From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60607200947w62ecb699k13d4ed139238d5d8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:47:03 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com In-Reply-To: <44BF981E.4030608@lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44BF981E.4030608@lanl.gov> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 86730356-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 7/20/06, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > erik quanstrom wrote: > > powerful, distributed namespace? you mean like, uh, dns. > > > > dns can emulate everything that ndb provides except two-level > > binding. > > > this mess is kind of our fault though. If we'd get off our collective > ass(es) and write stuff for osnews ... otherwise, the wikipedia effect > applies. I agree. I just think that the value of these OSNews things is overrated. People are going to buy into what a clearly very new person to Plan 9 has to say about it with almost no question. How is a person supposed to separate the grain from the chaff when web-journalism and blogs are at the quality they are? > > I've just (re)learned the hard way: successful research is about 99% PR, > 1% real work. And, there are very, very successful and well-known > researchers in this world who manage to make it 100% PR. Yeah, V9FS needs some PR too, and advocacy I guess to get things into other OSes. > > ron > p.s. curmudgeon A T lanl.gov gets to me to. You can guess why. > Yeah that's ok, apparently I'm an arrogant asshole :-). I can live with that... As long as I can occasionally still be useful. Dave