Geoman wrote:
No, it means "delicious"
Eeeuw ! Guess I've had too much rat shit to eat over the past few years, doesn't look so good to me anymore.
The collected works of hamei - Page 10
Eeeuw ! Guess I've had too much rat shit to eat over the past few years, doesn't look so good to me anymore.
pierocks wrote:
I would give credit to the original artist, but I couldn't figure out who it was!
I think that was oriignally all Pentium's idea and work ?
sgefant wrote: http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
Tried to get it a few times - firefox failed. wget failed. Is that just me ?
Finally got it all, opens and runs on the
Fool
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1938SL.DTL
"The companies will continue to cooperate on many fronts, with Google providing the search engine for Apple's Safari Internet browser as well as several default applications on the iPhone."
Oh. Look at the way that is written. What a crock of poo. People with an iPhone can use the google search engine. Wow, what an intimate connection. Will someone please hurt the blithering idiots who write this junk ?
"The companies will continue to cooperate on many fronts, with Google providing the search engine for Apple's Safari Internet browser as well as several default applications on the iPhone."
Oh. Look at the way that is written. What a crock of poo. People with an iPhone can use the google search engine. Wow, what an intimate connection. Will someone please hurt the blithering idiots who write this junk ?
henrycault wrote: As i though, MIPS revisions exists to support faster cpu speeds, so i think im gonna do as you told and go for faster clock speeds then. Might leave the dual-cpus alone unless a real bargain comes in.
Dual is really nice tho ... one other point : the 250 mhz and 300 mhz chips are interchangeable. So if you found a dual 250 pimm you can replace the individual chips with 300 mhz ones and change a resistor to get a dual 300. If you are braver you can usually overclock those to 350 mhz. For cheap, I'd go for the dually pimm then look for inexpensive processors.
porter wrote: ... "The Dam Busters".
Buster Keaton, Buster Crabbe and Buster Brown ?
foetz wrote:
i switched to fujitsu myself last year and i'm quite pleased. silent, fast and not a single issue so far.
Tell you what I've been pleased as hell with - a $ 40 new 500GB Hitachi sata disk. Quiet as a mouse and seems to be just as fast as the scsi drives that came stock in the Fool.
R-ten-K wrote:
... add more confusion to IBM's terminology.
I'm not sure it's possible to add more confusion to IBM's terminology
ajerimez wrote: I have a 12" iBook G4 1.33GHz with 1.5GB RAM that I use in the classroom and at the bedside.
Electronic pillow book ? Kewl
87Porsche wrote: They were EOL'ed in Dec. 2006 so one would still have paid regular price during the slaughter.
The judge who approved that fiasco should be taken out behind the woodshed. Really helped them avoid future bankruptcies, too. Cheated the stockholders, cheated the public ... it's time to change the rules about corporations.
pentium wrote: Hmm. Well then I have no idea how to fix that.
If you want to mail it over I can give it a shot ... my CameraMate firewire adapter has been successful with reading a microdrive (an IBM drive tho.)
skywriter wrote: inventory costs money, lots. nobody was buying the systems. scrap 'em. what's so hard to understand?
Funny thing about that ... here's a confession : I have friends who are auctioneers.
Normally when a business goes bankrupt the court auctions off the assets to pay the bills. This is the normal state of affairs with restaurants, stationery stores, gas stations, webdesign masters of the universe, bookstores, just about any kind of broke business you can imagine.
It works this way - the company owes more than it has. Therefore the bankruptcy court takes control of the assets and sells them to pay the creditors. In this case, rather than sell valuable assets in public and receiving money which would go to creditors and stockholders, they paid to crush hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of assets in secret.
That's bullshit.
skywriter wrote: let's go back to the original problem - what customers bought what products again?
Customers ? They were bankrupt . They couldn't pay their bills. They were broke . Whatever customers might have paid if they'd offered up the units at a steep discount (did they sell all those Octanes or not ?) was not relevant. Loser piece of shit companies don't have customers.
... it's not evil, it's business.
