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Wrote on the subject of Music? at July 17, 2012, 6:10 p.m...
tesla wrote: I prefer the post Flo&Eddie (around 1971-ish) stuff myself but if you take the time and listen to earlier albums and look (listen) beyond much af the vaudeville stuff that is going on you'll find some really mean music lurking around.


Even 1971-ish albums were already out of my scope at my biggest time as LP buyer/listener (around 1978 to 1991 or something...) so, they will sound all of them "brand-new" to me! :)

After that I had a big time as digital listener, and acquired bad habits as Andreas Vollenweider, Kitaro, and more and more high quality but extremely bored new age stuff! :D

Thanks to God the good and old rock&roll came to rescue just in time!
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Hello there! :)

theinonen wrote:
Some rounded corners...

Not accurate copy as I have no iPhone myself and was mostly made as fun exercise.

Could have been made to look more realistic, but somehow I like this style more than the photorealistic one. Everything is kept more or less the way it came out from the CAD program.


Always liked your graphic work, looks perfect por all kind of manuals, technical brochures, user guides, and all the rest. I could not handle 2D so well like you, you can take it for sure!

Anyways, I'm progressing every day a little bit with FreeCAD, you know: it is very user-friendly, I'm pretty used to it, and it is cool to discover every week one or two new features built into the latest update. I'm very happy with it, I could not say the opposite. Of course there are things I can't do yet... but I think it is just matter of time, and probably some bigger box! :)

Oh well... I miss Nekochan. Too much work lately, and no time for computer talking and all the rest... but I'm here... heheh!

Have a great night! ;)
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Wrote on the subject of Music? at Sept. 12, 2012, 11:44 p.m...
guardian452 wrote: After deciding that I would jump into FZ's works, and not knowing with which album to begin, I simply :D acquired ;) his compleet (more-or-less) works in lossless format:


Very cool; I would like to get some FZ vinyls at some point to try out my next turntable... but I'm thinking more in something like thrift stores or flea market! You know, it seems to me like an honest way to honor the time while I try the older Zappa disks, most part of them I never heard, to see if I like them too... :)
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Wrote on the subject of Music? at Sept. 13, 2012, 1:26 p.m...
fu wrote: hey gators & rockers, how's everyone doing?


Hey there, Fu! ;)

fu wrote: yes general, nothing like digging the crates to find favourite vinyl on a cool sunday :D


Indeed! ...that's one of most enjoyable things from my actual city: it is plenty of places like that! Not too much time lately to shop for second hand vinyls anyway, but I'm already doing serious plans, and there is some "new" turntable on the pipe! :P

I'll have to try both links later!

..and, here we go with an acid one for 80'ers:

The Travelling Wilburys - Tweeter And The Monkey Man

You can like it or hate it, but I find amazing the lyrics; it is a whole freaks-movie-script condensed into a song.
Enjoy!
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Wrote on the subject of Music? at Oct. 5, 2012, 11:33 a.m...
guardian452 wrote: Sounds like I need to come down there for a visit :mrgreen: you say the countryside is beautiful?


Hey ya! Grab your bag, move yourself over here for some time, and you'll learn to like it! :)
...my city is as flat as can be, so, provided you're not married like me, from my point of view there is only one thing to look: girls! Oh, of course, there is the flea market, vintage stuff from places around Pichincha, including a few of them plenty of vinyls.

And then, if you travel a few Kmts. away from the city, there are wonderful natural places to visit. Mountains, rivers, and sea. Granted, you'll like it! ;)

guardian452 wrote: I like it!


That's what I thought! :P
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Wrote on the subject of Music? at Oct. 8, 2012, 6:10 p.m...
Hello there, Mark!

guardian452 wrote: Ah, yes. It's been a good while since I've been to a proper Argentine steakhouse, let alone one in Argentina... ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos/guardian45 ... /lightbox/


Is that one of our family-attended restaurants at the periphery of San Telmo at Bs. As., or is it some "La Caballeriza"? It really looks like that! :P

guardian452 wrote: Maybe tomorrow I'll take an extended lunch...


