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[9fans] from slashdot 2 29 (8/17/2005 4:22:48 AM) comp.os.plan9 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/2225215 Peter Salus over at UnixReview.com is reporting that AT&T Department 1127, responsible for creating and maintaining Unix, has been officially disbanded. ... mirtchov

Re: [9fans] 9grid #2 0 28 (6/9/2005 1:42:23 AM) comp.os.plan9 > I wonder how globus is managing these issues... globus leaves trust relationships to the certificate authorities which create accounts and issue CN's (callnames) for grid users. CN's which have access to a ... mirtchov

[9fans] MST3k funnies featuring Bell Labs 1 20 (5/15/2005 1:18:21 PM) comp.os.plan9 warning: only relation to Plan 9 is historical: i'm a fan of the Mistery Science Theatre 3000 show and from time to time get to watch an episode of two. it's a lesson in movie appreciation (or depreciation, d... mirtchov

[9fans] ttf2subf 0 29 (5/5/2005 3:10:08 AM) comp.os.plan9 thanks to Takeshi there's a new freetype-plan9.tgz (and ttf2subf) on ucalgary: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/freetype/freetype-plan9.tgz it fixes an underflow which caused some characters to be d... mirtchov

[9fans] vmware 5 and vesa 0 47 (5/3/2005 10:37:24 PM) comp.os.plan9 has anyone gotten p9 graphics to work in vmware5 with the new vesa changes? ... mirtchov

[9fans] interrupts (non-plan9 related) 1 49 (4/12/2005 5:23:19 PM) comp.os.plan9 i've got a dual-cpu machine running linux. i'm looking at sar reports for the box and can't really understand what happens -- the machine services all interrupts at CPU0 (actually the first hyperthreaded part ... mirtchov

[9fans] links-varfont 0 24 (3/5/2005 6:02:11 PM) comp.os.plan9 Gorka Guardiola submitted a patch that makes variable-width fonts render correctly. download and try the new links if you desire: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/links/links-varfont.tgz ... mirtchov

[9fans] leak not working? 0 22 (2/28/2005 5:57:52 PM) comp.os.plan9 i can't seem to persuade 'leak' to work: plan9% leak -b rio | rc :1: (error) no map :2: (error) sbrkmem used but not set aux/acidleak: no allocated data region plan9% leak -s rio | rc :1: (error) no map ... mirtchov

[9fans] viewing (more) png images in p9 1 14 (2/17/2005 1:16:10 AM) comp.os.plan9 article here: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/png/ ... mirtchov

[9fans] point2rgb and point2rgba 1 21 (1/31/2005 2:55:35 PM) comp.os.plan9 would anyone strongly object adding two routines to query a pixel's rgba values from an Image*? i know one can do it going through Memimage's, but drawing memimages on screen is painful to watch. here are the... mirtchov

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[9fans] Possibility of a lift to Boyd's wake ... 1 21 (7/14/2005 11:28:16 PM) comp.os.plan9 A couple of people (not me: I'd already booked my ticket) may be driving over on Saturday (assuming it's on Saturday) and there may be a spare seat or 2. If anyone's interested, contact me and I'll put everyo... davel9657 (194)

[9fans] Dvorak on Plan9; Plan9/Acme for Unix 2 29 (7/17/2005 6:01:27 PM) comp.os.plan9 I just started toying around with Plan9. Some questions: Are there ways to switch my keyboard layout, to Dvorak? If not, what file would I have to edit in what way to get a new layout? Are there Acme or ev... ulrich.hobelmann (2)

[9fans] First-timer help 3 15 (7/17/2005 6:17:19 PM) comp.os.plan9 Hi. I just installed Plan 9 on an old machine, and I'm having a bit of trouble. I am used to Linux, so any comparisons you might make to Linux should make sense to me. First, I installed Plan 9 from CD with ... jfloren (21)

[9fans] fossil+venti?? 1 17 (7/22/2005 6:03:16 PM) comp.os.plan9 On reboot after install, the following message is seen while booting: venti..err2: arena ceation time after last write time Is it related to clock setting? -ishwar ... rattan (196)

[9fans] boot from remote cpu/auth standalone box? 1 19 (7/26/2005 3:30:43 PM) comp.os.plan9 I have a standalone cpu/auth server with fossil (machine m1). Can a terminal box be booted off m1? If yes, what are the steps? -ishwar ... rattan (196)

[9fans] plan9 and the Unicode Consortium definitions 3 12 (8/19/2005 2:51:53 PM) comp.os.plan9 I am just wondering whether any API to access more complete set of character properties defined by Unicode.org is available in Plan9. So far I have seen only library functions like isalpharune(2) defined in run... golubovsky (27)

Re: [9fans] killing processes #2 7 15 (9/15/2005 2:45:42 PM) comp.os.plan9 : In that sense, the 'cpu server' is outdated nomenclature. Yep. In Plan B we don't have CPU servers, actually. (We made an experiment but its result was not clear). We have "permanent terminals", though. If ... nemo (674)

Re: [9fans] killing processes #2 #2 2 20 (9/15/2005 3:05:11 PM) comp.os.plan9 These CPU servers you use to drawterm into, are shared with other users? Or do you own the machine? ... nemo (674)

[9fans] Why doesn't bio have bscanf? 1 17 (9/23/2005 3:40:28 PM) comp.os.plan9 I'm having to write (yet another) a buffered IO library (I hate hardware that comes with broken buffered IO libs....grrr) and was thinking of cribbing bio, but some of the code we need to run is quite dep... plalonde (269)

[9fans] vnc-like cpu service 3 15 (10/13/2005 3:12:11 PM) comp.os.plan9 If anyone is looking for an interesting project, here's a simple way to get a vnc-like cpu service for Plan 9. This would let you drawterm in to a session, then later drawterm in from somewhere else and get th... rsc (1807)