#and plan9 of course

[surfeitoflampreys]

It is so handy how on Unix you can just write files to /tmp and they will be cleared up automatically upon shutdown!

So if I want to write a disposable python script to test something - put it in /tmp!

Or if I want to view e.g. an MS Word document that my browser can't read, just save it in /tmp.

And of course if it's worth keeping, then move it to somewhere permanent.

[powerbrowser]

At least plan 9 C made some good choices, you should check out the spec on the site https://plan9.io/sys/doc/comp.html . Of course if we pillow fight in our pajamas we’ll have to be careful to not to get TOO distracted by the swinging…

Anyway no new programs in C!!!

you can pry my boomer language from my cold dead hands but i'll never touch diseased Keith if i can avoid it. that rat is Concerning

What the hell is this ask about bitch

[hydralisk98]

LEARNBLR #6, the MINIX 3 book + full-stack madness

Hy comrades, Klara here with a closer to final ZealOS color ricing. And yes I finally got the MINIX3 book at home a few days ago. Quite happy of such as I intend to dive deeper into such once I am ready, alongside the "NAND to Tetris" companion book.

The current context & study program timings won't stop me from learning of the strenghts and drawbacks of much existing infrastructure and designs, as I still feel like a vast niche market is still left up to grabs as far as computation goes. And customizing so much of a tech deque of computational framework would be preferable to the affordable but ethically doubtful option to bear only to hacking such a exisiting one. No offense to such tinkerers as they still deserve much of my praises and in fact, I do aim forward to such tech enthusiasts worldwide as to redemocratize direct & transparent technologies.

So let me explain. Before the nineties, we had way less quantities of memory, but we got more variety and a few direct computation brands (Commodore 64, Apple II & DECmate III being sample computer systems I think most when I think of such terms). Right now, we got some nice standards and memory abundance but now much is abstracted away from even developers, systemic issues plague the homogeneous market of 64-bit architectures and a handful of similar contemporary legitimate concerns to debate over.

I decided to bring such change by my hands, and while I still am seeking people who are quite deeper into computing hardware (most likely electronics but alot of historical hardware methodologies are to be expected) and analog medias of days almost gone now.

It is still extremely early but I take major hints from the TempleOS' main forks that are ZealOS & Shrine with additional inspirations like Windows 3.1x GUI, MINIX3/PLAN9 standards, DECmate III+'s all-in-one package, Intersil 6120 processor family & openPOWER + openSPARC architectures.

Quickly summarized, it is a 12-bit tribble home computer system, and the MVP (minimum viable product) would probably contain around 144KW (32-144 kilo-tribbles but I prefer kilo-word for better interoperability with bytes and nibbles) of "live" RAM memory. And it's primary goal is to host a retro-optimized multimedia OS that has a similar feel to other 8-bit new wave micros. It has twelve generic 12-bit registers that are not conventionally named (A to F & U to Z letters as such generic register names) and four special registers akin to the PDP-8-inspired Intersil 6120's.

But remember, the main goal is less to make it big computing framegmeted mess initially (like how Linux distros and kernel are as of right now), but rather to give ways for the computer enthusiasts and non-English communities to take ownership of their computer as to learn/tinker all sorts of cool workflows. And yes, that includes slavic tech communities of the Russian kinds, amerindian peoples, Inuits and constructed world peers. Part of why I chose 12-bit as the word rather than 8-bit is exactly to ease in encoding of customized charsets (think of such as a alternative to UTF-8) and of course to learn to tinker differently than just throw the usual 8-bit bytes around. Still aiming for 8-bit (& also 6-bit units because of some worldbuilding-relevant samples) compatibilities eventually but that's far in the roadmap.

Small extras for those who read to the end of this article:

[adamgdooley]

Windows 10 Will Finally Offer Easy Access to Linux Files

Windows 10’s April 2019 Update brings a long-awaited feature: Support for easily accessing, viewing, and even modifying Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) files from File Explorer or via the command line.

Previously, it was possible to find your Linux files in your AppData folder, but Microsoft warns against that. Modifying files here would break things. Now, there’s an easier, official way to access these files with Windows tools—without the risk of breaking anything!

Microsoft’s Craig Loewen explains how it works: Rather than accessing these files directly, Windows runs a Plan 9 server as part of the WSL software in the background. Windows 10 has “a Windows service and driver that acts as the client and talks to the Plan9 server.” That server translates your file operations and handles Linux metadata such as file permissions, ensuring everything works properly even when you access a file with a Windows tool. But that’s just the complicated stuff that happens in the background, and you don’t have to think about it.

