The collected works of hamei - Page 51

Geoman wrote: This is really cool!! Strange though, that Octane2+DCD+1600 SW isn't working right out of the box, since this was once upon a time a possible configuration from SGI(?)

It's funny you would choose that photo, since there was quite a bit of laughter on the newsgroups about it at the time. When they put that ad out, it was not possible. I'm a little surprised JL could get it working at all, almost no one else has been able to. Maybe it was the dcd that did the trick ? Or disconnecting the monitor during bootup ....

VenomousPinecone wrote: Thats funny, I searched for "1956 Arnolt-MG" and literally got 1 web result and 1 pdf result.

Sorry, it was 1953 Time flies when you're having fun ... try it without the year ... I'm not imagining things, I wish it was just the tinfoil beanie.


Let's see ... that's just the first page but we have the Arnolt-MG heater core suppliers, unh-hunh. I'm sure they have hundreds in stock and can ship immediately. Then the "classic car fanatic" maaaybe but most likely a honey pot set up to snag unwitting people actually looking for information. Followed by "his and hers communications" reviews to sell parts, most likely zero relevance, I doubt if they even have any bug-eye Sprite parts. Then Wordpress with a swiped wikipedia sentence and an inane "Everyone called him Wacky but I've never been able to find out why" total horseshit, every real article about Mr Arnolt mentions why they called him wacky by the second paragraph (drove a rowboat across Lake Superior with a broken 1 hp outboard in a storm, or something like that) ... then the Arnolt-MG family sports car ? The 1953 version of an SUV, was it ? wtf ? And last but not least the Arnolt-MG real estate advisors, specializing in distressed Midwest properties.

Maybe one semi-useful bit of information in all that crap. I usually skip to page five or six right off now, the first several pages of most searches are nothing but garbage.

hamei wrote: You have to laugh at the media peddling this shit as well

I seriously hope you are not talking about watching the evening news or something...

No, I'm dumb enough to look at SFGate too often. After handing over Market Street to Tweeter and the waterfront to Larry for 70% off, Eddie and the Hearsts have to peddle the value of "social media" for all it's worth.

But since the worth is zero, you can multiply by it or divide by it but all you can get from it is nothing.

smj wrote: ... the current Like Economy.

jimmer wrote: Et voila!

Are you a virulent anti-commonist, jimster ? 'cuz you're blocked by the gfw

jimmer wrote: ... just some bloke with a webserver.

I guess we just don't like your kind, fella. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Republican Party ?

http://www.thewonderhorse.com/faqwondernoodle

Vladio wrote: As always, I appreciate any input you can offer.

No idea why it showed up here today, normally I have photobucket blocked.


Anyway, if anything, Maya is doing you a favor. Your wake doesn't much resemble the real thing. By clipping off your particles in the middle it looks closer to the way a bow wave actually appears.

Look at some photos of a real sailboat. A wake is actually a v-shaped wave, centered on the bow. At the top of this wave is froth, visually extending in a v shape back from the point of entry. Behind the crest of this wave is a trough . A water-colored trough, with no froth or foam. Then farther behind that there will be another crest extending outward in a v shape, but also without any foam or froth. The distance for this secondary wake aft of the bow will depend on the boat length and the speed. Then at the very rear of the boat where the ass end of the hull meets the stern, there will be another small crest as the flow along the side meets the disturbed water coming up from under the boat. In power boats you will see foam or a froth here, generally in sail boats only bubbles and disturbed water. Some vortexes.

If you want it to look correct, you first need to work on the physics of solid objects moving through a fluid ....

Your shadows are doing a very odd thing as well, by the way. Is this a planet with two suns ?

Real wakes :




Is he waving or flipping us off ?

mia wrote: I don't want to discourage you from adding more of course, I just say, the gain is usually marginal unless you really have an application that needs it (in which case, name it, I'm curious to know which).

I've never seen over about 2 gigs in use on mine, either, but Unixmuseum used to run some CFD on his, and that used all 8. In fact, one reason he kept the Octane in service was that none of the peecees in his office could manage that much memory.

vishnu wrote: Presumably your DCD works? Mine doesn't ...

