Re: [9fans] awk reading?

2011-12-25 Thread Jeremy Jackins
> Abebooks has a great listing of books and for relatively good prices. They > offer a wide selection of used books as well. I've managed to grab my own > copy of K &  R :) > > Calvin Morrison Another good one is alibris.com, I've grabbed a few Kernighan titles from there including The UNIX Progra

Re: [9fans] awk reading?

2011-12-25 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 25 December 2011 11:35, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > Winston Kodogo wrote: > > I resisted buying > > it for years, on the grounds of its extraordinary price on Amazon, > > succumbed eventually, and have never regretted it. > > I buy my books on abebooks. I've bought many gems for $0.99. Looking

Re: [9fans] awk reading?

2011-12-25 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Winston Kodogo wrote: > I resisted buying > it for years, on the grounds of its extraordinary price on Amazon, > succumbed eventually, and have never regretted it. I buy my books on abebooks. I've bought many gems for $0.99. Looking at the books I've bought, the average price I payed is $4. Yes

Re: [9fans] RAID box with plan9 filesystem

2011-12-25 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Anthony Sorace wrote: > Make sure you're not confusing kfs with Ken's file server, sometimes > (confusingly) called "kenfs". [...] > Ken's file server is extremely solid, and I believe cwfs is comparable > (although I don't have nearly as much experience with it). kfs is much less > so; I've had it

Re: [9fans] Intel X4500 Integrated Graphics support

2011-12-25 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
Stanley Lieber wrote: > erik quanstrom wrote: >> i think most people are using vesa.  unfortunately >> that limits one to 4:3 graphics modes. > > Some card/monitor combinations seem to support other aspect ratios > that are technically outside of the VESA spec I confirm, I use 1920x1280x32 with ve