11:59 a.m.
On 17 October 2010 11:09, Philip Oakley <philip.oakley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok....... sorry but I have to pass on that one.
:-)
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4:10 p.m.
It's probably in the man pages Philip :)
Adam
On 17 October 2010 11:09, Philip Oakley <philip.oakley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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Not sure there are many man pages available for using an iPad. :)
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Subject: [Staffslug] Gfhi ru
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:09:08 +0100
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Tom
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 16:10 +0100, Adam Egan wrote:
It's probably in the man pages Philip :)
Adam
On 17 October 2010 11:09, Philip Oakley <philip.oakley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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5:14 p.m.
Not sure there are many man pages available for using an iPad. :)
My secrets out! I clearly have nothing to say on the subject of 'Gfhi ru'
although the title looked so interesting I even clicked it myself (doh!)
Apologies for clogging up peoples email with Gfhi ru (again) and I was going
to blame my Android phone but after looking at the time and Tom's hint looks
like my daughter playing Shrek (or not) on the Ipad (roll on Android 3.0 and
decent Android tablets).
Am trying to think of something interesting just in case someone does open
the email so (after some thought) here's a link to Plan28 a project to build
Charles Babbages Analytical Machine http://plan28.org/ (well I thought it
was interesting)
Apologies
Phil
6:49 p.m.
On 17 October 2010 17:14, Philip Oakley <philip.oakley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Am trying to think of something interesting just in case someone does
open
the email so (after some thought) here's a link to Plan28 a project to build
Charles Babbages Analytical Machine http://plan28.org/ (well I thought it
was interesting)
Apologies
Phil
You're forgiven :-)
You mentioning 'plan'. Poundland have Plan 9 From Outer Space on DVD
at the moment. The Linux tie in (sort of, well it's UNIXy) is that
Plan 9 was named after the film. Plan 9 being an OS of course. The
film has to be one of the absolute worst ever 'B' movies. It has to
be watched to be seen how bad it is :-)
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8:32 a.m.
On 17/10/10 18:49, Kevanf1 wrote:
On 17 October 2010 17:14, Philip Oakley wrote:
> Plan28 a project to build
> Charles Babbages Analytical Machine http://plan28.org/ (well I thought it
> was interesting)
:-)
You mentioning 'plan'. Poundland have Plan 9 From Outer
Space on DVD
at the moment. The Linux tie in (sort of, well it's UNIXy) is that
Plan 9 was named after the film. Plan 9 being an OS of course. The
film has to be one of the absolute worst ever 'B' movies. It has to
be watched to be seen how bad it is :-)
Actually Plan9 has a stronger link to GNU/Linux than to UNIX.
It's from Plan9 that we inherit all those lovely plain
text files in /etc that make admin so much less painful.
UNIX in the 70s/80s had a fair few of binary config files istr.
- Richard
11:17 a.m.
On 18 October 2010 08:32, Richard Smedley <smedley358(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
Actually Plan9 has a stronger link to GNU/Linux than to UNIX.
It's from Plan9 that we inherit all those lovely plain
text files in /etc that make admin so much less painful.
UNIX in the 70s/80s had a fair few of binary config files istr.
- Richard
Now I didn't know that. I admit that all I've ever done is to skim
over stuff about Plan 9 (should it be Plan9 without the space? no pun
intended) and have never even tried installing it on anything. It's
just one of those things that I've filed away as looking interesting
and must take a deeper look at one day. It was the film association
that made me look at it in the first place. I'm a sucker for old 'B'
movies :-) Hey, when I growing up our horror was not stuff like 'SAW'
it was the Hammer Horror, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Fly
(original 3 films) and, of course, 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'.
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2:29 p.m.
On 18/10/10 11:17, Kevanf1 wrote:
Now I didn't know that. I admit that all I've ever done is
to skim
over stuff about Plan 9 (should it be Plan9 without the space? no pun
intended) and have never even tried installing it on anything. It's
just one of those things that I've filed away as looking interesting
and must take a deeper look at one day. It was the film association
that made me look at it in the first place. I'm a sucker for old 'B'
movies :-) Hey, when I growing up our horror was not stuff like 'SAW'
it was the Hammer Horror, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Fly
(original 3 films) and, of course, 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'.
Procrastinating work, I look stuff up, and see it's actually
/proc that's the real benefit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#.2Fproc
Also interesting legacy of Plan9:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/v9fs/index.php?title=Main_Page
& the wonderful wmii Window Manager (close to
being my favourite, atm).
http://wmii.suckless.org/
- Richard (now getting back to work)
PS Haven't seen that film for ages, but in totally unrelated
viewing news, Due South is now on iPlayer :-)
9:39 p.m.
How did Tom know it was iPad? :/
Adam
On 17 October 2010 17:14, Philip Oakley <philip.oakley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure there are many man pages available for using an iPad.
:)
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>
My secrets out! I clearly have nothing to say on the subject of 'Gfhi ru'
although the title looked so interesting I even clicked it myself (doh!)
Apologies for clogging up peoples email with Gfhi ru (again) and I was going
to blame my Android phone but after looking at the time and Tom's hint looks
like my daughter playing Shrek (or not) on the Ipad (roll on Android 3.0 and
decent Android tablets).
Am trying to think of something interesting just in case someone does open
the email so (after some thought) here's a link to Plan28 a project to build
Charles Babbages Analytical Machine http://plan28.org/ (well I thought it
was interesting)
Apologies
Phil
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D'oh!
Adam
On 17 October 2010 21:41, Andrew Edwards <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> How did Tom know it was iPad? :/
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> Adam
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