Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm still voting for touch interface Not to be pedantic, but note that there isn't any voting here. Students come up with a proposal for something they'd be interested in working on for the summer, and the prospective mentors order them and fill however many slots we get (short version). I'd

Re: [9fans] GSoC proposal: Alternative window system

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
given that that port was done many releases of ios ago, it is likly that a different step 0 would be required: bring the ios drawterm port back to life. Certainly. It doesn't currently build. Old binaries start up but quickly crash. From memory, I don't believe keyboard input currently works.

[9fans] GSoC: ~2 days left to apply!

2014-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: If you're thinking about applying to GSoC, do it quick: students have just over two days to apply. The application period ends at 19:00 UTC this Friday. We're seeing some really excellent proposals. Prospective mentors, if you've not signed up in Melange yet, you should do

[9fans] GSoC: Potential students and mentors, get going!

2014-03-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: Just a reminder that the student application period is currently open. If you're a student and you're considering spending your summer on Plan 9 or friends, I strongly urge you to get an application in soon. Having an application in the system ensures that mentors can see it with

Re: [9fans] first questions from a lurker

2014-03-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
Welcome to the party. On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:41 , arn...@skeeve.com wrote: 0. How to see my IP address? Cat a file in /net/... somewhere? As Charles said, 'cat /net/ipselftab'. You most likely want the lines with 'u' in the flags filed (third column), which will most likely include just the

Re: [9fans] Raspberry Pi: won't recognize the USB mouse

2014-02-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:31, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan vu3...@gmail.com wrote: Always use a powered hub with the Pi – it can't supply bugger all for power out its USB ports. Thank you Lyndon, Steve and Erik. I will try a powered hub tomorrow and also get another keyboard/mouse. Based on my

[9fans] Plan 9 and friends in GSoC!

2014-02-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
Good news: the list or organizations for this year's Google Summer of Code came out a bit under an hour ago, and we've been accepted! Much thanks to everyone who's helped out, particularly those of you who worked on our ideas page. We can certainly always use more work on the wiki, but if you'd

Re: [9fans] Various distributions

2014-02-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
This is all my read on the situation only. I use 9atom and track the mainline closely, but only casually track 9front. The mainline Plan 9 distribution from Bell Labs is managed very conservatively, from an external point of view. Both 9atom and, later, 9front were started because that didn't

[9fans] GSoC

2014-02-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
Alright folks: the application is nearly done and is looking good, I've refreshed the GSoC pages on our wiki a bit (and am continuing to do so), and created the 2014 ideas page. I'm going to go through recent 9fans traffic and add a few items that've been discussed here, but this is where we

Re: [9fans] Inferno and the Parallella

2014-02-05 Thread Anthony Sorace
I mostly agree with Erik (I don't think it's *quite* as bad as presented, but certainly in the ballpark, and it's worth erring in that direction). In addition, one other thing to note about hardware projects in GSoC: you have to make sure that the student, the mentor, and the backup mentor all

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Anthony Sorace
Yes, I am expecting to put forward an application on our behalf again. It's not as early as you might think: much of the schedule is shifted earlier this year. Org applications open in ~3 weeks. i have some suggestions for projects... would you like to hear them?... Sure. You are, of course,

Re: [9fans] echo -n and zero-length write(2)

2014-01-23 Thread Anthony Sorace
Any suggestion? There is no better answer to this question. You are advised to read The Unix and the Echo[1], by Doug McIlroy, and Russ Cox's adaptation for our system, The Plan 9 and the Echo[2]. If you need different behavior than what's there, you want something other than echo. [1]

Re: [9fans] Vanilla Plan 9 or one of the flavors?

2014-01-06 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:40 , Aram Hăvărneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: and the 9front guys have everything in a hg repo on Google Code 9front exists precisely because the 9front authors considered Plan 9 closed. Using it as an example of openness is the ultimate in hypocrisy. That is not what

Re: [9fans] ssh: non standard port

2014-01-04 Thread Anthony Sorace
Conor wrote: ...i'm trying to get this openssh (for V2) to use port 22... If you don't specifically need the openssh version for some reason, I highly recommend the newer native ssh2 port. In addition to neat features like the /net entry, it is more robust and generally more consistent with the

Re: [9fans] Ideas from Plan-9

2013-12-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Dec 16, 2013, at 16:47 , Blake McBride bl...@mcbride.name wrote: All that is false when you take into account 9Front and 9Atom. I run and highly recommend 9atom, but what you'd said is false even just taking into account the mainline distribution from Bell Labs. It is updated regularly, but

Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult

2013-09-07 Thread Anthony Sorace
I believe the rules are different when the work is research, sponsored by public money. People are getting research grants to work on nix. who is getting grants to work on nix? And how do I get in on that? Someone tell me how to get money for working on nix and this thread becomes useful.