You can open a File Explorer window directly in the current directory from within a Linux shell environment. Just type the following command into the Bash shell:

explorer.exe .

You can work with files normally from here. Use drag and drop, copy and paste them, or even open them directly in Windows applications to modify them.

Microsoft

Microsoft may change how this works in the future. But, for now, you can also type following path into an Explorer window to access a Linux distribution’s files:

\\wsl$\<running_distro_name>\

In other words, if you’re running Ubuntu’s Bash shell, you’d type:

\\wsl$\Ubuntu\

This also works from the command line, of course. In PowerShell or the Command Prompt, the command cd \\wsl$\Debian\ changes to the root directory of your installed Debian system.

Microsoft

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[aaronaknightca]

Windows 10 Will Finally Offer Easy Access to Linux Files

Windows 10’s April 2019 Update brings a long-awaited feature: Support for easily accessing, viewing, and even modifying Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) files from File Explorer or via the command line.

Previously, it was possible to find your Linux files in your AppData folder, but Microsoft warns against that. Modifying files here would break things. Now, there’s an easier, official way to access these files with Windows tools—without the risk of breaking anything!

Microsoft’s Craig Loewen explains how it works: Rather than accessing these files directly, Windows runs a Plan 9 server as part of the WSL software in the background. Windows 10 has “a Windows service and driver that acts as the client and talks to the Plan9 server.” That server translates your file operations and handles Linux metadata such as file permissions, ensuring everything works properly even when you access a file with a Windows tool. But that’s just the complicated stuff that happens in the background, and you don’t have to think about it.

You can open a File Explorer window directly in the current directory from within a Linux shell environment. Just type the following command into the Bash shell:

explorer.exe .

You can work with files normally from here. Use drag and drop, copy and paste them, or even open them directly in Windows applications to modify them.

Microsoft

Microsoft may change how this works in the future. But, for now, you can also type following path into an Explorer window to access a Linux distribution’s files:

\\wsl$\<running_distro_name>\

In other words, if you’re running Ubuntu’s Bash shell, you’d type:

\\wsl$\Ubuntu\

This also works from the command line, of course. In PowerShell or the Command Prompt, the command cd \\wsl$\Debian\ changes to the root directory of your installed Debian system.

Microsoft

Read the remaining 4 paragraphs

from https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/windows-10-will-finally-offer-easy-access-to-linux-files/

[jamestdoleus]

Windows 10 Will Finally Offer Easy Access to Linux Files

Windows 10’s April 2019 Update brings a long-awaited feature: Support for easily accessing, viewing, and even modifying Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) files from File Explorer or via the command line.

Previously, it was possible to find your Linux files in your AppData folder, but Microsoft warns against that. Modifying files here would break things. Now, there’s an easier, official way to access these files with Windows tools—without the risk of breaking anything!

Microsoft’s Craig Loewen explains how it works: Rather than accessing these files directly, Windows runs a Plan 9 server as part of the WSL software in the background. Windows 10 has “a Windows service and driver that acts as the client and talks to the Plan9 server.” That server translates your file operations and handles Linux metadata such as file permissions, ensuring everything works properly even when you access a file with a Windows tool. But that’s just the complicated stuff that happens in the background, and you don’t have to think about it.

You can open a File Explorer window directly in the current directory from within a Linux shell environment. Just type the following command into the Bash shell:

explorer.exe .

You can work with files normally from here. Use drag and drop, copy and paste them, or even open them directly in Windows applications to modify them.

Microsoft

Microsoft may change how this works in the future. But, for now, you can also type following path into an Explorer window to access a Linux distribution’s files:

\\wsl$\<running_distro_name>\

In other words, if you’re running Ubuntu’s Bash shell, you’d type:

\\wsl$\Ubuntu\

This also works from the command line, of course. In PowerShell or the Command Prompt, the command cd \\wsl$\Debian\ changes to the root directory of your installed Debian system.

Microsoft

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[techbotic]

Windows 10 Will Finally Offer Easy Access to Linux Files

Windows 10’s April 2019 Update brings a long-awaited feature: Support for easily accessing, viewing, and even modifying Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) files from File Explorer or via the command line.

Previously, it was possible to find your Linux files in your AppData folder, but Microsoft warns against that. Modifying files here would break things. Now, there’s an easier, official way to access these files with Windows tools—without the risk of breaking anything!

