The collected works of hamei - Page 58

recondas wrote: I thought getting *in* bed with the communists was supposed to be the really scary part.

No problem. Once you take off the clothes and tape up their mouth, you can't tell a commy from your garden-variety Goldwater Republican

Scrounging through the junkpile I came across some parts of this, maybe the whole thing ? Is it anything worthwhile or should I just clear out that folder ?

ClassicHasClass wrote: 1. Squat.
2. ????
3. Profit!

You're thinking of Piles on the Road by Squatton Leavit

josehill wrote: The specific nature of the prize will be determined by hamei.

Purely by coincidence, I have a suitable award right here ready to go. Just have to box it up and find an unsuspecting shipper ...

btw, in another little stroke for the forces of evil, the duckduckgo settings that Glizda referred to are not persistent. Even if you set it, they don't last between restarts. Nice. "Save your settings in The Cloud !"

Unh-hunh. Check's in the mail, I won't ... &c &c

smj wrote: Now I'm worried...

If you see a flaming bag on your porch, maybe better get the fire extinguisher

But, dude... this is what you want . You don't want them tracking you ...

My hope was that they'd use simple cookies to toggle their settings. Of course they could have just left it the way it was but oh well.

For me there are two problems with the way it is now. One is that you can't do a simple rmb -> save link as ... for pdf's.

The other is that duckduck seems to now have the same problem google used to have : too many searches in a short period of time and suddenly your connection drops to 3 baud. Going straight to the searchee doesn't do that but the prepended duck url trips the counter. Of course that is conjecture because there is no way in hell they will admit to anything but it's repeatable.

So, settings blob or no settings blob, it's not something that can be fixed.

Bye, duckduck.

ClassicHasClass wrote: After all that I didn't post the model. It's an LG LP1111WXR. The related LG LP1311BXR is mechanically identical.

For an individual room, if it's long-term I still think the aircons we use here are the way to go. The fan and some cooling coils are inside the room in a box high up on the wall, the compressor and heat exchanger live outside. It's all connected by a couple insulated hoses through the wall. 3" hole through the wall is enough. They make them in small sizes, too.

Oh cool ! thanks, hippies ! The files came off an Indigo2 I had ages ago, surprised they still exist.

The price is way up there tho, maybe I shoulda kept that Barney Box

It's an old Motif word processor, thought I'd throw it through MIPSPro.

Rebuilt the Makefile, seems to try to build but :


at least it's the same error ... you sure do get a lot of warnings with some of this stuff. Don't people want to go through their code and at least fix the simple uglies ?

A long time ago there was a sort of general agreement that any gcc-built nekoware would show that in the title ... could we continue that ?

guardian452 wrote: I've seen those from mitsubishi but I'm sure there are others. Example: http://www.mitsubishiwallunits.com/mits ... oducts.php

Did a little looking - in the US it's called a "split system." Works well cuz the hot part is outside and the cold part is inside. We have Panasonic, Toshiba, LG, and a gazillion local brands. Seems like the prices in the US are ridiculous tho. A small one (8,000 btu) here is about $150.

diegel wrote: I can do so, what is the correct package name in this case? neko_fontconfig-2.8.0_gcc.tardist?

Thanks ! That would be great. There's a couple others in /current similar to that.

We have to rename a lot of packages then.

At the speed these are flying off the shelves, maybe this is not something we need to worry about

vishnu wrote: Another wild night in the monastery there, eh buckaroo?

Did you know that in the middle ages monasteries and their attached nunneries were hotbeds of licentious behavior ?

Speaking of Lightwave 5.6, just read where Star Drek - In the Pirkinning was mostly done with Lightwave 5.6. Pretty impressive.

The humor is a little juvenile at times but that 'film' compares well to a lot of multi-million dollar Hollywood productions.

uunix wrote: I presume you meant Star Trek and you have massive fat fingers that overlaid 3 keys and all the women in your village are happy? But finding William juvenile is not right young man!

Ekchully, no. Ducky could tell you more but

http://starwreck.com/

downloadable here :

http://www.starwreck.com/download.php

Worth watching, seriously. I would download it first, then read about it. More fun that way.

