The collected works of guardian452 - Page 13

The procedure is similar to (but maybe slightly different from wrt. pin locations etc, as it is a different chip in the indy vs. the onyx...) viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16723444&

http://www.vdheijden-messerli.net/sgist ... io4-nvram/

If you want to get a feel for what you might be in for if you go down that route...

Nice seeing that trip made by motorcycle, I've done it by car several times now (I'm from ottawa and my parents currently live in sydney NS). Very picturesque provence but I wouldn't want to live there

Wife has wanted a pinball machine for some time, but I want one I can fix up myself as a project. The problem is that neither of us have a "favorite" table to seek out and work on...

At the dovebid auction where we bought my onyx and crimson, they were selling skids of 4 onyx2's for $40/skid. And there were a lot of those skids, maybe 2 dozen machines? ... seemed to be about 60% origin/40% onyx but none of them went for more than the opening bid.

Which works out to $10/machine. YMMV.

(The Onyx and Crimson lot went for over $200 but the onyx was IR/10000 and the crimson was a jurassic vgxt )

2008.


How to get a good price is (a) know where to look (industrial/university surplus auctions, etc) , or (b) know somebody who wants to get rid of one.

Because we don't have a mavericks thread yet.

Third time I've done this (since 10.6) but it seems every time one of these new OS releases comes out, I jump on it, spend 1/2 hour downloading and over an hour installing, try it for a week or two, get fed up, and roll back to 10.6. At least this time around it was Free! Free! Free! Download Today!

Once you realize that the glossy sales print features are not worth the losses in finder and window management, it all becomes a big "meh." It seems like there are a few meaningful additions this time around; it remains to be seen whether the improvements in memory management, energy usage, and multi-monitor are worth it.

That's badass.

Doesn't seem much different WRT performance coming from 10.6 but I can run a lot of newer stuff that required lion. Upgrading my macpro will be more difficult, since it 'officially' only goes to 10.7. But I think I want to do it anyway.

At some points it seems to stutter but very rarely, no more than 10.6 did... and the improvement in battery life is noticeable.

I still don't like what they did to expose, or why they made the window traffic light buttons smaller (harder to click on). But I can now resize from any edge!

I can see why they don't have tinted icons anymore. With so much emphasis on icon design nowadays, and many finder windows already looking like a technicolour yawn, it would get out of hand quickly:



I suppose if you have a folder full of files all with the same icon, it would make more sense. But then you are probably using list view, and the icons will be tiny anyways. In my opinion (I don't use tags just like I didn't use labels), the new way is better

Also notice a full row of buttons at the top of the finder... is that really necessary? (I know I can hide it) they replaced the button to show/hide the toolbar with... a button that makes it full screen?

I'm just bitter because my 'open terminal here' button quit working. but I can always fix it...

Actually didn't know you could customize the buttons. I figured you could but thought it might be hard enough to not futz with it.

Indeed.

Unfortunately, we are starting to get to the point where not only is some program abandonware, so are the cracks/keygens/serials necessary to get it running. I.e. I know it's out there somewhere, but finding it isn't as easy as it was even 2 or 3 years ago.

Upon googling 'seiza' I realize that that is how I always sit, I've never found it comfortable to sit with legs crossed. I've sat like that since kindergarten...

I also run 80-100 miles per week.

surrealdeal wrote: discuss: masochism and you.

Drum corps.

But bzflag is great fun to play if you have a half-dozen or more crowd of undergrads to play with !!! I will check it out tomorrow because I'm almost positive I have left bzflag in a working state on an Irix machine somewhere...

Bought an iphone two years ago, used it with verizon until I had to start paying for it, now I use tmobile. Better service and half the price. They even provide the tiny sim card that an iphone needs.

But Me and Wifey are moving back to canada next year, might get one of those lumia windows phones with the fancy camera. Reminds me of my zune which I enjoyed fondly. Or not, since there's nothing wrong with the phone I have now.