It's not business, it's weaseling out of debts by misleading the justice system.
skywriter wrote: oh god not you too with the bold and italics. *sigh*
I'm practicing so I can get a highly-paid job as a Firefox programmer giving something to the community. Now if I could just figure out how to get that hopping bunny thing to work ...
pentium wrote: Do I trust the postal system to deliver the thing in one piece?
Bubble wrap. Lots of bubble wrap.
strandedinnz wrote:
Any pointers ...
Pick up a Canopus ADVC 55. Then we'd confirm that none of the supported firewire video devices work.
silicium wrote: Then how much taxes are there in the EU for importing scrap metal ?
ROHS
nekonoko wrote:
I'm now trying out the new captcha options in 3.0.6 -- a question/answer captcha rather than distorted text.
Hopefully targeted questions such as "Name the operating system used by SGI's MIPS-based computers" and "What does the "S" in SGI stand for" will be easy for legitimate users (potentially much easier than straining with a hard-to-see text captcha) while obscure enough to discourage the cell phone/shoe/handbag salesmen.
Hopefully targeted questions such as "Name the operating system used by SGI's MIPS-based computers" and "What does the "S" in SGI stand for" will be easy for legitimate users (potentially much easier than straining with a hard-to-see text captcha) while obscure enough to discourage the cell phone/shoe/handbag salesmen.
Good idea. I've always hated those distorted-letter captchas and having Irix-based questions, kewl
mapesdhs wrote:
Woohoo! Welcome to the 900 club!
I think the membership just doubled.
(anyone else have one?).
I think the membership just doubled.
(anyone else have one?).
I saw one sell for $700 a while back ... saw too late, I might add. So there must be some more floating around.
kramlq wrote: I am not claiming that either. Just that they are oblivious to the fact that "proprietary UNIX" was actually so open that despite its complexity, people had enough info (documentation, standards etc) to create a working multi-million line reimplementation of it without access to any original source code. Does that sound like a closed architecture?
You could stop right after "they are oblivious ..." It's all marketing lies and distortions.
Too bad so many people who sign the checks believe that nonsense.
iKitsune wrote: I just had a horrible thought of putting a PCI Radeon in an Origin 3000. Call it the "half-assed visualisation solution".
When SGI did that I think they called it "Ultimate Nonperformance" or something ...
D-EJ915 wrote:
I'm sure Quake3 would run faster on it than on any of SGI's graphics cards lol, ...
You can be sure if it's Westinghouse. Beyond that you're headed into uncharted territory ...
There's one person here who actually owned an Onyx4 with the famed Infinite Failure graphics. They sent it back. Not only did it not run Quake 3 at phenomenal speeds, it didn't run OpenGL at all. Towards the end the once-mighty Silicon Graphics couldn't even write a functional device driver for a commodity ATi graphics card.
Which brings us to a brutal fact : I don't think any of the commonly-proposed causes of SGI's death are correct. Sure, all the factors people bring up were important. But when you talk to people who owned late-model SGI computers it's something of a revelation. Half the "supported" features don't work.
The LSI scsi card is slower than a five-year-older Qlogic.
The LSI SATA card does work with hard disks, thank Providence. But it doesn't work with CD-ROMS.
The "supported" IIDC cameras don't work.
The firewire support is ghastly (running xfs crashes the disk, for one thing)
The DM6 doesn't work
USB support is total crap. Sure, it's a workstation - so we need USB spaceballs and tablets, at least.
Haven't tried the Canopus yet but the other "supported" firewire video input card does not work
(Ten bucks says the Canopus won't either when I finally get one cheap enough to try.)
Wealthy people know what doesn't work as you go up the food chain ... but I am willing to bet it's a lot of stuff. The compositor feature apparently never worked, for one.
etc etc etc
Sadly and bluntly, I'd bet that the real reason SGI died was that as a company toward the end they couldn't compute their way out of a wet paper bag. The talent had left the building. It wasn't really about commodity versus niche, high-profit versus mass market, any of that textbook lecturing. It was about SGI was run by a bunch of losers with products that were not very good.
maxsleg wrote:
The 7 year is the life extension you have eating the egg, not the age of the egg.
I thought it was your life expectancy after eating the egg ...
Quote:
I have seen 'thousand year' eggs in China - they smell rancid!
