Nekonomicon - hamei

hamei
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Wrote on the subject of Petition: keep Google Groups compatible with older browsers at Feb. 6, 2013, 5:25 p.m...

bluecode wrote:

Use a Usenet newsreader and a free news server.

http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/

I think Usenet went away for a few reasons :

First, the ISP's dropped their nntp servers to save a few dollars. This is the standard "business practice" called bait-and-switch.

Then the free servers became unreliable and hard to come by. There have been several that came and went.

Concurrently, as you pointed out, Usenet became worthless. It's not just google groups. It only takes a few people to ruin a newsgroup.

Result : It's dead, Jim.

hamei
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Wrote on the subject of Looking to get back into SGI hardware at Feb. 7, 2013, 3:08 a.m...

SAQ wrote: ... bought when that gen were being replaced at Boeing ...

Did that model come with the lithium batteries ?

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Wrote on the subject of Irix on reddit at Feb. 7, 2013, 3:50 a.m...

ShadeOfBlue wrote:

I just checked and mine has a pull-up resistor too, you got ripped off

White face tax

Sometimes I am just too lazy to bargain.

hamei
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Wrote on the subject of beta test: firefox3.0.19 at Feb. 7, 2013, 7:18 p.m...

recondas wrote: So reload noscript and stop javascript from trying to jam all that extra crap thru that little hole in the GFW.

No-Script is back in the saddle, we shall see what happens. Did notice that the crashes

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   moz_run_program[36]: 1227 Memory fault

comes at the point of closing a tab, several times. Memory management coding error within Fireflop ?

Gotta go warsh the kevlar outerwear now, tomorrow night is The Second Biggest One here (the Truly Big Night is four nights after new year's, when the flying people come carrying money) ... intensive ground level fireworks on their way

hamei
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Wrote on the subject of FS/FT: SiCortex SC-072 Workstation at Feb. 7, 2013, 8:38 p.m...

Dragongolfer wrote: So I have decided to part with my SC-072 ...

I will never understand why SGI did not get together with these guys. Put it down to yet another brilliant move by Bozo Ewald, I guess. Corporate America has the imagination of a flea.

hamei
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Wrote on the subject of FS/FT: SiCortex SC-072 Workstation at Feb. 8, 2013, 8:40 p.m...

R-ten-K wrote: Yeah, because there was such a pent up demand for these systems...

Hey ! Nice to see you. It's always good to hear from the minions of imagination-free Corporate America ! No pentup demand, exactly. Exactly like there was no pentup demand for the PC. IBM said so, total capacity requirement maybe three thousand a year. And no need for more than one megabyte of memory. And no demand for radio or the telephone or the automobile or the steam engine or movable type or ... heck, according to the corporate types, all we really want is a better branch to swing from. Which they will be happy to supply for sixty bananas per leaf. They own the rights to "branch", you know. Got it right here in the Intellectual Property portfolio right next to "round corner."

There's this thing about "demand." No one can predict what will be a demand until after it's demonstrated that there was a demand. If SciCortex had been anything but a money-grubbing worthless group of shyster shitheads themselves, they might still be around.

R-Ten, will you ever understand that Corporate America is nothing but a bunch of no-talent worthless bloodsuckers ? The only thing they understand is how to steal other people's ideas and suck the life blood out of society. If the worst Depression since 1930 can't show you that the banksters, investment gurus, corporate managers, lawyers, patents, intellectual property, the entire American Establishment is nothing but a cancer on society, then speech with you is hopeless.

hamei
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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan 10th anniversary? at Feb. 9, 2013, 11:34 p.m...

fu wrote: hamei will handle the firewerks

Got werx, just have to process the film .... news at eleven !

hamei
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Wrote on the subject of FS/FT: SiCortex SC-072 Workstation at Feb. 11, 2013, 7:38 p.m...

R-ten-K wrote: Hamei, by all means do not let your lack of basic knowledge, comprehension, or understanding of a specific matter deter your from lecturing others on it...

