skwiddor

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by skwiddor 17y ago
Does plan9 support 15 different archs with all of their quirks and subarchitectures? no. only 11 WiFi stack? yes, and bluetooth Support for different power modes? yes, I think so, can't say I've ever used it. does "echo blank > /de
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by skwiddor 17y ago
cat data | tee log | data_processor it's called "the Unix philosophy". invented by Doug McIlroy, probably before you were born
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by skwiddor 17y ago
I thought goople app engine didnt allow outgoing connections http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver... Using URL Fetch When your application uses the URL fetch API to make an HTTP request, the development web server
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by skwiddor 17y ago
http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/ http://swtch.com/libtask/
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Linux, fuse there's your problem. it's not designed for it
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by skwiddor 17y ago
> If anything, a microkernel is always more bloated because of the extra code needed to do all the process sync. there are more than two types. We have fretted recently because the plan9 kernel is struggling to fit on a floppy disk when
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by skwiddor 17y ago
I wouldn't use Fuse as your benchmark. All of plan9's filesystems are userspace (except the one that uses a dedicated machine). They can saturate 10gbe so your objections really concern Fuse and it's hosts.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
That's "President Obama".
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by skwiddor 17y ago
thats right, bloat filesystems dont belong in the kernel.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
My operating system is open source but I bought it. What kind of software is it?
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by skwiddor 17y ago
instead he's killed us all 700 years ago there were two million people in my country, now 60,000,000+
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by skwiddor 17y ago
still close enough to search for things. % postcode NG15 % ff http://www.google.com/webhp?q=ng15+curry bah google changed their uri scheme
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by skwiddor 17y ago
no, just providing more info, the author linked to Bentley's text for further reference so I was filling in the back story.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
how about "what postcode am I in"? when out and about. also "click on the map, what's the postcode?" quite handy for getting the area code i.e N1
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Only if you buy into it. We were on Windows 2000 until this year finally moving to XP for multi-media compatibilty (specifically Flash) reasons. I've been around since dos3.3, looking forward to upgrades went out of the window a long time a
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Bentley built his Markov chain using his Bell labs colleagues Pike & Kernighan's Markov algorithm from The Practice of Programming http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=to6M9_dbjosC&pg=PA62&... Pike had used this technique earlier w
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Did you read to the bottom? They wanted to generate not only valid output from valid makefiles but wanted to catch the same errors in the same way as their reference. I like their approach and I would consider it an excellent bug hunting t
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by skwiddor 17y ago
echo 'here''s your problem'' | { apple exchange } hmm
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by skwiddor 17y ago
> In our test, we used a simple lamp with a light metre placed half a metre away, A light metre is 1 / 299 792 458 or 3.33 x 10e-11 seconds
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by skwiddor 17y ago
how do you measure mental pain?
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Markov chaining bach is also interesting http://www.caerwyn.com/ipn/2007/04/lab-77-unexpected-markov....
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by skwiddor 17y ago
use it in unicode mode, that kills performance
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by skwiddor 17y ago
my friend works digitising film stock. He told me that a Portuguese tv station is deteriorating and the fumes it gives off spreads the process to the other film stock and even if they had all the 35mm film digitisers in the world running 24
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by skwiddor 17y ago
import kremvax /net /net Plan9 doesn't need nat
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by skwiddor 17y ago
Python used to be available as a client side scripting language for EMCA but I can't find that project these days.
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by skwiddor 17y ago
The Limbo programming on the Inferno OS makes great use of co-routines. http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/
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by skwiddor 17y ago
C.A.R. Hoare wrote a whole book on CSP http://www.usingcsp.com/
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by skwiddor 17y ago
I copy the data arenas to another machine and when they are full (500mb per arena) I burn them to cd. I us this script to copy the arenas http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/rc/vbackup It's slightly sloppy in that I could just
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by skwiddor 17y ago
ff3.5 - Drawing took 34.206 seconds. 1.8Ghz P4
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by skwiddor 17y ago
I've been hired twice because I wrote open source code.

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