Oi, probably a defective dcd, vish. Better send it over here for testing

vishnu wrote: Not to go totally off-topic

Not off-topic, we be talking wakes ... (cue dead march from Saul ...)

but speaking of sailing I've been following Savanah Sails for a couple of years ... How they're doing it is a mystery for the ages, I work full time and still have a hard time staying solvent until my next paycheck...

Not a mystery. Priorities, d00d. Dey be havin' a life, you be slavin' foh da Man. Lift dat bale, pope dat barge ....


Our ship came in, noticed it had a nice shot of the wake on a larger vessel. Bow wave, trough right behind, secondary bow wave, the run alongside the hull (non-laminar flow) followed by the stern wake, all three paths of foam/bubbles are clearly visible ...

PymbleSoftware wrote: This is how much it costs for me to send something weighing 7.34Kg to the USA.

OUCH ! I just sent a box to the US, it was not as heavy as yours but waaay less money. A small fraction thereof, even.

Those are Australia Dollars (AUD)

I hope AUD are really small, otherwise your mail prices are ridiculous

duck wrote: Try sending something from here to anywhere.

That might be a good thing, actually. It keeps out the riff-raff.

The times I've had occasion to look at pricing for shipping stuff from here, the lowest rate any of the big-name companies have come is 200 euros.

UPS here is like making whoopee with a praying mantis. Sent a small bochs from here to the US a couple weeks ago via China Post. It was cheap. Arrived in less than two weeks. I got to stand in the pens at the Post Office and observe the other animals. Educational.

At almost exactly the same time, a company fifteen minutes drive away from the recipients of my box insisted on sending a different small box here via UPS. It cost them ten times as much and took as long. Then when it came, it got to sit in Customs for two weeks. Honest, two full weeks.

The only people in China who use UPS are the idiot foreigners who "know" that UPS is stupendous.

It's stupendous, all right.

My only option is the formerly-government post. This is fortunately fairly cheap, but of course they don't let you ship lithium batteries because um, er, something once caught fire. So I tend to send those separately in an envelope.

Same here, except ours is still run by the hard-liner repressive murdering Communists. They took it a step farther, can't ship any electronics. They might explode ! Maybe Communism really doesn't work ...

So you call a little shipping service, they come over and pick up the box, then they ship it via the post office. Costs a couple dollars more. But they pick up.

I dunno. If you tried to figure out every discontinuity in life you'd go crazy.

It cost about $160 to ship an O300 to Sweden that way a year or so ago. By air (but not overnight.) I think the limit for that category of mail was 26 kg. We were a few g under that. Triple-wrapped O300's ain't light.

Oskar45 wrote: And what do sane people in China use instead?

The girl-baby drowning commie post office, aka China Post.

guardian452 wrote: [... hopefully simpler than zfs or zfs made nice in an 'apple-y' sort of way.

ZFS is about as simple as it gets for filesystem maintenance. The descriptions are a chaotic mess but actually running the thing, that's simplicity itself.

Better documentation needed

foetz wrote: oh yes, nice tables. that's very handy

Would have been a help for Ted ! His tables are a little cumbersome.

ClassicHasClass wrote: Trivia: Mozilla now calls this set of components XPFE, for cross platform front end. But the derivation is obvious.

Of course ! Steal someone else's work, call it their own, trumpet the "cross-platform" buzzword to the heavens (twelve varieties of Linux, one version of Windows and a Mac port 'in progress') then, two weeks from now, 'deprecate' it.

Can we just drown those worthless asshats and be done with it ?

vishnu wrote: For anyone who hasn't seen Dušan's weaving CAD/CAM software, it is jaw droppingly amazing.

It is pretty nice. Tried to build an old version once or twice but didn't get too far. I'd probaly work at it harder if I had a loom

Also, if anyone's interested I've got the Netscape enhanced Motif widgets, originally written by Ramiro Estrugo, as part of Netscape they were called the XfeWidgets ...

Maybe stick them in your personal area here on nekochan ? Or maybe neko would want to put that in the ftp area ? Some day, maybe some one will want to play with that ...

ClassicHasClass wrote: Well, let's be fair here: most of Mozilla (or at least MoCo) is ex-Netscape folks.

Exactly. They are the same lying scumbags they were in 1996. Pretty new bottle, same old Ripple inside.

vishnu wrote: Pardonnez moi, I love Ripple ...

