The collected works of ClassicHasClass - Page 14

Purely laziness, since it was already installed in the new machine. I don't notice much difference, though I don't have it connected into anything particularly hi-fidelity.

MorphOS is sold as "the first hit is free." It has a timer. Still, it does appear to be nicely designed, though if I want my AmigaOS jones I have a real A4000 to run 3.9 on instead.

Picture, as promised (Tomy Tutor at left). The black Pioneer looks very nice, I think.

Very nice!

Pics!

Outstanding, though I couldn't see the 285 in that pic.

All G5 systems are New World. The last Old World systems were G3-era.

MorphOS is very specific about what models and hardware it supports, which is why they offer a free version for you to try first. I'd verify the specific model number (i.e., there should be a code PowerMacXX,YY which precisely defines the hardware revision, usually accessible from System Profiler) and what graphics card you have.

If you enter OpenFirmware (Cmd-Opt-O-F as you turn on the Mac), it should say something like this:

Apple PowerMac2,1 1.2f2 BootROM built 09/09/99 at 99:99:99 Copyright 1994-1999 Apple Computer, Inc
All Rights Reserved
ok

The "PowerMac2,1" is the part you're interested in. That would give you the specific model number and you can verify if MorphOS supports it. The DVI port should work just fine.

It is possible the ADC is the base port, but highly unlikely. You could reset PRAM to make sure there are no weird little settings (hold down Cmd-Opt-P-R as it turns on and let it bong a few times). ADC->DVI passive converters are available that don't cost a great deal. Are you sure the video card is okay? Does it display *any* image, at *any* time?

If this doesn't fix it, I'd really advise trying to find OS X and getting to a known working point. If OS X doesn't display an image either, then I'd blame the video card.

Sexy!

simply because they were good as so was/is hpux

Well, I don't know about that ...

(having suffered through HP-sUX 8.0, 10.20 and 11i)

That was the one in the garage, right? The Army unit?

It's like my dream basement. Except I don't have $40K.

If he throws in the bike, I'd consider it.

robespierre wrote: I never suspected that Apple's multicolor iMac experiment was thought up to separate "collectors" from their money, but this is strong evidence

"Pokemon! Gotta catch 'em all!"

I have a snow, a strawberry and a blueberry, and I think I only actually paid money for one of them, and only one of them (the strawberry) is actually in use. I can't see the point of getting the whole spectrum except if you're really obsessive. They're too damn bulky.

Since 1999 I have had a IIci as a NetBSD server, named thule . When I had only dialup in my apartment and the Apple Network Server was co-loed at my old University job, it handled all my local Unix tasks and acted as a file server. When I got DSL and moved the ANS into the apartment, it still ran the internal network DNS and classic AppleTalk tasks. Its uptime has only been interrupted by periodically blowing a cap on a cache card, which is why I ended up just pulling the cache card because it didn't have to be fast , just up .

Today the network was abnormally slow, even for internal resources, so I went into the server room expecting to find the switch had freaked out or something. But no, it was thule, unable to stay powered on. I shut it off and replaced the power supply, but that wasn't the problem, so I replaced the logic board with a freshly recapped spare I had just for this sort of emergency. It booted, much to my relief , and after nearly ten minutes to check its 128MB of RAM and fsck the disk, it was back in action.

Here's to fifteen more years of service.

smj wrote:

ClassicHasClass wrote: I can't see the point of getting the whole spectrum except if you're really obsessive. They're too damn bulky.

I was going to quip: Not if your fanboi shrine-cave is the size of a generous studio apartment.

Then as a chill ran down my spine, I looked around my house...

My one-bedroom apartment was like that. I limit my collection to two rooms in this 2400sqft house, though I cheated a little and there are computers in the bedrooms (but logically -- I mean, someone could want to log in from the strawberry iMac in the guest room).

Now to get another spare board ...

That's happening too. It probably just needs to be recapped. Mac hardware from their early surface mount days was notorious for this.

