Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-29 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug29:0059-0400, Scott Elcomb wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:25 AM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: If a lot of people think CSS-challenged newbies would have a better experience with a default black-on-white presentation, I'll go with that. Thanks for writing this up;

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-29 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug29:0822-0400, David L. Craig wrote: On 14Aug29:0059-0400, Scott Elcomb wrote: I found the colours a bit difficult as well so I've mirrored the package in black-on-white at http://projects.psema4.com/plan9/vp9cb/. I will add it as the first derivation and you as a contributor

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-29 Thread David L. Craig
I just updated the web pages and tarball to include the text of the GPL 2 as file LICENSE and imbedded links to the HTML version in the licensing info in the upper right corners of all five pages. -- not cent from sell May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-29 Thread cam
written. I would like to get other folks' evaluations of the work so it can be improved. just a couple minor details: 1) in http://dlc.casita.net/~dlc/vp9cb/tc05.png, you do not need such kernel messages scribbling on top of rio. just swipe another window off an edge run cat /dev/kprint.

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread dante
Wow, amazing work :-)!! Cheers, Dante On 27.08.2014 21:16, David L. Craig wrote: This is the publication I wished I had had several months ago, so I decided to write it. With hundreds of screen shots and a few choice scripts (the main one based on maht's make_cpuauth contribution to Plan 9),

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread dante
Hi David, A small review note: you can see the available devices in Plan9 with cat /dev/devices (or /dev/device or so). This might be needed in the explanation around intro(3). Kind Regards, Dante On 27.08.2014 21:16, David L. Craig wrote: This is the publication I wished I had had several

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread lucio
cat /dev/devices (or /dev/device or so). /dev/drivers Lucio.

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread Peter Hull
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:16 PM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: I really hope it is helpful to a lot of people as time goes by. Hi David, This is going to be a tremendously useful resource! I've not read it all yet but: 1. Is there a reason for using Debian sid instead of current

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:1101+0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Dante wrote: cat /dev/devices (or /dev/device or so). /dev/drivers Lucio. Thanks, guys! These are exactly the kinds of comments this work needs--you will be credited. I've added an Errata heading to index.html but can't note this in

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:1100+0100, Peter Hull wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:16 PM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: I really hope it is helpful to a lot of people as time goes by. Hi David, This is going to be a tremendously useful resource! I've not read it all yet but: 1. Is there a

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread Joseph Stewart
I love the work David. Can I ask a naggy thing though... the background/forground colors make it very hard to read for very long... could you change them to boring old black-on-white? (or should I just make a local edit with my fuddy-duddy preferences?) Thanks again for the time and detail you've

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:0907-0400, Joseph Stewart wrote: I love the work David. Can I ask a naggy thing though... the background/forground colors make it very hard to read for very long... could you change them to boring old black-on-white? (or should I just make a local edit with my fuddy-duddy

[9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread trebol
Hello David.

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:1402+0100, Peter Hull wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:55 PM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: 2. Would having the headers appear like the links be sufficient? Whatever, I'll make this a priority, probably this afternoon. Yes, I think so. I've updated the vp9cb.css and

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread Peter Hull
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:40 PM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: I've updated the vp9cb.css and the tar to use maximum white for the headers. Let me know if they're too bright. Well, I like it. Thanks, Pete

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
I found a great source of UTF-8 expertise that showed me how to resolve the garbled UTF-8 characters: http://htmlpurifier.org/docs/enduser-utf8.html All I had to do was rename the charset=utf-8 file, 04_P9Server.html to 04_P9Server.utf8.html and most webservers configured to say their

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:0850-0400, David L. Craig wrote: On 14Aug28:1101+0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Dante wrote: cat /dev/devices (or /dev/device or so). /dev/drivers Lucio. I just updated the pages and the tar with a restructuring of the table and its introductory paragraph--let

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
I revised the index.html to remove the second Errata item about the mangled UTF-8 characters, and moved the information about the tarball before the Errata header. The tarball has been updated with that, and I think I'm done for this day. -- not cent from sell May the LORD God bless you

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread Scott Elcomb
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:25 AM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: If a lot of people think CSS-challenged newbies would have a better experience with a default black-on-white presentation, I'll go with that. Thanks for writing this up; very much looking forward to working through it. =)

[9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-27 Thread David L. Craig
This is the publication I wished I had had several months ago, so I decided to write it. With hundreds of screen shots and a few choice scripts (the main one based on maht's make_cpuauth contribution to Plan 9), it walks a UNIX sysadmin of modest experience through installing Debian Sid onto an

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-27 Thread arnold
Hi. This looks wonderful. Is it available in a PDF or more paper oriented format, for us old fogeys? Thanks, Arnold David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: This is the publication I wished I had had several months ago, so I decided to write it. With hundreds of screen shots and a few

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug27:1352-0600, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: Hi. This looks wonderful. Is it available in a PDF or more paper oriented format, for us old fogeys? Thanks, Arnold Not yet--it's still alpha. Someone will probably do that sooner or later, I'll guess, maybe even me. -- not cent from sell

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-27 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:16:04 -0400 David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: This is the publication I wished I had had several months ago, so I decided to write it. With hundreds of screen shots and a few choice scripts (the main one based on maht's make_cpuauth contribution to Plan 9), it

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug27:2356+0200, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: I think I'll be using this heavily when I embark on the next leg of my installing of Plan 9. Let me know how that works out for you. I'd be extremely gratified if this gets a lot more people experiencing Plan 9 as opposed to just reading about