From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-io0-f173.google.com ([209.85.223.173]) by ur; Mon Jul 11 12:43:24 EDT 2016 Received: by mail-io0-f173.google.com with SMTP id q83so41951789iod.1 for <9front@9front.org>; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:43:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=Zbo414SRekt3nYzIL2X4K0nG0f11eJMqqG6bvbkrOos=; b=cFx+AX/X5xaViVkYnAHc7H/KbCkdvnKprCrIaCfwiKgQXO0whnDPdDhYQE+IB1Auhq 9n6KtxYu87ySkBpWbVIoIBRuETNYXJAk/oP3khfOiXw2CyqEK1fA08n2jB3O/QIcHZYB Mkpxei8Z0F09HQLJYIlxA6OR/au5VOsmPrtl7P3SRBkY5HJrRUyPymVwkHwxGx1uDw79 NwiPB7KJiUln5aXkMlNDIzvkKg20KhuY4ogHrL0/kW1zcgWW4XXBkjkl45Dwq0D0Fnhu Fn/Tmz68db/UpbStU6VO86e9PsXvZCNfcOICNpKPJ8GgF27x1FK88JlrQ2LnAq+9HMjN 4K3w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=Zbo414SRekt3nYzIL2X4K0nG0f11eJMqqG6bvbkrOos=; b=UVO7mVbnLMHG6XsiDCgTS/VaGRgG4yp2R6OKYT66hcgSrtJR8RrryLW8q1eeSpVvcI jGuLSb89ziZnfWU8eo6DU3yeO1xikyqzsWF7GySoLEfsgDrSKbwF0e+Ro0VN0FtlkTd1 j2Z5N1xPYuK8m7fa456fc3SgHwf9AvwbV742SEqcPKCtJJx1Yn3LWgK3mqjASuwSZ658 iTzKZvifmG4Bb8UAFZ1Gw13Fv4FOkIvNQSPmH9w2bMSyRsQR71iMoUoNcCPgSxLC8l2z poX4SYRSEjMjFjWCbj0SjR/P4o8dTGILSwKfaXAX1qk5rg5Qo1M54kRm+C9g5hl0lQKc sKHA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tIjlHXU/cSX7+oWhhcow53402ZTXR00rnL9orH+6FNuzO7dCD7R5z2i4AWbfOR5vq5Wua0+UT8eLe/78Q== X-Received: by 10.107.41.75 with SMTP id p72mr23608019iop.106.1468255401814; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:43:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.106.129 with HTTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:43:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Rudolf Sykora Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:43:21 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: ubiquitous environment To: 9front@9front.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: rails deep-learning session rails-oriented backend Hello, everyone, this is what I sent to the 9fans forum, but that forum has been nonoperational for some time. So I decided to ask here instead...: I read the following some time ago and now got back to it. It's from an interview with Russ Cox. https://usesthis.com/interviews/russ.cox/ -------------- The thing I miss most about Plan 9 was the way that no matter which computer you sat down at, you had the same environment. Because we were working off a shared file server - there were no local disks on the Plan 9 workstations - you could go home and log in and all your work was there waiting. Of course, it only worked because we had good, fast connectivity to the file server, and only file state - not application state - transferred, but it was still a huge win. Today it's taken for granted that everyone has local files on disk and you need programs like Unison or Dropbox (or for the power users, Mercurial or Git) to synchronize them, but what we had in Plan 9 was completely effortless, and my dream is to return to that kind of environment. I want to be working on my home desktop, realize what time it is, run out the door to catch my train, open my laptop on the train, continue right where I left off, close the laptop, hop off the train, sit down at work, and have all my state sitting there on the monitor on my desk, all without even thinking about it. -------------- Has anyone tried a setup like that? -- Having a server at work and working on it even from home/anywhere? And how is it set up? Does it mean that wherever you sit you somehow mount the window system to get to the exactly same state that you left the machine in? (Ie. something like a screen/tmux but supplied by the system itself?) Thanks for any comments! Ruda