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Wrote on the subject of setihome@enhanced for Irix ? at April 2, 2006, 12:47 p.m...
ulenz wrote: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_th ... p?id=10887

Lars Bausch ("dotsch") is the developer for HP-UX. It may be that he could give you some advice to handle the code. I am testing his version on HP C 3600 PA-RISC which runs fine. :D


thanks but to be honest i'm not very keen on doing the developer's work.
their focus seems clear and so is the code :D
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Wrote on the subject of setihome@enhanced for Irix ? at April 4, 2006, 12:41 p.m...
ulenz wrote: When will you succeed in compiling a working client ?


as soon as the code is cleaned and works with 'real' compilers (i.e. not gcc-only).
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Wrote on the subject of setihome@enhanced for Irix ? at April 4, 2006, 3:47 p.m...
kshuff wrote:
foetz wrote: as soon as the code is cleaned and works with 'real' compilers (i.e. not gcc-only).


Are you going to start holding your breath now?


well it's just a seti mod. iirc there is a working seti version for irix in another thread here so no real problem either way.
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Wrote on the subject of Pixar/Steve Jobs, Octane promotional vid. at April 5, 2006, 7:48 a.m...
milatchi wrote: I just ran across this while scouring YouTube. I don't know if it's oldhat or something someone might find interesting.
Anyway:

Steve Jobs - Silicon Graphics


thanks.
any hint how to download it?
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Wrote on the subject of shake it, baby! at April 23, 2006, 4:57 p.m...
nice :D
gonna try it later. maybe the gui won't suck so badly afterwards :D
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Wrote on the subject of shake it, baby! at April 24, 2006, 9:18 a.m...
lewis wrote: Well currently my Wacom on Irix goes totally to shit if I leave the pointer in one place for more than a second. Lifting the pen off makes it better but BOY is it annoying :)

I'm not really a Shake guy so I'm unlikely to be making an icon set but I did make one for Flame which you can see/get here: http://www.fxguide.com/postlite1645-batch+icon.html


now that's nice :P
must visit fxguide's forum more often again :D
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Wrote on the subject of shake it, baby! at April 24, 2006, 11:12 a.m...
GIJoe wrote: here are a few shake-interface related tips that i dug out since i just set it up on a new box. this should all work on shake 3.x and possibly earlier versions. not tested on 4:

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sys.hardwareType = 1;
to speed up interface redraw. originally intended for the infamous sgi slow2, this even makes a difference on a fast dual opteron box, yet it still looks nice.


applied that and it's terrific :P
i should have read the customizations docs years ago :lol: :lol:

thanks anyway
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Wrote on the subject of shake it, baby! at April 25, 2006, 3:38 p.m...
sum][one wrote: I usually run shake with "-gui 1" argument .... it loads shake with the tremor interface which i find really much better for 16:9 or 2k format..

thanks for the others tricks.. i'll try 'em on shake 4 later on my linux box.

cheers.


yes, tremor gui is nice as well but the hardware=1 setting is like triple the speed :D
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Wrote on the subject of using 'sar' to get memory statistics at April 28, 2006, 11:02 a.m...
dj wrote: echo "scale=10;"`sar -f sar.data -R | tail -1 | awk '{print $4}'`"*16384/1048576" | bc


that's neat.
thanks as well.
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Wrote on the subject of Seti Enhanced at May 21, 2006, 2:43 p.m...
kshuff wrote: Ok, since their not sending out any regular work units anymore, and my SGI's are sitting idle again, anyone have an Enhanced client working??


i tried to compile it some time ago but the code really sucked :D
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Wrote on the subject of Seti Enhanced at May 26, 2006, 10:25 a.m...
ulenz wrote: Well, guys, let's face it: Irix is out of the game as far as distributed computing is concerned. Rest in peace ! :cry:


no reason for making crappy code anyway.
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Wrote on the subject of The MOD/M.O.D. (Magneto Optical Drive) IRIX FAQ at May 29, 2006, 3:03 p.m...
very good description. thanks :D
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Wrote on the subject of The MOD/M.O.D. (Magneto Optical Drive) IRIX FAQ at May 30, 2006, 1:58 p.m...
indeed. regarding reliability mo disks are hard to beat.
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Wrote on the subject of Barco Creator at July 14, 2006, 1:55 p.m...
cool, a real classic.
could you comapre it with studiopaint?
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Wrote on the subject of Remote Discreet app over X11? at July 17, 2006, 8:07 a.m...
anyway i can't help this idea makes me feel sick :D
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Wrote on the subject of A mysterious shut-down... at Aug. 1, 2006, 11:06 a.m...
hamei wrote:
zafunk wrote: Hmm.... well, only time will tell. So far, turning the monitoring off has saved me, but I may have to get a new mobo eventually :(

Going on two years now here .... if it finally dies it'll go into the scrapper. The Fuel just isn't that great a computer to spend SGI's version of money on.


yes, sadly the fuel was more sort of a mips-pc like the alpha-pc those days or the 604e based ibms.
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Wrote on the subject of Problem with login window at Aug. 4, 2006, 7:41 p.m...
zafunk is right that's the way to go. it has to work :D
you could also try to go through the 'improve system security' menu within the system manager. iirc it should appear there as well.
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Wrote on the subject of Problem with login window at Aug. 9, 2006, 7:48 a.m...
discreets turn 'visuallogin' and 'desktop' off.
anyhow 'desktop' doesn't affect the login screen.

can also be a messed up config file but it's hard to say from outside.
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Wrote on the subject of What's new in 6.5.30 at Aug. 13, 2006, 1:20 p.m...
29 has some neat new xfs features. but be sure to install the quota patch :D
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Wrote on the subject of What's new in 6.5.30 at Aug. 13, 2006, 7:10 p.m...
josehill wrote: IRIX 6.5.x has been getting regular upgrades since 1998 -- it's a very mature platform.

