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Wrote on the subject of ZyXEL firewall/routers at Dec. 21, 2012, 4:49 a.m...

Oh, my needs are fairly straightforward. I don't even have large amounts of 'interesting' data on my intranet (to an outsider, that is). I just want to inspect a firewall before I will put my trust in it (*). After all, it is one of the things that keeps private data private.

I have FTTH (currently 100/100) and it would be a pity if I couldn't use part of what I'm paying for because of a crappy router.

The ASUS (shiver) RT-N66U appears to be a fairly powerful router and is said to run Tomato nicely too.

hamei wrote:

In your case, a 3745. You won't go back.

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jan-jaap wrote:

Large, loud, power hungry devices do not qualify because it has to be installed in my utility cabinet.

'nuff said ...

(*) The question is not 'are you paranoid?', but 'are you paranoid enough ?' :mrgreen:

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Wrote on the subject of ZyXEL firewall/routers at Dec. 21, 2012, 7:12 a.m...

I think a Cisco RV180 VPN Router would be more realistic for a SOHO network. For the big hardware you need a support contract to access firmware updates. Oracle practices, bleh

I haven't forgiven them yet for yanking the firmware updates for the WS-C1100 and WS-C1400 FDDI concentrators from (public) FTP and restricting it to active support contracts. Anybody have a copy of ftp.cisco.com from the 2002 - 2007 era?

The RV180 doesn't have wireless, so I'd need an access point. Why oh why is a wireless N access point at least twice as expensive as a wireless router with similar (5GHz band, 300 or 450Mbit) capabilities :roll:

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Wrote on the subject of ZyXEL firewall/routers at Dec. 23, 2012, 8:19 a.m...

* So I mentioned the Cisco RV180. I read a review on a Dutch site: wasn't much good. Bottom line: buy IOS based enterprise gear or top of the line consumer gear (Cisco/Linksys E4500 etc) but not this. Flesh nor fish, and had some nasty bugs. May or may not have been fixed over the last 12months, YMMV.

* Hamei mentioned the Cisco 3745 to me. http://www.trygve.com/no_duct_tape.html says:

Quote:

The 3745, on the other hand, sounds like you mounted an early model dustbuster on your server rack and kept it running 24/7. Besides being a whole lot quieter to begin with, the 2851 also has fan speed control and it's an option you can activate on the 3620s, but apparently there's no such provision on the 3745.

If you take a quick look at the fan tray assembly, you get an idea why--this little 3u router is cooled by four of the second-noisiest 92mm fans Delta Electronics makes. Each individual fan has a rated airflow of 54 qubic feet per minute, which theoretically should mean 216 cubic feet being pumped through a half-cubic-foot box every minute. That's a lot, especially considering that the entire machine only consumes 58 watts according to the Kill-a-Watt power meter I have it plugged into...thirteen of which is used to run the fans, if they are, in fact, using their rated .28 amps at 12 volts.

In addition to this, firmware updates (and this includes security fixes) require an active support contract. Fatal error, as far as I'm concerned.

So, in my case, either I'm going to go with a decent 'consumer' (integrated wireless blabla) router, or I'm going to slap together a real, dedicated router. See, there's one thing I didn't mention so far because a dedicated router simply never was something I considered: I still have an FDDI network segment. Right now I use my Linux server to route between FDDI and ethernet.

Energy isn't cheap here, so low power is crucial. A dedicated router would have to be some Atom platform, with a PCI slot (for the FDDI card). With 3x gig ethernet (WAN, LAN, DMZ).

Something like this:
chassis: http://www.morex.com.tw/products/produc ... ?fd_id=150
mainboard: http://ark.intel.com/products/56462/Int ... rd-D2500CC

I don't mind to spend some money on a 'real' solution but then it has to be good. I don't want to simply add another Linux server to the zoo and spend countless hours maintaining things that don't add any value.

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Wrote on the subject of ZyXEL firewall/routers at Dec. 25, 2012, 7:39 a.m...

SAQ wrote:

Take a look at Vyatta Community Edition (assuming it's still going to be around now that Brocade bought them). It's Linux-based, but set up for routing/firewalls.

