victory!! i finally figured out the biggest gripe i had with how my remodeling of the 9front ui was going: these weird gaps between the "screen" of a window in the border. because this is a hardcoded value in libdraw, everything needs to be re-compiled. but it works and now i can go on to the remaining visual glitches plaguing acme!
when calling the TrackPoint™-style pointer by its most formal name, you might come to the realization that… really, why is it called a TrackPoint?
…and why is the TrackPoint on a ThinkPad called the TrackPoint II, III, or IV?
…because there was an original TrackPoint, the mouse IBM sold for the L40 SX, you see. (pic #1)
but it’s not just a mouse. it’s also a trackball. (pic #2) trackball, pointer. track, point. TrackPoint.
and then they reused the trademark on something completely unrelated.
now you know!
Just installed the NeuG USB True Random Number Generator (from https://shop.fsf.org/storage-devices/neug-usb-true-random-number-generator).
I'm not sure if it will actually help but it seems to be cool to have that thing in my #power9 computer. 😋
compiled some press links around MNT Reform into a list https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-personal-computer.html#mnt-reform-in-the-media if you have more, send link
Some screens from my SGI Indigo. I made them few days ago.
The 8bit Entry graphics is not ideal for font rendering in Adobe Reader...
Post a toot from #9front:
hget -m 'POST' -r 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' -r 'Content-Type: application/json' -p '{"status":"some text"}' https://YOUR_INSTANCE/api/v1/statuses
Trying to compile KerTeX on the (emulated) 9front. IF it will work I will try the same on the native 9front...
By the way, the KerTeX has a Plan9 install script by default.
http://kertex.kergis.com/en/index.html
Why I need (La)TeX? I want to use my Plan 9 computer for real stuff. And the troff is not accepted in scientific journals these days.
Found this: https://github.com/telephil9/gopher
My emulated Plane 9 (a 9front clone) experiences some network-related issues (I still don't know where the problem is) so I am not able to test it properly.
But it seems to be very nice Gopher browser indeed!