Re: [9fans] thoughs about venti+fossil

2008-03-05 Thread Uriel
hey are not reliable, so best go live in a very deep cave, just make sure there is no Internet access, the world will be grateful for it. uriel

Re: [9fans] plan9 httpd/pegasus on unix?

2008-02-29 Thread Uriel
Pity you are so busy, we all would love so much to hear more of what you have to say about lunix MTAs. And please, keep us updated with every detail of your tireless efforts to 'create' a GPL fork of qmail, that project would be of utmost relevance and usefulness to Plan 9. uriel On F

Re: [9fans] awk, not utf aware...

2008-02-28 Thread Uriel
n in; in other words, awk spreads its 'simian' (ape-ish) nature. uriel

Re: [9fans] awk, not utf aware...

2008-02-27 Thread Uriel
native port of awk that fixed most (all?) of this issues, it can be found somewhere in his contrib dir but I don't think is production-ready. uriel On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Sape Mullender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is split and other functions, > > for e

Re: [9fans] video of an acme session

2008-02-27 Thread Uriel
Ah, I love how 9fans has become a mac tech support group... Maybe it is time we offocially rename the list to jobsFans or something. uriel On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Geoffrey Avila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I cheated and used XP on Parallels. Usually, Flip4Mac work

Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions

2008-02-26 Thread Uriel
suddenly lit by the headlights of a Peterbuilt. > > `It's faster?' > > `No, it's not!' > > End of questions. I would pay good money for a video of this exchange... uriel

Re: [9fans] Plan9 on Intel Pentiul D Dualcore (D94RPLrn)

2008-02-25 Thread Uriel
orks (ie., boots) with NT's broken ACPI implementation... This makes adding ACPI support to your favorite OS most fun, fun, fun. uriel

Re: [9fans] plan9 httpd/pegasus on unix?

2008-02-25 Thread Uriel
If you want to write web apps in rc, p9p is enough. http://gsoc.cat-v.org is built with rc based templates and the 'werc' framework (barely over a hundred lines of rc code). If you want to do things right I would use mjl's new httpd for Inferno. uriel On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:

Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions

2008-02-20 Thread Uriel
"For the sinner deserves not life but death, according to the disk devices. For example, start with Plan 9, which is free of sin, the case is different from His perspective." -- Mark V. Shaney - http://danny.oz.au/danny/humour/shaney1 On Feb 19, 2008 5:11 AM, Bruce Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions

2008-02-18 Thread Uriel
While we are at it... lets remember that young people don't know any history. Everyone knows that the first language with garbage collection was Visual Basic. uriel On Feb 19, 2008 1:43 AM, Andrew Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Small point. The quote is `Le

Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions

2008-02-18 Thread Uriel
; I really learn here, and I > love what I call the "uriel/bruce touch" (I have learned now that it > is a bit of "boyd touch", but I arrived here a bit too late for > that...). You (and everyone) should read the archives, they are pure gold, the quality of the discussion

[9fans] Insultant...

2008-02-17 Thread Uriel
.net and boydo.net are gone, anyone knows where to find a mirror of boyd's stuff? I somene can find I copy I will try to host it. (A source more convenient than archive.org would be appreciated, specially if it includes full blog archives). uriel

Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions

2008-02-17 Thread Uriel
nail straight in the head. uriel - trying to do a boyd On Feb 18, 2008 5:46 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And if you're going to rebut and say that limbo needs dis, then check this > out: > > /n/sources/contrib/andrey/dis.tar.gz (or something) > &g

Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions

2008-02-17 Thread Uriel
ving to worry about all this saves many headaches when you want to port Inferno to a new arch too. uriel

Re: [9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash

2008-02-11 Thread Uriel
t innovation GNU has ever brought to unix, in gnu systems I rarely even bother checking the docs, because even random trial and error usually takes much less effort than navigating the fetid info swamp. uriel

Re: [9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash

2008-02-09 Thread Uriel
of all the jobs that have been created thanks to them, I bet Mr bs would love to have invented them! uriel

