The collected works of foetz - Page 30

julesr wrote: does anyone have any suggestions for available software that would stress the hardware a bit?

suggestions, sure, have a look at http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/Catalog_of ... X_software

as far as "available" goes that could be a problem. oh and welcome here btw

julesr wrote: I suppose Cray being Cray maybe they'd just acquire the best systems they could even if they didn't need them

isn't that what 98% of all home users do?

robespierre wrote: I would look for Houdini Master, SoftImage 4.0, Lightwave 5.6, and Maya 6.5... they should all work on that machine.

i'd recommend an older softimage and no maya. maya is so fat it even ran sluggish on an r12000 octane. older versions is the keyword here; prisms, wavefront, poweranimator, gig3d etc.. these were made for the indigo

ivelegacy wrote:

guardian452 wrote: I tried out adium and it had no trouble connecting and joining the channel (the latest version 1.5.10)

it joins, it connects, but i can't see any events, also the user list is empty
i know it is working because when i am online a dude i know is able to contact me

btw, i have the mac-port, i think i will emerge a better client

iirc that's normal for adium. after connecting you have to join a channel to actually see something

time to turn my alpha on and hold a minute of silence

smj wrote:

foetz wrote: time to turn my alpha on and hold a minute of silence

Er, for most Alphas you're going to need to have that moment of silence before you turn it on, or after you turn it off...

okay good point

vishnu wrote: Anybody using iptables on their firewall? Any hints on how to hack the config file to let IRC traffic through? All the "simple and obvious" stuff I've tried has done nothing except start blocking my Apache webserver traffic from getting through as well... 0_o

an isolated rule is not enough. iptables and others are rule sets. emphasis on set where the position of each rule matters, too.
you could paste your firewall here; maybe obscuring certain details but without seeing the whole thing all help is just a stab in the dark.

if you don't wanna expose your ruleset in public feel free to send a pm

duck wrote:

foetz wrote: time to turn my alpha on and hold a minute of silence

Turn it on? Why would you ever turn it off?

indeed i don't run it often enough. when it comes to what to use for certain things the sgis usually win but i promise to do better from now on

congrats, pretty much as much indigo as you can get

yeah sun drives should work

SAQ wrote: ECOFF support was installable through IRIX 5.3

coff does run on 5.3 by default. nothing has to be installed. in fact the irix5 kernel still is coff.

gig stuff continued there: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16729441

miod wrote: I'm not 100% sure anymore, but I doubt I am wrong assuming IRIX 4 uses the o32 ABI).

i'm afraid you are. irix4 is coff.

or isn't built to expect an n64 world?

n64 was introduced with irix 6.0.

An n32 vs o32 problem seems more likely so far, though.

not so much, see above.

quick addition to this:

there was an aw_expiry patch available once for 8.5 and 9 in particular. that one fixes most of the serious problems i had however i didn't try it with 6.5.x nor vpro

vishnu wrote: I'm on travel for work so don't have access to the config file (not even I can get into my firewall from the Internet!), but it's pretty simple, the default is to drop everything then I specifically permit a few things through, I thought permitting traffic on the ports that are dedicated to IRC would do it, but noooooooo...

just to be clear: do you just wanna use irc as a client or running an ircd?

a few irc things have changed. if you haven't used smirc for so long it might just not work anymore. you could simply turn the firewall off for a moment and try then. that'll instantly tell where the problem is.

one of these changes for example is that irc servers now require an initial pong after you sent the USER line. older irc programs don't have that.

