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bigD
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Wrote on the subject of SGI Cube Demo at Aug. 11, 2008, 9:20 p.m...

Runs great on my V12 Octane2! Thanks for this!

One feature I can think of is a benchmark mode that would standardize a set of parameters (size, rotation, etc...) and output the resulting fps.

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Wrote on the subject of Onyx300 IR3 | 16x600MHz | 10GB | 4xRM10 | DG5-2/TVO at Aug. 12, 2008, 3:37 a.m...

::drool::

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Wrote on the subject of name your SGI? at June 20, 2009, 11:46 p.m...

Octane2: MyBadMotherF*cker

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Fractal benchmark at June 26, 2009, 9:53 p.m...

Code:

  OCTANE2 44% ./run1.sh
  
  Fractal benchmark / by Martin Steen
  
  Size   =256x256
  
  Iter   =16384
  
  Threads=4
  
  Render 1 of 3: fract_0088_2.tga
  
  InitThreads OK
  
  ....................................................
  
  Render 2 of 3: fract_0088_8.tga
  
  InitThreads OK
  
  ....................................................
  
  Render 3 of 3: fract_0088_9.tga
  
  InitThreads OK
  
  ....................................................
  
  real    1m59.30s
  
  user    3m30.14s
  
  sys     0m0.29s
  
  converting file fract_0088_2.tga
  
  converting file fract_0088_8.tga
  
  converting file fract_0088_9.tga

This was done on my Octane2 2x300MHz. Render 1 only used one CPU, but the second CPU decided to get off its butt and help out for Render 2 and Render 3.

Like Geoman said, running

Code:

/fractbatch 8192 8192 1024 32 frects0089.txt

fires up both processors immediately. It's still pounding away on the Octane now.

Thanks for sharing this! Very cool.

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Wrote on the subject of VRED: blatant commercial at Aug. 14, 2009, 10:52 a.m...

I know this is an international board and it's dangerous to use idomatic expressions - but that is simply sick, sick, sick. What you guys are doing is nothing short of amazing.

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

bigD
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Wrote on the subject of Great YouTube channel for vintage CG at Aug. 19, 2009, 5:47 p.m...

That was awesome. It's pretty impressive what they were doing back then.

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Wrote on the subject of Octane2 / 2x400 / 5GB RAM / V8 / 36GB HDD at Aug. 20, 2009, 2:55 p.m...

Sorry to hear about your RAM, Geoman. I had some Dataram memory that served me pretty well for about a year, and one module apparently died right as I sold four sticks of it. It could have been damaged in shipping though - but it does seem like people have been having issues with it.

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Question: still worth buying a powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz? at Aug. 20, 2009, 9:39 p.m...

shyouko wrote: Gosh, even my Intel Mac needs this kind of treatment... Flash sucks.

No kidding. What a cycle sucking piece of garbage. People don't seem to care because fast hardware is so cheap these days, but the fact that it takes processor cycles in the billions of hertz to play blurry postage stamp sized crap on YouTube (or obnoxious web advertising - take your pick) makes me want to drive to Adobe and fling a flaming bag of dog poo at their front door.

Sorry, rant over. :mrgreen:

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Wrote on the subject of Octane dual R10000 195 mhz 1g ram V6 at Aug. 21, 2009, 12:49 p.m...

Sweet! Hope you're enjoying it. Do you notice a difference in speed between MXI and V6?

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Help in installing System7 on Ye Olde Macintosh at Sept. 1, 2009, 10:37 a.m...

An external CD-ROM drive would be the best way to handle this particular issue, but do yourself a favor and buy an external USB floppy drive for your Mini. They can be had for next to nothing, and it'll make your life 100x easier when dealing with older Macs.

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Wrote on the subject of Show Off Your Home Office Setup & SGI Collection... at Sept. 1, 2009, 7:44 p.m...

foetz wrote:

is that a mac on the left?

