Nekonomicon - Nekochan 10th anniversary?

Oskar45
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Wrote the following at Feb. 15, 2013, 1:08 p.m...

hamei wrote:

Indigo's are neat. The later machines may be sexier and definitely faster but there's something about an Indigo ....

Ah - the Indigo. Once upon a time it was hailed the "RISC PC of the 90's". 20 years ago, when I bought my first SGI box at list-price (!), it was an R3000. No-one ever claimed that their machines were actually cheap - by today's standard, I'd to shell out about €20000. Sigh, I'm well aware that I should forever be condemned to Ring 2 for having been so stupid, but back then I just wanted have an Indigo. Ok, I beefed it up to R4400, and it run for ten years before it died a peaceful death. After that, I got myself a purple I2 which still purrs away happily today...but occasionally I still long for my old Indigo nevertheless...

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hamei
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Wrote the following at Feb. 15, 2013, 6:37 p.m...

fu wrote:

hamei will handle the firewerks

Film's still not ready but I went down and picked up a few boxes. Here we are loading about fifty pounds of explosives into the back of the car ....

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robespierre
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Wrote the following at Feb. 17, 2013, 4:59 p.m...

Oskar45 wrote:

Ah - the Indigo. Once upon a time it was hailed the "RISC PC of the 90's".

In fact, the Indigo's model number is "4D/RPC" in the series of IRIS 4D machines.

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hamei
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Wrote the following at Feb. 17, 2013, 10:39 p.m...

Maybe a little big but in honor of the occasion ... for neko

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[ Play Quicktime file ] nekoversary.mov [ 3.24 MiB | Viewed 345 times ]

vishnu
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Wrote the following at Feb. 17, 2013, 10:47 p.m...

hamei wrote:

Maybe a little big...

I dl'ed it at about 120KB per second, so, not too bad for neko's server. Very skyrockety.... :mrgreen:

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hamei
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Wrote the following at Feb. 17, 2013, 10:52 p.m...

vishnu wrote:

hamei wrote:

Maybe a little big... :oops:

I dl'ed it at about 120KB per second, so, not too bad for neko's server. Very skyrockety.... :mrgreen:

Oi, sorry neko. If you want to move or remove, I won't have hurt feelings. Seemed nice to celebrate tho

btw ...

Code:

  urchin 1% mplayer -vo gl2 nekoversary.mov
  
  MPlayer 1.0rc1- MIPSpro Compilers: Version 7.4.4m (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
  
  CPU: SGI MIPS
  
  Playing nekoversary.mov.
  
  Cache fill:  4.82% (606208 bytes)
  
  ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
  
  Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
  
  VIDEO:  [avc1]  480x272  24bpp  30.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
  
  Clip info:
  
  encoder: 6.1
  
  ==========================================================================
  
  Trying to force video codec driver family ffmpeg...
  
  Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
  
  Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
  
  ==========================================================================
  
  ==========================================================================
  
  Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
  
  FAAD: Failed to initialize the decoder!
  
  ADecoder init failed :(
  
  ADecoder init failed :(
  
  Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6134706D.
  
  Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
  
  Audio: no sound
  
  Starting playback...
  
  VDec: vo config request - 480 x 272 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
  
  Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
  
  Opening video filter: [scale]
  
  VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
  
  Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
  
  SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr24 special converter
  
  VO: [gl2] 480x272 => 480x272 BGR 24-bit
  
  [gl2] You have OpenGL >= 1.2 capable drivers, GOOD (16bpp and BGR is ok!)
  
  [gl2] antialiasing off
  
  [gl2] bilinear linear
  
  V:  34.7 1041/1041 33% 147%  0.0% 0 0 0%
  
  Exiting... (End of file)

There was an mplayer plugin project at one time. Now that ff3 works, I wonder ......

Indyboy
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Wrote the following at Feb. 18, 2013, 2:01 a.m...

Happy next 10 years!

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ClassicHasClass
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Wrote the following at Feb. 18, 2013, 10:53 a.m...

Loved all the car alarms going off in the video ...

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hamei
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Wrote the following at Feb. 23, 2013, 12:57 a.m...

This is kind of a shock :

http://www.nekochan.net/weblog/archives ... -offi.html

Happy Birthday and thank you squeen and semi, wherever you are now

fu
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Wrote the following at Feb. 25, 2013, 4:54 a.m...

what chc said, cheeck-to-cheek w/ colours in the sky :)

we got drinks, cake, and firewerks, a bassline and some drumming and we'd be all set (sky's hammond & syb's guard's drums could groove some)

happy 10 y'all

bluecode
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Wrote the following at Feb. 25, 2013, 11:49 p.m...

guardian452 wrote:

I will bake a cake. Carrot Cake !

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Cake.jpg

That sounds pretty tasty and you're a good photographer too.

To the forum host and mods, thanks for the forums. Long may "unpopular" hardware and software wave!

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Nuke
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Wrote the following at Feb. 26, 2013, 6:56 a.m...

Quite late, but congratulations Neko. You've got a good forum and now it's in double digits.

Oskar45
From Vienna, Austria
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Wrote the following at March 2, 2013, 1 p.m...

Yeah, as long there's whiskey in the jar and you keep tuned into to Irish Pub Radio we will surely celebrate Nekochan for many more years to come :-)

Sadly, two of my favourite songs [Tae the beggin'/The Wild Geese] aren't played these days too often anymore...

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hamei
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Wrote the following at March 2, 2013, 7:31 p.m...

Oskar45 wrote: ... my favourite songs ... The Wild Geese aren't played these days too often anymore...

You like ping sha luo yan ? I'm impressed. Have several recordings by various players if you like ...

Oskar45
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Wrote the following at March 7, 2013, 11:15 a.m...

hamei wrote:

Oskar45 wrote: ... my favourite songs ... The Wild Geese aren't played these days too often anymore...

You like ping sha luo yan ? I'm impressed. Have several recordings by various players if you like ...

Indeed, a beautiful piece [especially when played on flute]. And I'm sure there are as many different interpretations for it as there are for, e.g., Mahler's 6th [viz. Solti vs. Boulez vs. Bernstein] - but I'd in mind http://springthyme.co.uk/wildgeese/index.htm ... :-)

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foetz
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Wrote the following at March 16, 2013, 10:53 a.m...

as mentioned already for the 10th anniversary of nekochan.net and my upcoming 10th anniversary here as well i pictured how my place would look like in the 23rd century

created with an sgi of course

vishnu
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Wrote the following at March 16, 2013, 2:56 p.m...

foetz wrote: as mentioned already for the 10th anniversary of nekochan.net and my upcoming 10th anniversary here as well i pictured how my place would look like in the 23rd century
created with an sgi of course

Nice work! Lightwave? Maya?

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foetz
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Wrote the following at March 16, 2013, 3:02 p.m...

vishnu wrote: Nice work! Lightwave? Maya?

PowerAnimator

jpstewart
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Wrote the following at March 16, 2013, 3:53 p.m...

Impressive work, foetz! Very detailed. I especially like the 3-D SGI cube next to the I2 and the fact that the I2 appears to be displaying the Nekochan forums.

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foetz
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Wrote the following at March 16, 2013, 4:10 p.m...

thanks to both of you

yeah it has a few flaws here and there but overall it looks nice i think and that's the important thing. the room could have more stuff but i wanted to let the sgi stuff stand out and not get buried by tons of deco stuff

and yes the indigo does show the nekochan main forum page

about the cube, i can share the model if you like it

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