Re: [9fans] managing windows in rio

2008-02-08 Thread Uriel
nd (which if the last action was a 'send' becomes a single click) is usually much better. Inside acme's win it is even easier. And also, it is rare to Snarf with a menu when you can mouse chord instead. uriel > 5. to make rc auto-scroll for programs that output many pages of text

Re: [9fans] [9fans ] What's the best access method to Plan9 from Linux

2008-02-08 Thread Uriel
Inferno. On Feb 8, 2008 10:13 AM, Hongzheng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently, I installed a Plan9 system on a computer while I still > usually work under Debian Linux running on another computer. So I > wonder how I can conveniently access the Plan9 system from my Linux > b

Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

2008-02-06 Thread Uriel
o any libraries that must be shared need to be recompiled. I have yet to see that anyone (that is not dead) has ever got the GCC port to work at all. (Fgb spent lots of time trying to get it to go, but to no avail). That it is (was?) linked from the website seems to add more confusion than anythin

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 wireless how-to...

2008-02-05 Thread Uriel
ed(1) is worth learning (and often the fastest way to do small edits). And there is always cat(1), which with hold mode is almost a full fledged editor. uriel On Feb 5, 2008 6:58 PM, Michael Andronov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>You are probably pressing the wrong butto

Re: [9fans] drawterm crash log

2008-02-04 Thread Uriel
m/ipn/2007/10/lab-80-drawterm-plugin.html uriel

Re: Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

2008-02-04 Thread Uriel
erstand that it was stupid, but first feeling...No IDE for > development, no C++ support, no GCC environment, no autotools...It is > not bad at all, but it was suddenly :) Some 20 years 'suddenly'... uriel

Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

2008-02-04 Thread Uriel
And when you thought it couldn't get better, from the top of http://www.comeaucomputing.com "Bursting With So Much Language Support It Hurts!" Most fortune-worthy line ever. uriel On Feb 4, 2008 12:52 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > because something had t

Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

2008-02-04 Thread Uriel
den GCC. And of course ken never did anything after writing ed... not that anyone remembers ed anymore, the other day I found the Debian installer doesn't have ed... but it has nano! oh joy of progress! and if the linux tty gets seriously confused, oh, nano is so much more effective at filling

Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

2008-02-02 Thread Uriel
years ago. uriel P.S.: Sorry for being so easily trolled, but seems that I'm not the only one ;) On Feb 3, 2008 2:17 AM, Robert William Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Juan M. Mendez wrote: > > On 02/02/2008, Martin Neubauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [9fans] A newbie question...

2008-02-02 Thread Uriel
Autotools badness is way beyond most peoples wildest imagination... uriel On Feb 2, 2008 6:10 PM, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But if autotools could "fly" under Plan9 it is not so bad as i think :)) > > autotools is every bit as bad as one could think. > >

Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC

2008-01-24 Thread Uriel
re is only so much time to waste in the hell of web technologies... In the end I think linuxemu is the way of the future... uriel On Jan 24, 2008 11:05 AM, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, my 2ยข worth. > > I turn flash off on all the browsers I use, I find it irritatin

Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC

2008-01-23 Thread Uriel
s a > what-people-want compliance. what-people-want is the Holy Trinity 2.0: Firefox, GCC and Linux. Anything else will never be 'compliant' (unless you are under the Job's distortion field...) uriel

Re: [9fans] Inferno /sys/doc: PDFs are actually PS?

2008-01-18 Thread Uriel
This has been discussed in the past in the proper place for it: the inferno-list. And no, I don't remember why there are postscript files with .pdf extension, and obviously have no clue why this has not been fixed. uriel On Jan 18, 2008 3:18 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [9fans] off topic:is there one? boyd and pianos.

2008-01-16 Thread Uriel
shared so many wonderful things. uriel P.S.: I'm awaiting to get a call saying I ordered an MP5...

