Re: [9fans] consterm

2007-11-06 Thread matt
cpu -h $resp(1) -u $resp(2) is what my code actually was

Re: [9fans] consterm

2007-11-06 Thread matt
emu is a console app There's also a route that could use qemu as a user app. :> I tried running bind /dev/eia0 /dev/cons while() { auth/factotum echo host user resp = `{read} cpu -h $resp(1) $resp(2) } But after it gets your credentials it sends \r instead of \n when pressing enter

Re: [9fans] everything is a directory

2007-08-17 Thread matt
You can't argue against the principle, we take files as directories all the time and one level or another. So, for me, it's botched implementation. Just wait for extended attribute directories to be added on with something like file.txt:meta.zip (but not zip files, something new [that's like zip

Re: [9fans] 9fans content

2007-08-11 Thread matt
You could just build a Plan 9 phone out of parts if you felt like it : http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php?cPath=66_68

Re: [9fans] synthetic filesystems and changing data

2007-08-09 Thread matt
d it. That's a solution to the same problem. Matt

Re: [9fans] A few questions on omero setup

2007-08-09 Thread matt
Yeah, and I think Dave 2.0 might arrive next April... Surely RC2 ? ;)

Re: [9fans] kvm

2007-07-07 Thread matt
Well that certainly sounds promising. I've got qemu images already Have you come across this open bug : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1672286&group_id=180599&atid=893831

[9fans] kvm

2007-07-07 Thread matt
I notice from the archives that people have had success running plan9 on KVM but I don't see it listed http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Guest_Support_Status My dual Opteron 270 dual core box gets built next week and I'm looking at what I can do with it. matt

Re: [9fans] URI scheme for 9P2000 resources

2007-07-01 Thread matt
The problem I forsee is clunks, unless you keep the 9p alive until the browser closes you'll have to time them out which is a subject we've touch in recently elsewhere.

Re: [9fans] Anyone else see this?

2007-06-28 Thread matt
The point was that it's interesting none-the-less. Someone who doesn't know what they are talking about ranting on. Interesting? Hardly.

[9fans] EPIA 5000 - NIC and VGA all good

2007-06-01 Thread matt
When I first bought my EPIA 5000 Mini-ITX board Plan 9 From Bell Labs would install but only in text mode and the NIC needed the anyrhine driver compiling in. Some years later (last week) I decided to make it into a CPU/AUTH box for serving http. To my great delight not only was Ether suppor

Re: [9fans] XML

2007-05-21 Thread matt
ron minnich wrote: This one is interesting: Parse error, expecting something interesting, got old discussion about XML being used because its fashionable.

Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad R60e notebook compatible with Plan9?

2007-05-17 Thread matt
They were very helpful when I phoned them. I had no idea who I was phoning so it was a pleasant surprise when I got put through somehow to Dave Lukes and we had quite the chat! let's hear it for socially enabling disclaimers matt Dear Sirs, I believe I have recieved this email in

[9fans] Advocacy made difficult

2007-05-16 Thread matt
Plan9 - means never having to delete a file http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ Object not found The object /plan9/ does not exist on this server. must ... resist ... snarky ... comment :)

[9fans] troff fonts

2007-05-14 Thread matt
I've been learning troff at last. As part of that I made this page so I could see what fonts would work. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/troff_fonts.ps or just http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/fonts.tr or /n/sources/contrib/maht of course, however you choose I

Re: Broadcom driver discussion [Was: Re: [9fans] Is IBM ThinkPad R60e

2007-05-11 Thread matt
> but 9fans seems to work OK without Uriel's whinges. He's not the only whinger. Give me a Uriel plan9 rant over C99 whining any day.

Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc

2007-05-06 Thread matt
> slow not really I don't know what sort of metric you are using but whatever it is, it's wrong. My PC has gone from 20,000,000hz to 3,000,000,000hz in 10 years. How does Vista boot to GUI compare to Win3.1 ? To say Vista/OSX/Lunix are not slow is outrageously naive! and for all you asm arg

Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc

2007-05-06 Thread matt
Similarly, Plan9 itself seems to have gone from bleeding edge to minor sideshow without much time on stage in between. There are Plan 9 ideas scattered around the Lunix world. Many more will come. You talk as if it is all over.