Wonderful dish and red wine, and looks very classy; the kind of stuff one always likes! Buen provecho, y salud para los comensales! ;)
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Wrote on the subject of Music? at Oct. 8, 2012, 6:14 p.m...
guardian452 wrote:
I took that photo as far away from your country as possible https://maps.google.com/maps?q=la+pampa ... 6prNxX3TmA

I'm new to the flickr but quite like it! I've almost used up the free uploads for a month already :oops: (60% after one weekend...)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guardian45 ... /lightbox/


Wow!, that's amazing! ...you can eat foods from the argentinean La Pampa right at the middle of Amsterdam!

I noticed how fast and comfortable Flickr feels compared to other picture places, and like it a lot. Never tried it myself to upload my own picts, bu I use it all the time to look for visual references to places, equipments, etc...

EDIT: hey!, that's you! :)

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josehill wrote:
Some of your pictures are quite good - nice eye!


Ditto!

EDIT: of course, I mean the pictures from Mark.

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Hello there.

There are probably some alternatives too:

kshuff wrote:
NEC B703A


2 SB 703 (A) = BD590, 2N6126, BD244C, BD544C

Source: "DOV Transistor 2"
Page: 2-207

kshuff wrote:
NEC D743A


2 SD 743 (A) = BD149, BD243C, BDY78, BDY71, 2N3054

Source: "DOV Transistor 2"
Page: 2-345

...and some of them are still around.
All the best!
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kshuff wrote:
Thanks Diego, that's more than I came up with.


You're welcome!

kshuff wrote:
Been out of the electronics loop for a while.


No problem; just recall to add me to Santa's list for the couple of your avatar! :)
Greetings!
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Wrote on the subject of beta: freetype2 2.4.9 at Dec. 15, 2012, 11:02 a.m...
hamei wrote:
I use it and it works, I think recondas used it and it works. No problems noted but we never quite got over the hump.

Any of our photographically artistic members want to give it a whirl and report back, so it can go into /current ?


Hi there!

I'll give another testing to exiftags with pictures from about a dozen different camera devices. Now... it's me?, or there is an impressive amount of stuff inside '/beta'! :shock:

All the best,
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EDIT: Works fine for me.

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Wrote on the subject of beta: libjpeg-turbo 1.2.1 at Dec. 15, 2012, 12:16 p.m...
Maybe the whole OpemImageIO would be a better target to port, to allow things like the newer Blender releases and things like that... I mean, if it is a doable target at all.

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hamei wrote:
Kinda spread out but I think that makes three; me, wreck, and the General :) Thank you.


I'll try with photographic samples from more camera devices at some point, but AFAIK everything looks normal to me.

hamei wrote:
btw, I notice you have a gaf folder. Have you tried the gEDA / gaf tardist in /beta ?


Sure!, this is from the IRIX package that Canavan did about a year (more or less) ago... but I'm not sure if it is the same or if the package from '/beta' is a newer release. All in all, if it helps, I'm sure the one installed here at my system required the newer 'cairo-pango' stuff to work. So, if it is the same, I'd vote the whole gEDA/PCB stuff for '/current' since it works perfectly; including testing with projects that I did using the Linux version from gEDA/PCB.

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Or did you make it, and I'm teaching granny to suck eggs again ?


:P ...not really; I'm using Nekoware, you know!

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Geoman wrote:
I think GeneratriX would add these into:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16720341 )


Done!, with a few more aditions too! :)
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vishnu wrote:
Diego, do you have a VFO for Dell's UltraSharp U2412M LCD? It's listed in the aggregator...


Not really. Never tried it myself. Sorry.

In fact I was thinking if could be possible to compile some 1920x1080 VFO for Octane / ESI for another flat panel, since I don't know if the range of resolutions from "IMPACTSR" on IP30 would support such thing.

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C'mon in, water's fine, nuthin' ta hurt ya in heah, boy ... :D
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I spent a few minutes searching the crocs! :| ...very nice picture, BTW!