Re: [9fans] opera under linuxemu

2008-01-02 Thread Uriel
Absolutely, and it will make a ssh2net much more likely without which ssh2 on plan9 is nowhere as useful as it could be. uriel On Jan 3, 2008 6:26 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 8:02 PM, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Oh, btw, for everyo

Re: [9fans] opera under linuxemu

2008-01-02 Thread Uriel
I think it is, I thought cinap ran xvnc under linuxemu too, but I might be wrong. uriel On Jan 3, 2008 4:58 AM, Federico G. Benavento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the x server is not running on Plan 9 > > > On Jan 3, 2008 12:39 AM, John Floren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [9fans] opera under linuxemu

2008-01-02 Thread Uriel
usual) wrong and now I think it is the best way to waste the least amount of time and effort trying to run lunix junk on Plan 9. Oh, btw, for everyone clamoring for ssh2, openssh runs just fine under linuxemu. My hat goes off to russ and cinap for their amazing work on linux emu. uriel On Jan 3, 2008

Re: [9fans] Abaco: url parsing problem

2007-12-21 Thread Uriel
If you are looking for obnoxiousness and silliness devoid of any content I recommend you re-read what you just wrote. Or you could go and write yet another broken and useless url parsing implementation. uriel On Dec 21, 2007 11:35 AM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &

Re: [9fans] Abaco: url parsing problem

2007-12-21 Thread Uriel
On Dec 21, 2007 11:13 AM, Kernel Panic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uriel wrote: > > >That is why somebody (cough) riped out the url parsing code from webfs > >and put it into a library, and then updated abaco to use that > >library... but we all know here code

Re: [9fans] Abaco: url parsing problem

2007-12-21 Thread Uriel
That is why somebody (cough) riped out the url parsing code from webfs and put it into a library, and then updated abaco to use that library... but we all know here code and effort duplication is good, so never mind. uriel On Dec 20, 2007 4:27 PM, Federico G. Benavento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [9fans] Has DMR retired?

2007-12-17 Thread Uriel
During his IWP9 talk he mentioned he had retired. uriel On Dec 17, 2007 5:03 AM, Douglas A. Gwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody edited the Wikipedia article "Dennis Ritchie" to insert > a rumor that he retired from Bell Labs/Lucent (or whatever the > compan

Re: [9fans] Paper on 9P and synthetic filesystems

2007-12-12 Thread Uriel
There are a few here: http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Papers/index.html Probably from those there, the closest to what you want could be: The Ubiquitous File Server in Plan 9 by C. H. Forsyth and Distributed Computing With Plan 9 by Sape Mullender and Dave Presotto. uriel On Dec 12, 2007 6

Re: [9fans] IWP9: BIIIIG Thanks

2007-12-05 Thread Uriel
). uriel On Dec 5, 2007 3:37 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many thanks to all the organisers, speakers and attendees. > > I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. > > There'll be some photos on flickr in a day or 3: I'll post the address when > they're there.

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 wiping itself?

2007-11-24 Thread Uriel
Somebody was asking why replica sucks? uriel On Nov 24, 2007 6:46 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realized that a few minutes > .I after > sending myself the email. Oh well. What was the point of that - did > someone rewrite the entire library? Why didn'

Re: [9fans] kernel memory allocator got confused?

2007-11-22 Thread Uriel
that there was no bug. uriel On Nov 23, 2007 12:04 AM, Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...i'm more inclined to suspect memory problems. > > Thanks Russ for the very detailed analysis. > > I will start by reseating the RAM and if that fails > I will pe

Re: [9fans] sources/contrib

2007-11-22 Thread Uriel
After plan9dev was killed (I still don't know why, I think it performed exactly the function you want), somebody else created this: http://groups.google.com/group/plan9-tech uriel P.S.: I got bashed for even mentioning this list exists some months ago, so I guess it is not what you want

Re: [9fans] sources/contrib

2007-11-21 Thread Uriel
In any case, what needs work in the wiki is the content, reorganizing it might help, but please, if you do so make sure to finish rather than leave the whole thing in some random state of flush which is how the wiki has spent most of its life. uriel On Nov 21, 2007 10:08 PM, Navin Johnson <[E

