The collected works of hamei - Page 27

What's the deal with sourceforge ? Went to grab a bit of code, the stupid download page now sticks six, count 'em six, stupid irrelevant adds in a language I don't read in my face, tells me "your download will start shortly" then cycles through this pitiful joke six or seven times before I get sick of them and close the window. WTF has happened here ? They used to be okay.

Turned off the proxy, tried a different browser on a different computer, tried the telephone ... same.

I guess they don't like people in China.

They do all kinds of wacked-out stuff. I think they just get bored and see who they can mess with today Those lists are sort of useful but what gets blocked changes too frequently to depend on them. I've always wondered about IMDB though ... closest I can figure is that someone in the US bitched that the Pirate Industry was putting IMDB synopses on the covers of movies. That's why we can't mail CD's out of the country anymore ...

RIAA and SBA are more annoying than the gfw, to tell the truth. You guys can't download movies or software and the gfw never kicked in anyone's door. I'd rather have the gfw. More freedom

I'll try putting sourceforge's ip in my dns and see what happens ... news at eleven.

edit: okay, it appears that most of the hangup is the useless goddamned ignorant pos google-analytics and related tracking advertising javascript shit . Useless fucking idiots with their advertising garbage, may they rot in hell. Also the morons who wrote fireflop that can't just skip over links that never resolve, may they rot in hell along with the advertisers.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled commercials.

Have that on the Irix computer, was using Windows with the latest greatest fireflop. Sucks, but as they say, "A few pussy hairs can tow a ship."

Found this out tho -

Shit. Subverted. That answers a lot. VALoonix, yet another *nix disaster. Sold to Dice in September tho, maybe we can hope for a change for the better.

And maybe aliens will land on the roof bearing the secret of life


They just feed the ducks when they get angry over here

If so, pretty appalling ...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cadscry ... =directory

Nice project ?

There can be ... the one in the Fuel -- my Fuel, anyway -- dropped the disk every so often. The first time that happened I about crapped my Calvin Klein jeans. Then I learned to just move the disk to a different header on the cable and it would come back. The cable in the Fuel is a cheap piece of junk and the fargin' barstadges insisted on using a non-standard connector to the mainboard.

The Fuel is a bunch faster but it's nowhere near as nice as an Octane. I wish they'd just designed a new mainboard with the faster memory and disk system and stuck them into purple Octane3 cases.

Octane is more versatile, too. Try to put two V12's into a Tezro ...

Setting aside the fact that all CEO's everywhere are nothing but crooks, doesn't HP have accountants ? they just cough up the ten billion based on fantasies and bedtime stories ? Where is Mark Hurd, the fantastically talented leader who got paid millions because he took the big gambles, the big risks, and steered his company through parlous straits to profitability ? And how many more companies do Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman and all their little butt-buddies have to run into the ground before the US public wakes up ? Who is stupider, the "leaders" with an IQ of three who walk off with hundreds of millions despite ruining their companies, or the drooling fools who put up with this retarded scheme where the few con artists take all the cookies while the many scrounge for crumbs?

How about we tar and feather all the lousy thieving bastards running mnc's ? Then break these pieces of shit down into manageable size ?

Fireflop just ate my reply, crap. Three times, in fact Don't open too many tabs, it can't handle it.



Anyway. Nekoware requires 6.5.22. Since there is so much useful stuff in nekoware, you should go to 6.5.22 On the other hand, nekoware also runs on 6.5.21 with a patch. If you can find 6.5.21 (used to be on the website for download but they pulled it) then that version is the best one for an Indigo2. Still has Display PostScript, still has Impressario, still has all the good stuff from when SGI was a good company with excellent products instead of a bunch of losers.

No need for a CD to upgrade. Start up the Fuel. Copy the overlay CD's into a directory structure such as CD_1, CD_2 etc etc. Then open swmgr on the Indigo2 and just drag the folders into the drop box. You can update irix over the network easily.

Updating to 6.5.21/22 requires a patch. Do that first


Ja, just go 6.5.21/22. Unless you want to compile all your own software, it's worth it in the long run.