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vishnu wrote:
My favorite kind of VFO's are the ones that other people make for me... :lol:


LOL! :P ...kinda like cooking meat. It always tastes better if you don't eat by yourself all that smoke around the grill! ;)

Anyway I compiled a few VFO's in the past for IP32, a platform where I happened to feel slightly more at home than with IP30 (spent a lot more of time with it) anyway... I would not try it again without further investigations. You know; there is something very evil around bad formed VFO's, it is pretty much like a Lemarchand's box! :)

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vishnu wrote:
Somebody around here must have compiled a VFO for Dell's U2412M, and one of these days I'm going to find him! ;)

And actually, my favorite kind of everything is OP's (other people's)... :lol:


I guess you already tried here? --->

Any experience with IPS SOG-capable displays ?

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vishnu wrote:
Yeah, he's using some funky custom cable that I haven't had a chance to figure out yet... :shock:


LOL! ...the hairy cable should not make any difference; I guess the 13W3 connectors are a bit scarce now, I could not find spares now over here, but looks like he used the D-Sub from some VGA cable to bridge either the original SGI cable or the 13W3 connector in it.

BTW: anyone knows if it is possible 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz for Octane / MardiGras stuff? :)

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vishnu wrote:
Yeah as I mentioned at the other thread I'm trying to run my Dell through a dual channel display, and the dual channel display outputs are DVI...


Oh, sorry; my experiencies with workstations from SGI only ranged between 13W3 and D-Sub equipped graphic stuff! :)

vishnu wrote:
I can never remember what board the MardiGras is (probably because I never had one), is it MXI or SI or SSI? Never had any of those either...


From SGIStuff.Net wrote:
Graphics

Graphics options made by Silicon Graphics:

Impact (First Generation): SI, SSI, MXI
Impact (Second Generation): SE, SSE, MXE
VPro

(Source: http://www.sgistuff.net/hardware/systems/octane.html )


But since they are all of them reported by 'hinv' into a different fashion...

From SGI TPL wrote:
IF you see... <===> It is
-----------------------------
ESI <===> An SE graphics board
ESSI <===> An SSE graphics board
EMXI <===> An MXE graphics board

(Source: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... G/apa.html )


So, my setup has an SE and an SE+TRAM.

Nice short and useful summary for my memory! :P

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recondas wrote:
Depending on your monitor it might prove to be a tight fit. You might also want to obtain EDID info for your monitor - it might prove to be helpful.


Hello there! ...and thanks in advance for the insights.

There was a limited time offer at some local shop for a few LCD units from three different brands, all of them with same resolution and refresh sets. I spotted some of them with SOG, so I asked mainly to see if would make some sense to buy one of them for the Octane. But no problem, I'll try at some point.

All the best,
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Since I've started to follow this post I'm getting more and more hooked with IRIX again. If there is a new tarball available, and if it help, I guess I could try some quick tests here with IP30. Good luck with the port.

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NCommander wrote:
As it stands, I don't currently have an IRIX box or access to a machine to do any porting work so it as, at best, on ice :-/.


Hey there!

...well, if you think it is usable to continue with the development, I can setup an account for you on my Octane. Of course it is not the fastest gun around... :oops: ...but ...I guess it is something. Oh, and it has the full MIPSPRO install.

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theinonen wrote:
Another phone.

This is actually made from my own phone without reference picture, so not 100% accurate but pretty close I would say.

Comes straight from a CAD program without any fancy shading and just light+shadow added in Compo. (Screenshot of Android was taken from internet and was the first picture returned by Google.)


Very nice work, looks well! So, is it another one from the (RISC OS) ProCad+ / Artworks 2 couple? Any chance to see the box (i.e.: YouTube) running the OS and apps? All the best,

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theinonen wrote:
This was drawn in ProCAD+ and saved in Acorns Draw vector format. It was then dropped in ArtWorks and just saved there in Artworks vector format to get smoother image because antialiasing.

Finally the Artworks file was dropped to compo for some cheap effects, basically white sphere composited on top of screen and shadow added with shadow tool. Nice thing is that vector images can be automatically masked and you can work with them without any quality loss (scale, rotate, etc), as after operation image is rasterized again from the vector image. You can bring those also as vector images but then lose all the fun stuff, like blending and so on.


Nicely done. For vectorided work I frequently use the good and old Xara Xtreme (for much less complex stuff than that) and excepting for some new bug that it developed along latest versions (upper menues are lost) it works really well too.

