The collected works of Geoman - Page 4

Unix Software Consultant, Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA, 10/92 - 11/95.

o Key contributor on IRIX 5.3 installation tools, inst and Software Manager.
o Developed C++ classes implementing network protocols, tape support, and HTML web support.
o Designed and wrote the command-line query programs showfiles and showprods.
o Conceived and implemented tardist, the first widely-used Web-based software installation program.
o Designed and implemented an HTTP-based protocol for installation of large software packages over the internet.
o Developed the user interface for SGI's first graphical installation tool, Software Manager.
o Contributed enhancements and bug fixes to SGI's enhanced Motif library.

ClassicHasClass wrote: The feel of the unit is about what you would expect for the CCCP of 1992. It's not great quality, but then neither was the Casio. It has an odd textured finish which is a little off-putting, and the LCD is a bit iffy though that may just be its age.

Sorry to be nitpicky, but no CCCP in 1992 anymore

hamei wrote: Since I've just been through this ... you've got errors in your fonts setup. You're not seeing them in other programs because the traditional apps use X but Fireflop is dependent on freetype and fontconfig. Fireflop3 definitely needs fontconfig running correctly to work.

hamei wrote: Even in a generally usable state, I was seeing the occasional pango gdk-pixbuf etc warning: notices, followed shortly by a crash. With my current well-oiled highly-tuned font setup, those have gone away completely.

(Still get the occasional std:badalloc and a core dump tho. Not too often but once in a while.)

You may have some other problems too, but the errors you are getting are exactly the same as what I was seeing, which are now corrected by fixing the fonts setup. And I finally got the chinese working, too. Yay !

A word of warning : if you only mess around with fontconfig, you're safe. I think canavan put a working nekoware setup in fonts.conf (or whatever the config file is named). Make your additions to a file < local.conf > and save backups.

hamei wrote: It was worth it in the end tho, imo. Now when I ask for Helvetica, I get Helvetica. The very same Helvetica that the printer uses, not something kinda-sorta similar.

hamei wrote:

Geoman wrote: This is really cool!! Strange though, that Octane2+DCD+1600 SW isn't working right out of the box, since this was once upon a time a possible configuration from SGI(?)

It's funny you would choose that photo, since there was quite a bit of laughter on the newsgroups about it at the time. When they put that ad out, it was not possible. I'm a little surprised JL could get it working at all, almost no one else has been able to. Maybe it was the dcd that did the trick ? Or disconnecting the monitor during bootup ....

noth wrote: ZFS is available for Mac you know... https://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ .

guardian452 wrote: Amazing how one faulty disk turns even me into a storage nerd ZFS seems overkill on a root disk which in my case is barely ~70GB and doesn't grow much. Super easy to backup and restore.

guardian452 wrote: What colorful userland in OSX? It's all depressingly monochrome nowadays... I like windows 8, as far as the different windows goes, there's nothing wrong with it and all is to be expected ... microsoft has been in a downfall since everything after windows 2000/xp and the only thing 'rising' nowadays will be ipad and friends from samsung etc.

Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening. The cause of the problem is social. There's almost none of the improvement for its own sake, for the sake of glory, that you see in the Linux world.

just pull both the yellow snap hat off the one time keeper on the upper left hand corner of the board, and then pull the RTC with integrated battery package that’s just above the card slots on the left side of the board. Make sure the machine is unplugged, hit the power button a couple of times to make sure, and let the system sit for 5 minutes and then re-assemble. Poof password is gone.

josehill wrote: But, yeah, I'd love to have the 10.6 user experience with 10.9's "invisible" improvements.

mapesdhs wrote:

Geoman wrote: my guess is: fastest Fuel: 0.5 per CPU

Sorry to disappoint you Geoman, a Fuel/900 gives about 0.4, though as I type this it's wavering
between 0.33 and 0.36 because of Firefox 3.0.19 and other stuff running at the same time.

Hmm, I might shut FF down, see what it does...

Ian.

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EDIT: without FF running, it gives 0.41.

mapesdhs wrote: As for running minerd on a Fuel, I have my Fuel turned on a lot of the time, so it may as well be doing something useful,
good for a laugh.

mapesdhs wrote: Curiosity was burning a mental hole, so I tried out my 5GHz 2700K, which gives an average of 67.28 khash/s for CPU-mining.

Ian.