The collected works of hamei - Page 52

ClassicHasClass wrote: Hopefully OpenPOWER launches and hangs on for at least one more processor generation (POWER9 or so), and then I can jump to that last generation until the bitter end.

I wonder if it matters ... the internet is already on the verge of being useless (fiber to the home shopping channel) and open sores is running a close second in the bankrupt ideas marathon. There's always tropical fish ...

jan-jaap wrote: I realized this thing has a DALLAS chip as well (DS1742W), plus an ATMEL chip which is assumed to hold the SSN.

So it has not one, but two batteries which can (and probably have) run out

Hope this is peripherally useful ... it's been quite a while but I'm pretty sure that you have to move the Atmel and the Dallas to change mac addresses. I think I discovered that when trying to put together a frankenfool with a few nodelocked licenses.

As a related footnote, Oracle is now documented as either

1) terminally stupid and incompetent

or

2) yet another group of thieves and crooks

http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/U ... ationworld

134 million just doesn't buy what it used to, eh ?

Kira wrote: (iSeries, on the other hand, is a legitimate loss.)

Not really. If every single computer, computer company, entrepreneur and innovator in the computing space all disappeared from this universe, the world would be a far better place.

Jack Luminous wrote: So, has someone successfully run Premiere on a VPro equipped Octane ? Is there some known trick or should I let it go already ?

People were bitching about it when it was brand new.

It doesn't seem to have improved

kshuff wrote: make an offer.

Yer not gonna like this ...

commodorejohn wrote:

ianj wrote: Nope, nobody has ever rapped about anything meaningful. Not even once.

Exactly.

Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,
Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,
Pounded on the table,
Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,
Hard as they were able,
Boom, boom, BOOM,
With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.
THEN I had religion, THEN I had a vision.
I could not turn from their revel in derision.

THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK,
CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK.

Then along that riverbank
A thousand miles
Tattooed cannibals danced in files;
Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song
And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong.
And "BLOOD" screamed the whistles and the fifes of the warriors,
"BLOOD" screamed the skull-faced, lean witch-doctors,
"Whirl ye the deadly voo-doo rattle,
Harry the uplands,
Steal all the cattle,
Rattle-rattle, rattle-rattle,
Bing.
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM,"

A roaring, epic, rag-time tune
From the mouth of the Congo
To the Mountains of the Moon.
Death is an Elephant,
Torch-eyed and horrible,
Foam-flanked and terrible.
BOOM, steal the pygmies,
BOOM, kill the Arabs,
BOOM, kill the white men,
HOO, HOO, HOO.

Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost
Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host.
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell
Cutting his hands off, down in Hell.
Listen to the creepy proclamation,
Blown through the lairs of the forest-nation,
Blown past the white-ants' hill of clay,
Blown past the marsh where the butterflies play:--
"Be careful what you do,
Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo,
And all of the other
Gods of the Congo,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you."

Wild crap-shooters with a whoop and a call
Danced the juba in their gambling-hall
And laughed fit to kill, and shook the town,
And guyed the policemen and laughed them down
With a boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.

THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK,
CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK.

A negro fairyland swung into view,
A minstrel river
Where dreams come true.
The ebony palace soared on high
Through the blossoming trees to the evening sky.
The inlaid porches and casements shone
With gold and ivory and elephant-bone.
And the black crowd laughed till their sides were sore
At the baboon butler in the agate door,
And the well-known tunes of the parrot band
That trilled on the bushes of that magic land.

A troupe of skull-faced witch-men came
Through the agate doorway in suits of flame,
Yea, long-tailed coats with a gold-leaf crust
And hats that were covered with diamond-dust.
And the crowd in the court gave a whoop and a call
And danced the juba from wall to wall.

But the witch-men suddenly stilled the throng
With a stern cold glare, and a stern old song:--
"Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you."...

Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats,
Canes with a brilliant lacquer shine,
And tall silk hats that were red as wine.