No prob, senor. I've owned a small business for forty-some years, supported myself and several others from the age of seventeen until now making real-world items that do stuff like pumping out sinking ships, watched while the US went from a country of 80% small businesses and 20% megacorps to the reverse. And watched while "innovation" and good ideas and hard work all went into the toilet in favor of market manipulation and control. Why did SciCortex quit ? Woe is us, we couldn't get our third round of financing ! Heaven forbid we'd put any of our own money in ! Are you mad ?

In short, I've watched while the US flushed itself right down the toilet to become a third-rate, third-world shithole which has absolutely nothing to offer the world except the US Army bringing you Democracy at gunpoint.

So y'all wanna run your cv past ? I'd be interested to learn how a mouthpiece for the Establishment can gather so much comprehension, knowledge and understanding. Normally they are good at propaganda but not so hot with facts.

Back on topic: This is an interesting system, I hope it finds a good home. Cheers.

But I thought there was no de-maaaand ! ??

hamei
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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan 10th anniversary? at Feb. 11, 2013, 10:10 p.m...

Hakimoto wrote:

vishnu wrote: What was on the site in the three years before the forum was created?

Stuff. But no place to talk about it.

A lot of good Indigo stuff

Pre-sniping, I used to bid against neko occasionally on Indigo parts. He usually won

Neko, do you still have that Indigo with the Galileo video that you got way back when ?

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Wrote on the subject of Any experience with IPS SOG-capable displays ? at Feb. 11, 2013, 11:31 p.m...

kubatyszko wrote:

Thing is - I *suspect*, that my BENQ panel broke because of my extensive VFO experiments, but I have no evidence that this is true.

Probably no need to feel guilty ... I have not had great sucess with Benq longevity.

recondas wrote:

..... just in case the wiki article takes a while.

The V0ice of Experience

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Wrote on the subject of Any experience with IPS SOG-capable displays ? at Feb. 12, 2013, 2:47 a.m...

kubatyszko wrote:

I'm considering 2412 as an alternative to 2410 (in case I can't find it) ...

There's a ton on Taobao, from ~ $200 to ~ 300 USD. U2412M, is that the one of which you speak ? There are P2412's also.

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Wrote on the subject of Apple sucks the big ten inch at Feb. 13, 2013, 6:04 p.m...

guardian452 wrote:

http://www.anorak.co.uk/347702/money/is-microsofts-excel-the-most-dangerous-software-in-the-world.html/

Kind of funny

But I don't believe for a minute that JP Morgan makes multi-billion dollar decisions based on Excel. That stinks of "plausible excuse to tell the ignorant masses."

I also have to wonder how many real Englishmen don't know the expression "stuff ed shirt " ? Do they outsource that website to China ?

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Wrote on the subject of Solaris 10 1/13 published!!!! at Feb. 13, 2013, 6:22 p.m...

SAQ wrote:

SGI was bankrupt, IRIS-4D MIPS was an obsoleted architecture, and they'd already reassigned/removed most of the IRIX developers.

Yup. Shoulda sold Irix to SciCortex for a million. Then SciCortex would have had applications and an operating system to run on their deskside O3900, so maybe people could have used the things.

Hell, a hundred thousand would have been more than they got for it. Or ever will. Greed is a wonderful thing, isn't it ?

@ Titox : before I brave the Oracle torture maze, does this come just in DVD form or do they have a CD version as well ?

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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan 10th anniversary? at Feb. 13, 2013, 8:50 p.m...

nekonoko wrote:

Yep, still have it in storage along with a few other Indigos of various configs.

Indigo's are neat. The later machines may be sexier and definitely faster but there's something about an Indigo ....

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Wrote on the subject of Apple sucks the big ten inch at Feb. 14, 2013, 12:15 a.m...