Yeah, every seven-eleven in town has buckets of the nasty things bubbling away in a witch'es cauldron. Even the dog won't eat those things.
joerg wrote: ... with FF2 its hard to send and recieve E-Mail ...
Yay stubborn germans ! I hate webmail also ! Let's ban it !
nekonoko wrote: I appreciate that
Just dropped the ff in late last night, haven't had a chance to do the eight-windows, twelve tabs each test. So far nothing obvious tho.
Spent six hours of my Friday on these :/
Gack. Thank you tho
bigD wrote: Man, I wish I had a little more cash burning a hole in my pocket - but $500 just to get a paddle, I think I'll wuss out of this one.
You get it back if you don't buy anything. That's just to keep out the riff-raff. It's a total pita for an auctioneer when people bid on things then don't bother to pick them up (or pay for them.) Part of the deal with an auction is to clean the place out. People who bid but don't pay means the next-highest bidder also doesn't pay, the stuff is left sitting there, the auctioneer is in deep doodoo, bad bad bad. So some auctioneers charge an entry fee to make sure that flaky bidders don't eff them up. Usually if you buy something expensive and they don't know you, they'll rush over right after the hammer falls and get the money, too. No money, then they re-bid it.
So go, bigD. And I'll be in for an Origin 350 if you can pick one up for less than $250 - 300.
strandedinnz wrote: Firewire is available (DM10 or compatible) .. but support is limited.
Just a small correction : the firewire in the O2 came from Solectron, it's not the same as the TI chipset that DM10 needs. So as far as I've heard, the Adaptec does not work in an O2. The Solectron card is pretty rare.
And none of the "supported" firewire video options work in Fuel.
I've done straight camera-to-composite with an O2, worked okay.
strandedinnz wrote: which one works best ?
The Adaptec works fairly well for disks. A little cumbersome but performance is good (except that fsr crashes the disk and the computer, so you want to make sure it doesn't run on any firewire disk.)
Video on a DM10 in a Fuel is (up to this date) a total loser. I still say we should all go together and buy a real one for Oskar45, then let him get support to support it
I've never owned a Solectron but rumors are that it would input but not output video. Someone on nekochan actually has one, could give them a pm. No idea about disks but disk support on the Fuel didn't work very well before about 6.5.28 and they quit supporting O2 long before that so I wouldn't put much hope in it.
Oh yeah. The software for the Solectron card will not work on a Fuel, according to posts on the forum.
Stress-tested, no crashes. Movey movey sounds good.
Edit : not sure if it's my connection or not - Internet speeds in China vary with the whims of the flying people - but the new one seems to be much slower than the prior version. Gonna go backwards to check.
Edit : not sure if it's my connection or not - Internet speeds in China vary with the whims of the flying people - but the new one seems to be much slower than the prior version. Gonna go backwards to check.
Thanks very much ! I downloaded and untarred. It starts and runs on 6.5.30 on a Fuel without any issues. The interface seems slightly different - is there a way to separate the menus from the views like in the previous version ? Couldn't find anything in the preferences.
I'm anartistic so can't tell you a lot more than that.
I'm anartistic so can't tell you a lot more than that.
Please don't shoot the messenger, has nothing to do with neko's coding skills, this may be something I screwed up and not applicable to anyone else but the latest Firefox on an 800 Fuel, 6.5.30 ran about the same speed as the older one does on my O2 350. Was driving me nuts. I downgraded to the previous version, back to normal.
rschultz wrote:
Maybe you are looking for the "SingleWindow" preference option?
Exactly. Found it, turned it off. More my style. Funny, the stuff you come across reading the fine manual
Thank you again.
D-EJ915 wrote:
The ISPs do this under the guise of "helping customers" by "blocking possible spam senders" and "blocking trojans" but really it's just to make more money.
Either the ISP's are idiots and believe this (don't laugh, if you've ever talked to their tech support it's actually possible) or they think we are stewpid enough to believe that spam magically arrives via ports 20/21 and 80. Meanwhile, a pacbell mail account I never used, not even once, managed to get spammed. Frequently. I wonder how that could happen ?
deBug wrote:
Many ISP:s still have the courtesy setting of sending a return mail "there is no one here with that mailaddress" when you send to an unused mailaddress so it's easy enough for the spamers to know when they got a hit (no return).