Re: [9fans] html5 canvas, go, devdraw

2013-09-07 Thread Anthony Sorace
You may be interested in what David Hoskin is doing for one of our GSoC projects: https://bitbucket.org/dhoskin/9webdraw He's been producing weekly status updates, which you can follow along with over on the plan9-gsoc google group: http://groups.google.com/group/plan9-gsoc It's

Re: [9fans] 9GridChan

2013-08-27 Thread Anthony Sorace
I think this list and #plan9 on freenode are your best options. I don't believe many people are using the 9gridchan stuff directly at this point, but all the fundamentals are the same as any other Plan 9 system. It may require a bit of poking, but I'm sure folks in one of those two places can help

Re: [9fans] Plan9port file(1) fails to detect OS X binaries

2013-08-22 Thread Anthony Sorace
FWIW, file on Plan 9 knows about these well enough to at least distinguish (386 | amd64 | 32-bit power) Mach-O executables. The plan9 and p9p versions have diverged more than I'd have expected, but it should be easy to import. Anthony

[9fans] plumber support for python lookup

2013-08-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm in the middle of a medium-size python project. It would be really helpful if the plumber could do things like look up things in python's dot notation. Anyone have plumbing rules or helper functions they'd like to share for python work with acme and plumber on p9p? Anthony

Re: [9fans] the mysterious bios change

2013-08-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
Erik's explanation certainly makes sense, but here's an alternative possibility. In the past, I've set up the bios on a system a certain way, then accidentally written to #r/nvram (which isn't really useful on a PC), and had the bios reset to factory defaults. Behavior of the bios after writing

Re: [9fans] How useful is a scroll wheel?

2013-07-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Jul 2, 2013, at 22:18 , Rob Pike robp...@gmail.com wrote: I may be the only person in the world who works like this, and is therefore happy to move not one but two hands off the keyboard to use 2-d input devices. This reminds me of Engelbart's Mother of All Demos, with his mouse and the

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

2013-06-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
I can't find a record of it quickly (mk and D don't lend themselves to helpful searches), but I feel like we had this conversation about a year ago, no? Summary, from my memory: Some people would prefer it, others not. Keeping intermediaries and failed targets around is often helpful for

Re: [9fans] werc performance with rc on linux

2013-06-07 Thread Anthony Sorace
is it decent? Yes!* I wouldn't try to run google or wikipedia on it, but I've run a few small corporate or community sites with werc on unix and it's done fine. Anthony * You haven't defined your terms, so I'm going to assume whatever definition I like.

Re: [9fans] Fossil disk usage over 100%?

2013-06-03 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Jun 3, 2013, at 15:50 , s...@9front.org wrote: Richard mentioned fixing the snapshots bug in fossil. This is about as close as we've come to examining the technical issues. No: this *is* examining the technical issues. Richard has done actual engineering here; it's moderately depressing

Re: [9fans] Public access Plan 9 on VPS (or Pi) available?

2013-05-25 Thread Anthony Sorace
I give out accounts on 9srv (apologies to those in my backlog queue; soon). I'm out of the country for a few days but if you follow the instructions for a request on the wiki I'm happy to help out. That said, I agree with Richard: installing the system is educational. On May 24, 2013, at 7:45,

Re: [9fans] vncv sw cursor trail

2013-05-07 Thread Anthony Sorace
i am using the memdraw from p9p which fixes a number of bad drawing cases. (no more blue pngs.) and i don't use vnc, so it's hard for me to replicate. I use 9atom on the pi daily and vncv often a d have never observed this behavior.

