The collected works of hamei - Page 38

CAD war ! CAD war ! Everybody take cover !

Fools rush in, so I took on the job ...

With older fireflops, an installed sqlite was definitely a problem. Been there, done that.

With the diegel fireflop 3.0.19, I first installed neko sqlite3-3.7.10. Ran FF. FF3 started up fine, did a little bit of bookmark organizing, added one or two, moved one or two, no crash.

Improvement One noted.

Then I renamed the ff3 sqlite libs to junk_1 and junk_2, made links from the neko_sqlite libs instead. That is also working, apparently fine. Not too much testing but added, deleted, and moved a few bookmarks with (so far) no evil results.

Improvement Two noted.

So apparently there is no reason that FF can't use an installed sqlite. Those Mozilla people really need a good slapping.



More testing would probably be in order but so far ....

edit : while I was rooting around in there, I noticed a libcairo in the fireflop tree. Hmm. Replaced that with a link to the nekoware libcairo as well. It is working but ... maybe a bad idea ? Is this going to get into the gcc-> MIPSPro Incompatibility Syndrome ? If anything, it's (subjectively) a little quicker than before.

edit ii : It is probably not a good idea to link the nekoware libcairo and libsql into their respective homes in firefox, and this is most likely a coincidence, but after three days have not had one crash since I made that change. Normally I'd get one bus error or std:bad alloc per day, even with the new pango (Lots fewer crashes than with the old pango tho.)

Hmmm. Not complaining but strange ...

While I'm in the guts fixing stuff, does anyone know offhand where to adjust the timeout settings for nfs ? Whenever a mounted nfs share goes offline, my desktop goes dead forever waiting for it to respond. Not exactly dead but all the graphical elements quit working such as the file windows, pasting text to the desktop, drag and drop and so on.

And I do mean forever . Long enough to go make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, eat it, take a pee and wash your hands, come back but Irix is still looking for the missing directory. It's tragic

Right ! Except then you have to work on Sunday to make up for the third day

We have an unusual concept of a three day holiday ...


Good idear, thanks. I'll give this a shot and report back.

Thanks very much but so far, no

May as well, it's only $5 USD ...

* Postfix: Your mail can now have the distinction of being deleted by 53 individual subservers

* Sendmail: Priority treatment if you can write, while holding down your Shift key, an m4 macro to calculate the airspeed velicoty of an unladen swallow. All other messages will be summarily deleted in 6-8 weeks, or whenever the queue daemon catches up, whichever is later

* Exim: Conveniently marks every message as "unrouteable" to reduce the hassle of making up reasons to bounce mail

* Courier: Promptly delivers, but then quickly hides, all mail

* Qmail: Might actually receive mail from DJB. The rest of the world will receive rude, copyrighted bounce messages.

* Exchange: Storing mail is irrelevant since the server isn't up often enough to actually receive any. This server is also perfectly secure unless it is running.

Oi. I'm impressed. I used sendmail for one summer, the guy who wrote it had to be from a different universe.

Agree with duck, postfix is pretty nice. And it runs on Irix I ran all our mail on an O2 for a long time, until dealing with the morons in the US got to be too exhausting. "It's from Chiiiina ! Must be spam !"

Stupid shits. Over 50% of the world's spam originates in the US and the major telecoms are the ones at fault. Spam would be very easy to stop, just like cell phone thefts, if they wanted.

I don't think I've ever heard of one failing. I'm sure one must have, somewhere, sometime ... but people have been hit on the head by meteorites, too. 600 to 700 is more than ten percent upspeed, nothing to sneeze at when you are running a slow cpu.

C'mon in, water's fine, nuthin' ta hurt ya in heah, boy ...

It's so nice to have a professional around the house

That was a pretty nifty idea with the link, J. Makes it easy to try out several different userChrome setups. Thank you for the lesson ...

More like necrophilia, I'm afraid


Are you using RapidApp, Jimmer ? or getting Viewkit elsewhere ?

Of course I knew that ! one of the Allman brothers ... played bass, right ?

