Re: [9fans] changes on sources

2005-11-06 Thread Federico Benavento
Hi, I've tried to boot the latest kernel, and I get this error message from aux/vga. aux/vga was complaining about: mkvbe: '/dev/realmode' file does not exist so, I checked /sys/src/9/pc/realmode.c and I realized that nobody was calling realmodelink(), so moved realmode in /sys/src/9/pc/pcf from

Re: [9fans] web apps

2005-11-06 Thread Wes Kussmaul
Skip Tavakkolian wrote: So (to mix in one more metaphor) it's a jump ball all over again. The question to ask is not how the Web evolves but what follows the Web. 9P should be the universal currency. maybe we need to implement styx or 9p in javascript ☺ the backend service should deal with n

Re: [9fans] changes on sources

2005-11-06 Thread Russ Cox
First round of bug fixes now on sources. Russ

[9fans] changes on sources

2005-11-06 Thread Russ Cox
[The short version: lots of new binaries and features; you need a new 9load to run the new kernels.] A few files changed on sources today. The major change was pushing out the new pc mmu code, which runs with the kernel at 0xF000 instead of 0x8000. There are some other kernel-maintained

Re: [9fans] web apps

2005-11-06 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> So (to mix in one more metaphor) it's a jump ball all over again. The > question to ask is not how the Web evolves but what follows the Web. 9P should be the universal currency. maybe we need to implement styx or 9p in javascript ☺ the backend service should deal with namespace that the user

Re: [9fans] ethernet detection problems

2005-11-06 Thread Federico Benavento
hi, I use Andrey's driver for the sis 900. http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/lanlp9/sis900/ethersis.c On 11/6/05, Ray Amberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently installed Plan 9 as part of an extra credit research project > for my introductory operating systems class. Lo

Re: [9fans] web apps

2005-11-06 Thread grfgguvf
On 11/6/05, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > as possible. that said, web applications aren't going away. why > not develop something using a similar architecture to AJAX but > using technologies that have a more elegant approach, e.g., > s-expr, S-expressions are indeed more compact than XML but other

Re: [9fans] web apps

2005-11-06 Thread Wes Kussmaul
re Christopher Nielsen's observations about AJAX and pushing interface stuff into the browser and the like, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Sun had this figured out in the late 1980s, although they didn't know it at the time: it was called NeWS. (See, they even had a k33wl graffiti name for it.)

Re: [9fans] web apps

2005-11-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:41 PM, Christopher Nielsen wrote: i've been reading about AJAX and the like, and some of the architectural ideas seem good, e.g., pushing interface stuff into the browser and updating requests for data asynchronously. makes sense and makes for snappier web apps. Sun had

Re: [9fans] Acme and the pipe command

2005-11-06 Thread Russ Cox
Fixed, thanks. On 11/6/05, Georg Neis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks so much for all the replies. I'm sorry for not having mentioned > that I'm using plan9port's acme. > > Btw: there's an invalid entry "acme.1" on > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/1/INDEX.html > > Regards, > Georg >

Re: [9fans] ethernet detection problems

2005-11-06 Thread Russ Cox
For the SIS900, try applying the following changes to /sys/src/9/pc/ether83815.c and then recompile the kernel, copy it to 9fat, and boot it. % diff -c /n/dump/2005/1106/sys/src/9/pc/ether83815.c /sys/src/9/pc/ether83815.c /n/dump/2005/1106/sys/src/9/pc/ether83815.c:81,86 - /sys/src/9/pc/ether8381

Re: [9fans] Acme and the pipe command

2005-11-06 Thread Georg Neis
Thanks so much for all the replies. I'm sorry for not having mentioned that I'm using plan9port's acme. Btw: there's an invalid entry "acme.1" on http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/1/INDEX.html Regards, Georg

My internet2 (was Re: [9fans] web apps)

2005-11-06 Thread Sascha Retzki
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:41:15PM -0800, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > the first question that comes to mind is how do you replace > javascript? does it make sense to write a limbo interpreter > plugin for browsers? does it make sense to design a better > language and write a plugin for that? is th

Re: [9fans] web apps

2005-11-06 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
Mybe write drawterm plugin ? :) Like Inferno plugin for IE. IMHO