And they pranced with their butterfly partners there,
Coal-black maidens with pearls in their hair,
Knee-skirts trimmed with the jassamine sweet,
And bells on their ankles and little black feet.
And the couples railed at the chant and the frown
Of the witch-men lean, and laughed them down.
(O rare was the revel, and well worth while
That made those glowering witch-men smile.)

The cake-walk royalty then began
To walk for a cake that was tall as a man
To the tune of "Boomlay, boomlay, BOOM,"

While the witch-men laughed, with a sinister air,
And sang with the scalawags prancing there:--
"Walk with care, walk with care,
Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo,
And all of the other
Gods of the Congo,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you.
Beware, beware, walk with care,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, boom.
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, boom,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, boom,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay,
BOOM."

Oh rare was the revel, and well worth while
That made those glowering witch-men smile.

foetz wrote: indeed the irix and linux versions never were serious stuff. ... xsi was, is and likely ever will be a pure windows toy.

Wasn't this just another mickeysoft dirty trick ? Didn't they buy Softimage right about then and drop the prices really low for the express purpose of putting SGI out of business ? The scam then was "Why would you want an expensive Unix computer when Windows can do all the same things cheaper better faster ?"

vishnu wrote: I remember there was a guy on ebay selling Octane Personal Video Option boards with instructions for getting them to work on Octane2s ...

I thought the Personal Video only worked on Mardi Gras graphics ? I know it has those three ribbon cable connections to the MXE, which don't exist on VPro ... the Octane Compression card supposedly does work with VPro, tho. Have one but never installed it so I can't say from personal experience ...

thebulbguy wrote: The tank I'm using is custom designed to hold as many ASIC boards as I can fit into it with just enough space between them to allow for bubbles to rise easily, and the recondensed fluid is piped to the bottom of the tank and reintroduced through holes between the boards. This minimizes the amount of fluid needed and keeps it constantly circulating without a pump.

Cory5412 wrote: ... I've seen with Windows XP users still on XP with no antivirus or firewall (on purpose!) to this day because they feel entitled to Microsoft simply never changing anything.

That's a no ! You are 68000% wrong.

There are Windows 2000 users who refuse to change because :

1) No newer version of windows brings anything of value to the table

2) Mickeysoft and the entire United States Imaginary Property contingent can take their "Digital (w)Rongs Management" and stuff it up their incompetent worthless Forrest Hayes asses. The American KGB is not going to get my assistance in putting their busybody noses into my underwear drawer. They can take their patents on black rectangles with Roman corners and put them where the sun don't shine

Period. Full stop.

You idiots can do as you please but some of us jews don't line up happily for that cool free tattoo.

commodorejohn wrote: Wait, hamei is a Chinese communist Jew? That's pretty niche, man.

Well, I hate to toot my own horn but Communist, yup. I even have a poster of Mao on the wall at home, like a lot of old people here do. And an Imaginary Property thief, well that goes without saying.

If I'd been a little quicker I coulda got my Sex Offender certificate, I rubbed a 16 year old's boobs and unzipped her jeans when we were in high school. But she died a year or so ago so even with repressed memories, that chance is gone

I'm feeling a lot of envy of the kids today; when I was in high school there was no chance the cops would be able to get a warrant, take me into the hospital, dope me up and get a shot of my wanker "to compare." Lucky lucky kids (do people really have a lot of sex with goats these days ?)

Altho one girl I knew did mess around with the boy's p.e. coach, he took a bunch of photos of her and developed them in the school darkroom, then forgot a few. Oops. Nice knockers. I mean really nice. Didn't seem to affect her much, she just laughed it off. How callous, the least she could have done was attempt suicide, sue the school district, go onto the teevee circuit

The rest, well, poop. From the hilltop estates overlooking the glittering Monterey Bay, where their five-bedroom homes are on the market for $4.2 million, the executives from Sun, Apple, Google and Alix List know that we are all jews, niggers, welfare queens, dagos, wops, drains upon society. That's like having an MBA, you know ? Worthless.