I see three. An LC/Performa (or Quadra 605?), a Color Classic, and what I think might be a Radius clone. :mrgreen:

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Wrote on the subject of Show Off Your Home Office Setup & SGI Collection... at Sept. 3, 2009, 12:13 p.m...

ajerimez wrote:

The third Mac is a Performa 466 running MacOS 7.5.3. It's also maxed-out: 36MB RAM, ethernet, 68882 FPU. It's a pretty unremarkable system, but it does make for a decent vintage gaming machine.

I think the 68882 is pretty remarkable. Not a lot of LC boxes seem to have them installed.

I love my Quadra 700. I haven't used it in awhile, but it spent years acting as a router (via IPNetRouter). The cool thing about it is that it'd route through LocalTalk too, so not only did it serve all my ethernet machines, but also allowed all my older Macs without ethernet to connect to the internet as well.

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Wrote on the subject of eBay: Onyx2 Racks in Skokie IL at Sept. 9, 2009, 3:43 p.m...

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-SGI-Silicon-Graph ... 387wt_1016

Sigh...dunno what's really in there, but for $499, who cares?

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Wrote on the subject of quick reply at Sept. 14, 2009, 7:19 p.m...

Thanks neko! And thanks again for giving us this little spot to talk about our SGI habit/infatuation.

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of HEADS UP: SGI hardware auction, L.A. 22nd SEPTEMBER 2009 at Sept. 21, 2009, 6:50 p.m...

Man, I wish I had a little more cash burning a hole in my pocket - but $500 just to get a paddle, I think I'll wuss out of this one.

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Wrote on the subject of Converting .mv to .mov without encoding? at Oct. 25, 2009, 4:53 p.m...

I've been using my Octane2's compression option to take some old 8mm tapes and move the video over to DVD for archival purposes. I have dmrecord grab the footage at 30Mbit/sec, then use dmconvert to convert the resulting movies to something my MacBook Pro can use, and finally Toast on the OS X side to burn the movies to DVD. I couldn't be happier with the resulting quality. Playback from the DVD is essentially identical to plugging my 8mm deck into the television directly.

Anyway, I'm trying to avoid the dmconvert step, because as you can imagine, it takes a pretty substantial amount of time, especially since dmconvert is only using one processor. Ideally I'd just copy the .mv straight to my Mac, and have it encode into the DVD format in one step. But I can't seem to find any tool on the OS X side that'll directly read the .mv generated from dmrecord. I don't think it's a codec issue - my understanding is it's simply an SGI format vs. Quicktime format thing. But using dmconvert to merely change formats, as given in man, eg:

Code:

dmconvert -f qt -p video -p audio in.mv out.mov

results in a huge uncompressed movie instead, and with the lengths of video I'm dealing with - are simply too large. Is there something I'm missing? Either a fast way to convert the jpeg compressed .mv file to something my Mac can use, or something on the Mac side that'll read the .mv file directly?

Thanks! I did a bunch of searching for this, but came up short.

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Recording lengths with Octane Compression... at Oct. 26, 2009, 4:54 p.m...

Sigh...I'm sure you guys are sick of my stupid Octane Compression questions!

But here's another one...

I've been successfully capturing 5-10 minute clips without trouble, but last night I tried to record a much longer clip, and without fail it'll get about 15-20 minutes through, and then start dropping every frame from then on. This will happen regardless of the bit rate - I've tried 30Mbit/sec down to 10Mbit/sec, and it always seems to get about 25-35,000 frames through (with no dropped frames) - then drop every single one until I stop dmrecord with a control-c.

I've looked at what's going on with the system once it begins dropping frames, and I can't see anything amiss. The processors are still 98% or so free, plenty of available memory, with no unusual processes happening in the background. I have two 73GB 10K hard drives installed, and it does this when recording to either. The dmrecord syntax I'm using is

Code:

  dmrecord -p video,device=impact,comp=jpeg,engine=impact,brate=30000000 -p audio movie.mv
 

Any ideas?

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of favicon.ico at Oct. 27, 2009, 4:28 p.m...

