The collected works of Geoman - Page 5

Octane with a Barco Calibrator screen -- cool! I have never seen that before! Thanks for digging these photos out/ scanning them and upload!

But hey: now we have got an expert here so how to open a tiff file with Creator then? *grin* I always get the aforementioned "error submitting job"

I tried several TIFFs from different sources - no success at all.

But I'm gonna try both EPS- and Photoshop 2.5 formats: perhaps that will work..

Thanks for the advice!

I already ran these scripts with no success at all. At lest the software shows a beautiful splash screen

duck wrote: Oh for FSM's sake, that logo

The cube is missing on this blade ....

Besides, I like the current logo a bit more than the "Belluzzo-Logo".

I take it - PM.

Beautiful - a real IRIX dream machine !

this is cool! subscribed!

sgifanatic wrote: [...] the browser focused commentary we can all relate to. The browser is the one application which has well and truly left old computers behind. And while my old-schoolness is rearing its head here when I refer to the browser as an "application", the fact is it's not. It's a platform for uncountable numbers of applications. We might complain about bloated web pages, and slow Javascript, and N-layers of containment, sandboxing and inefficiency that browser based apps dictate, but... whatever. Fact is, that's where much of the new app dev is happening.

Indeed, I waited for such an article. Modern webbrowsing is the culprit that many otherwise good computers go to the dumpster.

Thank you!! This is highly appreceated! Now I have to get myself an SCSI DVD. that I want to try out! Cool!

Forma y zvet.

That's indeed a good machine: quite fast dual R12k and MXE + 1 GB RAM: _AND_ EVO+Cam! So you can do everything that IRIX has to offer!

So I modded the Shoehorn: I had to remove the 013-1926-002 C metal plate* and sawed away the spacer parts from the pcb that collided with the hexagonal screws at the top of the XIO-carrier + used the screws from the placeholder that was on the XIO-carrier. Fits perfectly now.

*not so easy...

Thanks to you fellow Nekochaners, I flasehd my 3C-996 to SGI-firmware:
http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12702&hilit=3c996&start=45#p7294465

So now I've got Gigabit Ethernet up and running at last!

Sherry Chang - Parallelization of Codes on the SGI Origins

http://people.nas.nasa.gov/~schang/origin_parallel.html

Ideally, one would like to have 100% of a code executed in parallel. In reality, this is never achieved. If for some segments of a code, a dependence exists between program statements when the order of statement execution affects the results of the program, these segments must be executed in serial. Dependency is usually the cause why a code can not be well parallelized.

I installed it on the lower left port. - But the arrow clearly shows D. So fortunately no fastfan.

Strange indeed.

Wow! That's an extensive analysis - as interesting to read as the original article. Thank you

hamei wrote: Speaking of big Origins, I just found this. Pretty neat !

http://www.rent-a-sgi.com/

Not very far away from me actually -- in Switzerland!

Good work!

In my aptiva, there is a 541dx installed. A ultra ata 66 20 gb Harddisk. Latest BIOS recognizes 8,4 GB, but NT 4.0 sees all the 20 gigs. So I have a PC-DOS / Win 3.1 Partition of 2 gigabytes and several NTFS partitions. Works well. -- you could give it a try on your Compaq.

Mobo controller:

System board chipset: Opti Viper 82C557M / 953021IE (NB)
Opti Viper SMC FDC37C933 / C9525-C2513 / 6M76011-4 (SB)
Opti Viper 82C558M / 953221FE
Opti Viper 82C556M / 952500IE

http://www.motherboards.org/forums/view ... f=2&t=5644

So it would be wise to remove the dual R12K and insert a single R14K 600. Because I too often see 49% CPU usage in top :-/

In FF3 and 2 on IRIX there is this only thread that stalls CPU 0 -- and that's a pity.

Wow - this scene looks good. Did you model that by yourself?

Source: http://imgur.com/nhWKONY

Well that's frustrating but I hope you can work with 1,5 GB memory then without much swapping.

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation#Installing_Windows_2000

the admin likes SGI
nice find

I have a Synology DS411j here. Does SMB for the PCs and NFS for the Octane2 just fine.

Ah yes - that video again.
Ingenious move to use an Octane with the weakest configuration there was on the market and make fun of its performance.
So douches they are indeed.

the memory modules look like cut-in-thirds Octane 1 GB modules - interesting.

This episode covers the founding, voodoo-powered rise, and ridiculously powerful fall of 3Dfx Interactive. Join me in LGR Tech Tales, looking at stories of technological inspiration, failure, and everything in-between!

With some SGI-reference.

@BetXen: "The Silicon Graphics collection was saved in extremis when the parent company closed its European production plant in Cortaillod, Switzerland. Almost all the company's models are in the collection, from the Personal Iris to the large production Onyx. This collection includes some unique pieces."

Glad to read this!
http://www.memoires-informatiques.org/? ... onsors=yes

1. Patch_SG0007248_Release_Note

This release note describes patch SG0007248 to IRIX 6.5.28,
6.5.29 and 6.5.30.

