Find me a linux app that can parse sendmail logs and let me go through and say "show me all of the messages sent through server x that were to or from user y", and then print the results with "to", "from", "subject", and delivery status?
With Venti one can even back up two windows/linux machines and *not* use up disk space for commonly used blocks, so backing up 100 machines wont use up the usual 1Gb each for the duplicate libs/windows directories.
The yesterday command give you the power to browse back through your life
Find what has changed in the C library since March 1:
yesterday -d -0301/sys/src/libc/port/*.c
When did you say this guy did the innovation again?
It is true that the story of the license has hindered adoption of this interesting and intreaguing operating system. It serves as an illustration of how fraught with unseen circumstances the world is. Free software wasn't the way to go when plan9 was born 14 years ago. Lucent's Lawyers live in a different world. Bell-Labs has lost many of it's staff. It is a place where lightbulbs have been removed to save money.
The user base, as monitored by newsgroup traffic, has been very slowly growing, a few more people at a time but nothing like a swell. Catch22 : more users = more momentum for change in whatever direction.
There is no-one officially paid to maintain plan9 any more, though it still is under active maintenance.
It won't die for a good while yet, it is a nice antithesis of eye candy & gee whizzery replaced by real magic.
You are correct in that as much as you need special code for dealing with what the files do as you would need special code to do other things.
The point I was specifically addressing, binding's to the gui components, serves as a good example.
The poster was crowing about.NET's "seamless bindings". Any.NET language can, apparently, have access to any of the available components. (I can't verify this but I imagine it pushes DCOM and the IDL a bit further). The problem for language writers is that the libraries for something such as KDE is written in C++ and Gnome in C. You can't just #include <somelibfile.h> into python or javascript or expect it to compile into your Gnome project.
But right off the bat python could write to the screen, open network connections:
The magic for all off this is a unified protocol 9p. All file access is via 9p so if your program can speak 9p it can serve files to anyone. One binds a programs namespace into your own and off you go. The network becomes utterly transparent.
In this way one waves bye bye to bindings and other marshalling techniques, who needs 'em.
If your programming language can open and read and write files, it can do anything.
It is just one of the many benefits that plan9 has brought to us. Too bad people are letting it slip past them.
The Fourth Edition of Plan 9 includes a substantially reworked security architecture, described in the USENIX Security 2002 conference paper [html, ps, pdf] by Russ Cox, Eric Grosse, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Sean Quinlan.
One particular aspect that other operating systems may wish to adopt is our single-signon solution. A process called factotum is used to hold credentials like passwords and public/private keypairs and perform cryptographic operations. Factotum allows clients to speak a variety of cryptographic protocols and therefore legacy application servers can participate in our single-signon system without change and without even knowing it exists.
The factotum has no direct permanent storage, but rather fetches credentials at startup from a secstore server on the network. To authenticate safely with the secstore, Password Authenticated Key-exchange is used; this implies that the user just has to remember and type one password and passive eavsdroppers or even active malicious intermediaries can not launch even a dictionary attack against the system. The credentials are encrypted for storage on secstore, so even an administrator there would have difficulty reading them.
The opinion polls in the 1992 General Election were suspected of actually influencing the outcome. It was reported that people simply didn't bother voting because the polls suggested that Labour were on the way to a refreshing victory.
http://www.alba.org.uk/polls/accuracy.html
There was much talk at the time that opinion polls should be "banned" as they were having too much influence on voter behaviour.
Slashdot Mirror
> could someone please explain in layman's terms how it will effect my Linux end-user experience?
It might be slightly better
dumbass
you can only get 100% optimized code on known data
I just ask him which are worth trying
If there's one great quality filter it's having 10 new games a week to try
Find me a linux app that can parse sendmail logs and let me go through and say "show me all of the messages sent through server x that were to or from user y", and then print the results with "to", "from", "subject", and delivery status?
grep awk sed & bash
The way I read it AOL bought Time-Warner for $112 billion.
I'm sure the previous owners of Time-Warner don't trouble themselves with regret too hard.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/34015.html
T-Online being the suggested purchaser
no
low-life is the noun
dolt
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rob/
:
be sure to catch "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant"
You will probably see a lot worse links than
Bell Labs - formerly known as heaven.
np.
what crazy moderation I got
You may have missed the daughter raising sim Princess Maker 2
:
other disgusting hentai games also reviewed
http://www.somethingawful.com/hentai/
oic, nothing, pretty useless in fact
that's why I use a 802.11b pcmcia card with it
read your email :)
vnc to a web browser
edit files
same as plan9 on a terminal
mouse chording is tricky with the stylus
http://www.google-watch.org
The linux loader also supports plan9 and Inferno
So why watse your life with Linux when you can use professional software.
oh, and inferno comes with tetris too
I wasn't necessarily advocating such a backup policy.
plan9's backup system is selective.