Re: [9fans] 8c "out of fixed registers"

2007-11-21 Thread Uriel
> [...] usable web browser would be a fine idea. No, a 'usable web browser' would be an oxymoron. uriel

Re: [9fans] sources/contrib

2007-11-21 Thread Uriel
com/wiki/plan9/errata/ I'm pleased to see Geoff actually updated that page some months ago (to point out ms2html is deprecated). uriel

Re: [9fans] sources/contrib

2007-11-21 Thread Uriel
On Nov 20, 2007 11:42 PM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007 1:36 PM, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Read 9fans archives, replica/pull has wiped out more than a handful of > > systems, > > if you run venti you can recover, but it i

Re: [9fans] sources/contrib

2007-11-20 Thread Uriel
tency sensitivity. uriel On Nov 20, 2007 9:21 PM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007 10:31 AM, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2007 4:57 PM, Federico Benavento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > lsr, replica, for me are the sa

Re: [9fans] sources/contrib

2007-11-20 Thread Uriel
it is too fragile and too slow, but I don't think my opinion on this matters much. (Now that we have python we could use hg... although I fail to quite see the issue with plain tarballs) uriel >the principle > still applies, you can't keeping track > of files inside tar files i

Re: [9fans] 8c "out of fixed registers"

2007-11-19 Thread Uriel
ned in the ever growing dunes of gratuitous complexity. *sigh* uriel P.S.: I miss boyd... "if you want lunix you know where to find it". On Nov 19, 2007 7:48 PM, Robert William Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Charles Forsyth wrote: > > yes, that's the

Re: [9fans] /n/sources/contrib/

2007-11-17 Thread Uriel
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Setting_up_a_sources_mirror/ On Nov 17, 2007 6:35 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started to mirror the entirety of /n/sources/contrib, but the > results are disappointing. > > If I'm not mistaken, there is no "replica" facility around "contrib", > could i

Re: [9fans] Current status of amd64 port?

2007-11-15 Thread Uriel
Maybe someone could tell you, but they would have to kill you afterwards. uriel P.S.: Obviously even if I knew anything about this subject I could not confirm or deny any such knowledge without breaching the laws that govern the wonderfully open and transparent plan9 development process

Re: [9fans] Fortran

2007-11-14 Thread Uriel
On Nov 14, 2007 8:45 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have nothing against gcc. I have everything against the GPL. I have > no idea of Solaris' history, though. Then what are you doing in this mailing list? uriel > On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:55 AM, [EM

Re: [9fans] ISO download link encountering trouble

2007-11-14 Thread Uriel
People in #plan9 have been reporting random errors downloading the ISO for quite a while... just in case anybody cares. uriel On Nov 14, 2007 7:32 PM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /usr/web/plan9/locks/71.231.98.120: rc (9down): can't open: > '/usr/web/pla

Re: [9fans] Glendix?

2007-11-13 Thread Uriel
s/UNIX/Plan 9/g I love that post, but I don't think s/UNIX/Plan 9/g is valid, we are not talking about microkernels here, and see also Inferno. uriel

Re: [9fans] Glendix?

2007-11-13 Thread Uriel
, but then, I feel sorry for the VFS they have to deal with... uriel On Nov 13, 2007 2:30 PM, John Stalker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I picked this idea from the GSoC07 Wiki page: porting the Plan 9 > > userspace to the Linux kernel. > > For your own sanity I would sugge

Re: [9fans] Glendix?

2007-11-13 Thread Uriel
deal (and you are still having a lunix environment outside the plan9 environment). In any case, I'm not sure I see the point of all this arguments before not a single line of code has been written (and much less released), the more people we have bringing plan9 technologies to the world the better. uriel

Re: [9fans] Glendix?

2007-11-13 Thread Uriel
approach is that it works nicely in steps, and if you want to do that change later on you wont need to change anything else. uriel

Re: [9fans] Glendix?