Re: [9fans] Bug in print(2) g verb

2013-03-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Mar 1, 2013, at 10:58, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: This relies on gcc running everywhere p9p runs... s/gcc/sufficiently modern gcc/ I think that's the bigger issue. How far back in time is p9p looking to support platforms from? I have at least one box in the basement with a much

Re: [9fans] Ancient History: Electronic Mail Without Aliases

2013-02-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
Yes, this was all put up in response to Arnold's forwarding my inquiry. I wasn't on the mail where permission for posting was given, so wasn't sure how widely to publicize the delivery. Now that that's all cleared up: much thanks to Arnold for tracking this down (and Mike Lesk, of course). I

Re: [9fans] APE select() and awkward Python subprocess PIPEfitting

2013-02-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Feb 26, 2013, at 10:29, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: 1) You really don’t want to use this. It’s old and slow and only works well on 8-bit displays. I believe that's about the old X11 port. fgb's equis is much newer and nicer (aside from, y'know, X11). That's the one

Re: [9fans] ctags or sth else with acme?

2013-01-17 Thread Anthony Sorace
I ported Exuberant Ctags and added an output format suitable for acme. I'm not at a real computer just now, but I announced it on the list. I believe it's in my contrib directory, /n/sources/contrib/anothy. On Jan 17, 2013, at 7:50, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'd

Re: [9fans] pi vs. older mac keyboard

2012-12-11 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'm using a new-ish Apple keyboard here. It works well except that (a) about twice a day or so, the control née caps lock key misses a key up event (tapping it again solves it), and (b) the fn key (and therefore the things accessed by it) does nothing. I originally had all sorts of problems

Re: [9fans] Canonical way to configure permanent remote cpu access

2012-12-10 Thread Anthony Sorace
I think the wear-levelling on these is sufficient that you can run a normal fossil file system for quite a while before it wears out. Or, of course, just don't run a local file system at all. This is Plan 9, after all. Using the fs in the basement has worked great for me throughout. You then

Re: [9fans] Attempts to set timezone don't stick?

2012-11-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Nov 12, 2012, at 21:15 , Phineas Pett phineas.p...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, thanks. The manual has answered a lot of my questions so far, but apparently I need to read more carefully; but still, if I am logged into a remote system in a different time zone, shouldn't my client be able to

Re: [9fans] 9grid?

2012-10-23 Thread Anthony Sorace
That name has referred to at least two, possibly three, distinct and unrelated projects. I don't believe any of them are still ongoing. I also don't think any of them were aimed at becoming what i'd call a production resource. What is it you're looking for?

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

2012-10-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
I suspect it just that we disagree. In the most common case, I don't really care whether such things get deleted. I sometimes very much want them not to be deleted, because they contain interesting information on the failure mode. I don't believe I've ever explicitly wanted them to be deleted.

[9fans] p9p srv files on plan 9

2012-09-15 Thread Anthony Sorace
i'm certain i've seen this, but i can't reproduce it: is there a method for getting the srv files created by p9p in $namespace mounted under plan9? attempting to do so under drawterm objects Operation not supported on socket.

[9fans] p9p's rio on OS X

2012-09-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
Is anyone running p9p's (x11) rio on OS X? I get *very* bad results. Window borders seem to only fill about half their window, and content behaves strangely. See this snippet: http://dalet.strand1.com/buggeredX11.png That's xclock, xman, and an xterm, no other p9p programs; drawterm

Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs

2012-07-17 Thread Anthony Sorace
you don't want plan 9 on an 8 bit machine. Which, of course, doesn't say anything about wanting styx/9p on such a machine. Every time we get to this point in this (recurring) conversation, I'm compelled to make sure everyone has seen the excellent Styx on a Brick paper, describing work to export

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox - Clone

2012-05-31 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 31, 2012, at 0:10, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: This proper English is not the language of the English people... The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like. It

Re: [9fans] Fedex command

2012-05-31 Thread Anthony Sorace
The fedex command (like ups and usps) work by scraping the HTML on the public web site. That changes fairly often, and fedex co need updates each time. It's not terribly difficult, but it's tedious and frequent. I end up tweaking these about every other time I want to track a package. Most

Re: [9fans] Fedex command

2012-05-31 Thread Anthony Sorace
The published APIs didn't seem to lend themselves to a simple screen-scrape. Well, they're mostly XML/SOAP, which is a pain, but they're not too rough as such things go. Certainly they change a lot less than the web pages do, so even if you're just using exactly the same techniques on what's

Re: [9fans] Heresy alert, Zerox - Clone

2012-05-30 Thread Anthony Sorace
This is a bit silly. Zerox here (in the context of acme/Plan 9) has a well-understood meaning. Obvious etymology aside, it's essentially a made-up word here. It's beneficial that it isn't a false cognate to some action, since the behavior is not obvious a priori (in the normal case of xeroxing

