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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of LCDs on SGIs at Feb. 12, 2013, 7:41 a.m...

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

concerning analog-connected LCD flatscreens: the proper VFO-configuration-file ist most important for image quality. I for myself bought another 13W3-HD15 adapter in the belief, the poor image quality was due to poor cable quality, when I became aware of this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16725909

the cable I had to connect to the dell was OK, SGIs predefined 1920x1200 VFO was not that good for the DELL screen

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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at May 20, 2013, 6:48 a.m...

@jan-jaap: this is really really cool! If we Nekochaners ever do a user-group meeting - this would be the perfect place

@mia: Tezro + IBM T221 FTW!!

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Wrote on the subject of fresh ink at June 9, 2013, 4:08 a.m...

smj wrote:

I don't get it - which SGI machine is that supposed to be?

Not directly - but let's face it: Nekochan has become some sort of social networking for us, what's not a bad thing - so why not ;-)

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Wrote on the subject of a lightweight jpeg viewer at Dec. 18, 2013, 6:47 a.m...

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.

http://www.shallowsky.com/resume.html

:shock:

WOW! That was a major contribution to IRIX

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Wrote on the subject of Maya 6.5 IRIX performance? at Dec. 20, 2013, 1:26 p.m...

The last Maya-Version (4.5) I ran on an O2 (R5K-200 SC, 256 MB) was no fun at all. At least you want to have an R7000@600 MHz O2 with 1 GB RAM or the R12.000

Or better got Octane2/Fuel/Tezro for that matter. I saw a 600 MHz fuel with V12 ending on ebay for 190 EUR....

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Wrote on the subject of Silencing an Indigo2 (with pictures!) at Jan. 17, 2014, 3:04 p.m...

Good work! and interesting pictures, too

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Wrote on the subject of Товарищ! A PDP-11 in the palm of your hand! at Jan. 26, 2014, 2:51 a.m...

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.

Wow! thats a neat find! Thanks for sharing it!

Sorry to be nitpicky, but no CCCP in 1992 anymore ;-)

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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at Jan. 26, 2014, 9:42 a.m...

Octane2 2xR12000 400MHz does 2x 0.17 khash/s .......

0.34 khash/s on the "mighty SGI Workstation" vs. 0.33 khash/s on the raspberry LOL

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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at Jan. 26, 2014, 11:42 a.m...

I'm interested to see, what your Fuel is making of it :-)

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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at Jan. 27, 2014, 5:44 a.m...

So one R14000 550 MHz is 35 % faster than one R12000 400 MHz in Octane2 when 'mining' Litecoin

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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at Jan. 28, 2014, 9:26 a.m...

I want to see an R16.000 in 22nm with on-die-caches @3 GHz --that would be fun!

Besides, it would be so great to upgrade the R1X.000-based SGIs to the newest imaganation/MIPS incarnations like it has been done with O2s R5K and PMC-Sierra 700 MHz.

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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at Jan. 28, 2014, 11:15 a.m...

my guess is: fastest Fuel: 0.5 per CPU

@Neko: a 25% increase in clockrate (and refined design) yields a 35% increase in computing-power (at least in litecoin-mining) --actually this is very good imho

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Wrote on the subject of beta test: firefox3.0.19 at Feb. 8, 2014, 1:02 p.m...

I installed Firefox3 from Nekoware/stable using nekosync on my 'new' Octane/SSI (fresh install of 6.5.16 then patch 5086 then update to 6.5.22). On start I get:

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IRIS 1% firefox3


Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2744: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2769: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2744: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2769: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_find_shaper: assertion `font != NULL' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2744: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2769: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_find_shaper: assertion `font != NULL' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/nekoware/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2744: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2769: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2744: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2769: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_find_shaper: assertion `font != NULL' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2744: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2769: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_find_shaper: assertion `font != NULL' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): Pango-CRITICAL **: No modules found:


No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found.


PangoFc will not work correctly.


This probably means there was an error in the creation of:


'/usr/nekoware/etc/pango/pango.modules'


You should create this file by running:


pango-querymodules > '/usr/nekoware/etc/pango/pango.modules'




(firefox-bin:1423): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin'




(firefox-bin:1423): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 2744: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed




(firefox-bin:1423): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_font_describe: assertion `font != NULL' failed


moz_run_program[36]: 1423 Memory fault(coredump)

Firefox2, on which I'm typing this, is running flawlessly.

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Wrote on the subject of Octane, R10K 250MHz, 1GB RAM, MXI at Feb. 8, 2014, 1:12 p.m...

