The collected works of Raion-Fox - Page 4

Kratom I order from Coastal Kratom. White Vein maeng da.

I take a spoonful, stick it in my mouth (its gross) and drink some water, swish around and swallow, repeat until its all swallowed. It works for about 4-6 hours.

PEBKAC is evident.

Eromanga-sensei is alright thus far.

The only thing I can think of is if your locale is not set to english. On Windows that can cause codepage issues because Windows sucks at localization.

It didn't kill off MIPS, just HPC MIPS, since MIPS is still used in network and embedded applications.

I don't mourn MIPS, it's a dirty architecture with nasty register spill tendency, similar to SuperH.

Itanium has its own problems - strictly in-order, difficult to optimize without the right compilers, code density issues.

kramlq wrote: I wholeheartedly disagree. MIPS was a great CPU to write kernel level code for - you could be executing C code from a 1:1 mapped virtual window within a few hundred lines of boot assembly code. Virtual memory and the TLB were quite straightforward, and the CP0 model of kernel support features was quite clean. The only thing I didn't like was that if you needed to write code across many vendors MIPS processors, there was little on chip support for explicit feature detection. The MIPS32/MIPS64 series addressed this main shortcoming.

I never worked on compilers, but did plenty of disassembly and debugging, and never thought code generated was too bad either. I studied many processor architectures over the years, and always though the "features" like visible register windows on SPARC (and Itanium to an extent) were overkill and had the potential to add inefficiency to critical paths.

I'll admit, I have a soft spot for Alpha's setup. I'd love for a modern Alpha-style (Shenwei, we want modern Alpha systems on Taobao, y'hear?) ISA, but honestly POWER has gotten mature enough that the little ASM I have to do is pretty easy. I'll agree, SPARC is pretty awful in terms of design, but at least Fujitsu has made it pretty performant!

The MIPS code I've dealt with is dirty, the register spill problem was worse than other RISCs, and at the end of the day, the ISA never lived up to its potential.

ARM64 is pretty good if we see high performance on the same pricepoint as Intel. I don't mind x64, tbh, but AMD's offerings suck ass, so Intel is the only player I can take seriously, and we know how monocultures are.

ClassicHasClass wrote: I suppose we'll see Xeon Superdomes soon.

Running Linux, no doubt either. HP-UX is kinda cool, and its going to be sad to see it go.

They run Linux, sadly. RHEL IIRC. I would be very surprised if HP-UX makes it to x64

You can't graphics mod an O300 without hooking it up to a G-brick.

Ask dhjj

060-0021-001

R4k and R10k PSUs are the same, its the non-impact graphics you want. So there you go

Not bad at all. Hope it works out for you Vince

itsvince725 wrote: I put Windows 10 on a NetBurst machine tonight.

Masochist.

I'd rather use a PIII to a Netburst machine any day simply because the latter at least consumes power in accordance with it's performance. A Netburst just sucks power and will sit there crunching it for longer than necessary. A G4S at 1.5GHz ran circles around my P4 3GHz especially in the media metrics (altivec probably)

I personally think when it comes down to it that Nehalem and up are still quite usable but below that is at best questionable in it's usability for x86, I do have a P4 era box but it has a Pentium M, so it at least consumes a reasonable amount of power.

You mean 21st century.

And yeah, currently we don't have any Java past 1.4, which was released in 2002. If you want to try your hand at compiling a later version of OpenJDK, I'd start with OpenJDK 6, the earliest OpenJDK release that's still supported, here's the info for it. http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mips-port/

It's been hot recently so cold noodle dishes are the bulk of my current eating.

This is cold soba with fried spiced tofu and a Sichuan vinaigrette.

Recipe is pretty simple. Get some soba, boil it for 4 mins in unsalted water, drain and rinse in ice cold water.

For the tofu you need to use spiced or smoked tofu as it has less moisture. Heat some oil in a pan, smash and chop a clove of garlic roughly, sweat it in the pan with some sichuan peppercorns and then fry the tofu until crispy. Remove the oil from heat and pour some crushed red pepper in a mixing bowl, take the oil you fried with and strain it into the mixing bowl. Add 2 parts rice wine and 1 part balsamic vinegar, whisking vigorously. I like to add some brown sugar, salt and black pepper to it as well. Plate some soba noodles, cut the tofu into bite size chunks and then pour some vinaigrette over it.

I don't care as much for Roger Moore but many of the Bond movies he started in are classics. He will be missed.

Yes, but a G5 is much more noisy, power hungry and potentially has poorer longterm reliability, especially the water cooled models - the pump isn't going to last forever and last I checked they stopped making replacements. Of course, you prefer to use MacOS, so this wouldn't even be an option. But I like the idea, because it is potentially decent enough to run a BSD or Linux on and use it regularly. Of course, if I wanted the best performance I would honestly prefer a P6 or P7 box but those are much more expensive and difficult to run, plus louder.

ClassicHasClass wrote: Similarly, another thing I forgot to point out is that the P50xx lacks AltiVec. The G5's VMX implementation isn't too flash compared to the 7450 G4 (it's basically the old 7400 G4 AltiVec design that IBM bolted on), but it's got it, at least.

I'm harping on its performance mostly because if I bought a new PowerPC computer, it would be to run NetBSD or some other still-supports-big-endian-PPC-Unix on it, not primarily AmigaOS (I have an A4000T) or MorphOS. It's not likely to be this until it has a chance of being faster than what I'm already running.