2007-11-13 Thread Uriel
ustom userspace servers. uriel On Nov 13, 2007 11:05 AM, Gorka Guardiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 13, 2007 10:28 AM, Anant Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I on the right track? > > > > See THNX by rminnich, an lguest port of plan 9 with drawte

Re: [9fans] Python 2.5.1

2007-11-11 Thread Uriel
Thanks! Please, could you put it in sources/contrib? Thank you uriel On Nov 11, 2007 2:58 PM, Moroo Jun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I applied plan9 patch on Python 2.5.1. > > You can get it from > http://www.tip9ug.jp/who/moroo/Python-2.5.1-Plan9.tgz > > >

Re: [9fans] consterm

2007-11-06 Thread Uriel
the same thing reusing the already existing functionality in Inferno. uriel On Nov 6, 2007 10:43 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/6/07, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/6/07, Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc

2007-11-01 Thread Uriel
style of clear and concise information and simple examples that help illustrate the general concepts, but that does require the reader to actually *understand* things rather than just follow an arbitrary set of steps. Best wishes uriel > > > some important stuff is hard to find; > > Sometime

Re: [9fans] Suggestion: Programming Tutorial for /sys/doc

2007-11-01 Thread Uriel
> "man page jumping" is a problem. Use the plumber luke. (Specially in acme, any man page reference is a right click away)

Re: [9fans] security

2007-10-28 Thread Uriel
kers can already pick the pile of papers lying on your desk so you should trust them anyway. Seeing this kinds of arguments is quite sad, specially given how far ahead plan9 is from every other system when it comes to *real* *practical* security. And I'm an idiot, but this whole discussion has become quite stupid. uriel

Re: [9fans] security

2007-10-27 Thread Uriel
/bin/ls, and the remaining 0.1% it doesn't hurt to be explicit and run ./ls But this has been discussed before, and 'the powers that be' didn't agree, I only wish I could understand why, but that is probably my fault. uriel On 10/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAI

Re: [9fans] 9intro.pdf

2007-10-18 Thread Uriel
rk on both books uriel On 10/18/07, Francisco J Ballesteros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just submit bugs to me just drop me a line. > > I know sometimes it takes a long time for me to put the fix in, I'll > try to be faster. > > thanks for the help, btw. > > On

Re: [9fans] simplicity

2007-10-09 Thread Uriel
/gato' to '/bin/cat' if your locale is in Spanish?) And now that you mention Gettext, if only I could get back all the time I wasted trying to compile some stupid program (that should never have been 'localized' in the first place) which is somehow unhappy about the gettex

Re: [9fans] Another addons.html update: s/gccbin/gnubin/

2007-09-27 Thread Uriel
Might be a good idea to move the addons page to the wiki, this was suggested years ago, but I guess at the time it was not considered feasible because the web interface to sources was not open yet. uriel On 9/28/07, Anthony Sorace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to whoever made the

Re: [9fans] plan9.bell-labs.com

2007-09-23 Thread Uriel
FYI, sources and the wiki have been intermittently down most of the day (when I started typing this email the wiki was down, seems to be back up right now, but the web interface to sources is down now, and I have had trouble accessing sources over 9p all day). uriel P.S.: Thanks to people in irc

Re: [9fans] deferred patches

2007-09-23 Thread Uriel
Thanks for the prompt repply, I guess I have not been looking closely enough at the latest patches. uriel On 9/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually most patches processed recently have not been deferred. A > few long-outstanding ones that we may eventuall

[9fans] deferred patches

2007-09-22 Thread Uriel
I just noticed that most patches processed lately have been 'deferred', what does this mean? Best wishes uriel

Re: [9fans] summer of code

2007-09-20 Thread Uriel
hat we can keep working on it and that we have learned to do better next year. Best wishes uriel On 9/19/07, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I confess to being impressed by the Plan 9 port to OLPC. I did the > first BIOS for this machine and I kind of appreciate the difficu

Re: [9fans] simplicity

2007-09-18 Thread Uriel
X headers: #define NBBY8 /* number of bits in a byte */ uriel On 9/18/07, Rob Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/17/07, Douglas A. Gwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > erik quanstrom wrote: > > > i think the devolution of gnu grep is quite inst

Re: [9fans] Filesystem scheme for Web-Access ?

