The collected works of hamei - Page 49

indyman007 wrote: You could just isolate the machine when adjusting of changing the chuck...

You could have PG&E come and shut off the electricity to that portion of the city, too, but it seems like elementary safety practices should be sufficient.

Vladio wrote: I assume I did this correctly... I uncompressed the neko_fixpath.tar.gz file that was on the desktop then dragged it onto the firefox icon. I guess that since I'm not getting these blacked out areas that it went as it was suppose to.

Umm, yes, well ... errr ... I don't think so.

I'm pretty sure that neko_fixpath is a script to automate adding nekoware to your path. If nekoware comes first, then the /usr/nekoware apps and libraries get used (if they exist) in preference to the older Irix ones. Most of nekoware will need this to function. You could do the same thing by hand if you want, neko_fixpath is just a handy way to accomplish that.

Not sure what you actually did, but I don't think it will have the effect you want

It's interesting that you saw a change tho. I wonder what fireflop did with that script ? Or fireflop never saw it, Irix tried to open flopsy with that script as an argument and the script accidentally got run as a side-effect ? Any of you script-masters out there have an idea ?

guardian452 wrote: With so much emphasis on icon design nowadays, and many finder windows already looking like a technicolour yawn, it would get out of hand quickly:

If they're going to use pictographs, why not just cut to the chase and use Chinese ? It's all done, it's standardized, there's even tons of fonts available free ! free ! free download !

And all those years I thought the alphabet was a pretty neat invention ....

emilen72 wrote: ... I'm not very satisfied from performance of the emulator

Those things are never going to work very well on SGI hardware. Even if you ignore all the other problems, SGI hardware is oriented more to floating-point, maybe 50-50 between floating and integer. Intel is heavy on integer. All the people who do these apps have Intel processors, so they optimize all to heck for integer operations.

'Mainstream" software is pretty much a losing proposition on SGI, even without the other handicaps.

vishnu wrote: ... here's the scenario, we still get new members all the time who post saying they've wanted an SGI workstation for days weeks months years etc., but now that they have one go ahead and try to get any of the vendors who make Maya or Shake or Pro/ENGINEER to sell an IRIX version, it just ain't gonna happen, and that's the tragedy...

Vish - the software didn't go anywhere. It's still available -- just not here .

Even I can understand the reasons for that, and I'm as stubborn as a mule

vishnu wrote: ... when I called Autodesk to see about upgrading my version of Maya

Oh noes ! Did I just detect a request to purchase commercial software ??!

vishnu wrote: ... so is a big chunk of the IRIX source code.

But not that parts that matter There's a couple little things with the desktop that would be so nice to repair ...

I don't suppose that the entire desktop hanging solid when an nfs share disconnects will ever get fixed now

How could highly-trained networking professionals overlook something so basic ?

jan-jaap wrote: My MacBook used to do that, but it's fixed in Mavericks (or the big cat release before that which I skipped). So it can be done

I figured it was possible

The weird thing is, they ran 6.5 for what, ten years or more ? And never got around to fixing that ? You can't expect me to believe that no one besides me has ever had an off-lined shared directory bring the entire desktop to its knees.

That's plumb stewpid

vishnu wrote: You should submit a bug for that! IRIX isn't end-of-life for another 50 days, they might fix it...

It's not a bug, it's a major flaw

Someone with a service contract could file a complaint, then sue the little bastards for breach of contract when they didn't bother to fix it ... hint hint, someone who starts with an O and ends with a 5

vishnu wrote:

ClassicHasClass wrote: You mean, they're running healthcare.gov on Irix?

That would explain a lot...

No, I think they resurrected some old code of Adrenaline's from when he was in sixth grade, and they're running it on that.

miod wrote: The O2 which you dismiss so quickly, could, with minor changes to the CRIME chip to either support more than 8 banks, or (probably easier to do) more than 128MB per bank. With a modified CRIME, an O2 could use up to 3GB of memory;

A 1 ghz dualcore O2 with 3 GB of memory ... 'scuse me, I have to go change my undies ...

vishnu wrote: EDIT/ADDENDUM: BTW that same verbiage is in virtually all SGI C and C++ header files, well, actually it says "unpublished proprietary source code," ...

I get emails with that shit across the bottom, too. Makes me laugh .. "Confidential secret information, if you are not the intended recipient ..."