Re: [9fans] Re: new termrc

2007-05-01 Thread matt
you could always do sysname=foo in plan9.ini you can also set other environment variables in there to use in termrc, termrc.local and cpurc I have a plan9.ini menu that sets ip=10.0.0.9 or 192.168.9.9 or DHCP which I then use in termrc.local to choose how to use ip/ipconfig

Re: [9fans] jukebox jury - uriel's a miss!!

2007-04-24 Thread matt
I thought that was me :) but hey, it's only a few binds, have them on me anyway don't underestimate the insight of abhey shah, IWP9 2006. he showed a file system that can be accessed thru many paths. we had some tapas and beer and he got me onto a jukebox solution. /beethoven/concertos/piano

Re: [9fans] jukebox jury - uriel's a miss!!

2007-04-24 Thread matt
While I appreciate the sarcasm, p9p juke isn't in contrib http://swtch.com/juke/ > p9p has its own juke-thingie I forgot the name of. If you forgot, why didn't you check the contrib index? It was setup for a reason.

[9fans] You are not allowed to see the object /sys/man/.

2007-04-23 Thread matt
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/ Forbidden You are not allowed to see the object /sys/man/. hget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ | grep 'sys\/man' man pages,

Re: [9fans] about acme!

2007-04-20 Thread matt
also try one of these little known secrets man acme page /sys/doc/acme/acme.ps or you could plumb acme(4) /sys/doc/acme/acme.ps * sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070420 11:01]: hello, how can i make acme or sam to tell me which line of text my cursor is at or maybe how could i jump

Re: [9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID

2007-04-16 Thread matt
thanks to Ex-Cyber for this http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html You're right, it's a fake RAID I just re-read fs(3) for #k and see interleaving of disks rather than mirroring I shall take a look at that because I'm chasing RAID 0 not RAID 1 or rather I'm chasing I/O speed for CF and not

[9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID

2007-04-16 Thread matt
Hi, I have an MSI K8T NEO2 FIR Motherboard with on-board VT8237 SATA/RAID I connected two SATA drives to it and used the BIOS Raid creator to create a striped RAID set. When I booted into Plan 9 I didn't get the single striped drive I was hoping for : --rw-r- S 0 maht maht15990784

Re: [9fans] bell-labs website and plan9

2007-04-09 Thread matt
I don't know which bits are missing from Ron's port but the PyPy.org project has been making a pure python version of python. I've been using bits of it on Nokia Series 60 Python which says it's 2.2 but doesn't have all the 2.2 libs [such as Pickle, collections, mutex]), still no crypt though,

Re: [9fans] something evil happening when partitioning a hdd with the plan9 installer

2007-04-09 Thread matt
I use http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/ It can trick the OS a bit " Swapping driver ID Smart BootManager can boot most operating systems from not only the first hard disk but also others. If you have more than one hard disk in a computer and run different operating systems on each, this feature is

Re: [9fans] myricom 10 gigabit ethernet

2007-04-07 Thread matt
> I can't find one online to buy and no-one's ebaying *anything* by Myricom. Nor can I find a 10G switch. You must be kidding: http://www.google.com/search?q=myricom I had "pages from the UK" ticked.

[9fans] myricom 10 gigabit ethernet

2007-04-07 Thread matt
coraid was given the blessing on monday to give the the myricom 10 gigabit ethernet *driver* with firmware for the cpu and fs kernels to the plan 9 community. I can't find one online to buy and no-one's ebaying *anything* by Myricom. Nor can I find a 10G switch. I presume these items are all o

Re: [9fans] Does Plan 9 have antialiased fonts?