Of course, it has some serious gaps in a few areas like USB


who cares? oh and there are usb keyboards and mice :D

, Firewire


dm10.

, the desktop GUI


what's wrong with the dekstop? it's perfect! productivity oriented, very fast, slim, not overloaded, stable ... it's just not a toy like desktop today. but exactly this is one of the major pros at least for me.
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Wrote on the subject of What's new in 6.5.30 at Aug. 14, 2006, 6:33 a.m...
jan-jaap wrote:
foetz wrote:
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, Firewire


dm10.


Yeah, right.

I've got a DM10 (actually, a red adaptec) in my O2. Recently, I got myself a LaCie d2 Extreme 500GB disk with firewire, and for kicks I plugged it into the O2 -- BLAM instant kernel crash. Oops, I guess it wasn't hot-pluggable. Restart with the firewire disk connected, and it seemed to be fine -- until halfway through a 'diskperf' run -- BLAM another kernel crash. OK, I get it, that's enough punishment for me -- disk goes back to server backup duty (what I bought it for in the first place).


well if you didn't try the 'real' dm10 you can't complain about anything.

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Wrote on the subject of What's new in 6.5.30 at Aug. 14, 2006, 6:36 a.m...
josehill wrote:
foetz wrote:
josehill wrote:
Of course, it has some serious gaps in a few areas like USB

who cares? oh and there are usb keyboards and mice :D

I do, a little bit. :wink:

It would be nice to be able to buy a common USB2 card, slap it into any PCI SGI box (like an O2, or even an O2K, not just the more recent machines), and then connect one or two $250 500 GB USB2 drives and have them work without having to sacrifice a goat first, rather than pay the same amount for a 73 GB SCA drive.


sure but that's not what the typical sgi customer cares about and i'm happy about this.

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I prefer using SCSI drives for servers and critical applications, but for certain uses, it would be great to have a reasonable, cheap USB storage option, especially on older hardware.

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, Firewire

dm10.

Sure, but poking around in other Nekochan threads reveals caveats about one chipset or another, things that work on Tezro or Fuel but are more, um, complex on other systems, and so on. No doubt it's great for some, but Firewire is one of those things that should "just work."


so how many of the posters tried the 'real' dm10? ;-)

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, the desktop GUI

what's wrong with the dekstop? it's perfect! productivity oriented, very fast, slim, not overloaded, stable ... it's just not a toy like desktop today. but exactly this is one of the major pros at least for me.

I agree! (Well, maybe I'd only say it's "really, really great!", not "perfect!" :lol: )


okay :D

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I'm not talking about adding all sorts of wizzy effects or bubblegum and eye candy, but really just some tiny, gradual improvements in functionality. To be clear, I am also referring to the entire desktop application environment, not just 4dwm. In many ways, KDE and Gnome still have not reached the level of functionality and behavioral consistency that IRIX 6.5 had in 1998. Unfortunately, as IRIX desktop development efforts declined, some of the beautifully integrated functions have been replaced by less elegant (but perhaps more complete) open source solutions (for example, Impressario vs CUPS). If IRIX desktop development had continued, I could imagine all sorts of refinements for dragging-and-dropping between desktop applications, as well as many other things that might be useful. A moot point, however, since the desktop certainly isn't getting any more refinements!

By the way, I really wasn't complaining about IRIX. The quality of the IRIX Interactive Desktop is the main reason why my staff and I continue to use IRIX desktops as our preferred frontend to our Linux and Solaris systems!


nice :D

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Wrote on the subject of What's new in 6.5.30 at Aug. 14, 2006, 6:41 a.m...
hamei wrote:
It would be nice if some stuff like the icon view of an ftp site didn't blow up all the time, cdrom's are far too slow and finicky on my boxes at least and x-window locks up more than i would like but otherwise, yeah. It's purty good.


keep in mind that the desktop on unix is just an addition to the terminal. sure cds are slow but that's mainly cause of the crappy drives most machines came with. also you could do it via shell or use an alternative filemanager.
and regarding ftp - sure that's not great but where does that work well? no fm i know can handle ftp well but who cares as long as there're neat ftp clients out there.

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Wrote on the subject of What's new in 6.5.30 at Aug. 14, 2006, 9:54 a.m...
josehill wrote:
foetz wrote:
sure but that's not what the typical sgi customer cares about and i'm happy about this.