Back to the sixties, the karma did make me laugh - “She’s cold. Ice cold,” said Santa Cruz police Deputy Chief Steve Clark. “The only person Alix Tichelman cares about is Alix Tichelman.”

"Tichelman, instead of helping, picked up her things — including the heroin and needles — and tidied up the boat. She stepped over his body several times, including one time to swig down a half-finished glass of wine. As she left, she reached back in to lower a blind to hide the body."

Turn about, eh ?



Does it tell anyone anything that this 'high-end' whore couldn't even get a job as a $5-a-whack pink barber-shop girl in China, while the innovative, generous practical team leader people-person highly-educated Sun / Apple / Google executive couldn't even tie himself off ? What a flocking loser. And there's 200 more just like him in her little black book

"Forrest will be remembered above all as a loving husband and father. More than anything else he enjoyed spending time with his family at home and on his boat. His brilliant mind, contagious smile, and warm embrace will be missed and cherished in memories by his friends and family."

Well, yeah, maybe. But we do know he loved spending time on his boat, he did he did. Planning more innovations to help drive the economy, most likely. Another Apple Innovator, saviors of our society.

Yup, commodore, to the elite we're all jews and niggers. No extra credit

jan-jaap wrote: A matter of buzzword compliance, I assume.

It's been required by the Barnum Act for several years now. Where you been, Rip ?

kubatyszko wrote: So I tried my Griffin iMic with no luck - it does show up in hint but doesn't work

The -1 indicates this is probably just the ioconfig thing. Delete /etc/ioconfog.conf and reboot and it should work. You have to diddle around with the audio panel a bit as well, iirc.

recondas wrote: Several years ago I was able to get a Griffin iMic working with an Onyx 300 - though I don't recall using it for anything other than basic audio out.

I've tried several generic el-cheapo usb sound devices, they have all worked. I think it's the chip that counts, somewhat like the firewire card situation. Forget what chip is required but it seems to be a cheap common one.

None of them did audio in though

Maybe someone would rather work on this instead of reinventing the wheel ? No ?

55cancri wrote: Sad that no one compiled LiVES,

It gets through the configure stage anyhow, which is a good sign, but ...

but I'm a little frustrated -_-

Yeah, that'll happen when you mess around with FREE ! OPEN SOURCE ! YOU HAVE TO FIX IT YOURSELF BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS BORKEN! software.


Damn straight, cuz there ain't no jack on Irix, buttbreath ...


We don' need no steenkin polish audio, either. You nag almost as much as my girlfriend but you don't have a tits. So stfu, if you don't mind ...


And then maybe I don't want to play with your x86 toys ... less go :


well, that joy didn't last long : the very first object file ....


Someone with a lot more patience (and skill) than me could maybe make this work. It's not the worst I've seen ... Or put your nose to the ground, there's several professional-quality video editors out there for less than retail <cough, cough> Many of them work with uncompressed files tho, which may be a problem for you.

There's always a nice cheap x86 computer down at the Office Depot ....

edit : killed the first error, eight seconds later


Okay fine, screw it ... if you want LiVES, maybe that Office Depot box is the best answer.

vishnu wrote: hamei, you're attempting to compile that with MIPSPro? It's passing in gcc arguments.

Yes, and that's exactly wrong . I'm so sick of dealing with ignorant little twats ....

55cancri, running a commpiler isn't that difficult if the software is halfway decent. Give it a try, you might like it.

vishnu wrote: I looked at the the configure script ... Also, the only gcc-ism it adds is to pass -Wall if the compiler is gcc, so I'm not sure where those ones you pasted in above are coming from ...

Are you sitting down ? they are in the Makefiles.

I ditched the entire tree so I can't check again but when I searched for those directives, they were in the Makefile.am's ....