2007-04-06 Thread matt
http://9grid.net/andrey/p9/freetype/ result number 9 for my google search : http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=plan9+anti+aliased+fonts

Re: [9fans] pppoe configuration

2007-04-05 Thread matt
One attempted, unsuccessfully, to use irc to solve one's problem. sorry for flood,. I've tryed star irc too, but nothing too. Haha, is there some way to write in english without using a lot of 'I'.. "i"... that is strange a lot. :D

Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno

2007-03-14 Thread matt
> if rio did have cute windows, I'll have to show you these later, my ISP's ftp has disappeared & I cant remember the uri for the image > anti-aliased fonts check : http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/420928486_15d959102c_b_d.jpg and little whirry 3d doo dads that a lot of the complaints about

Re: [9fans] compiling error

2007-03-14 Thread matt
cpp is your friend cat | cpp -P << EOF static double maxarg1,maxarg2; #define FMAX(a,b) (maxarg1=(a),maxarg2=(b),(maxarg1)>(maxarg2)?(maxarg1):(maxarg 2)); void main(void){ float a,b,c,d; a=1.0; b=2.0; c=3.0; d=FMAX(b,1.0); print("%f", fabs(a)*FMAX(b,1.0)/c); } EOF

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 household shared file server

2007-03-12 Thread matt
What would you say to $30 + drives ? http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html SiL 3112 SATA, 3114 SATA/RAID VIA 82C686, VT8237 SATA/RAID I've not tried either of these but I am waiting to try one of them out, I managed to spec it as part of a different job. The s

Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ?

2007-03-11 Thread matt
> You miss the point entirely. This might be petty but, no Kris, you missed the point. If you want further proof, see rc(1) BUGS Your broken rc will not interpret scripts intended for the One True rc When you've got ghosts in /bin, who you gonna call ?

Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno

2007-03-08 Thread matt
http://9fans.net/archive/2001/06/170 From: Lucio De Re <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Quake is to Linux what 1-2-3 was to the IBM Personal Computer. Without it, I believe, Linux would still be as much of a curiosity as Plan 9 is today.

Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno

2007-03-08 Thread matt
"How do I find out what commands I can use?" ls /bin

Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno

2007-03-06 Thread matt
fuck 'em! this is not just a matter of "we are so smart, we get rio, and no one else does, so F*** 'em!". I know lots of smart peope. One look at rio is enough to put them off their feed, and to chase them away from Plan 9. Plan 9 is not just about rio -- at least to me.

Re: [9fans] python

2006-12-23 Thread Matt
tiger% python Python 2.2+ (#0, Nov 13 2002, 16:25:02) [C] on unknown Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> I've never updated it if there has been more than one port of it, so that might be old ron minnich wrote: anybody out there familiar with the python

Re: [9fans] ,m0

2006-12-17 Thread Matt
See Rob, that's why we needed you in the pub, looks like Brucee owes Uriel a beer why would moving everything as a block reverse it? try g/./m0 -rob

[9fans] ,m0

2006-12-17 Thread Matt
term% echo '1 2 3 4 5' > h term% ed h 10 ,m0 , 1 2 3 4 5 q term % echo Hey Brucee time for more beer, 35 seems not to have been enough, that doesn't look reversed to me!

Re: [9fans] wait race?

2006-12-15 Thread matt
i tried n = 50, 150 & 500 50 & 150 worked fine 500 it stalled on first time so I killed it and re-ran and it was fine for 200, 300, 400, 500, 1500 my plan9 is quite old though, it's still kfs for instance

Re: [9fans] wait race?

2006-12-15 Thread matt
this command frequently hangs on my terminal stop running it then :)

Re: [9fans] some snapshots of iwp9

2006-12-14 Thread Matt
oops I meant %03d seq 0 50 | awk ' { printf("hget http://lsub.org/iwp9/album/%03d.jpeg > %03d.jpeg\n", NR-1, NR-1) } ' | rc I still call Brazil though seq 0 50 | awk ' { printf("hget http://lsub.org/iwp9/album/%02d.jpeg > %02d.jpeg\n", NR-1, NR-1) } ' | rc Brazil please maht how abo

Re: [9fans] some snapshots of iwp9

2006-12-14 Thread Matt
seq 0 50 | awk ' { printf("hget http://lsub.org/iwp9/album/%02d.jpeg > %02d.jpeg\n", NR-1, NR-1) } ' | rc Brazil please maht how about on a 9p server? surely no need for sed: for (i in `{seq -w 0 50}) hget http://lsub.org/iwp9/album/img0$i.jpeg >img0$i.jpeg first person to figure out

Re: Again: (self)hosted Plan9? Was: [9fans] extending xen to allow

2006-12-13 Thread Matt
;s quite a bit of software written for J2ME There's also Opera for devices, which might be worth a better look at. http://www.opera.com/products/devices/ I know it would be a horrible thing to swallow, but there may be something there. matt

Re: [9fans] IWP9 talks?

