Re: [9fans] List of companies that use Plan 9.

2024-05-14 Thread John the Scott
finding nothing on google for Nantahala. any links? -john On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 3:42 AM wrote: > > Thank you, Sirjofri, nice idea. > > There are two private U.S. companies that are investing, developing, and > using a closed source Plan 9 distribution called ᴁOS (aka ᴁ9).

Re: [9fans] acme and sam - mouse suggestions?

2022-01-27 Thread John Floren
My daily mouse is a Logitech 3-button mouse plugged into a PS2-USB adapter. Obviously they're not making them anymore but I've managed to acquire a bunch over the years. It's sturdy and works fine. https://www.ebay.com/itm/384628597228 john Original Message On Jan 27, 2022

Re: [9fans] Transfer of Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation

2021-03-31 Thread John Floren
s for what to do about a hypothetical patch rewriting a kernel function that someone mailed to Bell Labs in 2003, well, I don't know. john On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:38 AM wrote: > > Nobody is disgruntled (that we know about). The code under discussion > in Richard Miller's contributed bcm

Re: [9fans] Can compile Plan9 C compiler for windows10?

2021-03-29 Thread John Floren
hange and we ended up deciding that since the Go compilers were being maintained specifically to compile Go, it wouldn't be a good idea to hitch our wagon to them lest they make some Go-focused changes which break our stuff. john -- 9fans: 9fans

Re: [9fans] p9f.org https times out

2021-03-23 Thread John Floren
It's been quite responsive over http; I think the main issue is that people automatically write "https" in links these days and I'm not sure p9f.org ever had HTTPS set up. I remember trying it weeks back when Ron first announced it, wasn't able to connect with HTTPS back then either. jo

[9fans] Plan 9 troff paper size solution

2021-02-02 Thread John A.
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Re: [9fans] Terminal possibliities...

2016-09-30 Thread John Weaver
not explored yet are 1) running a local build and binding $home from the vps or using the vps as a cpu server. -- john weaver -- jwea...@ehzed.com On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Chris McGee wrote: It would be interesting to hear how this works out in practice. The bandwidth requirement is probably so low

Re: [9fans] 9fans Digest, Vol 135, Issue 6

2015-07-05 Thread John Weaver
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Re: [9fans] Welcome to the 9fans mailing list

2014-08-13 Thread John Francis Lee
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Re: [9fans] Welcome to the 9fans mailing list

2014-08-13 Thread John Francis Lee
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Re: [9fans] file server speed

2014-07-16 Thread john francis lee
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Re: [9fans] file server speed

2014-07-16 Thread john francis lee
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Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)

2013-12-03 Thread john francis lee
On 12/03/2013 11:47 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: On 3 December 2013 16:04, lu...@proxima.alt.za mailto:lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: To keep the Go distribution honest? Eventually, we'd want as much convergence as possible, forking the library would make it easier to diverge without

Re: [9fans] 64-bit usb boot environment

2013-10-21 Thread john francis lee
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Re: [9fans] 64-bit usb boot environment

2013-10-21 Thread john francis lee
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Re: [9fans] Moderator's Note: comp.os.plan9 Newsgroup.

2013-07-15 Thread john francis lee
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Re: [9fans] [RQ]: plan9 native 1920x1200 VGA recommendation

2013-03-19 Thread John Floren
ht=2160 | vrs=1201 vre=1204 vt=1250 | hsync=+ vsync=+ Here's the process I used to moderate success: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/adding_a_monitor_to_vgadb/ Worked with a Syncmaster 240T, which was 1920x1200. john

Re: [9fans] ANTS: Better in every single way than standard plan 9. Stop using p9p.

2013-03-17 Thread John Floren
Look. I'm sorry nobody commented when you posted your software. I'm sorry you and Eric et al. were working on sorta similar things at the same time. But can you cut it out with the fucking nuclear meltdowns all over this list? And fix your email client so it replies to threads properly? john

Re: [9fans] Can you pass the Advanced Namespace Test?