Oh. About gFTP ... you might try axyftp from nekoware /beta. As far as I can see it doesn't require any other neko libs


Crashed again, god I hate fireflop ... anyway, axyftp isn't perfect but works okay. It's graphical which is sometimes convenient. (Altho a good handle on command line ftp is very useful. That works almost everywhere, even on oddball systems like Windows

Greed is a short-term strategy. If we could figure out how to make people plan for events some time past next week, our world would be a lot better off

Toolchest -> System -> System Manager -> Networking and Connectivity

You should be talking between your SGI's in but a moment

I use static ip's tho, it seems easier. I can't direct you on dhcp but as a quick hack, you can find what ip another computer is using on your network by

ping 255.255.255.255

Seems to me Windows doesn't respond to this but all real computers do

^ Very pretty Alfa-Romeo did something like that in the thirties by putting two four-cylinder blocks end-to-end. Then they put a blower on the whole thing (driven off the middle) and won a lot of races. It was a very pretty car.


A guy in England made copies of the road-going version a few decades ago and now the copies are worth* $750,000.

Hmm. Here's another variation on the theme ...

http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/ca ... ight_8.htm

*("Worth" is in the eye of the beholder. That's what they sell for, anyhow.)

As long as there was some way he could visualize himself making money off their efforts, certainly.

EDLIN. I still have nightmares ...

OKay okay, so you wanna talk computer Merlins ... how about this ?

http://www.lambdassociates.org/merlin.htm

went looking for



but this;

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... read=94551

and this;

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread. ... ure-thread

had me in stitches

Take a look at the early boxy cute (1985 - 1989) MR2. They don't come any smaller, 35-40 mpg, prices are low aaaand pop-up headlights !

They're reliable, go good, and handle like a go-kart. They don't need brakes - just let off as you go in and add gas at the apex. My sister had one, left it with me to babysit and I put 2,000 miles on it in a week, they are that fun to drive. She wasn't so happy about that tho ... who looks at the odometer ? Sheesh

At one time I had a Continental W670 ... I'm really glad I sold it before the strange engine disease could get into my system

But now that I think about it ... mounted amidships with an automatic transmission and some thirties-style bodywork like that German propellor-driven train ...

Blocking Javascript has been a big help here with Fireflop crashes. It's just like the good ol' dayes of the browser wars ...

You build refrigerators ?

Gleason spent something like two million dollars (that was real money in 1975) building a grinder to profile the chambers in Wankels for GM. Then GM decided the future was not there after all ... one of their better decisions

I was listening until you used facebook, tweeter and youtube for examples

There were a whole lot of people who thought that money grew on trees while real estate and the stock market could never go down, too. "We have conquered the business cycle with computer algorithms and quants !"

Yeah.

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public ...

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Mozilla_Firefox

Good luck with that. The girl there has been saying "any time now !" for more since before Prometheus stole fire.


Living within their means wasn't a valid choice for most people either.

The thing is, actions have consequences. If you play in the toilet, you get shit on your hands.

In that case, forget about anything that comes out of China.

Sorry, just the facts, ma'am.

This is called "setting a bad example " ... We should all work hard to thoroughly understand the tools we use - but if you want to run an application under the Solaris service management facility without having to fight your way through thirty conflicting man pages, this is pretty cool :

http://sgpit.com/smf/

Want to make yourself sick ? I was looking for some info on an Alteon device, stopped by Wikipedia :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel

The writing is a little amateurish but the question remains : why aren't these MBA's in prison ? Forever ? Serving a useful role in society as Bubba's loyal female canine companion ?

p.s. The fruits and nuts in California government are taking a 5% hit

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ro ... 063971.php

Name one.

And they are junk, built to last a couple years. Whether that is an intelligent decision or not, I can't say .. but they are crap. Generic crap. The only reason they are even as good as they are is fairly strict quality control by outside forces.


As another example, when IBM sold their peecee products to Legend the quality immediately went down , in spite of all the controls IBM put in place to ensure this wouldn't happen. Ask SAQ. Thinkpads, for example, were always wonderful. Now they are slightly better than average (and probably on a downward spiral.) In the US, bad drives out good. I hope Europe is less subject to this syndrome. If not, please don't say anything. I'd like to retain this fantasy.