I don't see what the problem is with being a subscriber. You pay the bill and get service, or don't pay and thhe service stops. I guess your account goes into collections the way the telco has worked for the past 100 years, but I've never tried it. $50 for unlimited everything is better than $120 (and up) for 400 mins and 2gb especially since it's now my only internet connection.

I used cincinnati bell with it for less than a month when I had their fiber optic internet. Tried to do a bundle. Their data service didn't work right so I had to do the old-fashioned voicemail hokey pokey, among other things.

duck wrote: Also, is it true that you can be charged for receiving calls or messages in the US?

No. At least, not verizon (which is really vodaphone), tmobile, or mother bell.

I get the point of phone subsidies, so long as it's not a smartphone. It's great for grandma who needs a large-print phone (free) and basic 300 minutes service for $25 a month. As soon as you need that data connection the price skyrockets. But yesh, I went to the apple store, bought a phone, went to verizon and made damn sure there was no 'early termination fee' before getting their service. So when something better came along I could move it.

The thing I don't like about samsung phones, and I've seen this happen twice now to my father-in-law, is that after 2 years the network sends an OTA update that bricks it, forcing you to get a new one. Was working before, 'required' network update, OK to start? and then it never reboots. I haven't updated my i-phone since OS 6.1.2, you can turn off all auto-updates and it will just run peachy pretty much forever. Just like my old nokia brick phone with snakes and parachutes. My wife has an old HTC incredible and the problem with that is a lot of the newer apps and games don't even run on it. I shouldn't say "old" as it is newer than my iphone 4s. And it is up-to-date according to the update program, running android version 2.whatever. No patches for it.

But hammie, I think you missed a few points. My cellphone is my internet connection for my computer and xbox as well, via mywi. http://www.intelliborn.com/mywi.html I agree, watching a movie on a cellphone is not a cinematic experience. But you can do a lot of other cool things with it.

Also, I'm canadian. After 9 months of working for the biggest bunch of cheats and liars I've ever met, they've finally decided to not pay me for the last time. So earlier this month, after told I may not see a paycheck again and could they pretty-please pay me in their worthless stocks, I demanded to be laid off along with a bunch of other guys. Nothing says merry christmas quite like "you're not getting paid for december and we don't know when you'll get your check from november". And never mind the fact that's a violation of many laws to pay monthly in the first place; the big one in Ohio is of course minimum wage. When they first started these shenanigans two months after I started, I started bitching to ohio's department of commerce and never stopped. But they continued not paying me.

So anyways, that's all well and good, but my wife IS american. Thankfully, she's finally thinking that, yes, the US is really not as great as the greasy goobers say it is, and she's finally thinking of moving back do Canada with me. Maybe a trip to my hometown helped. Not to say that Canada is without faults, but the more sleazy aspects of life are certainly toned back a fair bit. And the food is a helluva lot better. We've had this conversation before: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16726740&p=7351234#p7351234
The original argument was how patriotic she and her family was, since of course her father was USAF. I countered that my grandfather was in the RCAF in the 50s and 60s and now those two get along great. An F16 mechanic and a radar engineer.

I know if the great and glorious 'AMP moteur verks' tried half of their shenanigans in canada (or probably any other country in the world), every single one of these men: http://ampelectricvehicles.com/our-comp ... ement-team would be in prison. In the USA they are free to weasel more and more investor money while keeping their façade of building electric trucks.

Not so much that they didn't pay their employees, they didn't pay anybody . For almost two months, not even the landlord. A fair bit of my time, as an engineer, was spent talking to angry parts suppliers and trying to get enough free samples to get a vehicle built. And their finished product is rather mickey-mouse especially with regards to safety. A big part of the reason why they moved away from the GM kappa-cars and daimler's grand cherokee and ML450. The heavy truck industry has many fewer regulations than passenger cars.