PowerGraphics wrote: Exists any software for PC Windows that is possible make videoconference with a Inperson running in a Indy?

just read 2 posts above

yeah a pair is great. not running out of spares too soon

hamei is the born salesman

although i also think the ip35/53 models lack the charm of older models i wouldn't call them junk so i'm curious, what's so bad about them?

oh hey, seems i missed it. hamei cracked the 10,000

i'm sorry to hear you had such problems with the o350. as jan-jaap i got mine rather late in 2010 after and because of my forced time out but never had it on around the clock. yet i didn't have problems either and that despite my rather humble customization due to the differently sized 1ghz module.
i ran an o2 for a few years as a server which was fine as well. only after turning it on again several years later i had to re-seat the rams once. fine again since.
as for the fool i can't say anything because i never had one.
only last fall after exactly 20 years of flawless service my extreme gfx bit it and that was the first and only issue i ever had with it. put in another one (thanks to ian) and fine again.
my octanes have been rock solid just as everything that reads ip27 somewhere so all in all at least for the machines i had and knew of i can say reliability has never been an issue.
same goes for my alpha btw. pulled it out of storage a few months ago and fired it up. although it's "only" one of the pc164 models it just worked.

regarding x86 my experiences however were very different. reliability? not by a longshot and tons of "never to be solved" mysteries i gave up on investigating at some point. non-existant hardware diags add to it. since i started running osx there around 2007 a couple of machines just died and i had some of the mentioned mysterious issues along the way. it even fried a monitor once thanks to some crappy gfx drivers and/or card. another example sometimes when i turn it on the network is down; i pull the cable, stuck it back in and then it's fine ... you get the idea, stuff that doesn't fuel (pun intended ) trust much. not to mention the crappy hfs but that's not the hardware's fault so ...

where's the problem guys? ivelegacy wanted to know if you'd also sell a specific part and you don't want to. sorted. as easy as that

hamei wrote: (Try to clean the SCA backplane on your O350 some day, foetz. You will be using some new words )

i did dismantle the whole thing back when i got it because parts were missing at first (i didn't get the system as it is now in one go). no doubt could be better but it wasn't better or worse compared to an indigo2 either. did you ever try to get these metal thingies back on an octane frontplane without having checked how they were on before?

but sure, the ip35 machines were the cheapest of all irix machines and feeling heavy pressure from x86 at the time so don't expect the same level of quality as from systems that went for 4x the bucks

well since this is beyond off topic now anyway i can throw in a dell-adventure i had as well.


i had 3 dells once. new, same model, right from the factory. they were meant to be used for a test case and therefore had to be identical. same parts in there, same bios settings ... all the same. they should run linux for that test so i threw in the (enterprise edition) suse dvd and installed one according to the test specs. despite a little annoyance - the installation crashed without any meaningful output unless acpi was off - the first box was done. i cloned the disk 2 times and booted the other 2. one of the others however didn't wanna run. neither suse nor dell could tell me why and i ended up giving the flawed one back, changed the test environment so that 2 were enough. that whole stunt took about one full workday and time was important in that case. not to mention the additional cost.
so despite having a peecee that was considered top of the line at the time and an enterprise edition linux things just didn't work and neither of the vendors was able to tell why.

this is only one of many similar examples and the reason why i never considered x86 nor linux to be professional gear. the day i get convinced otherwise has yet to come.

guardian452 wrote: What do you call 'professional' gear?

serious stuff that's not targeted at home users i.e. no peecee. machines that don't have "cheap" as their primary objective and that are not made for providing the average joe with some cool toys to be shown off at the weekend's holiday video show
to be more precise things like the nec sx series, superdome, the remains of sun and last but not least the ibm candidates such as the power based machines and mainframes. together with whatever goes well with them; hitachi san, tape robots ... you get the idea.
the term "professional" describes the kind of machine, what and for whom it was made for, with which obectives in mind and so on. that doesn't depend on its age, popularity or commercial success. obviously looking at the different categories in that regard the approaches how to "design" a system from the ground up is very different depending on what it's meant to be in the end.
same goes for software of course, a control system for a power plant has of course very different priorities than an instagram uploader for ios

What you consider 'professional' is what I consider 'hobby toys'.

couldn't be more wrong. see above.

guardian452 wrote:

foetz wrote: a control system for a power plant has of course very different priorities than an instagram uploader for ios

As somebody who has many years of experience developing for very large industrial automation systems, e.x. many racks of RS5000 on up to entire plants running on one system, I now develop for low-volume (100<(units/year)<1000) automotive ECUs using STW . We used to use a delphi controller with matlab toolchain but the licensing terms were too restrictive.

