The collected works of hamei - Page 4

squeen wrote: When Alias dropped IRIX like a hot potato, they lost all my sympathy. Instant karma.

Can you imagine the shame of working at Alias and admitting you're owned by Autodesk ? And Discreet ! Holy smokes. It'd be like working at BMW if it were bought by Yugo

nekonoko wrote: Not really possible since mplayer depends on Windows .DLL files to implement Windows Media hence that solution only works on x86 Linux.

Oh. Phooey. Thanks for the info .... maybe the world needs a wmv-to-avi converter. Or maybe the world needs to drown Bill Gates but it's probaly too late for that ...

LaLora wrote:

if it were bought by Yugo

Actually, it's "Zastava"

Did they make the Trabant, too ? And I wonder what happened to that company that used to make the Chinese state limos ... the ones that looked like a stretched black '53 deSoto ... ? Maybe they'll buy Autodesk, that would serve those offspring of an out-of-wedlock coupling right

LaLora wrote: ... last nail to the coffin was added in 1999 when main yugo manufacturing facility was bombarded by multi-million dollar us navy satellite guided submarine-launched cruise missiles (..guys, what a waste of resources to destroy a few yugos in a half-dead company ...

When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail

Brombear wrote: you simply forget the X1/9 (ok, maybe not in argentina) ... I am driving these beauties for more than 15 years and while being slightly underpowered compared to todays cars the suspension is a real jewel and gives best handling on curvy mountain roads.

I don't usually like Japanese cars but have you ever driven an early MR2 ? They don't need brakes - no matter how fast you're going, just turn the wheel and you're gonna make it thru the turn. Very impressive road-holding and even fun to drive. My sister left hers with me for a week once .. when she came back it had another 2300 miles on the odometer. If I'd known she was going to check I would have disconnected the odometer

LaLora wrote:

no matter how fast you're going, just turn the wheel and you're gonna make it thru the turn

that is a very interesting engineering concept. I never tought of something like that before

Okay, okay, slight exaggeration They stick like glue tho, probably as well as a Lotus Europa. Another advantage the MR2 has is their four-valve engine has a *very* wide power band so you don't have to stir it up like some rice rocket. On a really tight road it's probably even more fun than a GT40 ... well, maybe not. Still, grest-handling car. Much better than the cheesy X1/9

Brombear wrote: Did you happen to fall over that rice bag cnn reported a few weeks ago

Hmm, no. Which one was that ? And I don't like rice rockets .... my personal favorite midengine car was the Shadow can-am car. Second would be any Chaparral. Mmmm

Actually, God meant for the engine to be in front, the fuel tank to be filled with alcohol in back and the driveshaft to run between your legs. No gearbox or clutch. Sprinters, midgets, even WOO ... now those are cars !

Brombear wrote: @hamei

One of my favorites would be the lancia stratos, very short wheel base demanding to work with the turning wheel to actually hold that beast on the street (nothing you want to have a continous 500km high speed drive on our motorways).

Didn't Ford build an Escort with a DFV Cosworth or something inside for rallying ? About the same thing

Some nice midengined dino based 190ps would be enough for now

Definitely. The Dino was a really nice-looking car and there's no need for 600 hp on the street. Sounded good too, unlike the V8 monstrosities from Ferrari. Don't know about Europe but in the US there are usually good prices on less hyped cars. You can get a Maserati Indy for less than ten grand. The engine is in front, too, where it belongs. Hard to get the back end to come around on them damned mid-engine jobbers

GeneratriX wrote: [ ...Anyway, and talking about Dino; in my honest oppinion another really cool looking coupe (but cabriolet) from these age (middle 70's) is the 1973/74 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS,

That's the one I was talking about. Underpowered but really attractive and fun to drive. They've sold another Dino since then ? Must be after Enzo kicked the bucket and the company became a haven for boot-kissers to the yuppy community.

I could really find it more up to date with less chromium metals...);

I bet that's a 1974 model, right after the 5mph bumper restrictions hit. I don't remember them having those god-awful bumpers originally ...

And by the way; I'll not think too hard if the thing has front or rear engine if at some point I have the chance to put my hands on any of those beasts!!!

For front engine it'd be pretty hard to do better than a DB7 ... well, 275GTB would be okay too. Or a '30's Alfa. Or a Lotus Elan. Or a '69 Mach One with a shaker. Or ... ya know, there are so many neat cars from the past. I can't imagine buying one of those boring new things when you could do so much better with something from another time.

zizban wrote: A pain ain't the half of it. I takes nearly a day for on mac OS X and it has to have its hand held the whole time.

Probably an urban myth but I remember hearing something about a full day on an 8 processor Origin in Irix .... yuck !

recondas wrote: I picked up a LaCie SCSI DVD-RAM drive with a Matshita (Panasonic) LF-201 mechanism <the drive comes in a blue case that looks like it was meant to go w/ an o2 or 02k > .