You're sending this across the Internet, you imbeciles. That's the same as writing it on the stall of a NYC subway bathroom. These people have lived in lalaland way too long ....

vishnu wrote: It's easy for us to throw darts at sgi for their Cadillac pricing policy but the simple fact is that creating documentation like this is a very expensive and time consuming process...

So is buying, installing and maintaining a 200" Betts VBM. Your company is still here. Has been since before WW II.

Why isn't SGI ?

vishnu wrote: Vertical integration killed SGI and all the rest of the commercial Unix industry. When we realized we needed a 200" VBM we bought one from Betts, when SGI realized they needed one they designed it from scratch and built it themselves...

Ah, but SGI is (was) Betts. They aren't the end user. They are supposed to take the GE motors and the G&L controls and the solder and resistors and Intel memory chips to build that VBM.

There is a reason that Betts no longer exists - they had too many assets for their stock price, they got destroyed by the job creators of laissez-faire capitalism. But they made it through 100 years or so before that happened.

What's SGI's excuse ?

porter wrote: Escapes me.

Shouldn't that be "Escapes me." ?

chicaneuk wrote: I wanted to post this, to find out what reasons people have for collecting it ...

I use* it because I like the way it works. Any collecting I do is just for spare parts.


* As in, like, you know, computing stuff. Everything I do is in Irix. Double-checked against Windows to make sure my work is not incomprehensible to other people. More people should try that ....

smj wrote: ... Moore's Law has left them behind in terms of unit cost for doing "useful work."

How do you deal with the Developer's Law that says no matter how many new transistors the hardware guys can stick into a device, the developers will double the requirements twice as fast ?

btw, what is our definition of "useful work" ?

vishnu wrote: hamei, seriously, you still do all your Internet browsing on your Fuel? All of it? Because, like, I don't see how it's possible to do that while maintaining any level of sanity...

Almost. If it is a total pos site shoving a modern, rich internet experience down my throat I just leave.

Very occasionally there will be something I need where you have to use Windows. Our local tax department has a nice app that requires it to run from Windows as administrator , if you can believe it. No choice there.

But that's the rare exception. And it wouldn't work from Linux, either.

ClassicHasClass wrote: Hey, I still do all of it from Power Macs. Admittedly, TenFourFox is my own port, and it's based on Mozilla 24, not Mozilla 1.9.0.19.

We'll get there, fella. One day ...


To fight the unbeatable foe
to bear the unbearable sorrow
to run where the brave dare not go ...

To right the unrightable wrong
to despise fireflop from afar
to try when your arms are too weary
to reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
to follow that star
no matter how hopeless
no matter how far

To fight for the right
without question or pause
to be willing to march into Hell
for a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
to this glorious quest
that my heart will lie peaceful and calm
when I'm laid to my rest

Go to hell, you stinking lousy fireflop,
some day, the world will shine bright and so true
and we'll have
a fuctioning web browser
that runs, in Irix so help us do !

And the world will be better for this
that one man, scorned and covered with scars
still strove with his last ounce of courage
to get a fucking web browser that actually works ... !!
and best of all, that explodes in the presence of gtk-two !

vishnu wrote: I'm now drinking a martini with two olives to celebrate this Rat Pack tributary post...

Have another, vish ...

recondas wrote: Haven't had the opportunity to test it yet, but don't expect the FW iSight will behave much differently.

Have you been able to get an iSight to work directly attached ? I remember that a few people tried to use an iSight before but had problems with it.

recondas wrote: Out late last night showin' up the whippersnappers?

No, I just turned off that portion of the brain to save on electricity. Trying to cut down on the carbon footprint ...

nvukovlj wrote: I suspect that the PSU is dead, so looking for a replacement it someone has one for sale - I know they're getting very hard to find these days.

May as well bite the bullet and go straight to the kubatyszko wtx conversion thread.

If there is any justice in the Hereafter, the stupid little twat at SGI who put that useless fragile component into the Fuel power supplies will be spending eternity with a red-hot poker up his posterior.

Do not read the text, it will just ruin it. Skip right down to the video ... funny

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rning.html

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Screensave ... rons.shtml

Just looked, the oldest libcurl .so I have is 5 and this installation is over ten years old now

You could try just making a link, normally that works. But most people don't bother with bzflag because it's not that much fun to play by yourself. You could try to hunt up Graveyardshift, that works and it's kinda fun for a while.

Imgviewer is fine for me but sometimes I want to page through a folder of photos. Imgview is a pita for that. So went looking ...