Microsoft’s Craig Loewen explains how it works: Rather than accessing these files directly, Windows runs a Plan 9 server as part of the WSL software in the background. Windows 10 has “a Windows service and driver that acts as the client and talks to the Plan9 server.” That server translates your file operations and handles Linux metadata such as file permissions, ensuring everything works properly even when you access a file with a Windows tool. But that’s just the complicated stuff that happens in the background, and you don’t have to think about it.

You can open a File Explorer window directly in the current directory from within a Linux shell environment. Just type the following command into the Bash shell:

explorer.exe .

You can work with files normally from here. Use drag and drop, copy and paste them, or even open them directly in Windows applications to modify them.

Microsoft

Microsoft may change how this works in the future. But, for now, you can also type following path into an Explorer window to access a Linux distribution’s files:

\\wsl$\<running_distro_name>\

In other words, if you’re running Ubuntu’s Bash shell, you’d type:

\\wsl$\Ubuntu\

This also works from the command line, of course. In PowerShell or the Command Prompt, the command cd \\wsl$\Debian\ changes to the root directory of your installed Debian system.

Microsoft

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[blakcmambaa]

Windows 10’s April 2019 Update brings a long-awaited feature: Support for easily accessing, viewing, and even modifying Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) files from File Explorer or via the command line.

Previously, it was possible to find your Linux files in your AppData folder, but Microsoft warns against that. Modifying files here would break things. Now, there’s an easier, official way to access these files with Windows tools—without the risk of breaking anything!

Microsoft’s Craig Loewen explains how it works: Rather than accessing these files directly, Windows runs a Plan 9 server as part of the WSL software in the background. Windows 10 has “a Windows service and driver that acts as the client and talks to the Plan9 server.” That server translates your file operations and handles Linux metadata such as file permissions, ensuring everything works properly even when you access a file with a Windows tool. But that’s just the complicated stuff that happens in the background, and you don’t have to think about it.

You can open a File Explorer window directly in the current directory from within a Linux shell environment. Just type the following command into the Bash shell:

explorer.exe .

You can work with files normally from here. Use drag and drop, copy and paste them, or even open them directly in Windows applications to modify them.

Microsoft

Microsoft may change how this works in the future. But, for now, you can also type following path into an Explorer window to access a Linux distribution’s files:

\\wsl$\<running_distro_name>\

In other words, if you’re running Ubuntu’s Bash shell, you’d type:

\\wsl$\Ubuntu\

This also works from the command line, of course. In PowerShell or the Command Prompt, the command cd \\wsl$\Debian\ changes to the root directory of your installed Debian system.

Microsoft

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[suitcasetales]

A Day at the National Folk Festival

Most of you know of our love of and pride in The Richmond Folk Festival. And most of you know that through the leadership of Venture Richmond, the RFF was born out of the National Folk Festival. Cities host the national festival for three years. This year was the first year for Salisbury, MD as host city. We attended the NFF on Saturday — not volunteering, but free to actually sit in the audience and take in full 45-minute performances. If you attend Richmond’s Folk Festival, lots of things are going to look and sound very similar! And just as we have learned in Richmond, the Festival goes on, rain or shine!

We spent Friday night in Cape Charles so still had a two hour drive north to Salisbury plus a stop for breakfast at the Exmore Diner. 

We started out driving in sunshine but the closer we got to Salisbury, the cloudier it got, proving the forecast accurate. We got lucky and got to check in to our hotel early and then headed to downtown Salisbury around 11am.

Even though there was a free shuttle bus from a satellite parking lot, we had studied the map showing all of the free parking available in town so we thought as early as it was, we could probably find a space. And find we did, just one block from the dance stage!

We knew that Dave Jones, who is in charge of set-up and tear-down in Richmond, had the same task in Salisbury and that several food vendors from RVA were also in Maryland. Additionally, Jim Bland of Plan9 was also in charge of the merchandise booths. But the strangest bit of quasi deja vu was that all the signage and the pocket guide was designed by House of Hayes LLC in Richmond. We almost felt like we were in Richmond!

Performances began at noon but since the Marketplace opened earlier, we headed there first. Janet ended up being interviewed by a local TV reporter for their evening news story on day two of the festival. We stopped by “the merch tent” and talked to Jim and bought a poster and a National Folk Festival scarf for Janet.

Next we headed to the City Stage for a performance by tapper Jason Samuels Smith. We remembered from the first year of the Richmond Folk Festival when he performed alongside Chitresh Das from India; their respect for each other’s contrasting styles still stands out in my mind and epitomizes the folk festival. Even though all performance stages are covered, not so for the audience. It started raining as we claimed seats on the front row and it absolutely pitched it down the entire time Jason danced. Of course we still enjoyed it but on behalf of Salisbury, we felt terrible.