Re: [9fans] public accounts for interested folks at 9srv.net

2012-05-25 Thread Anthony Sorace
You did not misunderstand. I'm currently traveling. I return late monday, and will deal with this (and the other similar requests I got) within a day or two thereafter. On May 24, 2012, at 4:31 , John Francis Lee wrote: I wrote a couple of emails to a...@9srv.net but never got a reply ... did I

Re: [9fans] /tmp dissappearance

2012-05-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 20, 2012, at 13:29 , David du Colombier wrote: echo fsys main create /tmp sys sys d775 /srv/fscons turn that /tmp into /active/tmp i think, no? also, for the original question: as a quick hack to get around this, i believe you could run mntgen on / so that /tmp magically shows up when

Re: [9fans] Changing ownership of files or chown is missing

2012-05-20 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 20, 2012, at 10:43 , Burton Samograd wrote: Could somebody explain to me why there is no concept of chown on plan9 and what is the plan9 way around changing the owners and groups of files? Thanks. it's simply not part of the model. we tend to use groups for many things modern unixes

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 19, 2012, at 13:37 , Akshat Kumar wrote: Both upas and nupas die instantly on my mail box. I've gotten tired of filtering through my mail for (n)upas choking hazards. What frail software. I'd be curious what the failures were (and I bet Erik would, too). (o)upas used to have a hard

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-15 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 14, 2012, at 23:57 , Matthew Veety wrote: My 16,000 message inbox usually make nupas and upas shit the bed. I've never had specific messages kill it though. Note that once updating to nupas, you should then (manually) convert your mailbox to the new format. I've had mailboxes of several

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-15 Thread Anthony Sorace
there used to be that `9grid' thingie (can't find much of it anymore), which offered free accounts to anyone who bothered asking. there was a public list of user accounts on some page; IIRC well over 50. some had custom face(7)s. 9grid is a bit of an overloaded term, but I think you're

Re: [9fans] Governance question???

2012-05-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 14, 2012, at 7:54 , IainWS wrote: However things like who handles legal issues in the project, who is the release manager ( if there is going to be another release ), a decision maker - and so on, are some of the answers I am looking for. Is there funding for the project coming from

Re: [9fans] Starting a blog on plan 9

2012-05-08 Thread Anthony Sorace
This looks pretty well done - a good beginner's hands-on view to getting to know the system. In the interest of addressing the resources ... all in one place issue, though, I would encourage you to also contribute to the wiki[1]. I'm not suggesting everything you're putting on your blog belongs

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files onplan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-03 Thread Anthony Sorace
Can anyone please zip the docs and email them to the group? That is almost universally considered very bad form on mailing lists. You already have access to everything you need: the papers are available in HTML, PS, and PDF online: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ and there is a

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
Hi. Do the postscript / PDF files available from http://plan9.bell-labs.com reflect the current state of the system? I'm curious about both the reference manual and the various files from /sys/doc. They do not. I've only verified that the most recent changes are not in there; I can't say how

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
Stick with the source if you have doubts. Actually, that's not even necessary. The online HTML version gets the latest changes. You'll only need the sources if you want to generate PS/PDF explicitly, say for printing. Anthony signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using

Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files on plan9.bell-labs.com?

2012-05-02 Thread Anthony Sorace
Is anyone updating at least the troff versions of the papers? That is, if I go with the source, will I get something (more) current? It varies by paper. Some are updated, some not. The papers on the compiler suite get some updates, but the 8½ paper not. That paper, for example, provides a

Re: [9fans] new arm port: teg2

2012-05-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
Great! Graphics support at this point, or is it still in the cpu server stage? The version on sources, at least, doesn't seem to drive video. There are pretty good notes on what works and what doesn't in that directory, in particular words and notes/*. signature.asc Description: Message

Re: [9fans] How to write drivers for Plan9[Sony Vaio VGN-FZ35]

2012-04-05 Thread Anthony Sorace
I mean can not boot from DVD, I don't know why. You could / should provide more information than this, though. Where in the process does it fail? What messages are printed? Some details on the system (type of disk controller, how and where the DVD is connected, c) might also help. Anthony

Re: [9fans] my plan9 server isn't responding

2012-04-03 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Apr 3, 2012, at 4:38 , Ezequiel Aragon wrote: ipnet=mynet ip=10.0.0.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0 ipgw=10.0.0.1 dns=10.0.0.2 dnsdomain=amarna.net auth=akenaton.amarna.net authdomain=amarna.net cpu=akenaton.amarna.net fs=akenaton.amarna.net This is unusual, at the least.