Actually, that was a central point of my post...SGI has to focus on what its biggest markets want, and certain common technologies aren't at the top of that list, so SGI is doing exactly what it should be doing. :wink:

...but it's also clear that the absence of full support for such common standards as USB2 and Firewire is a visible reminder of SGI's loss of competitiveness in the general Unix computing market (as opposed to certain niche markets) compared to Solaris, Linux, or even HP-UX.

At least AIX is still pretty lousy with USB and Firewire, too... :lol:


okay but where is usb2 a common standard in hpc?

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Wrote on the subject of What's new in 6.5.30 at Aug. 14, 2006, 4:35 p.m...
josehill wrote:
or even to connect the drive to a workstation and then export to an hpc system via nfs.


well i'd trust that method way more :D

anyway i never said it wouldn't be handy. just not prio 1.

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Wrote on the subject of What's new in 6.5.30 at Aug. 15, 2006, 5:28 p.m...
josehill wrote:
foetz wrote: anyway i never said it wouldn't be handy. just not prio 1.

Agreed! As always, best wishes... :D
-J


:lol: :lol:
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ah, hehe, a "shoot yourself in the foot" project :D

let's see that's supposed to be a fileserver - and only that. so it has to store and deliver files hence the heart of the thing is the filesystem. but there we have
Filesystem: UFS, FAT32, EXT2/EXT3, NTFS

bummer! no serious filesystems there :twisted:
dismissed :lol:
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Wrote on the subject of What's new in 6.5.30 at Aug. 19, 2006, 5:48 p.m...
87Porsche wrote: Yeah it's safe. It's downloaded and installed. My Octane still works.


yep, flawless so far.
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Wrote on the subject of Commented script to CLONE ROOT DISK at Sept. 8, 2006, 1:43 p.m...
nice :P
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Wrote on the subject of Open services in inetd.conf at Oct. 8, 2006, 2:57 p.m...
posted mine smoe time ago (you know, the search ...).
also if you wanna lock down your fuel have a look at ipfilterd or ipfilter.

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Wrote on the subject of Firefox 2.0 Woes at Oct. 25, 2006, 2 p.m...
nekonoko wrote: Looks like foetz opened a bug; no further comments on it for a while though:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351261

I tried reverting https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347645 as mentioned but still get the crash in the same place.

Looks like Firefox-2.0 is DOA on IRIX unless someone with more skills than I can work this out.


yeah sadly unlike a few years ago the mozilla guys don't seem very interested in non win/osx/linux stuff anymore :evil:
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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at Oct. 25, 2006, 2:15 p.m...
nice!
i know compiling blender is no fun :D
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Wrote on the subject of Making Irix safe for Internet Banking at Nov. 13, 2006, 11:41 a.m...
of course irix is the better choice by far.
there's no spyware, adware, virus, trojan whatsoever.
further if you're the only user it's the better bet anyway.
if you're really concerned run the browser as some very restricted user only used for that.
you could also use a proxy to suppress several information transmitted normally and you could tweak some stuff inside the browser. mozilla's about:config for example.

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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at Dec. 15, 2006, 2:21 p.m...
signed on :D
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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at Dec. 16, 2006, 10:01 a.m...
digitalpioneer wrote:
hamei wrote:
digitalpioneer wrote: Two thumbs up while I'm hangin' ten!! :wink:

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We don't want your damned thumbs. Just hand over the girl !


@hamei: She is quite ... ummm ... errrr ... ahhhhh... shall we say comely, now isn't she?

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she is :D
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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at Jan. 13, 2007, 10:39 a.m...
lhaza wrote: I still get the same behaviour... :( (no filenames, only sizes, and blender cries for icons-dir...)

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tanger 13% ls
BlenderQuickStart.pdf  blender                copyright.txt
GPL-license.txt        blender.html           plugins
Python-license.txt     blenderplayer          release_242.txt
tanger 14% ./blender
guessing './blender' == '/disc2/nekoware/blender-2.43RC1-irix-6.5-mips/./blender'
Compiled with Python version 2.4.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
/usr/people/m/.blender/icons: No such file or directory
iconv_open Erroriconv_open Erroriconv_open Erroriconv_open Error
Blender quit


wrong libiconv.
which was used for compiling?
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Wrote on the subject of Compiling SquidGuard at Jan. 23, 2007, 8:40 a.m...
submit a bug report.
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Wrote on the subject of Sharity 3.3 beta for IRIX released at Jan. 23, 2007, 9:28 a.m...
great! thanks for the hint :D

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Wrote on the subject of fun with network install onto clean disk at Feb. 1, 2007, 9 a.m...
sholdn't dest be dksc(0,1,0) ?
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Wrote on the subject of fun with network install onto clean disk at Feb. 1, 2007, 1:44 p.m...
porter wrote:
thermionic wrote: "don't try and install on a clean disk on a fuel using the serial console, use a local keyboard and monitor"


Was this because the disk did not have an SGI style disk-label? If you had booted into sash over TFTP you should have been able to re-label the disk.


well that's an explanation. i assumed the disk was prepared *properly* before.
how often did we have that? that'd be a hot candidate for the wiki. a category like 'common errors' or something.
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