2006-12-11 Thread Matt
Hello everyone. Thanks for a great time last week. I've only really just come down to earth ! As for next time - I'd rather avoid US Immigration fingerprinting / profiling etc. but hey, whoever can get it sorted, that's the one for me, even somewhere alcohol dry like Saudi Arabia might be

Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch

2006-11-15 Thread Matt
Think about what you're saying here. A line is a string of characters that ends with a special character (carriage return/line feed, whatever your O.S. likes to do). I'm not a computer. I can't see \r But when I have a string of 600 characters wrapped I can see multiple lines. Word processo

Re: [9fans] undefined reference to `sched_yield'

2006-11-02 Thread Matt
> btw, if you don't want to wait, just change the version number in the OpenBSD check in src/lib9/sleep.c to 200611. thank you, this worked matt

Re: [9fans] undefined reference to `sched_yield'

2006-11-02 Thread Matt
Note of caution about using OpenBSD in qemu: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/crd/qemu_openbsd_note.html thanks, won't be long before we see the first exploit through virtualization now that VMs are becoming a popular choice for hosting co's

[9fans] undefined reference to `sched_yield'

2006-11-02 Thread Matt
OpenBSD 4.0 running in QEmu 0.8.2 on FreeBSD 6.0 # cd /usr/local/plan9 # ./INSTALL * Resetting /usr/local/plan9/config * Building everything (be patient)... >>> cd /usr/local/plan9/src/cmd; mk all 9l -o o.9p 9p.o /usr/local/plan9/src/lib9/sleep.c:25: undefined reference to `s

Re: [9fans] Proposed: Image Conversion Server

2006-10-26 Thread matt
to do anything interesting with them. I started such a beast that mounted images as RGB/HSB with alpha and got it to do a few tricks, it has a couple of bugs so I never released it. I think I talked about it on the list but it might have been in IRC Matt

Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com

2006-07-23 Thread matt
erik quanstrom wrote: there is no such thing as a /. crowd your faith in it is misplaced or rather, some of us troll for glenda no it /does/ get better. the /. crowd understands that most reviews are clueless. (especially when posted to /..) one of the first comments was the emacs man page.

Re: [9fans] rc question

2006-06-30 Thread matt
erik quanstrom wrote: to do a dns query directly, one needs to open /net/dns and write the query and read the results on the same fd. how can this be done with rc? - erik I've got the answer in my plan9 box but I dont have access to it until later :)

[9fans] strangely typed functions in standard library

2006-05-15 Thread Matt Stewart
The following functions are described as accepting a Rune, but instead the parameters are of type long. Why? int runelen(long); char *utfrune(char *, long); char *utfrrune(char *, long);

Re: [9fans] csv files -> embarrasing

2006-04-30 Thread matt
> Is parsing CSV really so difficult? depends on your CSV 1, "2", "3""3","4, 4", "5\",5" which I interpret as (\n separated) : 1 2 3"3 4, 4 5",5 If you've ever worked with Excel CSV you know what CSV hell is like

Re: [9fans] netcat, the only stdin/stdout redirector to tcp/udp conns?

2006-04-04 Thread matt
I use tcpserver as a listener accepts connections and execs itself with stdin/stdout on the port http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html tcpclient is a client but uses fd 6 &7 as stdin/stdout

[Fwd: Re: [9fans] new compilers]

2006-04-02 Thread matt
what else do we need in the plan9 kernel? and when will the first linux distribution that comes in a 10 DVD boxed set be released? Firewire / OHCI Bluetooth Mutliple Monitor support off the top of my head =)

Re: [9fans] Re: patch/list sorry/proc-mtime

2006-03-31 Thread matt
Maybe in someone else's humble opinion the modification time (there is no creation time in Plan 9) of /proc should be the time of the last call to fork or exits, i.e. the last time the directory actually changed. There isn't an obvious value here. Overloading mtime for all these purposes is mi

