The collected works of GL1zdA - Page 4

Jack Luminous wrote: Can we have it back please ?

If you change the theme it will come back.

Personally, I always start with "New posts" so I've simply added search.php?search_id=newposts - to my bookmarks and Firefox start page, this way FF always suggest the correct link whenever I start typing "neko".

Same can be done for "Active topics": search.php?search_id=active_topics

There are only NT drivers:
ftp://ftp.es.com/drivers/AccelECLIPSE/

I've had one, with unpopulated DIMM slot (it's CD-RAM as far as I can remember). Crashed NT during boot on my 164LX Alpha as soon as I've installed drivers.

Kumba wrote: If I am not mistaken, I think the VW systems are the reason why the NT kernel uses ARC naming for raw device access. MS included some of the ARC (note, ARC is little-endian, ARCS is big-endian) standard in NT, especially for NTLDR and BOOT.INI (until they moved that into the registry in Vista).

NT's ARC support predates VW by several years: ARC . NT supported ARC since it's conception. You could even launch Windows NT 3.1 betas on MIPS.

Kumba wrote: I also believe that, hardware-wise, the VW's, at least the 320, is based on the same shared memory architecture as the O2. Both use the Graphics Backend chipset (in Linux, the gbefb driver). Not sure if the same applies to the 540, though.

Yes, the 540 is a more expandable 320.

hamei wrote: Well, that didn't last long. The worthless losers now just have to add their own stinking crap to the beginning of any result-link, so if you try to grab a pdf directly oh noes ! you canna do that ! we need to add our duckduck url to the front end of all resulting redirects !

Calm down. Go to advanced settings, privacy and disable redirects (you have to enable cookies for it to work). They did it, because that way the target page won't know what were you searching for.

hamei wrote:

GL1zdA wrote: Calm down. Go to advanced settings, privacy and disable redirects (you have to enable cookies for it to work). They did it, because that way the target page won't know what were you searching for.

Alas, today no joy in Mudville ;
...
all mei you, so bye-bye duck from Philly ..... (the one from Finland is safe)

I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about now... I've disabled this weeks ago because I often copy links from Duck Duck and I don't think this is browser dependent.

smj wrote: FWIW, I had to tell NoScript to allow scripts from DuckDuckGo.com before I would get the little "menu" icon in the top right of the DuckDuckGo.com page. Once I did that, I could access that menu, choose Advanced Settings, and the Privacy Settings. Then the option to disable redirects was there.

Yes, I've disabled NoScript for DuckDuck. It's increasingly painful to browse the web with NoScript nowadays, but I'm trying. I think I will have to change the default from whitelisting to blacklisting, but creating a blacklist would take some effort.
Maybe the direct link will work: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#privacy

foetz wrote: you could also give ixquick a try

Looks suspiciously similar to StartPage .

hamei wrote: This is so fucking stupid that only the ADD-riddled retards working for loser places like boogle and quackquack could come up with it. I guess they are too bored sitting in their cubbyoles stroking their dicks, so they have to invent cutesy little ways to mess with average users.

Well, fuck them.

I am soooo sick of wasting my time on stupidity that I quit. They can take their search engine and use it to wipe their asses. I am sick and tired of Open Sores blithering idiots who happily violate the rules of programming languages and call it an "extension" and the buffoons who write web sites (duck excepted) and all of these witless advertising whores. It's nothing but a huge waste of time. They can have their worthless internet. Shove it, nitwits. I'm going back to paper, pencil, and the telephone. It works better.

(PS. do we have a youtube embedding tag?)

hamei wrote: I am continuously getting websites that say "Our site requires javascriopt flash and stinkyschmutz. Please go install those and come back." The short answer to that is "Piss off."

Yet you are posting this to a phpBB forum not USENET or IRC. The technology changes and sooner or later you will have to deal with it if you want to get things done.

I use Windows 10 Technical Preview on a ThinkPad x120e Netbook (AMD E-350 CPU). Feels a bit faster than preinstalled Windows 7.

hamei wrote: btw, in another little stroke for the forces of evil, the duckduckgo settings that Glizda referred to are not persistent.

Works for me. Have you enabled cookies for duck duck? I have one with the name "d" and the value "-1" - it seems this one turns this option on.

smj wrote: You don't want them tracking you, which they'd have to do to be able to apply those preferences automatically each time.

They drop no tracking cookies, only a cookie for each setting. I have the "d" cookie with "-1" for "disable redirects" and two cookies ("ah" and "l") with the value "pl-pl", because I've enabled regional results via the switch on the right side of the results (I really love this switch - I've hated fighting with google to switch between "global" and "regional" results).

There are of course other options to track you (like fingerprinting the browser (now also with canvas ) or your ISP sending tracking headers , no flash cookies on IRIX fortunately ), but thats something you have little control over.

Does anyone have the installer for the trial version of Cosmo Code 2.5 for 95/NT? Since I'm a Java programmer I'm interested how Java development looked like in 97. I searched for this release of Cosmo Code, but it seems it's gone.

nongrato wrote: Any interest in CosmoCode 1.0.2 for Irix?