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IRIS 14% hinv -mv


Location: /hw/node


PM10250MHZ Board: barcode XXXXXX     part 030-1284-002 rev  A


Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15


IP30 Board: barcode XXXXXX     part 030-0887-005 rev  A


Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2


PWR.SPPLY.ER Board: barcode XXXXXXXXXX part 060-0035-002 rev  A


FP1 Board: barcode XXXXXX     part 030-0891-003 rev  A


Location: /hw/node/xtalk/12


GM20 Board: barcode XXXXXX     part 030-0957-003 rev  R


1 250 MHZ IP30 Processor


Heart ASIC: Revision D


CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.4


FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0


Main memory size: 1024 Mbytes


Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.2


Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes


Data cache size: 32 Kbytes


Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte


Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended


Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)


Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1


IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2


IOC3 parallel port: plp1


Graphics board: MXI


Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2


Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1


PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3

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IRIS 16% /usr/gfx/gfxinfo -v


Graphics board 0 is "IMPACTSR" graphics.


Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024


Product ID 0x3, 2 GEs, 2 REs, 4 TRAMs


MGRAS revision 2, RA revision 0


HQ rev B, GE11 rev B, RE4 rev C, PP1 rev H,


VC3 rev A, CMAP rev E, Heart rev D


21" monitor (id 0xb)




Channel 0:


Origin = (0,0)


Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 60.00Hz (1280x1024_60)

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Octane, R10K 250MHz, 1GB RAM, MXI at Feb. 8, 2014, 3:54 p.m...

This guy needs some TRAMs though..

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Wrote on the subject of beta test: firefox3.0.19 at Feb. 9, 2014, 12:25 a.m...

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.

The green box is now my "Nekoware-Beta-Testing-Spree-Machine", and I thought with a clean IRIX installation this package out of Nekoware/current should work when proper installed (all prerequisites installed and so on).

The interesting thing is, that on my Octane2 on which I type this using FF3 everything works right - so is it 6.5.30 over 22 or was fontconfig corrected by installing some other Nekoware on it(=the Octane2)?

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.

Should Canavan's modifications then be a prerequisite when installing neko_firefox3.0.19.tardist or automatically changed during install?

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.

That is how it should be

BTW it's cool that SGI licensed Helvetica for IRIX back in the days...

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Wrote on the subject of Octane, R10K 250MHz, 1GB RAM, MXI at Feb. 9, 2014, 5:30 a.m...

I plan to stay with SSI (TRAMS are on the way). MXE is mainly a performance plus of ~30% if I read Ian's charts right...

Yes, it's cool to have both GFX architectures at hand :-)

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Wrote on the subject of In which I confess my love for the Apple Network Server at Feb. 9, 2014, 1:10 p.m...

Cool! I never heard of this computer before!

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Wrote on the subject of What Firefox/Thunderbird addons are you using? at Feb. 13, 2014, 3:26 a.m...

This is slightly OT,

I'm using the http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm on IRIX and it really helps making FF3 even more usable.

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at Feb. 22, 2014, 5:46 a.m...

So I let the Octane mining for around 3 hours: earned one share

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Wrote on the subject of Octane, R10K 250MHz, 1GB RAM, MXI at Feb. 28, 2014, 9:52 a.m...

So I just put 2x 37 MHz TMEZZ boards onto the SSI and they work great

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Wrote on the subject of Octane2+V12+DCD+MLA+1600SW ! at March 3, 2014, 2:22 a.m...

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(?)

: (c) SGI

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Wrote on the subject of Octane2+V12+DCD+MLA+1600SW ! at March 3, 2014, 2:51 a.m...

Perhaps - you could check supportfolio for any DCD/1600 SW related patches (if any they would be $...)

Or someone could find a way to prevent IRIX from autodetecting the MLA - time to dig deep inside IRIX' configuration files

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Wrote on the subject of Octane2+V12+DCD+MLA+1600SW ! at March 3, 2014, 5:05 a.m...

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 ....

Therefore the "(?)" at the end of my sentence ^^ I found that TIFF recently while consolidating my stuff to a NAS and think it's remarkable, since I newer seen such a setup in real life -- now I know why

In the year 2000 or 2001 when they had this published, I have not been into SGI newsgroups that much; #IRIX and #SGI were my main source of information concerning SGI. (greetings to Duck, Joerg, Opi, Rhoenie, Schleusel et al

)

EDIT: So my brain just came up with this: I think around 2005 Schleusel pointed out to me, that a 1600sw+Octane DCD was a beautiful advertising image, but really didn't work. So Kudos to the OP and Nekochaners, who finally came up with a working vfo!

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Wrote on the subject of Barco Creator at March 5, 2014, 1:05 p.m...

So I installed version 7.2

But how do I launch this application???

EDIT: The executables are in /bg/gen/local/com/
./cre7_2

well it does not like my TIFFs:

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Error




Error submitting job


tiff_import_1600swO2_med_hr.tif

It doesn't read any of my TIF-files...

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Strike up one more for OSX getting a new filesystem at March 10, 2014, 9:26 a.m...

<rant>Now it's 2014 and no ZFS in MacOS yet. But a very colorful clickable userland - because this is the most important thing of it all.
Well, Windows can't be taken seriously either with that NTFS-junk.</rant>

I shall migrate to Linux or use more IRIX ...

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Strike up one more for OSX getting a new filesystem at March 10, 2014, 10:30 a.m...

