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[9fans] ugliness in vesa 3 16 (7/14/2009 12:00:13 AM) comp.os.plan9 So, I finally got tired of slow desktop switching with the nvidia driver and thought I'd give vesa another shot. However, upon rebooting with vesa in 1600x1200x16 mode, I'm seeing strange artifacts when using ... john

[9fans] rio with virtuals 2 18 (6/15/2009 10:58:21 PM) comp.os.plan9 I spent a couple hours this afternoon reading rio source and hacking it to do virtual desktops. /n/sources/contrib/john/rio-virtual.tgz contains the files from /sys/src/cmd/rio with my changes made. At this t... john

[9fans] screen "wobble" 0 22 (1/29/2009 6:50:47 PM) comp.os.plan9 I've been fiddling around with my netbooting terminal lately and have noticed that when connected to my Sun monitor the picture tends to "wobble". That is, it looks as though a wave is passing up the screen a... john

[9fans] Plan 9 talk/video 0 23 (1/28/2009 7:27:47 PM) comp.os.plan9 Well, for anyone who is interested, I recently gave a talk about Plan 9 at a meeting of the Society of Software Engineers at RIT, and the slides and a video are up at http://sse.se.rit.edu/programs/tech-talks/p... john

[9fans] recompiling gs 1 15 (1/26/2009 3:22:13 AM) comp.os.plan9 Last year, I set up my old Okidata Microline 320 dot-matrix printer on Plan 9 (text-only print, no postscript as I recall), but in the time since then my old hard drive has failed and I've had to get a new syst... john

[9fans] cheap, low-resolution terminal 2 17 (1/8/2009 3:14:02 AM) comp.os.plan9 http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/plan9vt220-full.jpeg http://csplan9.rit.edu/users/john/plan9vt220-screen.jpeg Just threw this onto my CPU server (yes, mock my slow processor, it was free) and was once again... john

[9fans] devtrace scripts 1 35 (1/5/2009 12:40:41 AM) comp.os.plan9 I forgot to put these out earlier; I wrote a bunch of scripts that should help with the processing of devtrace output. They're what I used to make the plots in the paper. Just unpack the tarball in your bin/r... john

[9fans] importing mailboxes 3 19 (12/29/2008 5:55:17 PM) comp.os.plan9 This may be a solved problem, but forgive me if I don't choose to spend hours searching around while stuck on dialup. Anyway, my problem is this. I am away from my server, about 2,000 miles away to be exact. R... john

[9fans] devtrace release time 1 22 (12/17/2008 7:38:39 PM) comp.os.plan9 Devtrace is ready for your consumption, hot out of the oven and juicy fresh. The source is at /n/sources/contrib/john/devtrace-backport.tgz which includes all the necessary source files, the man page (troff), a... john

[9fans] troff .XP 2 18 (10/26/2008 11:20:13 PM) comp.os.plan9 After a long day writing a paper for my psych class, it came time for me to make the reference page, using the APA format (see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/06/). I was looking at an online tr... john

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Guide to using Acme effectively? 10 23 (7/1/2009 8:56:58 AM) comp.os.plan9 Hello everyone, I am taking the Acme workflow for a spin. I am coming from Emacs and Vi. I have read the manual and the original paper discussing the motivations behind its design. I am familiar with mouse... arcfide (659)

[9fans] troff .XP 2 18 (10/26/2008 11:20:13 PM) comp.os.plan9 After a long day writing a paper for my psych class, it came time for me to make the reference page, using the APA format (see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/06/). I was looking at an online tr... john2410 (232)

[9fans] Next IWP9 #2 2 34 (11/10/2008 3:09:56 PM) comp.os.plan9 Was really bummed not to be able to make IWP9 this year. A note to whoever is considering hosting the next one -- it would be really cool for us corporate types if we could move it into the first two quarters ... ericvh (356)

[9fans] two quick questions on syscalls 3 17 (1/8/2009 5:07:29 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hi! 1. are the ones starting from underscore totally deprecated? 2. what's the use for sysr1? Thanks, Roman. ... rvs (546)

[9fans] recompiling gs 1 15 (1/26/2009 3:22:13 AM) comp.os.plan9 Last year, I set up my old Okidata Microline 320 dot-matrix printer on Plan 9 (text-only print, no postscript as I recall), but in the time since then my old hard drive has failed and I've had to get a new syst... john2410 (232)

[9fans] reminder: internships in sunny california (but you gotta be a US citizen or visitor ...) 2 22 (2/13/2009 1:19:47 AM) comp.os.plan9 I'm still looking for undergrad/grad students who'd like to spend some time here in wine country. http://www.eagleridgeproperties.com/admin/housepictures/355707CA54.jpg I can pay you if you are a us citizen. ... rminnich (1317)

[9fans] rio Peculiarities 2 23 (2/27/2009 9:48:29 PM) comp.os.plan9 Having a window which is `current' and `visible' but not on `top' gives rise to some effects of concern. For example, scrolling this current window is cause for massive load on the system; if there are windows... akumar (200)

[9fans] vgadb woes 4 22 (4/15/2009 7:16:33 PM) comp.os.plan9 I've got a laptop that I (for shits and giggles) decided to put Plan 9 on. Lo and behold, it worked fine (Compal EL80, Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, nVidia video). So, I'm running at 1280x1024x32 right now in VESA, whi... devon.odell (286)

[9fans] Adventures of a home user 13 28 (4/19/2009 1:05:44 AM) comp.os.plan9 --0015175cb606e3ea8a0467ddf499 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haven't responded yet to all the info and ideas in my earlier thread, because I've been trying to g... jimhabegger (23)

[9fans] ssh v2, using a remote linux server 3 21 (5/3/2009 2:32:12 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hello everyone, 2 questions... 1) The linux servers around me reject ssh v1 protocol by default, only seem to accept v2. The version commonly available in plan9 seems to be v1. As long as I connect to my own m... rudolf.sykora (401)