Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-18 Thread Andy Spencer
On 2013-03-18 12:09, Peter A. Cejchan wrote: > could anyone recommend (personal experience would be nice) a VGA card > that can support 1920x1200 mode on native Plan 9 from Bell Labs (from > Bell Labs ;-) ? I used to use a Dell M70 laptop with a 1920x1200 display. It had an "Nvidia Quadro FX Go 14

Re: [9fans] mk: the `D' attribute

2012-10-09 Thread Andy Spencer
On 2012-10-09 10:02, dexen deVries wrote: > GNU make's manual states, ``This [[removal of target on error]] is > almost always what you want `make' to do I'm don't think GNU Make has ever correctly predicted what I want `make' to do. Besides that, I think there could be problems if you have an ex

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread Andy Spencer
On 2011-10-05 07:55, s...@9p.sdf.org wrote: > I found this: > > http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/surface/stations.txt > > It also has the new LGX station and looks to be very well maintained. > It is also mirrored by noaa.gov. And its not just US stations, does > that help? (Please excuse my ignor

Re: [9fans] `mk` (from Plan9 ports) efficiency related issue

2011-01-17 Thread Andy Spencer
On 2011-01-17 19:31, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > * not all files of the same type are built by using the same rule; > (for example for some files I want to enable debugging, for others > not); thus I don't see how a meta-rule would solve this problem; > (unless I create separate `mk` files o

Re: [9fans] cleaning up gentoo plan9port ebuild

2010-03-04 Thread Andy Spencer
> * Gentoo's plan9port also sets DEPEND="x11-apps/xauth". Is xauth a > build or runtime dependency? I think it would be a runtime dependency, xauth pulls in all the X11 libraries so you can X forward the GUIs from a headless machine. On the other hand, most of my binaries seem to be statically l

Re: [9fans] dataflow programming from shell interpreter

2010-01-19 Thread Andy Spencer
> Is this possible for UNIX philosophy to develop further? Let's say, > XML-coded trees or graphs instead of one-line strings in stdin/ > stdout.Or LISP S-expressions. New set of utilities for filtering such > streams, grep for XML trees, etc. Building environment for dataflow > programming from sh

Re: [9fans] dataflow programming from shell interpreter

2010-01-19 Thread Andy Spencer
> This is always somthing I have wanted to do for video stream > processing, writeing a limited proceedural language which can be > refactored as a dataflow graph for efficent implementation (of video > processing). This sounds a lot like how GStreamer operates. An example from the gst-launch manp

Re: [9fans] rc.vim rc shell vim syntax file

2009-12-03 Thread Andy Spencer
> This vim syntax file is made for the rc for unix port. Though I think > it will also be helpful for rc on plan9 since the syntax is quite > similar. Hey weakish, I've been working on a similar syntax file for a little while but I guess I forgot to post it to 9fans.. I've been going off rc(1) fr

Re: [9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-19 Thread Andy Spencer
> I'd like to check this out, but the server doesn't want to > talk to me. Is there a copy available elsewhere? Oops, that's rather embarrassing, sorry about that, that server has a few issues (oddly enough, it's sysvinit is broken). I posted tarball for the time begin at http://andy753421.ath.cx/

Re: [9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-16 Thread Andy Spencer
> Great idea, I like it :) I'll have a look at the code later. > You're using it on old unix/linux not plan 9 I guess? thanks. Yep, I'm running it on my ~4 year old laptop. I'm curious to see how it would compare on something newer though. I think it would still be I/O bound, so I'm not sure ho

[9fans] Booting with mk

2009-10-15 Thread Andy Spencer
My friend Mike and I were talking a while back about Unix init systems and came to the conclusion that mk's dependency tracking could come in handy. I decided to implement it a few days ago using plan9port and thought that some of the folks here might be interested. Although, I still haven't decide

Re: [9fans] PCMCIA Ethernet

2008-09-17 Thread Andy Spencer
> Of course, if someone has a hidden broadcom driver lying around, that > would obviate the need for the pcmcia card...:-) There's is some code laying around for Broadcom 570x cards: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/uriel/mirror/bc.tgz I've been trying to get that working on a computer

Re: [9fans] plan9.ini

2008-08-07 Thread Andy Spencer
> Can anyone tell me how to make a system boot up completely w/o > operator interaction? After the default install adding nobootprompt= and user= to plan9.ini