SAQ wrote:

Come to think of it, on second reduction they really didn't say anything. The hard facts are obvious and have been known for a long time - in that story it's "check your math and check your subordinate's math"

I took the story as being a bit tongue-in-cheek but maybe not.

About 'check the math', I don't believe that for a minute. They put a couple billion on red and it came up black. When they got busted they needed a cover story. Wall Street is way too far into the world of fantasy for mathematics to apply.

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Wrote on the subject of Apple sucks the big ten inch at Feb. 14, 2013, 8:04 p.m...

smj wrote:

Confirmed what I thought might be the case, that the guy was assuming too many parallels between mobile service/companies in North America and China.

Short story, the guy is an idiot. Or what's worse, and far too common here, making a living selling schtick to the dumb foreigners back home.

Anyhoo, here's what I did : off in the countryside for a few days. Hit Maidanglao for lunch (it is not possible to get a drink with ice in it at any Chinese establishment in winter). Walking back home, took cameraphone photos of the various telephone stores. (Many of them are closed for the holiday but normally they are open until ten. That's also why there are not 40,000 people in every photo.) Pulled the photos out of the phone with the built-in mini-SD card which the iPhone does not have, panorama-ed them. (Sorry for the size but the details might be interesting to some people ?)

China Telecom gone make Apple rich beyond belief ! You decide.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan 10th anniversary? at Feb. 15, 2013, 6:37 p.m...

fu wrote:

hamei will handle the firewerks

Film's still not ready but I went down and picked up a few boxes. Here we are loading about fifty pounds of explosives into the back of the car ....

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hamei
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Wrote on the subject of dumb litle problem at Feb. 15, 2013, 6:57 p.m...

I get this error fairly frequently - it's not fatal but would be nice to get rid of it :

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Warning: Color name "QuickHelpForeground" is not defined

Before I spend two days searching through Techpubs, does anyone know offhand where the QuickHelpForeground color could be defined ?

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Wrote on the subject of xpdf 3.03 at Feb. 16, 2013, 3 a.m...

Does this file crash anyone else's xpdf 3.03 ?

(SFW, just an APC brochure)

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  urchin 1% WARNING: core: xpdf: PID 1513, failed to write a  text area (core file deleted)

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Wrote on the subject of xpdf 3.03 at Feb. 16, 2013, 6:15 p.m...

canavan wrote:

It crashes, just like some other pdfs I've tried, in freetype.

Thank you, I'll pass that along.

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Wrote on the subject of dumb litle problem at Feb. 16, 2013, 6:51 p.m...

canavan wrote:

You'll either have to find some other color that is (still?) defined in the SGI color schemes e.g. in usr/lib/X11/schemes, or modify your schemes to define QuickHelpForeground ...

Thank you, saved me an hour looking for where it hides. The scheme didn't like #000000 but it's fine with #210030 so fine by me. I ain't no artiste

Some day it would be nice to make up a scheme that's not so gaudy. IndigoMagic is okay but some of them, woo-hoo !

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Wrote on the subject of xpdf 3.03 at Feb. 17, 2013, 6:11 p.m...

canavan wrote:

I've just uploaded a patched version of freetype ...

Whoo baby, canavan be da man ! this works perfect !

Thank you.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan 10th anniversary? at Feb. 17, 2013, 10:39 p.m...

Maybe a little big but in honor of the occasion ... for neko

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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan 10th anniversary? at Feb. 17, 2013, 10:52 p.m...

vishnu wrote:

hamei wrote:

Maybe a little big... :oops:

I dl'ed it at about 120KB per second, so, not too bad for neko's server. Very skyrockety.... :mrgreen:

Oi, sorry neko. If you want to move or remove, I won't have hurt feelings. Seemed nice to celebrate tho

btw ...

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  urchin 1% mplayer -vo gl2 nekoversary.mov
  
  MPlayer 1.0rc1- MIPSpro Compilers: Version 7.4.4m (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
  
  CPU: SGI MIPS
  
  Playing nekoversary.mov.
  
