The collected works of Vladio - Page 3

Recondas is spot on with his info. I've never used one prior to getting this but I do like it. It keeps the monitors at the perfect height. $24 is a steal! (Didn't see the shipping) I noticed a lot of ebay sellers don't ship to Italy...why is that?

Nice! I just found one myself.

vishnu wrote: Hey guys post some pics fer cryin' out loud!

Ha ha, will do. I just put it back together...disassembled it, cleaned it - inside and out, and reassembled. I'd of made Chip Foose proud.

vishnu wrote:

Vladio wrote:

vishnu wrote: Hey guys post some pics fer cryin' out loud!

Ha ha, will do. I just put it back together...disassembled it, cleaned it - inside and out, and reassembled. I'd of made Chip Foose proud.

I try to clean my computers out once a year. Well, the ones I use regularly anyway. A good air compressor makes that much less of a daunting task than would otherwise be the case.

It's amazing the thick wad of dust that builds up in them. My computer room has laminate flooring and I clean in there frequently, those don't get bad but the ones over carpet get a lot of dust buildup.

uunix wrote: I swear legacy, you are on more drugs than the Rolling Stones ever were!

You're too much uunix!

He just needs to spend more time with Gaga.

Since my Origin's CDROM is inop I'd like to use my Octane's to install Photoshop. Wednesday evening I was able to access the drive, it was getting late so I figured I'd install tomorrow. I haven't been able to access the drive since.

On the Octane, in system manager, I've selected "Start sharing removable media devices", selected "CDROM" and shared. A window pops up and says the "device is now being shared". On the Origin I selected Toolchest_Shared Resources_On Remote Workstation and the Find Remote Resources window opens. I type in the ip address of the Octane and get both the CDROM and my Drive 2 that I have shared. If I click on the CDROM I get "File Manager Error_Unable to locate 'hosts/192.168.1.5/CDROM, The path does not exist'". I can access the Drive 2, no problems. As I said, I was able to access the CDROM Wednesday and even transferred a few generic files just to test.

Turns out it had nothing to do with the drive or configuration and everything to do with with the disk I had in the drive...Photoshop. I put in a random dvd and test copied file in a few seconds. I just put the Photoshop disk back in and mounted the cdrom drive with no probs.

armanox wrote: Wouldn't it be easier to set up an NFS share with the files on it?

Every way I tried I got an error that the path didn't exist. With a different disk there was no problems - both Photoshop and Illustrator did the same thing.

There's always a work around, I eventually got what I wanted up and running.

BTW, thank you Vishnu! Apparently you "loaned" me an app which I had sitting on Drive2 just itching to be installed from Octane drive2 to Origin.

This weekend you guys can stop over for beer and wings and we'll wire up the Onyx2.

vishnu wrote:

Vladio wrote: BTW, thank you Vishnu! Apparently you "loaned" me an app which I had sitting on Drive2 just itching to be installed from Octane drive2 to Origin.

To paraphrase Jimmy Durante I got a million of 'em...

If I had a dollar for every time my father uttered that name.....

I haven't written code in decades but the "goto" jumped right off the screen at me.

Funny how my brain still picks that up.

iffy50 wrote: Hi,

OK, here they are.

And a copy of the included text file....

I know this is old but I hope this finds you, iffy50. This was a nice time-saver! Thanks a lot for the time you put into this and sharing it!

I have the Irix 6.5 foundation set and a couple overlay to get to 6.5.29 for my Octane, is there anything more needed for the Onyx 2? I'm thinking there is. I've spent quite a bit of time looking for this info...I'm currently going through the tech pub for installation but a quick search of "onyx" in the pdf doesn't come up with anything.

foetz wrote:

Vladio wrote: I have the Irix 6.5 foundation set and a couple overlay to get to 6.5.29 for my Octane, is there anything more needed for the Onyx 2?

nope, just fire it up

Thanks, foetz....I'm hoping to have it up and running tonight. I procrastinated getting an adapter for the semi-odd video connector SGI used and that should be here tomorrow. Right now I'm setting it up through serial connection. Thanks again!

foetz wrote: ah, for additional video hardware what comes with irix might indeed not be enough. it depends on what sort of video gear you have. some need specific drivers supplied by the manufacturer

I have an extra 24" Samsung LCD I was going to use. I did a bit of reading on what should be needed and didn't find anything other than needing a 13w3 adapter.

I installed Irix on the Onyx yesterday and seem to have found something odd.... I installed 6.5, haven't installed 6.5.29 overlay yet so it's just the base 6.5 with NFS. I booted it up via serial and have a command prompt. I "setenv DISPLAY XX.XX.XX.XX:0.0" with no problems but on the next command "toolchest" I get "invalid command" or something to that effect, I'm at work and didn't write it down last night. It's basically saying "toolchest" is a syntax error. I've never seen this, should I do a reinstall?

robespierre wrote: Maybe /usr/bin/X11 isn't in your PATH?

