Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-27 Thread Laurent Malvert
On 3/28/06, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > didn't solve the mouse detection problem with the LiveCD either (nice > > that the active window was the term with the description of Rio). > > if you have a usb mouse, you might need to start usbd & usbmouse by > hand. the default termrc

Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-27 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> didn't solve the mouse detection problem with the LiveCD either (nice > that the active window was the term with the description of Rio). if you have a usb mouse, you might need to start usbd & usbmouse by hand. the default termrc doesn't include them. after a recent install i had to refresh t

Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-27 Thread Laurent Malvert
On 3/28/06, Laurent Malvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/27/06, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there some chance there is a pbs vs. pbslba issue? > > > > Possibly, but it's unlikely. The install script > > switches to pbslba if 9fat ends more than 1G > > into the disk, and his i

Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-27 Thread Laurent Malvert
On 3/27/06, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there some chance there is a pbs vs. pbslba issue? > > Possibly, but it's unlikely. The install script > switches to pbslba if 9fat ends more than 1G > into the disk, and his is 40G into the disk. > > That's one thing to try though: boot from

Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-27 Thread Laurent Malvert
On 3/27/06, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But when I reached the bootsetup part, I was a little confused to see > > that I had only the choice between a floppy boot sidk (no floppy > > drives), and updating a win* bootloader (no win*). > > In addition to that, my hard drive on this machin

Re: [9fans] gnupg or pgp for plan9?

2006-03-27 Thread erik quanstrom
i think a better route would be to build s/mime compatable signatures and encryption into upas/fs and upas/marshal so applications without a need to know would not have to know. - erik On Mon Mar 27 18:39:14 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fernan wrote: > // I am trying to get some sort of

Re: [9fans] new compilers

2006-03-27 Thread erik quanstrom
we should not deprive andy tannenbaum of one iota of the credit he so richly deserves for spurring the creation of linux. all linus wanted was the ability to distribute a pre-patched version of minix which supported a few non-80286-compatable convienences like protected memory. - erik On Sun Mar

Re: [9fans] gnupg or pgp for plan9?

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony Sorace
Fernan wrote: // I am trying to get some sort of encyption. Protability between p9, linux and // windows is a bit critical for my application ( I am paranoid ). pgp or gpg would be nice for portability, as well as for other things, like signing mail. in the mean time, inferno's 'idea' performs the

Re: [9fans] new compilers

2006-03-27 Thread erik quanstrom
this sort of programming has a lot in common with the stage of learning a language where you understand the grammar but don't know the vocabulary. read two lines. lookup unknown words. lather. rince. repeat. - erik On Mon Mar 27 11:30:49 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I find the notion of

Re: [9fans] something like cscope/cbrowser?

2006-03-27 Thread Brantley Coile
I use acme and the rc function `g' or small permutations of it. fn g {grep -n $* *.[chsyl] /dev/null} For just looking at headers I just change the function a bit. fn gh {grep -n $* *.h /dev/null} Then I can just click on the file:line and Whammo, I'm there. --- Begin Message --- Hi, it's not

Re: [9fans] something like cscope/cbrowser?

2006-03-27 Thread Steve Simon
> I've found the pair "cscope" and "cbrowser" really > helpful, even with C++ code. I wrote a naïve C parser in lex which generates a searchable flat (2) file database of functions/identifers/comments/strings etc. Its is not big, and its not clever, but I find it useful /n/sources/contrib/steve

[9fans] something like cscope/cbrowser?

2006-03-27 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
Hi, it's not a plan9-only question... but here read many developers with expertise. At work, dealing with big amounts of code (most of them unknown to me), I've found the pair "cscope" and "cbrowser" really helpful, even with C++ code. I'm wondering what do you usually use. I likely want to av

Re: [9fans] new compilers

2006-03-27 Thread Bruce Ellis
only would be said on 9fans :-) brucee > I'm really looking forward to ripping into naive OO as these poor > misguided students have been taught. C-double-cross must die. > > Paul