However, I would argue that having a record of the changing system binaries is useful for tracking changes.
No more "I haven't touched anything and it just broke".
You can install new software and see what was changed in the process.
Saving Windows disks wholesale would seem prudent with regard to dll hell. Better to have the option of full recovery than save a few bytes.
But, like I said, you can choose what to keep.
only if there is a dump in between revisions. The default is once per day.
Plan9 has the mantra : "file creation is forever"
/sys/src/libc/port/*.c
Automated incremental backups are a way of life.
With Venti one can even back up two windows/linux machines and *not* use up disk space for commonly used blocks, so backing up 100 machines wont use up the usual 1Gb each for the duplicate libs/windows directories.
The yesterday command give you the power to browse back through your life
Find what has changed in the C library since March 1:
yesterday -d -0301
When did you say this guy did the innovation again?
It is true that the story of the license has hindered adoption of this interesting and intreaguing operating system. It serves as an illustration of how fraught with unseen circumstances the world is. Free software wasn't the way to go when plan9 was born 14 years ago. Lucent's Lawyers live in a different world. Bell-Labs has lost many of it's staff. It is a place where lightbulbs have been removed to save money.
The user base, as monitored by newsgroup traffic, has been very slowly growing, a few more people at a time but nothing like a swell. Catch22 : more users = more momentum for change in whatever direction.
There is no-one officially paid to maintain plan9 any more, though it still is under active maintenance.
It won't die for a good while yet, it is a nice antithesis of eye candy & gee whizzery replaced by real magic.
You are correct in that as much as you need special code for dealing with what the files do as you would need special code to do other things.
.NET's "seamless bindings". Any .NET language can, apparently, have access to any of the available components. (I can't verify this but I imagine it pushes DCOM and the IDL a bit further). The problem for language writers is that the libraries for something such as KDE is written in C++ and Gnome in C. You can't just #include <somelibfile.h> into python or javascript or expect it to compile into your Gnome project.
:
:
The point I was specifically addressing, binding's to the gui components, serves as a good example.
The poster was crowing about
But right off the bat python could write to the screen, open network connections
ctl = file('/net/tcp/clone', 'r+')
id = ctl.read()
ctl.write('connect 66.35.250.150!80\n')
ctl.flush()
data = file("/net/tcp/%s/data" % (id), 'r+')
data.write('GET / HTTP/1.1\nhost: slashdot.org\n\n')
data.flush()
print data.read()
, communicate with the authentication server, read my email
print file('/mail/fs/mbox/1/subject').read()
if you cant see anything interesting in that then plan9 probably isn't for you
What you *really* need is a better way for libraries, and other code, to expose their functionality.
Unix started down this road with 'everything is a file' but failed to follow through on that promise.
When the Unix creators decided to take what they already knew and start again, 'everything is a file' became a design philosophy.
Consequently, devices can be accessed through the file system
One can draw to a screen via files, or open a internet network connection
The magic for all off this is a unified protocol 9p. All file access is via 9p so if your program can speak 9p it can serve files to anyone. One binds a programs namespace into your own and off you go. The network becomes utterly transparent.
In this way one waves bye bye to bindings and other marshalling techniques, who needs 'em.
If your programming language can open and read and write files, it can do anything.
It is just one of the many benefits that plan9 has brought to us.
Too bad people are letting it slip past them.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/auth.html
The Fourth Edition of Plan 9 includes a substantially reworked security architecture, described in the USENIX Security 2002 conference paper [html, ps, pdf] by Russ Cox, Eric Grosse, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Sean Quinlan.
One particular aspect that other operating systems may wish to adopt is our single-signon solution. A process called factotum is used to hold credentials like passwords and public/private keypairs and perform cryptographic operations. Factotum allows clients to speak a variety of cryptographic protocols and therefore legacy application servers can participate in our single-signon system without change and without even knowing it exists.
The factotum has no direct permanent storage, but rather fetches credentials at startup from a secstore server on the network. To authenticate safely with the secstore, Password Authenticated Key-exchange is used; this implies that the user just has to remember and type one password and passive eavsdroppers or even active malicious intermediaries can not launch even a dictionary attack against the system. The credentials are encrypted for storage on secstore, so even an administrator there would have difficulty reading them.
The opinion polls in the 1992 General Election were suspected of actually influencing the outcome. It was reported that people simply didn't bother voting because the polls suggested that Labour were on the way to a refreshing victory.
http://www.alba.org.uk/polls/accuracy.html
There was much talk at the time that opinion polls should be "banned" as they were having too much influence on voter behaviour.
All true except :
"College students and high school students are the most hardcore gamers out there.."