I mean if we're looking for top of the line POWER performance we pretty much have to go for Tyan server mobos, there's not a single PPC embedded core that really can stand up to the G5. But, you get far less power consumption, a far more reliable piece of hardware (again, unless there's a source for water pumps for the G5, I can't see them lasting indefinitely, and the air cooled ones have their own issues) and faster memory, so there's that.

TDP and power consumption are important to me because the G5s I had were exceedingly power hungry and I couldn't have many other devices on the same breaker circuit before it tripped. That's one reason I've held off on finding a cheap P6 deskside server.

Tofu is very versatile, and has kind of a bad rap. It doesn't have much flavour on its own, admittedly, and this certainly is a light tasting dish, but the texture of fried spiced dry tofu is far more better than the stuff you get in the water blocks at the grocery store - I hate working with that stuff. You have to go to a Chinese market and buy the cheapest spiced tofu on the shelf to make this recipe worth it, since I did the math and I get 4 meals out of a pack of soba and a pack of tofu at $2/meal.

I spent some time as a chemical engineer with a specialization in organic chemistry but I switched to electrical engineering.

tweakoz wrote: I would be happy to donate...
But sorry, I am not going to spend more than 3 minutes trying to install a custom theme...
(and those 3 minutes are up)..
Sorry, too busy spending what little free time I have trying to get my VBOB working..
Just PM the paypal link, and I will donate...

Thanks,

mtm

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It's literally right here, just make sure prosilver is selected. Either way, donations are closed for the time being - Pete seems to have all he needs to keep the site in order so he's not open for business right now.

No. The R12k and the R14k modules are manufactured to use different voltages and processes. You would literally just end up destroying the CPU module, and even if you could, you would need specialized hot air rework equipment which costs thousands.

A single or dual 400MHz Octane is very fast.

I've refined precious medals and made nitroglycerin and guncotton before but that was all for personal education reasons.

Ian Mapleson would be the man to contact regarding those things. http://sgidepot.co.uk/sgi.html

I'm using 8.1 Embedded and when that isn't sufficient anymore I will emulate a Win 7 system under a Xen, KVM or BHYVE hypervisor, with the host OS either being SmartOS, NetBSD or FreeBSD, not in any particular order. If I ever get FoxBSD off the ground (lack of motivation and lack of resources) then I'll use that.

I wish this was reddit because I'd upvote hamei's post a hundred times if I could. Grade A pal, grade A.

A used 2001 Miata front bumper, two 2001 Miata door cards and a 3 spoke Nardi wheel and airbag for a Miata.

Still haven't got around to reinstalling the A/C in the Miata. Waiting to see if I can find a non-power steering rack that fits my '99.

In the meantime, met up with a guy in Virginia Beach who had a front bumper from a 2001, two door panels and a 3 spoke Nardi wheel and airbag. The bumper will be living downstairs for a while.

In other news, I broke up with the girl about 2 weeks ago (we're still friends). She had asked back when her Sonic broke why I didn't pay for her new car since I insisted on it - this is why. I still have $1300 from selling the Sonic, and she has a car she's happy with. If I had paid for it, I'd have another IS300 and she'd have a car payment from a buy here pay here because she's shit broke. Only tangentially related to the discussion, but I'm officially single so I have room in my driveway to fix up a 1995 Cabrio that was given to me - I get to sell it and split the profit with my brother once it's sell-able.

Also hoping to move to Southern VA again so I can get away from the worst of the winters - my Miata with it's rusty rockers doesn't need anymore holes!

You can try taking the heatsinks off and re-padding the chips, or check for corrosion.

i have a 1.3 xbow if it turns out bad I'll send to you for $60 inc. shipping. But before we throw more parts at it I want to slow down - I'd like to see it tested first

Netscape 4 works fine.

You could always look into some sort of proxy system.

Here's my newest project.

1994 Green Mitsubishi 3000GT (Jade Fox)

84k miles (branded not-actual-mileage due to a DMV transcription error, not my fault)

Automatic/FWD

It's not perfect. It has a hacked up alarm system that needs to be yanked, the transmission may need to be replaced, there's an exhaust leak and there's problems abound.

But I've wanted one of these for decades.

johnnym wrote: Do you have all-wheel steering in it and will you paint it red later?

Jade Fox does not have AWD/4WS. That is the VR4 only.

The car does have some problems, namely a car alarm I need to rip out, a repair to the radio harness, and the transmission is acting funny (either the solenoids are bad or the linkage is out of whack), and the passenger sideskirt is cracked/loose.

The car alarm has been disabled but I hate leaving hacked up wiring in a car so I'm going to probably have a shop remove it if it's sliced up a bunch of wiring.

The car's engine does appear in good shape as it's original to the car, doesn't knock or tick and it doesn't leak much either. Just

I didn't hear the alarm because I disconnected it's power the first thing I got the car towed home. It had a loud looking siren, though. I kept that for obvious reasons, I could potentially use that elsewhere.

I plan to have the dash out of the car at least once, so I'll make it a priority to survey the wiring and fuse panel then.

One possible upgrade is to get the VR4 climate control and drivetrain in it one day, but for now, I just want to get it driving well, nice and clean and take care of the immediate issues.

If the transmission is shot and the shop that did the work for the previous owner (It's all under warranty) refuses to fix it I'll simply either get a junkyard AT or put a 5-speed in it. We'll see what happens there.