You and my mom ... there's nothing she likes better than a good box of white wine

technically they didn't start lying until April 1st 1998 when they released the source code. After that the untruths flowed thick rich and delicious...

I'm sure you've read The New New Thing ... liars and cheats almost from the beginning. Your buddy Jamie quickly recognized that not only are they worthless liars and cheats, they are incompetent worthless liars and cheats ...

Remember the SGI programmer who was here for a while, added anti-aliased fonts to the icon catalog and worked on Open Orifice ? The trouble with a feature like that is that it looks great if you can add it everywhere but if it's only here and there, it's kind of distracting. I like the idea of UTF8 and antialiased fonts but the reality would be quite a bit of work

5Dwm is wrapped up in SGI-enforced limitations like Captain Nemo in the arms of a giant quid. I don't think we can look for help there ...

ramq wrote: Must. Resist. Urge. For. Another. Fuel.

With old rare stuff you should always have two, one for spares

mwd wrote: It's not this specific industry, it is people in general, you just need to learn to ignore the crap and pick up the jobs you enjoy doing (and stick around with people who are decent human beings).

That's what used to be so great about the US - it wasn't the "bastion of freedom" crap, it was the fact that you could run away from the asshats Back East and have a life.

But now the asshats have moved west and the only place left to run is the ocean. Plus they now have computers so they can probably even track you down at the bottom of the sea

Oskar45 wrote: Had no idea that China Post operates *internationally*...

I've wondered about that myself. The post offices have international agreements where the price is set by the sending country, but do they keep track ? Do they balance how much each country sends versus how much it receives ? Or do they just say "To heck with it" and let it all balance out in the wash ?

jan-jaap wrote: I have a mini-DAC en route from China using China Post Registered Airmail as we speak.

They sure aren't making much money on exporting those ... 6 rmb = $1 usd. Used to be 8.3. I hate Ben Bernanke !

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a23 ... 6940472322

How something can be airmail and still take 3 weeks to arrive is a little beyond me....

Och, 'tis a strange and wonderful place we have here

Regular mail to the US for something that size takes about two weeks.

morpheus256 wrote: Pictures as requested!

Just in case you were wondering, photobucket sucks dead donkey balls ... bloated, rotting, hairy, stinking maggot-laden dead donkey balls.

morpheus256 wrote: Hahaha! I was going to use my Google drive but didn't wan't to chew up space.

Google is dead rotting maggot-filled hairy donkey balls

Right below the text entry box is " Filename" with "Browse" to the right of it. Browse will open a file selection window on your local host. Choose the file, then "Add the file." If you want to add some notation, on the left is "File Comment."

If you use "place inline" after that, then you can arrange the files however you wish. Otherwise I think it just dumps them at the bottom of the message. You can resize to a rational size if you like, otherwise the php software will do it automatically, with a "click to full size" option, which can be nice for closeups of circuit boards or whatever.

ClassicHasClass wrote: *running and hiding from hamei-wrath*

No, just sad

A couple weeks ago there was some Irix stuff there and some other interesting things. Now the whole site is gone except for a couple stupid pdf's. Much of the Motif material I've double-clicked on recently is gone, also. And 75% of the ftp sites are gone. Sites at universities ! "Oh, we don't need to know about that deprecated old cruft !"

We have always been at war with Eurasia

diegel wrote: Does anyone know a simple way to convert a current mp4 video in a format readable by SGI media tools?

Mplayer/mencoder won't do that ?

scottE wrote: Nice! I still have to respect anyone who who laid out newsletters with a typewriter, but there's just something about even dot-matrix printed pages that looks better.

Have you seen the output from a Selectric ?

This is from Windows 2k, but might still be relevant : (thanks to josehill ) Windows Services for Unix works on ID's , not names. So you can have the same user and group on both machines but still have problems. Get the group and user id's to match.

Also, I have noticed that network discovery on the Windows machine is brain-dead. It can't find hosts by name very well, but once you discover them by the IP, then Windders does better.

Setting permissions on the Windows host is awful. It's all over the place and doesn't make sense. It might be easier to get the basics working from another computer that has a better implementation of NFS before you tackle the Windows end (if possible.) Then at least you know the serving part is working correctly.

This isn't exactly the straightest path to the goal, but it was an unexpected little discovery.

