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diegel wrote: This is one of our terminal servers, we are using for remote console login:

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terminal2 uptime is 10 years, 44 weeks, 6 days, 13 hours, 14 minutes


Sweet, hard to beat embedded systems... However, I've noted some that reboot (silently on their own) quite frequently. Poor man's QC?

Hah, that's nothing.

Try sending something from here to anywhere.



The times I've had occasion to look at pricing for shipping stuff from here, the lowest rate any of the big-name companies have come is 200 euros. My only option is the formerly-government post. This is fortunately fairly cheap, but of course they don't let you ship lithium batteries because um, er, something once caught fire. So I tend to send those separately in an envelope.

An odd game, the only move is not to play

ISTR that (various versions of) Windows default to mounting with the special UID/GID combo of -2/-2 which NFS usually translates to the "nobody" user and group. Naturally "sensitive" directories like homedirs and suchlike are not accessible by the special nobody user.
In versions before Windows 7 SFU you could set up user and group mappings in a file; not so with 7 and 8. It's either the ten-ton gorilla of ActiveDirectory or edit the registry manually to change the defaults. The registry paths are readily googled and I CBA to do it for you at the moment.

If I may diverge from the food discussion, there's also the gray area of online fan translated manga.
The publishers apparenly don't care about it because their target is only japan. But do support the mangaka making these awesome works by buying their work if you are able.

Up here it's practically impossible, the only decent source I know is in sweden (the famous science fiction bokhandeln)

smj wrote: They were just using food as a vehicle for Pulp Fiction quotes. Much as people use french fries/pommes frites/frieten as a vehicle for salt and ketchup, mayonnaise, etc.

Well it did morph into mayonnaise-tastes-good after that.

smj wrote:

duck wrote: science fiction bokhandeln

For a brief moment I hoped this might have been a real-world inspiration for the movie Astrópía , but it looks very serious in comparison - which that movie definitely is not... (Not to mention being off by ~2,000 km).

I'm not sure how you made that connection, but the movie looks somewhat interesting...

Oh for FSM's sake, that logo

smj wrote:

duck wrote: I'm not sure how you made that connection, but the movie looks somewhat interesting...

The movie is very silly, but fun in a low-budget way. As for making the connection - probably requires large quantities of beer and having no memory at all of where the movie was set...

While we're on weak connections, I recently read a fun manga about a guy who just started a job at a manga store... Denkigai no Honya-san is the romanized name.

Running things once at a specific time is the job of 'at'. It might be too oldeyworldey to be fit to exist on such a modern thing as a mac though.

robespierre wrote: You can write a shell script that calls pmset(1) and then "chmod 4755" the script.
something like
#!/bin/sh
pmset schedule sleep "$1 $2"

then "chown root" the script.

chown before chmod, or the suid bit will be stripped*

*) this possibly does not happen on some platforms

Looks to me like you're doing it right. You may have faulty hardware, perhaps you could try the extended test in the PROM.

nongrato wrote:

duck wrote: You may have faulty hardware, perhaps you could try the extended test in the PROM.

well, this could be a HW failure, but i got this machine with a working system installed. "kind of working" - looks like a sys admin who maintained this machine did everything to make the system impossible for normal use: the toolchest was a mess, a lot of features were locked or removed, the system did not save workspace settings etc. I still have a backup image for any case, but i want a fresh system.

How do i run those extended tests? is it "Run diagnostics" in the PROM main menu? I did it several times, it says "tests completed". How can i see a detailed output?

Sorry for being unclear, that was what I meant.

Searching for cause 0x8<CE on the forum yields some posts though: first hit with a link to this thread which suggests a graphics board issue.

If you have a serial console or cable, you could try to boot up without the graphics.

nongrato wrote: wow..

i dunno what happenned.. i removed the graphics board, disassembled it, replaced the thermal grease on every chip, reseated TRAM modules, and reinstalled the system again.. and.. that worked! now i have a new shiny IRIX!

thank you, Staffan! your help is highly appreciated!

Wow, that sounds a bit extreme, just reseating may well have fixed it. I'm happy you got it to work though!

The package is named "demos" and installs to /usr/demos, I got mine from the Applications, June 1998 CD.

I have, either through my allergy to memorize-first schooling and/or immaturity at the time(still?) not got an education, but I can type pretty fast.

Oskar45 wrote:

duck wrote: [...]but I can type pretty fast.

Wow, could you type a Perl script as fast too?

Sounds like a web app in the making there. Code speed.

guardian452 wrote: And no, I believe in as much shameless advertising/plugging as possible.
http://www.zenith-motors.com

Ooh, the logo is just like Zorglub's!

Since the only issue is the pixel clock, it's possible to tweak the other parameters of the graphics mode to work around the issue to fit your particular display, say by underclocking the framerate, using different values for the front and back porch or the top and bottom margins (I forgot the proper names) to get a total clock value outside the bad zone. SGI graphics are wonderfully flexible it this regard (but the writing of a graphics mode can be quite daunting). Perhaps using recondas' EDID fill-in-the-values-here vfs as a base would be an idea.

You're thinking of the PALcode and yes, the PC164:s do have both the UNIX and VMS specific ones in firmware. It should be ready to just rock & roll.
AlphaBIOS is an SRM replacement intended to facilitate booting Windows NT I believe. I never really looked at it.