You guys might need to clear your cache(s).

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Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of name the next zombie to rise from the dead at March 19, 2010, 9:59 a.m...

^^^^ just looking at that thing makes me want to kick my cat.

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Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of name the next zombie to rise from the dead at March 19, 2010, 11:18 a.m...

Oskar45 wrote:

bigD wrote:

^^^^ just looking at that thing makes me want to kick my cat.

Surely, you consider your comment funny, but pray tell me - are you always that cruel? Does your cat know why it got kicked because of your dissatisfaction with this thread, and you are supposingly the master of her world? Maybe you need to get occasionally kicked yourself to understand *her* world properly...

I'm sorry, it was merely a joke. I don't have a cat, and if I did have one, I'd never actually wish any harm to it. I sometimes forget that on the internet, especially on an international board such as this, humor doesn't quite come across as intended! :oops:

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Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Personal IRIS 4D/35, R3K, 72MB at March 20, 2010, 6:34 p.m...

Thanks to joegill, I'm now the proud owner of an Onyx2 - my first foray into the bigger iron! :mrgreen:

Updated: Nodeboard issue is fixed, and this is the hinv with all four procs:

Code:

  hinv -vm
  
  Location: /hw/module/1/slot/n2/node
  
  IP31 Board: barcode KSB235     part 030-1523-001 rev  C
  
  IP31PIMMR12KS Board: barcode KRH967     part 030-1423-002 rev  G
  
  Location: /hw/module/1/slot/n1/node
  
  MODULEID Board: barcode K0008041   part              rev
  
  4P1G5_MPLN Board: barcode DWZ790     part 013-1839-001 rev  D
  
  IP31PIMMR12KS Board: barcode KRS179     part 030-1423-002 rev  G
  
  IP31 Board: barcode KSB793     part 030-1523-001 rev  C
  
  Location: /hw/module/1/slot/io4/kona
  
  GE16-4 Board: barcode MRK641     part 030-1398-002 rev  B
  
  Location: /hw/module/1/slot/io2/pci_xio
  
  PCI-XIO Board: barcode EMR496     part 030-1062-002 rev  C
  
  Location: /hw/module/1/slot/io6/mscsi
  
  MSCSI Board: barcode JJB427     part 030-1243-001 rev  M
  
  Location: /hw/module/1/slot/io5/fibre_channel
  
  FIBRE_CHANNEL Board: barcode KWY962     part 030-0927-004 rev  A
  
  Location: /hw/module/1/slot/io1/baseio
  
  MIO Board: barcode DKN074     part 030-0880-003 rev  D
  
  BASEIO Board: barcode DYZ871     part 030-0734-002 rev  B
  
  Location: /hw/module/1/slot/io3/divo
  
  DIVO Board: barcode DFS459     part 030-1046-002 rev  H
  
  4 400 MHZ IP27 Processors
  
  CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5
  
  FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.5
  
  CPU 0 at Module 1/Slot 2/Slice A: 400 Mhz MIPS R12000 Processor Chip (enabled)
  
  Processor revision: 3.5. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 266 Mhz  Tap 0xa
  
  CPU 1 at Module 1/Slot 2/Slice B: 400 Mhz MIPS R12000 Processor Chip (enabled)
  
  Processor revision: 3.5. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 266 Mhz  Tap 0xa
  
  CPU 2 at Module 1/Slot 1/Slice A: 400 Mhz MIPS R12000 Processor Chip (enabled)
  
  Processor revision: 3.5. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 266 Mhz  Tap 0xa
  
  CPU 3 at Module 1/Slot 1/Slice B: 400 Mhz MIPS R12000 Processor Chip (enabled)
  
  Processor revision: 3.5. Scache: Size 8 MB Speed 266 Mhz  Tap 0xa
  
  Main memory size: 4480 Mbytes
  
  Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
  
  Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
  
  Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes
  
  Memory at Module 1/Slot 82: 3072 MB (enabled)
  