However, we did get that great pig of an old Navistar 1652SC to under 1 kWh/mile. With most of the original allison 2400. And that's gotta be worth something . Doesn't matter how sleazy the boss is, awesome is as awesome does I also got to spend a fair bit of time at honda's unofficial skunkworks and see the new NSX among other things. If you took jeremy clarkson here, he would die. (to quote him directly, from that millau bridge episode of top gear, "if you brought an american here, he would die")




Aaaaannnyways , and I apologize for the rant, but the fact is if you don't have anything more important to worry about than your phone bill, or the price of minutes in china, life must be pretty good

What? No love at all?

http://www.apple.com/30-years/

My favourites: Theodore Gray and Tinker Hatfield.

You're a latecomer? I was only born in 1988! And my first would have been a performa 6400 that I bought at a yardsale for $50 in 2002 or so.


Believe it or not, I've never played Myst. It's now high on my to-do list

Good old games has the myst games. What's nice about those guys is they make the games run on modern hardware, remove bonehead copy protection, and often include bonus artwork..
http://www.gog.com/game/myst_masterpiece_edition

Dans34 wrote:

diegel wrote:

ClassicHasClass wrote: What's in the (I assume) SCSI enclosure below? CD-ROM and another hard disk?

Yes, a CD-ROM and two more hard disks. It's not connected to the Challenge permanently, I use it for backup and for installation.

was that something you could get from sgi or is it custom built ?

It's a challenge vault. From SGI. Tho I admit I've never seen a vault S in person before..

The "other" iOS... iphone 4s, 7.0.4 w/ Evasi0n.

Abidal:~ mobile$ uname -a
Darwin Abidal 14.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Fri Sep 27 23:00:48 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2423.3.12-1/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8940X iPhone4,1 arm N94AP Darwin
Abidal:~ mobile$ uptime
10:31am up 13 days 3:35, 2 users, load average: 1.25, 1.06, 1.09


Last time it went down was because of sub-zero temperatures while running (I use it for music and also a strobe light) which the battery is ( apparently ..) not meant to handle. Since then I've been taping a handwarmer to the back if it's really cold out. 3 years of abuse is starting to take it's toll...

Congrats on the decade+ uptime... Then again if the machine is not doing much and tucked away in a datacenter it is kinda expected

I think from their point of view... Or what they want you to think... Is that it was so slick the user didn't need to know or care about it.

Maybe the dcd isn't supported, although I can't recall if the analog input on the MLA is even SOG.

<rant> The disk with my aperture library has slowly been eating itself into oblivion. Two days ago aperture refused to open the library, and after attempting all else (including chmod -R 777 the .aplibrary, as the first errors were permissions-related) I decided a verify/repair of the disk, and disk utility has decided it's so bad the volume won't mount. bold red text, showing nasty error messages scrolls up the console when I try. To the effect of: your disk has gone tits-up... hope you have good backups...nyuk-nyuk-nyuk. The kick in the pants is it has been slowly corrupting data for months (which explains a lot of things, like " how on earth can the new itunes possibly be THIS buggy " as my itunes music was also on that disk) You might say it's my own fault for using aperture with it's über-fragile library structure in the first place, but I prefer to see it as the canary in the coal mine before I started having big issues.

I could restore it all, but my main backup is corrupted as well. I can certainly get everything I want back, I have some redundant backups, but to get it all would be a waste of time. To me, some data loss is not the end of the world.

The dirty kick in the pants is, the disk has been on it's way out for a few months, so a very small percent of the errors have made their way into my backups. and OSX has had nothing to say about it. From now on, weekly checkups with diskutility set to run in the middle of the night... and no more bargain-basement hitachi disks from the clearance rack (I hear seagate constellation is good?)

Yes, this is on a 2006 mac pro with 10.9.2 with a modified boot.efi. Yes, it is an unsupported configuration. No, I don't care (as it works fine otherwise). Would a better filesystem saved the disk? No. Would it have told me it was failing sooner? Maybe.