Re: [9fans] Re: patch/list sorry/proc-mtime

2006-03-30 Thread matt
> it duplicates information already in the status file, > and it would be the *only* kernel device file in the system > that didn't use kerndate as the mtime. when did the > plan 9 approach become "there's more than one way to do it"? hmm I wonder when the kernel was written to the file system

Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem

2006-03-28 Thread matt
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net will also do the letter swapping dance I *think* you can use it in combination with grub (not done so myself) I use it for multi-booting freebsd / windowsXp and plan9 on whatever drives one likes not that anyone would boot plan9 & windowsxp on the same machine,

Re: [9fans] some installation problems (was "panic: vmap")

2006-01-04 Thread Matt Stewart
It seems the fix that was made that took away the "panic: vmap" error only applied to the boot disc. Now I get the same result from my installation: when using VGA (that message) and when using VESA (a distorted screen). Matthew Stewart

[9fans] some installation problems (was "panic: vmap")

2006-01-04 Thread Matt Stewart
The fix worked wonderfully! (see thread "panic: vmap") I was able to install it from a graphical environment using VESA. However, there are some more issues that should be dealt with. The wiki gives the following instructions to modify /lib/vgadb: ramfs ed /lib/vgadb 28683 /Stealth/ 0xC

Re: [9fans] init of xga fails: Hardware specs and error

2006-01-03 Thread Matt Stewart
I made this same post a few days ago, you can see it in the archives. Matthew Stewart

Re: [9fans] panic: vmap

2006-01-03 Thread Matt Stewart
Ah! I was using the Install option rather than Boot. Entering none for mouseport and vga under the Install process results in a message saying it cant find a device called none, basically (there was a prefix and suffix to the name). Now after selecting Boot, I entered none for everything and it t

Re: [9fans] Random insertions in the "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" paper

2006-01-02 Thread Matt Stewart
Ah, I see the problem, looking at the page source. Before and after those insertions there are soft-hyphens (­), which dont appear in either of my browsers. This makes the words appear to run together. Just search in: second paragraph of "Unusual file servers" second paragraph of "Configurabili

[9fans] Random insertions in the "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" paper

2006-01-02 Thread Matt Stewart
There are several cases in which it appears text was randomly inserted into the document. I will point out the ones i noticed by giving enough to grep. implementation­it multiplexes its own interface­so machines­a terminal room­and immediately­the cache is write-through­to place­9P­for Matthew S

Re: [9fans] panic: vmap

2006-01-01 Thread Matt Stewart
Actually I just noticed something in the boot messages: Before the Plan 9 Startup Menu: pcirouting: South bridge 10DE, 01E0 not found After: pcirouting: ignoring south bridge PCI.0.0.0 10DE/01E0 Maybe this will help.. Matthew Stewart

Re: [9fans] panic: vmap

2006-01-01 Thread Matt Stewart
The E820 lines: 0009fc00 memory 0009fc00 000a reserved 000f 0010 reserved 0010 1fff memory 1fff 1fff3000 acpi nvs 1fff3000 2000 acpi reclaim fec0 fec01000 reserved fee0 fee01000 reserved 1 reserved Selecting "none" at the monitor prompt

[9fans] panic: vmap

2006-01-01 Thread Matt Stewart
While booting, after I select the monitor type, I get the following response: panic: vmap: va=0xefff pa=0xd0001000 pde=0xe893 dumpstack disabled cpu0: exiting This has been the response for xga and multisync, and i get a blank/distorted screen (some random vertical bars of various colors,

Re: [9fans] plan9ports & macos 10.4 don't like each othere.

2005-11-09 Thread Matt Sottile
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Advanced Computing Laboratory (CCS-1) Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)665-6057 Web: http://ddma.lanl.gov/~matt/

Re: [9fans] SuperComputing in Seattle.

2005-10-16 Thread Matt Sottile
://ddma.lanl.gov/~matt/

Re: [9fans] fingerworks

2005-05-04 Thread Matt Moore
> I wander if anybody has played with one of these > > http://www.fingerworks.com/ > > Seems ideal for acme just not sure about typing on a pair of massive > trackpads, it also seems expensive for a pair of trackpads. > I've not, but I hope to be getting one soon and I'll be sure to let you kn