Anyway, I tend to find easier to work right from the start with the classic 3D stuff that everyone knows here and then after some export add whatever I need (like titles) mostly with Xara or more rarely with GIMP. But I think your method retains better the little details for more complex imagery, and after all you don't need to worry at all about cameras, lights, etc.

As I said, very nice stuff. I would love to have something like that to illustrate datasheets, user manuals, and all kinds of things like that!

All the best,
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theinonen wrote:
Some wise man once said if you can not make them just fake them. Below is a quick example to demonstrate adding lighteffects later. (Image used is the iconic ArtWorks/Xara Midget.)


And it looks great! ...anyways, no RISC OS around to try the apps your using.

I would say I'm used to FreeCAD, but it would not be entirely true... I use so many apps on last years that now I need to think a bit before to do some not too frequent operations. All in all I would say it reached for me pretty much the desired level of usefulness.

So, anyone using FreeCAD over here? It runs on pretty much every major platform now. No IRIX, well... but you can run it using any netbook or tablet, which is a plus. I would not model using a portable, but it is very useful as itinerant viewer when you model using some more powerful workstation and need to check things on field.

Greetz!
Diego

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ajw99uk wrote:
That's no excuse! :-) I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave earlier (as the English say in Parliament!) http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16720269&start=60#p7350448


Touché!

But yes, as you pointed up very well, I'm not too active in Nekochan since a good chunk of time... so... memory fails! :)

ajw99uk wrote:
but appreciate that setting it all up from scratch just to play with a couple of apps could be too great a demand on your time - would you like a ready-set up installation as a single zip/tar file to try out? You won't have Artworks that way, but there is Openvector as a free RISC OS drawing package and Draw/Paint come by default.


Sounds like a very kind offer, and I could not say I'm not tempted to try it... so... what can I say. But please, only do it if such kind of task does not involves too much hassle from you... or if you already got the disk image uploaded to some place, etc... in that case I would be interested, but since I don't have any experience with RISC OS I don't want to bug you i.e.: if it means time to arrange it. Really.

I've emulated MAC OS vía QEMU in the past, and things like that... so, I know what you mean.

So, talking about it... looks to me like RISC OS has a lot of activity lately? I know the Raspberry Pi and some other SBC's entered into the scene and it is well supported.

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Hi there!

ajw99uk wrote:
I'm on holiday next week but will have wifi so a decent chance it will get done as relaxation. I'll see how small a file can give you a meaningful system, as I've nowhere to host it for download/FTP at the moment (the downside of a budget broadband deal!).


No problem, and thanks in advance. I can setup an FTP account for you, with enough room into some web hosting service I'm actually paying for.

ajw99uk wrote:
I do have a zipped installation for Windows but at 270MB I don't fancy emailing it! (that's for OS plus lots of additional software - the absolute minimum is 4MB ROM image plus <1MB for the emulator itself).


Sure, take your time. Just let me know if I can help in any way.

ajw99uk wrote:
I forgot to ask which OS would be hosting the emulator for you - Windows or Linux? The RISC OS part is the same, which would be the bulk of the package.


I actually using mostly Linux but also Irix.

Linux: more exactly Ubuntu, and I'm pretty happy with it; seems to me a very comfortable system... though I reckon it demands some punchs here and there to persuade it to work as intended... bit let's be honest: Irix too! :)

ajw99uk wrote:
Yes, it got a revival when ports came out for various ARM SBCs, and the Pi has really helped in having such low cost hardware (and easy connection to a TV, so no monitor cost in many cases) to try it out.


The SBC's are way interesting, but I'm not using them yet... let's say the closest thing to an SBC I own for daily use is a USB BitScope; another interesting gadget if you ask. In fact, since there are ( Open Source / Open Hardware ) sourcecodes and diagrams for an RS-232 version, sounds like the perfect tool to port to Irix! ...but oh well, time is never enough!

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ajw99uk wrote:
I had a spare hour this evening and found I allready had the main components on this laptop, so put togther a stripped down installation (no printing, not many fonts, but OpenVector, OpenGrid, Pipedream4 and Fireworkz to try out) which zips to 8MB.


Thank you in advance! I'll let you know the parameters as soon the FTP account is ready. Then I can make it public, so other members can download from there too.

ajw99uk wrote:
We really should move this discussion to the "Misc OS" section!