I don't have an instagram account and my IOS stuff is a side project as a low cost alternative for a diagnostic tool.

I can guaran-fucking-tee you that none of that stuff comes from IT vendors such as: "nec sx series, superdome, the remains of sun and last but not least the ibm".

hehe i meant that more general, not that nec is used for power plant systems

jeffwa wrote: it appears to be an engineering model (labeled as such)
...
The one REALLY odd thing is that when I originally booted it up the PROM splash said "SGI Visual Workstation"

might have been a test prom without updated text. cosmetics like that are usually ignored by engr. versions as they don't matter

hamei wrote: In some fields, the software has not advanced in the slightest

and in some cases it actually got worse. some programs got blown up ridiculously which makes the workflow actually worse than on an sgi and the older version. raw number crunching can't compete of course.
on the other hand if you're into coding then most of the time the whole system is idle anyway so for that even an iris4d is fine. assuming of course you don't wanna use some 500mb java based ide or a super-fancy scripting language where the interpreter is fatter than some complete older os

so let me emphasize what the others said already once more: it highly depends on what you wanna do and how

welcome here bushnrvn and congrats on your aquisition

bushnrvn wrote: What am I missing here?

well, the search for example. problems with pre-installed systems are very common because of obvious reasons hence there's been a lot of talk about such cases here. for example:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16724526
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16728465
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16720706
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16722996

these links cover common problems as well as new, clean installations

the syntax is: setmon [options] horizontal x vertical _ refreshrate
so a safe bet would be:

mopar5150 wrote: I live in a place where during the summer it gets to 91 degrees... at 4am.

chicaneuk wrote: It is no wonder that as soon as LCD's became affordable, the CRT died off so quickly. I remember the days of going to LAN parties and having to lug my computer and monitor back and forth and it became excruciating after a while. Not to mention working in IT as computer monitors ramped up quickly from little 12-14" tiddlers, to being regularly 17 or 19" - my poor back.

unfortunately practical and monetary reasons won over quality. especially early lcd's were awful

marius_can_15 wrote: do I have to have a HOME Domain Name Server in order to get in the Net?

no.

and as the others said, you really shouldn't make this one visible to the outside. put it behind a router or something so that it's not reachable from the internet unless you forward something explicitly.
that goes for any box of course unless it's something tight and configured well

mapesdhs wrote: I recently had to stop using my Fuel for internet banking, which was a shame (browser version too old, now blocked
by my bank)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefo ... -switcher/

it's become increasinly difficult to use the Fuel for eBay stuff

yeah ebay got absolutely awful. which is even more ridiculous given that all ebay has to show is a couple of tables. the current ebay site is a nasty example of how to bloat a page up for no reason at all

mapesdhs wrote: just updated an Indigo2 to your builds, diegel

so you're running a gtk2 firefox on an indigo
now that's brave

clearly not painting for the first time

ClassicHasClass wrote: I even got it a ZLXp-E3 video card.

was there any video software for osf? i only remember lightwave for nt or some render slaves for osf

GIJoe wrote: it is a bit of a forgetful one though. make sure you backup the work done with it/save multiple versions. it sometimes just fails to load in old projects. you can always access the layers separately in the filesystem and reimport but it can be a bit of a bummer.

that's a folder issue. just like alias itself it "expects" its special folder structure to be there from where you start it

ClassicHasClass wrote: I don't know if there were any graphic software for OSF/1 nee Tru64, but NetBSD seems to like the ZLXp. wscons flies on it: http://www.floodgap.com/iv/2547

my bad, i took "video card" literally and thought of related applications. quick research revealed it's a regular graphics card

that's on diegel's ftp. although having a typo in the name

the 1 is missing

diegel wrote: No, I don't watch TV. Thats the reason why I have time to build Nekoware packages.

ha good point