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  1. Re:Pretty cool by DrSkwid · · Score: 4, Informative · on Plan 9 Running on Blue Gene

    Inferno is based around the DIS virtual machine and much of the system code is written in Limbo which is compiled to DIS bytecode.

    Plan9 is C based and can't run DIS natively.

    Plan9 and Inferno now use a unified 9P protocol - 9p2000 (they used to use 9p and Styx respectively).

    Lucent sold Inferno to Vita Nuova holdings http://www.vitanuova.com/ and they now develop Inferno and exploit it commercially.

    Inferno and Plan9 are used in Lucent products. Plan9 with RT extensions is used in Lucent mobile phone masts to manage calls. Sape Mullender presented a paper at the IWP last year about it. http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/realtime.pd f

  2. hehe British food by DrSkwid · · Score: 1 · on Chip & PIN terminal playing Tetris

    I was in Madrid for the IWP and while we were out in an international group looking for somewhere nice to eat I asked our native resident "if there were any good English restaurants in town?". Much to the guffawing of the others and myself.

    Though that did get me thinking about what would that even be serving if such a thing existed.

    As Naomi Campbell said "I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta."

  3. It's not just wireless cards by DrSkwid · · Score: 1 · on The Battle for Wireless Network Drivers

    We recently discussed this issue at the International Plan 9 Workshop. Lack of driver documentation and time/people to write drivers is what will probably eventually kill using Plan 9 on real hardware.

    There was a time when documenting your hardware was required for anyone to buy it.

    Even a source code leve driver is not enough when you're not Linux/BSD.

    Imagine writing a driver when you only have a driver for another OS as your documentation!

    It's just someone else's view of the documentation they saw / reverse engineering they did.

  4. Re:Interesting by rpeppe · · Score: 1 · on Acme for Windows
    The only glimmer of RSI problems I've ever had came when I was using a keyboard interface which required much use of Control- key combinations. I find using acme very comfortable. I get the feeling (and this seems to support the idea) that gesturing with the mouse uses a different area of my brain from the creative/analytical processes that I'm working on. For me, this makes for a very relaxing editing experience - most editing processes happen as directly as if I'd reached out and used my hand. This might help with RSI or not - but as far as using the mouse goes, it's like using your hand after taking a boxing glove off!

    If you're editing over a remote link, it really depends how limited you are in the protocols you can use. If you've only got telnet/ssh, you're probably screwed. If, however, you can run something on the other end, then you've got a world of opportunity, as this (remote access) is the kind of thing that plan 9 and inferno excel at. Using a straight telnet/ssh link these days makes me feel like I've got one arm tied behind my back.

    For using acme remotely, the best option is to run something, for example u9fs to export the files you wish to edit, then import the filesystem, whereupon you can use acme to edit the files in it. It's also possible to run acme remotely, (by using inferno or drawterm and making a cpu connection), but the graphics speed will then be predicated on the speed of your connection, which can make this unrealistic.

  5. Another interesting comparison by cortana · · Score: 1 · on Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional

    SLOCCount statistics for Debian 3.1 (sarge): http://libresoft.dat.escet.urjc.es/debian-counting /sarge/index.php?menu=Statistics

    120e6 lines of C. Perl is in 5th place with 6e6 lines, and Python is in 6th with 4e6 lines.

  6. Re:Map a source tree... how? which software? by jd · · Score: 1 · on Lack of Testing Threatening the Stability of Linux

    Nothing easier. The Free Code Graphing Project can map any software (not just the Linux kernel). There are other utilities that can produce diagrams, charts and tables, as well, but the wheel chart of the Free Code Graphing Project is the coolest. :)

  7. a soft duress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Fighting For Privacy With Art and Words



    Would anyone more enlightened than I know what (where) in the world Redes
    is?