A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ

I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery:

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq

Enjoy!

uriel

Re: A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ

You spent an interesting evening recently with an FAQ, I see.

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Uriel <uriel99 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery:
>
> http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq
>
> Enjoy!
>
> uriel
>
>

Re: A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ

Uriel wrote:
> I recently made a fascinating archeological discovery:
> 
> http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/humour/shaneys-plan9-faq
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> uriel
> 

Well that certainly clears it up for me.

Re: A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ

A new kind of Plan 9 FAQ

That's funny. I showed the Markov programs from Kernighan and Pike's
"Practice of Programming" to my students (just for fun, since it
wasn't a programming course), using text from Project Gutenberg. You
can get some really funny results with:

cat prideandpred dracula |markov |fmt
cat treasureisland frankenstein |markov |fmt

But the funniest came from mixing Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason"
with just about any other work, like the Wizard of Oz:

Dorothy's life became very sad as she said, "Follow me
and made it so rich in results, although it must be too
rashly drawn from it, and the mode of explanation and
exposition of the understanding.  This attempt to cognize
itself as a thing to be chimerical.  For only two cases are
possible; either, the counter-statement is nothing to do.
"Take out my straw and scatter it over the mess.  She then
swept it all that is to say, the senses and experience.

...or Pride and Prejudice:

Pray go to London," added Kitty.  "She is my youngest girl
but one.  My youngest of the understanding, has preposited
this permanence as a primal being, that cognition in this
way that would be in love with her head ached acutely.
Elizabeth did all she could not but take it.

-Justin

Re: wheel on logitech usb mouse

Re: crashing 9vx

>Maybe newer GCC versions are causing trouble?

the 9vx that doesn't work for me is one that was compiled
over a year ago and has run happily on several Ubuntu and other
Linux versions until Ubuntu 10.04LTS. although i realise that
thanks to shared libraries, compiler variations could still play
a part, i'm still more inclined to suspect either a system-level
change, a difference of system configuration (eg, for shared libraries),
or a change to one of the supporting libraries, and there
are a few to choose from:
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb788d000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7785000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb776c000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7608000)
	libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb75ee000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb75ea000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb788e000)
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb75e6000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb75e1000)

9vx also makes inventive use of mmap and sigsegv.

Re: wheel on logitech usb mouse

Re: wheel on logitech usb mouse

Re: crashing 9vx

I built 9vx without a GUI.
  549  make PLAN9GUI=nogui 9vx/9vx

% hg update
process 49 sleeps with 1 locks held, last lock 0x735400 locked at pc
0x7f8ee4ef8e98, sleep called from 0x40b6b6
9vx panic: sigsegv on cpu3
aborting, to dump core.
Aborted

this is a bit more info than I was getting.

Just FYI.

ron