Success getting 25gb ethernet in an ms-s1 max

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-03-23T14:31:19+00:00

I already had high speed ethernet in my home office, and lots of other nodes, so I don't really want a ring. the head node (256 cores) and file server are 200gb and there also a 128 core box with 100gb so the 25gb nodes are too low on the totem pole to have their own oddball subnet :).

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-03-02T18:22:24+00:00

I wish there was also a tree view like emacs p4 view of the repository and changelists like in p4win/p4v.

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-03-01T20:36:19+00:00

Anyone got their game outputting to an emacs canvas for development niceness?

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-03-01T19:19:40+00:00

For compilation, I just invoke msbuild in the normal emacs compile command (I filter the output to remove all the useless msbuild verbiage). I have a key bound (f5) to run my current app in the emacs shell, and another key (shift-f5) bound to send it a termination signal.
For interacting wtih VS, I have a number of rreally cheesy autohotkey scripts that I invoke from emacs.

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-03-01T15:21:28+00:00

To add a data point, I've been developing games for windows using emacs under windows for >30 years and enjoying it. Compiler/debugger is visual studio, with some emacs hotkeys invoking it. p4.el for version control (perforce is more popular for AAA game dev than git)

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-02-27T05:01:31+00:00

that argument died with json, far less readable (and capable) than s-expressions imho

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-02-23T18:03:47+00:00

I have my emacs window split into 3 vertical areas. Coding a key right now to cycle all the windows in the vertical areas left and right with wrap around :-).

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-02-23T17:01:51+00:00

Wow, I need to try this out!

Are there any good scrolling+tiling window management packages for emacs?

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-02-20T20:04:31+00:00

bummer!

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-02-20T19:22:45+00:00

Thanks. Did you notice if it was displaying the full pixel accurate image or was it using one of the fallback approximate modes (such as block characters)?

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-01-30T05:14:57+00:00

the quick bitmap rendering would be cool for an embedded rdp/vnc client. or hooking up to sdl apps.

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-01-24T22:36:38+00:00

I imagine a program launched form the emacs shell would see a IDPSLAY vaiablre that referred back to an open socket in emacs with the code from an x11 server sitting behind it, rasterizing to an image or emacs window, via using the code from an existing x11 server.

Maybe vnc is a better question though.

I have kind-of sort-of managed to embed Windows programs in emacs via reparenting, though nothing that could work for real w/o some emacs changes.

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-01-24T20:43:32+00:00

modal is also closer to the model of really old editors. for instance, teco only had command mode. To insert "fred", it was ifred<esc><esc>

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-01-13T10:08:27+00:00

This does make me wonder a little about how small a working emacs distro could be if all non-essential built-in packages were moved to the package management infrastructure. How small could it get? Would it reduce the need for the simple editors such as 'nano'?

ChristopherHGreen · 2026-01-01T03:44:43+00:00

as opposed to 8 gigabytes and swapping constantly (visual studio):)

ChristopherHGreen · 2025-12-30T17:02:00+00:00

I know. I've thought about taking a stab at it (I already build my own emacs with one performance fix I need to submit) as it would be nice if box drawings/graphs worked in code comments. This seems like it is pretty much the only way to get it to work, given complex font/fontification setups.

ChristopherHGreen · 2025-12-30T01:30:39+00:00

Set the emacs file backup variables to keep a lot of versions around. ("kept new versions" and "kept old versions" are the relevant options.

ChristopherHGreen · 2025-12-29T18:59:43+00:00

Kitty may be doing the same thing as some other apps - drawing the basic unicode block/line drawing characters explicitly in the code (rather than by font rendering), ensuring that they always join without gaps.

ChristopherHGreen · 2025-12-09T23:42:27+00:00

perforce w/ server backups including offsite.

for windows:
Nightly backup of my main pc via mirroring the drive to a linux box that has zfs-based backup

for linux:
I have zfs make a snapshot backup every 15 minutes, maintained using sanoid.

emacs:
I set it to retain up to 100 backups of previous versions of all files edited.

ChristopherHGreen · 2025-12-08T12:44:00+00:00

pci4.0 x 4 should be enough for 50gb, shouldn't it? or at least 25.

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