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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
@ 2001-06-11  5:13 okamoto
  2001-06-11  6:14 ` Laura's theme (Long) (Was: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.) Lucio De Re
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From: okamoto @ 2001-06-11  5:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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When I tried to show it to our students, yes, I also felt it's not easy to do.
However, as I know Plan 9 is very easy to maintain system and users, and
to write programs, I started to do it by reading papers such as "Plan 9 from
Bell Labs" etc. with them.

Today, I asked Yoshitatsu what was his first impression of Plan 9 when he
touched, and his answer is that it was "then, so what?". :-)  I understand it,
because Plan 9 doesn't have "killer application" except of acme. which is
only for programmers or system maintainers.  However, he is writing Plan 9
application now.  However, this is not accepted by many of Japanese _SOFTWARE_
companies, if any... (sigh)

Kenji


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From: Laura Creighton <lac@cd.chalmers.se>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: lac@cd.chalmers.se
Subject: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:30:27 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-ID: <200106080930.LAA04591@boris.cd.chalmers.se>

I want to make a `this is plan 9' presentation to them.  Can I get notes
and stuff from you?  Also, what works?  What will impress them?  And
yes i _have_ the papers from 1127, the stuff I want to steal from you
is what you did with that.

Thanks very much,
Laura Creighton

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* Laura's theme (Long) (Was: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.)
  2001-06-11  5:13 [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here okamoto
@ 2001-06-11  6:14 ` Lucio De Re
  2001-06-11 14:28   ` [9fans] " Theo Honohan
  2001-06-11  8:10 ` [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here Borja Marcos
  2001-06-11  9:06 ` [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here pac
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: Lucio De Re @ 2001-06-11  6:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Apologies for taking Laura Creighton's name in vain :-)

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:13:56PM +0900, okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
> 
> When I tried to show it to our students, yes, I also felt it's not easy to do.
> However, as I know Plan 9 is very easy to maintain system and users, and
> to write programs, I started to do it by reading papers such as "Plan 9 from
> Bell Labs" etc. with them.
> 
My enthusiasm was certainly fired by the papers, it was a long time
after I discovered the first set of Plan 9 documents that I was given
a chance to look at it.

> Today, I asked Yoshitatsu what was his first impression of Plan 9 when he
> touched, and his answer is that it was "then, so what?". :-)  I understand it,
> because Plan 9 doesn't have "killer application" except of acme. which is
> only for programmers or system maintainers.  However, he is writing Plan 9
> application now.  However, this is not accepted by many of Japanese _SOFTWARE_
> companies, if any... (sigh)
> 
Based on my somewhat narrow view of the computer field in the last few
years, there have been very few killer apps: Lotus 1-2-3 (a better
Visicalc, I should imagine), the web browser, MS Office (in an odd
sense); underrated, but susprisingly significant (in my opinion, of
course) are Quake and Microsoft Outlook.

Quake is to Linux what 1-2-3 was to the IBM Personal Computer.
Without it, I believe, Linux would still be as much of a curiosity as
Plan 9 is today.

Outlook is important because it is practically transparent.  Most
users are unlikely to know whether it is the Office version or
Express as delivered with Internet Explorer.  All Outlook users seem
to believe that everyone else is also using Outlook, a bit like all
automobile drivers assume that all other automobile driver knows what
a steering wheel is.  This insidious penetration is Microsoft's
strongest marketing ploy.

Plan 9 has too many of these aces up its sleeve.  Like Linux, it
should concentrate all its efforts on a single one, but of course,
like with Linux, it is its community that defines the direction
development takes.