That's what I thought..."toolchest" isn't in the X11 directory.

Got it sorted, I was clicking off on a conflict that I shouldn't have.

I got 6.5 installed with Overlay/installation disk 1 and 2, foundation 1 and 2, Applications and NFS...this is the base 6.5. I then tried to install 6.5.29 and have 174 conflicts. Did I jump too far up from 6.5? I believe I have 6.5.11 and another, maybe 6.5.5. I've never got that many conflicts during an install.

foetz wrote: which overlays?

You know, maybe this is the problem... I have the set 6.5 base, foundation.... whatever the first iteration of 6.5 is. Mine has two disks labeled overlay/installation 1 and disk 2. Then I have a bunch of others in that set - foundation 1, foundation 2, NFS, Dev, Apps, freeware...... I'm starting to think that they shipped this with the wrong disks...maybe? Let me check this when I get home this afternoon. I'm thinking that I'm missing the first disk or two that should of shipped with base 6.5. I then have 3 other sets/overlays. Again, I'm not home but if I remember correct I have 6.5.5, 6.5.11 and 6.5.29.

foetz wrote:

Vladio wrote: I have the set 6.5 base, foundation.... whatever the first iteration of 6.5 is. Mine has two disks labeled overlay/installation 1 and disk 2.

it seems your 6.5 base set has additional cds. the actual 6.5 base has nothing called "overlay". in doubt skip those.

It's actually missing disks, namely Installation tools. It appears the owner that I bought the Octane from didn't have the base sets "Installation" disk so he included 6.5.5's 2 overlay disks. As I erroneously understood, I had to install the base 6.5 set first then upgrade with overlays thereafter. When I tried to install 6.5.29 I got 174 conflicts. Upon searching I found that without patching my 6.5.5 install first I would end up with a huge amount of conflicts. I also realized that I didn't have to install 6.5.0 first then update to a later revision so I used 6.5.29's overlay set 1-3 & Application disk along with 6.5.0's Foundation disk 1 & 2 and the NFS disk. I installed these together on a clean disk and ended up with 6.5.29 and 2 conflicts. It works great and I was able to connect a monitor for the first time last night and use the Graphics Unit/IR3. This marks the completion of the Onyx 2 installation...now it's time to play.

Thank you to everyone that helped me save this machine and get it running!

To all our members and everyone effected in Paris you have my condolences, sympathy and support.

+1 on Renderman and Mental Ray...depending on what you decide to run it on. You'll get more speed on Renderman.

Modifying a hot plate to use on the still I'm making.

There's a Computer Chronicals episode on youtube that mentions SGI, I think it was the one on RISC processors.

VenomousPinecone wrote: Been reading the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Avery & Heath-Stubbs translation.

Also learned how to make Hiroshima Okonomiyaki, made it for family and friends last night. Was great.

Vladio wrote: Modifying a hot plate to use on the still I'm making.

Excellent! I am planning on making one, any recommended reading?

Ha, it's all done. I got a ton of info from the Home Distiller forum. Hot plates control their temp by turning the power off and on which plays hell on distilling, I tore all the "guts" out of the hot plate and wired directly to the coil with 800*F wire. I found a schematic for a temp controller and it works great. It controls the current to the coil instead of the on/off cycle. I'm going to run it this weekend. Search home distilling, there's a lot of info out there. PM me if you get stuck.

We got 38" of snow that I had to clean up last weekend? Yes 38" (.96 meter).

I went to work.

One of my perpetual ebay SGI searches kicked up a Tezro in Virginia this morning. I don't have a horse in this race, I'm good on hardware....it's not as beefy as the last one.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silicon-Graphic ... 1725593739 ?

jmc wrote: Does anyone have a higher resolution Image of this poster? I would really like to print it and hang it on my wall!! Anyone??

jmc

I have a large-format printing biz, I'll look around to see if I can find this poster. When I do find them they're usually thin on resolution or have been jpeg'ed down to 125k and the color's a mess.

bigD wrote: I'd love to find a way to make a high quality scan of my poster. The problem is that I had it framed, and the glass it's behind creates pretty strong reflections if I attempt to take any photos of it. There's no way to remove the poster without destroying the frame, unfortunately.

Perhaps a hand scanner would work?

I've seen some decent results from people photographing them with a high-end camera. These people are pros and know lighting though but it's worked. If the poster's printed offset press you'll get a moire pattern in the scan.