2013-03-16 Thread John Stalker
the world works. Anyway, no clue who made it to the end of this wall of text, but thanks if you did. You're welcome. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282

Re: [9fans] The PATENTED IBM MULTI-PIPE : the evolution of unix pipes

2013-03-15 Thread John Floren
and/or iosrv can do barriers and reduces and I just missed that part? john

Re: [9fans] The PATENTED IBM MULTI-PIPE : the evolution of unix pipes

2013-03-15 Thread John Floren
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:17 AM, mycrof...@sphericalharmony.com wrote: John Floren wrote: I probably didn't read the iosrv and hubfs stuff well enough, but multi-pipes are not like gnu screen--unless hubfs and/or iosrv can do barriers and reduces and I just missed that part? The connection

[9fans] what are people using for IRC these days

2013-03-15 Thread John Floren
that posted a file in /srv, supported multiple channels, etc., but also tended to gobble up a lot of cpu time when I'd start a new instance of the client. Server authentication would be useful for authenticating to my bouncer too. john

Re: [9fans] Acme/Mail with plan9ports in Mac OS

2013-03-09 Thread John Floren
This is just a guess, but what does your $PATH look like? On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Rubén Berenguel ru...@mostlymaths.net wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying (just for the sake of getting it to work!) to read my (imap) mail via acme from plan9ports. I got the mail file server started in my

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 ARM questions

2013-03-08 Thread John Floren
xcpu is cool, but it doesn't really have anything to do with either of his questions besides being generally related to HPC. I don't see why you couldn't make linuxemu portable, Ron did something similar to run CNK binaries on Bluegene. john On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Bence Fábián beg

Re: [9fans] new fork?

2013-02-27 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:36 PM, hiro 23h...@gmail.com wrote: http://plan10.tumblr.com/ I'll set up the wiki

Re: [9fans] c compiler bug

2013-02-21 Thread John Floren
I think his mail client is just too world-class, breathtaking, amazing, and fabulous--have you tried it? On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM, hiro 23h...@gmail.com wrote: can you please stop sending html mails? thanks On 2/21/13, Comeau At9Fans comeauat9f...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 18,

Re: [9fans] c compiler bug

2013-02-21 Thread John Floren
it should send HTML. I seem to have figured out how to make it always send plain-text, but unfortunately I can't remember how exactly I did that. john

Re: [9fans] going too far?

2013-02-18 Thread John Floren
Process 3345 attached (waiting for parent) Process 3345 resumed (parent 3344 ready) [pid 3344] open(/proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 3344] open(/home/john/mygo/src/github.com/floren/ellipsoid, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 [pid 3344] open(/home/john/mygo/src/github.com/floren

Re: [9fans] ppxeload nix

2013-02-07 Thread John Floren
a good place to get the source. There are other forks too, such as Erik's 9atom which distributes basically the same source as you can find on lsub.org (because he wrote a lot of the patches for the lsub fork) john

Re: [9fans] iwp9 2013 dates set

2013-01-21 Thread John Floren
feasible? It's a pretty long drive from Atlanta to Athens. Get a hotel in Athens, or use Airbnb, or something, or else you'll spend 2+ hours a day hating yourself as you sit in traffic. john

[9fans] PBSR...EI

2013-01-14 Thread John Floren
lately and don't remember ever seeing it when I last installed from CD (about 2 years ago). John

Re: [9fans] PBSR...EI

2013-01-14 Thread John Floren
tomorrow. Have you ever considered hosting the iso on a faster server? It's kind of harsh to wait 2 hours every time there's an update. john

Re: [9fans] PBSR...EI

2013-01-14 Thread John Floren
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:54 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: I'm about an hour and a half into downloading 9atom, with about a half hour to go. I'll probably be able to report on my progress tomorrow. Have you ever considered hosting the iso on a faster server? It's kind of

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread John Floren
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:48 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Sun Jan 13 13:45:52 EST 2013, charles.fors...@gmail.com wrote: Blue Gene hard to fit in the basement. - erik I don't know about the /Q's A2 processors, but you could at one point buy PPC440 development

Re: [9fans] big endian plan 9 machine?

2013-01-13 Thread John Floren
pouring time/money down a hole. Sparc64 appears to still be available, although only as expensive server hardware? john

[9fans] a disk filesystem for both Plan 9 and Linux?