Ahh, so *you* bought that drive. Good going, we need more people to take risks with unknown equipment and report back

So far I can tell you that a firewire LaCie external on a Fuel at 6.5.21 doesn't work

CordlessTucanMania wrote: Oh, a cool tip...you know those "burn with nero" .nrg images ...

On a related note, I compiled a utility to convert Nero .nrg images into iso's ... it's in my folder. I've only used it a few times but it seems to work okay.

Nihilus wrote: ...use/have used street drugs?

Do you mean like caps of psilocybin or mescaline you bought from some fast-talking shady-looking character in a doorway on Telegraph in 1967 ? The stuff that always turned out to be acid anyway ? Except for once when it really was THC ?

No, never.

skywriter wrote:

GeneratriX wrote: I like them!

He will not eat green eggs and ham, like them, like them, Sam I am!

You really can't put a price on good stuff!

Don't know about a price and everyone claims that Windows is now wonderful, but this stewpid (IBM Intellistation, no slouch for a peecee) box just froze up and lost a half hour's work. My slowish Fewel *very* seldom does that. The price was what it cost plus the hassles of not having USB or firewire and PTC dropping further developments so I'm locked forever at WF-2 but ... well .... I'm still using it and probably will be until I give up and change to Sun. If wishes were horses beggars would ride, but if SGI hadn't pissed away most of their energies on stewpidity they could still have a fairly competitive workstation to offer. Smaller marketspace for sure but their stock wouldn't be selling for forty-one cents if they were a viable company.

GeneratriX wrote: Well, I'm sure you'll be curious about the subject!
The matter is: I want to try to stablish with this post some kind of reference for myself about the worst/better designs related to Graphic-User-Interfaces on the history of software.

So; what do you think? ...What is in your oppinion the worst GUI? ...What is in your oppinion the better GUI?

Hmm, a chance to tout the Workplace Shell again ..... altho it's an ooui rather than a gui. Maybe OO didn't work out in other places ( Triumph of the Object ) but it sure makes sense in a desktop shell. Logical, consistent, highly extensible, easy to customize in any direction one could want without adding bazillions of crappy little scripts ... great concept. I also wish the direction IBM and Apple were taking in the late eighties - OpenDoc, CUA, making the desktop task -centered rather than application-centered, all the good stuff we lost out on because of Microsoft and stupid consumers .... ah well. And now Irix is going down the tubes, to be replaced by the half-ass wannabe Windows-clone of Loonix. Now I know why olde fartes always babble about the goode olde dayes

nekonoko wrote: Whoa - just arrived. Got a shipping notice from Shanghai just yesterday too. Currently setting it up

They are made near Shanghai now ? Yet Another product that's made in China but costs three times as much as in the US

sunverilog wrote: Are Macs so expensive in China? I saw quiet a few people/students using iBooks and Powerbooks in the Beijing Starbucks.

Mac stuff is about 30% or more higher in China than in the US. Starbucks - yeah. Do you know who goes to Starbucks ? In fact, the very fact that there are Starbucks in China ...

kshuff wrote: Its not going to sell anyway - who cares

When I saw the topic title I thought that ajerimez had a deal to buy the company

CDG wrote: The Indy was in for 2 or 3 years, and then was replaced by the (far superior) O2.

C'mon, admit it - that was flamebait, right ? I had an r5-180 Indy while away from home for a while since it was easy to carry. I'd rather use that Indy than a low-spec O2. The r5-180 O2 is just awful while the Indy ain't half bad.

But yeah, as far as a router goes an Octane would be much better

S1nn3r wrote: Anyone know if it is at all possible to boot and install IRIX on a Fuel with a mixture of EFS CD's(for the Overlay/Install Tools) and ISO 9660(for the Foundation CDs ?)

Or prehaps a way to boot/install from a set of ISO 9660 formated CDs with the dist's on ?

Is this the only SGI machine you have ? 'cuz I struggled with that for ages (had a weirdass combination of CD's, I think - you need at least 6.5.14 to install onto a Fuel) before I gave up and put them all on another box running Irix. Then it was a snap to do a network install.

or is it our Great Firewall that's having a conniption ? I can't get to techpubs ....

RageX wrote: Scary. I should mirror techpubs when it comes back up. Hopefully they're not cleaning house.

Hope Techpubs doesn't plan to ascend into Heaven in 40 days

Brombear wrote: But this is a very impressive board, too bad that its only sold to OEMs.

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-S4885G2

In maximum combination this will be over 100K US$ mostly due to expensive memory chips. Add SGI premium logo and you'll be in the >=150K range.

How many people do you suppose will be willing to pay fifty thousand smackers for a Silicon No-Graphics Outside ! sticker ?

Hakimoto wrote: I was waiting for this! MIPS3 fork! Yeehaw!

Supplement ! Supplement ! Fork sounds so .... divisive.

Spidy wrote: I know teleffect can control the mouse and keyboard across two machines, but I'd like to know if there's a software solution for sharing one monitor on two machines.