Re: [9fans] rc: fn name @{block}

2012-03-30 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:19 , Yaroslav wrote: term% fn x @{x=y} term% whatis x fn x {x=y} creates to functions x and '@' definition {x=y}. The question is why it discards @ here? Erik's point is that rc isn't discarding it. You have a list. It sets x equal to that function, then sets @

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012

2012-03-27 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: Friday was the meeting for rejected organizations to get some feedback on their applications and supporting material. I was able to attend on Plan 9's behalf. The news is overall positive, if not terribly satisfying. The folks at Google were quite happy with both our application and

Re: [9fans] Regarding 9p based protocols message framing

2012-03-21 Thread Anthony Sorace
What advantages does it have over TCP? Significantly simpler implementation. Lower overhead, giving better speed over local links. Also, although not an advantage of IL per se, there are a few advantages to Plan 9 having another protocol in the stack, especially one which can run 9p. It helps

Re: [9fans] Regarding 9p based protocols message framing

2012-03-21 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Mar 21, 2012, at 16:27 , erik quanstrom wrote: (in fact, i'd go further than il. why do we need the ip in il?) I'd love to have an IP-free, 9p-capable network in the mix. Plan 9 had this, way back when, with nonet (?), but that didn't survive the removal of the streams system in the 3rd

[9fans] Summer of Plan 9

2012-03-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
Reparenting. So this all makes me wonder why some social aggregation group (aka stack overflow or reddit/programming) or even just a big group of decentralized nerds couldn't just do a variant of GSoC on our own. This is entirely possible. Other organizations who've previously been involved

[9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012

2012-03-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: Unfortunately, Plan 9 was not selected to participate in this year's Summer of Code. There is an upcoming rejected orgs meeting where folks will have the chance to hear (very briefly) why and what can be improved, and I'll try to make that and report back (it hasn't been scheduled

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-03-14 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Mar 14, 2012, at 18:15 , Charles Forsyth wrote: At least in the past, I'm sure I followed a discussion that the summer of code was intended (ie, required) to produce code, not documentation or packaging, although that might have changed. This is true. All projects in GSoC are required to

Re: [9fans] GSoC application ideas page

2012-03-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'd suggest to complete native SSH2 implementation. This has obvious utility, but I'm hesitant to add it without a mentor who can vouch for its suitability for a summer-sized student project, and who'd be willing to mentor a good proposal for it. To me, it seems larger than that, but I'd be

[9fans] GSoC application ideas page

2012-03-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: As of Friday, the GSoC application is in, and as of today, Google's considering who gets the slots. As in years past, an important part of this consideration is the organizations ideas page. I've created one[0] on our wiki specifically for this year and pre-populated it with ones

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-02-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
Do you plan to post some of these simple gsoc2011 tasks on 2012? Yes. I expect to get a short, first draft list of proposed ideas for 2012 projects up some time today (likely late evening my time). I'd expect several from the 2011[1] list will show up again. I'm very interesting to join your

[9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-02-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: The fine folks over at Google's Open Source Programs Office have announced the 2012 edition of Summer of Code. I intend to submit an application for Plan 9 to again participate. I'd like your help in making this year a success. We had one major problem last year. Between

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-02-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Feb 24, 2012, at 11:19 , Calvin Morrison wrote: How can I apply for GSoC as a student? is it to late? It's not too late - it's too early! Mentor organization applications haven't even opened yet. Please review the timeline in point 2 in the FAQ[0]. Anthony [0]

Re: [9fans] current python hg support

2012-02-09 Thread Anthony Sorace
I'd like the newer hg, at a minimum. Our current version has limited my use at times, working with repositories generated by newer versions.

[9fans] Cocoa devdraw in 9vx/drawterm?

2012-02-08 Thread Anthony Sorace
Has anyone started work on taking the (very nice) Cocoa devdraw stuff and making it work with 9vx or drawterm?