Without excluding myself from the criticism, the Plan 9 culture is
inherently elitist, rather than evangelical.  I'm about to embark on a
cross-host debugging session (Inferno, rather than Plan 9, I'm not
sure how successful I'm likely to be) and only when confronted by this
need, did I realise that Laura's question about impressing students
should have been answered by a cross-host task, the more convoluted,
the better.  No one else has proposed such an idea, and yet the main
strength of the fileserver approach lies clearly in that quarter.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: ..."  I really love that
phrase.  Plan 9's strengths are so self-evident, even we can't see
them anymore :-)

++L

PS:  The jist of it all, is that ACME is Plan 9's killer app.  If we
could turn a Plan 9 system into a cross-platform (hardware _and_
Operating System platform, that is) development tool, it would
doubtlessly eclipse the current IDEs.  Porting Limbo (Alef) to the
popular platforms (thank you, Bell-Labs and Vitanuova for Inferno,
it's a pity we have to ask for more), with Acme, RC, the Plumber and
MK, would be a great start.  But these are not market oriented dreams,
they address a more ideal than realistic world.


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-11  5:13 [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here okamoto
  2001-06-11  6:14 ` Laura's theme (Long) (Was: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.) Lucio De Re
@ 2001-06-11  8:10 ` Borja Marcos
  2001-06-11 13:39   ` GL again (was Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.) Theo Honohan
  2001-06-11  9:06 ` [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here pac
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From: Borja Marcos @ 2001-06-11  8:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

On Monday 11 June 2001 07:13, you wrote:
> When I tried to show it to our students, yes, I also felt it's not easy to
> do. However, as I know Plan 9 is very easy to maintain system and users,
> and to write programs, I started to do it by reading papers such as "Plan 9
> from Bell Labs" etc. with them.

	Plan 9 is a distributed system. It looks especially designed for 
heterogeneous networks, the kind of real-world applications you can find. 
When I read the first paper about the design of Plan 9 and its way to 
accomodate heterogeneous networks, with both high-speed local networks and 
slow-speed dialup accesses, it was quite obvious that a similar design (and 
it was the Inferno design goal) would be excellent for a service provider 
such as a cable modem network (or xDSL) who deploys "network computers" 
instead of simple set-top boxes.

	Other distributed OSs (Amoeba, for example) are designed with local area 
networks in mind, using the network as a bus for a processor pool if I 
oversimplify it. Plan 9, on the other hand, allows the developer and network 
architect distribute the applications taking into account the available 
bandwidth in each of the networks involved.

	In a real world network, the bandwidths can be as low as 33600 bps (a pstn 
modem) and as high as a gigabit. Apart from the elegant design, I think it 
can be the most interesting feature for many people.



	Borja.


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-11  5:13 [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here okamoto
  2001-06-11  6:14 ` Laura's theme (Long) (Was: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.) Lucio De Re
  2001-06-11  8:10 ` [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here Borja Marcos
@ 2001-06-11  9:06 ` pac
  2001-06-11 12:29   ` pac
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From: pac @ 2001-06-11  9:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Hi,
I am a computer self -made-man, and will, probably, be pretty green in CS forever (I am a researcher in biology).
However, I am _so_ impressed by Plan 9, and I'll tell you why:

i)   it shifts the paradigm  from kernel to a universal protocol
ii)  everything is a file
iii)  it is _clean_ as it  consistently uses i and ii,
iv)  it was designed from scratch with an _idea_ in mind
v)   the creators were not afraid (unlike many others) to throw away anything from the old stuff that seemed garbage
vi)  it is _elegant_, AFAI can judge, (cf., e.g., how elegantly it got rid of the X11, sic!)
vii)  it is minimalistic, I mean that everything is implemented carefully with respect to possible overhead, instead of
       "just be satisfied, boy, that the app works, and don't bother how (and why :-)
I have some previous experience as a user/programmer under the following "OSes" (strating in mid-eighties): TI programmable calculator :-)
-> CP/M -> DOS -> Windoze -> NEXTSTEP -> OpenStep -> GNU-Linux . I repeat I am a _greenhorn_ in CS,
but take this as a "look from outside".
Hope Plan 9 will remain clean, elegant, and open in the future (to remain also free would be nice, at least for us `Easties').
Thanks for it.