Not being critical (I'm not even qualified to comment !), was just curious.

RapidApp is pretty simple for us dummies, in case someone else wants to get their fingers wet.


there's always FORTRAN

Close ...

Where the crane flies through the marshes
And the turtles sun their shells
Where the water rat goes swimmin'
That's where my swamp girl dwells.

Where the sunlight never wanders
And the moonlight never falls
Where the water's black with the devil's track
That's where my swamp girl calls.

What did she say there
The girl with the golden hair
To make me follow her down there ?
How did she look when she took me by the hand ?

Tonight her hair will float in the water
And the gold will no longer shine
It will spread like a fan in the water
While she makes a mysterious sign.
I have seen that sign before

Her eyes aren't like the whippoorwill
And her eyes aren't like the fawn
Her eyes are like the diamondback
Stretchin' in the dawn ...

You may have to get your hands wet in the Windows urinal

no, no no ! The sun comes up over here first. Do you walk out the front door ass-first ? of course not . That makes us the head end of the planet ... which means, of course ...

This

sounds like sacrificing Clytemnestra before we even leave home ...

I had similar difficulties a few years ago - the answer was, the graphical tools for recording suck. Use the command line and all goes well.

The instructions may have been on Ian's site and they are certainly here in nekochan archives ... also, as Robespierre suggests, O2's work best for video at somewhere around 6.5.14-17.

There is a lot of discussion of this problem buried here - over to your right and up there is FAQ, Search, Members, and User Control Panel. The one you want is Search

Well, all I can say is, I was trying to make a short video on the O2 years ago using Media Recorder without success. Searched here and maybe at Ian's place, found several people (maybe foetz ?) saying "Don't even mess with that pos, use the command line, here's an example ..."

I did that and it worked. Sorry if you don't like that answer.

We best call on the wreck. If I help you with a search, we'll end up learning how to build a steam locomotive

You can start with < man mediarecorder > but I'll be the first to admit, sometimes man pages are less than crystal-clear.

Ian is Ian Mapleson, much good info on his site about various SGI-related tasks. He also posts here sometimes.

http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/main.asp

You probably did this already but just in case : did you do an < enableall > from the prom ?

Out of curiosity, is this a deskside Tezro or a rackmount ?

First off, I hate you.

Now that there's no misunderstandings, are you getting one desktop or two ? Two sets of 0,0 origin points, looks like two desks stacked one above the other ?

And I see you also have "Sync Disabled" . While you were fighting this, have you come across any method to get "Sync Enabled" ? With your setup you can't see it but I bet you have tearing at your borders.

Pretty neat though.

Did I mention that I hate you ?

Okay, this won't help you much but maybe give you some hope ...

I did something similar once with some bad memory. POST disabled the memory slots due to the bad memory so I switched them into the other memory slots, so the computer could disable all the memory. ( Fuel )

After that it didn't want to boot

I did manage to fix it via some hardware-switching and using the L1 so you should be able to do the same.

Sorry I can't be more exact : Oldtimer's is hell.


Cool. I was just wondering if it was the rackmount that was on yahoo auctions. I'm still kicking myself for not buying that

Day doo ron ron, babe, day doo ron ron

Laughed so hard I wet my pants ...

http://www.stokely.com/lighter.side/evol.pgm.html

(This belongs elsewhere but maybe people who hang here would appreciate it more)

Cool cool cool. Mikey wants !


I don't think it is, really ... I mean, the intended capabilities are limited to the 165mhz single-link dvi bandwidth (an oversimplification but convenient) and we aren't exceeding that ...

However, I still bet you are getting tearing. You just can't see it because of the bars in the way. The only time I see it is if I have something that crosses over the tangency border. Then if you move that window you can see that the dvd refreshes one side at a time, right-left right-left right-left.

It's not obnoxious but it is there. I wonder if some sort of sync device would overcome that, or if it is just unavoidable due to the way the dcd works ?

I don't think you would see this tho, unless the two sides were actually touching ?

Just wondering, do the two portions of each dcd synch to a single screen automatically for you every time on startup or do you ever have to diddle with them to get them to play nice ?

