Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive

[fgergo@gmail.com]

"the internet has a long memory"
for the record:
for the last ~20 years on 9fans and during the few iwp9s I could join,
I've always received helpful answers and insights.
Thanks to everybody who could help! (Richard, Skip, Charles, Brucee,
Brantley too many to list.)
I plan to stay for the next 20.

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Skip Tavakkolian
<skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:43 AM stanley lieber <sl@9front.org> wrote:
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>> Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:52:31PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>> >>> > plan 9 as more than a masturbatory aid.
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>> >>> put up or shut up:
>> >> ...
>> >> Congratulations on your accomplishments!
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>> >% fn ck { grep $* /n/sources/patch/*/email /n/sources/patch/^(applied
>> >maybe saved sorry)^/*/email >[2]/dev/null |wc -l}
>> >% ck sstallion@gmail.com
>> >     28
>> >% ck khm@sciops.net
>> >      0
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>> >Perhaps it's better to be known for the occasional masturbatory
>> >session than for being an incorrigible troll.
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>> >Steve
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>> What's incorrigible is the way you people consistently reply to questions
>> from newbs with claims that it is trivial to do various tasks on Plan 9
>> without ever quite revealing that 1.) it isn't, and 2.) you aren't really
>> referring to the task they suggested, anyway. Skip does this, Every. Single.
>> Time. What is the point?
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> you're assuming a person who is new to Plan 9, is new to computing, system
> admin or programming.
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> easy means: "no different than setting up a cpu once you've configured your
> fs and auth".  adding entries for 8 rpi's in /lib/ndb/local and /cfg/pxe is
> as easy as cutting and pasting after the first one. they all run the same
> kernel.
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> please take the hyperbole down a bit or provide instances for what you claim
> i did. the internet has a long memory; http links would be sufficient.
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> regarding pi cluster, it was related to a work-in-progress i talked about at
> IWP9 2010.  i've shared as much detail as i could.
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>> What do you use that rpi "cluster" for, Skip? Do you mean to imply some
>> the availability of some facility for process migration? You know none
>> exists.
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>> The latest amusing evolution is a parade of replies from the usual
>> suspects where it's never quite clear which of them are promoting or
>> denigrating the degraded web-centric nature of modern computing. First
>> various ribbons and medals associated with historic Plan 9 campaigns are
>> displayed and then the same noble campaigners suggest that Plan 9 users are
>> cave men clinging to stone tools. I think the quips are so clever precisely
>> because their target is indeterminate. Great, you're funny, but again, what
>> is the point?
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>> How does any of this clarify matters for interested newbs?
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>> My personal favorite aspect of this tiresome dance is the eventual
>> denunciation of trolls. Here, in the spiritual home of Mark V Shaney!
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>> The problem is not trolling. The problem is low to medium quality
>> trolling, performed by armchair quarterbacks who want credit for being Plan
>> 9 Gandalfs but who are unwilling to provide the simple service of speaking
>> in words that make sense. Mothra forbid any should cast aspersions upon the
>> sacred world wide web,
>> bringer of the paycheck and dresser of the tongue.
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> and yet, it is you and your ilk who claim the mantle of the true keepers of
> the faith, beating back the evildoers.
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>> Kurt provides free hosting for the 9front mercurial repository, after
>> Google found better things to do with their time. Thanks, Kurt.
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