Cheers,
Peter.

--
Peter A. Cejchan
Dept. Paleobiology, Inst. Geology Acad. Sci.,
Rozvojova 135, Prague 6
CZ-16502 Czech Republic
<cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>

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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-11 12:29   ` pac
@ 2001-06-11 12:27     ` Axel Belinfante
  2001-06-11 12:50       ` pac
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From: Axel Belinfante @ 2001-06-11 12:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> x)   believe me or not, I like it's UI (actually, originally I was attracted 
> to Plan 9 by 9wm of Linux...but in 
> those days Plan 9 was not free and open source) - it is so different and mini
> malistic, and I was impressed

Same here:
 sam -> reading about help, and being impressed -> wily -> acme,
 and of course 9term  :-)
(I still remember the day when I in 'automatic non-thinking editing mode'
 I used an editing chord in my mail program (exmh) - did not work, sigh ;-))
Axel.




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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-11  9:06 ` [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here pac
@ 2001-06-11 12:29   ` pac
  2001-06-11 12:27     ` Axel Belinfante
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: pac @ 2001-06-11 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

ix)  it is modular
x)   believe me or not, I like it's UI (actually, originally I was attracted to Plan 9 by 9wm of Linux...but in 
those days Plan 9 was not free and open source) - it is so different and minimalistic, and I was impressed


--
Peter A. Cejchan
Dept. Paleobiology, Inst. Geology Acad. Sci.,
Rozvojova 135, Prague 6
CZ-16502 Czech Republic
<cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>

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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-11 12:27     ` Axel Belinfante
@ 2001-06-11 12:50       ` pac
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From: pac @ 2001-06-11 12:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

xi)  Unicode
xii)  system-wide cut and paste


--
Peter A. Cejchan
Dept. Paleobiology, Inst. Geology Acad. Sci.,
Rozvojova 135, Prague 6
CZ-16502 Czech Republic
<cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz>

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* GL again (was Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.)
  2001-06-11  8:10 ` [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here Borja Marcos
@ 2001-06-11 13:39   ` Theo Honohan
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From: Theo Honohan @ 2001-06-11 13:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

On Monday 11 June, Borja Marcos wrote:
>
> 	In a real world network, the bandwidths can be as low as 33600
> bps (a pstn modem) and as high as a gigabit. Apart from the elegant
> design, I think it can be the most interesting feature for many
> people.

Speaking of gigabit, and the idea of supporting distributed OpenGL, I
just noticed some recent work from the Stanford "Mural" people, which
describes a new OpenGL stream protocol, called WireGL.  It's intended to
be a portable and scalable replacement for GLX, with a view to cluster
rendering.  So, that might be interesting to look at, given that they've
already done all the hard work...

http://graphics.stanford.edu/software/wiregl/research.html




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* Re: [9fans] Laura's theme (Long) (Was: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.)
  2001-06-11  6:14 ` Laura's theme (Long) (Was: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.) Lucio De Re
@ 2001-06-11 14:28   ` Theo Honohan
  2001-06-11 21:18     ` Boyd Roberts
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From: Theo Honohan @ 2001-06-11 14:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

On Monday 11 June, Lucio De Re wrote ("Laura's theme (Long) (Was: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.)"):
> 
> Without excluding myself from the criticism, the Plan 9 culture is
> inherently elitist, rather than evangelical.  I'm about to embark on a
> cross-host debugging session (Inferno, rather than Plan 9, I'm not
> sure how successful I'm likely to be) and only when confronted by this
> need, did I realise that Laura's question about impressing students
> should have been answered by a cross-host task, the more convoluted,
> the better.  No one else has proposed such an idea, and yet the main
> strength of the fileserver approach lies clearly in that quarter.

Absolutely!  Well said.  I spent several futile hours at the weekend
trying to articulate exactly that point.