The good part is, I'm getting used to this vertical mouse. Don't exactly like it but it may be better for the hand health and it isn't sooo bad to steer (buttons are nice, steering is a little cumbersome) ...

smj wrote: I've used 2.5" Seagate Savvio SCSI drives w/ 80 pin SCA connectors, added an 80<=>50 pin adaptor and a 2.5" - 3.5" mounting bracket, and fitted the entire assembly to an Indigo2 drive tray.

I bet if you worked at it, you could get one of those '4 ea 2.5" drives on one 3.5" tray' thingies stuffed in there. RAID-inna-sled, that'd be spiffy in an indigo or octane

ClassicHasClass wrote: No. Firefox is slow because JavaScript is an interpreted language and the interpreter is slow.

One thing that is a big help with Fireflop is to set up a proxy, then block the thousands of bullshit javascripts running in the background. It's pretty easy to do and makes a significant improvement. This works even better if several people are using one innernut connection.

HttpFox works in 3.0.19 and is a big help at rooting out quantserve and other worthless slowth-inducing b.s.

Turning off javascript also works but it can be a pain when some fool uses javascript to write simple buttons where static html would do better.

Now some places I go I see lines and lines of pretty red 403 hits scrolling by in the httpfox window, while the page loads quickly

diegel wrote: All current open source is written to be compiled with gcc.

They have become the monster they despised.

TeamBlackFox wrote: Never had a SINGLE failure from a RISC based device of any kind.

Then you haven't run SGI kit very much. Fuels fail with depressing frequency. Octanes are a little better, Indies go through their power supplies, the O3xx series has power supplies that catch fire, and on and on.

Meanwhile, the Assistant's Netfinity trudges on down the road, has not had a single hardware failure in ... no date on the tag. But it's Made in China and at least eight years old.

While we're doing anecdotes, I have always had better luck with IBM than the rest. Now that Ginny is in charge that's probably gone with the wind but they did have better quality in the past. HP was good in the days of the RS-20 but I wouldn't touch their shit with triple-ply toilet paper now.

Then I was looking at the late model Sun Ultras and the Sun Blades...

As long as you run it entirely from the command line, Sun is nice. But every desktop they've had since NeWS is disgusting garbage. I'm pretty sure OpenStep won't run on a modern Sun, but if you get it to work, let me know !

Can you run Rhapsody on a G5 ? That might be decent.

You realize, the most practical thing would be Windows XP on a Z-Pro.

ClassicHasClass wrote:

hamei wrote: Can you run Rhapsody on a G5 ?

No. I did get it running on this Wallstreet G3 and, well, it's NeXTStep with Platinum but no app compatibility.

Oiks. Thank you, just saved me some time. Mark that one off the "interesting" list

vishnu wrote: PTC is still using their own hacked version of Motif for Pro/Engineer, and it's pixel by pixel equivalent to the way their Windows version looks.

Really ? Are they trying for first place in the stupidity contest or something ? I stopped at Wildfire 2, as that was the last one for Irix. And it's 64-bit, too, ugh, but you gotta take what you can get ...

Kira wrote: You could always get a zx2000 or zx6000 - they're pretty fast (by Old RISC Crap standards) and have good OS support.

Be advised, zx6000's are pretty loud.

Computing as a hobby is mort. You can play with old junk which is interesting but a dead end, or you can diddle yourself with whatever worthless crap the gnu fanboyz are in love with this week, or you can give up.

Truth is, home computing is now like Oakland : there's no there, there.

vishnu wrote: Keep in mind that the only platform Pro/E existed on for years was SGI, for the simple reason that no one else built computers that could do what SGI's did. And in those days there were no alternative toolkits, except maybe Athena (and that's a big maybe), other than that it was Motif or nothing...

I do like the way that the interface is totally configurable. You can put whatever you want wherever you want, and every user can arrange all the parts to suit themself. And it's a simple manually-edited text file, not some steenking xml shit.

