From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:19:17 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] the futility of #plan9 on irc In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050523233359.GD14127@xware.cx> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 524c7b80-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Chris Collins: > Sure, you might not like the IRC crowd, but posting this to 9fans in > anger over a few members of #plan9 is about as mature as ... >=20 > #plan9 provides a multilingual, almost 24 hour/day, support service > for free due to the efforts of its members. I have not posted my opinion of the IRC crowd. I merely posted some evidence that they were, one one particular occasion, completely full of shit. People can make their own decisions about whether to generalize. Tim Newsham: > Despite what Andrey said (most of which is true), IRC is still > the first place I'd recommend someone with a plan9 question > go ask. Depending on who is watching, they could get a good > answer, or perhaps just a snide 'RTFM.' When it works it > works well and when it doesn't, there's 9fans for a slightly > less timely response. I think reading the FAQ, poking around the Wiki, and then asking on 9fans is a much more reliable way to go. Poking around the IRC logs from the first week of May, I have learned that the /sys/src/9 kernels have no SCSI support (only /sys/src/fs does) and that there is=20 no way for acme to pipe the current buffer through a program. Sometimes, when such misinformation is stated as fact, someone is around to correct it. But just as often it seems that no one is around to correct it. And if you're a newbie and you get the latter, I don't believe that you've done better than asking on 9fans and waiting a little while. Russ