Thanks, this looks like a candidate. I signed up to download the documentation -- at least there's plenty of it. Looks like the difference between the 'community' and 'subscription' release is mostly the lack of a GUI -- don't really care about that.

Think I'll load it on an old x86 PC to see how it handles the FDDI adapter. I could potentially run it in a VM but I don't like the idea that the whole network infrastructure would vanish if the server went down. If this makes me happy I'll buy some hardware to run it.

robespierre wrote:

most of the new Atom embedded boards do not have classic PCI and won't be able to host FDDI.

PCIe 1x to PCI risers exist, like this one: http://www.delock.com/produkte/F_377_PC ... kmale.html
I kind of like the Jetway NF9D-2700 . It has PCI (most Jetway Atom boards do), dual Gb ethernet, and you can add 3 more Gb interfaces with a (propriety) daughter card . It would take the original RAM of my MacBook and I could easily piece something together with dual-WAN, DMZ, LAN all at Gbit speeds, plus FDDI.

Sky, I think I'm looking for something else than you. Jump in if you think I'm hijacking your thread.

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Wrote on the subject of Tezro V12 running too warm or is it normal? at Dec. 28, 2012, 8:33 a.m...

I think the 'BOOST' zone is the three extra fans only found on the 1GHz node boards

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Wrote on the subject of Encanto Supercomputer May Be ‘Sold in Pieces’ at Jan. 4, 2013, 1:10 a.m...

Looks like Encanto has been repo-ed by the state of New Mexico and may be dismantled and sold in pieces .

I guess we'll be seeing Altix ICE 8200 bits on eBay soon ...

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Wrote on the subject of Chyron Centaur physical installation problem at Jan. 5, 2013, 12:23 p.m...

I've got a Chyron Centaur in an Indigo, but IIRC that's an R3000 system. As soon as the system shows up again I'll have a look.

I put the PDF here: http://www.vdheijden-messerli.net/sgist ... tech60.pdf

I didn't scan it, it's something that floats around the net. I have the drivers too.

Chyron is frame-by-frame video I/O: you need a frame accurate deck or an Akebas or something to record a clip (render and output one frame at a time). A bit like VideFramer in the Personal IRIS. And it will take forever

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Wrote on the subject of Solved! Problem installing Irix on a Indigo 3K (SNI) at Jan. 7, 2013, 12:24 a.m...

SAQ wrote:

On a sad note it looks like SGI has broken or eliminated the online TechPubs for 6.3, 6.2 and 5.3. Are there any mirrors around?

Still there, just removed from index. I have a copy, should they remove it in the future.
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... ?coll=0530
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... ?coll=0620
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... ?coll=0630
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... ?coll=0640

Setting up an install server is described here: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... /ch02.html
This assumes you're using IRIX as install server (not Linux, etc....). In your case, it sounds like TFTP is working (this is how you get the miniroot), but RSH isn't, or the .rhosts file on the install server doesn't include root@indigo_ip_addr. This is why you're not getting to the software distribution.

When in doubt use wireshark to see where it hangs. The wiki contains some about install servers too, although I think it mostly focuses on the extra hurdles you have to take if you want to use something other than IRIX as install server.

I used to use Linux as an install server, but at every software upgrade something was broken in new and fascinating (not) ways, and of course you only find out when it's too late. In the end I gave up and now I'm using my Origin 200 as install server.

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Wrote on the subject of laughing at fleaBay at Jan. 8, 2013, 1:03 a.m...

The is neither Googles nor MarkMonitors fault. What you did is querying your whois server for "*google.com*" and some people with no life or a poor sense of humor have registered something that matches this expression. And for Amazon, Yahoo, etc etc.

The problem is how you parse this information (or fail to, actually

) See how each of the *google.com* results has a different whois server? The whois result you were expecting is this one:

Code:

whois -h www.markmonitor.com google.com

That is, unless you're interested in that swinging sh*t :lol:

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Wrote on the subject of Chyron Centaur physical installation problem at Jan. 8, 2013, 3:33 a.m...

http://videodesignsoftware.com/Products/Liberty.aspx has a bunch of brochures and manuals

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Wrote on the subject of Posting advice... at Jan. 10, 2013, 7:34 a.m...