The newer interfaces have gone towards a more Windows-ish paradigm but at least, starting from a Motif beginning the program is straightforward to customize. If it had started life as a Windows program I fear we'd have got : "This is how it is, if you don't like it go start your own company. And by the way, don't try to use lines or arcs, we have those patented."

ClassicHasClass wrote: Hey, man, computers are much more fun as a hobby -- well, the old ones -- than they ever were as a career.

I can't talk about computing for computing's sake but as a means to make things, computing in the seventies wasn't exactly fun so much as, "Wa ! Can you believe I just entered that entire program in thirty seconds ! If I had to type it in it would have taken three hours and had fifty mistakes !" A serial connection to the teletype was waay cool !

The PDP-8's that ran K&T mills still had to be toggled through the bootstrap procedure to enter their executive program. Good thing they had core

And when they screwed up, there goes $3,000 to repair that 32k core board. That's in 1975 dollars ...

But an NC machine was ten times faster than a human with better quality. Even if the steenkin computers drove you crazy, at least there was some gain. So when you spent your time and money on some "new and improved !" doo-wacka-doo, at least you felt like you were getting something.

(If I had it to do over again I would not spend ten cents on any of that crap. Today you could make a better living doing onesy-twosies by hand, since there are so few places who can do that now.)

As a hobby or an interest, computers were nifty because you could see almost endless potential. OpenDoc. Display Ghostscript. The Workplace Shell. SMP. Threading. Out of twenty different choices, there was going to be something you'd find suitable.

Now what do we have ? javascript ? dynamic html to push advertising swill down people's throats ?

Shit, that's what we have. GNU has become the monster it hated while the commercial enterprises have become what monopolies always do : "You will buy what we want you to buy at the company store, or die. Good luck, sucker. Drop off your cash on the way out, would you ?"

If this was the cost of progress, well, maybe. But what progress ? There hasn't been anything of value happening in personal computing for a good ten years.

Discouraging

guardian452 wrote: Have not been all that satisfied with my apple @me.com service lately...

Do you have a local ISP with a brain and email service ? I know, costs more but it might be worth it.

Would I be better off running my own server? Seems overkill tho I do have an almost-always-on machine...

Did this for several years, running the server was easy and nowadays you could do it on a very low-power box that wouldn't cost anything.

The problems I had were all from the other end : "It's from China ! Omigod, must be spam !"

Stupid dipshits. This was a correctly set up mail server with reverse spiffydiff and everything. The people running mail servers are so fucking stupid. You won't believe it until you try.

If you are lucky they can handle mail from the US but if you run dynamic dns, you may have the same problem.

My ISP charges an extra $10/mo for static IP tho I think there are a few other things that come with it. Would rather spend $10/year

If you are interested in VOIP, VPN, or any other functions, a static IP is really nice. It would help with the mail server situation, for example. Plenty of morons just blacklist any dynamic ip right off the bat.

Tinfoil hat time : (but it's the truth) - the entire Spam ! Spam ! Spam ! How can we control spam ? thing is just a shuck to remove control of the internet from individuals and place it in the hands of "content providers". Shut up, serf, and take what we give you.

It would be trivial to stop spam right at the source. No normal human being sends out 465,000 emails an hour. Any ISP can detect a spammer within five minutes. If they really wanted, they could stop it at the source with no muss, no fuss.

But they don't want and never have wanted. What they really wanted and what they got is to remove control of our lives from our hands and place it in theirs.

And we went for it. Google goes through all email they handle. "Big Data" to quote the Big Bitch. There's not a tyrant in the history of mankind who wouldn't sacrifice his entire family tree for that power. We are fools.

canavan wrote: IRIX should support "any" USB audio class device, i.e. "generic" audio devices that doesn't require specific drivers to run.

That's how firewire is supposed to work, too, but .....

guardian452 wrote: Although, I get the feeling they are in it for the money. Not nefarious there.

Money = power. It's but a small step for man ... Who said, "Control their stomachs and their hearts and minds will follow ..." ?

