Re: [9fans] IWP9 travel plans

2007-11-28 Thread Gabriel Diaz
Hello I collected the information people sent to the list here: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105341333542890410930.00043f92e7221ec74a762&ll=40.636883,-74.19342&spn=0.629443,1.069794&z=10&om=1 It should be editable by anyone. Add yourself (or remove) if interested. sld

Re: [9fans] libcontrol focus question

2007-11-28 Thread Federico G. Benavento
> Can one explicitly determine which Control in a set has focus? > Anthony try this and tell me how it goes :) clicktotype = 1; _ctlprint(cs->focus, "focus 0"); cs->focus = control;/* I want the focus on this control! */ _ctlprint(cs->f

[9fans] libcontrol focus question

2007-11-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
In my first experiment with control(2), I'm trying to get fgui to give the first entry box focus when the window is created (since in better than 90% of my cases, all that's needed is a password). I've tried a few methods, all of which basically boil down to: chanprint(cs->ctl, "%s focus 1

[9fans] IWP9 travel plans

2007-11-28 Thread Anthony Sorace
in light of the questions here and some comments on IRC, i've created a page on the wiki for iwp9 travel plans: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/IWP9_2007_travel_plans/index.html i encourage folks interested in coordinating social activities and/or crash pads to post their info there. anthon

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread Aki Nyrhinen
> So this is not going to be me up there with powerpoint. It's pretty > hands on. And Aki is going to help, right, Aki? right. maybe. i should have 2 and 4G sticks around, so if those are still allowed in the plane, i'll have them with me. > Also Aki and I are going to show a WIP we think you all

Re: [9fans] venti wrarena i/o errors

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua Wood
If you suspect your hardware, you should verify it with an appropriate low-level tool, like a bootable utilities image from your drive manufacturer or similar (or memtest for memory, or etc, - using a low-level diagnostic on hardware can really speed up and focus software troubleshooting).

Re: [9fans] venti wrarena i/o errors

2007-11-28 Thread erik quanstrom
forgive the silly question, but have you verified that these offsets are not beyond the end of the partition? you can test reading partitions easily with dd -if /dev/sdC0/isect -of /dev/null -bs 64k it wouldn't be too hard to write a scrubber that reads and then rewrites the disk. it sh

Re: [9fans] rc complaining about syntax error on {

2007-11-28 Thread Federico G. Benavento
> but apparently rc scans its whole input for errors before executing, > so it brings me no closer to a solution. The file is /n/sources/ > contrib/pietro/12. What's going on? your script is unreadable... anyways, here the error, you havea single quote here: echo $0: cannot use date's -n opti

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread Wes Kussmaul
Sorry, that was intended to be off-list. Wes Kussmaul wrote: Ron, I'm going to be at Internet Identity Workshop next week. Can I send you a USB stick, or if you have one handy can you load it and I'll paypal you the cost + shipping? Thanks, Wes ron minnich wrote: looks like I am doing a

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread Wes Kussmaul
Ron, I'm going to be at Internet Identity Workshop next week. Can I send you a USB stick, or if you have one handy can you load it and I'll paypal you the cost + shipping? Thanks, Wes ron minnich wrote: looks like I am doing a tutorial on THNX. Of those coming, who would like to attend? C

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread Axel Belinfante
would there be any practical difference between a dedicated stick and an sd(hc) card in a usb card reader (sandisk micromate in particular)? (apart from physical differences like the card fitting in my camera whereas a stick does not :-) just trying to learn.

[9fans] venti wrarena i/o errors

2007-11-28 Thread Robert Raschke
Hi, I am trying to migrate my old venti/fossil from one machine to another (the new machine is running the new venti). I am doing this pretty piecemeal and by hand to find my bearings. When I'm running venti/wrarena on the old machine pointing at the new one, I am getting i/o errors on the new m

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread lejatorn
Ok, I'm interested but I only have a 1GB one, so I'll bring it anyways and we'll see what magic you can do with it. ;) Cheers, Mathieu. On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:52:37PM -0800, ron minnich wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 12:39 PM, Sape Mullender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any requirements on those