2007-09-17 Thread Uriel
webfs(4) On 9/17/07, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > I'm currently thinking about moving out mozilla's web access > handling (http + friends) to some 9p server to make moz's structure > some reasonable bit simpler and make performance tweaking easier > (w/ the current

Re: [9fans] venti woes with brand new install

2007-09-10 Thread Uriel
f having a changelog). Why this approach was considered a good idea rather than having the author of the change write a changelog entry at the same time the change is made/committed-to-sources is something I have never understood. uriel On 9/10/07, SHRIZZA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I&

Re: [9fans] cpu/auth warlock

2007-09-09 Thread Uriel
es are owned upas:upas and mode 775 so I'm not sure how to > write them > unless I mount fossil -AWP I might be missing something, but any reason not to just add bootes to group upas? Best wishes uriel

Re: [9fans] kenfs (look ma, no disks)

2007-09-09 Thread Uriel
Any chance this could live in sources? Even if kenfs is not part of the distribution anymore, it would be nice to have 'unofficial' place where people who still want it can find the latest version. uriel On 9/9/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've bee

Re: [9fans] venti woes with brand new install

2007-09-09 Thread Uriel
n+1. Actually, fossil works with much more fine grained granularity than one day, it is up to the user to decide how that granularity should be and for how long such snaps should be kept. (sorry for nit picking, you probably knew that already, just was pointing this out for whoever might not know) uriel

Re: [9fans] venti woes with brand new install

2007-09-09 Thread Uriel
Even if you know C, the reasons and purpose of a change are very often non-obvious. Specially if you are not familiar with the code being changed and all you want to know is if whatever bug was bothering you is supposedly fixed or not (so you can test it and provide due feedback). uriel On 9/9

Re: [9fans] The Web9 Project

2007-09-08 Thread Uriel
titor. Maybe, if you have ridiculously low latency. Which is one of the reasons I would like to see the latency issues addressed, so 9P services can work well over non-LAN networks. Maybe we can finally agree on a solution for this at this year's IWP9? Best wishes uriel

Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Uriel
Can't find out for sure until someone fixes it :)) One more reason IMHO why we are best off having it disabled, so when things freeze we know it is something else. Best wishes uriel On 9/3/07, Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The current swap just frustrates peo

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-09-03 Thread Uriel
fined convention, and then clients who cared about such extra 'features' could use them without changing 9p, existing servers or clients (which don't care about this 'features'). uriel On 9/3/07, Joel C. Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/3/07, Uriel <[EMAI

Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Uriel
ap is left alone, when it is actually broken. The current swap just frustrates people who expect it to work, and then have their systems freeze randomly. Maybe by disabling/remove swap support, then if someone really needs swap he will fix it first and then we can add it back. Best wishes uriel

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-09-03 Thread Uriel
o the file name would make more sense) uriel On 9/2/07, Joel C. Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/2/07, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And actually, I think one could have something similar to Douglas > > suggestion in Plan 9 without changing the kernel

Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory?

2007-09-02 Thread Uriel
Except that swap, is, as far as I have been able to figure out, broken. uriel On 3 Sep 2007 01:35:14 -0400, Scott Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:38:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > would have to commit just for stacks. With 2,000

Re: [9fans] sources access from brazil

2007-09-02 Thread Uriel
from tip9ug, or use a random http proxy and make the whole thing pointless (other than keeping out people like iru). I might be stupid, but this still makes no sense to me, and I would like to know why nobody else seems to have any such problems. Best wishes uriel P.S.: Note the following noti

