The collected works of PymbleSoftware - Page 7

SAQ wrote:

PymbleSoftware wrote:

Geoman wrote: f***!! it is exploded

Apparently they don't use heavy water reactors , so it is not as bad as a Chernobyl type event... Still pretty worrying. But then just going on what I am reading about it...


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??? Chernobyl was RBMK gas-cooled graphite moderated reactors, probably leveraged from Pu-production reactors. Heavy water/light water doesn't make a difference, really.

I'm glad they weren't gas or sodium-cooled (sodium cooled for obvious reasons: leak+flooding=very bad problem, considering that the sodium is usually radioactive, and gas because the fuel cladding is usually not as good as is in place at a water-cooled reactor).

I was just parroting something I read in a newspaper along the lines of "fortunately they don't use heavy water so a Chernobyl like event is unlikely".. Seems I was misinformed.

Edit: I can't find the news article that referenced the light water/heavy water "expert" comment, however..

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/threemetre-tsunami-heading-for-disaster-zone-new-quake-shakes-japan-as-battle-waged-against-nuclear-meltdown-20110313-1bt30.html wrote: Experts noted, however, that even a complete meltdown would probably be far less severe than the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl, where a reactor exploded and sent a cloud of radiation over much of Europe. That reactor, unlike the ones in Fukushima, was not housed in a sealed container.

I think that the newspaper is pro-nuclear even though Australia only has one reactor (for nuclear medicine and university research)..

Short interview with a Russian scientist on Chernobyl vs Japan..
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3164026.htm


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[[C|-|E]] wrote: Sadly, I am not a programmer and I cannot contribute to the Nekoware project developing or porting software .

You can still contribute to nekoware in a number of very important ways. Not the least, (beta) testing and documenting (on the wiki).


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Oskar45 wrote: Seems the subject of this thread is no longer of primary importance, considering a major nuclear catastrophe is about to happen any time soon. When will people learn? Probably never...

I think the Japanese are resilient and I expect a strong resolve.

Japan has almost no natural resources, nuclear power makes up 30% of it power sources... and the Chinese are still planning and building new nuclear plants.

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GL1zdA wrote: Could someone with admin rights add some citation templates to our wiki? They're really helpful for adding references.
Here's how to do it:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Temp ... to_another

Citation seems to be a good all-rounder, more are here .

I will look into it if Pete does not beat me to it and its something in my powers to do.


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nekonoko wrote: I'm looking at it now

Thanks.

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I powered up the 22 CPU Onyx2 today and it gets as far as ....




All the MSCs say 3F3F3F except the master which says 503F3F

Ideas anyone...? GOBI..?

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recondas wrote: With 22 processors involved, that's a fairly complex piece of hardware to troubleshoot. I think the GOBI would suggest that minimizing the number of components tested at one time would simplify the process (something akin to the process suggested in this discussion ).

To avoid later issues with the PROM having components re-installed in different locations, put a masking tape tag indicating the position of each board and CrayLink cable before disconnecting or removing them.

• Temporarily disconnect the CrayLink connections and Graphics module and test only the compute module with the MSC that doesn't get to 3F3F3F.
• Remove all XIO expansion boards (X-Town, FC, MSCSI, etc.)
• After that module is powered up freestanding, examine the nodeboard LEDs for error codes , then test the system with only the problem nodeboard (in N1).
  • if you have issues with the normal console try the diagnostic port on the MSC, and
  • if you can't get diagnostic info with only the problem nodeboard installed, move it to N2 and put a working node in N1.
• As j-j has suggested follow that error code(s) to try to isolate the problem.
• If the problem can't be eliminated while only the problem nodeboard is installed, try a different nodeboard (in the same slot).

Once you get a nodeboard in the problem slot to display a post-initialization heartbeat , add the other components back, one-at-a-time.

and please post a follow-up on your findings - details on the problem from someone with your experience and knowledge of the hardware is almost certain to be of future help some one (who has yet to acquire either).

I think we all know who the real GOBI is...
I pulled everything down and found one of the 500MHz nodes seems to have failed. I got depressed and left it...

