From: "John Floren" <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:04:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d3530220607240804g4519f44ek67978a7f9176507e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d190607240119h4b0bd62i1bd4acc9d91ba885@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/24/06, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> i read through the slashdot stuff and saw no intelligence,
> i liked the slam on scroll. it hasn't changed in 20 years
> what's wrong? i can scroll a page or what i want, up or down.
> i can click for "take me to absosulte position".
>
> stupid arrows and thumb-flickers will never replace it, nice
> slow drop shadows too.
>
> and why is it that it's on the left? that's where you are typing.
>
> good to see that lunixes hate it. 4 million years they'll get it.
>
> brucee
Are you talking about the scroll bars on Plan 9? They seem to me to be
just like scroll bars on a plain old xterm, so I don't see what the
Slashdot morons would be slamming--oh wait, it's Slashdot.
John, Slashdot member (non-paying)
--
TANSTAAFL! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!)
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-23 20:49 cse.psu.edu!9fans-bounces+9fans-archive=plan9.bell-labs.com, Andrew Hudson
2006-07-23 21:01 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-23 21:20 ` csant
2006-07-25 19:47 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-07-25 22:01 ` John Floren
2006-07-25 23:06 ` csant
2006-07-23 22:09 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-07-23 23:40 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-24 5:41 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-07-24 8:19 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-07-24 15:04 ` John Floren [this message]
2006-07-24 15:23 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-24 13:29 ` David Leimbach
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-23 21:19 Andrew Hudson
2006-07-23 21:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-07-23 23:44 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-19 23:50 erik quanstrom
2006-07-20 14:50 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-20 15:08 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-07-20 16:47 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-20 18:42 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-19 22:28 David Leimbach
2006-07-20 0:06 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-07-20 1:00 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-20 6:48 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-07-19 21:47 csant
2006-07-19 22:25 ` David Leimbach
2006-07-20 0:06 ` Geoffrey Avila
2006-07-19 22:52 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-07-20 14:51 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-23 14:14 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-07-23 14:13 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-23 15:02 ` matt
2006-07-23 20:07 ` csant
2006-07-23 21:24 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-07-23 21:29 ` csant
2006-07-23 22:22 ` Dan Cross
2006-07-24 6:03 ` Federico Benavento
2006-07-24 22:09 ` Plan 9
2006-07-24 22:25 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-07-24 22:39 ` jmk
2006-07-24 22:44 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-25 14:44 ` Dave Lukes
2006-07-25 16:07 ` elbing
2006-07-25 16:41 ` ems
2006-07-25 16:56 ` Ignacio Torres Masdeu
2006-07-25 17:27 ` ems
2006-07-25 17:33 ` Michael Baldwin
2006-07-26 18:20 ` Dan Cross
2006-07-25 17:52 ` Iruatã Souza (muzgo)
2006-07-25 19:15 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-25 21:42 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-25 18:55 ` ems
2006-07-27 15:04 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-07-27 15:40 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-07-27 18:23 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-07-27 20:20 ` Nicolás Victorero Mier
2006-07-28 2:29 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-28 9:48 ` Harri Haataja
2006-07-28 10:59 ` erik quanstrom
2006-07-28 14:05 ` Wes Kussmaul
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