From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20160831034806.GB19159@wopr> <957d9161a8fd44eb4411d5bf173ae80b@9netics.com> <20160831064010.GE19159@wopr> <97b4156d-9350-42c2-a573-3a6fe0ea80e9@email.android.com> From: fgergo@gmail.com Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:21:03 +0200 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Is 9Fans dead or alive Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9af26198-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 "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 wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:43 AM stanley lieber wrote: >> >> Steven Stallion wrote: >> >> >On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:52:31PM -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> >>> > plan 9 as more than a masturbatory aid. >> >>> >> >>> put up or shut up: >> >> ... >> >> Congratulations on your accomplishments! >> > >> >% 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 >> > >> >Perhaps it's better to be known for the occasional masturbatory >> >session than for being an incorrigible troll. >> > >> >Steve >> >> 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? > > > you're assuming a person who is new to Plan 9, is new to computing, system > admin or programming. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > >> >> 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. >> >> 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? >> >> How does any of this clarify matters for interested newbs? >> >> My personal favorite aspect of this tiresome dance is the eventual >> denunciation of trolls. Here, in the spiritual home of Mark V Shaney! >> >> 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. > > > and yet, it is you and your ilk who claim the mantle of the true keepers of > the faith, beating back the evildoers. > >> >> >> Kurt provides free hosting for the 9front mercurial repository, after >> Google found better things to do with their time. Thanks, Kurt. >> >> sl >> >> >> >> >> >> >