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Wrote on the subject of my first port: gXipmsg at April 20, 2013, 1:43 p.m...

geo wrote: this is using motif and using raw tcpip protocol, so no need to install anything.. a standard UNIX with motif already can run this app

exactly that's why i like it and things like this. no bloated blinking toy but just exactly what's needed. ideal

please feel free to comment for any future feature you like

oh you can count on that

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Wrote on the subject of Old Alias and Wavefront apps screenshots... at April 20, 2013, 6:26 p.m...

here we have the motion sampler in version 3

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Wrote on the subject of Thinking about starting a collection at April 22, 2013, 1:20 p.m...

how about a cut and a rewind so Feelies gets a nice start here

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Wrote on the subject of Thinking about starting a collection at April 24, 2013, 1:53 p.m...

the nice thing is on irix you can have both. the sgi desktop or cde ... however you feel

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Wrote on the subject of Thinking about starting a collection at April 24, 2013, 11:56 p.m...

hehe yeah i guess most people wouldn't choose cde with irix but some multi platform installations used it to keep it uniform across different unix systems.

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Wrote on the subject of Thinking about starting a collection at April 25, 2013, 12:59 p.m...

haha true i remember running kde version 1 for testing purposes on the alpha. it sucked

cde was okay tho. especially with those extra buttons the sun keyboards had it was quite neat to use. that's actually the only good thing i remember from using solaris on the desktop

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Wrote on the subject of What's the fair price for V12 ? at April 25, 2013, 1:08 p.m...

indeed, here is the original hinv thread viewtopic.php?t=8366
looks like Oskar45 was the first to enjoy that sort of v12

anyway i can't complain and didn't notice any curious behavior so far. maybe it just was an early model ...

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Wrote on the subject of Wavefront Composer 3.0 - Article at April 25, 2013, 1:12 p.m...

just found this one and can only second what the 2 guys above said. great & thanks

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Wrote on the subject of Flint Videoeditor Scan at April 25, 2013, 1:14 p.m...

flame is the bigger brother of flint so nothing new to learn there. it just has more stuff than flint but usage and all is the same.

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Wrote on the subject of What's the fair price for V12 ? at April 26, 2013, 10:45 a.m...

ah yeah i'll dump the prom but might need someone else to "translate" it

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Wrote on the subject of 5 to 6.5 porting / xlib at April 26, 2013, 8:08 p.m...

yes unfortunately the source is not available anymore but it's not stripped so i was able to trace it down to at least some extend. i'll check my records and post what i got tomorrow ...

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Wrote on the subject of Flint Videoeditor Scan at April 26, 2013, 8:14 p.m...

mrbob wrote:

running flint with 64megs of ram sucked

anyway i wasn't able to find either flint or inferno on autocrap's site anymore. only flame and smoke.
however instead they seem to offer advanced versions of both products with more features.

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Wrote on the subject of Old Alias and Wavefront apps screenshots... at April 26, 2013, 10:26 p.m...

you might wanna check this out: http://vimeo.com/8431194

Alias Siggraph Stagereel from 1994 presenting v6

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Wrote on the subject of Maxwell at April 27, 2013, 12:29 p.m...

try:

Code:

bool mx_str_find(char *haystack, char *needle, int &start, bool match_case)

then check for the function calls and make sure you always specify match_case because now we don't have the default to TRUE anymore

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Wrote on the subject of 5 to 6.5 porting / xlib at April 27, 2013, 12:39 p.m...

here we go:

Code:

  int  _XFlushInt(<stripped>) ["XlibInt.c":648]
  
  int  _XFlush(<stripped>) ["XlibInt.c":591]
  
  int  XSetWindowBorderWidth(<stripped>) ["BdrWidth.c":42]
  
  Core from signal SIGBUS: Bus error

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel V10 EEPROM 'disassembly' at April 27, 2013, 1:34 p.m...

coming from viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16725878&p=7359377#p7359377 here's the dump of my "exotic" v12:

Code: Select all


   ODYSSEY (CH)
   

   00 20 00 01 00 00 00 df
   

   ODYSSEY (CIA), no data available (1)
   

   ODYSSEY (BIA)
   

   00 09 00 33 3d 43 c9 43 45 4c 45 53 54 49 43 41
   

   c6 41 53 54 4f 44 59 c6 4d 4d 50 32 38 33 cc 30
   

   33 30 5f 31 39 39 36 5f 30 30 31 00 c2 5f 41 01
   

   02 c2 30 30 c1 00 00 00 c7 04 00 00 28 bb 04 00
   

   00 00 02 04 00 00 11 6f
   

   ODYSSEY (PIA), no data available (1)
   

   ODYSSEY (IUA)
   

   00 03 33 01 01 01 01 04 01 06 03 00 09 02 0f 01
   

   13 01 16 01 19 01 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 03 01
   

   01 20 07 01 05 ff 00 ff 04 42 01 01 00 20 03 00
   

   01 02 01 4f 00 01 4f f2

translators welcome

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Wrote on the subject of Maxwell at April 27, 2013, 4:58 p.m...

from http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manu ... emmem.html

Quote:

This function is missing on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 5.2.1, OpenBSD 4.0, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 4.3.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.

hehe they might rather list where it's not missing

why do people use stuff that's not available anywhere?