I took your text out of that forum post, reworked it slightly... made a new wiki topic called Onyx2 Diagnostics and then included that topic into the main topic on Onyx2
If you go to edit the diagnostics section of the Onyx2 page in the wiki you will see nothing but {{:Onyx2 Diagnostics}} which means it is in C/C++ programmers terms it is #include'd from that topic go edit it there..

Seems like every time I fire the Onyx2 when it hasn't been started in a while [1], I lose 2 CPUs, maybe I should sacrifice an Indy before hand.

jan-jaap wrote: If not, set switches 4 & 5 on the MSC to go straight to POD on that module. Oh, and remove as much memory as possible from the headless node: memory initialization of a headless node takes *forever* (an hour or more)

Any chance you could please document this in the wiki.. ?


Edit: its up and running on 18CPUs...
I'll post a request for 400MHz and 500MHz IP27 nodes in the wanted forum.

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1. I don't run it over the southern hemisphere summer. If you knew how hot it gets here you'd understand.

I replaced a CPU swapped a board that was getting cache errors and got still headless issues...



I dumped the command from the POD help into: this topic
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In my dreams... sadly safe and successful shipping would be near impossible.

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Nice photos.. Can I use them on the wiki...?

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25 years software developer. On UNIX since 1988 and everyone is trying to ram .NET down my throat.

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Oskar45 wrote:

fu wrote: so i managed to get hold of my friends (that doesn't say much though with so many people involved) and they confirmed that half of the cell phones were not (some still do not) working due to the disaster (and also the fact that everyone was trying to call everyone else)

(sounds hopeful if you're still looking to reach nears+dears)

i just found a visual reference of what happened: part 1 , part 2

Considerating Fukushima's situation, whether or not half of Japan's cell phones were working is of no importance. Either way, these people have a major problem. How long will it take for the radioactivity to reach the West Coast?

fake or not.... http://singularityhub.com/2011/03/24/ja ... ia-and-us/

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Nice, Congrats.

SAQ wrote: I hate Windows

Me too.

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mapesdhs wrote: On the other hand, if one allows the user to infer such a thing is possible, then they'll probably try it.

It's a wonder I don't find breadcrumbs inside O2s...

Ian.

Obvious casemod.

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Before it gets there or the mods have to say it.... Play nice.


If you are selling something as in demand as a Tezro, an update would help though.


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Seems like a good wiki topic.. This is a real trap for new players.

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/ ... ank_screen

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Please document the process with camera.. I think its mostly riveted together around the midplane, so yes its difficult.

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Wiki'd here

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Pontus wrote: It was actually really easy (at least with the kind of rivet mayhem I had in mind).

That is a relief I was worried about rivet mayhem too.

Pontus wrote: I though about making a wiki entry, but I was to lazy to enter the 50 word description of myself

wiki'd here .

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Pontus wrote: Great! Thanks!

No problem.

I like your collection. I used to have a VT-131 and was offered a PDP 11/23 in the late 1980s (They used to be used to monitor the backup to the backup for the railway signal switches) but being young and transient I had no where to put it. For shame. I used to own a BeBox once too. I even wrote an article in Dr Dobbs and (phone) interviewed at B e Inc.

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duck wrote: IRIX does not have a truecolor root window by default, adding -depth 24 -class TrueColor to your /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file should help.

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/True_Color


Quack!

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sgifanatic wrote: Thanks for that info. I've tried it. But the image still doesn't appear to be "true colour". The funny thing is that it shows up in xv looking a lot nicer than when it is rendered as a background.

hinv -vm ; xdpyinfo

..?

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Pontus wrote:

PymbleSoftware wrote: I like your collection. I used to have a VT-131 and was offered a PDP 11/23 in the late 1980s (They used to be used to monitor the backup to the backup for the railway signal switches) but being young and transient I had no where to put it. For shame. I used to own a BeBox once too. I even wrote an article in Dr Dobbs and (phone) interviewed at B e Inc.

Thank you, I have put some effort into it. How was the BeBox and BeOS ? is Haiku worth a try?