If the students have encountered the pseudo-network-transparency of X11
or NFS, they'll immediately appreciate the advantages of the Plan 9
approach.  It's all about just presenting the three main design
principles listed in the overview paper.  Then, you show that the Plan 9
approach solves all of the same problems as X, ssh X-forwarding, NFS and
VNC, in a much cleaner way.  That should appeal to any CS student.  Then
you show how it goes way beyond that, allowing fine-grained cross-host
sharing of resources.  Russ's anecdote about Windows and ssh is a good
example: 
http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/2000-October/007937.html

Not everyone will immediately recognize the need for that kind of
contortion, but people who have developed software across multiple
machines, or have run their own small network of Linux boxes, will be
sent into transports of delight.

I'm less convinced that Acme is a good selling point; people are
unlikely to see a new editor or IDE and think "Oh, I want to change
editors!"  Habits are hard to break, and editors are a matter of
personal taste (as are mouse chords...)

Theo



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* Re: [9fans] Laura's theme (Long) (Was: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.)
  2001-06-11 14:28   ` [9fans] " Theo Honohan
@ 2001-06-11 21:18     ` Boyd Roberts
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From: Boyd Roberts @ 2001-06-11 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> If the students have encountered the pseudo-network-transparency of X11
> or NFS, they'll immediately appreciate the advantages of the Plan 9
> approach.

as i recall, the returning NFS guru's from Sun (have they served an
TM injunction on the owner of that star yet?), when i was working for
_the instruction set_, set about to teach us about it, in an internal
course.

i must have been 23 at the time and as soon as i heard UDP mentioned
i asked questions along the lines of 'are they mad'?  i was told not
to worry -- hah, hah.  real worry set in when they asked me to port
the kernel in 7 weeks (16 weeks being the current VAX -> 68020 port
speed of the 2.0 release and the '20 was far from stable -- all
sorts of glue to get it to take its faults/lumps correctly).

well it didn't take too long, once i realised that it was just a
in-line diff-ing of similar sources driven by someone who knew both
kernels, the odd machine dependent glop and byte order problem,
followed by a good thrashing to death against a Sun to see if it
worked -- it didn't.  all the world's a vax so some of XDR was just
hosed.  fix that, thrash it, play chess -- we're _ahead_ of schedule.

i think this is the 'storm trooper' school of coding.

maybe 'starship trooper' school if you're a yes fan:

    shining, flying, purple wolfhound show me where you are

much like those XDR bugs.

but the line is from 'yours is no disgrace'.






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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-09 12:51     ` Axel Belinfante
@ 2001-06-09 15:42       ` andrey mirtchovski
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: andrey mirtchovski @ 2001-06-09 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans



On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Axel Belinfante wrote:

> 
> I tried to grab this using wget (for off-line browsing) but did not succeed.
> Would it be possible to package the whole thing in a gzip-ed tar file or so?

yeah... it is a powerpoint presentation saved in .html format and uses
javascript heavily. it normally redirects you to another page... they really
created this with a certain MS browser in mind. I suggest snagging the
actual powerpoint presentation and then saving it as html locally (my quota
prevents me from putting a .tgz copy of it on the web)

the powerpoint presentation is located at:
http://homepage.usask.ca/aam396/P9BL.ppt 

andrey




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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 17:24   ` andrey mirtchovski
@ 2001-06-09 12:51     ` Axel Belinfante
  2001-06-09 15:42       ` andrey mirtchovski
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: Axel Belinfante @ 2001-06-09 12:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> i've posted that before, but...
> 
> here's my p9 presentation for an undergraduate project i did last year,
> html-ed off of powerpoint:
> 
> http://homepage.usask.ca/aam396/P9BL.html

I tried to grab this using wget (for off-line browsing) but did not succeed.
Would it be possible to package the whole thing in a gzip-ed tar file or so?