Patch SG0007248 replaces no patch(es).

This patch upgrade the Kerberos IRIX images from 1.3.1 to
1.9.4.

1.3 Bugs_Fixed_by_Patch_SG0007249

This patch contains fixes for the following bugs in IRIX
OpenSSL 0.9.7e. OpenSSL is upgraded to version 0.9.7m. Bug
numbers from Silicon Graphics bug tracking system are
included for reference.

Patch 7249:

o 993892: fixes to following security issues:
CVE-2008-5077
CVE-2009-0590
CVE-2009-0789
CVE-2009-3555
CVE-2011-4576
CVE-2011-4619
CVE-2012-0884: PKCS#7 part only.
CVE-2012-2110
CVE-2012-2131

o Replaces and rolls up Patch 7217, which fixes:

o 929557: openssl der_chop script has symlink
vulnerability. der_chop has been removed.

o 956534: fixes to CVE-2006-2937 CVE-2006-3738 CVE-
2006-4343

o 956535: fixes to CVE-2006-2940

https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1993-11/1993_11_BYTE_18-12_Advanced_Graphics#page/n235/mode/2up

Powertrip wrote: Machine was previously owned by Searles and was the machine that was used to model and design the drug Celebrex.

Now this is a cool fact!

welcome back!! that is good news indeed!

http://www.felixnmr.com/requirements.htm

System Requirements
• SGI: IRIX 6.5.19-6.5.24 on R10000 and higher
• Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 and WS 3.0 on Intel Pentium III and higher (32-bit support only)
• Linux Graphics: NVidia Quadro4 980 XGL and Quadro4 FX1100 graphics cards using appropriate drivers from
NVidia
• Windows: Windows 2000 SP3 and SP4, XP SP1 and SP2 on Intel Pentium III and higher (32-bit support only)


Complementary Software
• NMR Refine DGII, NMR Refine Advanced, and NMR X-PLOR (all of which are Insight II modules that are available
only on SGI and not on Linux)
NMR Refine DGII provides an entry-level option into NMR refinement software with capabilities for generating
structures from NMR-derived distance and dihedral restraints.
NMR Refine Advanced expands the refinement capabilities found in NMR Refine DGII to include simulated
annealing and restrained molecular mechanics and dynamics (MD Schedule), refinement of NOE intensities
using hybrid-matrix approaches (IRMA), direct refinement of NOE volumes (NOE-MD), an interface to back-
calculating 2D NOESY crosspeak intensities (NOE Simulate), and a spreadsheet method of analyzing NMR-
related structural and dynamical molecular parameters (Query).
NMR X-PLOR streamlines the steps in structure determination of biomolecules using NMR derived data.
• CNX-NMR

cheesy

remove that chipped edge or bend it right and try it out.
these modules are ridiculously robust. the worst thing that could happen is octane not starting at all.

Cool ! Time to boot my Octane to test this one out!

hamei wrote: [...]but the support at user level sucks. You can't get the "I wuvs my sgi ! it's the kewlest machine ever and I wanted one ever since grade school, why don't those meanies at sgi Release the Source ?" group to even try out the most basic apps and give feedback. Developers can't do everything.[...]

Hamei is right on this - and I'm guilty as charged. Everytime I fire up the machine in the signature, I run . After all packages have been updated, I do nothing more (my lazyness and limited time). Well I browse some websites with the new thinking "man is that slow" - even http://forums.nekochan.net/ .

So what to do? Upgrade to the latest R14000A I guess

[...] save for the lucky few who have Fuel's, Octane2's and Tezro's.

. Or I would have to buy myself a fast(er) Fuel.

On the other hand - what is fun even on older machines is commercial software. But for GNU-stuff CPU-horsepower is all I need. And that I don't have right now.

hamei wrote: But as far as I can see, the only good reason to use an Octane is to run Irix. All the gnu stuff was interesting and in some cases useful but currently, it's shit. It started out okay but then went to the dark side.

The question is - how to continue the IRIX-experience(tm)? It is common knowledge, that SGI (and IBM and the other 3-letter-Unix-companies) put tremendous work into Linux, and linux inherited a lot of IRIX' code and capabilities. Linux is for some years now capable to run on IBM mainframes and SGI's current NUMA machines, and has a lot of stuff we love (XFS!!) compiled into its kernel.

So why not put together a Nekochan-Linux-Distro called IRIX 7.0 with MaXX-Desktop as default http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16729754& ???

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Of course I see and appreciate the effort of the Nekoware-maintainers - for all these years now.
But with "mobile-phones-faster-than-a-Tezro" running Android/LINUX or MacOSX/BSD, I see that there is an end somewhere in the near future -- due to moore's law.

diegel wrote: We have to face the reality: the current iphone is faster than any Tezro and there will never be any compiler that will change this.

The time has finally come. I think somehow we will enter 'full retro mode', where it isn't feasible anymore to port newer software to SGI. But hey - the guys at Vogons are already there.