The collected works of Shiunbird - Page 1

First post! (I will introduce myself tomorrow)

285, GXT135P, AIX 7.1 myself. Reviving the old dead post.

I don't think it will work, according to the specifications:
http://ps-2.kev009.com/rs6000/rs6000_ps ... XT135P.pdf

One or two monitors (identical image) supported at resolutions:
640x480at60Hz
1024x768at60-85Hz
1280x1024at60-85Hz
One monitor supported at resolutions:
1600x1200at75-85Hz
2048x1536at60-75Hz

Saulo

I know it's weird but it's true, and confirmed by many IBM documents.
To use 1920x1200, like I'm using now, I need to go for VGA. On DVI it tops at 1280x1024@60Hz or 1600x1200@30Hz. I have no idea why.

Edit: The DVI limitation is there even if you have a single monitor connected.

skywriter wrote: Any of youz guyz ever use sync with OS X? I would like to backup the ReadyNAS 6's with sync to some of the Drobo devices.

What exactly do you mean by sync? I googled around and it seems like a feature from ReadyNAS, but I don't see to clearly get your question. Why would you need OS X to backup ReadyNAS to Drobo? Is the Drobo locally attached to the OS X machine?

theinonen wrote: Sitting in Helsinki and preparing for half marathon. Will be hard as have not trained almost at all this year.

I ran one time 5 kilometers last week and it felt pretty bad.

I feel you. I did 8km on Wednesday after 4 months without running and I thought my heart was coming out of my mouth.

@skywriter: You are welcome!

I've heard the video loopback helps to get remote screen at more than 800x600. I've never tested, though. I have no need.
My G5 doesn't like to be started without any display attached. The fans fly and it seems to never boot up. I always have a display attached, so I was never bothered to solve this problem.

I run El Captain on a 2011 Mac Mini (the one with AMD graphics). It's behind a Cisco RV042 and the ports are forwarded. I use the Cisco to allow the forwarding to happen based on a schedule (I can only connect to VPN during business hours).

If the Drobo mounts as local storage, everything should work fine. I don't know much about it. I suppose it's Thunderbolt?
It boils my blood that you can't use any mounted storage for the services. They must have a very good reason for that. My NAS server (FreeNAS on a Gen8 HP MicroServer) is far more stable than my Mac Mini and is always available.

I was looking into getting a Drobo myself, but I don't need the performance and I find the MicroServer + FreeNAS combo to be more cost effective and more useful for my use cases.

skywriter wrote: One thing that irk's me is that the new server doesn't talk to the old server management, or visa versa.

I think that wasn't the case in the past. You could do if I'm not mistaken one version before or afterwards. But that stopped since Snow Leopard server I think, when they started making it an App.

Your solution seems ok.

skywriter wrote: First bad problem. Seems that there has been a legacy problem lingering in the Drobo Pro space; It doesn't work correctly with FW800, which was the easiest way to hook it all up. I switched everything to USB, but there were reboots last night. I'll try again with iSCSI. If all else fails, back to Leopard server on the G5. The Drobo's were going to be rsync targets anyway so performance isn't a big problem. The Storage front ends will continue to be - trouble free - ReadyNAS Pro 6's

On another note, the Cache server is working well

I'm curious about your FW800 issues, since I've had issues with some drives in the past with my Intel Mac Mini.
Did you see anything odd in the system logs?

Saulo

Oh wow...

That's a lot of machines to achieve your storage requirements, but I'm happy it is working.
I'm starting to think of getting a Mac Pro 1,1. Prices are good. But that would go as a server, I'd still be using my G5 mostly.

There are cheap XServes as well, but they are noisy. I dream of building my own rack one day, but I hate noise. =)

How loud is your setup now?

My 285 came with a Ultra320 SCSI disk drive 4-pack backplane. 8 drives would require a 2nd backplane.
This is a good reference to find out what comes with power5s:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... system.htm
Some models come with 6-pack backplanes. You will also find number of pin information.

For Power6 you may want to check here to find what storage options are standard: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... /arecs.pdf
According to that, it says drives are all 80 pin for Power6.

I managed to add non-IBM branded/firmware hard drives and AIX was fine with it.

Guys, I set this share if you need:
https://access.toscocloud.com/s/QHrHSirzrloyzWP

Expires on 12th of October, pass is n3k0ch@n.
if you find security holes, please let me know.

The server runs in my living room, so please be kind to it. =)

DMJC wrote: Password is wrong when entering n3k0ch@n

Sorry, fat fingers.
Fixed.

DMJC wrote: no documents listed "no files in here" The login now works though.

The person who proposed to upload it has to do it. =)

The file is there. Hooray!