It's not really Star Drek ... but should have been

duck wrote: I haven't seen it, have I lost all my finn-creds now?-)

Nah, as long as you give us some pointers on reindeer-herding, your finn-creds will stay intact

If you have a moment tho, I'd dload that movie ... the production values are shockingly good, especially if you read how they did it. (Read after watching, otherwise it'll spoil the fun.) And the acting isn't so bad, either. It should be an inspiration to people playing with home video.

Plus you can watch it with the new Nekoware MPlayer

The space battles are especially good ... Pretty impressive, especially since they were working with stuff that's not even as good as most of us have.

Duck, you won't need the subtitles for a change

Disclaimer : I don't know anything about fiber channel. But I have a couple of sata disks that do something similar to what you describe ..

Does each disk show up individually ? /dev/dksc/dsk3d2s7 etc etc ? If so, I am guessing you have your links interlaced ? Because on my system, there's a mount point for each disk on the boot filesystem. There's no problem with this setup, it doesn't care when each disk comes online. The boot disk comes up first, then the subdisks can mount in any order.

I'm not sure they would ever have done what you are talking about because in a big installation, what if disk #3 with mountpoints for disks 4 and 5 failed ? Then everything dependant on it would also fail ...

This is helpful

http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/fc.html

And Chris Kalisiak used to post here a lot, so he is acquainted with Irix and Fiber Channel both. He had a business dealing with Fiber Channel so might still be available if you get stuck.

But this sentence :

"Note that the drive numbers attached to controller 2 are sequential starting with zero, and the drives attached to controller 3 are somewhat random. This is because the eight are in a commercial array with predetermined ID's, and the six are in a configuration known as a JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Disks", using my T-Cards with somewhat random drive ID jumpers"

indicates that fiber channel disks should have i.d. jumpers ?

Here's his store :

http://ckcomputersystems.com/

Nice guy, he doesn't bite, likes SGI's ...

uunix wrote: I have media, but unless I did a netboot, no way of connecting CD-ROM. I could easily transfer the required files, by mounting the drive in my working Octane2. I could even boot that drive, but would it let me install if I'm on newer technolodgy?

There's a web page floating around by a guy who put all his various Irix install media onto an old sca hard disk. With that, you're good to install on O2, Octane, newer Origins, newer Onyxes, Tezro ... seemed like a good idea to me. You could even put it into an external scsi case and use that idea for installing to Indigo, Indigo2, etc.

joostp wrote: Any luck?

I can't tell you anything about how it works cuz I have no game experience at all, but it opens and the buttons that aren't greyed out work. It doesn't crash or complain to the console.

Thank you.

guardian452 wrote: Kinda sad.

I'm still grieving over Lafayette Electronics

ClassicHasClass wrote: ... there is an Irix binary of that. Tested on the Indy and the Fuel, built with MIPSPro.

You really know how to hurt a guy


edit : the flop finally got it. 33.6 baud modem, here we come

Another triumph for Irix, thank you !

If you want to get rid of the blue, your standard xdefaults should do the trick. I didn't do anything to gopher, just opened it.

If you made it work with a spaceball, that would be cool, Mr Classy. Spaceballs are grrrrr-ate for 3d manipulation.

ClassicHasClass wrote: But ... but ... isn't everyone here using their SGIs for Serious Businesseses?

We're anything but Serious but I pulled half the memory out and still ...


Even running several "memory-hog" apps at once, I've never been able to use more than maybe 2 gigs. It will fill up with filesystem cache but heck, that's no biggy.

I've come to the conclusion that Yewnix really doesn't handle memory all that well. And fireflop, well, let's not even go there.

I'm sure there are some cases where more memory is a help but in general, the Big Memory thing seems to be kind of a fetish.

I'm definitely jealous of that cpu card tho. That's about the best Fuel you'll ever see

ClassicHasClass wrote: Port 80? Gopher's on 70!

Config file error but the flop finally got it so I din't bother fixing ...

What do you mean, a spaceball?

imo, the hot ticket for manipulating objects in three dimensions. USB doesn't work on Irix but the serial ones still do.

vishnu wrote: Space balls, , it's a movie with the unspeakably gorgeous Daphne Zuniga...