Re: [9fans] Smiley's plan9port mod 1 ver. 1.0 released

2012-01-23 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:58 , smi...@icebubble.org wrote: * Finally! A sane solution to the problem of hard-coded paths in the plan9port tree: Most of them have been removed, in favor of a #!/usr/bin/env 9rc approach (which execs 9 rc). The 9 script has been updated with

Re: [9fans] RAID box with plan9 filesystem

2011-12-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
I want to use venti for permanent storage. For temporary storage that might or might not be saved to venti, I don't know, I've been thinking of cwfs. I've heard it's as reliable as kfs, though I never had any issue with any Plan9 filesystem. Make sure you're not confusing kfs with Ken's

Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?

2011-11-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Nov 1, 2011, at 14:15 , smi...@icebubble.org wrote: Anthony Sorace a...@9srv.net writes: I use venti. On servers, I use /n/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/vacbak from cron and have the system submit the score to my plan9 server. I tried using vbackup first, but there's a huge volume

[9fans] OAuth

2011-10-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
i want to do some things which require OAuth. i don't like it, but it's what many folks are doing now and i don't think i can fight it. has anyone looked into this? architecturally, it's not immediately clear to me how much of the http dance out to be in factotum. it could just store access keys.

Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?

2011-10-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Sep 30, 2011, at 13:59, erik quanstrom quans...@labs.coraid.com wrote: backup: 1. power down mac. remove hard drive. 2. stuff drive as one gigantic file into venti. restore: 1. copy your backup onto drive 2. install hard drive. power up mac. In principal, that's roughly what

Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?

2011-10-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Oct 1, 2011, at 14:21 , Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: What you don't know is (most) Macs no longer have Firewire interfaces. This works again with the newest Macs with Thunderbolt. Lest this just be even further off topic, the relevant point here is that beyond erik's unless your

Re: [9fans] OT: how do 9fans backup their Mac(book)?

2011-09-30 Thread Anthony Sorace
Just curious what 9fans use, for home and/or work, to backup their macs. I use venti. On servers, I use /n/sources/contrib/anothy/bin/rc/vacbak from cron and have the system submit the score to my plan9 server. I tried using vbackup first, but there's a huge volume of stuff on these systems I

Re: [9fans] cocoa devdraw

2011-09-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Sep 26, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Russ Cox wrote: I think the only pending Lion issue now is that people using Xcode 4.1 don't have working threads. I haven't tracked that down yet. I suspect the getcontext/setcontext routines in that Xcode are just broken. Do you have reason to believe this

Re: [9fans] cocoa devdraw

2011-09-26 Thread Anthony Sorace
How did you get it? Yes, as Jeff suggested, I got it through the iOS developer channel.

Re: [9fans] my kingdom for a web browser :-P

2011-09-15 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Sep 15, 2011, at 17:31, Lyndon Nerenberg lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: None of these integrate with the native environment. I.e. I can't plumb a URL to Firefox running under the Not out of the box, no. But the plumber's remarkably flexible, and especially if someone had p9p running inside

Re: [9fans] c code differencing

2011-09-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
There's a tool called sim which does some level of what you want. I don't think it's at the level of cleverness you're looking for, but I found it useful for similar tasks. I'm fairly sure I got it from someone on this list, but I can't find the source now (all I've got is a MacOSX/power binary).

Re: [9fans] c code differencing

2011-09-01 Thread Anthony Sorace
Ah, yup. Charles ported sim here: http://www.terzarima.net/plan9/soft/index.html PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [9fans] Help with two small shared file servers

2011-08-17 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Aug 17, 2011, at 6:09 AM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: What's the best option for RAID in Plan9? I understand I can use either Ken's fileserver or the Plan9 '#k' device. note that neither of these are RAID in the way most people expect. failure notification, in particular, can be lacking, and

Re: [9fans] looking for advice for network setup

2011-08-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
What it may be? A connection lose? that'd be my first guess. it is, unfortunately, not uncommon for routers which do NAT (and some corporate firewalls) to close idle connections on you. i used to have a cron script that ran on the NATed system, cpu'd in, did the postroot, and then hung around

Re: [9fans] looking for advice for network setup

2011-08-11 Thread Anthony Sorace
i'm not 100% clear on what you're after, but when i had a similar setup, i wanted to be able to get at my home (NATed) data from work. to do so, i have a script called postroot [1] which, when cpu'd into a server posts the root of the calling terminal as foo.root, where foo is the calling

Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea

2011-07-13 Thread Anthony Sorace
On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:16, Wes Kussmaul w...@authentrus.com wrote: Isn't this a perfect case for letting the user set a parameter, depending upon his/her preference? No. The choice is between two very different user interaction models. Nobody has claimed that having widgets filling what would

[9fans] Realtek 8188/8192 driver?

