it as > a "leaf function text segment symbol". Often a leaf function > is distinguished by being at the end of a call hierarchy and > can sometimes yield difference in code generation regarding > stack space and s

Re: [9fans] lenovo or other laptop support

2011-05-04 Thread erik quanstrom
> I completed the installation. When I rebooted I got the same error > with the graphic card as I got in the live mode. I think editing the > 9fat.ini should resolve the problem, but I have to learn how to edit > files in Plan9 without rio. The graphic card is not supported (I think > so: http://

Re: [9fans] dns SRV records

2011-05-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed May 4 07:46:40 EDT 2011, pavel.klinkov...@gmail.com wrote: > On 3 kvě, 10:33, roo...@gmail.com (Sergey Kornilovich) wrote: > So > far, everything looks like a bug in the dns ... > Does anyone have > ideas how to fix the situation? > > The behavior is very similar to my problematic situati

Re: [9fans] 9vx Binary for Mac OS X

2011-05-04 Thread andrey mirtchovski
it should be as simple as 'make 9vx/9vx' issued in vx32/src. here's a binary i just compiled: http://mirtchovski.com/p9/9vx.OSX.gz andrey

Re: [9fans] wiki...

2011-05-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 4 May 2011, at 11:40 am, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 04/26/11 12:03, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 24 Apr 2011, at 9:16 am, hiro wrote: In http://plan9.bell-labs.com/robots.txt you will find: User-agent: * Disallow: / *facepalm* I wondered if this was the case; didn't think to check

Re: [9fans] Additional compilers under 9vx.OSX

2011-05-04 Thread ron minnich
what's weird is I'm just not seeing any of these problems. Good fun. ron

Re: [9fans] 9vx Binary for Mac OS X

2011-05-04 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 4 May 2011, at 3:00 pm, andrey mirtchovski wrote: it should be as simple as 'make 9vx/9vx' issued in vx32/src. knowing the right make target was the stumbling block for me too, a few months ago. I'm thinking it should be documented. the ADVENTURE file gives wrong instructions (cd src;

Re: [9fans] wiki...

2011-05-04 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 04 of May 2011 17:37:41 Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > On 4 May 2011, at 11:40 am, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: > > On 04/26/11 12:03, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > >> On 24 Apr 2011, at 9:16 am, hiro wrote: > >>> In http://plan9.bell-labs.com/robots.txt you will find: > >>> > >>> User-age

Re: [9fans] 9vx Binary for Mac OS X

2011-05-04 Thread Brian L. Stuart
> > it should be as simple as 'make 9vx/9vx' issued in > vx32/src. > > knowing the right make target was the stumbling block for > me too, a few months ago. I'm thinking it should be > documented. the ADVENTURE file gives wrong instructions (cd > src; make; make install) That's what makes it an A

Re: [9fans] 9vx Binary for Mac OS X

2011-05-04 Thread Bakul Shah
On Wed, 04 May 2011 08:00:59 MDT andrey mirtchovski wrote: > it should be as simple as 'make 9vx/9vx' issued in vx32/src. > > here's a binary i just compiled: > > http://mirtchovski.com/p9/9vx.OSX.gz Here are some instructions I sent someone last week which may be of help: # Note: UNTESTED b

Re: [9fans] 9vx Binary for Mac OS X

2011-05-04 Thread Bakul Shah
On Wed, 04 May 2011 09:56:30 PDT Bakul Shah wrote: > # I assume people know how to install pythong and mercurial! er... I meant python! Pythong seems like something Natassja Kinski wore in the eighties.

Re: [9fans] lenovo or other laptop support

2011-05-04 Thread Aharon Robbins
In article <271f1d4632de477f20e2dfe627cfd...@brasstown.quanstro.net> you write: >at coraid, we're considering asking new hires use ed for >a week exclusively. As the only real Unix/Linux expert at my previous company, I used to tell people that the way to really learn to become comfortable as a co

Re: [9fans] lenovo or other laptop support

2011-05-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed May 4 15:32:42 EDT 2011, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > In article <271f1d4632de477f20e2dfe627cfd...@brasstown.quanstro.net> you > write: > >at coraid, we're considering asking new hires use ed for > >a week exclusively. > > As the only real Unix/Linux expert at my previous company, I used to

Re: [9fans] wiki...

2011-05-04 Thread smiley
dexen deVries writes: > I believe we need an ``Allow: /'' below the long list of `Disallows' in the > User-agent: Googlebot, User-agent: msnbot section. Otherwise, only the final > ``Disallow: /'' matches, and in effecet, every robot is cut off. I rather like mine own robots.txt (http://www.ic

Re: [9fans] lenovo or other laptop support

2011-05-04 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
>> >at coraid, we're considering asking new hires use ed for >> >a week exclusively. sam -d allowed? :) -- vs