Daphne Eurydice Zuniga ... only in Berserkely

Har, check this out:

Yeah, had to ditch that old cruft so they had space to incorporate important stuff, like ... umm ... well ... errr ... oh heck, I'm sure they had some reason.

recondas wrote: From what you've /GDMFW900.PDF]recommended for the FW900 in 16:10 mode[/url]) might exceed RE2 capabilities.

RealityEngine2:
VGA up to 1600x1200

No RE here but I did have the predecessor to the FW 900. 1600x1024 is quite acceptable on that monitor. 1600x1200 doesn't fit the aspect ratio so everything gets squshed but it will display if pentium wants to test.

ClassicHasClass wrote: That would be very cool. I'll have to find a serial one. Are there any libraries for reading their data (I assume something like quadrature)?

Tons.

3D Connexion has a driver, free for Yewnix now, and an sdk.

On Irix it's easy -> add serial device -> choose "Magellan" (original name for these things) and away ya go. Shows up in confidence tests even. It's an xinput extension to X and pretty standard, so other Unix-like systems should have something similar.

On Loonix, there's a few : libSBall and at least one other :

http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/projects/libsball/

http://xray.bmc.uu.se/markh/notes/joy/spaceball.html

I built the libsball thingy and a demo once, it worked on Irix also.

I am pretty sure that an Irix usb driver would not be that difficult but am too stupid and lazy to accomplish that ...

vishnu wrote: Looks like a pretty nice IDE, wonder why they abandoned it...

Because they never wanted it in the first place. If it ain't Mickey, they embrace ! mmmm, kiss-kiss ! extend ! ooh, look at all these cool (non-standard) extensions ! so neato-keano ! exterminate !! oh so sorry, golly gee that's deprecated !

Sound familiar ?

GL1zdA wrote: [ I think in the late 90s they didn't knew themselves what they wanted to do ...

That's a misunderstanding of US business philosophy. They knew exactly what they wanted to do and they succeeded admirably.

Tricky Ricky, Braindead Bob, Bozo Ewald : they took a ship with a billion in cash and rode it round and round the great white bowl, going to parties and filling up their bank accounts until someone pulled the handle. Then they stepped off, while the stockholders, suppliers and people who did the work got flushed.

Ten long years and nobody said a word ....

jan-jaap wrote: Queue Hamei and the IBM T221 in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ...

hey, there's an Eizo that takes two dvi inputs also !

Are those the only two monitors that do that ? With two dvi outputs on a lot of peecee graphics cards, I would have thought there'd be more ...

With the rackmount Tezro / O350, if you have 2p nodeboards you could have a V12 in each and a DCD on the V12 in each. The processors go on the forward end of the nodeboard, so with only two you don't have to relieve the graphics heat sink. And the DCD goes all the way at the other end of the box and on the other side of the graphics card so the problem is fitting the graphics, not the dcd.



Altho, the hot ticket would be a four-brick O350 with graphics in each. That's the most you could do without a router but if you went with dcd's, you could get four pipes and eight channels. Tezro apparently can't do that, arbitrarily limited to two bricks.

One mystery you Tezro owners could clear up : Tezro has two xio slots. You should be able to run dual heads. I have seen comments that the system won't allow this supposedly due to current requirements ? If true, that is a bundle of rubbish ! Anyone try ?

edit: added illustration

Jack Luminous wrote: Which Eizo model would that be ? Can't seem to find it on the Eizo site...

sx3031w

Don't look at the price unless you're sitting down

Ooh ! Apparently therre's some smaller NEC's with the same feature. The buzzword to search for is < picture-by-picture >. You can imagine how well a search for < dual dvi input > turned out !

This one is even better - god knows what the price is tho, I'm certainly not going to look :

http://www.eizoglobal.com/products/flex ... html#tab02

for $ 800 tho ...

http://www.macworld.com/article/2155965 ... sleep.html

There's a bunch really, this is cool, better than before ... lots of reasonable price NECs ...

It also looks like all the 4k displays are also using dual inputs to get past the 30hz barrier. I've seen hdmi-to-dvi adapters, so that would be another possibility ?