If moderators agree with us, a new thread centered into this subject seems to me the best option!

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Works fine with IP30 / IRIX 6.5.30m, and it looks faster than FF2.

Now, I know maybe this is a dumb question because things like API recent changes and/or things like that... but... -anyone knows if it could be persuaded to work along with the NekoWare GNash?

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hamei wrote:
I have no idea about gnash - it seems like most gnu projects, the children got bored with it and gave up -


:)

hamei wrote:
but I found the latest version of plugger, built it and installed. That works for a lot of helper applications. MPlayer, xpdf and some others work that I know of.


Good point, Hamei. I was not awared of Plugger. Are you talking about this plugger , right? I'll give it a try with MIPSPRO to see if the build works here too.

I guess the problem with Flash/ShockWave will be something harder to solve... but I'm going to try some very dirty hacks with the old Macromedia and Nekoware GNash to see if it can be forced to work even if it only serves for older container versions.

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Wrote on the subject of Plugger 5.1.3 at July 25, 2013, 4:18 p.m...
Let's try first with GCC:

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pwd
/UserRoot/plugger-5.1.3


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./configure --x-include=/usr/bin/X11
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/nekoware/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for X... libraries , headers /usr/bin/X11
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking for atexit in -ldl... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile


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make
gcc -c -O2 -Ipluginsdk/include -I/usr/bin/X11 -DXP_UNIX  -DVERSION=\"5.1.3\"  -fpic  -I/usr/bin/X11 -o plugger.o plugger.c
gcc -c -O2 -Ipluginsdk/include -I/usr/bin/X11 -DXP_UNIX  -DVERSION=\"5.1.3\"  -fpic  -I/usr/bin/X11 -o common.o pluginsdk/common/npunix.c
gcc -c -O2 -Ipluginsdk/include -I/usr/bin/X11 -DXP_UNIX  -DVERSION=\"5.1.3\"  -fpic  -I/usr/bin/X11 -o plugger-common.o plugger-common.c
ld  -shared -n32  -o plugger.so plugger.o common.o  plugger-common.o
gcc -O2 -Ipluginsdk/include -I/usr/bin/X11 -DXP_UNIX  -DVERSION=\"5.1.3\"   -c plugger-helper.c
gcc   -o plugger-5.1.3 plugger-helper.o  plugger-common.o -L  -lSM -lICE -lX11  -ldl
ld32: FATAL   9  : I/O error (-lSM): No such file or directory
collect2: ld devolvió el estado de salida 32
*** Error code 1 (bu21)


No, I could not recall where libsm-dev and libsm6 are...
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Wrote on the subject of Plugger 5.1.3 at July 25, 2013, 8:43 p.m...
hamei wrote: Let's not, and say we did :D


Only if you remember highs and lows of MIPSPRO life, which is not my case anymore...

hamei wrote: At least that way there's a record at the 'chan for other people.


Probably; but at least for my actual setup, conditions are still not right-out-the-box when using MIPSPRO... :)

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cc   -o plugger-5.1.3 plugger-helper.o  plugger-common.o -L  -lSM -lICE -lX11  -ldl
cc ERROR:  crt files not found in any -L directories:
cc ERROR:  crt files not found in any -L directories:
*** Error code 2 (bu21)


And yes, I already know I geared '/configure' to the wrong path, but for the life of me, I could not recall where the correct path is. Of course I could presume of "macho" and go search my CDROM library in search of examples for next two hours, or I could go smart and come crying to mommy for hewp! :)
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Wrote on the subject of Plugger 5.1.3 at July 26, 2013, 1:49 p.m...
hamei wrote: Yikes. The spirit of the Wreck of the Grassy Snood must have come over me :shock:


Well, I should have been more specific. You could not hit more exactly on the nail. In past June 29 our building went up in flames completely. And let me say, I'm not being creative. Literally. Our family house and office/workshop went up in flames and we saved our lifes for the thickness of a hair... in fact, if you use Google Translator, you'll see I'm not joking... https://www.facebook.com/armando.aparatos/posts/371902382932247 :?