But x86-only is sad. I only have PPC Linux desktops, and I have CDE on Debian on PPC.
I will get some x86 machine.

I'm running this in a VM, and something very odd is happening.

The installation goes ok (you need to modify the install scripts to not try to download the files from the server), but it goes ok.

When I try to run /opt/MaXX/etc/skel/.Xsession.dt , the following happens:
line 67: /opt/MaXX/bin/xlinstscrns: No such file or directory.
line 90: /opt/MaXX/bin/5Dwm: No such file or directory.

The bin folder is a link to bin32. Even if I try to run xlistscrns from the /bin32 directory it says file not found, and I get the error back from bash. I already checked the files have execution permission and the quality of the links. Any tips?

vishnu wrote:

Shiunbird wrote: ...it says file not found, and I get the error back from bash....

Whenever I've experienced this mysterious phenomenon it turned out to be a library incompatibility; the libraries that Eric dynamically linked xlistscrns against don't match the libraries on your system.

This makes sense.
Any idea on how I could find out what's missing? The error message is not helpful.
I could hunt the missing libraries if I knew what's wrong. I do it in AIX all the time.

foetz wrote: ldd problematic_file

Any executable in the bin32 folder return
"not a dynamic executable"

For example, ldd -v 5Dwm

DMJC wrote: I played with it, found 5DWM was too unstable, but using MWM with all of the apps gave a pretty pleasant experience. I'd be interested to know what's missing from IRIX compared to a MaXX setup.

How did you get it to run?
I tried Debian and Fedora, no go. =(

I bought my IntelliStation 285 new in the box two years ago (got lucky - paid cheap), and the original IBM box is built like a tank, incredibly well packed.

And yet the transportation company managed to miss the pallet and one of the forks of the lift fork went through the box passing centimetres from the computer.

You can never be too careful.

I'm itching. =)))))))))))

What is interesting is that... well, it comes with the monitor and I could use when I finally score my first IRIX machine, and it looks in great condition.

But I will pass, because I would need to arrange with one of my friends in the UK to keep it until I'm back from Brazil, and then I should come to the UK in November and pick it up.

I see.
I'm really torn. I love non-standard hardware. =)
But logistically would be a nightmare. I only buy computers in good condition, and this one seems to be looking ok.

uunix wrote:

Shiunbird wrote: What is interesting is that... well, it comes with the monitor and I could use when I finally score my first IRIX machine, and it looks in great condition.

But I will pass, because I would need to arrange with one of my friends in the UK to keep it until I'm back from Brazil, and then I should come to the UK in November and pick it up.

You can only use that monitor in certain conditions, MLA from a DVi or 1600sw FPA(o2 / 320/540 etc), there are other options, I have a [fore....something] card for a Mac and there is another MLA type box out there also.

Unless the Orange version is different of course.

Just found this as I looked for information on the original IBM BIOS, a very interesting read:

http://orignialbeast.blogspot.com/2014/ ... beast.html

armanox wrote: Agreed - nice job on getting a P520. I miss having access to the two that I used to (Previous job had two of them in the lab, both connected to an HMC. One ran AIX 7.1 and the other ran IBM i), they were pretty nice machines.

How's IBM i?
I've never managed to find much about it.

Lovely, thanks a ton!
Joining now.

Yeay donated!

Epic story!

Although I can drive, I don't have a car. There are not many places in Prague where you could park a car.
So when my IntelliStation arrived by truck, delivered to my work, I just left it on the hallway because I couldn't move the pallet anywhere on my own.

After two days sitting there, my office manager freaked out asking me to get rid of it or he would get rid of me. Fair enough.
A friend with a station wagon came to help me, but he regretted as soon as he realised I live on the fourth floor and the 115 years old building where I live doesn't have a lift.

Huge beast.

What about what was remaining of OpenSolaris?
I know Oracle took it back, but I guess once it's out, it is out? Is there any fork?

Sun was a cool company...

I love the 3D printed logo!

"More sluggish than a Macintosh." --ouch

I do most of my serious business on my G5 Quad, in both Mac OS and Linux, depending on what I'm doing.
I own an Intel Mac Mini, but that's mostly a Civilization 5 machine to play with my friends, and random web browsing is done on my employer-provided iPad.

The Mini is up 24-7, but it can't handle high CPU load for a long time without giving up (bunch of VMs, and etc), and whenever I want to do something serious and be sure it gets done to the end, I end up using the G5. And the IntelliStation will replace 2 HP Microservers and the Mac Mini as my linux/24-7 machine once I get it up to speed.

From 10 years back, computers are fast enough for almost anything you throw at them, just sometimes you have to wait more, besides things like 4K video or the newest games.