2013-01-11 Thread John Floren
missing any options for filesystems that are supported by both Linux and Plan 9? Can anyone comment on the reliability/usefulness of ext2srv? john

Re: [9fans] a disk filesystem for both Plan 9 and Linux?

2013-01-11 Thread John Floren
doesnt support jurnaling. -- cinap Someone mentioned that 9front has a 32-bit FAT implementation, is that right? If so, it would probably be the best contender. john

Re: [9fans] a disk filesystem for both Plan 9 and Linux?

2013-01-11 Thread John Floren
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:52 PM, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: dossrv always had fat32 support. you'r probably refering to disk/format, 9bootfat and pbs which do support fat32 now in 9front. -- cinap Thanks, you're entirely right, I was thinking of disk/format. john

Re: [9fans] 9atom

2013-01-06 Thread John Floren
misconfigured plan9.ini. john

Re: [9fans] 9atom

2013-01-05 Thread John Floren
the kernel as an ELF file. This means, of course, that you'll have to make do with default configuration options or hard-code the options, since GRUB doesn't read plan9.ini. john

Re: [9fans] 9atom

2013-01-05 Thread John Floren
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Rox 64 mrox...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really want to deal with ELF binaries and Grub... I will try 9front and if its bootloader works then I will use it against vanilla Plan 9. I merely suggest GRUB because it seems like most of the time, if I can get through

Re: [9fans] 9atom

2013-01-04 Thread John Floren
. - erik If you check out the Go source and don't find any build framework for Plan 9, you may need to check out the current repo tip to get it. That's what I did when I installed Go, but it was months ago so YMMV. john

Re: [9fans] 9atom

2013-01-04 Thread John Floren
which contain a full fossil filesystem; you can start the installation from there. In fact, I had made a 32-bit bootable USB stick for Nix about a year ago and included a script to start the installation, I'll see if I can find it. john

Re: [9fans] 9atom

2013-01-04 Thread John Floren
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:26 AM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Rox 64 mrox...@gmail.com wrote: Hu guys. Will Plan 9/9atom/9front run on a EEE 1005HA? I have that same netbook. One of your big challenges will probably be getting the CDROM to boot

Re: [9fans] build iso's plan9 for amd64, atom, arm, powerpc

2013-01-02 Thread John Floren
from there (Erik, have you done this yet?). I've never even SEEN an ARM system with a CD-ROM, and it's uncertain if a given ARM system's bootloader will support booting from a USB CD-ROM drive; it's just not how OSes are installed on ARM! john On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Francesco Cardi

Re: [9fans] iwp9 2013

2012-11-20 Thread John Floren
Evidently decided by the Plan 9 Cabal... sp9sss has competition! Or it came up at Dublin and the rest of us missed it, whichever one :) john On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Matthew Veety mve...@gmail.com wrote: Yes you did.

Re: [9fans] iwp9 2013

2012-11-20 Thread John Floren
It means that the football hooligans will be out of town rather than filling all the hotels and drinking all the beer. I'm told that Athens during a college football game is truly a sight to see. (From a distance. On closed-circuit camera. In a bunker) john On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Aram

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

2012-11-12 Thread John Floren
copy the file over, and then presumably reboot to get everything set properly. The following also failed: cat /adm/timezone/US_Central /adm/timezone/local Did you reboot after doing this? John

Re: [9fans] Newbie question: I have a plan9 system running on

2012-11-05 Thread John Floren
ahead and ask the question--it looks like you forgot it in your first email! john

Re: [9fans] Kernel panic when allocating a huge memory

2012-11-02 Thread John Floren
kernel hacking, because the kernel in general is pleasant to work with. john

Re: [9fans] bell stuff off line ?

2012-10-31 Thread John Floren
Asking the same question 3 times in as many minutes will not get any faster answer john On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:10 AM, kali.m...@web.de wrote: hi, i just tried to get to the plan9 stuff at plan9.bell-labs.com and the google DNS doesnt even resolve the name. i know that it could

Re: [9fans] rc vs sh

2012-10-25 Thread John Floren
. Don't use Ubuntu. -- Veety I think that was the joke. john

Re: [9fans] 9grid?

