The collected works of dc_v01 - Page 3

WolvesOfTheNight wrote:

dc_v01 wrote: Ha! I actually can't stay awake on a flight anymore to save my life, assuming I can get a seat with enough space to get comfortable (at least a premium economy seat).

I envy you. I have been on several overnight flights to/from Chile and the U.S. I got some sleep, but not a nights worth. Of course, I was in economy; I have never had an above economy flight.

I'll fly economy to Europe, which isn't that much farther than CA from the east coast. Otherwise, several non-US carriers offer a premium economy class, which often gives you 80% of business class for a 40% price premium (instead of a 400% price premium). My preferred approach is to upgrade a full-fare economy ticket to business with miles - this is the best use of miles IMO. You get the miles for the economy ticket, which offsets the milelage cost of the upgrade by a lot for me - my flights are usually 20,000+ miles round trip to Asia. Combined with my domestic economy travel, I keep miles in the bank. Unfortunately, over the last few years the airlines are becoming very stingy with the seats they allow as upgrades from economy, at least for advanced booking. If I'm planning less than 6 months ahead, I usually have to resort to a premium economy ticket. Although I've done it in the past, I'm not sure I can survive a 17-24 hour flight (depending on route) anymore in economy.

mattst88 wrote: Do you really have to use Blue fonts?

It all depends on which gun is failing in the 'ol CRT hooked up to the Onyx - gotta be able to see what you're writing.....

edefault wrote:

Those eBay SUN/SGI adapters are SUN adapters. They will only work with SOG monitors on SGI as I described above . If you wish to confirm, use a multimeter and compare the pinout to those for your workstation in the owner's manual on techpubs.sgi.com. Pay particular attention to pins 3, 4, 5 if IIRC on the 13W3. You will find they don't line up with the pinout of a standard VGA 15 pin connector.

As mentioned above, this is true in general, but: SGI Indigo2 machines *do* put out Hsync/Vsync as well as RGB/SOG,
so it is possible to connect them to non-SOG monitors without any additional hardware, solely by correct wiring.
I don't know if there were variants in the Indigo2 family, mine all were of the R10k Impact type.
These worked fine on Eizo FlexScan L985EX monitors, which are - AFAIK - not capable to synchronize on green.

I got two working 13W3-to-HDSUB25 cables here and am willing to let go for shipment costs if someone wants one.

edefault, I think you need to read my post carefully above - we are actually in agreement in principle . I have for years been trying to clarify and post info here on neckochan on why you don't need SOG monitors with SGIs - every system since the Indigo has put out proper H/V sync somewhere. In fact, I am quite sure that a number of posts about "SOG capable" monitors have been made, solely because the mointor works with an SGI, when the posters are actually using proper SGI 13W3 adapters, routing the H/V sync, and there is no way to tell with those adapters if it is using the SOG signal or not!

The el-cheapo SUN/SGI adapters sold on eBay are NOT proper SGI adapters, because they do NOT route the H/V sync for an SGI , and you will need to have a SOG monitor. They were made for SUNs. I'm not saying the SGI doesn't produce H/V sync, I'm saying those adapters do not route/send the signals to the proper pins on the VGA HD15 connector. Read my post about pins 3,4,5 - those are the SGI sync pins, 4 and 5 are H/V sync. SUN uses different pins, so an adapter cannot be both a SUN and an SGI adapter simultaneously (I neglect some expensive adapters that have DIP switches to set the pinouts - thanks recondas for pointing this out!). If your 13W3 routes pins 4 and 5 to pins 13 and 14 on the HD15, you have an SGI adapter. If not, it is probably a SUN or other (IBM, etc.) adapter. Unfortunately SUN adapters are much more common, due to sales volume. It is much harder to find a proper SGI adapter. SUN adapters can be made to work with SOG monitors as described earlier, because you don't need the H/V signals routed and can rely on just the 3 coaxial connections. Or you can break out the soldering iron, as you did, but that's more complicated for a lot of people.

cinenate35 wrote: Everything I read was SOG or TFB. This should be noted somewhere in a sticky post or something.

PymbleSoftware added info from one of our previous threads to the wiki:
http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/13w3_to_VGA

nuts wrote: I have a LG L222WS plugged by vga with an adaptator. It works fine in 1680x1050 with a MGRAS video card (on IRIX only for the moment)

I'm never sure what posts like this really mean. What kind of adapter? An SGI 13W3 adapter? So, no SOG is required, and we simply know that the monitor is tolerant? Or are you using a modded SUN 13W3 adapter or similar, and are saying that the monitor is capable of SOG?

Without more info on what the wiring is internally on the adapter, it is hard to make anything out of this...

skywriter wrote: Ian, in all that where does Windows have an advantage?

Nothing in anything you listed, but perhaps he's simply making reference to the controller/drive manufacturers making utilities available to erase/refresh the drives even when the operating system doesn't natively support TRIM, such as Windows XP - I've only seen them for Windows myself.

In my own case, I run a trim supported drive under XP but can't use any of the utilities because they don't support the SATA drivers on my system. After using it for about a year, I'm sure it's a prime candidate for slowdown and any artificial benchmark would show a big hit. But I don't notice it with my typical usage, and it's still many times faster than when it ran with a mechanical disk - so I don't care. This is a disk that was supposted to be good in that regard (Vertex - one reason I purchased this model), but I'm guessing I'd feel similarly with an equally capable disk under IRIX.

eMGee wrote: The reason I was so surprised to see a Zip-drive is because they're so dog-slow, even back in the day.

When Zip drives were introduced, SCSI versions were not dog slow. They blew away comparable CD-R technology in speed, although the capacity was lower. Parallel port Zip drives, OTOH, should never have existed, they were dog slow and gave Zip drives a bad name. Sometimes an order of magnitude difference in speed.

josehill wrote: I agree. 100 Mbit usually does fine for file share/transfer. It's not the speediest, but then again, the machine itself is not the speediest.

My employer's network is 100Mbit. Windows Domain, CAD share, everything.

ramq wrote: Speaking from own experience, neither one of the ReadyNAS products are anywhere near speedy.

The NV+ mentioned is an old system, and is slow. Current ReadyNAS products are over 100MB/sec on Gigabit LAN.

Dr.Dave wrote: Once you set up a real fileserver and go the NFS route, you really don't care. A little Atom board with gigabit and PCIE, and you're cooking. You just plug the USB mass storage device there and mount away remotely.

I think the ease of use/user experience of the NAS devices make them worth it for a lot of folks, doing all of the above and more. Yes, my Synology is a bit slower (60MB/sec for RAID5) but I don't find it a pain -certainly it's faster than the local drives on the SGIs!