Some of my colleagues, surprisingly working in IT, use their Windows laptops and replace them whenever they start feeling slower. Recently one of them replaced a 3-year old Lenovo ThinkPad W-something that has 16GB of RAM and 2 SSDs. How can that be slow I wonder...

It's almost 3am and I can't sleep.

commodorejohn wrote: Cowboy Bebop is the goods.

OMG I love the opening theme. It's amazing!

You nailed it! =)

That was very interesting and entertaining.

Try on /etc/exports:

/irix/acclaim 10.10.1.45(rw)

Maybe?

I've just received a second ThinkVision L220x, got from eBay for 20 GBP.

I love this monitor. 1920x1200, 22-inch, 4 USB 2 ports and does 92% Adobe RGB when properly calibrated.

Raion-Fox wrote: I'm learning European Portugeuse, though.

I'm always delighted when I see someone learning Portuguese. People only seem to be interested in learning Spanish...
Feel free to ask if you need help. I know both Brazilian and European Portuguese well (in terms of spelling differences, grammar usage and unique expressions), although my accent is 100% Brazilian.

I was casually fooling around the Interwebs when somehow I ended up in the Linux Toolbox for AIX page and I noticed that it was refreshed (for the first time in years probably).

And... guess what? There's now YUM for AIX.
I'm sure that will eliminate 90% of my frustration operating AIX and could help a few of us here.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/comm ... 02751d30e2
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/comm ... erview.pdf
https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/so ... alpha.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/

Enjoy!

It is definitely better than figuring out everything manually. I've had my share of conflicting packages and frustrating dependency hunts...

Dodoid wrote: For most people my age, their first computer ran Windows 7 or 10. If they're into computers like most of my friends, they probably built it from random Kijiji parts or if they had a little more to spend whatever Canada Computers had on sale. They put all the parts together, never even had to open the BIOS, and now they're happily browsing Reddit and playing Steam games on their Core i5. Most people my age have never used computer hardware older than their mom's 2006 Vista netbook or the school's Pentium 4s.

The best investment my parents ever did to my education was to buy a spare computer At the time, a new computer would cost 3000-4000 USD, and I'm Brazilian, so it would be the same effort as saving 10000 USD so to say.

They let me break the computer as many times as I could (I reinstalled Windows 95 so many times I know the serial number by heart to this day). And then I would go to my uncle's place, who is an engineer and had many computers, and would keep breaking things. He had a laptop with a modem and we would try to extract the wires from public pay phones to get on Internet for free. Remember there was no Google at the time.

The knowledge I acquired during that time on how computers work, you know, the knack of it, helped me get a job in Europe, my employer sponsored my visa and now I have a very comfortable life and the income to spare to buy even more computers. =))))))))))))

Things back home are not going well economically, and I'm able to look after my brother and give my parents a bit of ease of mind things will be looked after when they are gone.

And the knowledge you get from older computers you won't get with modern things - there are no IRQ conflicts to solve, no cryptic error messages, no jumpers, no floppy disk swapping, no spending a year playing games without sound because you couldn't figure out how to get the sound card to work, etc..

I guarantee you will get a fantastic job in the future, doing something you enjoy doing enormously and making good friends on the way. So, if they ever ask you again why do you do this, you can just say it's your education.

astouffer wrote: Finally. With rpm I had conflicts where X needed Y, so you try and install Y and it says it needs X... So the hell with it, force everything. You should have seen me trying to install ffmpeg. Nothing seems to compile cleanly with gcc either.

Exactly the problems I've been having.
Compiling things on gcc never seem to go well, or I'm too stoopid.

What happens to me is... when I need to get things done with the machine I end up booting Linux, and once every few months I gather some energy, spend 3-4 days with AIX, get frustrated and give up. But now I think I will do a 7.1 clean install and try my luck again.

Y888099 wrote: Bah, I am afraid nowadays all the knowledge acquired on how to reinstall windows doesn't pay you back, especially if your salary is three times expensive than employing three Chinese guys for the same amount of money. They have also mastered how to reinstall Windows (and also Linux, LOL), and they are more efficiently and cheap than you

I guess what Dodoid is doing goes far beyond installing Windows.

I particularly became the person who is called when the three Chinese (or my own peers) screw up, and write the automation pieces that avoids future screw-ups (plus deployment of enterprise-level solutions but that's another part of the story).

Automation and ease of access to knowledge will kill many jobs, but there's room for creativity even in technology. Creativity is what drives things forward and get people coming with even more intelligent ways of doing things.

We used to have MANY colleagues in Toronto, I watched most of them go, except the ones that were creative and could add value differently. There are no Windows installers left over there...