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Sparrowhawk
From Fargo, ND
Who joined Feb. 15, 2004, 6:11 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Designing with Irix? at July 18, 2004, 9:44 p.m...

jdboyd wrote: When I want diagrams for programming (say, state machines, object models, etc), I use a program from AT&T (opensource, not that hard to get onto Irix) called vizgraph. It does a nice job of putting out graphs from a simple text file format. I usually have it spit out postscript files for printing or conversion to PDFs, however, for graphs complex enough to give it some trouble it will spit out Dia files that can then be tweaked in Dia.

Does anyone have a link for vizgraph? I tried google and looking around some of AT&T's research sites but didn't find anything overly useful.

Thanks,

Shawn

Sparrowhawk
From Fargo, ND
Who joined Feb. 15, 2004, 6:11 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of No more MATLAB for IRIX? at Sept. 24, 2004, 10:34 a.m...

LaLora wrote: Mathematica cannot match performance of matlab in almost any segment. I'm also too tied to tons of scripts I wrote in the past years in Matlab as part of a research study. I was prepearing to get something better for 3d visualisation and numerical methods, a sgi workstation for team presentation with rear screen projectors (geophysics and geology models) and now this...! No more Matlab for Irix... This just ruined my day today totally! I see only two options now:

Option 1:
Mathworks will come to sanity and will have next release for IRIX or will continue to sell r13

Option 2:
I will have to figure out how to transfer or even remake tons of my PC Matlab data and models to some other SGI visualisation program. Do you guys maby know something for SGI that could generate something like ''fog of particles'', dots or pixel size objects in various colors and transparencies in 3d from set of HUGE arrays and matrices (and would not take too long to learn)?

thanks

I'm not sure on importing Matlab scripts but one options for you might be R at http://www.r-project.org/

Cheers,

Shawn

Sparrowhawk
From Fargo, ND
Who joined Feb. 15, 2004, 6:11 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Java 5? at Aug. 28, 2005, 5:30 p.m...

emachine wrote: Hiya, I'm trying to get this to work:
http://www.iti.uni-stuttgart.de/~bartsc ... /Main_Page

I've mostly built Kaffe ( http://www.kaffe.org ) but build dumps at end due to the jitter only supporting o32. Are there any Java 5 alternatives for IRIX or am i SOL?

BTW, Ive built gEDA, FreeHDL, pcb, etc as well. They build with almost no problems.....

Best regards,
emachine

You are S.O.L. my friend.

It looks like you have two major problems to make this work.

First is the latest JRE for Irix is 1.4.1, I'm not aware of any other sources than SGI for a JRE and since your project uses 1.5.... Kaffe may be worth pursuing further, as it sounds like your mostly there.

The other problem is that your project uses SWT instead of Swing for its GUI. I think SWT relies on some native code to be compiled and at this point there isn't a working (or at least stable version) available for Irix. I know there was a discussion a while ago about trying to get Eclipse running on Irix, and there was some partial success so you may want to research that some more.

Cheers,

Shawn

Sparrowhawk
From Fargo, ND
Who joined Feb. 15, 2004, 6:11 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of 9x 1.5TB + RAID5 + LVM + XFS? at May 23, 2010, 2:21 p.m...

kjaer wrote: Just so you don't get surprised by this later - you can't grow a RAID5 set by adding a disk to it without rebuilding it from scratch, unless you want your original RAID5 with an unprotected disk tacked on the end of it.

Depends on the RAID controller doesn't it? ICP Vortex controllers used to let you do a non-destructive rebuild, which allowed you to add a new drive to the array.