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Wrote on the subject of 5 to 6.5 porting / xlib at April 27, 2013, 5:02 p.m...

thanks that makes sense so not much hope for this one i guess ... :-/

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Wrote on the subject of Maxwell at April 27, 2013, 5:40 p.m...

sure go on, would be a nice addition for sure

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Wrote on the subject of 5 to 6.5 porting / xlib at April 28, 2013, 12:38 p.m...

okay i went ahead and removed some affected function calls but it never seems to end. pretty much the whole menu thingy is incompatible. no dice here ...

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Wrote on the subject of 5 to 6.5 porting / xlib at April 28, 2013, 5:08 p.m...

well it's where the first crash happens. however as mentioned a lot of x functions seem to crash it so maybe it's something else?
the rest of the window shows up just fine tho. it's the menus in particular.

maybe it's not the irix version but the gfx card. mgras and vpro have the same issues so i assumed it was irix. gonna try on an ir2 ...

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Wrote on the subject of 5 to 6.5 porting / xlib at April 28, 2013, 6:41 p.m...

just tried with an ir2 and it runs just fine

so it's indeed the gfx card.

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Wrote on the subject of 5 to 6.5 porting / xlib at April 28, 2013, 7:25 p.m...

vishnu wrote:

Nice to have options! 8-)

yes and no hehe. unfortunately the onyx is just too loud for longer, serious sessions so i guess i'll either put the old app back onto the shelf or run it on the indigo2. however r4400 and extreme gfx might be not as much fun as the r12000 ir2 onyx

hmm maybe i should upgrade the indigo to r10000 and impact. some models could do that iirc just not sure anymore on what it depended ...

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Wrote on the subject of Maxwell at April 28, 2013, 8:38 p.m...

how about a dummy script doing nothing named ranlib?

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Wrote on the subject of some free and interesting Irix programs at April 29, 2013, 1:40 a.m...

great, nasa custom stuff

pity tho, except for one they don't seem to list any of the unix version on the download page

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Wrote on the subject of indigo2 ram at April 29, 2013, 8:24 p.m...

looks like i could use some more indigo2 ram. the more the better except the big modules because it should work with an r4400 as well.

i'm open for everything

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX Desktop Update – April-2013 at April 30, 2013, 6:01 p.m...

fantastic

what would be required from the guys joining the team?

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Wrote on the subject of gcc 4.7 and gdb 6.3 problem at May 4, 2013, 1:55 a.m...

did you set a breakpoint? if yes how?

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Wrote on the subject of Motif and MWM at May 4, 2013, 6:53 p.m...

seeing cde, motif and all that on a linux pc feels like blasphemy

my personal taste of course, maybe it can be used for something nice but i don't wanna see some ipod kiddies making it more "modern" :evil:

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Wrote on the subject of Motif and MWM at May 5, 2013, 4:54 a.m...

vishnu wrote:

I think all the attention deficit disorder kiddies are hacking on Gnome. It's the only explanation that makes sense... :lol:

haha good for motif then

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel - System disk patition at May 5, 2013, 5 a.m...

Mark_G wrote:

I only want to know why IRIX made this partition

irix doesn't create any partitions. that's up to you before starting the installation. the first post there has details: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11322&p=7348669

in addition to that i'd recommend before leaving fx to resize swap and sync the label.

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Wrote on the subject of gcc 4.7 and gdb 6.3 problem at May 5, 2013, 12:07 p.m...

alternatively you could just use "disas" on main and set an explicit breakpoint

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Wrote on the subject of Motif and MWM at May 5, 2013, 12:13 p.m...

jwp wrote:

He was totally uninterested in new GUI environments, and said that he doesn't feel that he is missing out on anything.

exactly that's the point. at some point a product is good. everything that comes after makes it worse but the majority always look for "new" and "modern" no matter what actually has been changed.
if people could overcome the "hey look i got the new version" ego needs we could make some actual progress ...

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Wrote on the subject of gcc 4.7 and gdb 6.3 problem at May 6, 2013, 3:27 a.m...

well gnu for everything but x86 is only the cheap alternative in most cases. having glitches like this is quite common

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Wrote on the subject of pricelist scan at May 6, 2013, 5:31 a.m...

the dds4 is cute

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Wrote on the subject of Motif and MWM at May 7, 2013, 9:50 a.m...

jwp wrote:

it comes down to what is currently fashionable.
...
On a positive note, we can still tune most of it out and stick with some consistent environments like MWM and FVWM...

that's the problem because for linux/bsd the app support is too poor on the desktop. so the only compromise is osx which is totally ruled by fashion as you called it.
on the desktop these days there's no separation between pro and private use which leads to everything being toyed up beyond recognition.

fortunately things change fast in the IT business so there's hope

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Wrote on the subject of [Onyx2] Warning: cannot initialize primary network interface at May 8, 2013, 3:35 p.m...

i guess you don't have any installed disk at hand to test both nics?

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Wrote on the subject of [Onyx2] Warning: cannot initialize primary network interface at May 8, 2013, 4:11 p.m...

not necessarily. sometimes small stuff gets through, or small packet sizes or ... you get the idea. the point is that nics are sometimes not either dead or not but something in between. same goes for switches btw. so that's also worth a check ...

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Wrote on the subject of [Onyx2] Warning: cannot initialize primary network interface at May 9, 2013, 1:58 a.m...

just in case, how about trying a different irix version?
and for the record, i take it your netboot setup is proven? meaning that it worked before?

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Wrote on the subject of [Onyx2] Warning: cannot initialize primary network interface at May 9, 2013, 6:45 a.m...

Code:

Obtaining //janek/unix from server ripley

usually it's unix.IP27 but i guess you renamed them or so?

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