On the topic of spreading the word:
I will be trying to convince my colleages about some of the nice
features of plan9/inferno - in particular the advantage (abstraction)
that you may get by using a file system as interface.
The group I work in works on 'formal methods' both on theory and tools;
the tools usualy consist of components that somehow interface which
each other, and using file-system like interfaces seems very attractive.
As proof-of-concept I made my first limbo program to 'unfold' (construct)
the labelled transition system for a given automaton (finite state machine)
step by step by repeatedly reading 'successor' files, and the result is
that 'on top of that' we would be able to write a 'simulator'
in a shell script. This turned out to be pretty convincing to the few
coleagues I showed this so far. 

Now (one of) the questions that probably will come up
(rephrased: that I hope to come up :-)
is how we can integrate (profit from) the inferno/plan9 niceties
(ideas, implementation environment) in our current development
environment (sun/solaris, pc/linux), without comitting us completely
to plan9 (I have running it on left-over hardware, I would be delighted
but pretty surprised if I could convince people here to run plan9 on
the desktop - most of our desktops are now sun; drawterm works)
Foreseeable constraints are that:
on the one hand we need still to be able to connect to legacy tools
that live in the unix world and cannot be ported (e.g. because they
depend on libraries for which we don't have source)
and offer e.g. a C api on which we want to build,
and on the other hand we want to still be able to distribute the
tools we develope in such a way/shape that others can use them -
and they likely run unix, not plan9.
My first guess would be that developing in inferno/limbo could do
the trick w.r.t. distribution, and that we could deal with legacy
tools by building file-system interface wrappers around them.

Any ideas, comments?
Axel.


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-09  1:48 ` paurea
@ 2001-06-09  4:04   ` Jonathan Sergent
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From: Jonathan Sergent @ 2001-06-09  4:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

On Friday, June 8, 2001, at 06:48 PM, paurea@dei.inf.uc3m.es wrote:

> I have shown plan9 to a lot of people and it is *very* difficult to
> impress newcomers, because they expect advanced graphics...  That
> said, I recommend using acme to navigate around some sources and
> running some grep or some script on ftpfs.

So does anyone have any graphics demos?


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 22:40       ` Boyd Roberts
  2001-06-08 22:44         ` Matt
@ 2001-06-09  3:24         ` Martin Harriss
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Martin Harriss @ 2001-06-09  3:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Boyd Roberts wrote:
> 
> > it's probably stretching the definition of "reading"
> 
> true, but every once in a while you have to check how
> truly awful it really is.  i don't think they can even
> count now 'cos the 'page 3' girl is no longer on page 3.

No longer on Page Three?  Surely this means the end of the British
Empire!


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08  9:30 Laura Creighton
                   ` (2 preceding siblings ...)
  2001-06-08 20:24 ` arisawa
@ 2001-06-09  1:48 ` paurea
  2001-06-09  4:04   ` Jonathan Sergent
  3 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: paurea @ 2001-06-09  1:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Laura Creighton writes:
 > From: Laura Creighton <lac@cd.chalmers.se>
 > Subject: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
 > Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:30:27 +0200 (MET DST)
 > 
 > I want to make a `this is plan 9' presentation to them.  Can I get notes
 > and stuff from you?  Also, what works?  What will impress them?  And
 > yes i _have_ the papers from 1127, the stuff I want to steal from you
 > is what you did with that.

I have shown plan9 to a lot of people and it is *very* difficult to
impress newcomers, because they expect advanced graphics...  That
said, I recommend using acme to navigate around some sources and
running some grep or some script on ftpfs. 

-- 
                 Saludos,
                         Gorka

"Curiosity sKilled the cat"
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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 22:40       ` Boyd Roberts
@ 2001-06-08 22:44         ` Matt
  2001-06-09  3:24         ` Martin Harriss
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Matt @ 2001-06-08 22:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

it's like a car crash, a little bit horrible but you can't help looking

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.