2011-07-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
anyone have, or working on, a driver for the Realtek 8188ce/8192ce wifi cards? i've recently acquired a thinkpad with one of these in it and would rather be running native plan9 on it. i'll take a stab in august if nobody's started already. PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [9fans] Can't boot from img

2011-07-06 Thread Anthony Sorace
This is not expected to work. The CD is only bootable on 386-ish PCs. In addition, the Mac port is only partly finished and not included in the distribution. On Jul 5, 2011, at 10:39, kuroutadori robbie.bykow...@gmail.com wrote: I have an iMac G3, and decided I was going to abuse it. I have

Re: [9fans] auth change? / auth for u9fs on a mac

2011-07-04 Thread Anthony Sorace
I do what you describe on several macs; it works fine. I haven't updated in a while, but what your describing is my understanding of the standard way to use p9any auth with u9fs. I use a special user created for this purpose as well. On Jul 4, 2011, at 4:53, Steve Simon st...@quintile.net

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Anthony Sorace
Nix (I believe it's just nix) is on bitbucket, npe/nix. I agree it looks interesting, although I've only read the paper and browsed the tree a bit so far. For 9vx, you're going to need to provide some more details about the failure mode. What exactly do you do to try and get it running, what

Re: [9fans] Hey, new to this. Trying to get plan9 to work in a VM.

2011-06-06 Thread Anthony Sorace
Jack Norton said: Personally I'd like to see work put into the Plan 9 wiki backend. Good thing there's a Summer of Code project for that! The student is looking to upgrade the format of stored documents and the html generation from it. Should make it much more useful. Greg Comeau asked:

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-24 Thread Anthony Sorace
geoff had a version of xfig... wow, my memory sucks. i'm now pretty sure that (1) this was actually xpic, not xfig, and more importantly, (2) i think we were running this on a solaris box in the lab and only displaying locally to the old plan9 x11. sorry a PGP.sig Description: This is a

Re: [9fans] pic

2011-05-23 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 23, 2011, at 18:56, Steve Simon wrote: xfig + transfig - feels a bit like a patch on a patch and, being modern unix code would (no doubt) include configure hell... geoff had a version of xfig running on 3ed years ago. i can try to dig it up if you want to go that route. i

Re: [9fans] Can we run Plan 9 on WD My Book Live [PowerPC] architecture?

2011-05-19 Thread Anthony Sorace
you've got a very good shot at running p9p on it - p9p is already known to run on some linux ppc platform. with any luck, it should just work. native plan9 will be some work. john points to the Blue Gene kernel (which you can get somewhere, but as i understand it isn't quite a stock plan9

[9fans] 9vx w/ tun/tap on OS X?

2011-05-18 Thread Anthony Sorace
has anyone gotten this working? i've got the 3rd-party tun/tap kexts installed (i believe; the devices show up in /dev), but 9vx is unhappy. my config file contains: ether0=type=tap dev=/dev/tap0 9vx complains with: 9vx panic: fd 5 read -1 (when running as superuser, which i

[9fans] toy: pseudo-sparklines

2011-05-16 Thread Anthony Sorace
Edward Tufte's sparklines[0] are a wonderful way of representing a wide variety of data in word-like spaces. You can't use them in text-only places, though, leading some folks to come up (very rough) approximations using unicode characters[1]. They're a poor shadow of the real thing, but can still

Re: [9fans] exportfs / u9fs / v9fs / npfs / spfs versus 9vx

2011-05-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
i use u9fs regularly; i install it on any unix machine i'm required to care about. these days that's only os x boxes, and the source in the distribution builds without issue for me there. i can dig up the configuration if that'd be helpful, but it's for launchd (apple's inetd replacement). i

Re: [9fans] exportfs / u9fs / v9fs / npfs / spfs versus 9vx

2011-05-12 Thread Anthony Sorace
On May 12, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Steve Simon wrote: I put the OSX launchd ritual on the wiki a couple of years ago. and here it is: http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/9pfs.plist/index.html a PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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