Re: [9fans] sources access from brazil

2007-09-02 Thread Uriel
This is probably a silly question, but why should anyone be denied access on the basis of whatever a whois server who knows where might or might not do? Best wishes and thanks for fixing the issues iru was having. uriel On 9/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-09-02 Thread Uriel
On 9/2/07, Joel C. Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/1/07, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With this way of thinking we will never catch up with lunix's 400 > > syscalls (and counting, not to mention the ioctls)! > > We're partly there

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-09-01 Thread Uriel
With this way of thinking we will never catch up with lunix's 400 syscalls (and counting, not to mention the ioctls)! uriel > See /sys/src/libc/9sys/dirread.c and read(5). Plan 9 doesn't have a > distinct system call for reading directory entries. > > --Joel >

Re: [9fans] CD Image problem

2007-08-29 Thread Uriel
tat file /sys/lib/dist/bin/386/tailfsrv: '/sys/lib/dist/bin/386/tailfsrv' does not exist mkfs: proto.cp:102: can't stat file /sys/lib/dist/pc/multi/tee: '/sys/lib/dist/pc/multi/tee' does not exist mkfs: proto.cp:104: can't stat file /sys/lib/dist/pc/multi/test: '/sy

Re: [9fans] CD Image problem

2007-08-29 Thread Uriel
Thanks for fixing this! Is the code for generating the images somewhere? I have tried to generate my own images a few times, but it is a bit tricky, and it would be nice to use the same process used for the official ones. Best wishes uriel On 8/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-08-29 Thread Uriel
(this days lost everywhere except in Plan 9) is still the most powerful, file servers simply and transparently expand the environment where tools live and interact. Not everything needs to be a file server, but everything should handle text streams (ie., pipes or files). Best wishes uriel On 8/2

Re: [9fans] handling tabs in text frames

2007-08-26 Thread Uriel
make it work in practice given how much text out there will probably become messed up, you could add yet another toggle to enable/disable this, but that would create yet another thing one has to worry about fiddling with, having to worry about eight or four space tabs is already painful enough. Best

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 Workshop

2007-08-22 Thread Uriel
ccompanying article, so we're not left with just the talk slides). This would be wonderful, not because utah2000 is less true today, but because it is even more true than seven years ago and the world still has not learned anything from it. uriel

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-08-21 Thread Uriel
to do with my point about icons for window > managers, since mail messages are not files, generally speaking. upasfs(4) In Plan 9 everything is a file (server). And that is one more reason why extended attributes make no sense in Plan 9, because if you need them it means you have not done a good job designing your file server interface. uriel

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-08-20 Thread Uriel
; > (Exeunt left mumbling and shaking head). > > Well, see that's the problem -- even the best kind of art might > need a bit of introductory appreciation lessons. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > P.S. boyd, is this you? :-) Nah, not harsh enough, but I can feel the ground shaking from the spinning somewhere... uriel

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-08-20 Thread Uriel
I guess robert is not the only one who has to do some reading of 9fans archives... uriel On 8/21/07, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm who's Dave L? I thought I was Dave L, but this isn't me Dave L. > > Super :-) > > On 8/20/07, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-08-20 Thread Uriel
heritance. > What a way to introduce myself to the list. I'm sure I'm making friends > fast :-p Just be glad that boyd is not around anymore ;) uriel

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-08-20 Thread Uriel
ly create many more jobs, so they keep adding layers of crud but wont implement the solution that has been around for ages... has anyone learned anything from plan9? I'm starting to doubt it. Why is it that every new software feature people come up with makes me think of the "I did it for you all" interview? uriel

Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory

2007-08-20 Thread Uriel
>From #plan9 some years ago: the only places for icons is in a church, a burning church at that On 8/20/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/20/07, Francisco J Ballesteros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you prefer embedding the "face" in each mail as metadata instead of >

Re: [9fans] everything is a directory

2007-08-16 Thread Uriel
plexity is helping create, I'm sure the good shape of the world economy is in good part thanks to the great progress in our wonderful software industry. Best wishes uriel

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