  Bank 0 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 1 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 2 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 3 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 4 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 5 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 6 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 7 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Memory at Module 1/Slot 81: 1408 MB (enabled)
  
  Bank 0 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 1 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 2 contains 256 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 3 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 4 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 5 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 6 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Bank 7 contains 128 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
  
  Integral SCSI controller 3: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
  
  Integral SCSI controller 2: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
  
  Integral SCSI controller 4: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
  
  Integral SCSI controller 5: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), differential
  
  Integral SCSI controller 6: Version Fibre Channel AIC-1160, revision 2
  
  Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
  
  Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
  
  CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 0
  
  Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
  
  Integral SCSI controller 7: Version Fibre Channel AIC-1160, revision 2
  
  IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
  
  IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
  
  IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty3
  
  IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty4
  
  IOC3 parallel port: plp1
  
  Graphics board: InfiniteReality3
  
  Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 1, slot io1, pci 2
  
  Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 7.0, number 1
  
  Origin PCI XIO board, module 1 slot 2: Revision 3
  
  Origin MSCSI board, module 1 slot 6: Revision 4
  
  Origin FIBRE CHANNEL board, module 1 slot 5: Revision 4
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 2
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 3
  
  Origin BASEIO board, module 1 slot 1: Revision 3
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x9004, device 0x1160) PCI slot 0
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x9004, device 0x1160) PCI slot 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 6
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 7
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0002) PCI slot 0
  
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0002) PCI slot 2
  
  IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1
  
  HUB in Module 1/Slot 2: Revision 6 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)
  
  HUB in Module 1/Slot 1: Revision 6 Speed 100.00 Mhz (enabled)
  
  IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n2: Revision 6.156
  
  IP27prom in Module 1/Slot n1: Revision 6.156
  
  IO6prom on Global Master Baseio in Module 1/Slot io2: Revision 6.156

Code:

  ONYX2 2# /usr/gfx/gfxinfo -v
  
  Graphics board 0 is "KONAL" graphics.
  
  Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024
  
  Display has 2 channels
  
  4 GEs (of 4), occmask = 0x0f
  
  4MB external BEF ram, 32bit path
  
  2 RM10 boards (of 2) 1/1/0/0
  
  Texture Memory: 256MB/256MB/-/-
  
  Large pixel depth
  
  32K cmap
  
  GVO option detected
  
  brd: 80f61806 3041606/3041606/-/- f9311002
  
  ge: 0 14832057 24731057 14231057
  
  rm0: 15032057 15431057
  
  4631057 2/2/2/2
  
  4d31057 2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2
  
  4938057 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5
  
  rm1: 15032057 15431057
  
  4631057 2/2/2/2
  
  4d31057 2/2/2/2/2/2/2/2
  
  4938057 5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5/5
  
  dg: 05532057
  
  5838057 1/1/1/1
  
  5631057 0/0
  
  GE:   NIC #:      0000.0059.c6e2 (family: 0b)
  
  Serial #:   MRK641
  
  Part #:     030-1398-002
  
  KT:   No NIC serial number available.
  
  RM0:  NIC #:      0000.0059.b10a (family: 0b)
  
  Serial #:   MHW295
  
  Part #:     030-1402-001
  
  TM0:  NIC #:      0000.0059.9811 (family: 0b)
  
  Serial #:   MHW274
  
  Part #:     030-1588-001
  
  RM1:  NIC #:      0000.005a.0548 (family: 0b)
  
  Serial #:   MJS556
  
  Part #:     030-1402-002
  
  TM1:  NIC #:      0000.005a.125c (family: 0b)
  
  Serial #:   MJS742
  
  Part #:     030-1588-002
  
  RM2:  No NIC serial number available.
  
  TM2:  No NIC serial number available.
  
  RM3:  No NIC serial number available.
  
  TM3:  No NIC serial number available.
  
  BP:   No NIC serial number available.
  