Thanks Ian for the guidelines. I try to adhere to them

I also always take pictures during the process. No package I shipped ever showed up in pieces, but no one is going to accuse me of shoddy packaging in case that should ever happen.

Had something 'interesting' happen to me recently:
* ordered something the week before xmas.
* wasn't worried it had not showed up before xmas, and left for holidays.
* when it still didn't show up after the New Year, I requested the tracking code.
* T&T said something like this "attempt to deliver -> consignee absent or force majeure -> address incomplete -> consignee is invited to contact customer service -> parcel was re-routed at the consignee's request to the address of their choice."

The last bit set off all alarm bells and I called PostNL customer service.

What had really happened? Package was intercepted by customs. Really useful, T&T :evil:

Unless customs is a 'force majeure' :roll:

Apparently they can keep any package for up to 30 days for inspection. So now I have a case with them. They still haven't told me when they're going to deliver my package :cry:

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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at Jan. 10, 2013, 12:41 p.m...

silicium wrote: Raised floor looks impossible in my short basement where a tall rack would barely fit. I will screw cable trays on walls.

I thought about a raised floor. Briefly. I think it's useful in two scenarios:

1) You want to access racks from all sides. I don't have the space for that. I have to pull my rack from the wall to access the back side but I don't expect this to happen often. Cables to/from the rack are bundles in a fat 'umbilical cord' to keep it tidy. This also means I can't reach the power switches (on the back of most equipment!), btw. I intend to solve this with a remotely operated PDU ( APC AP7951 or similar)

2) You have a very large room and need to cross it diagonally rather than go along the walls. This doesn't apply to me either: 15m CAT6 cables are only a couple of bucks more than e.g. 3 or 5m cables. I was lucky to buy a lot of 15m long FDDI cables for cheap too

The cable gutter is just my way to get the cables out of sight.

Right now I'm busy wiring the network. I have basic networking in the new room, and the server has been relocated. I have 4*CAT6 SFTP to the utility cabinet where the FTTH endpoint is, and the switch which distributes network to the rest of the house. When this house was constructed they installed telephone cables to the living room, and every bedroom on the first floor. I'm busy replacing this with two CAT5E cables per room (twice CAT6 SFTP doesn't fit in a 15mm pipe, and I want shielded cables). A major infrastructure overhaul

I will be able to use these for networking, but also digital TV etc etc. Time will tell.

Had to suspend my work on the network last weekend because we had a small invasion of mice in the house. When the annex was constructed the pierced the walls in several places to pass electricity, heating and water through. They made some pretty big holes and it appears the mice found out about them. I've cemented all of them and trapped several mice (all, hopefully). In spring we're getting cats again.

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Wrote on the subject of IRIS 3000 boards on eBay.fr at Jan. 11, 2013, 2:31 a.m...

Looks like someone is butchering an IRIS 3000. You don't see many of these anymore, so if you own an IRIS 3000 and you're willing to gamble that any of this works, go for it:

http://shop.ebay.fr/i.html?_nkw=silicon ... itleDesc=0

You may have to convince the seller to ship outside France.

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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at Jan. 13, 2013, 12:39 p.m...

Pontus wrote: The main reason for getting raised floor for me is the uneven floor.

I had that problem in my garage, cement and a product called 'Egaline' took care of that. Then two coatings of epoxy paint and now it looks awesome.

Pontus wrote: Here are some pictures of my slow progress:

http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/garage/

I like it, but it looks like you have a lot of work to do still!

Pontus wrote:

duck wrote: Ooh, raised flooring... Expensive, no doubt?

Free actually It's used and quite ugly. I had to buy new legs though since the old ones were to short, but that was only about 3-400 dollars.

How much space do you need? I can't imagine you want to crawl underneath... I hope your place is rodent proof, because they will love it under there.