[9fans] rc complaining about syntax error on {

2007-11-28 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Hello. I was writing a program called 12 which displays twelve-hour time. It accepts the following options: -g show time as part of date output -u sent to date date's -n option is rejected. The default behavior is to show only the 12-hour time. Now when I run this fea

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
I'd love it :) I'll bring my 2g stick :) On Nov 28, 2007 8:41 PM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > looks like I am doing a tutorial on THNX. > > Of those coming, who would like to attend? > > Can you bring a 2G USB stick? The goal is to get you a usable > environment you can take away with

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread ron minnich
On Nov 28, 2007 12:39 PM, Sape Mullender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any requirements on those sticks other than size? Is there a > difference between bootable and non bootable? > I did not think that bootable was "special". I hope not. If you can put an MBR on it, it should work. The size is r

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
I think it doesn't matter whether or not the sticks can be bootable, as any hard drive can have an MBR. I know what matters is whether or not the computer in question can boot from USB devices. Look in the machine's BIOS settings. I have a 1GB stick with U3 on it, but if I had a larger stic

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread Sape Mullender
Any requirements on those sticks other than size? Is there a difference between bootable and non bootable? Sape > looks like I am doing a tutorial on THNX. > > Of those coming, who would like to attend? > > Can you bring a 2G USB stick? The goal is to get you a usable > environment you

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread ron minnich
On Nov 28, 2007 11:41 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you bring a 2G USB stick? The goal is to get you a usable > environment you can take away with you. I can try to get some sticks > here, but it is better if you can bring one. I can't get sticks here after all, they are ridicu

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread ron minnich
looks like I am doing a tutorial on THNX. Of those coming, who would like to attend? Can you bring a 2G USB stick? The goal is to get you a usable environment you can take away with you. I can try to get some sticks here, but it is better if you can bring one. Let me know ron

Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

2007-11-28 Thread Anant Narayanan
andrey mirtchovski wrote: > better yet: videos. i will gladly handle the reencoding and hosting for > russ' tutorials if someone videotapes them. Thanks! Would also love to see the Keynote talk on the History of Plan 9 on video. -- Anant

Re: [9fans] Interface for browser plugins

2007-11-28 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW: I neither intend to use javascript not nsChannel stuff. > > i've not seen an fs interface for FF/IE/or Webkit. NPAPI is the > only option i know of, but that's only useful for a self-contained > environment (like Inferno). NPAPI is exactly wh

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 wiping itself?

2007-11-28 Thread Douglas A. Gwyn
Instead of delete and later replace, how about create unique-named temp new file then immediately rename to target name? If rename is atomic then nothing could ever get lost.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 wiping itself?

2007-11-28 Thread Russ Cox
> The changes sound great, and eliminate my above doomsday scenario... > unless something goes really wrong with the replica log. Is it > replica/updatededb that is the culprit or just the way it is run in > replica/scan? It strikes me that if it is forced to abort for some > reason it should avoi

[9fans] Re: [IWP9] Carpool from Brooklyn

2007-11-28 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Nov 27, 2007 5:15 PM, Joel C. Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (unless folks tell me mass transit is the better option) …which has happened. I'll be using the trains like everyone else. --Joel

Re: [9fans] segattach plan9port

2007-11-28 Thread Fernan Bolando
On 11/28/07, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > last night I was looking into vt source. I tried to compile under > > p9p and in consctl.c it was calling the p9 system call segattach. > > > > I was wondering if somebody can point me in a p9p port that shows > > a very simple and straight forwa

Re: [9fans] SoundBlaster 16 on QEMU not working

2007-11-28 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Someone provided it and mp3enc in replica/pull (but forgot the man page for mp3dec - only mp3enc). It complains about needing an -s option because no device support was compiled in? I'll look at madplay later and see if that helps. On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Markus Sonderegger wrote: An

Re: [9fans] SoundBlaster 16 on QEMU not working

2007-11-28 Thread Markus Sonderegger
> And where can I find mp3dec? There is no native mp3dec. You can install the madplay port from /n/sources/contrib/uriel/mirror/nemo_madplay.tgz. Then do % cat >/bin/games/mp3dec cat $* | madplay -q -o RAW:- - or something like that. Or better write a native one :)