  DG:   NIC #:      0000.0012.8cd6 (family: 0b)
  
  Serial #:   EPE433
  
  Part #:     030-1055-001
  
  DGOPT:NIC #:      0000.001e.3059 (family: 0b)
  
  Serial #:   JKV518
  
  Part #:     030-1184-002
  
  Input Sync: Voltage - Video Level; Source - Internal; Genlocked - False
  
  Channel 0:
  
  Origin = (0,0)
  
  Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 60.00Hz (1280x1024_60.vfo)
  
  Video Format Flags:  (none)
  
  Sync Output(s):
  
  Composite sync on Green
  
  Composite TTL sync on Aux 0
  
  Using Gamma Map 0

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Personal IRIS 4D/35, R3K, 72MB at March 21, 2010, 8:33 p.m...

Oh, and a couple of pictures! My next project is to take all the skins off, clean them, and buff out the scratches. Overall the skins are in great shape, and the machine should clean up nicely.

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan.net operating costs? at March 21, 2010, 11:58 p.m...

I've hosted a board off a business class connection at home, and it's not easy. Users are constantly bitching, back when Cali was doing their rolling brownouts, there was constant worry that the UPSs wouldn't handle it, a power supply would fail, etc etc...

Point is, I know how much of a pain in the ass it is, and I really appreciate it nekonoko . If this site didn't exist, I don't think I'd have any SGI equipment at all. Anytime you're down in Socal, shoot me a PM. Beers are on me!

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Personal IRIS 4D/35, R3K, 72MB at March 22, 2010, 12:25 a.m...

nekonoko wrote:

Great machine - mine started out much the same. It's a lot of fun picking up upgrades

Thanks! I already have a 'Best Offer' out on some RM10s and a GE16-4, but I doubt the seller will go for it.

I've only had this machine two days and it's been a great deal of fun. So many upgrade options, so little time. Oh, and I still need to figure out what to do with the SDI!

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Personal IRIS 4D/35, R3K, 72MB at March 22, 2010, 8:47 a.m...

Thanks all! I'm pretty excited about this. Interestingly, the seller went for my price on the RM10s, but not the GE-16. Doing some searching, it appears that I'll be able to mix the RM10s and my older GE14-4 for the time being - is that correct?

jan-jaap wrote:

Looking good! I see you've got a PCI cage, but it doesn't show in the hinv (XTALK_PCI)? A hacked 3c996b-T card would be a nice addition to get gigabit ethernet on the cheap.

I didn't notice that. Could it be because I don't actually have any PCI cards installed? I'll look into it, and cheap gigabit sounds good to me.

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Personal IRIS 4D/35, R3K, 72MB at March 22, 2010, 9:34 a.m...

Thanks guys. That's good news - I need to let my wallet cool off a bit before I bite the bullet and get a GE16.

And I'll go out and reseat the PCI cage. I've pulled it out once to install a blank cover that was missing, and looking back through my ZTerm logs (my MacBook Pro was my console) from before then, I notice an entry from my initial hinv -v:

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  PCI_XIO IO Board, Module 1, Slot io2
  
  ASIC BRIDGE Rev 3, (widget 11)

I'd guess that's it? I probably just didn't get it completely seated when I reinstalled it.

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Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of To sell whole or part out? at March 23, 2010, 6:25 p.m...

I'd attempt to sell it whole. Just for the hobbyist community's sake, I think it's cooler to see complete systems change hands. But that's a personal thing.

Of course, if that thing had any 500MHz nodeboards, I'd tell you to part it out.

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Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel V10 R14000 600 MHz 2GB at March 24, 2010, 11:06 p.m...

Wow, that's one clean Fuel! Nice!

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Wrote on the subject of Personal IRIS 4D/35, R3K, 72MB at March 27, 2010, 7:18 p.m...

And now thanks to zuluchas, my machine is up to a hair under 4.5GB (from 1.25GB). Also, reseating my PCI card cage worked like a charm.

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Wrote on the subject of Personal IRIS 4D/35, R3K, 72MB at April 6, 2010, 7:37 p.m...