Another reason for me not getting a raised floor is that I don't want stairs at the entrance to my room. It would make moving big equipment in and out a lot harder too. One of the constraints of my building permit was that it had to be accessible to the disabled. So having it built with a lower floor (to have the raised floor at ground level) was not allowed.

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Wrote on the subject of Wanted: Indy, Indigo2 purple... to complete my collection at Jan. 14, 2013, 12:09 a.m...

I just want to add to that that the chassis of a Personal IRIS is made from thick steel. It is really heavy. I shipped one once and I had to ship the keyboard and mouse separately because the system itself + packaging was really close (within 200g IIRC) of the upper limit of what you can ship with through the post office.

I got my 4D/35 from a CAD/CAM company on the other side of the hallway. That saves a lot on shipping. :mrgreen:

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Wrote on the subject of really straight wiring... at Jan. 14, 2013, 12:16 a.m...

vishnu wrote:

the US Navy... :lol:

Thought I recognized the (smaller) MIL connectors -- D38999 series?

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Wrote on the subject of Irix on reddit at Jan. 14, 2013, 12:24 a.m...

mia wrote:

Or, just like me, because MIPSpro isn't available anywhere else (except using quicktransit).

Except MIPSpro is specifically excluded from the list of supported QuickTransit apps [sorry, can't find the link right now].

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Wrote on the subject of SGI 100Mbit Network Card for Indigo2 at Jan. 14, 2013, 12:51 a.m...

I was going to tell you about the Phobos E100 / 3c597 (EISA) and Phobos G160 (GIO64) cards, but Ian took care of it already .

I just want to add a third option: FDDI. FDDI is not ethernet but another transport (fiber optics). It also runs at 100Mb/s and generally works very well with SGI MIPS hardware. If you've got a Linux server with a free PCI slot to install a PCI FDDI card and route for you, you can connect the two with a point to point connection.

The G160 card is the best option for most people because it is the least hassle. You don't see them much anymore, though. FDDI cards are more common and cheaper than G160 cards, but you will have to segment your LAN and will need a router.

I've used all three (3c597, G160 and FDDIXpress). I'm not using the EISA cards anymore. I can probably dig one up if you're interested, but I can't really recommend them.

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Wrote on the subject of Irix on reddit at Jan. 15, 2013, 7:03 a.m...

bitcpy wrote:

Are you saying you can run MULTIPLE IRIX boxes chained together in a sort of "cluster" ????

No, some types of SGI MIPS/IRIX systems can be connected to form a single system image (SSI). A single instance of the OS runs on the combined system.

This applies to the bigger systems: Origin 200, 300, 350, 2000, 3000 and their equivalent graphics enabled sisters (with the exception of the deskside Onyx2). Not the workstations.

For example, my 8CPU Origin 350 is made up from two quad CPU Origin 350's.

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel 900Mhz, 4GB, V12, DCD, DM6 at Jan. 16, 2013, 2:54 a.m...

Is that with a single SSD or two in a RAID0?

The LSISAS3442X manual says it can do SAS at 3Gb/s speed (per lane), but

manual page 1-3 wrote:

Supports SATA as defined in the Serial ATA Specification, version 1.0.

That's only 150MB/s for SATA devices?

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Wrote on the subject of Help with Indigo2 R10K and 1GB RAM at Jan. 18, 2013, 12:23 a.m...

I've got a "gigaram' Indigo2 R10K myself. Standard issue IP28 board and never looked at the PROM either.

I'd suspect the RAM. The ones I (and most others, probably) used, are HP parts and they have tin contacts rather than gold. This makes them more susceptible to oxidation and I think the combination of tin contact SIMMs and gold contact sockets may lead to other problems. Ive had to clean the contacts with alcohol a couple of times over the years, unlike most of my other SGIs.

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Wrote on the subject of Octane2 dual R14k 600MHz CPU and Gigabit ethernet wanted at Jan. 18, 2013, 3:27 a.m...

The CPU module of an Octane has power connectors on the corners. Unless you take good care when packaging it, they break off. This is what happened with my first dual 300MHz module

And transatlantic shipping will probably be closer to $75 than $20, especially for a dual.