Pho is very lightweight - only uses keystrokes to control it, not even the most basic menu items. But it does a ton of simple stuff fast. And I can page through a whole folder looking for the photo I want. Can also delete ones you don't want and mark them, rotate them, bunch of other stuff. If you enter pho -v you'll get a listing of the key commands.

The lady who wrote it also did swmgr her address is in the zipfile, if you like it write her and say thanks. And if it's screwed up, my fault. It's not a tardist, if it doesn't work for you, here's the requirements



Complaints are accepted but they better be simple, I'm not that great at fixing stuff ...

foetz wrote: sort of hurts a bit to see someone like that messing around with gtk2

Tyranny of the majority If you are throwing something together for a quick utility, are you going to fight City Hall ?

I've been using it the past few evenings ... Mikey likes it. Directories that I've never got around to sorting, been next -> next -> nexting through the photos and quickly d-eleting the junk ones and duplicates. Even if I just use it for that, it's handy.

Vladio wrote: The boys are 12, 9 & 5.

Can try this on the 5, maybe the 9er .... no sound (on purpose

It starts a little slow, give it a sec to get running.

I can't think of any BASIC programs I want to translate, but this looks kind of interesting :

http://bc9.bcxbasic.com/

Now if they only had a gnu C to Standard C ...

vishnu wrote: Nice! No XTeddy?

That's scary, vish

yetanother**ixuser wrote: china needs the spyphone of course, and the apple gaylords with their nsa wimps can celebrate the idocy of mankind ...other than that, who cares.

Pretty much

But we've been through this before, it appears that all the business writers in the west have the brains of a flea. Collectively. One flea.

1) China Mobile has been selling iPhones for over a year now.

2) We don't have "plans" here ... okay, that stupid system exists in some dark closet somewhere but no one uses it. In China you :

a) go to the store and buy a phone. There must be more than one million telephone stores in China. Went thru this last year with smj, put up photos. Every single village has at least six phone stores. Bigger cities have six phone stores per block.

b) each phone store has a minimum of fifty or sixty different models. You can find phones anywhere from $25 to $600. If you go to some of the big building stores, you can find diamond-encrusted celebrations of bad taste for over $1,000 USD. Many of the phones are nicer than the iPhone. Without the fanboy crap, many of the Samsungs in particular are better phones for less money. And HTC is popular. I'm currently seeing more of the bigger-screen Samsungs - people like to watch movies in the elevator, on the subway, on the bus, at the top of the escalator right after they step off, in the middle of doorways, all kinds of groovy places.

Unlike the US free market, we have dozens of choices. That free market competition thing is waycool, guys. Sure glad we don't have it.

c) you buy the phone, then you either buy a sim card for $15 or use the one you already have

d) you are now a "subscriber" with either China Mobile or China Unicom. China Unicom has slightly cheaper data prices and CDMA, while the China Mobile service is more reliable. They are basically two fingers of the same hand. Dig 1/8" below the surface and everything in China is the government. The "reforms to enhance capitalism" are nothing but some nice pablum to allow the religious zealots of the west to overcome their dingbat superstitions in order to buy from China. It's still a thoroughly planned (or unplanned, depending on your perspective) economy.

e) A "subscription plan" as in the US does exist. It's called Go-Fone. No one, and I mean no one uses that stupid shit. Real people buy a prepay card at any of the 36 million little stores, news stands, post offices, China Mobile stores, booze and smokes stores, China Unicom stores, even on the street. There's a photo of that here somewhere also. Cards come in 50 and 100 rmb denominations. Scratch off the covering layer of dust, dial 13800138000 and enter the secret number. Phone bill is now prepaid for the amount of the card. This takes about two minutes total. I go through about $15 per month. Assist goes through a little more. Phone service is cheap. (Another example of the superiority of communism.)

Und zoooo ... the big "China Mobile will add the iPhone to their service plans with 800 million subscribers ! They will sell a gazillion more iPhones !!" AP wirefeed breaking news business information hi-tech story !! is either deceptive or terminally stupid, you choose. No one, NO ONE * in China falls for that "subscriber" scam.

In the matter of sales, this will make zero difference. Z-E-R-O. The iPhone has been on sale at China Mobile stores for well over a year. They are also for sale at other stores. Even before that, you could just buy them (cheaper) from Hong Kong. They were never impossible to get in China, as far back as the iPhone 4 that I can remember.

This is all just fluff to temporarily jack up Apple stock and make some brokers 1% here, 2% there on the churn. It's a scam.

