The collected works of hamei - Page 13

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.

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.

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

Maybe we could get them to port it to Linux ?

FX!32

Yeah, we got the exclusive on that, and don't you forget it !

Got a photo ?

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

I guess it didn't beat the socks off IR at the things that the nVidia card can't do

Anything is possible. You could even make a replica of a 1964 Ford Fairlane out of cowshit if you really wanted to.

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

It's not even SGI so it doesn't matter ... they may as well buy KFC for all the relevance it has to us.

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

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

If so, maybe I have a chance

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


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

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 ?

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

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.

Break out the PhotoShop and upload the new icon, I'm sure Neko would add that one ...

I was just thinking Japan might not be such a terrible place to visit ...

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.

Little bullies have to pay. Bigger bullies get the free ride. You know, "We need rich people to give jobs to the poor people."

Are you sure it won't be an O III ?

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.

Factory rackmount Tezro ... is that what that cross-brace is for ?

I wish ... that's the only photo of the innards of a real rackmount Tezro I've ever seen.

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

^^ 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 ?

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 ...

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