One may hate IBM (or that emotion may have dissipated) but they are a superior company. They did realize that letting some Chinese company have their product line was going to hurt their reputation so they actually did something about it. They put a lot of safeguards in place to ensure that the decline in quality would not be laid at their doorstep. Give Legend another five years and the entire "IBM" line will be junk. They've already started down that path. Luckily (or contractually, if IBM is smart - and they seem to be) the IBM name has left the building. And Legend is one of the better companies.

Chinese companies just can't help themselves. They have to "improve" whatever they touch with a bunch of useless hare-brained garbage that probably makes sense to some aliens on the Planet Xircon but for use by humans, it's crap. And the other thing they have to do is cheapify the product. By the time companies here are done, nothing made in China will last for more than six months. That's assuming it even works correctly in the first place. (Which is in itself fairly rare.)


Sure they do. And they are shit. Pure shit, no matter how much you pay. There is a reason that every time I come to the US I have to spend 80% of my time buying clothes. The made-in-China clothes that you get in the US are not only better quality but they are cheaper than they are here.


I'm happy for you.


Bullshit.


Ha. Ha. Ha. This is why I have to buy jeans once a year overseas ? In Marshall's ? Or why the pants I had made to measure in Dongguan fit like a dress ? Because of face, you smile and thank the drooling idiot and walk away with crap.

Chinese people make crap. Sorry. It is in theory possible to get decent product here but in Real Life (tm) it just doesn't happen.


Bull. Fucking. Shit.

It's all crap. If you want to find something made in China that's acceptable, go to Nordstrom's. Nothing sold domestically is worth ten cents. And I do mean nothing.


Oh, a wine-sipper. Thanks for regurgitating the propaganda the financiers spew. I'll stand by the statement that you are not going to find any Chinese products that are worth the powder to blow them to hell.

Now, there's a lot of stuff that doesn't need to be high quality. China does that fine. There's no reason to spend big bucks for a 6" crescent wrench for the bottom of the tackle box. And the country as a whole has a lot more common sense and a lot more freedom than the US. There are many good things about China.

The overall direction in the US is to sell shittier and shittier products for more and more money, to the point that there aren't many American products that I can feel comfortable holding up for comments. The trend is definitely downward - which is why a Fuel or Tezro can't compare to an Octane. Or even an O2 ... It's all about "how much proooofit can the "investors" [e.g. how much can Kirk Kerkorian and Carl Icahn squeeze out of the plebs ?] "earn" ?

But that doesn't change the fact that China is not a culture that's ever going to manufacture good product. There are a lot of good things about China but manufacturing isn't one of them. Simple fact.

The proverbial rock and the hard place

Solaris works great ... it's just that doing anything with it, what a nightmare ! If that idiot company had a nickel's worth of consistency they'd have gone places ... okay, places other than "down the toilet"

I mentioned that the Assist got her mom a Samsung Something. It's one of the above, cost $200 cash, works the same as all of them.

It's nicely made and works fine. She hates it but then, she hates all of these stupid swipe-n-wipe phones but there really aren't any other choices now, everyone has gone to the ridiculous finger-poking paradigm. She only uses the phone for sms and talking, the rest of it is a one-time novelty. No, she's not old

Except for the crappy interface, the Samsung is pretty nice. And you can't get away from that awful interface today so you grin and bear it. It's $400 cheaper than an iPhone.

Found it, sybr. This is the car for you. No doubt about it

You guys are breaking my heart

Ah. What you want then is a sprint car or a midget. No torque converter. Also no clutch. And no transmission. No flywheel, either. There is a driveshaft, which connects the engine directly to the rear axle ... With several hundred horsepower and only a few hundred pounds of car, they do move "now" when you pick up the throttle

My name Jose Jimenez ...

Oh, you can kiss me on a Monday ...
A Monday, a Monday is very very good.
Or you can kiss me on a Tuesday ...
A Tuesday, a Tuesday,
in fact I wish you would.
Or you can kiss me on a Wednesday
a Thursday, a Friday, a Saturday is best.
But never ever on a Sunday ...
A Sunday, a Sunday cause that's my day of rest

Oskar, when you're not puzzling out the secrets of the universe, have you ever been to the Spanish Riding School ?

Cool. That's on my "before I die" list. Is it as spectacular as it should be ?