From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7ba84dd35467c4dd6111ee9847151f75@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy In-Reply-To: <577fd0c726f326714323074c32cead74@centurytel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-awvnshxfwavholcvmrqlgokpzz" Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:20:11 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a931a6e0-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-awvnshxfwavholcvmrqlgokpzz Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit No the flavor of the week is a move to Windows servers with users getting thin clients that connect to them. I'ld rather write something that talks their thin client protocol (if only I can figure out what it is). In general though, if your premise is that I always want to use windows and sometimes plan 9, it is an argument for a stronger drawterm. Mine is that I want to live on plan9 and sometimes use windows. I'ld rather the inverse of drawterm. Vnc is a step in the right direction, though the windows server for it sucks. --upas-awvnshxfwavholcvmrqlgokpzz Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Thu Dec 18 01:59:54 EST 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Thu Dec 18 01:59:52 EST 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 92BF619C2C; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:59:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.23.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id D9E1819BC4; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:59:26 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 9DD0919AE3; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:58:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from gh-mail.centurytel.net (gh-mail.centurytel.net [209.206.160.252]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id B502719BB1 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:57:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from laptopvmw.9netics.com (adsl-64-91-109-37.centurytel.net [64.91.109.37] (may be forged)) by gh-mail.centurytel.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBI6vmRR006490 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:57:49 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <577fd0c726f326714323074c32cead74@centurytel.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy From: "Skip Tavakkolian" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:57:56 -0800 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) >> (Hard to believe that the birthplace of Unix will be forced by management >> to use Windows!) > > Research won't be forced to live on it. However we already are forced to > use it to communicate with those who don't really care what the solution > is, which is most of the company. Also, if we want to solve peoples' > problems within the company, we have to do it in their context even if > our initial experiments are on Plan 9. Isn't this an argument for stronger drawterm effort (or something more ambitious)? BTW, I'm assuming this is referring to Windows for desktop environments and not for running servers. right? --upas-awvnshxfwavholcvmrqlgokpzz--