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Wrote on the subject of Indigo startup problems at Jan. 21, 2013, 7:18 a.m...

Connect a terminal to serial #1 and see what it says.

If the battery went dead (which isn't unlikely), the NVRAM is invalid and the console reset to 'd' (serial port).
You'll need a new battery to get past the 'TOD clock invalid , initializing TOD...' messages.

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Wrote on the subject of Irix on reddit at Jan. 21, 2013, 7:26 a.m...

I kind of like the Seagate Cheetah 15K series. I'm only using the 15K.3, 15k.4 and 15K.5 series. They have FD bearings are aren't louder than a consumer SATA disk.

I know others (Ian M. ?) like Maxtor disks.

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Wrote on the subject of Indigo; Upgrade? at Jan. 22, 2013, 12:19 a.m...

IRIX 5.3 will run 'fine' in 32MB. Back in the day we had a 100MHz R4000 Indy at $WORK used for software development. Ran IRIX, compilers, DDD, the application under development, all in 32MB RAM. They used to sell them with only 16MB RAM. When I got it, it had the original IRIX 5.1 + 5.1.1.3 (???) install on it. That would slowly eat up all it's RAM and had to be rebooted every couple of days. 5.3 fixed that.

At some point I scavenged some RAM from a 486 and upped it to 96MB RAM. That made a big difference

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Wrote on the subject of Anyone hacked a Dallas DS1235YW? at Jan. 29, 2013, 5:24 a.m...

hamei wrote:

It seems like every little computer place in baoshan has one of these - simple x-y table and some sort of heating element to remove and replace chips. They can't be very expensive. If I hadn't been so lazy I'd have taken the Fuel mainboard over to do a pinball enviro-chip replacement.

Might even work on a Fuel mainboard. But these things don't work for thick PCBs with many layers and thick ground planes (like the IO4 'pentium' mentioned). I really tried, and with proper, professional equipment (we have a decent lab at $WORK). Either you put enough power/heat into the PCB to melt the solder, but also cause enough thermal stress to crack a couple of VIAs in the process, or you they keep the PCB intact, but you're unable to remove the component.

I can think of two ways to remove a Dallas from an IO4: you put the entire board in a reflow oven *or* simply cut all the legs of the component and then use a precision drill and/or desoldering equipment to remove the remains.

IMHO, if you want to keep your equipment for a little longer than the warranty period, these Dallas chips are fundamentally flawed:
* They run out of battery before I'm ready to give up on the equipment
* Removing them from a PCB often is a pain
* If you're lucky and they still manufacture the one you need, the problem is going to come back in a couple of years ...
* ... and by they you almost certainly won't be able to buy a compatible Dallas and you'll need to find another solution anyway.

Better bite the bullet and fix this problem *right now* (i.e. CR2032 mod).

BTW: I opened my IBM TotalStorage DS4300 (SAN server) the other day to clean the FC backplane connectors after I bought some new disks. Thickest PCB I've ever seen.

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Wrote on the subject of Solaris 10 or 11 for Sunfire V245? at Feb. 7, 2013, 8:04 a.m...

astouffer wrote:

google turns up very little for "370-7973-0".

Try sun 370-7973 . Looks like 1GB DIMMs

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Wrote on the subject of SGI and AW swag and promo stuff at Feb. 17, 2013, 6:09 a.m...

^^^^^^-------------- N I C E

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Wrote on the subject of 3dLabs Graphics Cards at Feb. 21, 2013, 2:39 a.m...

tjsgifan wrote:

the PsiTech RAD4 PCI cards that go in O2 [...]

Learning something new every day

What's the use of this? I guess this disables the on board graphics (since e.g. IMPACT + VPro Octanes aren't supported either).

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Wrote on the subject of Mirroring Techpubs Docs at Feb. 25, 2013, 10:15 a.m...

I think I have 2 DVDs worth of TechPubs mirror. Mostly the result of a rather brute force wildcard download script, so there are usually multiple versions of everything. I'll have a look.