Depends on what two machines, sort of. Two Irix machines is easy - this is X-Window, after all. Other varieties of X can be a problem since the SGI X has some extensions that some programs use. I could always display an OS/2 X program on my Irix desktop but displaying Irix programs on an XFree/86 desktop didn't always work. Hummingbord and the other x-windows adapter programs sorta work usually. You have to experiment. VNC is slow.

To try it out go to your Toolchest, hit tools, then "enable remote display." The start the program on your other box with some variant of <binaryname -display hostname:displaynumber >. Check the docs for better directions

For a really quick tryout go to the 'toolchest', then 'desktop', then 'access files' then 'by remote login.' Fill in the info, maybe choose "toolchest" and you should be able to run most of your programs remotely while viewing them locally. Works good. I'm not sure what the fixation is with KVM's ....

Spidy wrote: Well, I do plan on sharing a single monitor between 2 SGI's, but this method is cumbersome. How do I switch from one to the other?

ah-ha ! we've got two SGI's and I assume you're at home or a small office behind some cheesy router like a D-Link or Linksys ? Do you have everybody happily talking on a network ? If so, this is a picnic. You have to "enable remote display" on each one ("tools" on the toolchest, unless that's something I butchered up myself.) Turn on both computers. Now for starters do 'toolchest-> desktop-> access files-> by remote login' on one box. You'll get a popup asking for a user name and password. Enter what you normally would to log into machine number two. If you choose "toolchest" you'll get the other machine's toolchest opening on the desktop that you are using.. Choose something from that toolchest - maybe open a browser ? Now that browser will be running on machine number two but displaying on machine number one. You needn't "switch between" because everything is displaying on your single desktop. Since they're both SGI boxes almost everything should happily display across the network but run on its own hardware. (You can set up more desks if you like to keep the two machines separated. Toochest, desktop, extra desks.)

Just try it out. It's easy - easier than a kvm (imo) and more practical, especially if both boxes are SGI's. And it's way faster than VNC ...

Spidy wrote: Actually, this didn't help. Still can't download, only view.

Rats. Looks like my download approval went to mailto:[email protected] If anybody who got the file wants to put it up somewhere .....

Spidy wrote: Ah, starting to understand it now. That's exactly what I was after, having the other machine's desktop appear in a window!

Spidy, pardon me for sounding snotty but you don't want or need that. This isn't Windows. You've got X , fer chrissakes !!

squeen wrote: I was thinking of getting one of these D-Link access points in order for my Octane at home to talk with the Mac Powerbook Airport.

http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0&pid=326

Can anyone recommend a better product? I don't have a Windoze machine - so I'm hoping the claim of web-based set-up is valid.

Thanks in advance.

You might be better off getting a bridge and putting the Octane on that. Then the Octane will just see your existing network. I've got a variety of weirdo controllers on bridges at work and they work pretty well. Also a Laserjet with a network card on a bridge at home and it just thinks it's on the network with the bridge's address as the gateway. The bridges are overpriced imo but simple and they do work.

Here is the one we use (D-Link 810+) :

http://www.penstarsys.com/reviews/netwo ... index.html

a little slower than the newer models but they were only 260rmb each.

current version :

http://www.dlinkhttp://www.dlink.com.au ... 42&PID=216

Spidy wrote: Actually, while we're on the subject, I've tried using Samba to try and get my O2 to communicate with the bj-200 ex i have connected on the pc.

Haven't been able to pull it off.

So, can anyone offer advice as to how to print from IRIX to a printer connected on a pc?

Is using Samba the way to go?

You should be able to use CUPS and IPP .... CUPS has never really been my friend but IPP should be more universal and easier than sharing a printer with samba ...

Oskar45 wrote: I normally leave my Fuel run 24x7; however, the other day when I came home it was down and after reboot, I'd found in syslog:

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unix: |$(0x15a)WARNING: 001a01 ATTN: 1.5V low warning limit reached @  1.340V.
unix: |$(0x15a)WARNING: 001a01 ATTN: 1.5V low warning limit reached @  1.269V.
unix: |$(0x160)WARNING: 001a01 ATTN: 1.5V level stabilized @  1.452V.
unix: |$(0x15a)WARNING: 001a01 ATTN: 1.5V low warning limit reached @  1.255V.
unix: |$(0x160)WARNING: 001a01 ATTN: 1.5V level stabilized @  1.354V.
unix: |$(0x158)WARNING: 001a01 ATTN: 1.5V low fault limit reached @  1.199V.

What in your opinion is the exact reason for that?

Mainboard monitoring failure ...

Can I do anything about it?

You have a service contract. Get a new one. In the meanwhile < l1cmd env off > will get you back running. That's what us normal mortals have to do The environment monitoring on Fuel sucks. SGI probably lost plenty of money by cheapying out on the components there. Save a nickel, lose a dollar MBA-think. Oops.

Oskar45 wrote:

hamei wrote: You have a service contract. Get a new one.

Heh, hamei, you really recall that I've a service contract!!! Congrats to your brain - should be preserved in some nicely-labelled jar!!!

It was, originally. Abby something ...