...actually it is the latter (Wintendo)

In the meantime let's get some popcorn and watch the windows-8-induced downfall of Microsoft and rise of linux on the desktop thanks to Valve's Steam. (or not?)

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Strike up one more for OSX getting a new filesystem at March 11, 2014, 7:16 a.m...

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

Okay - that a good thing to read.

BUT (as always) it belongs right onto the installation disks for use with rootdrive IMHO.

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Wrote on the subject of Strike up one more for OSX getting a new filesystem at March 11, 2014, 11:34 a.m...

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.

XFS runs on the smallest O² to the largest Altix-installations.
***
Of course companies like Alsoft won't be happy if Apple switched to ZFS or anything else. (Or then on the other hand have a reason to sell new software for it.)

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.

You're right - the GUIs become more and more minimalistic these days. I don't like that - recently I sat in front of a new Macintosh of a friend and I did not find the scrollbar! They appear only if one scrolls :lol:

Under the hood both OS Windows and MacOS don't come up with something essentially new - concerning the kernel Linux is the main innovator right now.

As for filesystems, I don't trust any of them - all the important stuff is on a RAID 10 + scheduled backups.

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Strike up one more for OSX getting a new filesystem at March 11, 2014, 11:50 a.m...

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74

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.

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of How to change system maintenance password on SGI Fuel at March 11, 2014, 12:35 p.m...

g: sgi fuel change password

http://doogielabs.com/2013/04/sgi-fuel/

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.

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Strike up one more for OSX getting a new filesystem at March 11, 2014, 3:45 p.m...

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

Considering what you both Gardian & Josehill wrote, I take backe my 'under the hood statement'.

And for me Windows user I'd love to have the Windows 7 user experience with 8.1 "invisible" improvements.

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Wrote on the subject of Octane2, 2x600MHz R14K, 4Gig ram, V12+DCD/V10 (updated 21/12/2015) at March 12, 2014, 3 a.m...

WOW

I envy you! that's a beautiful machine!

We want pics of the whole ensemble (Octane2 + 1600sw + Stone)! ;-)

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at March 18, 2014, 2:27 p.m...

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.

And what about putting one of those USB-based asicminers into Fuel's USB port for bitcoin mining?
The have got an Uart chip (internally they connect via serial port) on them and run inter Linux, too...

But in the end this all makes no sense at all :-)

Raspberry pi draws much less energy than a Fuel and don't make a sound.

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at March 19, 2014, 3:30 a.m...

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.

Here too: My PC is running all the time, so the Radeon HD 7750 is doing around 100 khash/s (around 150 possible, but then the GUI gets sluggish), and I got myself an Antminer-U2 USB-Stick, which is doing around 1.6 Gh/s.

Of course this is more fun than anything else. I had the 7750 installed 1 year ago or so - so for Litecoin-mining I have no extra expense (and for electricity: my PC is nearly alwas on with or without mining), for the Antminer I paid 40 EUR just for the sake of participating. Draws around 2-5 Watts from USB. (of course directly buying BTC would be the sensible thing to do)

But who knows: If cryptocurrencies become really established in the future, we are now pioneers

and in 10 - 20 years we can say "I was part of the beginning".

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at March 24, 2014, 10:45 a.m...

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.

That's actually not bad!

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E:\Downloads\11_Programme_entpackt\pooler-cpuminer-2.3.3-win64>minerd -o stratum


+tcp://eu-2.liteguardian.com:3333 -u Geoman.******* -p ******


[2014-03-24 18:40:49] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://eu-2.liteguardian.com:33


33


[2014-03-24 18:40:49] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0


[2014-03-24 18:40:49] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1


[2014-03-24 18:40:49] Binding thread 2 to cpu 2


[2014-03-24 18:40:49] 4 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.


[2014-03-24 18:40:49] Binding thread 3 to cpu 3


[2014-03-24 18:40:49] Stratum detected new block


[2014-03-24 18:40:51] thread 0: 4104 hashes, 5.37 khash/s


[2014-03-24 18:40:51] thread 1: 4104 hashes, 5.27 khash/s


[2014-03-24 18:40:51] thread 2: 4104 hashes, 5.25 khash/s


[2014-03-24 18:40:51] thread 3: 4104 hashes, 5.23 khash/s

my Phenom II X4 945 (3 GHz) oscillates around 21 khash/s ...

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at March 24, 2014, 10:55 a.m...

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[2014-03-24 18:50:34] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 22.15 khash/s (yay!!!)

LOL?

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Nice! SGI on Slashdot at April 10, 2014, 11:14 a.m...

indeed! and I think SGi rocks (again!)

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Nice! SGI on Slashdot at April 10, 2014, 11:37 p.m...

or perhaps SGi should consider getting off the markets like Dell did...

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Geoman
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Wrote on the subject of Octane2, 2x600MHz R14K, 4Gig ram, V12+DCD/V10 (updated 21/12/2015) at April 12, 2014, 2:11 p.m...

It has a home ;-)

Nice setup of course! Machine+TFT+Mouse+Keyboard+Speaker = all SGI :-D

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