The collected works of hamei - Page 13

dexter1 wrote: Hi folks!


Hi Dextrose !

Hey, did your university hurt the feelings of the Chinese people or something ? I keep getting

"You tried to visit www.mechanics.citg.tudelft.nl , which is not loading."

from the DNS server here when I try to go to nekoware.
nekonoko wrote: Sure, here's a CNet article on the decision which also has links to the relevant posts on the developer's mailing list:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000056-264.html

The Mozilla people are really nice. I like them a lot :roll:

I will bet $100 cash money that the version that drops support for 10.4 is not 30% faster and that claim is just another Mozilla Corp Big Fat Lie.
mgtremaine wrote:
I'm not sure why anyone would doubt what the bill says?

I don't think anyone meant to doubt - it's just that if you aren't acquainted with the situation it's kind of a shock. More of a "holy spinning electric meter, Batman ! Really ?" kind of thing.
tomo wrote:
Something like :
Code:
remote_workstation$ xv -display sgi_O2:0 image.jpg

I've watched movies, done browsing, used Pro/E that way. It's not as bad as you think. In fact, it's not bad at all.

The O300 is probably the sweet spot if you want multiple processors ... otherwise, Fuels are pretty cheap these days. Octane gives a little more of the SGI Workstation feeling tho.
kramlq wrote:
... google 'libel tourism' for examples.

Cool idea, kramlq ! We could take busloads of John Birchers to the edge of North Korea and let them scream "Kim Jong Il is a turtle egg !" across the border. And so on ... the possibilities are endless. Let's patent it 8-)
PymbleSoftware wrote: ... hercules IBM Mainframe emulator

That thing looks pretty cool, Pym. Thank you.
skywriter wrote:
PymbleSoftware wrote:
But if you want to run OpenVMS or Tru64 in a WIndows PC ...

oh the ultimate in abominations...

Maybe we could get them to port it to Linux ?
PymbleSoftware wrote:
[...running Intel binaries on the Alpha was worse because it would profile your code and rewrite sections of it as Alpha machine code, so your programs were supposed to get faster the more you ran them...

FX!32 :D
sybrfreq wrote:
... not some big operation profiting off of counterfeit items.

Yeah, we got the exclusive on that, and don't you forget it !
compuman86 wrote:
though it is off topic a bit, I'd have to say my prized "SGI promo item" would be the mint in package 1 dozen of Silicon Graphics golf balls, as they seem to be rare and no trace anywhere !

Got a photo ?
sbarton wrote:
Can't belive some of the advice your getting here.

You missed some key words : "near me, will deliver", "has Irix disks" and "complete". Implied is "noobie to SGI."

Ja, it's not a good deal for someone with experience. But you pay to learn, ya know ? You can either pay in time and effort figuring out what you need and hunting it down or you can pay right off in money. Nobody said it was a great deal but TANSTAAFL :(
zuluchas wrote:
... beats the socks off of IR:

I guess it didn't beat the socks off IR at the things that the nVidia card can't do :D
nuts wrote:
My question is, if it's possible to use a gnu system with IRIX kernel with basic IRIX's tools like software manager, chkconfig... We could keep coherence with GPL softwares. No?

Anything is possible. You could even make a replica of a 1964 Ford Fairlane out of cowshit if you really wanted to.
bri3d wrote:
Enough is known about VPro to do a driver if anyone wants to mess with XOrg drivers.

Hell, SGI wasn't able to do it, even with an ATi card !
I hate to say it but the rendering looks exactly like Bobo dropped her ball into the washing machine ;)
PymbleSoftware wrote:
Paging Hamei...

It's not even SGI so it doesn't matter ... they may as well buy KFC for all the relevance it has to us.
If anyone has a real SGI DM10, that would be a great addition here ...
I can't believe none of us neko nutcases hasn't grabbed this yet, been for sale for a while. Shipping to China would be out of the question or /me would have one hulking big black box in the corner, frightening any children that came to visit :(

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-7039-651-pSerie ... 53dfc2dc86
No O300 hardware aggregator yet ...

For those with O300-compatible cases, I tried an Intel drive sled from an M15 SCSI array. It almost fits stock. Actually the sled fits but the latching mechanism is a touch too bulky. With a little bit of file work it goes in nicely and latches fine. There's a plastic do-jigger that sticks out the back side that needs to be trimmed off, too. $3 and away we go :D

I also pulled the little sca adapter card off the back of the drives box and used a spare 68 pin drive for boot and a sata drive for data. Made up a new slightly longer scsi cable, bought a longish sata cable. Works okay.

Now just needs some quieter fans. Jeesh. If the Atom would run Irix ....
jan-jaap wrote: * The fan I used has been discontinued. There's the S-FLEX SFF80D (2,800 rpm) but at 32dB it louder than the NMB Minebea I used (28dB), and I believe the bearing had a shorter MTBF as well.

Thanks, J. I notice there's an 80 mm fan from Akane that has good specs - even better than the one you used, if you can trust specs.

Now all I have to do is find some .... :(
indyman007 wrote: Wouldn't a MAC G4 be quicker in every way?

No, terminal velocity is about the same for everything.
Brombear wrote:
I'd like to remind that the last day of registration (8th march 2010) is getting near, so everybody interested please register as soon as possible.

Is there a door prize for "Saddest Atempt at Computer Graphics on an Overpriced Workstation" ?