So how do they discover the user name ?
sybrfreq wrote: maybe if you want a win2k-like experience, you should be using win2k
I am. Well, the Assistant is. And they're going to force her onto a new o.s. when hell freezes over and I have to buy a new computer that won't run w2k
ShadeOfBlue wrote: I was getting a "firmware too old" message from numastatd at startup, so I thought it would be a good idea to update it to 1.44.0 which came with 6.5.30.
It turns out that this combination of -003 motherboard and 1.44.0 L1 firmware renders the system unbootable. Won't respond to power button, verbal abuse, nothing.
The procedure to reverse this is quite simple, though
Remove the machine's side panel. Somewhere near the SCSI connector on the motherboard you will find an RS232 port, attach a null-modem cable to it.
On the other machine, start a terminal emulator ('cu' works well), set it to 38400 8N1 (e.g. 'cu -l /dev/your_serial_port -s 38400').
As soon as you plug in the power cable on the Fuel, you should be greeted by a prompt:
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ALERT: Error reading the display I/O expander, no acknowledge
SGI SN1 L1 Controller
Firmware Image A: Rev. 1.44.0, Built 07/17/2006 18:19:54
001?01-L1>
The following entries in the log appeared at the time of the update:
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09/29/09 21:21:28 L1 booting 1.44.0
09/29/09 21:21:28 vram checksum error - initializing core data.
09/29/09 21:21:28 ALERT: Error reading the display I/O expander, no acknowledge
09/29/09 21:21:28 ** fixing invalid SSN value
If you try to issue a power up command, you will receive this lovely message:
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001?01-L1>pwr up
ERROR: no power supplies available.
This is interesting for an odd reason - I have a grafix card that is flaky. If the machine does boot then it runs fine. But when it doesn't, I get the exact symptoms you describe. It appears that whatever on the grafix card does the 'acknowledge' during the post is headed south. Dr. Dave, where are you ?
Martin Steen wrote: Hi!
There is a new version of "Die Planeten".
Martin, this program is phenomenal. Fullscreen with the Earth blown up big it's my new screensaver.
For the next version, could you make the information and control windows separable ? If it were just the planet on a black background it would be absolutely perfect. Maybe make the background even blacker, if that's possible.
I could sit and watch this thing for hours .. but where's the ice caps ? You could drive a freighter from Shanghai to New York over the north pole right now ...
thank you, a lot
dc_v01 wrote: I am unlikely to have any direct experience with a Ferrari, Aston Martin, Ford GT, or Nissan GTR anytime soon, but I feel well prepared to heatedly discuss them, and already have my preferences.
There's no room for discussion, Ford GT.
Altho the Aston would be okay when you want to appear demure, like going to funerals ...
hey, theinonen ! what's that in your avatar ? Looks mostly like a puppy, but not really, maybe some kind of kitten ? Or is it something rare and native to Finland ? Cute !
mapesdhs wrote: Nah, I'd rather have a Veyron any day. GT is waaaay too slow. ;D
Maybe this is cheating but I've ridden around Sears Point in a GT40 and gone around the block in a Veyron. Take the GT, no contest. The Veyron is a marketing gimmick pointed at the ultra-rich. It has absolutely no connection with the real Bugatti. In real life there is nothing special about them at all. They're a big characterless hunk of aluminum, whoop-de-doo. A DB-7 is a nicer car.
The Ford GT, on the other hand, is a nice car AND has a history. That whole squabble, the "I'll get even with you, you slimy little wop !" (sorry, Italians, just paraphrasing what Henry had to be thinking !) and wiping the tarmac with Ferrari two years later ... It's real. Grudge match. Scarabs, Reventlow, AC Cobras, that whole period of honkin' big-ass pushrod V-8's brutalizing the little sporty cars on their home field. When you drive a Ford GT you get to talk to Ken Miles. When you drive a Veyron, you get to talk to Robin Leach.
Different strokes I guess, but ....