Afterthoughts:

Since your machine is running Windows NT, you'll likely need to flash it with the SRM ROM, but this I've never done so I don't know how that works. Presumably you put the right ROM on a floppy and tell AlphaBOIS to update from it. Manuals for the machines still exist on the HP ftps... somewhere. (time passes) I dug out the manuals I've saved and put them here for you: http://duck.at.shangtai.net/files/Alpha/ . Looking at it the "pc164srmcons" PDF actually tells you how to switch, so there you go

The AlphaBIOS ROMs are named " xx 164nt.rom" where xx is pc, sx or lx for the approriate system, while the SRM ROMs files are called " xx 164srm.rom". Alas I only kept a couple of ROM files for SRM for my AlphaPC (no suffix) so I can't help you with that. They were distributed in ZIP files, the AlphaBIOS ones I found here are named "AB566-F.ZIP" (AlphaBIOS firmware for the SX) and "AB5561-E.ZIP" (AlphaBIOS firmware for LX)... I don't seem to have kept the zip files for SRM. (Hm, AB probably stands for AlphaBIOS and 566 sounds like the version, 5.66)

With SRM the process is very simple, just put a fat-formatted floppy in the drive with the files fwupdate.exe and the ROM file and run "fwupdate" from the >>> prompt. There's also a failsafe if you manage to screw things up that you can access by shorting a jumper on the motherboard, it will then flash the firmware off a floppy when powered on (well, IIRC, I've done it once ) and then you have to remove the jumper and reboot.

Gotta run, hope it works out. The AlphaPC is a fun little machine with surprising capability (I'm continually surprised how responsive mine is under load).

Indeed, Adaptec 2940/3940/3950 are not supported by SRM, I didn't even know AlphaBIOS supported them.

The ones I know are seen in SRM is the venerable 53c810a and reputedly some later NCR models (somehow I'm remembering 53c895, but I wouldn't bet money on that working) as well as ISP1020 and 1040 but not the 1080. (Faster SCSI boards will work if your OS supports them, though ISTR problems with using the 64-bit PCI slots, with the ISP1080 in particular)

miod wrote:

duck wrote: Indeed, Adaptec 2940/3940/3950 are not supported by SRM

*some* are. These are the `U' and `W' cards (e.g. my 164LX boots with SRM off a 2940U). On the other hands, the `U2' cards are not recognized by SRM.

Oho, something new to learn every day. Or old in this case.

ClassicHasClass wrote: I'm actually one of those nuts who runs their own mail server. I'll never go back.

I'm in this camp. *strokes beard*

Having your home server go offline isn't a problem anyway, because mail sending gets retried if it can't be delivered. This is the basis of graylisting, if you recall.

robespierre wrote: forget cyrus, look at dovecot.

dovecot 1.x was small, light and nice; it has lately unfortunately gone rather bloated. (though there's to my knowledge no better alternative) :-/

Suddenly I hear Johnny Cash in my head.

I would guess it's a problem decoding a frame rather than outputting it to the screen though. The actual error message and surrounding messages (more -v for verbose perhaps) is usually useful when asking for advice, and possibly a link to the source media (or snippet exhibiting the same symptoms).

Not that I have much clue about mplayer, but "Error While Decoding Frame" seems to me like reporting "*** Error code 1" from make output.

*wipes drool* Sorry, I have no funds available at all.

Hmm, to me this smells like someone is exploiting a bug in IOS' domain lookup. Remember those ?

Edit: changed it so your browser's wont preemptively load that site if it actually exists.

Only on two cases:

The specific: If you use a bash script for CGI
The general: If you've replaced /bin/sh with bash

I'll add that the exploit-tests I've seen in my logs are using ping to test if it works; ours is in /usr/etc and AIUI that's not in the default path so even if you're vulnerable it wouldn't trigger the scriptkiddies at least.

robespierre wrote:

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$ sudo -s
# chmod -x /bin/bash
# ln -f /bin/ksh /bin/sh

fuggeddaboutit....

On linux this will likely break things badly. Remember that these kids have been thinking that sh = bash since they first licked a beige box.

VenomousPinecone wrote: Whaddya' mean? that's not what the floppy drive is for? All these years of my life spent in confusion.

French-kissing floppy drives is a thing I hadn't yet imagined, but alas it is now quite hard to forget.

foetz wrote:

robespierre wrote:

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# ln -f /bin/ksh /bin/sh

i did the same on osx but with zsh. might work for linux, too

That might work better, and osx probably has less of a dependency on it wrt. system scripts.

AIUI, OS9 (and the ones before) had cooperative multitasking, and thus if an app was doin' stuff, another couldn't before the first one let it. I doubt there even was multithreading there...

chicaneuk wrote: Really must get some SGI mugs made up. If only I could find the damn old and new type fonts somewhere - they seem extremely elusive

Surely the proper way is to pull the logo bitmaps out of the PROM.

I'll toss in another vote for Fractal Design, I got an Arc Midi R2 last time I upgraded and it was quite lovely to build in.

As we're talking about our favourite shells, I used to be a zsh adherent after abandoning linux, but I've recently gone to pdksh and feel quite comfortable. zsh went out the door when they started doing "easy install" things on first login.

foetz wrote:

duck wrote: zsh went out the door when they started doing "easy install" things on first login.

jus stick to an older version then

Hah, yes! Suggested in this of all threads

foetz wrote:

duck wrote: Hah, yes! Suggested in this of all threads

hehe, no prob if it's not your webserver unless you have other users on it you don't trust. given that the zsh version you like does have nasty security issues at all

Of course. It's not like it's replacing sh.

It's fairly commonly done (IRIX uses a bunch of different variables, LD_LIBRARY_PATH for O32, LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH for N32 and LD_LIBRARY64_PATH for N64 libraries)

For myself, it's more of a surprise that solaris has some issue with it. Care to elaborate on why? (I am not very familiar with Sun/Oracle)

That headline font looks awfully apple-y.