The collected works of TeamBlackFox - Page 9

Heh, Pentium. Nice hair, 1980 called, they want their hair back :p

Interest withdrawn. Refocusing interests.

No, you should not use an Apple product if you desire a free-as-in-freedom distro.

Firmware, both something akin to EFI, which is what your Macbook would use, and firmware 'blobs' loaded onto your wireless, sound and video cards, is no different than firmware directly on your devices like mice, disk controllers etc.

If you want a completely free computer, you're shit out of luck my friend, because blobs are everywhere. Read this to fully understand this paradoxical bullshit by the FSF: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=143355112811564&w=2

In any case, try something else. Apple isn't where you want to start.

Have to leave Virginia, and this Tezro is something I'd otherwise have to take with me.

Would prefer to do pick up, will ship, but I'd rather not.

Decent skins,

4x 700MHz R16000
8GB RAM
2x 146GB 15k HDDs
Dmedia DM3 Card
V12/DCD
6.5.30
DVD drive

Make me a fair offer.

Unfortunately I have no more time to work on stuff and my SGI collection is being liquidated. Sorry guys... I had some changes in my life happen, BIG changes, I'm moving cross-country soon.

Yeah... I did. I have to make sacrifices, as one does when their life falls apart in their hands. I went from making $3000/month, having a nice car and a roof over my head to no income, no car and 30 days notice to leave my current residence.

yetanother**ixuser wrote: big changes means bitches involved

Not quite. I had two cars die on me, lost my job, and my roommates have decided to kick me out.

uunix wrote: I bet it's C++ related!

Not funny. Its not a time for me to have jokes like that because I've literally watched much of my life fall apart.

I don't understand why one needs a GUI editor? Vi(m) never hurt nobody!

Not impressed until you get it running on BSD!

uunix wrote: It's dr fsking doom again.. Haven't you left for Canada yet?

Ahem, why would I be heading North? Also its funny, because both my posts here and on Nedit thread are meant tongue-in-cheek. You know, like John Cleese's Frenchman speech from The Holy Grail.

maxxi.desktop wrote:

TeamBlackFox wrote: Not impressed until you get it running on BSD!

FreeBSD looks pretty well supported by NVidia. Dunno about ATi tho. I guess it's time to kick the tire and try it over the weekend.

AMD and Intel are reasonably well supported on FreeBSD, and thus by extension ATi. Newest model AMD graphics cards don't work quite yet.

As long as you provide a properly formatted makefile and instructions for .Xsession initialization, I'll do it.

zagnut wrote: Im curious, has anyone ever ported an old mac os (system 7 or 8 ) to a MIPS SGI? Im not educated in fruit OS. Many years back I had a PowerBook 1400c....a beautiful laptop for its generation. I regret disposing of it But I digress....

Impossible. No source code. Plus, why would you want to run Mac OS Classic. Even compared to the primitiveness of UNIX, the bespoke MacOS Classic is decidedly dinosaur era in terms of functionality and usability.

guardian452 wrote: After fooling around for a bit with FreeBSD, I wasn't able to get *anything* working with my thinkpad. The display brightness, sleep/resume, wi-fi, trackpad. All of it. xfce and chrome installed easily enough, but it's no fun having burned eyeballs perched next to my wifi router with a 3' ethernet cord (seriously, do they even make ethernet cords anymore? I don't think they sell them in the stores...

So I installed Linux Mint, and hell, I think even Hammie would approve of this linux It took less than 5 minutes to install, and all of the above features work out of box. In fact, sleep/resume is even faster than windows. I would argue it is as fast as my old macbook running OSX. It's certainly a lot less buggy than the last version of OSX. which prompted trading in the macbook for a thinkpad in the first place...

Now I will be getting Maxx running on mint. Sorry Foxxxie, but you're on your own Years of using Apple products have reduced my tolerance and patience levels below what is required for getting FreeBSD going on a laptop, at least a thinkpad.

I don't care. Use Mint if it suits you. I'm running it on my x230 and it works fine, KB brightness, trackpad, wifi, volume control, suspend/resume, and screen brightness. The only complaints I have is X likes to lock up occasionally for some undiagnosed reason, and the sound volume isn't always working as needed and requires some sysctls.

Update: Currently gotten a lot of interest, I am unable to hook the system up for HINV but I can provide any other info needed, photos could be possible but not very good due to poor lighting in the computer room.

Also, no PayPal, so if you're interested and not able to do cash, you need to be able to use Google Wallet ( better than PayPal, mind you )

I'm also not comfortable taking a loss below 30% of the value, because at that point its better for me to pack it up and take it with me.

Gotten a few nice offers, and I appreciate the support. Out of town until Tuesday.

Sounds like bugs with your particular setup. Maybe if I have some time soon you could give me access to the source repo and I'll see what I can come up with.

:shrug: It has some issues with some newer systems, Macbooks and other Crapple hardware, and just about anything that is touched by Broadcom, AMD or a few others. Not their fault. The GPL causes code pollution. BSD stuff can be used by GNU/Linux but not the other way around, makes it difficult for the BSDs to keep ahead. I usually find Thinkpads are good for the BSDs, a few years old is best.

I got a C8000 for sale that meets your specs. Just needs a copy of HP-UX. PM me and we can work something out.

Just checking in, seeing if a tester for FreeBSD would still be needed. If you could just send me a tarball and a list of dependencies, I do promise to be discrete and not share anything with anyone. I can see you had issues setting up FreeBSD ( PC-BSD and FreeBSD are the same thing moreorless, but PC-BSD is a spin off by iXSystems. I hate them for their willingness to try to make FreeBSD, OS X-lite. Assholes )

Things I have done that are pretty crazy:

Towed my friends truck with my roommates truck using a ratchet tow strap 35 miles from his girlfriends house to his house. He was in the truck and had to brake and steer with no engine power ( His engine seized, so I zip tied the clutch in since the transmission couldn't shift )

In high school I procured the domain password for the Windows Server 2003-based school network server, and managed to setup a covert tunnel where me and my friends could LAN party Quake across the school network while the freshman-juniors did their standardized tests.

Pranked my old boss at work by swapping his Mac Mini with an Amiga 1200 equipped with a 68060 CPU, token ring network card, Aweb, a telnet client and promised him we'd return it if he lasted for an entire day on the system ( we allowed him to remote to a server, hence the telnet client ). He obtained a whole new appreciation for his computer after that, lawl. He had to call his wife at home and walk her through setting up telnetd on his home PC.

Also, know someone who pranked a friend in the 1990s by making his Linux box swap off the tape drive.

And ISIS had its leader killed.

Regardless the best way to deal with ISIS would be to ignore them and let the locals and them duke it out. Ban flights to and from the surrounding nations and close the borders, recall the military stationed over there and the embassies.

Tezro vs G5 would be better in terms of performance. I'd be interested to see.