The collected works of foetz - Page 10

recondas wrote: Indeed - Happy Holidays to all of nekcohan.

foetz wrote: i know it's been a while and i hope i'll have more time for irix again prepared some xmas apps, will post them soon

You contributions have aways been greatly appreciated. Look forward to seeing around more often!

thanks
currently there seems to be a small issue with the ftp but i will 'deliver as promised' as soon as this is solved

josehill wrote:

foetz wrote: for online accounts i only use generated stuff as well as for local services that can be reached from the outside

Hey, foetz, great to see you here again!

Do you use a password manager to "remember" the generated passwords? If so, is there a particular one that you recommend?

much thanks

of course those kinds of passes have to be written somwhere and my intranet db is just the right place for that. it's platform independent and i can access it in all kinds of ways.
currently running with mysql and as simple as possible. looks like that:

just an example but something like that does the job for me

smj wrote: Good looking installation - thanks for sharing the photos and parts list!

indeed. very nice machines and just as nice work. good to see so many mips cuties still in action

Pontus wrote: Hi

Got this from a friend, a lovely music video with and Indy in lead role:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRF68UKTdb8

The nineties videos was the bomb A cheesier decade is hard to find.

i used to listen to that kind of stuff back then. don't judge me
but for some reason i never noticed the irix part

although i'm not around that often currently i wanna wish all old and new nekochaners nice and happy holidays and a great start into the new year

buuuump

diegel wrote: It's in beta now: ftp://ftp.nekoware.de/beta/neko_firefox ... a3.tardist

now that's a great surprise. very cool stuff diegel
i'm still somewhat skeptical about the gcc faster than mips pro builds but firefox3 is different so i'll see soon enough.

this is a great plus for the irix community and it just feels good to see there's still active development for the "original" sgi gear going on!

so i took this cutie for a ride and it was absolutely flawless. big thanks to all involved, i can imagine what a pita it was rigging it for irix.

as for the speed, page rendering did indeed seem faster than my last gtk1 firefox2 mips pro build although gtk2 always feels somewhat sluggish. that's the actual downside for me since i just never liked the looks of gtk2 not to mention that the dialogue windows are twice as slow as their gtk1 counterparts. obviously i never used gtk2 much so there might be config options to change a few thing that i don't know.


bottom line this is a kick ass contribution and a serious gain for any irix user

10 years indeed!! congrats to all of us and to the next 10

i guess most in here are fans of variety; and for many good reasons. but details there would go too far off-topic.
however to bridge both issues the japanese did fortunately not go with the flow so much compared to most other regions and countries. the next nec sx is still scheduled, fujitsu keep running sparc, hitatchi who got quite a number of custom stuff and not to forget sgi japan who always were a bit different.
the fact alone that fujitsu have a big iron sparc in their lobby is a good sign that not everybody and everything get assimilated by ipad/intel/twitter morals. resistance is not futile

btw i got a 73gb fujitsu disk in my server-octane and it's great

it might help if diegel could post the list of what he has installed on his dev machine. only a clean(!) and similar environment can yield proper results.

The radar guy wrote: Many thanks to both of you! I will try tomorrow morning, first thing! By the way, I wish, to set the boot options so that the system can be started from CD-ROM, in other words, I wish to set the boot devices sequence to "CD first - HD second"... I suppose to be able to do that from PROM in the same way as from BIOS on a PC. Am I correct?..

you might wanna change the perspective a bit away from pc conventions. of course you can set the boot path to whatever you like but there're no 2nd or 3rd options which would kick in automatically.
that's not needed either because there's almost nothing that can boot from cd except the os and irix unlike many pc operating systems is made to run and stay; which it does in a way you might not have seen before

hit escape upon starting up and see what is offered there. it doesn't make much sense to "clearify" many things before you've actually seen the basics in action.

The radar guy wrote: my actual need is to find a "live-CD" (running from CD) file manager/partition editor, like Parted Magic or Gparted if you know them, which can run from CD without booting IRIX

for doing what and why?
in general it'd help if you'd tell a little more about what you wanna do with the o2

The radar guy wrote:

for doing what and why?

My company acquired this system as a special OEM configuration many years ago, but they never purchased a "life-long" maintenance/upgrade contract from the supplier, and now we need to perform some modifications in several files, which are "locked-out" due to the original customization. I need to run a file/partition editor without booting IRIX in order to gain full access to all files.

oh so this is a commercial request ...

what i meant by "commercial request" is that the OP gets paid for what he wants help with here for free. in other words he gets the bucks for what we do. unless he's working for free of course
simple question to sort this: is this o2 adventure part of your job you get paid for?

if that's not the case and this is about a voluntarily private/non-profit project i'm wrong and will of course contine helping out.

mhm that sounds fair. it's nothing against you personally but as you can imagine unfortunately there were such incidents in the past.
anyway seems guardian452 provided what you need to know already so good luck

The radar guy wrote: I do have the credentials to access as the root user, and our maintenance technicians too, but they told me that, even in this way, there are some files and menus which stay locked out. Such files and menus were only accessible to the personnel of the equipment manufacturer

that sounds a bit odd. more details about this would help a lot.
to make it short: there is nothing like partition magic or some rescue cd for irix. you can just boot with the installation cd to get full access to the disks which btw is the same you get when using something like the parted magic cd , too. however if you have root already it wouldn't make a difference so the key is to figure out in what way those files are special. as root you have physical access to the files but from what you said i'd assume they're just in some special format you can only read using special software. if that's the case there're nothing you can do.

anyway for now i'd recommend you fire up the o2 and go to those files. then describe everything as detailed as possible. maybe we can find a way around those restrictions.