As for the manpages: you can extract the original manpages (from the relevant sw dists) and share them online using a man2html gateway. There's one in IRIX or the netscape http server that looks pretty much identical to what techpubs serves up.

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Wrote on the subject of Mirroring Techpubs Docs at Feb. 26, 2013, 3:20 a.m...

OK, the oldest 'TechPubs' DVD suffered badly from bit rot :oops:

Basically, I have an uptodate copy of the techpubs website (see attached index) plus a these orphaned files (don't appear in the website anymore):

Code:

007-0850-160.html.tgz

007-0850-160.pdf

007-2825-012.html.tgz

007-2825-012.pdf

007-2860-011.html.tgz

007-2860-011.pdf

007-2862-007.html.tgz

007-2862-007.pdf

007-3897-029.html.tgz

007-3897-029.pdf

007-4003-017.html.tgz

007-4003-017.pdf

007-4403-002.html.tgz

007-4403-002.pdf

007-4413-011.html.tgz

007-4413-011.pdf

007-4657-002.pdf

007-4746-004.html.tgz

007-4746-004.pdf

007-4837-001.html.tgz

007-4837-001.pdf

007-5642-002.pdf

If you look at the timestamps of the files you'll notice the oldest ones are from 1999, so you won't find e.g. an early revision of the Onyx1 manual there. And archive.org won't be able to help you there either. Interestingly, if you browse the oldest snapshot of TechPubs through archive.org, it shows sections for UNICOS and UNICOS/mk. Unfortunately, none of the links work ...

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Wrote on the subject of Accessing BIOS settings on an O2 at Feb. 27, 2013, 1:25 p.m...

If you have a CD that the O2 can boot, why don't you insert the CD, power up the O2, and press ESC when it gives you the option. Then select 'install software' from the PROM menu.

This will boot a CD (if it has an SGI compatible disklabel and filesystem). If you do this with an IRIX disc in the drive it will boot it and start the installation process. You don't want that. But if you do this with your special maintenance CD, it may very well do what you want.

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Wrote on the subject of Diskperf: pread(); pwrite(): Invalid argument at Feb. 28, 2013, 12:11 a.m...

I've seen this when running diskperf against raw disk devices (/dev/rdsk/...) rather than filesystems, if the raw device is "too big". Don't know exactly how big is "too big", IIRC 100GB worked and a couple of TB didn't.

I think you also get this for diskperf block sizes > maxdmasz chunk size (a kernel tunable). In this case diskperf starts fine, and at some point starts spitting out these errors.

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Wrote on the subject of nfs.sw.dskless_client at March 4, 2013, 12:32 a.m...

The August '06 dskless_client is type '[oc]' --> an overlay.

The required nfs.sw.dskless_client base system is part of nfs.sw, but apparently not installed by default.

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Wrote on the subject of nfs.sw.dskless_client at March 4, 2013, 4:48 a.m...

nfs.sw is installed, but not everything.

Here's the output on my O350:

Code:

janjaap@speedo:~$ versions nfs

I = Installed, R = Removed

Name                 Date        Description

I  nfs                  02/02/2008  Network File System, 6.5.30

I  nfs.books            02/02/2008  IRIS InSight Books, 2.2

I  nfs.books.NIS_AG     02/02/2008  NIS Administration Guide

I  nfs.books.ONC3NFS_AG 02/02/2008  ONC3NFS Administrator's Guide

I  nfs.man              02/02/2008  NFS Documentation

I  nfs.man.nfs          02/02/2008  NFS Support Manual Pages

I  nfs.man.relnotes     02/02/2008  NFS Release Notes

I  nfs.sw               02/02/2008  NFS Software

I  nfs.sw.autofs        02/02/2008  AutoFS Support

I  nfs.sw.nfs           02/02/2008  NFS Support

I  nfs.sw.nis           02/02/2008  NIS (formerly Yellow Pages) Support

Basically the same as you. But that's not all:

