Re: [9fans] Returning to Plan 9: Virtualization, Distributions

2011-11-27 Thread Lucio De Re
I seem to remember a problem with booting Plan 9 in Virtualbox after the install; you have to disable the CDROM device to make it boot. I think it was Virtualbox. VMware has that problem. Caught me a few times. ++L

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread yy
2011/11/21 Jens Staal staal1...@gmail.com: What I would like to know is if you can boot a plan9 system from iso via 9vx as persistent partition whereas changes are saved to another directory (so basically setting up a union mount between the iso and a directory) - alternatively specifying an

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread Jens Staal
On 11/27/11 14:39, yy wrote: 2011/11/21 Jens Staalstaal1...@gmail.com: What I would like to know is if you can boot a plan9 system from iso via 9vx as persistent partition whereas changes are saved to another directory (so basically setting up a union mount between the iso and a directory) -

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread Dan Cross
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:32 PM, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: /lib/mainkampf is part of an ongoing project to make venti sha-1 hashes easy to remember by translating them into hitler-speeches. It's also, frankly, offensive.

Re: [9fans] Forks of Plan 9 (Was: 9vx instability)

2011-11-27 Thread Charles Forsyth
once 64-bit plan 9 (in whatever guise) is stable, you might just as well use that for SSE. i did think about putting the 6c changes back into 8c, but there are still x86-32 systems that offer only 387s. mind you, with an SSE [subset] emulator to replace fp387.c, those systems might just as well

[9fans] acme: copy selection to new window

2011-11-27 Thread Jacek Masiulaniec
In plan9port acme, I'd like a command to copy selected text into new window. Here's rc implementation: % cat /tmp/copy #!/usr/bin/env rc . $PLAN9/lib/acme.rc winctl 'addr=dot' winread data /tmp/selection @{        newwindow        cat /tmp/selection | winwrite body } % Consider the scenario:

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread Stanley Lieber
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Skip Tavakkolian skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com wrote: this reasoning is so ridiculous that i have to believe you're trolling. the U.S. Constitution has been the foundation for the rule of law in this country for 200+ years, and the Gettysburg address honored the

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Dan Cross wrote: On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:32 PM, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: /lib/mainkampf is part of an ongoing project to make venti sha-1 hashes easy to remember by translating them into hitler-speeches. It's also, frankly, offensive. I think 'disgusting'

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread Iruatã Souza
I like some of the fun in 9front, /lib/theo in special, and I dislike the idea of having the US constitution in /lib. But my point is that I think it is a little bit too much having Mein Kampf in there. It seems to me some people needed attention and adding such a disgusting text to the tree was

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread Dan Cross
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Dan Cross wrote: On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:32 PM,  cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: /lib/mainkampf is part of an ongoing project to make venti sha-1 hashes easy to remember by translating them into

[9fans] silly 6a question

2011-11-27 Thread erik quanstrom
is there any way without resorting to machine code to generate the (intel-named) MOVDQ (AX), X0// move 16-bytes into X0 by the way, it's easy to get the upper double-quad of X0 from acid acid: *X0+8\Y (groans from the back?) probablly not. you already knew that. -

Re: [9fans] silly 6a question

2011-11-27 Thread Charles Forsyth
/sys/doc/asm.ms Some instructions use .CW O (`octword') for 128-bit values, where the processor handbook variously uses .CW O or .CW DQ . The assembler also consistently uses .CW PL for `packed long' in XMM instructions, instead of .CW Q , .CW DQ or .CW PI . MOVO seems to be available. On 27

Re: [9fans] silly 6a question

2011-11-27 Thread erik quanstrom
thanks! i missed that. - erik

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread hiro
Mein Kampf was clearly not included to promote Nazi ideals, as Germans (who are probably the target audience) aren't even allowed to possess this book. So in practice the joke punishes every law-abiding German citizen by disallowing them to download 9front.

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread Andrés Domínguez
2011/11/27 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: I suspect one of the reasons why 9front exists is because some people in the Plan 9 community this days seem to take themselves and the whole project a bit too seriously. Which is kind of weird for a project called after an Ed Wood film.

Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

2011-11-27 Thread Anthony Martin
cinap_len...@gmx.de once said: /lib/mainkampf is part of an ongoing project to make venti sha-1 hashes easy to remember by translating them into hitler-speeches. Well now that it's gone, how about using excerpts from Industrial Society and its Future? I can send a patch to add /lib/kaczynski.