I quite liked B e API programming at the time and wrote a Dr Dobbs Article about a ray tracer I wrote. Work was UNIX device drivers for a storage company and Navy multi-monitor Windows Direct-3D game engines and BeOS seemed to be radical, different and ultra cool . A dual 133MHz 604e wasn't that powerful but back then it was more fuelled by dreams. It seemed to me that release n , of BeOS rocked, then something happened and it became more bloated, buggy and not as good (on the BeBox). I haven't played with Haiku for a long time but I think I wasn't that excited by it at the time that I messed with it.

Original design principles seemed be a lightweight OS with really interesting and very modern ideas.. Some of the things I disliked about B e OS are things I hate about bada. The whole API allocates memory which you have to clean up and the not always orthogonal APIs (the later even more so with bada).

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n might hve been release 3.

I just built swi-prolog 5.2.13 ... later versions looked like becoming a nightmare.
I notice that the web site: http://www.swi-prolog.org appears to be offline as I write this.

To build it I had to #undef offsetof in pl-threads.c just before the "#ifndef offsetof" and I had to make sure that "-I/usr/nekoware/include" was in the CFLAGS...

If someone wants to make a nekoware package out of it... go for it.

To install it, I commented out the $(RANLIB) lines from the make file and did a gmake install.
I did a configure --prefix /usr/nekoware so everything appears to have ended up in the right place.

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An example run..

pl -s prolog/eliza.pl


Hello. I am ELIZA. How can I help you?
> I am bored.

Is it because you are bored that you came to me?
> yes

You seem quite positive.
> I am

How long have you been?
> forever, I am imortal.

Do you believe it normal to be imortal?
> no.

Are you saying no just to be negative?
> I am not.

Do you enjoy being not?
> quit

Goodbye. My secretary will send you a bill.
>

% prolog/eliza.pl compiled 0.05 sec, 117,648 bytes
Welcome to SWI-Prolog (Multi-threaded, Version 5.2.13)
Copyright (c) 1990-2003 University of Amsterdam.
SWI-Prolog comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Please visit http://www.swi-prolog.org for details.

For help, use ?- help(Topic). or ?- apropos(Word).

?-
% halt

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Hi all.

I just created a wiki topic Catalog of Free and Commercially supported IRIX software

This list is extremely short.

There are things that I have used but have left out.. When I was working on a military flight simulator on IRIX, there was some ADA code that I was using as a reference for one of the avionics buses was built with a 3rd party Ada compiler on IRIX whose name I completely forget. Doing a low level block by block read of a deleted file system on one of the machines I got had evidence of a French (Aerospace ?) CAD/CAE system whose name I forget.

We are abiding by the forum rules, just listing the software known to run on IRIX.
Piracy, etc to be done at (legally) arms length away from nekochan.

So what software exists for IRIX that can be added to that topic...??
Edit the wiki topic or respond here.

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jimmer wrote: I think I wrote something very small and demi-useful once upon a time.

viewtopic.php?t=13833

When I get another IRIX box, hopefully sometime soon-ish, I might try my hand at a few more 'applets'.

Thanks... updated that wiki topic.

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jpstewart wrote:

PymbleSoftware wrote: Doing a low level block by block read of a deleted file system on one of the machines I got had evidence of a French (Aerospace ?) CAD/CAE system whose name I forget.

Probably CATIA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATIA ), originally from Dassault (a French company). I think it ran on IRIX in version 5.x.

Pro/Engineer (from PTC) ran on IRIX up to and including the version known as "Wildfire 2.0" (circa 2004). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro/Engineer#Release_history for a timeline and http://www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/71140/en/proewf2.pdf for the official support info.

I don't know when IRIX support started for either of those applications. Those are (AFAIK) the versions after which it was dropped.

Thanks. I added an entry for both of these.

I think you may have been right about it be it CATIA, but my memory is too hazy to be sure, but it was running on 6.5.xx hardware so either upwards compatible from IRIX 5.x or there was a newer version, that ran on 6.5.xx.

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fu wrote: you've been wikifying non-stop, got to rock

Pete has let me be admin, so its kinda my duty.
... after two weeks a few hours each day cleaning up red-links I get kinda grumpy when people introduce new ones.

