The collected works of nekonoko - Page 18

Sounds great, I'd love to see it when you get it set up!

Speaking of 2.5" drives, there are some interesting RAID chassis available that use the smaller drives and don't cost a bundle. I may look at playing around with something like that myself.

Figured I should probably move this thread out of "Nekochan Net"

Great to hear you got the D954GCLF up and running! Did the MI-008 case wind up being the same internally as the Apex MI-100?

Did you manage to find an adapter?

The power supply that originally came with my MI-008 wound up failing while I was setting up the D954GCLF Hackintosh for my parents in the summer of 2008 (it poofed while attempting to move data from their old G5 iMac to the new machine). I was able to find a replacement power supply at a local mom & pop style computer shop in Bend, Oregon, but it was an older model without SATA power, suboptimal fan placement and of course, 20-pins.

So I did wind up buying a new supply when I went to Fry's rather than just an adapter, but the cost was under $30 (Coolmax CM-300). It has everything I could want on it as far as the number of connections and type, connection cable length and cooling fan placement and size (80mm on the underside, similar to the stock supply).

Yeah, for extra SATA ports I snagged a Norco 4618 off eBay to stuff in the PCI slot; gives me 4 eSATA ports with port replicator support.

http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php ... norco-4618

Just a quick note that I activated a couple new RSS feed options for the forum this morning, "Active Topics" and "New Topics". Hopefully they're useful to some.

The only ability I have is to activate specific feed types in the admin control panel; the names are assigned by the phpBB software. However, they do show up with different names in Safari as far as I can tell.

Yep. All the sites leaknoil listed have a financial incentive to stay online and go to bat for their customers if necessary. This site has no such financial rewards - indeed, it simply costs me money each month in power and bandwidth.

As I've said before, I don't mind soaking these basic costs up, but any other hassles above and beyond power/bandwidth tip the scale towards pulling the plug and washing my hands of the whole thing. There is absolutely no financial incentive for me to talk to a lawyer whether they plan on suing me or not, and I'm certainly no Robin Hood.

Well it sort of does in a way; in your example it says "mode=forums" in the feed URL. This also changes to "mode=topics", "mode=topics_active", etc. depending on the selected feed. If you subscribe to one of the feeds in Apple Mail it's pretty easy to rename it to something more descriptive from there.



Yeah, that's just how they implemented it. Hopefully it's still somewhat useful

Wow, electric bill is down $81.46 from last month! That paid for the D510MO right there.

Ah, that's a pretty good idea - I may go that route instead. Thanks much!

Yep, power is incredibly expensive, plus usage past certain thresholds (pricing tiers) increases the cost per kWh dramatically, in my case from baseline of $0.11877 to $0.27572 for 131-200% of baseline.



This month I didn't go past 130% of baseline, using 96kWh over baseline @ $0.13502. Last month I hit the 131%-200% bracket, using 279.64 kWh @ $0.27572.

I used 13.19 kWh less per day, which is a reduction of about 550 watts per hour (0.55kWh). So yes, a savings of $81.25 due to powering off the Origins seems perfectly reasonable to me.

http://www.pge.com/myhome/customerservi ... nderstand/
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But that's just counting the average use cost, not the tier 3 pricing at $.27572/kWh that the Origin bumped me up to. It's like a tax bracket - using just a bit more power can have huge repercussions on the final bill.

No additional cooling was used - the change was powering off two fully loaded Origin 350 machines, each with 8GB RAM, 4 700MHz processors and two drives (8 CPUs 16GB RAM total).

Nice! Which OS did you go with?

Yeah, I get weird values as well:



Ambient is 22C, so something isn't right there.

mbmon seems more sane:

Not to start a war or anything, but what is this supposed to gain you? Seems like running an existing MIPS BSD or Linux port would accomplish pretty much the same thing, plus you'd actually gain new capabilities like USB block device support.

Stripping IRIX of its userland and plugging in xorg isn't some magic bullet - you'll still have xorg graphics drivers to worry about.

It all started at version 2.5 which was the first version for IRIX, Solaris and Windows (previous versions of Photoshop were exclusive to the Macintosh).

UNIX systems enjoyed one more major release in 3.0, but by 4.0 the supported systems were pared down to just Windows/Macintosh. The UNIX Photoshop era lasted from November 1993 (IRIX/Solaris v2.5) until November 1996 (release of v4.0).

Interesting that a NeXT version wasn't released though - at the time, that should have seemed a more natural fit than Solaris!

I put a tardist up on FTP under /pub/irix/Graphics.

Okay, thanks for letting me know - I'll remove the archive. Hopefully someone else has a valid copy someplace.

Edit: A fresh archive has been provided to me and uploaded to the same location.

Topics merged.

I should make a sticker for the Nekochan server - "Challenge XT" (extra tiny)

Ah, it's not running on a D945GLF anymore - I moved to a D510MO in late January . The board is the same size physical size, but I don't think I'd want to mess with putting it in an SGI case. If I were to though, I think the Indy (Challenge S) would be a better form factor - you can actually stack things on top of it.

Thanks much, I really appreciate that!

Great machine - mine started out much the same. It's a lot of fun picking up upgrades

Not to worry - I don't plan on modding any SGI machines. It was more a comment that the O2 case design isn't very practical for a headless server.

Cyclone was a Colorbus trademark though, it just utilized SGI hardware.

I also prefer NEdit on X11. Another great editor on the Mac side is Smultron (forked/renamed to Fraise due to the original developer moving on). Worth taking a look if you haven't already done so.

Nothing at the moment - they're powered down.

Wish I could help - the only Windows 7 install I have is Ultimate which is via Bootcamp on my Mac Pro. I'd originally installed it for Blu-ray playback support and the occasional PC-only game, but I've since found a method to play Blu-ray under Mac OS X.

I ordered the 3G/64GB version the first day they started the pre-orders, so I should get mine late April. Looks like the case I ordered along with it is being prepared for shipment now though.

Boost was ported by dexter1; there is some discussion and patches for it here: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6782&p=7281231#p7281231

Yep, I got one. I was going to write up something on it for the blog, but haven't gotten around to it - just too much going on.

I'll probably sell them at some point, it's just such a hassle calculating costs, taking care of shipping/packaging etc. that I haven't offered them up just yet. I bought the O350s locally so I didn't have to deal with that, but when I sold/shipped my O300s to France and the east coast of the US it was quite a pain

The Roland GS MIDI background music in the video is quite 1993 as well

Solid State Drive.

Sure, the build instructions to get around this are in the release notes contained in my nekochan_php package located here:

http://www.nekochan.net/downloads/index ... Fnekochan/

I'd quote it out here but I don't have an IRIX machine handy at the moment.