</rant>

I spent a summer on a sailboat. About the same size (maybe a bit smaller?) than the aegean in hamei's post... no comments about the wake. I recall it took longer than normal before I was walking normally on solid ground again

I wonder if the disk subsystems in a 2006 mac pro is up to a 3-disk raidz with 3 or 4tb disks. I think this configuration would be ideal for my needs. I am only concerned because I know they sold some sort of RAID controller plug-in board to take over from the built in disk controller. And application compatibility is also a concern... I already use aperture, itunes, an xboxy-sharing service I use called connect360... time machine would be a bonus. MacZFS doesn't like USB disks but what's their opinion of firewire? esata is almost a non-starter as OSX doesn't support hot-plugging.

The PCI-e SSDs are nice-looking. One of those would make a good system disk. A 3-disk raidz for working files and storage, some sort of external backup that doesn't need to be super fancy but if it's automated with TM it would be a blessing... and one disk sled spare as I like to keep a windows VM on it's own disk.


Amazing how one faulty disk turns even me into a storage nerd ZFS seems overkill on a root disk which in my case is barely ~70GB and doesn't grow much. Super easy to backup and restore.

Geoman wrote: <rant>Now it's 2014 and no ZFS in MacOS yet. But a very colorful clickable userland - because this is the most important thing of it all.
Well, Windows can't be taken seriously either with that NTFS-junk.</rant>

I shall migrate to Linux or use more IRIX ...

In the meantime let's get some popcorn and watch the windows-8-induced downfall of Microsoft and rise of linux on the desktop thanks to Valve's Steam. (or not?)

What colorful userland in OSX? It's all depressingly monochrome nowadays... I like windows 8, as far as the different windows goes, there's nothing wrong with it and all is to be expected ... microsoft has been in a downfall since everything after windows 2000/xp and the only thing 'rising' nowadays will be ipad and friends from samsung etc.

Under the hood there is a *lot* of improvements... timer coalescing, compressed memory, app naps, all the bullet points Compressed memory is very good for those of us with a mac air with only 2gb (tho I'll probably be upgrading soon anyways.. the 4gb logic board replacements are cheaper than 2gb and I fried a USB) The scrollbars, by default, appear when scrolling if there is a touchpad input device. If there is a mouse, they are always there. You could set it whichever way you want...

But nobody ever notices that stuff... so nobody cares... I think there was just too much entrenched stuff to do a filesystem replacement for the whole system, at the time they were considering ZFS. But if there was going to be a Right Time, it would have been with release 10.6... Better late than never, tho I suspect they are working on their own improved FS more suitable for their users.

josehill wrote:

guardian452 wrote: But if there was going to be a Right Time, it would have been with release 10.6... Better late than never, tho I suspect they are working on their own improved FS more suitable for their users.

I suppose, though the 10.6 was a really big refinement and consolidation of the platform. It was even billed as having minimal new end user-visible features, with nearly all of the improvement either under the hood or targeted at developers. I look at it as the "reference release" for Intel Macs, with 10.9 becoming (perhaps) the next "reference release." It took around four years to get from 10.6 to 10.9's under-the-hood improvements. I can't imagine it would've been possible to get that far at the time 10.6 was released, though I agree that the market would have raved about those improvements, if they would have been deliverable. As it was, it was probably a big enough effort just to get a fully Cocoa'd Finder built and tested.

But, yeah, I'd love to have the 10.6 user experience with 10.9's "invisible" improvements.

10.9 is a natural evolution focused on performance, what I meant was if they were going to swith to zfs 10.6 would have been a good time since there were so many other changes. All at once. Like ripping off a band aid. Probably not a good idea I expect a better filesystem, hopefully simpler than zfs or zfs made nice in an 'apple-y' sort of way. I know apple did a lot of work on zfs (around the time when 10.5/10.6 was current) before canning the project, hopefully the trend of a new release every year still allows for big projects like this.

And I'm sorry to say, you have to look hard to see any difference at all between the past 3 releases. They've slowly been draining out the color from the icons and etc but it seems consistent to me...