2012-10-23 Thread John Floren
in /sys/src/9/ip that has a hard limit on the # of concurrent connections IIRC. I'd post the code for the server I wrote, but it was written as part of work so I can't. Still, it's not hard to put together a server which responds only to a GET. john

Re: [9fans] off-topic: why linux lost the desktop

2012-10-18 Thread John Floren
: http://i.imgur.com/Wtm16.png john

Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-17 Thread John Floren
and be the equivalent of -m. - erik You can also use a boot.fs kernel, so you can define the startup in an rc script. Very convenient, I used it to set up our cpu/auth/fileserver to use a Coraid AoE device for Venti. John

[9fans] drawterm to a cpu server without authentication

2012-08-08 Thread John Floren
. Is there a way to boot a cpu server such that it will just accept connections from anyone, without authentication? Sort of like how you can connect to sources as none, except for cpu. john

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 technical docs and man pages - licensed or public domain?

2012-07-24 Thread John Floren
is not subject to copyright; if you implement the 9P API, you should be fine. Also, since you're doing a free reimplementation of code which is currently available free to everyone by the creators (Lucent), I have a hard time figuring out exactly what basis they'd have for a lawsuit. john

[9fans] higher-end compute server recommendations?

2012-07-24 Thread John Floren
along these lines, please let me know. I'd most like to see lots of cores and lots of RAM, I don't even want storage (we've got other methods for storage). Thanks, John

Re: [9fans] higher-end compute server recommendations?

2012-07-24 Thread John Floren
, john, i've had incredible luck with intel servers from supermicro for general beat-about servers. just as a quick suggestion, i'd look at this server here. http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/6017/SYS-6017R-WRF.cfm with 8-core socket-r cpus, you can have 32 cores and 128gb of memory

Re: [9fans] Can't mk CONF=9pcdisk -- gives error

2012-07-23 Thread John Floren
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Kyle Laracey kalara...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:48:06 PM UTC-4, John Floren wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, erik quanstrom lt;quans...@quanstro.netgt; wrote: gt;gt; But as Federico mentioned, you might not want pcdisk--that#39;s

Re: [9fans] Can't mk CONF=9pcdisk -- gives error

2012-07-19 Thread John Floren
might not want pcdisk--that's for running with a kfs root, which isn't officially supported any more. If you were looking at the 3e guide, that might explain it. These days, for a terminal, you probably want pcf (pc + fossil). john

Re: [9fans] Can't mk CONF=9pcdisk -- gives error

2012-07-19 Thread John Floren
when you're done working. John

Re: [9fans] plan9port rio and keyboard shortcuts

2012-07-10 Thread John Floren
window managers a year in search of WM nirvana. I love using rio on Plan 9, but I'm not entirely convinced it is best-suited for the way I use Unix. Some day I may write my own WM, but today is not that day. john

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-11 Thread John Floren
tradition, start talking about a port to some hardware platform that's been dead for over 5 years. SPARC64 et al are sorta played out by now, but I've got a PDP-11 just sitting around... john

Re: [9fans] dejavu sans

2012-06-11 Thread John Floren
coverage for all my uses. The biggest challenge with Plan 9 fonts is getting the heights right; often converted ttfs will have the bottom of g and a lot of the non-ASCII characters cut off at either top or bottom. john

Re: [9fans] Mini PCs

2012-06-11 Thread John Floren
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Nick LaForge nicklafo...@gmail.com wrote: sadly, the 10/100 ethernet is provided through a flakey usb hub I think the 'cheap arm dev board' bandwagon will always suffer in this regard, since the phones these SoCs were designed for don't even come close to

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

2012-05-30 Thread John Floren
Just when you thought every bikeshed had been painted... On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Lucio De Re lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: (Trolling unintentional) The misspelling of Xerox in Acme has bugged me for a long time.  I want to suggest that we change it to Clone.  Votes? ++L

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

2012-05-30 Thread John Floren
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 May 2012 11:25, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: Or Dop (short for Doppelgänger). dop.  dop!  make it stop! i can't not will not have a dop! - erik copy? That surely won't be confused with