We've got a 3-in-1 for junky stuff - quick scans, faxes, no-hassle copying. Yesterday the second one died. Canon. Junk. Two years old, always babied, twelve cent part inside kacks and away ya go, Canon "service" tells you "Buy a new one ! That thing was so oooold ! "

Someone should put them to sleep when they get to be so ooooold .

Found that Xerox now makes an ethernet-connected color laser mfp with postscript. Yay ! Except they don't sell them here. Booo. Will have to get one later.

For right now, we grabbed a cheap used HP Officejet 8500. Except for being slow as molasses to wake up and sounding like two skeletons screwing in a tin can when it runs and the driver is about 150 megabytes, it's okay. Print quality is better than the Canon. Scanner is also good.

But the sooprize is, it will scan thru a web browser. It will scan over the network to Fireflop 3.0.19 on Irix, with decent quality.

Woo ! Hoo ! Not so bad. I imagine that the whole family (8500, 8600, whatever) does this. Maybe even other HP mfp's. It might be an option for other old abandoned hardware, as well. I haven't tried it on FFlop 2. Needs javascript (maybe) and popups (for sure) so probably Dillo is out. But I bet someone could extract whatever commands are going to the HP and make a little script that would capture a scan for almost anything that has ethernet.

The printer is kind of junky but still, pretty neat.

diegel wrote: Does anyone know a simple way to convert a current mp4 video in a format readable by SGI media tools?

Did you get anywhere with this ? I tried a few variations on mencoder, seemed like it would eventually work if you found the magic incantation ...

Risked $3 on a usb microphone - it reports itself as a Logitech and tested okay in Windows 2000 -

However, haven't found a way to get anything out of it ... kind of a vain hope that whoever wrote the usb audio driver would make it bi-directional, eh ? It doesn't show up in any of the normal audio devices. If anyone has some suggestions I can fiddle around but at this point it doesn't look too useful. Adds another line to the hinv tho

Black Cardinal wrote: I've got an OfficeJet Pro 8600 that I should try this on.

Should work. Go to the printer's website (network address of the printer), Information tab, Applications column, Webscan. Tell No-Script to allow that address and you have to allow popups. There's not that much control over the scan - all you get is jpeg and whatever you set the scanner default to - but hey ! What other choice does one have for a current scanner in Irix ? Or Plan 9, for that matter ? I'm pretty happy with it.

Someone (maybe HP ?) has a pretty neat idea for printing - send the printer an email with an attachment. The printer will strip the attachment to print pdfs and doc files and maybe some other formats. For most things that's kind of useless but if you have visitors who want to print a few things, nice. Otherwise, "Here, install this 74 megabyte driver ..."

While researching this thing I came across a nice trick - the HP drivers are as bloated as a dead Godzilla. But also available is the "Corporate" driver set. 'For IT use only' according to HP - but it's the same drivers stripped of all the crap. All it installed was the printer driver and the scanner driver and probably a few secret track-you cookies but none of the usual garbage.

I've still got my old HP ScanJet 4p hooked up to my Indigo2 through SCSI. Works great with Impressario.

That would be the nicest, but old stuff is rare as hen's teeth here. And waaaay overpriced. Oh well

frankblues wrote: I'm trying to comprehend the idea of hamei using Plan 9...

Really ? I'm a big fan of Plan 9 ...

ClassicHasClass wrote: You know what they put on French fries in Holland instead of ketchup? Mayonnaise. I've seen 'em do it, man. They f*ckin' drown 'em in that sh*t.

In China they put sugar on tomato slices instead of salt. If the tomatoes are cold it's not as bad as it sounds. The first time I said, "Pass the salt, please ?" everyone looked at me like I was ready for the brain hospital.

Sugar on popcorn, too. Then they claim that fast-food is bad for you ...

canavan wrote: Don't look for old scanners in stores, but on the trash.

They never existed new, so there aren't any in the trash

Techpubs does have a chapter or three on writing Impressario drivers, tho.

canavan wrote: Wasn't the "original" supported USB audio device the Griffin iMic? That thing should have had at least one input...

Is that the in-cable usb adapter thingy, with an in and an out ? Techpubs has a few shots of those but only with the output connected to speakers, nothing on the in

Luckily it was only a $3 experiment. And the thing works in windows, so maybe can use it for something.

