The collected works of Krokodil - Page 4

foetz wrote:

Krokodil wrote: Things way a ton, are hard to drag upstairs from the basement and take up alot of desk real estate.

don't know about you but i usually don't carry my monitors around once they're in place
i rather care about the picture quality which matters all the time instead of possible obstacles of something i do once in years

pentium wrote: and in the past SGI kept tabs on what we were doing.

miod wrote:

uunix wrote: What would you do, if they (sgi) dropped you an email which read..

"Yole [username]
We watch the forum and you're a pretty cool guy.. here's a link to ALL the IRIX source code. You own it now."

I would try not to wake up too quickly from that dream.

GIJoe wrote:

vishnu wrote: I honestly don't find the fans in my unmodified octane2 to be that loud, though it's entirely possible that the reason why is that my hearing has been irrevocably damaged by my lifelong loud rock 'n roll obsession...

must be. mine always sounded like a vacuum cleaner on a low power setting. and that was with fastfan=off...
fit for the server room perhaps but not the home office.

should have gotten me some of that rock'n roll obsession from the sounds of it.

vishnu wrote: The best parts of Irix, in particular the SMP code, are now in Linux. And, in theory anyway Eric Masson has the blessing of SGI to to port the Irix interactive desktop to Linux. So, all you Irix loving Linux haters, pppppttttttffffffhhhhh!

dexter1 wrote:

vishnu wrote: Slackware doesn't use systemd...

My first Linux system in '93 </misty-eyed>

SAQ wrote:

foetz wrote: simply because sgi was more popular for desktop use hence in comparison there's more available

+ the cool factor. SGIs were (and are) "cool", so it's easier to maintain a hobbyist community to go to the work of porting, packaging and maintaining a software repository.

OpenVMS has some, although update frequency isn't as often as Nekoware. Solaris used to have a lot, until Oracle went Oracle on Solaris (but OpenCSW is still around). DEC Unixes likely suffer from BSDitis - NetBSD has an excellent selection of software, and (especially for VAX) BSD is historically considered to be "the UNIX" for DEC. Note that that is pretty much "science by Aristotle" (go into a closet, ponder something for a bit, come out and make a big pronouncement without any verification first), so don't give it too much credence.

AIX is IBM, and IBM is, well, IBM, so don't expect too much there. It's better than OS/400/i or the mainframe OSes, so be happy, I suppose... Groupe Bull still has their freeware collection at http://www.bullfreeware.com/ , which is targeted more towards servers (naturally), but exists and is kept updated.

I know of nothing for SunOS 4 or Tru64.

SAQ wrote:

Krokodil wrote: HP-sUX(lol)

That dates from the Unix Haters Handbook era (along with Slowlaris, ScumOS [but it boots fast!] and the like). HP-UX 10.20+ isn't a showoff OS (like, say, IRIX), but it is solid and stable.

dexter1 wrote:

gijoe77 wrote: Octane MXE had an issue (I'm wondering if this is a shared issue with mplayer as posted in that thread).

Does the MXE by any chance have Texture Ram? I cannot tell from the hinv on the screenshots. It would explain the inability of using texture with MAME and MPlayer

uunix wrote: If it's called mkfs, then you can safely say it's clear. But I would if it were I, restart the install again..

SAQ wrote: Don't panic about the compression connectors. The rumors are worse than the reality.

Just don't be egregious. Don't drag them through centimeter-thick dust, don't grab them with your hands, don't clean them with a paper towel and Windex. I've inadvertently bumped mine gently and they still work.

Elf wrote:

SAQ wrote: Be nice if at least ZFS made it out in a easily-used (say BSD) license status, but I'm not counting on it.

FreeBSD currently integrates ZFS quite well, even for the root volume. It gets used in FreeNAS as well as their commercial offering through iX Systems. Much better than the Linux implementation of it.

I think it is licensed under CDDL though.

uunix wrote: and then it got lost in the post..

Raion-Fox wrote: Good fucking riddance. This will free up lots of developers for other projects.

SAQ wrote: I've never really trusted FreeBSD - there's something wrong about a BSD that doesn't support any DEC architectures, but that's just on a gut level as technically it seems pretty good.

Raion-Fox wrote: And sold for 2,551.99 to s***X with 138 ebay transactions. I would imagine this guy will leak the source lol.

itsvince725 wrote: I found someone on this very forum with very affordably priced drive sleds, several affordably priced internal SCSI optical drives, and hard disks and video adapters on Acronym1's eBay page.

If only I wasn't going on vacation so I could buy all this stuff right now and get the Indigo2 up and running!

itsvince725 wrote: Well apparently I need a new R4400 CPU board now.

I need at least a 150MHz unit.

Raion-Fox wrote: It's not terrible to ship from Canada to the US. Pack the items well, you(Krokodil)'ll need to fill out the Canadian version of the postal service customs form, just put in the approx value, basic description of the contents and fill out the forms honestly. At least here in the US, postal workers are relatively up to date on the regulations and can help you fill the form out.

If you live on the west coast/mid-west of canada (i.e Calgary or Vancouver) it's gonna be expensive. But if you live close to Mississauga (the East coast Canadian-US postal area) it's going to be affordable for Vince to get it.

Really no big deal to ship internationally. If you're not comfortable shipping with Canada Post do you have FedEx there? FedEx is a bit easier to deal with internationally at a bit of a premium.

Raion-Fox wrote: Side note, don't throw away old PSUs. Find someone who can repair them.

Dodoid wrote: I... uhh.. remember when Ubuntu didn't use Unity and it still had Gnome 2!