Thanks

miod wrote:

GL1zdA wrote: Does anyone have the installer for the trial version of Cosmo Code 2.5 for 95/NT? Since I'm a Java programmer I'm interested how Java development looked like in 97. I searched for this release of Cosmo Code, but it seems it's gone.

I still have a MSFT ``Site Builder Workshop'' cd-rom from this timeframe, with many demonstration/trial version of commercial software. When I'm back home I'll have a look in what's in it, if it's still readable.

I'm interested in an image of this CD even if it does not contain Cosmo.

recondas wrote:

GL1zdA wrote: I'm interested in an image of this CD even if it does not contain Cosmo.

It's been a while so we'll go over this one more time with a polite reminder of the Forum Rule on Commercial Software.

nekonoko wrote: Forum rules

Any posts concerning pirated software or offering to buy/sell/trade commercial software are subject to removal.

Since most Microsoft products are Commercial with a capital C (or, if you prefer, $), please avoid crossing that line unless MS made it freely available for public download.

But the CD was "with many demonstration/trial version of commercial software" - does this also violate the rule? I assumed it's the same as sharing a CD full of shareware, without cracks or serials (I collect magazine cover cds with shareware - they are a great way to preserve software without piracy).

josehill wrote: I don't recall what the terms were for Windows, but, as an fyi, SGI offered the IRIX version of Cosmo Code at no cost with free downloads. See this thread for info about the IRIX version. viewtopic.php?t=16723134

There was a free 30-day trial (this what I'm asking for), unfortunately not archived: https://web.archive.org/web/19990417230 ... /code.html

jan-jaap wrote:

GL1zdA wrote: There was a free 30-day trial (this what I'm asking for), unfortunately not archived: https://web.archive.org/web/19990417230 ... /code.html

A quick search for "cc25demo.exe" turned this up: ftp://ftp.uniovi.es/pub/java/cosmocode/

Must have been blind, I've seen the page but haven't read the filename. Thank you. It seems this is what I'm looking for, now I have to deal with the "16-bit installer" thing

It works

vishnu wrote: Looks like a pretty nice IDE, wonder why the abandoned it...

It's using the native Windows toolkit, so it's fast and responsive. Haven't tried out the debugger yet. Of course there's no intellisense and no on the fly compilation - two things that make developing programs nowadays much more convenient, but I like the visual designer. Will have to check if I can add my own sample control to the palette.

As for why they abandoned it - I think in the late 90s they didn't knew themselves what they wanted to do and for some reason they feared commoditization of their business - they wanted to sell full stack proprietary workstations for a small niche, when they should have provided CPUs + Graphics hardware and, optionally, software, and look how to enter the consumer market.

nekonoko wrote:

ClassicHasClass wrote: So it really is running on a BeagleBone in a shoebox?

Close The last motherboard was a D525 (had D510 & 230 boards even earlier on, there are some old threads on this). This is a J1900.

Did these motherboards fail or was it something else?

Unfotunately, it's probably the worst time to buy anything from the US now: USD/EUR

The Alpha Processor Artwork Page hast the files in vector format.

foetz wrote: i didn't mean stability nor macs. i was referring to the usage of osx which since based on unix is lightyears ahead of windows. same goes for linux of course but there you have no apps hence the only one left is osx.

It's hard for a UNIX based system be lightyears ahead of Windows, given that UNIX is basically an implementation of an OS taking ideas from the 60s and Windows is based on ideas from the 70s. At core, both are multiuser (though Windows has slight edge with its RDP), multitasking with memory protection, network OSs. Its just shows how irrelevant the differences have became. If you take Tanenbaums book and check how concepts he describes are implemented in moderns OSs, you'll see, that they are doing all the important things (case-insensitive paths are cosmetics) the same way.

guardian452 wrote:

TeamBlackFox wrote: Lenovo, the company I use for laptops and desktops does have the problem with spyware, but even the Windows users I know reimage their devices, only morons use a Windows OEM install. Since I'm using BSD or Solaris on the systems their spyware has no bearing on me, the user, and their hardware refurbs are good and new and usually competitive in pricing especially compared to the non-expandable rubbish bin Mac Pro, or the Macbook Pro with a glued in battery.

Re-imaging takes time, you have to have a valid windows license AND media. I have some panasonic toughbook peecees in the shop and at other facilities; if you don't want to use panasonic's image, you have to buy an additional windows license. At least how parent company's IT explained it to me.

Ask Microsoft about it and I'm more than sure it's not like how it works. Here are OFFICIAL recovery images:
Windows 7: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery
Windows 8: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/wind ... resh-media
On a notebook you shouldn't even have to enter the product key - they have embedded them in BIOS. On my ThinkPad T530 I can install either Windows 7 or 8 and they don't ask for product keys and just activate.

Not sure whether this should go here or to the hinv section.

I have upgraded today my VW540 from 2x Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz with 2 MB cache to 2x Pentium III Xeon 900 MHz with 2 MB cache. It works (Windows 2000 booted). PROM reports 256 kB cache, but all the cache works. I'm attaching a screenshot now, will attach some photos and add info about the upgrade to our wiki later. Next step: fill the 2 other CPU slots, but first I have to find Pentium III Xeon heatsinks and VRMs.