  Cache fill:  4.82% (606208 bytes)
  
  ISO: File Type Major Brand: Original QuickTime
  
  Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
  
  VIDEO:  [avc1]  480x272  24bpp  30.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
  
  Clip info:
  
  encoder: 6.1
  
  ==========================================================================
  
  Trying to force video codec driver family ffmpeg...
  
  Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
  
  Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
  
  ==========================================================================
  
  ==========================================================================
  
  Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
  
  FAAD: Failed to initialize the decoder!
  
  ADecoder init failed :(
  
  ADecoder init failed :(
  
  Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6134706D.
  
  Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
  
  Audio: no sound
  
  Starting playback...
  
  VDec: vo config request - 480 x 272 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
  
  Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
  
  Opening video filter: [scale]
  
  VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
  
  Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
  
  SwScaler: using unscaled yuv420p -> bgr24 special converter
  
  VO: [gl2] 480x272 => 480x272 BGR 24-bit
  
  [gl2] You have OpenGL >= 1.2 capable drivers, GOOD (16bpp and BGR is ok!)
  
  [gl2] antialiasing off
  
  [gl2] bilinear linear
  
  V:  34.7 1041/1041 33% 147%  0.0% 0 0 0%
  
  Exiting... (End of file)

There was an mplayer plugin project at one time. Now that ff3 works, I wonder ......

hamei
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Wrote on the subject of gotta stay on your toes around here ... at Feb. 18, 2013, 2:01 a.m...

Sooprize sooprize ! I see somebody put graphics magick in beta. I would recommend that anyone doing graphics manipulations give it a shot. It's slightly different than image magick but faster, especially if you have more than one processor. It's a great program and the guys involved really try hard to be truly cross-platform and stable and all them other good things. They even listen to grumpy people having difficulties compiling their code and tell the grump how to do it right.

If you've never used it, just type < gm display > in a terminal. A frog will hop up. Click on the frog and you'll get a menu. It's also capable from a command line but just to get the feet wet, try the gui ... nice program. This is probably canavan's work, eh ? thanks

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Wrote on the subject of SGI and AW swag and promo stuff at Feb. 18, 2013, 3:46 a.m...

yetanother**ixuser wrote:

so the SWAG ( Silently we are gay) has reached nekochan...good good

Best be careful or you'll draw Pymble down from the coolibah tree !

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Wrote on the subject of beta : neko_(hp)x48 at Feb. 18, 2013, 5:43 a.m...

Works good (at least for basic functions, didn't try any differential equations), looks good, suggest running < x48 -help > for some good command line options.

One vote to move to /current

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Wrote on the subject of beta neko_freetype2-2.4.11-infinality at Feb. 18, 2013, 5:55 a.m...

One for the gipper, this is a fixed version of the previous one that worked well, but doesn't crash xpdf. Works great.

Over to current here, happy with it.

But , I forgot what happened last time, if you have a customized fontconfig, save your config files just in case. I suddenly had an unusual browsing experience. Normally I don't use Comic Sans

(Screenshot is resized, can't judge sharpness by it.)

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Wrote on the subject of beta test: firefox3.0.19 at Feb. 18, 2013, 7:35 p.m...

diegel wrote: I fixed two more alignment errors.

Still crashes for me sometimes but sure renders pages better than FF2 !

Take a look here :

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngs-img.html

Nice !

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Wrote on the subject of beta : neko_nonpareil-0.79 at Feb. 18, 2013, 7:54 p.m...

Tried to install, it wants neko_gettext.sw.libdir but I don't have that. Have the most current gettext from nekoware installed ( 0.18.1.1 )

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Wrote on the subject of beta test : pbzip2 / unzip2 v 1.1.6 at Feb. 18, 2013, 8:25 p.m...

Anyone with more than 2p, jump on this guy. Faster ! Works both ways. One vote for /current

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Wrote on the subject of SGI and AW swag and promo stuff at Feb. 19, 2013, midnight..

