From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <57be799e06e50bb191c61c752bd1d583@telus.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] writing code Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:58:21 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Cc: Russ Cox Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0c7ecc7a-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Not to mention that laptops are an important class of networked devices. I rarely wind up with my laptop more than a few hours away from its next connection, and spend most of my days with my laptop wirelessly connected. My laptop isn't second class - it has become my principal machine. Useful would be an encrypted file system on my laptop with a USB-dongle auth server providing the key; something like a gumstix (www.gumstix.org) could run an auth server pretty easily. Paul On 17-Feb-05, at 8:48 PM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Russ Cox wrote: > >> [answer 3] >> plan 9 is intended to be used as a networked system. laptops >> are second-class citizens. >> > > hmm, this just sounds like another argument against using plan 9. > > ron >