No, but mostly because my dad got out of mathematics early and went into veterinary medicine.

Hmm. Might have to see if this can be modified for Fuel.

Yup, you're looking satisfied there.

Link? (Being, you know, a PowerPC OS X guy. I tried compiling dillo once and gave up, especially since TenFourFox is so awesome.)

systemd: The Choice of a New Generascsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Write (10) 00 06 1d 3a 0d 00 00 08 00

Interesting. Maybe I should dust off my attempt in my copious spare time.

I'd like to do a Firefox 4 port on Irix, but right now I'm knee deep in getting Mozilla's irregexp native compiler to tolerate big-endianness. I think I finally have it working, but there are other problems.

Hah, this is the exact model I have (a two-way 4.2GHz Power6). Note that you may not be able to get more than 16GB in it if you do not have a CUoD code. Mine has 8GB. This is the IBM spec .

When I had the server disassembled to replace the system backplane, I took pictures of the RAM sticks, which are both 4GB Samsung 2Rx4 PC2 5300P 555 12 LO. This is an 667MHz ECC DDR2 RDIMM.

The code on the stick is M393T5160QZA-CE6 (1030).

ASMI can tell you what entitlement codes are enabled. Assuming the CUoD codes are entered and not messed up (which believe me can happen), and no one has removed or mucked with the VPD, they should still be valid. In ASMI (on my EL350 firmware), look under On Demand Utilities, CoD Processor Information and CoD Memory Information.

No, I really mean it. It's just not enough hours in a day. Not even hamei in a string bikini is motivation enough.

ARE YOU ASKING FOR A CHALLENGE?!?!?!?!?!1

That never happens in enterprise computing.

Cool.

Saw your gopher server, btw.

Cache poisoning is bad news. What is your DNS server, bind? What version?

Keep in mind that the (actually only) reason Oracle bought Sun was to have a proprietary platform to run OracleDB on and lock customers in.

I don't like the ODM either, but since you manipulate it through smit, the last word in system configuration tools, I don't mind it terribly much.

Meanwhile, I bought an iPod classic.

josehill wrote: One of my old sysadmins was a huge HP-UX fan. He was a real professional: he managed systems running all of the common commercial flavors of Unix, and also OpenBSD. He had something positive to say about all of them, while also being honest about the headaches that each entailed, too. He was one of the few who could say, "Oh, you'd want to run that particular application on {platform X} because {reason Y}," and, after researching the question further, you'd find out he was right. He always said that he had the most fun working with Origins, but I could tell that his heart was really into his big box HPs. It was an emotional thing, as much as anything else, I think. You never get over your first Big Iron, I guess.

Yeah, but my first Big Iron was HP-UX (a PA-RISC-based K250) and I can't say I have that much nostalgia for it. I have a couple machines, including a big tank 9000/350 in the enclosure and the megapixel monitor, but I was irked by aCC and I don't find using sam all that much fun. And my C8000 sits on the shelf because HP-UX doesn't do much as a workstation OS and to use it as a server is a waste.

I don't hate HP-UX, but I'd rather use AIX. (I don't care much for Solaris, FWIW -- I rather preferred the old SunOS, probably because of my BSD fetish being a product of the University of California. So maybe BSD was my first "Big Iron" even though "Big Iron" in this case was a 486 server running BSDI/386 in the bowels of AP&M at UC San Diego.)

diegel, can I have your children? Once medical science finds a way.

diegel wrote:

ClassicHasClass wrote: diegel, can I have your children? Once medical science finds a way.

The work did eocene from the dillo team.

I'm heartbroken. But I've got dillo on the Fuel, so I'll get over it.

Where are their patches, btw?

Candidly, there is no longer any performance gulf of substance between xlC and gcc anyway. xlC may be able to better optimize some types of code, and its vectorization is probably better, but on the whole its drawbacks far outweigh any small performance gains you'd see.

Zing!

(tcsh user)

Unfortunately, yes.