An update - I dropped a pair of RM10s in the machine, which makes it report as IR3, however I still don't have my GE16 yet. So it's kind of like IR2.5.

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Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Onyx2 Deskside, 4xR12K 400MHz, 4.5GB, IR3 at April 6, 2010, 8:04 p.m...

I'm definitely trying - this thing has been great fun! GE16 is next, once my wallet cools off a bit.

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Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of G4 macmini at April 7, 2010, 5:56 p.m...

I had 10.5 running on a 1.5GHz PowerMac G4, and it was fine. I wouldn't call it speedy, but it was very usable, and should be fine given your listed uses. Max out the RAM.

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Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Make a irix install cd from overlays at April 9, 2010, 4:44 p.m...

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ginopilotino wrote: I'm pretty sure I used the scripts to make a .30 overlay with few problems.

Stupid question, and I'm pretty sure the "I have to scp these into my linux desktop to do this, your setup might be different." is the answer, but I assume that the .image files created by the script can be burned on any platform?

I could use a set of .22 overlays....

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Wrote on the subject of Make a irix install cd from overlays at April 10, 2010, 5:03 p.m...

^^^ thank you! I gave this entire process a try today. It appears that even Disk Utility on OS X will burn the resulting images just fine. I did have some trouble with the install on my Indigo2, but I'm not convinced the burn is the problem - I can boot sash, fx the disk, and it gets all the way to the end to the 'copying installation tools' step, but then fails with a block error. The first image of the Overlay set is 721MB - I wonder if the problem is that I'm trying to stuff this onto a 700MB disk. I tried the burn twice, and the verify is okay. I guess the image itself could be bad too.

I'll have to try it all over again tonight.

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Wrote on the subject of Make a irix install cd from overlays at April 11, 2010, 9:44 a.m...

^^^ well, the Disk 1 .tar file from the Supportfolio download is 626.4MB, so I figured there might be some .iso overhead or something on it. Should it be the same size? I'm going to redownload everything and go through the complete process again, just in case I made a mistake somewhere. Fortunately I'm using a newer external CD-ROM drive on my Indigo2, but I'll slow down the burns next time too, just in case.

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Wrote on the subject of Onyx2 deskside IR2E, 2xR14K 500Mhz, 2xR12K 400Mhz, 8GB, DIVO at April 11, 2010, 3:57 p.m...

Didn't the IR demos used to be available online from SGI? Those would be cool to get ahold of.

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Onyx2, 4x400 MHz, IR3 // Origin 300, 4x600MHz
Octane2, 2x400 MHz, V12 // Indigo2, 200 MHz, Extreme

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Wrote on the subject of Dual R10K 225 or single R12K/300? at April 13, 2010, 12:16 p.m...

A couple years back, I 'upgraded' my Octane2 from 1x400MHz to 2x300MHz. I ended up regretting it, based on how I use the machine. Faster compiles and renders are nice, but I found myself getting annoyed that I spent money to worsen my experience for a lot of what I do. I'd keep the 300MHz, overclock it if possible, and wait until you have the cashola for 2x400 or better.

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Wrote on the subject of Make a irix install cd from overlays at April 13, 2010, 1:05 p.m...

canavan wrote: If your ISO is 721MB, you're doing something wrong.

I discovered part of the problem here. Apparently with Snow Leopard, Apple decided to forgo a half century of computer convention and have its OS start telling users that 721,129,472 bytes is 721.1MB. :roll:

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Wrote on the subject of Make a irix install cd from overlays at April 13, 2010, 4:41 p.m...

The tar file for the first Overlay CD as downloaded from SGI is 626,411,520 bytes, or (getting out my calculator because Apple gave my MacBook Pro a lobotomy), 611,730 KB. I have no idea where the fat came from!

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Wrote on the subject of Magic smoke came out of my Sun 3/50 at April 13, 2010, 8:38 p.m...

Yes, you need to get this thing up and running. Sun 68K is sexy, sexy, sexy.

Then run the C-Ray benchmark on it.

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