[9fans] `Grid Computing' - reinventing the Plan 9 wheel?

[9fans] `Grid Computing' - reinventing the Plan 9 wheel?

[John Murdie]

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2835949,00.html

(Incidentally, I find myself wondering whether the columnist knows the
derivation of the technical term ``modem'' - see the 6th paragraph of
his article. My major point is that I wonder whether either the
columnist or the people of the project he describes have heard of Plan
9.)
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John A. Murdie
Experimental Officer (Software)
Department of Computer Science
University of York
England

[9fans] Re: `Grid Computing' - reinventing the Plan 9 wheel?

[John Murdie]

On 10 Jan, To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu wrote:
> http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2835949,00.html
>
> (Incidentally, I find myself wondering whether the columnist knows the
> derivation of the technical term ``modem'' - see the 6th paragraph of
> his article. My major point is that I wonder whether either the
> columnist or the people of the project he describes have heard of Plan
> 9.)

Also, I see that the columnist writes that the claimed inventor of the
modem ``released his code to the pubic [sic] domain''.
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John A. Murdie
Experimental Officer (Software)
Department of Computer Science
University of York
England

Re: [9fans] `Grid Computing' - reinventing the Plan 9 wheel?

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

john@cs.york.ac.uk (John Murdie) writes:

> (Incidentally, I find myself wondering whether the columnist knows the
> derivation of the technical term ``modem'' - see the 6th paragraph of
> his article. My major point is that I wonder whether either the
> columnist or the people of the project he describes have heard of Plan
> 9.)

Um, Ward Christensen did in fact which xmodem, which was called
"modem.asm" originally--that is, a "program called modem" in the words
of the column.  The columnist might well not know
"modulator/demodulator", but Christensen did actually write the
described program, which was a key step in the development of the BBS
culture.

So the columnist does seem to be a bit ignorant of True History, but
still, didn't get wrong the basic facts that he relates.

Thomas

[9fans] ext2 mounting -- pls. help!

[cej]

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Peter A Cejchan
biologist
Acad. Sci., Prague, CZ
<cej at cejchan dot gli dot cas dot cz>

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Hi, friends,
I am still so stupid I can't mount my ext2 partition. It resides on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdd1 (Linux notification).

I did:
disk/fdisk -p /dev/sdC0/data > /dev/sdC0/ctl

here is a listing:
term% ls -l  /dev/sdC0/
--rw-r----- S 0 pac pac          0 Mar 27  2001 /dev/sdC0/ctl
--rw-r----- S 0 pac pac 4311982080 Mar 27  2001 /dev/sdC0/data
--rw-r----- S 0 pac pac 4096157184 Mar 27  2001 /dev/sdC0/linux
--rw-r----- S 0 pac pac  213857280 Mar 27  2001 /dev/sdC0/linuxswap
--rw-rw-rw- S 0 pac pac          0 Mar 27  2001 /dev/sdC0/log
--rw-rw-rw- S 0 pac pac          0 Mar 27  2001 /dev/sdC0/raw
term%

Then I tried to mount the linux partition

mount  /srv/ext2 /n/c: /dev/sdC0/linux

but
term%  ls -l /n/c:
term%


WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? Could anybody show me, step by step, what should I do to mount an ext2 partition under Plan 9, please?
Apologies for being so stupid.

Thanks in advance,
++pac