^ There is no one who does crazy people like Gene Wilder. I used to like Johnny Depp but compare his Willie Wonka to Gene Wilder ... not a chance, Johnny. Back to Thespians for you, fella !

And Silver Streak ... the scene where he's practising to be black. Rolling on the floor funny. It would never get into a movie today, the US is too free and tolerant and full of itself. Ever buzz sheep, Steve ?

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Wrote on the subject of png squeezing at Feb. 19, 2013, 1:39 a.m...

Maybe this should go in /software but oh well ... Not worth a tardist but sometimes we use png's ... I notice some other people here do also. The only drawback they have is they get huge. For web pages and emails and stuff, not so good. So there is this :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pngnqs9/

It seems to work well, I have a hard time distinguishing between a 2 megabyte full png and the same photo squshed to 800k

Irix 6.5 version attached, not worth a tardist. Both will respond to their names --help. It's not fast but the results are good.

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Wrote on the subject of png squeezing at Feb. 19, 2013, 6:51 a.m...

Alver wrote:

Eek. Sounds like a great idea for vector graphics etc, but not ideal for actual pictures

You would think so, but I did a size-reduction on a few photos and looked at them with a magnifying glass side-by side and it seems pretty good.

Normally we try to work with png's so we don't get the quality reduction every time we save. And we save a lot

Tiffs are cumbersome, png's seem okay. But when you go to email or put on the web, a bunch of 2 meg files is rude. And slow. This seems to do a good job.

Give 'er a try and see what you think. If you want to do it in h-pucks, it compiles easy.

edit :

Did some more testing and comparisons. The png-squishing does come out better than you would think. However, a jpeg from a png looks to be smaller and slightly more accurate. So this is an okay tool and I'm sure has some uses but for now, we'll stick to jpegging at the end of a process.

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Wrote on the subject of Microsoft Surface? Windows8? at Feb. 19, 2013, 5:26 p.m...

Jesus, guys. Are you blind ? the guy is a spammer. He found a post that mentioned L E D lights and reworked it to fit his "subtle" clickthrough advertising scheme. Go look at what he did.

No wonder google has "safe browsing." Wakey uppy, kids !!

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Wrote on the subject of SGI and AW swag and promo stuff at Feb. 19, 2013, 5:36 p.m...

SAQ wrote:

Wilder's was more innocuous and childish. Depp's was much more darkly malevolent.

Uhh, yeah. We disagree

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Wrote on the subject of png squeezing at Feb. 20, 2013, 6:16 p.m...

canavan wrote:

There are already 2 similar tools in /beta,

That's what made me go looking for info

Quote:

...while the examples on the pngnq webpage are rather convincing, I've found the results of pngq to look superior to me in every single case I've tried so far.

The pngnqs9 page claims it's better too. I was surprised that the results were as good as they are - as Alver pointed out, the description of the process is not encouraging !

But in the end, comparing a full png, a crushed png, and a jpg, the jpeg was smaller and more accurate, I think.

So I'm not sure what the value is ?

Anyway, anyone who wants to take a look, the binary above works and it's simple to use. Maybe the tardists give a better result but for a quick look, feel free ...

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Wrote on the subject of Age structure of our members at Feb. 21, 2013, 6:16 a.m...

recondas wrote:

Seems like we've been there, done this once already (that last time you were bored?)

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16718144

Dang, I was going to fire up the carbon-dating equipment

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Wrote on the subject of Twist-Lock plugs and outlets at Feb. 21, 2013, 6:42 a.m...

pierocks wrote:

Did you try looking at a local electrical supply house rather than a big box store? You might get lucky.

Did you try Grainger's ? Sometimes some of their prices are okay.

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Wrote on the subject of Age structure of our members at Feb. 21, 2013, 5:46 p.m...

recondas wrote:

I think hamei's got that niche all sewed up.

I did not take that pickanick basket, Mr Ranger Sir !

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