Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Gorka Guardiola
On Feb 20, 2008 6:10 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or perhaps someone should write a book aimed at newbies on using Plan > 9 from Bell Labs. It would be called "Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs," > typeset in troff, and not go into technical details. > Trouble reading, have you?. Th

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Marc Cinq Brillant
You more annoying than 99% of people. I save Uriel time - you fuck off! 2008/2/19, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Or perhaps someone should write a book aimed at newbies on using Plan > 9 from Bell Labs. It would be called "Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs," > typeset in troff, and not go int

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
It is a good idea indeed... First: A wiki page "Are you a newbie?" Second: A nice "Welcome newbie... Do this and that" Third: State the obvios: "Newbie... You have to read... We won't read for you" And some other indications... I can do the "intentionaly left blank page" :P On Feb 20, 2008 5:

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread andrey mirtchovski
On Feb 19, 2008 10:10 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or perhaps someone should write a book aimed at newbies on using Plan > 9 from Bell Labs. It would be called "Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs," > typeset in troff, and not go into technical details. > Oh, that one's easy: the sing

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Or perhaps someone should write a book aimed at newbies on using Plan 9 from Bell Labs. It would be called "Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs," typeset in troff, and not go into technical details. On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente wrote: Perhaps there could be

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
Perhaps there could be an "autoanswer" mail account... [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something... :P On Feb 20, 2008 4:44 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 2008 9:50 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Maybe somebody should set up a script that looks for emails with > >> subjects similar to

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread lucio
> On Feb 19, 2008 9:50 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe somebody should set up a script that looks for emails with >> subjects similar to "new to Plan 9", "Plan 9 newbie", etc. and >> sends a message with links to the wiki. >> I'm only half joking. >> >> John >> >> > > first that. > > iru

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Iruata Souza
On Feb 19, 2008 9:48 PM, devrin talen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 7:40 PM, Iruata Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > have you finished it [rc, rio, acme] already? > > I've learned what the intro tutorials offered. I still feel like > there's a lot to learn! > my answer was to pi

Re: [9fans] authenticating local server

2008-02-19 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
since nobody well qualified has answered this, i'll go out on a limb and answer at the risk of unleashing somebody's wrath :) the question is confusing to me and i'm guessing at what you are trying to do. you could authenticate the user, launch a httpd for that user and redirect the user to it.

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Iruata Souza
On Feb 19, 2008 9:50 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe somebody should set up a script that looks for emails with > subjects similar to "new to Plan 9", "Plan 9 newbie", etc. and > sends a message with links to the wiki. > I'm only half joking. > > John > > first that. iru

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread john
> hola, > > people tend to forget, but Plan 9 does has a wiki, with answers > to most of the questions these groundhog (credit: maht) day posts. > > read it via acme, or: > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Recommended_readings/ > > have fun and welcome to Plan 9! > Maybe somebody should

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread devrin talen
On Feb 19, 2008 7:40 PM, Iruata Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have you finished it [rc, rio, acme] already? I've learned what the intro tutorials offered. I still feel like there's a lot to learn!

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Federico G. Benavento
hola, people tend to forget, but Plan 9 does has a wiki, with answers to most of the questions these groundhog (credit: maht) day posts. read it via acme, or: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Recommended_readings/ have fun and welcome to Plan 9! On Feb 19, 2008 9:00 PM, Martin Neubauer <[E

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Iruata Souza
On Feb 19, 2008 7:58 PM, devrin talen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been interested in Plan 9 for a little while now and finally got > around to setting up a virtual plan 9 installation via qemu. As > someone completely new to the operating system I've been reading the > man pages, getting fami

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Iruata Souza
On Feb 19, 2008 8:11 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First off, finish learning to use rc, rio, and acme. You'll need both > of them :-) > have you finished it already? iru

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Martin Neubauer
* Pietro Gagliardi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > First off, finish learning to use rc, rio, and acme. You'll need both > of them :-) For large values of two, two equals three, for small values of three. Seriously, it's probobly easiest to understand how Plan 9 works and why it is the way it is b

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread john
> I've been interested in Plan 9 for a little while now and finally got > around to setting up a virtual plan 9 installation via qemu. As > someone completely new to the operating system I've been reading the > man pages, getting familiar with sam and acme, randomly clicking > around, etc. What wou

Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
First off, finish learning to use rc, rio, and acme. You'll need both of them :-) If you are using QEMU, I am assuming you already use another OS. Therefore, just a bit of translation: in your OS, you say "Copy." In Plan 9, you say "Snarf." Next, to turn off Plan 9, issue the fsha

[9fans] New to plan 9: what next?

2008-02-19 Thread devrin talen
I've been interested in Plan 9 for a little while now and finally got around to setting up a virtual plan 9 installation via qemu. As someone completely new to the operating system I've been reading the man pages, getting familiar with sam and acme, randomly clicking around, etc. What would you sug

[9fans] authenticating local server

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Simon
Hi, I have a file server which posts a file descriptor in /srv the idea is that this will be run from cpurc so httpd can mount it. In my naive implementation the server runs as bootes so it has different access to files to the httpd which normally runs as none. I can just call becomenone() in th

Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43

2008-02-19 Thread john
> Hi, > > But even for the same install cd and partition scheme, the > installation is success for the first time ( execpt that some files > are missing when system is in use) and could not be booted at all for > the second time. This is really strange :( > > > On Feb 19, 2008 4:52 PM, Alexande

[9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43

2008-02-19 Thread Hongzheng Wang
Really interesing :-) I hope I can see Ron's reply as soon as possible. Thanks. On Feb 19, 2008 10:04 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes - but much more simple. Ron Minnich has THNX (tiny horrible not > xen) which is essentially a USB flash-stick pacakged boot environme

Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43

2008-02-19 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Feb 19, 2008 12:01 AM, Hongzheng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your reply. > > I am not familiar with lguest. I browsed the documentation of lguest > but cannot grasp the core idea yet. Is it something like vmware? > Yes - but much more simple. Ron Minnich has THNX (tiny ho

Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43

2008-02-19 Thread Hongzheng Wang
Hi, But even for the same install cd and partition scheme, the installation is success for the first time ( execpt that some files are missing when system is in use) and could not be booted at all for the second time. This is really strange :( On Feb 19, 2008 4:52 PM, Alexander Sychev <[EMAIL P

Re: [9fans] Google search of the day

2008-02-19 Thread sqweek
On Feb 18, 2008 6:48 PM, Douglas A. Gwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sqweek wrote: > > Is there a fork analog in plan 9? > > rfork, which is more general in that the program can specify > in more detail which resources are to be shared and which are > to be copied. Er, right. I knew that, I mean

Re: [9fans] An unsuccessful attempt to install on Thinkpad T43

2008-02-19 Thread Alexander Sychev
Hello! On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:55:14 +0300, Hongzheng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For boot method, since I have both Linux and XP on my laptop already, I choose grub as multiple boot manager. That is, I select `plan9' as boot method when I am asked and don't install boot instructions into