Anyway, if you want to do your own, for a small group, this thing is a joy :

http://www.pmoylan.org/pages/os2/Weasel.html

It's a chopper, man. 16 and 21, 4 over and no tassels. Grab your colors and start splittin lanes

ClassicHasClass wrote: ... I just don't care enough yet.

Exactly. If you're in a blizzard and the electric goes off, who cares if the emails get delayed ? Just light the kerosene lamps and go do what people did back in the dark ages

Just looked at Cyrus again ... Jesus, guardian, put OS/2 on a little box and download Weasel. This yewnix stuff is awful

robespierre wrote: forget cyrus, look at dovecot.

Thanks, Robes, just in time. I was just starting to bring up cyrus again, forgot how disgusting all this is. Will report back on whether dovecot is as bad.

Oops :

Assumptions
* Each mail account served by Dovecot, has a local user account defined on the server.

Well, that didn't last long ...

wikischmedia wrote: Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind

This makes me wonder ... why do people care about "security" ? If it goes through Google or Yahoo or Hotmail, the NSA and their secret rubberstamp "judges" plus every commercial organization on earth has access to everything you write. They even store it for future reference and claim copyrights on your mail.

So why not just write it on the bathroom walls down at the Y ? WTF is the difference ?

guardian452 wrote: Welp... my ISP is still out :/ the only other option here is twc/comcast so it's not like I have a choice.

Put another couple beans in the jar

geo wrote: I was able to get until './configure', when i did 'make' it complains on some syntax. so i use 'gmake' then it compiled

These days you almost always have to use gmake ... check the rest of your ./configure setup as well, nekoware has fairly current versions of all the required programs.

so my question is should i do the port in MipsPro or should i adjust some file so that it would use gcc/g++ for compiling?

Up to you what you use, but if you try MIPSPro there are several people here who will help, if you want to slog your way through it. Can learn something that way ...

geo wrote: ... will check more about the generated 'configure' file and see what else i need.. but i thought that once 'gmake' is used, it will also automatically use 'gcc/g++' as its default compiler?

No, gmake by itself is happy to use any compiler. Many people now hard-code gcc into the Makefile but that's not necessary. If they do, just strip it out.

Hurling ugly language at the imbecile who did that is optional

There's a good section in the neko-wiki giving a lot of help on compiling programs in Irix, you might want to take a look over there.

This looks interesting for a small operation :

http://www.xmailserver.org/

Can never tell until you get in there and start rooting around, tho ...

geo wrote: i still got the error, maybe i placed it in the wrong place? Here is the output

geo, don't know if it will help in this case but if you are building a newer version of something already in nekoware, look through the release notes -- /usr/nekoware/relnotes, but they are not a default installation, you have to specifically install them. Sometimes the problem is persistent over versions, so an earlier fix can be carried over.

TeamBlackFox wrote: What about qmail?

Funny you should mention that ... I was just looking for it on opencsw but no luck Build your own should be easy but I'm not up to speed on the svcadmin thing

surrealdeal wrote: Do yourself a favor and get an SDF account. You even get free usenet access when you register.

Price is right but PPTP VPN ? Eeeeuw

henrik2008 wrote: Sorry, similar question regarding installing blender,
has been posted in this forum by a user, just found the post / thread!.

Did you find the 2.49a ? I think that's the newest one on Irix and it wasn't at the Blender site, just here ...

jan-jaap wrote:

bjornl wrote: Right now I'm running it in my workplace. I have a lower rate than a household since it an industry

Damn. I should have my computer room rebadged 'industrial zone'

Is that common in Europe ? In China, companies pay two to three times as much for everything. And it goes by the zoning of the building so there's no "Okay, I'll just get the personal dsl ..."

jan-jaap wrote: Over here it's the same, for internet at least: if your postal code is a business district you can only get business DSL. And pay an order of magnitude more for half the speed, of course.

We have the same system. It's bad enough that you have to pay more (but understandable) but at least we should get the good speed