> > it's probably stretching the definition of "reading"
> 
> true, but every once in a while you have to check how
> truly awful it really is.  i don't think they can even
> count now 'cos the 'page 3' girl is no longer on page 3.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 22:33     ` Matt
@ 2001-06-08 22:40       ` Boyd Roberts
  2001-06-08 22:44         ` Matt
  2001-06-09  3:24         ` Martin Harriss
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2001-06-08 22:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> it's probably stretching the definition of "reading"

true, but every once in a while you have to check how
truly awful it really is.  i don't think they can even
count now 'cos the 'page 3' girl is no longer on page 3.





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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 22:21   ` Boyd Roberts
@ 2001-06-08 22:33     ` Matt
  2001-06-08 22:40       ` Boyd Roberts
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: Matt @ 2001-06-08 22:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

it's probably stretching the definition of "reading"

> > > Hire brittany spears
> > > 
> > She's not Open
> 
> in today's london's _the sun_ i read she was in hiding 'cos of
> a major zit problem.  guess reading _the sun_ is an occupational
> hazard, in brit ex-pat bars, if you want to drink cider and you're
> not in normandy.
> 
> 
> 


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 13:16 ` Matt
  2001-06-08 13:43   ` pac
@ 2001-06-08 22:21   ` Boyd Roberts
  2001-06-08 22:33     ` Matt
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2001-06-08 22:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> > Hire brittany spears
> > 
> She's not Open

in today's london's _the sun_ i read she was in hiding 'cos of
a major zit problem.  guess reading _the sun_ is an occupational
hazard, in brit ex-pat bars, if you want to drink cider and you're
not in normandy.




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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08  9:30 Laura Creighton
  2001-06-08 10:35 ` Ish Rattan
  2001-06-08 12:19 ` Boyd Roberts
@ 2001-06-08 20:24 ` arisawa
  2001-06-09  1:48 ` paurea
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: arisawa @ 2001-06-08 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Hello,

>I want to make a `this is plan 9' presentation to them.
>Can I get notes and stuff from you?  Also, what works?
>What will impress them?  Andyes i _have_ the papers
>from 1127, the stuff I want to steal from you is what
>you did with that.

If your system is running on 9fs kernel, dumpfs is a good candidate.
bind -b /n/dump/2001/0401 /
will impress them.

Kenji Arisawa
E-mail: arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 14:20 ` Dan Cross
@ 2001-06-08 17:24   ` andrey mirtchovski
  2001-06-09 12:51     ` Axel Belinfante
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: andrey mirtchovski @ 2001-06-08 17:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

i've posted that before, but...

here's my p9 presentation for an undergraduate project i did last year,
html-ed off of powerpoint:

http://homepage.usask.ca/aam396/P9BL.html


andrey

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Dan Cross wrote:

> In article <20010608135051.65A5F199C1@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
> >I'd love to see them. 
> 
> I would, too.
> 
> 	- Dan C.
> 
> 



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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 13:47 presotto
@ 2001-06-08 14:51 ` pac
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: pac @ 2001-06-08 14:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

Okay, I understand. I love black humor, too!
No flames. Cheers,
Peter.





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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 12:58 presotto
  2001-06-08 13:16 ` Matt
@ 2001-06-08 14:25 ` Dan Cross
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Dan Cross @ 2001-06-08 14:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

In article <20010608125901.6A71219A50@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>Hire brittany spears

I thought the goal was to train the next generation of stellar
computer scientists...If so, why ask that personification of
mediocrity to present new material to them?

	- Dan ``I ain't no teeny bopper....'' C.

:-)


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 14:00 F.J.Ballesteros
@ 2001-06-08 14:20 ` Dan Cross
  2001-06-08 17:24   ` andrey mirtchovski
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: Dan Cross @ 2001-06-08 14:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

In article <20010608135051.65A5F199C1@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
>I'd love to see them. 

I would, too.

	- Dan C.



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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
@ 2001-06-08 14:00 F.J.Ballesteros
  2001-06-08 14:20 ` Dan Cross
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: F.J.Ballesteros @ 2001-06-08 14:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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I'd love to see them. 