* Foreigners don't count. They are the only ones so addicted to their ridiculous kapitalist butt-raped habits that they can't adapt to a better way.

guardian452 wrote: I don't see what the problem is with being a subscriber.

It locks you into their crappy overpriced "choice" of equipment. I can buy any phone I want and it will work. Go into a store here and there are literally 50 different phones I could use. What do you get, two ? And they're not even yours ?

I can even buy a phone with two separate sim cards and run two accounts on the same phone. Total cost, $30. (A lot of people in Hong Kong do that because the strange dual government system doesn't cross the border.) It is way cheaper because AT&T and Verizon do not give you a lovely deal on that "subsidized" phone. Over time you guys pay ten times as much.

$50 for unlimited everything is better than $120 (and up) for 400 mins and 2gb especially since it's now my only internet connection.

Meanwhile, it costs me about $15 a month. Admittedly, I don't use the phone very much for Internet access because a 3" screen really doesn't cut it. And I can entertain myself (oogling real live pussy is more fun than watching a Flash animation) for a few hours a day

But the point is, in the US people don't have that choice. If you don't belong to a "plan" you're screwed.

Here'a a big fat clue, guys : credit is NOT free. All you are doing by going the credit route is adding another mouth to your table. A self-righteous greedy mouth, at that. Every time you pay that phone bill, you should see Jamie Dimon's smug face in your mind. Here, Jamie ! Take twenty bucks ! It's your right !

Here ya go, I'll help you :



See that third spot from the top left side on that tie, guard ? The small one, not the big one. It's yours. Well, not exactly. It's his but you paid for it. Doesn't it make you feel all warm and fuzzy to know that your masters are doing so well ?

Health insurance ? Nah. Can't afford it. The economy can't bear that entitlement. Single payer ? that's socialism !! 1% federal income tax on Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Mittens, Kirk Kerkorian Carl Icahn Bain Capital et al while you pay 35%+, that's capitalism ! We sure as hell don't want to be doin' no redistribution of wealth !

If the feds or the state tacked a 5% tax onto every single thing you did, you'd all scream like Gloria Allred. But give you a shiny Gold Card ! that raises the cost of life 5 to 10% in every single aspect , hands the money to a bunch of slimy worthless bankers who do nothing useful with it but instead use it to further enslave you, and y'all bow down like acolytes at L. Ron Hubbard's feet.

Burn the goddamned credit cards and "payment plans" and pay for what you buy. Cash money. No more "security breaches" and banker horseshit. No more get rich quick schemes. No more "investments" that are nothing more than con games. No more "online banking." You can sleep like a baby because you no lonoger have to worry about hackers !! Tell the phone companies to fuck off and die with their stinky shyster tricks. Maybe you'll get your lives back if you try acting like adults.

The Tea Party has one thing right - if you don't feed these vipers, they will eventually starve. Take that first step.

foetz wrote: as a little xmas special i put up some packages for 6.2 and a few for 5.3.

http://www.nekochan.net/downloads/index ... etz%2F6.2/

Xbae ! Woo-hoo ! you be da man, foetz ! Thank you

Now I have to go see what you did to make it build ...

guardian452 wrote: Aaaaannnyways , and I apologize for the rant

No, it wasn't half-bad. Keep after it a little and you can join the Prophets Raving in the Wilderness club

but the fact is if you don't have anything more important to worry about than your phone bill, or the price of minutes in china, life must be pretty good

Yes. China is okay.

Vladio wrote: The boys are 12, 9 & 5.

I knew I had this somewhere ... most of the old SGI ftp sites seem to be dead

Boys, 5, 9, 12, sounds perfect ... should play good on an Octane.

scottE wrote: Hm. All I get is a 404.

They were nekochanned ! So many downloads it was clogging their servers, so they pulled the file !

jmjsgi wrote: I tried all key keyboard and of course those mouse. The mouse pointer is a cross and moves normally.
To restart the O2 I have to puch on the power button and await the power off O2.

I've made this mistake before ... I think it had to do with not installing the Complementary Applications. I thought a right mouse button did bring up a terminal tho, from which you could actually do something.

You might try botting into single user mode - block off the boot process at the PROM screen, go into Maintenance and choose single user, I think. That gives you a terminal to work from.

This could be entirely wrong since it's been a long time but better than reinstalling the whole mess

for you, geo

http://www.podval.org/~sds/tool.html