We decided to head back to the car (because we could!) and re-evaluate what we needed to carry with us. Luckily, the rain subsided and only a few times for the rest of the day and evening did we get any more rain; only once did we have to re-don those handy-dandy plastic ponchos.

We zig-zagged all over the Festival site until about 10pm, just doing what we wanted to do. Besides the advantages of our parking site, it was certainly different being right in the heart of downtown with shops and restaurants open. Sure, I am sure the food and drink vendors business suffered but that might have had as much to do with the weather than anything. I have no idea what downtown Salisbury is like on a normal Saturday but perhaps people who don’t normally go downtown learned that the shops and restaurants are worth supporting so that everyone wins.

We walked through the Children’s Area.

We talked to the new Superintendent of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Park and invited her to come to Richmond and experience the Richmond Folk Festival and meet her NPS peeps at Tredegar and at the Maggie Walker National Historic Site.

We listened to Cajun music by Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys on the stage equivalent to Richmond’s stage on the Brown’s Island Way hillside.

We listened to Texas fiddling and Western swing by those cute Quebe Sisters on a just-this-month opened amphitheater stage along the Wicomico River.

We stopped by “OPS,” the center of the festival operations, looking for Dave Jones. We never did run in to him but we did talk to several festival staff members that we know from the many years they have come to Richmond.

We visited the booths in the Folk Life area.

We then walked all the way back to the dance stage food court because several folks had recommended a crab cake vendor there. Janet happened to notice a golf cart that was labeled “Water & Soda” and realized the Team Leader must be around. Sure enough, she was checking in with her volunteers and so we introduced ourselves and chatted for awhile.

On route to our next destination, we passed through a designated Street Performance area where the Treme Brass Band was playing. With the great tradition of a second line parade in New Orleans, they had led a parade on Friday night to open the Festival. 

The next thing we did will easily rank in the Top Ten of all of our Folk Festivals experiences and it took place on the Maryland Traditions Foodways Stage. Smith Island lies in the Chesapeake Bay, twelve miles west of Crisfield, Maryland. Reachable by ferry, it is famous for its Smith Island Cake, a simple iced layer cake with traditionally at least 8 layers. In 2008 it was designated as the official dessert of the state of Maryland. Mary Ada Marshall is a lifetime resident of Smith Island and learned to bake from her mother, grandmother and mother-in-law. She had a great personality and we were particularly touched when she got choked up wishing that those three women were alive today to see all the attention that this “just cake” was garnering now.

Before leaving the Folk Life area, we caught the last song by The Sensational Royal Lights, a family group founded over six decades ago.

We had hoped we would have been able to at least taste the Smith Island Cake but when we didn’t we both needed something else to eat. We decided It wouldn’t kill us to eat a vegetable so we dug in to some tasty roasted corn.

Back over to the amphitheater, the sun set as we listened to The Bing Brothers Band, from Charleston, West Virginia, with guest fiddler Jake Krack, playing old-time string music.

At 8:45, we were back where we had started that morning, on the front row of the City Stage, this time for Mariachi Los Camperos. This band has been to Richmond at least twice, maybe even three times, but we never tire of them.  Because of their showmanship, musicianship and singing voices, it was an absolute treat to be hear them and see them again, especially from the front row!

Our final performance would conveniently be on the dance stage (close to the car!). Janet participated in the salsa lesson but once the Orquesta SCC from The Bronx started playing, they were simply too loud to enjoy. However, while hanging out at that stage, I did finally manage to photograph the volunteers’s shirts and capture a cute trio working the Bucket Brigade!

So we called it a day.

Correction. We called it a great day.

Thank you National Folk Festival and thank you Salisbury.

[ghostmoo]

Feeling like a Christmas 🐍 in @katvondbeauty #plan9 I enjoy green lipsticks quite a bit. It’s one of my favorite shade ranges to wear and try to pick up any I can on the market, so of course I had to pick this up. #makeup #makeupjunkie #makeupcollection #makeupphotography #makeupporn #beauty #beautyblog #beautyblogger #beautyinfluencer #influencer #youtuber #like #comment #follow #followme #photooftheday #photography #katvond #katvondlolita #katvondbeauty #katvondplan9 #green #greenlips #serpent #goth #alternative #alternativemakeup (at Charlotte, North Carolina)