Still could get a lot more structured, smj has fixed a lot of that though.

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GL1zdA wrote:

PymbleSoftware wrote:

fu wrote: you've been wikifying non-stop, got to rock

Pete has let me be admin, so its kinda my duty.
... after two weeks a few hours each day cleaning up red-links I get kinda grumpy when people introduce new ones.

But that's the whole point of a wiki - if you see a red link you know you can write an article. Because it is red it doesn't mean it is bad (maybe the CSS should be changed to make green links ). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link

Because a lot of the wiki had been copied from wikipedia and LinuxMIPS wiki... there were a ton of red links to articles that are completely unrelated to SGI... and that is what the wiki is about SGI. Articles that define things like camera, research, or abstract terms are great in a all defining reference like wikipedia but the sea of red made me see red.

Go back through the history of the wiki... You will find that for two weeks, years ago, I spent about 2 or 3 hours a day at least, putting every article in a category and every category in a category and generally every article had a path to it, there was probably hundreds of edits for that... Then for another 2 week period I went through again several hours each day and took red links out of articles, or created new articles.. at one point I made about 10 new articles a minute clicking red links..There was again probably hundreds of edits. I really think I don't need a lecture from you.

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jpstewart wrote:

PymbleSoftware wrote: I think you may have been right about it be it CATIA, but my memory is too hazy to be sure, but it was running on 6.5.xx hardware so either upwards compatible from IRIX 5.x or there was a newer version, that ran on 6.5.xx.

Sorry, when I said "version 5.x" I meant of CATIA, not IRIX! My previous post was very poorly worded! Oops!

I think I had IRIX 5.3 on the Indy on my mind. My mistake.

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Over this last weekend, I just did a little drive down The Great Ocean Road (*) with a car from AVIS(**) ... Its just like that section around Big Sur, CA but for a few hundred miles... oh and with signs saying "Drive on the left side in Australia" every few dozen miles.

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* Victoria, Australia.
** No problems for me... it was a nicer and newer car than what I normally drive..

iffy50 wrote: Hello again,

One of the problems I've found with Maya 6.5 is that there are very few shelves with the installation. Coming from a later version, the menu's are very different and so it's a bit difficult to find your way around. So, I re-built the shelves that you find in 2011 in 6.5! Well, as far as it's possible to.

I would like to post them up here so that other people can use them. I just wanted to check if anyone saw any problems with doing this (not trying to break any rules here).

Just to be clear, I put these together with the shelf editor although the layouts and icons are the same as the later versions (all internal icons). I haven't copied them from a later version and edited them.

Cheers,
Ian

I don't have 2011, so more modern shelves would not be a help for me. However, I think that what you have counts as a derived work and I don't see any problem with people even selling maya plugins in advertisements in 3D World Magazine and the like. People post and download MEL scripts from all kinds of 3D forums all the time. I suspect that you are not breaking forum rules as neither the letter nor the intent of the rules... The rules are there to protect the site and founder from lawyers... maintaining this is his hobby and even the most frivolous law suit will shut all this down. Is this the slightest bait for a lawyer? I don't think so.


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Everyone knows he is really a space alien..




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Will not work.

Onyx2 != Octane2 for all values of Onyx2 and Octane. Different devices and different kernels.

DINA
another wiki topic
and another

..and the forums
search.php?keywords=network+install&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

etc..



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Nolis wrote: thx PymbleSoftware for the tut.. I already found some tuts for network installation but this is too freaky by just reading it...

anyway would it work if I simply copy the irix install disks on my second harddisk in the octane and use the hd as my cd drive to install...
is there a tut for ?

my secound disk is Disk(0,2), filesystem dks0d2s7

I remember reading a post here about someone attempting that recently. Go back through the posts in this forum or use the search.. It wasn't that long ago. From memory the answer was no, but do search the forums.. Up the top right of this page between FAQ and Members links.

My advice is to get an external SCSI case... I have about a dozen of them.... DAT, DVD, CD-RW, CD, QIC tape, a few different CDs., hard drives, etc. Quite easy to transport from machine to machine.

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