Code:

janjaap@speedo:~$ versions -a nfs

I = Installed, R = Removed

Name                 Date        Description

I  nfs                  02/02/2008  Network File System, 6.5.30

I  nfs.books            02/02/2008  IRIS InSight Books, 2.2

I  nfs.books.NIS_AG     02/02/2008  NIS Administration Guide

I  nfs.books.ONC3NFS_AG 02/02/2008  ONC3NFS Administrator's Guide

I  nfs.man              02/02/2008  NFS Documentation

I  nfs.man.nfs          02/02/2008  NFS Support Manual Pages

I  nfs.man.relnotes     02/02/2008  NFS Release Notes

I  nfs.sw               02/02/2008  NFS Software

nfs.sw.acl_nfs                   Access Control Lists for NFS

I  nfs.sw.autofs        02/02/2008  AutoFS Support

nfs.sw.cachefs                   CacheFS Support

nfs.sw.dskless_client            Diskless Client Support

nfs.sw.dskless_server            Diskless Server Support

I  nfs.sw.nfs           02/02/2008  NFS Support

I  nfs.sw.nis           02/02/2008  NIS (formerly Yellow Pages) Support

nfs.sw.rpcsec                    RPCSEC_GSS support

You have to explicitly install nfs.sw.dskless_client from the base NFS disc

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Wrote on the subject of nfs.sw.dskless_client at March 4, 2013, 1:38 p.m...

mia wrote:

look at the first post, I'm trying to install nfs.sw.dskless_client, and it just doesn't install anything

No, you're trying to install an overlay for which the base system is missing. You've got nfs.sw installed, but that doesn't mean nfs.sw.* is installed. Some parts are optional and have to be explicitly selected. I would expect a conflict too, in your case (attempt to install overlay with missing base), but apparently it simply deselects your choice.

You should try to install nfs.sw.dskless_client from the 06-1998 NFS for IRIX 6.2 - 6.5 disc, which will result in a conflict (because everything else is at 6.5.30), and then resolve that conflict by feeding the 6.5.30 overlay disc.

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Wrote on the subject of newest fontforge at March 7, 2013, 12:15 a.m...

You can switch on enum compare warnings in GCC, and you can switch them off for MIPSpro. It's just the default that's different.

If the warnings bother you and you don't feel like fixing the code I suggest the latter.

duck wrote:

This happens because void does not have a size, you can't go (void *)+1 because it won't know how much to increase it by. With gcc, it defaults to char bits IIRC.

Yeah, that's what K&R refer to as 'implementation defined behavior'. Wise men don't go there

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Wrote on the subject of beta test: firefox3.0.19 at March 8, 2013, 1:28 a.m...

smj wrote:

8GB physmem

But if your application is N32, it will still effectively run out of address space at ~ 1.7GB. I've seen FF run out of (32bit) memory on a PC with several GB RAM free.

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Wrote on the subject of 11-rack ALTIX 3000 at March 8, 2013, 5:51 a.m...

dhjj wrote: @ $9500 it definitely went to a scrapper, they will pay about $800-1000 each for a fully loaded Altix rack and more then double their money.

legalize wrote: There's that much precious metals in one rack?

No, but gold is expensive ( ~ $50/gr). At that price you need to recover just 40g of pure gold (per rack) to double your money.

There's probably more gold in my computers than in my wife's jewelry :mrgreen:

To accentuate the special identity of the IRIS 4D/70, Silicon Graphics' designers selected a new color palette. The machine's coating blends dark grey, raspberry and beige colors into a pleasing harmony. ( IRIS 4D/70 Superworkstation Technical Report )

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Wrote on the subject of Enterprise 3000 PSU Question at March 11, 2013, 7:33 a.m...

smj wrote:

Did I need to put the sarcasti-smiley in there? DEC really did create the VAXstation II/RC by taking perfectly good VS II's and putting epoxy in the open backplane slots, then selling them cheaper. And of course offering an upgrade to a regular VS II that was nothing more than a backplane swap.

You don't have to tell me about corporate deceit hamei, I work in the financial sector... :twisted:

SGI did something similar with the Challenge DM -- a Challenge L restricted to a single CPU board.

Fortunately, the restriction wasn't enforced with epoxy but with a strategically placed screw. Remove the screw, and voila: Challenge L .

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