There is a modified boot.efi that basically provides a 64-32 thunking layer for efi system calls so nvram and etc commands still work fine. I was looking to do this for a while but I didn't want to pay for the bandwidth to download a 6GB OSX installer file over the cell network, so I had to wait until I had real internet again.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread. ... 176&page=2

But wait! It gets better! Somebody has built a script to make a suitable installer that pulls your board-id, the .efi, the OSX installer, everything you need, and puts it onto a USB drive to boot from. Automatically! I did this with 10.9.2 a bit over a week ago onto a spare 160gb hard disk so I still have my 10.6 install in case something goes wrong. It was super easy. The utility is named sixty-for on thirty-two or SFOTT. Which makes perfect sense It will supposedly also work with mountain lion but I don't know any advantage to running that over Mavericks.

http://oemden.com/?page_id=531

Of course, I would still disable automatic OS updates, but other than that, it's probably as seamless as it's ever going to get. You need a suitable graphics card upgrade (I have an Apple Radeon 5770 1gb) as mavericks doesn't support the original 7300gt. I also have upgraded the processors (lots of info about that out there...) and 10gb of memory (what the machine came with), but mavericks also runs well on my MBA with 1.4 c2d and 2gb ram (more sluggish than 10.6, but it never gets 'hung up' or especially slow and battery life is still as good as 10.6, I don't use it for very heavy-duty programs..)

Far, far, superior to running OSX in vmware fusion. And your 8-years-old machine can be up to date once more! Sleep works, hardwaremonitor.app can see all the fans and temperatures, sound works, icloud works. The whole shebang.


As for the disk situation, right now I am using my backup firewire disk. I'm planning to purchase a trio of 2 or 3 tb (or 4tb, didn't know they even came that big! ...if they will work on my 'pooter) disks and doing the zfs raidz thing on them. So what I have to do is not crash my backup disk before then

ZFS is about as simple as it gets for filesystem maintenance. The descriptions are a chaotic mess but actually running the thing, that's simplicity itself.

Better documentation needed

My problem is the people who use and recommend ZFS are the sort of people that like making things difficult. You're right, there's not much to do with it and all that would be necessary would be another tab in diskutility. But the sort of people that say ZFS is great are also the people that like to recompile linux kernels for fun, so I've always been a bit too much leery of it

No, I see it too. Even on an ipad:

Besides the normal places like amazon/ebay and monoprice, see if you can get in touch with dr. dave, tho I haven't seen or heard from him in four years. I just got rid of the last of my sgi stuff a month ago tho there will be more in the future...

Windows 8 is out for a few years now, don't understand why people would bother 'updating' to something out-of-date already... But I don't use more than typical PC stuff... Matlab, some proprietary apps to interface simulink with CAN networks, simple forms for interfacing... MS office, etc... Power users probably need more power. The touchscreen support is also much better.

Ideally we could just use Real Unix but we have big investments in windows software.

My $WORK expects us to go pick up something from best buy or wall mart and expense it. I don't think they even have win7 computers on the clearance shelf anymore.

http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualizati ... pe-from-xp

no, they are better with mayo. people around here look at you funny but it's worth it. Surprised, I couldn't find orange mayo last time I was over there.

(you could argue the average french fry over there is a lot better than what you will find here, tho arby's and chik-fil-a will give them a run for their money)



Only manga I've read was Initial D, and that was some time ago. I really liked it at first, but I was also really into cars at the time.

...looks like it was added on later in photoshop gimp microsoft paint.

For a PC in a fishtank I have seen mineral oil used successfully for a fraction of the cost..

Yeah, I missed that bit until I actually watched some of the videos he posted

But if you just want a gee-whiz-lookatme! submerged computer (and a big greasy mess....) mineral oil is not a bad way to go.

It exists in 10.9... and it works just fine.

I remember having to reflow a bunch of pins on my MXI tram asics, filed down the mounting bosses for the heatsinks (they are designed to work with a thermal pad/shim) and lubed them up with thermal grease.. good times

After a while the thermal shims break down and the chips get so hot the pins lift off their solder pads. You'll know there's a problem when textured output looks really bad, but it can cause other graphics artifacts, too.

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