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

2012-05-24 Thread John Francis Lee
like tip9ug's faces page, but haven't gotten there yet. Anthony -- This message may have been intercepted and read by U.S. government agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA and/or the present government of Thailand without notice or warrant or knowledge of sender or recipient. John

Re: [9fans] 9front: Support for encrypted partitions (in development, needs documentation)

2012-05-18 Thread John Floren
9front has a mailing list, that's probably the best place to ask these kind of things. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Burton Samograd burton.samog...@gmail.com wrote: The features list of 9front has the subject line.  How in development is it, and could anybody give a documentation/HOWTO on

Re: [9fans] Reading gmail

2012-05-14 Thread John Floren
and nupas, there are some messages that make them choke. Sadly I can't remember what triggered it. john

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-09 Thread John Floren
A Thinkpad X60 or X61 works great and is very light, too. john On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Burton Samograd burton.samog...@markit.com wrote: Along these lines, is there a recommendation for the best laptop for running plan9?  Ie. Native video, working Ethernet/wifi, no hassles with HW

Re: [9fans] I will buy laptop pre-installed with plan9!!!

2012-05-09 Thread John Floren
I've got one of those with the 1400x1050 display, it runs Plan 9 well, looks great, and has a fantastic screen. john On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:18 PM, s...@9front.org wrote: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X61_Tablet -sl

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

2012-05-08 Thread John Floren
a few some years back and they were generally well-received by the random youtubers who found them. Just please make sure the things you're talking about are accurate--spreading bad information about Plan 9 is worse than doing nothing :) john

Re: [9fans] new arm port: teg2

2012-05-01 Thread John Floren
Great! Graphics support at this point, or is it still in the cpu server stage? john On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:30 PM, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: After you pull, you should see a new directory, /sys/src/9/teg2.  From the _announce file: This is a preliminary Plan 9 port to the Compulab

Re: [9fans] Source Code.

2012-04-27 Thread John Floren
plan9/sys/src/9 for the kernel source. john

Re: [9fans] AMD64 system

2012-04-25 Thread John Floren
simulation, computation bound stuff, why not set up a 64-bit CPU server? I've got one at work, all you should need to do is get the 64-bit binaries on your fileserver. John

Re: [9fans] AMD64 system

2012-04-25 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Strake strake...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/04/2012, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: If you're doing cryptography and physical simulation, computation bound stuff, why not set up a 64-bit CPU server? I've got one at work, all you should need to do is get

Re: [9fans] AMD64 system

2012-04-25 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Strake strake...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/04/2012, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: There are 3 options: 1. Suck it up and use the 64-bit system that is available 2. Write drivers for your hardware (this is the comedy option) 3. Complain on 9fans for a while

Re: [9fans] git and (p9p) acme

2012-04-25 Thread John Floren
, and then save out. Works for me... this is what I do when writing commit messages in hg. Sure, you have to go into the right-button menu and open the file window, but it's 2 mouse clicks and I find sam a lot more convenient than acme for this kind of quick edit. What behavior are you seeing? john

Re: [9fans] AMD64 system

2012-04-25 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Strake strake...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/04/2012, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: Through the magic of compression, and other things like realizing that you don't have to redraw the *entire* screen 60 times a second when displaying a mostly-static desktop

Re: [9fans] nix at lsub

2012-04-17 Thread John Floren
it at first (O/mero wouldn't start properly, unfortunately I can't recall the error, I think it's in the 9fans archive), but the setup scripts make it pretty simple to configure. John

Re: [9fans] nix at lsub

2012-04-17 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:07 PM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:26 PM,  kokam...@hera.eonet.ne.jp wrote: I was thinking along the lines of http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html, myself, using a child of Inferno. Yeah, sound like interesting. Can I try this octopus

Re: [9fans] test

2012-04-16 Thread John Floren
Obvious solution, switch to reading comp.os.plan9 and sending replies to the list :-) On Apr 16, 2012 11:48 AM, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: can't receive mail from 9fans anymore. but can i still send? -- cinap

