Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

[Jorden Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis
<eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
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> On 28 Nov 2009, at 2:28 pm, hiro wrote:
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>> It's also very easy to run my toaster diskless. Does this say anything
>> about it's elegance or simplicity? I don't remember what my toaster
>> has to do with 9p, but nevermind.
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> And somebody always mentions toasters! Or coffee machines... :D
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> Actually, yes it does say a lot about a toaster's elegant simplicity: a
> toaster only has parts to do the job intended. At a minimum a switched
> heater, a sprung sliding bread carrier which also switches the heater, and a
> thermally-releasing latch for the slider. I have seen a toaster without even
> that much complexity; it had glass sides so you could see when your toast
> was done how you like it.

There is a toaster that burns a picture of a raincloud, sun,
snowflake, etc. depending
on the morning's forecast. There is also a coffee pot you can control
via ethernet.

The coffee pot runs windows and there is a virus that causes Coffee
Denial of Service
on it.

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> Actually there is a link here. Things to share are increasingly bloated, and
> applications strangely seem to need access to every feature of the shared
> entity. 9p could perhaps help by presenting a device model with files for
> different capabilities, or something like that, but it is only half a
> solution. OTOH perhaps the need to access device features is not really
> strange. Requiring a whole postscript interpreter on your printer could be
> seen as just as strange, it was certainly very expensive to do a few years
> ago.
>
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>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis
>> <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>>> On 26 Nov 2009, at 8:53 pm, ron minnich wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> it is pretty hard to run windows, osx or linux without
>>>>> a hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> linux is actually quite easy and has been for about 12 years or more
>>>> ... not sure of the others.
>>>
>>> It's certainly possible to run OS X diskless, and knowing Apple it'll
>>> take
>>> less setting up than Linux. ;)
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