Maybe in another five years the peecee world will catch up to where SGI and IBM were ten years ago

vishnu wrote: Every time I turn my Tez on, the fans in the back sound like they're trying to launch the thing right off the desk

The problem is, that V12 is just creating way too much heat. If you'd replace it with a V10 that wouldn't happen. Since you're such a nice guy, I happen to have a quiet V10 I'd be happy to swap with you

Axatax_ wrote: 2. There's the MPlayer 1.0rc1-1 in /beta. This requires libdca, libdvdcss, libdvdread, and libdvdnav from /beta. Same branch as /current, but with updated DVD libraraies. If you don't play DVDs off of physical media, this branch is probably not an upgrade from #1 above. It's a **big** improvement for DVD playback off of physical media (I'm batting 100%)...

If one other person would try this hummer out we could move to /current ... the original was excellent (I use it all the time), this one does not go backwards in any way but adds some features for playing from DVD ....

3: The MPlayer 1.1 link here: ftp://ftp.nekochan.net/pub/downloads/co ... 1.1.tar.gz . This is the latest and greatest MPlayer,

This one also works well as long as you have the above-mentioned prerequisities installed. So far so good.

One question tho - any predictions on the -vo sgi feature ?

Axatax_ wrote: We should already have the 3+ person consensus. This latest drop just added the speex dependency.

Okay le. I'll pm da Boss if you like ...

Axatax_ wrote: This obviously requires JACK, which I've also worked out a patch for.

Ooh. Don't divert from Mplayer but Jack is the showstopper for most fossy sound programs on Irix. Would be neat to have (at some point), grazie !

Axatax_ wrote: Hmm, the .tardist in /beta should repace the current MPlayer cleanly... It does @ my site at least.

Will look into this.

Don't spend too much time on that ... I probaly borked it in some way, forcing it to do something it didn't want. Or maybe that was a leftover from years ago, when MPlayer was new. This installation is ten years old ...

Jack Luminous wrote: When I got the V12/DCD in my Octane, I looked for a monitor with two DVI inputs to display sided-by-side but couldn't find any at the time (about two years ago).

Same here, just that $5,000 Eizo. I was pretty excited to see that there's several others now in the $800-ish range that will do the dual-independent-input thing. Even better, it looks like all the high-res displays will be using that method, too.

Eventually this monitor will die, it's nice to have some future options. Once you do high-res, you don't want to go back

vishnu wrote: Oh sure, there are tons of perfectly worthy IRC clients, it's just that as a decades long Motif hacker I greatly prefer Motif applications.

Someone here at the 'chan started on a Motif instant-chat / irc client. He got through two or three versions. It works, I used it a little. As a Motif programmer, vish ...

foetz wrote:

TeamBlackFox wrote: NGINX is better than Apache by far.

it depends on what you wanna do. apache has way more features and a much broader platform support

The Sun Solaris Netscape Oracle iPlanet Java One Server to Conquer Them All server is pretty nifty as well. There is a slow-moving open-source version of that, which I have thought would be fun to try on Urx.

It's not popular with the groupies, which is a +1 for me as well

duck wrote: Yup, 2000 has the least bad memories associate with it to date.

Just "up"graded from win 2k on the Assist's kompewter. It made eight years. I'd have done a straight reinstall except wanted to try canavan's rdesktop (works well.) Server 2003 seems okay so far.

foetz wrote: all of that a plus for me too. didn't know about its remains but i've just seen that oracle still offer the iplanet web- and proxy servers ... for customers only tho

There's a little bit about it here :

http://www.virkki.com/jyri/articles/ind ... eb-server/

but not too much. I think you can still get it free but it's a bitch to find. I snagged it a while back, have been running it for several years but on Solaris. It's interesting and works well. Quite different from Apache tho.

I remember when Sun open-sourced it, all the chimpanzees at slashdot were gibbering in unison, "What do we need that crusty old crap for ?"

Maybe because it works better than Apache ?

edit : I was wrong There's Winders of a couple varieties, Solaris in two varieties, AIX and HP-UX. No Irix tho

Free here :

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 25365.html

If you have an interest I'd grab it fast tho. Larry, he don' like nobody what gets nuttin' of his without payin' up the wazoo. This is only 7.15, I have seen docs related to 7.20 but can't find that for the life of me.

Be prepared for a learning experience - it's not like the rest of the web servers out there. It passed through the Sun Reality Translation Vector at some point.

I'm at 60 of 160 megabytes now, hope this isn't just a giant tiff of Larry laughing in my face ...