[9fans] Robotic 9 piano hands free Schumann concert and clean water for cats

2022-01-26 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
999 billion NAMESPACES OF GOD URIEL I INVOKE THEE JenBen BenJen Kidwell mycroftiv arm the memetic catapults and fire the Love Rocks like its a better 1968 for Joan Didion -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans

[9fans] Sponsoring a new Intro book by the Flan 9 Poundation

2022-01-24 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
Hi 9fans, Got some new ideas im excited about right now. Apparently the author of the well-known 'intro to OS abstractions' book has political views that are not cool and support oppression maybe I have heard secondhand. We need a better book to introduce people to 9. I'd like to see something

[9fans] Re: Ultrafiltered Ideal Plan 9

2022-01-21 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
sure where I'm going with this other than to stay present and communicating with any who are interested. JenBen On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 2:00 AM mycroftiv 9gridchan wrote: > > Hi 9fans, > > Im JenBen Kidwell. I put many years of my life into plan 9 software > development and I'm try

[9fans] Ultrafiltered Ideal Plan 9

2022-01-21 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
Hi 9fans, Im JenBen Kidwell. I put many years of my life into plan 9 software development and I'm trying to continue that work and move forward with the larger projects it is connected with. The Plan 9 ANTS software is software for transformation of mind and society. It is based on the 9front

[9fans] notes on fossil, ANTS, and 9front/Bell labs controversies

2020-01-10 Thread mycroftiv
.9gridchan.org/9ants5.64.iso.gz This distribution of Plan 9 has admittedly flaky maintainership, but competent users should be able to track 9front changes even if mycroftiv has wandered off to some distant hypercube. A highly subjective historical view When 9front forked from the Bell Labs

[9fans] Purplechess, hypercubes, ultrafilters and more - ANTS 5.64

2019-12-22 Thread mycroftiv
, the bipolar manic delusional fictions are fun but I'm not trapped inside them, I can operate in ordinary reality. If someone has an interest in substantive code discussions or something along those lines, I can drop out of the Phase IV headspace as needed. peace and glenda-love, mycroftiv

[9fans] Six year ANTS-iversary

2019-03-11 Thread mycroftiv
blog posts and downloads about all this stuff is spread across the 9gridchan.org ANTS-empire. Peace and Love to all, Mycroftiv

[9fans] CODE AS THOU WILT summer sponsored by the Loonie Revolution

2013-05-01 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
The Loonie Revolution is proud to announce and sponsor: CODE AS THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW summer What are the rules? NONE. From May 1 to Aug 30. What is going to happen? Some people (maybe you) are going to write some original Plan 9 code that does something at least slightly

[9fans] ANTS supports Lakota Grandmothers

2013-04-05 Thread mycroftiv
% factual and serious by the Moon Computer. Please visit lakotagrandmothers.org and view the documentary Red Cry and support free flow of wealth and information between all beings. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] hubfs future development + ANTS update

2013-03-24 Thread mycroftiv
to anyone I've offended, and thanks to all of you who have offered frienship and support. Those personal connections now mean a lot more to me than whether anyone thinks ANTS is better or worse than standard Labs Plan 9. Ben Kidwell (union bound with fictional characters) mycroftiv, hagbard selene

[9fans] Plan 9 professional engineers, tear up your NDAs!

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
for the complete end to the use of NDAs in contracts for technical engineers, so they can freely share ideas with the community, and freely receive ideas back. And stop with the patents, also. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv Let's have a free and unrestricted discussion of all the amazing possibilities

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 professional engineers, tear up your NDAs!

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
with virtual machines to explore what Plan 9 does beyond the 4-node frontier, where things get truly magical as multiple cpus share root and import all the important synthetic fses to share things. Plan Nine is worth going crazy over, people. -Ben Kidwell mycroftiv Here's a poem for the p9pers at Google

[9fans] Plan 9 professional engineers, tear up your NDAs!

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
that the potential growing relevance of 9P for commercial distributed applications might have a lot to do with why we don't see more posts from people doing work in that area. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] Petition for Google to install awesome 9grid for Rob+RSC

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
on, and they would share a lot of Plan 9 improvements with the world because Plan 9 is the antidote to the total crappiness of everything else, in comparison. GIVE THE PLAN 9 GUYS ALL THE PLAN 9 THEY WANT GOOGLE! Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] Plan 9 professional engineers, tear up your NDAs!

