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$ echo hello world| xxd -g 0
0000000: 68656c6c6f20776f726c640a          hello world.
$ echo 68656c6c6f20776f726c640a | xxd -r -p -
hello world

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A few plan9port (plan9 from userspace) links:

 1. http://dikutal.dk/blog/jlouis/acme-editor
 2. https://github.com/jlouis/plan9-setup
 3. http://9fans.net/archive/2007/11/120 (Russ Cox's post about his setup. Jlouis's setup is based on this setup)
 4. https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=29736 (Nice post of a guy with handle mvatten on his setup in FreeBSD. He uses rio as his window manager)
 5. https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=25487 (Nice post by blstuart)
 6. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/Q0SJTXv9PgE (Evoluent mouse)
 7. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/MhOeFT0hkhs (9vx)
 8. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/0tzNmiJF6Xg (sending/installing 9atom patches)

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Installing the labs version is straightforward. I can't get the network though.

== location of plan9.ini

Type "9fat:" (note the colon at the end), now navigate to /n/9fat/plan9.ini (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.plan9/HzYhhArpJfc)

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• Way to Go
• Satish's tutorials
• MIT Distributed systems course
• CMU distributed systems course
• CMU course - Go tutorial

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• Official info on booting alternate oses
• booting your own kernel
• kernel repo
• [youtube videos]
• custom firmware
• disk format, bootup
• coreboot OSCON presentation
• vboot presentation
• fedora
• [fedora irc](http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-

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Download binaries for Python and Hg:

% hget http://www.9legacy.org/download/cpython-386.mkfs.bz2 > cpython-386.mkfs.bz2

Unzip and Install it.

% bunzip2 cpython-386.mkfs.bz2

% disk/mkext -d / < cpython-386.mkfs

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Introduction

• Mouse 1: select text
• Mouse 2: execute commands
• Mouse 3: plumb?

Select all text ":0,$" (without double quotes) and then Mouse 2 or ":," and Mouse 2.

pipe selection to external command:

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1. How can the default font be changed?
2. How to create a new user?
3. How can I build my own kernel?
4. How can I update the OS+applications?

replica/pull /dist/replica/network (to update from the network)

5. How can I see the source code changes and why the changes were made (i.e. equivalent of hg/git log)?
6. How can I build Python and Hg?
7. How can I get Golang?

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Papers being read and implemented

• A micromanual for lisp: not the whole truth - http://www.newlisp.org/notthewholetruth.pdf
• Two way string matching - http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~mac/Articles-PDF/CP-1991-jacm.pdf
• On the resemblance and containment of documents - http://gatekeeper.dec.com/ftp/pub/dec/SRC/publications/broder/positano-final-wpnums.pdf

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-- if you search for "why fp matters" on google, the first hit is this page
--  http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf
-- Unfortunately it has some bugs on page 7 (foldtree function..). This
-- has been fixed by the author and republished here:
-- http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf

foldTree f g a (Node label subtrees) = f label (foldTree' subtrees)
  where foldTree' [] = a
        foldTree' (subtree : subtrees) = g (foldTree f g a subtree)
                                         (foldTree' subtrees)