What can I say... we are working hard to recover the building and, as you noticed, I spend my whole energy there without too much spare for software building side of things... :)

hamei wrote: You're in luck, General.


Great! That's the spirit! :D

hamei wrote: Normally if I ran that search I'd have found an interesting article about dolphin communication. Do you know that dolphins have individual names ? Pretty neat, hunh ?


Wonderful!, if we suit them with Wi-Fi transceivers now they can work too! :P
Oh well, my sense of humor could be slightly acid on this days... :oops:

hamei wrote: Give 'er a shot, let me know if it works. Setting it up is kind of goofy but the page mentioned has some docks.


Thanks a lot!

I forced my mind to recall the IRIX paths for -lX11 and all the rest, and for the life of me, I could not recall too much... also tried searching the paths helping me with SoftwareManager but no luck... and my case collection with two thousand CDROMs is now heavily impregnated in soot and packaged in cardboard boxes with labels... :|
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Wrote on the subject of Plugger 5.1.3 at July 26, 2013, 2:55 p.m...
hamei wrote: Give 'er a shot, let me know if it works. Setting it up is kind of goofy but the page mentioned has some docks.


It loads and lists 141 MIME types, but only BMP and JPG are actually working for me in testing grounds . I'm checking the installed libraries and pluggerrc to see if there is something wrong for my system config.
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Wrote on the subject of Plugger 5.1.3 at July 28, 2013, 7:04 p.m...
hamei wrote: Read this first :
http://vidalia-book-shelf.googlecode.co ... Dragon.pdf
Then we can continue. It's not perfect but neither is it the wooey-gooey emotion-laden slop that usually passes for discussion on that subject.


Interesting. If it constitutes a quarter of the fun than the books from Lobsang Rampa , then I'll be more than happy reading this one at some point too. Downloaded! :)
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Wrote on the subject of Plugger 5.1.3 at July 28, 2013, 7:06 p.m...
hamei wrote:
Did you have any success with plugger ? I was going to put up my pluggerrc file but I see it's about half "this works" and half "still needs help". Anyhow, here's a start :


To be *really* honest, I think my NekoWare install is pretty much screwed. You know, I installed, re-installed, replaced, and so on... so many libraries from so many different ages, that now it is a whole mess... so, I would not charge the bill to plugger but to my eternal addiction to install and try the new new thing! By the way, anyone managed to build any NES emulator for IRIX? :)

hamei wrote:
Maybe if three or four people added their own successes, we could get a standard rc file for neko-Irix ?


Would be great. I've uninstalled tons of libraries to begin with a sane environment, then I'll try your rc with latest libraries... I hope tomorrow, I'm on the netbook now.

hamei wrote:
Yeah, I know ... most of the crap about tibet comes from the fevered imagination of some plumber in West England ... it's 90% propaganda.


Oh, that's not a problem at all for me. If the book is enough funny, then I'm sold! :)

hamei wrote:
What was that weird-ass ooccult movement in England in the early nineteenth century ? Table-tipping, ouija boards, ghosts and seances, shangri-la and all that crap ?


:lol: :lol: :lol:

hamei wrote:
I went to do a yahoo search, they are now the same pointless garbage as google. They can't just direct you, oh no, now they have to add their own stupid worthless shit to the url too and make the search a torment.

Bye-bye yahoo. Rot in hell, morons.


Ouch, I'm not using Yahoo Search since so many years...

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Wrote on the subject of Plugger 5.1.3 at Aug. 1, 2013, 5:33 p.m...
hamei wrote:
Did you have any success with plugger ? I was going to put up my pluggerrc file but I see it's about half "this works" and half "still needs help".


A lot better than with the original, thanks.
I'll try later to see if I can improve the things for another bit. But a lot better, thanks!

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vishnu wrote:
Hobbing gears at my place of employ, back in the days when the "C" part of "CAD" was the guy's brain, and the I/0 device was his pencil.


Wonderful picture, a real piece of history.

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Wrote on the subject of Cool (open source) software you would like to see ported... at Nov. 7, 2013, 3:08 p.m...
Looks like it could be persuaded to work with IRIX... never tried myself anyway:

http://www.mtoussaint.de/qtdmm.html

http://www.mtoussaint.de/qtdmm2.html