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
operating system, and actually believe that it is a real os for using in a serious way and working to receive the benefits from the full distributed architecture, not just the simple unix-heritage core. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] John Floren, Im trying to make the world better

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
to be happy and care for one another. I love you, and I wish you to be my friend, John Floren. Peace and Love, Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] Public response to a private question

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
technology available without a patent and without restricting what independent creators can do and offer to the world. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] Tassilo Philip, you asked the perfect question

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] Hofstadters ideas for how brains work

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
In Gödel Escher Bach by Hofstadter there is a wonderful dialogue called Ant Fugue and it explores the idea of an ant colony as a conscious mind. Even though each ant is just following near-mechanical rules, the behavior of the colony as a whole can exhibit intelligence, and Dr. Anteater explains

[9fans] Implementing consciousness with namespaces and pipes?

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
Mycroftiv.

[9fans] cat -v is more patentable than cat

2013-03-17 Thread mycroftiv
Complicated Muxing Pipes. Just a thought from Mycroftiv

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

2013-03-16 Thread mycroftiv
it to the end of this wall of text, but thanks if you did. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] ANTS: posted to ycombinator. No more spam here.

2013-03-16 Thread mycroftiv
I apologize for any ways my messags have been disruptive to the list. I thank everyone who has expressed interest, and I understand that my emotional involvement is making me very irrational. I submitted my site to ycombinator in the hopes of finding some more interest. Here is the thread.

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

2013-03-16 Thread mycroftiv
smiley wrote: Who would be paying that $50, you or your mother? ;) That is the kind of response I was hoping for! True human communication! :D You are almost right - since I did receive an inheritance the correct answer is: not my mom, my dead father! Peace and love. Ben Kidwell

[9fans] ANTS: Better in every single way than standard plan 9.

2013-03-16 Thread mycroftiv
Hey, that's just like your opinion, man. And p9p did tie the room together. But then that nihilist peed on it. just drinking my coffee... No, Woo, Woo peed on my rug. I think all of you Plan 9 users are OVER THE LINE! Has the whole 9fans gone crazy? AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO

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

2013-03-15 Thread mycroftiv
=8380765.PN.OS=PN/8380765RS=PN/8380765 Might be interested in a free open source alternative which should be free of any patent licensing issues in relation to this patent. -Ben Kidwell mycroftiv PS - I have tremendous personal respect and admiration for the individuals who worked on the Blue Gene

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

2013-03-15 Thread mycroftiv
transparent pipes. Anyway, I meant what I said about how on a personal level I feel friendly toward everyone on the Blue Gene project and I'd love to have a positive and not antagonistic relationship with everyone involved in Plan 9. -Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

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

2013-03-15 Thread mycroftiv
standard unixes too) and that they fit beautifully with 9P and the whole system. I'd like to move forward with trying to make good Plan 9 software and not have this particular little patent kerfuffle turn into anything majorly disruptive. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv -Who would rather go back to trying

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

2013-03-15 Thread mycroftiv
significance, but my own work gives me emotional motivation to object strongly to this absurd software patent. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] A personal apology to EricVh

2013-03-15 Thread mycroftiv
is even more objectionable to me than most, hence my emotional reaction. I do hope than when and if we get the chance to meet, we can discuss Plan 9 as friends with a common interest. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] A personal history of pipe multiplexing

2013-03-15 Thread mycroftiv
, and I think it is a nice simple tool. Thanks for your time! Peace and love to all Plan 9 users and developers, Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] ANTS: an attempt to bring ideas inspired by Nemo to standard Plan 9

2013-03-14 Thread mycroftiv
was trying to do with ANTS is so large, I wanted to offer this statement of credit and great thanks for his extensive work on Plan 9, and I hope the Giant ANTS are a welcome addition to the growing menagerie of Plan 9 monsters. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv (ants tutorials http://antfarm.9gridchan.org

[9fans] How to admin and repair venti/fossil?

2013-03-12 Thread mycroftiv
was the major practical problem which ANTS was written to solve. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv (ants tutorials http://antfarm.9gridchan.org/tutorial) (ants VM images and links http://9gridchan.org) (ants software and documentation http://ants.9gridchan.org) (ants software also served via 9p and ftp at ants

[9fans] namespace repair via /proc

2013-03-12 Thread mycroftiv
can confirm that /proc namespace injection on arbitrary processes does let you fix or workaround some issues that can arise with Plan 9 networks and needing to connect new mounts or reacquire/shift attachment to older ones. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

Re: [9fans] Some benevolent user...

2013-03-12 Thread mycroftiv
. If you boot a qemu image, are you able to save files to the qemu disk normally, so read/write inside the VM works normally, it is just that installation fails? Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

Re: [9fans] Some benevolent user...