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From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: cej@cejchan.gli.cas.cz, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:47:55 -0400
Message-ID: <20010608134758.E40AF19A71@mail.cse.psu.edu>

It was a joke.  At least two of us have privately mailed her our
plan 9 prsentations.

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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
@ 2001-06-08 13:48 F.J.Ballesteros
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: F.J.Ballesteros @ 2001-06-08 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

: Or you don't care
: about attracting young people?

I think you are right. They should hire Alan Parsons instead.



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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
@ 2001-06-08 13:47 presotto
  2001-06-08 14:51 ` pac
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 33+ messages in thread
From: presotto @ 2001-06-08 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cej, 9fans

It was a joke.  At least two of us have privately mailed her our
plan 9 prsentations.


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 13:16 ` Matt
@ 2001-06-08 13:43   ` pac
  2001-06-08 22:21   ` Boyd Roberts
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: pac @ 2001-06-08 13:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

>> 
>> > Hire brittany spears
>> > 
>> She's not Open
>> 
>> ymmv 
>> 

I'm afraid i don't understand a word, or my knowledge of English is too poor. I thought she was
politely asking us for a help, and that she's about to do a beneficial thing, no? Or you don't care
about attracting young people?
Cheers,
Peter.
--
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Dept. Paleobiology, Inst. Geology Acad. Sci.,
Rozvojova 135, Prague 6
CZ-16502 Czech Republic
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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08 12:58 presotto
@ 2001-06-08 13:16 ` Matt
  2001-06-08 13:43   ` pac
  2001-06-08 22:21   ` Boyd Roberts
  2001-06-08 14:25 ` Dan Cross
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Matt @ 2001-06-08 13:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.


> Hire brittany spears
> 
She's not Open

ymmv 


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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
@ 2001-06-08 12:58 presotto
  2001-06-08 13:16 ` Matt
  2001-06-08 14:25 ` Dan Cross
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: presotto @ 2001-06-08 12:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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Hire brittany spears

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From: Ish Rattan <ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 06:35:35 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0106080633030.27308-100000@pali.cps.cmich.edu>

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Laura Creighton wrote:

> I want to make a `this is plan 9' presentation to them.  Can I get notes
> and stuff from you?  Also, what works?  What will impress them?  And
It is difficult to impress anybody with a new system. I have tried it
here and answer is so waht? Maybe a good looking presenter might do
it..

- ishwar

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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08  9:30 Laura Creighton
  2001-06-08 10:35 ` Ish Rattan
@ 2001-06-08 12:19 ` Boyd Roberts
  2001-06-08 20:24 ` arisawa
  2001-06-09  1:48 ` paurea
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2001-06-08 12:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

> What will impress them?

ftpfs is pretty impressive and it demonstrates a core idea.

plumbing is probably another one.




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* Re: [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
  2001-06-08  9:30 Laura Creighton
@ 2001-06-08 10:35 ` Ish Rattan
  2001-06-08 12:19 ` Boyd Roberts
                   ` (2 subsequent siblings)
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Ish Rattan @ 2001-06-08 10:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Laura Creighton wrote:

> I want to make a `this is plan 9' presentation to them.  Can I get notes
> and stuff from you?  Also, what works?  What will impress them?  And
It is difficult to impress anybody with a new system. I have tried it
here and answer is so waht? Maybe a good looking presenter might do
it..

- ishwar



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* [9fans] I've got 4 student intern (undergraduates) here.
@ 2001-06-08  9:30 Laura Creighton
  2001-06-08 10:35 ` Ish Rattan
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Laura Creighton @ 2001-06-08  9:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans; +Cc: lac

I want to make a `this is plan 9' presentation to them.  Can I get notes
and stuff from you?  Also, what works?  What will impress them?  And
yes i _have_ the papers from 1127, the stuff I want to steal from you
is what you did with that.

Thanks very much,
Laura Creighton


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