Re: [9fans] Hi from a new fan

2011-11-12 Thread L N
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com wrote: Just like to take a quick moment to say hello to the list and introduce myself. Hi there! =D For roughly the last 6 years or so, I've been picking away at Atomic OS - a metaphorical OS / abstraction layer for web

Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-11 Thread L N
And look at it this way: delegation helps the economy by employing people and selling processors and memory :-) http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/7/109885-the-case-for-ramcloud/fulltext

[9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-08 Thread L N
Anyone know the state of the art of writing 9p clients/servers in tcl? - Leonard

Re: [9fans] tcl, 9p

2011-10-08 Thread L N
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: I believe the state of the art is not to use tcl. :-) I'm having fun writing 9p clients in Go. Russ Sure, tcl isn't as popular as Go right now. Still, tcl is appealing in some ways. http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html Was

Re: [9fans] plan9port compilation

2011-09-20 Thread L N
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:00 AM, David du Colombier 0in...@gmail.comwrote: You did not install the libX11-devel package on your distribution. -- David du Colombier Ok thanks.

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-15 Thread L N
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis eeke...@fastmail.fmwrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:41:29 -0400 L N leonardne...@gmail.com wrote: The goal should be a Plan 9 distro that runs natively on AMD-64, and can open a web-browser. That goal is a target moving at approximately

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-14 Thread L N
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:57 PM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 2:55 PM, s s leonardne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: Or use xpdf -rv Although I use it for exactly the opposite purpose. How come no

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-14 Thread L N
ah, now I see :-) http://www.clipartguide.com/_named_clipart_images/0511-0701-3117-1335_Skeleton_Behind_a_Business_Desk_clipart_image.jpg ron Maybe. The web-browser really is a deal-breaker, though. I really enjoyed reading about Plan 9, first at plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/, and later at

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-14 Thread L N
I think you have seriously misapprehended many things about Plan 9. What am I misapprehending? We don't have X. We are not Linux compatible, although there's a rather decent Linux emulator. There is no GTK, no Qt, no Firefox, no modern C++ compiler. I don't need X, Linux compatibility,

Re: [9fans] Nemo book

2011-09-14 Thread L N
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:33 PM, ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com wrote: Although for my money abaco is still really neat ... ron I wonder if I can get abaco to display pages with a high-contrast-inverse theme. :] - Leonard