On mine, about half the time I have to do xsetmon from side-by-side flashing doublemint screens - two mice, two toolchests, two sets of everything -- choose the res it's already running at, click "okay" then they will settle down. Once in a while have to go through the sequence a couple times.

Curiosity killed the cat What do you get when you do a screenshit ? My guess is a single 3200 x 2400 rgb but who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man ?


Edit : Ah. Read more carefully, grashoppa. If you only have one pipe, you can turn on xinerama till you're blue in the face but it won't really do anything. So the software sync which you mentioned earlier is not functioning for me cuz it ain't there until the setup has more than a single pipe. Channel != pipe.

Would be interesting to see if the software sync does actually work when the various portions of the screen are touching, considering how they say the DCD works. Want to send over the test equipment ? i will gladly return it as soon as all the certification sequences are finished

It looks a little similar to what you get when you connect a monitor to the middle socket while running a 2@ resolution ...


With a T221 you never see the part that syncs ... no matter what the incoming signal is, the internals of the T221 supply a 48hz refresh to the panel. So the backy-forthy is strange. It's not a sync problem, the monitor is actually showing what it is receiving, alternating refreshes.

Also, during boot or if you go to the prom, everything is fine except doubled. It's only when you pick up the graphics of the desktop that the graphics do their dance. XSgi problem ?

Strange ...


Too noisy ... it's not a big deal - the first time scared the crap out of me but it's only a few clicks to get xsweatmon up, choose the refresh that it's already running at, then close xsetmon. Once in a great while takes two tries but that's better than the howl of an angry fan all night


I am wondering if I will have to do double sync-ups with two graphics cards ! Perhaps Xinerama will solve that problem. Some day hope to find out ...


Yeah, but now you have to resize all your screenshots, heh heh


Is it as big as an Octane V12 ?

Well, something's happenin' here. But what is it ain't exactly clear ...


You get an image of the booting process and Onyx Infinite Performance splash screens in quadruplicate on my desk first thing in the morning when you start up, I assume ?



Okay, I give in. Send over that top O350 with the V12 and DCD and I'll give 4@ 1920x1200 a try

Oh wait ! I have a better idea ! Keep the DCD's, just send over both O350's with the V12's. Ill add them to mine then we can skip the backy-forthy flickering problem entirely !


Sherwood has left the forest He's now in your neck of the woods wishing he were back here in the land of the free, the solvent*, the not-few.

* Except for me. Anyone depending on the honesty of the American businessman is an imbecile. Sigh.

Ben ... look to your right. Now up a little. See FAQ, Search , Members, User Control Panel ?

Where's the <blink></blink> tages when you need them ?

Damn good eyes ! I just whooshed over the top without reading, it's such a faq. SMJ is quadruple correct, this method is a big fat NO WAY !!!

btw - have to use < setmon >, xsetmon won't run without the graphics up.

You can also do it from the prom, < setenv gfx low > but I am not sure that all SGI kompewters will recognize that.

If you're interested, we're having a half-off sale on chicken plus if you hurry, with every case of wings we'll toss in a complete river pig for another fifty cents !

I have to ask ... what's the point ? If you just "like the look" and are a cheapskate, then buy some cardboard, bend it up to the shape of a 45 and spray paint it silver. Do a red one and a blue one and a black one and zowee ! You've got a collection !

What the hell's the point of a "collection" anyhow ? What are you planning to do, turn it on when friends come over so you can say, "Wo, look at that desktop ! Isn't that cool ? Now over here we have the ..."

With rare exceptions, collection = bullshit. Why not choose something you like and actually use it ?

hey, fella ... you ever hear of ten-four fox ? I'd say the contest to see who can stick the most monitor cables onto the back of their computer pales in comparison to what you've done ...

This

http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/

seemed like it would be useful, especially for working with SD cards ...

I sure didn't get very far though ...


While we're on the subject ... a little reading is a dangerous thing but it looks like files systems on Irix live in userland ? Which would mean that FAT16 and other file systems should not be impossible ?