2013-03-12 Thread mycroftiv
an enjoyable journey into the world of Plan 9! Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

Re: [9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-12 Thread mycroftiv
with someone with a lot of practical experience working with larger groups of machines. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv - A minor note. There is a tiny example of a jail in ANTS in the form of the default profile for user none, which unmounts devices and rfork m to prevent new attaches. Sometimes I set up

[9fans] Giant ANTS! Advanced Namespace Tools for Plan 9 from Bell Labs

2013-03-11 Thread mycroftiv
with Plan 9 and I hope the ANTS software will provide you with useful tools. -Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-11 Thread mycroftiv
software is called ANTS, I don't think it will actually bite you. -Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

Re: [9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-11 Thread mycroftiv
precise and specific with keeping things brief, so I hope this was a good answer without too much unnecessary length. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

Re: [9fans] A note about new software for Plan 9

2013-03-11 Thread mycroftiv
to comprehensively explain how to use ANTS, how it is built, and what its purposes are. I really appreciate the interest! I hope I am responding and explaining in a clear way Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

Re: [9fans] New wiki pages about 9p services and building grids

2013-03-02 Thread mycroftiv
and the suggestion to write up and link hubfs for clarity. -Ben Kidwell mycroftiv

[9fans] exportfs and import options: short guide with examples

2013-02-28 Thread mycroftiv
needed to any local configuration, but users should be aware that some servers might begin using this protocol variant, and know which flag is needed to connect properly. Ben Kidwell mycroftiv gridterm: ps |grep exportfs |wc -l 306

[9fans] the import/exportfs protocol and a proposed import -z flag

2013-02-27 Thread mycroftiv
perspective and proposal. I want to have constructive discussion about an issue i think is important because it affects how all Plan 9 systems which make use of exportfs/import communicate. I hope this post leads to constructive discussion of the import/exportfs protocol. Ben Kidwell -mycroftiv

[9fans] the import/exportfs protocol - fmt repost

2013-02-27 Thread mycroftiv
protocol. Ben Kidwell -mycroftiv

Re: [9fans] the import/exportfs protocol and a proposed import -z flag

2013-02-27 Thread mycroftiv
wrote out the version with the unnecessary parameter to try to clarify what what -z was doing, but in practice you just write it exactly as you described. Maybe the argc==3 case should be rejected just as a reminder to the user that the tree request will not be sent. Ben Kidwell -mycroftiv

[9fans] 9vx access from Drawterm/cpu: patch and how-to

2010-01-06 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
, it fails with a botch message, so you have to redial if you typo your password. According to my limited testing so far, cpu from plan 9 and drawterm both work fine. This message was written in acme in drawterm to a 9vx elsewhere on the LAN. ~Mycroftiv 9gridchan.org

[9fans] 9vx access from Drawterm/cpu: patch and how-to

2010-01-06 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
already been done. A 9vx distribution with those modifications and the full tree included would be a fun project, but the 'too many projects, too little time' issue always looms. Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | thenewsh.blogspot.com ~Mycroftiv 9gridchan.org

[9fans] Announcing: writable /proc/pid/ns

2010-01-02 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
load booting. Everything mentioned is available on sources now in contrib/mycroftiv. All of this software receives testing and use on three native hardware Plan 9 systems and a swarm of qemu VMs. mycroftiv/writeprocns contains all files relevant to this post, modified versions of 3 kernel source

[9fans] Announcing: rootless post kernel load startup

2010-01-02 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
More recent work - available on sources in contrib/mycroftiv/rootlessboot as both patches and a compiled ready to use kernel and optional rootfs.tgz additional tools to be placed in 9fat partition. Rootless bootup is a rewrite of the post-kernel load bootup process as handled by boot and init

[9fans] Announcing: writable /proc/pid/ns

2010-01-02 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
and using scripted tools has obvious utility for dynamic grid computing where service nodes can enter and leave the resource matrix freely. ~mycroftiv

[9fans] Announcing: rootless post kernel load startup

2010-01-02 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
possible system. Just on the technical level the plan9rc I'm using doesn't cover 100% of the cases handled by the standard tools - it assumes the only types of disk drives in the world are sdC0, C1, D0, D1 at the moment, for instance. ~mycroftiv

[9fans] Announcing: writable /proc/pid/ns

2010-01-02 Thread mycroftiv 9gridchan
potentially be used to cause unintended behavior inside the kernel. Again, thanks for the interest. ~Mycroftiv