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Date: Wed,  7 Mar 2007 17:59:18 +1100
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno
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the best way to piss off a linux dude who wakes up, updates his system,
goes to work, updates everything that isn't locked down, and then sit's you
in front of a "good box" ... is to say every two minutes "how do i get rid of
this gargoyle".  was a funny day ... i showed him how the mouse didn't
work very well (only under cpu load - it went left to right fine but going up
or down was hard work - the secretary went out and bought a new mouse,
which did the same.  anyway, in the wait i got me a VNC connnection  to
club birriga and downloaded 9wm and sam, which behaved perfectly.

i sammed(?) the code heavily, and he asks "what version of emacs is that?";
guess again human.  i was polite and said "it's an old editor i like to use".

and of course ... "how do i view this bitmap? xview doesn't like it ...
should i try gimp?"  "oh, don't use gimp, you'll have to wait." and it goes
down from there.

plan9 to a developer is total unrestrained productivity.  oh shit, it doesn't
have gargoyles or good porn viewers.  sorry, write them - they easy.

brucee

On 3/7/07, Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > you're right. All those experiences I had with people when I tried to
> > show them Plan 9 were just my imagination. Sorry. Too many drugs
> > maybe.
>
> Well, I apologize for offending you. But what ideas are you suggesting
> that we migrate toward?
>
> Transplant the MacOS X interface to Plan 9 perhaps? ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Vester
>