If so, maybe I have a chance :P
Brombear wrote:
if we provide a prize like this ... everybody would immediately know that it is dedicated for you only ... so we need to avoid that :P

Damn ! I was hoping that someone, somewhere would have less taste than me :(

Quote:
I don't think its soo hard to generate a good looking image with our software, so just give it a try (and you do not even need to try to find a cracked license ... we provide a valid one for you :mrgreen: )

I think I saw a copy over at this place on Jiaozhou lu last weekend ... they wanted $3 tho so I passed :D

Seriously, thank you and that'd be fun but I don't own anything anywhere near new enough to run your software. Can you import solid models to render ? If so, what sort ?
skywriter wrote:
you would not have appreciated Clutch Cargo, or Roger Ramjet.

I thought Clutch Cargo was crap when I was eight years old :P

Interesting read but if he came to China he'd last about an hour. Japan is considered to be Heaven by foreigners living here. It's interesting to comtemplate what things would be like if Yamamoto hadn't screwed up at Pearl Harbor.
ramq wrote:
Sorry for waking an old thread, but I kind of miss the Prism in this series?

Break out the PhotoShop and upload the new icon, I'm sure Neko would add that one ...
zmttoxics wrote:
Very cool. Some day when I am rich and famous, I would love to take a trip over there.

I was just thinking Japan might not be such a terrible place to visit ...
Titox wrote:
Hey, not everything is bad. The hard disk caddies are the same of Tezro / Origin 350... or my Sun LX50 ones.

I was just gonna say - they jacked up the drive sleds and drove a new computer under it :)

Pretty crappy, actually. Kind of like sticking Marilyn Monroe's bra onto some girl they met down at rehab and hoping everybody will fall for it.
SAQ wrote:
Why would someone bother licensing? Didn't Intel run off with "Extreme Graphics" and "vPro" for free?

Little bullies have to pay. Bigger bullies get the free ride. You know, "We need rich people to give jobs to the poor people."
skywriter wrote:
ah, yes the O3!

Are you sure it won't be an O III ?
skywriter wrote:
all gods little indy's cried today.

Not sure why anyone would get upset about re-using an Indy case ? There's nothing special about it. The NeXT pizza box was exactly the same size, cast in magnesium and had cooling fins cast into the area under the power supply. For a little square box that was pretty cool.
foetz wrote:
... the screw to hold the vpro from the top is neat. anyhow i still have kinda bad feeling about the vpro hanging quite loose in there ...

Factory rackmount Tezro ... is that what that cross-brace is for ?
foetz wrote:
ah, yes, now a peak under the v12 would be great.
maybe i can get that 'cage' somewhere?

I wish ... that's the only photo of the innards of a real rackmount Tezro I've ever seen.
pentium wrote: Blast SGI and their inability to keep OGL support up to date.

It's done in hardware, pent. You want to rework all our grafix boards with newer chips ?
skywriter wrote:
SAQ wrote:
Nah - too much custom work. Crimson2 would be an off-the-shelf case from someone.


exactly. besides not enough red!

I know exactly the thing ... one of those weirdass gaming boxes that looks like a toilet with fart vents. Alien ? Predator ? Some testosterone-fueled pubescent name like that. Red, too.

Or would that be too creative for Rackable ?
Hmmm. I've had the beta fontconfig 2.8.0 running here for a while on 6.5.30 with no difficulties. You say you applied some Irix patches ?
^^ Helpful directions are here :

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/index.php/ ... g_Software

Might be easier to start out on some smaller project tho :shock:
^^ You've scared me off. I was only interested in the networking updates but maybe someone else will be the guinea pig this time.

I kind of wonder why SGI does not release patches here first. Several private OS/2 users used to get patches from an IBM test group because if they blew up on us, at least we weren't paying customers :)
Dumb question but better to ask than find out the hard way ... The Irix Pascal compiler was apparently less than optimum but it must have worked to some extent, yes ? And it only runs on 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4 But assuming one set aside some little box such as an Indy with 6.2 and built binaries there, the executable programs should run in 6.5. ...

Is that correct or am I overlooking something obvious ?
PymbleSoftware wrote:
If it is COFF then it will not work on latter than 6.4. In the other thread, apparently SAQ didn't get it but foetz has a sense of humor. Run the command "file" on the binary... If it says DWARF or ELF you are in business.

Let me try to answer all in one, like an ATi card ...

Occasionally I run across some old Pascal code that might be fun to run. If it compiles in 6.2, for instance, and runs elsewhere it might be worth the trouble to set up an outlier box. Someone offerred me a Pascal compiler CD which is what brought this up. Pymble, your method would definitely work but I'm trying to avoid all the extraneous work by asking first. This is a new experiment for me, I'll admit. Usually it's SAQ's motto that prevails :)

About the COFF thing, you caused some interesting speculation. You are right, the R3000 SGI's only run up to 5.3 ? Which would be coff binaries ? Except I do have mips3 binaries (or at least they claim they are in the titles) which run in 6.5.30. ELF.

Hmm. Why would people do that ? Of course the mips3 switch in the compiler involves only the instruction set used so natcherly it can produce elf binaries that you can run on 6.5.30. But if the only processors the app will see (due to the file format) can use mips4 instructions, why did people avoid it ? As an example, I'm pretty sure that mxaudio, which I've used for years, is compiled -mips3.

Either that or rhoenie screwed up, which is like saying God made a mistake ...
eMGee wrote:
It's slightly disappointing that there's so little out there for AIX ...

You have to remember that IBM exists in a parallel universe. Things there are similar to what we Earthlings are used to but ... different.