Trying to solve a few mysteries here in the time remaining :

Kyu Sakamoto did the original.

A Taste of Honey introduced it, then the original became very popular.

I could swear there was an almost concurrent version in Japanese done by a female singer. Not Utada Hikari (j/k) she's new and that's way overproduced anyhow. It's kind of like Jackson Browne does Girl from Ipanema ... I would think me brain was failing but a few other people in the soshul medium have mentioned the same thing.

So who ?

When we solve this, I want to work on "Why did Liston throw that fight ?"

kubatyszko wrote: I have one of those Griffin's (in+out), might give it a try someday...

I tried some laptop usb audio thingy, it worked okay for output. Didn't sound half bad, I was surprised.

The nice thing about that is if you are not using the usb ports for keyboard and mouse, then you save a slot for gigglebit network and firewire and sata and serial ports for the spaceball and tablet. The fool is a little bit tight on expandability ...

Kira wrote: And this little cutie is the Tyan variety.

Oooh. Now we're talkin' Dodge Charger !

Although this is a stupid move on IBM's part, rivalling the Cimarron for asinine decision-making at the top. Ginny should be peddling refrigerators on The Price is Right , that's what she's good for.

Some fantastic reporting here : http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/04/2 ... er-boards/

Isn't it great, good ol' Mr Tech Editor will put on the pads and instantly drop to his knees for the advertisers at IBM, codenamed "Shysters" ! omigod, did you know the reference name for this board is the SP010 ? Good Lord deliver us ! What a revelation ! And the codename for the project is Turismo ! Sweet Baby Jesus, I'm in with the in-crowd now ! My code name is Big ******* and the Assistant is Sweetikins. The dog is Bubblehead and the toilet is Aunt Tilly. When I do a number two, that's a Golden Brown Floater. Isn't that so sweet ? We can be nine years old also !

But really, I feel so inadequate ... we aren't a hyperscale datacenter here. And I'm not aimed at small and medium businesses, virtualization, data analytics, solving world hunger, bringing enlightenment to the masses, improving the diet of the underprivileged, providing home shopping channel to the poor, healing the lame, righting wrongs or fighting for truth, justice and the american way.

Damn. Maybe when I graduate from third grade I can get a job as technical editor somewhere too.

I did learn that 'The ATX board measures 12 inches by 9.6 inches, which means it can easily fit in a standard rack or tower server." This is so cool ! now I know that an ATX board will fit into a rack or tower server ! I had no idea ...

“A real server platform is also critical for detailed performance measurements and continuous optimizations and to integrate and test the ongoing advances that become available through OpenPower and the extended OpenPower community.” Oh Gordon, puh-lease ! Stop, stop, I'll mess my jeans ! I can't help it, when you talk technical like that I get so hot !

When you're done, could you go back and take a few years of remedial English ? Maybe you could learn what a fucking sentence is ?

And the pincers movement on Intel ... holee shit, I had that in a whorehouse in Abilene once. Let me tell ya, that's something Intel isn't going to forget quickly ! I don't know if there's any way to prepare for that. Intel just better be careful, that's all I can say !

I've heard there's a fountain in Hell which gushes the vomitous spew of thousands of white-shod Madison Avenue shysters. When Mr Hi-Tech Tech Editor heads down below, he can be the plumber. And Ginny Ginny Bo Binny can be the statue in the center.

Geoman wrote: perhaps SGi should consider getting off the markets like Dell did...

The only US gear machine company left bought back all their stock and returned to private ownership. They are doing quite well, now that they are not controlled by the worthless lying bastards and thieves of the finance sector.

Did you have any success with this ? Someone just gave me an mp4 that won't play in Irix. Tried to play it on Windows, not much luck there either.

duck wrote: Running things once at a specific time is the job of 'at'.

Ooh. Useful. Thank you !

ClassicHasClass wrote: I'm looking forward to OpenPOWER. Really, really, really looking forward to it, because I can run my favourite architecture and tell IBM to suck it.

It's only going to get worse and OpenPower is only going to help temporarily (e.g. Mozilla). If the society decides to quit worshipping money things might change.

until then, Ginny owns you ..... and Vinod holds the second.