Re: [9fans] vim and utf-8

2012-04-14 Thread John Floren
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 4:56 AM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: bad troll relax

Re: [9fans] vim and utf-8

2012-04-13 Thread John Floren
is one-off. encoding, termencoding, and fileencoding all show as utf-8 Any ideas? Also, how do I change the font used by vim.  It is not using $font. Thanks, -troy I have a solution, but you're not going to like it :) john

[9fans] Google command line client

2012-03-29 Thread John Floren
. You can also do something like '/sys/lib/python/bin/google calendar list' from an rc prompt, so whipping up a guide file for Acme will be very easy. John

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

2012-03-18 Thread John Floren
I think being able to pay the students is what really makes GSoC work. It adds an additional dimension that makes it a lot harder to just say, Oh, I'm bored with this, I quit. John On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Joseph Stewart joseph.stew...@gmail.com wrote: So this all makes me wonder why

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

2012-03-18 Thread John Floren
also (ideally) improving open source projects. The only thing 9fans has out of that list is the interest in improving an open source project :) John On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Joseph Stewart joseph.stew...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I didn't realize there was pay involved. How about a kick

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2012

2012-03-14 Thread John Floren
root environment. I'd worry that doing an overhaul of the installation process is more of a 1-2 week project, although it would be useful and a very nice simple task. John

Re: [9fans] For first ONLY a laser printer in this resource meaning

2012-03-13 Thread John Floren
and translated them into appropriate RIL (Android's radio daemon) commands to send out over a socket on the Android side. Once you figure out how the devices work in Inferno, it should be pretty easy to write code that will link your file operations in Inferno to the printing framework on the Macs. John

Re: [9fans] GSoC application ideas page

2012-03-13 Thread John Floren
, And then force Peter to use the library exclusively. I somehow doubt that acme will suddenly turn into an MS Word-esque monstrosity simply because someone has created a successor to libpanel. John

Re: [9fans] hardware device (...)

2012-03-13 Thread John Floren
with at least a CPU server, a victim PC with serial output so we can catch crash messages, and then another box where you can sit to actually write code--a much more complex thing for a student with no hardware budget to set up! John

Re: [9fans] octopus paper

2012-03-02 Thread John Floren
for peer review 4 times a shame, at least. Nicolas Unless Elsevier is even more evil that I thought, Nemo should still be able to post a PDF on lsub.org. Now, if they're really evil, they got exclusive rights... John

[9fans] Some things never change

2012-02-23 Thread John Floren
While waiting for Linux to compile, I started poking at the 9fans archive and noticed something: The 13th message ever sent to 9fans (http://9fans.net/archive/1993/04/13) ended by asking about find. Plan 9: Not UNIX, since 1993 John

Re: [9fans] current python hg support

2012-02-09 Thread John Floren
with that. John

Re: [9fans] Building Go on Plan 9 using Antony Martin's

2012-01-20 Thread John Floren
with the latest plan9.iso.bz2 ROuNIN What exactly about this makes you think that there's something drastically wrong with your Plan 9 install? It looks like /386/bin/go/8g doesn't exist. I wouldn't call that reason for re-installing, unless I've missed something in that output. John

Re: [9fans] /ape/libcrypto.a ??none??: /386/lib/ape/libssl.a first

2012-01-19 Thread John Floren
/mkfile. John

[9fans] ape compiler error, IND CHAR and INT

2012-01-18 Thread John Floren
ignored cc: flag -: ignored cc: can't find library for -l /usr/john/Python-2.7.2/Parser/grammar.c:46[stdin:12906] incompatible types: IND CHAR and INT for op AS /usr/john/Python-2.7.2/Parser/grammar.c:108[stdin:12968] incompatible types: IND CHAR and INT for op AS cc: cpp: 8c 896765: error *** Error

Re: [9fans] ape compiler error, IND CHAR and INT

2012-01-18 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Martin Harriss mar...@princeton.edu wrote: John Floren wrote: I figured I'd try building Python from the source on their website just for kicks. Configure went ok, but when I went to run make, it soon bailed out with this error: cc -c -OPT:Olimit=0 -g

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