Re: [9fans] new compilers

2006-03-27 Thread Paul Lalonde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 with names such as kAudioHardwarePropertyBootChimeVolumeRangeDecibels, Do you prefer kAHPBCVRD? Frankly, these "modern" interfaces are just plain evil. I'm working on an invited talk right now on game engine design as real-time OS design (less

Re: [9fans] new compilers

2006-03-27 Thread Charles Forsyth
> with names such as kAudioHardwarePropertyBootChimeVolumeRangeDecibels, which says it all

Re: [9fans] new compilers

2006-03-27 Thread rog
> I find the notion of pre-compiled headers for anything other than > a very special situation rather odd. it is odd. i've just been playing with trying to get some stuff working under macos x, and the interfaces are just amazing. the standard approach seems to be to enumerate every possible sit

Re: [9fans] gnupg or pgp for plan9?

2006-03-27 Thread Fernan Bolando
On 3/27/06, Lluís Batlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can take a look at ccrypt (ccrypt.sf.net) if it's about file encryption, > but I don't know if it wil work on plan9. I've only compiled it with the > called "gnu configure machinery". > > 2006/3/27, Fernan Bolando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On

Re: [9fans] Re: A Plan 9 C request....

2006-03-27 Thread LiteStar numnums
For Primeval C?On 3/27/06, Nikita Danilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> in the section after the /* storage */ comment in c00.c>>   regtab 0;>   efftab 1; > [etc.]>> should this be read as>>   int regtab = 0;>   int efftab = 1;>> ?Submit a pa

Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-27 Thread Russ Cox
> Is there some chance there is a pbs vs. pbslba issue? Possibly, but it's unlikely. The install script switches to pbslba if 9fat ends more than 1G into the disk, and his is 40G into the disk. That's one thing to try though: boot from the CD, draw a window, and run disk/format -b /386/

Re: [9fans] gnupg or pgp for plan9?

2006-03-27 Thread Lluís Batlle
You can take a look at ccrypt (ccrypt.sf.net) if it's about file encryption, but I don't know if it wil work on plan9. I've only compiled it with the called "gnu configure machinery".2006/3/27, Fernan Bolando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 3/27/06, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> If you are just l

Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-27 Thread David . Eckhardt
> Presumably you told grub to swap the bios drive letters. Is there some chance there is a pbs vs. pbslba issue? Dave Eckhardt

Re: [9fans] Installing Plan9 under vmware

2006-03-27 Thread Russ Cox
> Is there an irc channel or such where I can pop in to ask quick silly > questions instead of clogging up the mailing list? There is an IRC channel, but you're likely to get only silly answers (e.g., in this case "don't use VMware"). Russ

Re: [9fans] Installing Plan9 under vmware

2006-03-27 Thread ems
http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Irc/index.html #plan9 on irc.freenode.net -- ems On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 20:34 -0700, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > > Is there an irc channel or such where I can pop in to ask quick silly > > questions instead of clogging up the mailing list? > > sorry, no :( check

Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-27 Thread Russ Cox
> But when I reached the bootsetup part, I was a little confused to see > that I had only the choice between a floppy boot sidk (no floppy > drives), and updating a win* bootloader (no win*). > In addition to that, my hard drive on this machine is not sdC-, but > sdC1, I can't do anything about it,

[9fans] Re: A Plan 9 C request....

2006-03-27 Thread Nikita Danilov
erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > in the section after the /* storage */ comment in c00.c > > regtab 0; > efftab 1; > [etc.] > > should this be read as > > int regtab = 0; > int efftab = 1; > > ? Submit a patch. > > - erik Nikita.

[9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-27 Thread Laurent Malvert
Hi everybody, I am a total newbie with Plan9 and I wanted to five it a try for a long time. I decided to install it this week, and the installation went surprisingly good, I was expecting something much less user-friendly (well...) But when I reached the bootsetup part, I was a little confused to

Re: [9fans] gnupg or pgp for plan9?

2006-03-27 Thread Fernan Bolando
On 3/27/06, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are just looking for file encryption then > auth/aescbc will do that for you. A little script > would allow you to validate a locally held md5sum > digest of the file to inform you of any tampering. > Aescbc is not portable outside of plan