The 320/540 use SGIs own designs. The later 230/330/550/Zx10 use ATX parts (basically of the shelf PC parts).

mopar5150 wrote:

gijoe77 wrote: take some pics of that card!!

One is marked "missile emulator"

Get in touch with @kevinmitnick and make this world a better place

It seems they've disabled anonymous access - unfortunately that's happening to often recently. I might have somewhere a mirror of these files.

While I don't care about the smartwatch aspect of it (I try hard not to be "notification driven") I like the complications thing. I thought the Health & Fitness functionality would work without the iPhone - I don't want to lug around a phone and I would have to buy one in the first place (my 3GS is not compatible ). And since I like only link bracelets the 42mm Stainless Steel Case with Link Bracelet version would cost me $999. I could justify spending like $250, but with $999 I'm going to wear my oldschool Casio DB-520A for the next few years - the smartwatch of the 90s:

This is so sad: http://www.digital.com/

Still looking for this. Where's the bump button?

Does anyone know, what a PowerStorm 1000 is? I know digital rebadged many accelerators as PowerStorm, I know they've used deskside accelerators like the E&S Freedom Series, but I've never seen a PowerStorm 1000.

Here's an InfoWorld article mentioning the Render Accelerator: https://books.google.pl/books?id=vDAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT5

I've got mine (a 332 MHz version with GXT800P) for 10 Euro, so I wouldn't expect the card to be worth much.

hamei wrote:

foetz wrote: well, different versions are different. if a program uses a feature that only came with a specific version (or higher usually) then it needs to check for it

To my (somewhat) Germanic mind, this is bullshit.

Design the effing library to do a particular thing. Make it do that. Sure, as you find errors, fix them. Change minor version numbers to reflect that. But the library should do what it says it does.

That's how it supposed to work. But in real world it simply doesn't. Even minor changes break programs, because for programmers will depend on the erroneous behavior. Microsoft solved it via Side-by-side assemblies .

hamei wrote:

GL1zdA wrote: That's how it supposed to work. But in real world it simply doesn't. Even minor changes break programs, because for programmers will depend on the erroneous behavior. Microsoft solved it via Side-by-side assemblies .

What would happen if the people supplying the dll's in question said, "This is the guaranteed behavior. If you depend on erroneous behavior, you are on your own and we arn't going to fix it. You can face the wrath of your customers alone when your software breaks, because we fully intend to tell them why the program broke."

And then stuck to their guns ...

Standards are good, if they are enforced, maybe ?

And in the end the providers of the library will suffer. Imagine a client, whose program works on your OS with your library version A. You are providing the upgrade, which upgrades the library to version B. Now the clients program breaks, because you modified some of the libraries undocumented behavior. Who do you think will be blamed? MS learned it quickly with MSVCRT.DLL . Search Raymond Chen's blog for information about how important is backward compatibility for OS developers.

hamei wrote:

GL1zdA wrote: And in the end the providers of the library will suffer. Imagine a client, whose program works on your OS with your library version A. You are providing the upgrade, which upgrades the library to version B. Now the clients program breaks, because you modified some of the libraries undocumented behavior. Who do you think will be blamed?

I disagree, and perhaps this illustrates a difference between people of the past and tomorrow's young whippersnappers.

In the early nineteenth century there were a gazillion railroads with a gazillion track gauges. This obviously impeded interaction between railroads, so they got together and developed a standard . Now any railcar could go on any railroad (with the exception of some isolated narrow gauge lines.) If a car builder sold a boxcar with a non-standard wheel width, the railroad did not "get the blame." If any company had been stupid enough to provide non-standard trucks, that company would have been quickly bankrupted by pissed-off customers. Not the railroad, which was adhering to the standards. The company which insisted on doing something in a non-compliant way.

The problem is, libraries are more complicated than tracks and railcars. People rarely get them right the first time they try, so the APIs/ABIs have to evolve.

Won't most CF/SD cards have problems with Random Reads/Writes? I think most of them are optimized for long reads/writes, like saving a several megapixel large RAW image. Most of these cards have extremely small cache.

Just curious. I know Flint 5.0 used an Indigo2 IMPACT with the Indigo2 IMPACT Video Option, I know the hardware for most of the newer versions, but I couldn't find information about older Flint versions. Anyone knows it?

Thanks, volumetric rendering is always a nice way to show the graphics capabilities of a system. I've written a volume raycaster several years ago, but, as you have written, it used shaders so it wouldn't run on an SGI.

Fat indeed. I'm envious.

Does the Scythe Kama Flow in your PSU require suspending environmental monitoring?

$2600 seems to be a lot. Is it like that in the whole US? Here in Poland, you can have a dedicated server with the newest Xeon E3, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB of RAID 1 storage and 10 TB of 100 Mb/s bandwidth (10 Mb/s after that) for less than $1000/year. And this is from one of the most reputable providers.