The collected works of nekonoko - Page 19

Yep, this part right here:



This ensures that the spurious '-L/usr/lib' you noted above won't cause trouble as /usr/nekoware/lib and /usr/lib32 will always come first.

Sure, but you'll probably want to add a Broadcom Crystal HD mini-PCIe card for h.264/Blu-ray acceleration.

Oh, and you'd also want to grab a cheap ($14 on eBay) USB audio interface for Dolby/DTS via optical output.

It's a Coolmax CM-300, though I replaced the stock internal fan with a NMB/Panaflo 3106KL-04W-B50-C00 (80mm x 15mm).

I have an old Quicksilver 2002 (no longer actively used) that's been converted to SATA. I went with a SeriTek/1VE2+2 which provides two internal and two external SATA ports and Mac firmware. It's fully bootable via SATA - I completely pulled the PATA disks aside from the optical drive.

Not sure on that one - that release note quote must be from neko_php5 which I had no involvement with. I did the 'nekochan' builds to keep the forums/wiki/gallery up-to-date with the latest security updates, but I wasn't concerned with much more than the Apache SAPI and whatever extensions needed to make things work smoothly

Hmm, all I can suggest is checking your Apache error logs to try and pinpoint the failure - php will usually spit something out. 5.2.13 should work; I built (and ran) nearly all of the 5.2.X tree on IRIX over the years.

It should be noted though that unless you have a specific need for an older PHP build, the 5.3.X branch runs quite a bit faster under IRIX than 5.2.X.

I've had the same experience. Both my Apple III and Apple Lisa had tatalums explode in their power supplies with huge quantities of acrid smoke pouring out the vents, and both machines continue to operate just fine without them.

Glad to hear it's up and running! In regards to Dovecot, etc. -- I faced much the same. I wound up going with many of the same packages I'd used on IRIX to make it easier to retain configuration settings and databases - Cyrus IMAP, ncftpd, ircd-hybrid, ipfilter, Postfix etc. Still took a while to get everything set up and configured, but not nearly as long as working from a clean slate

The event with the outage last week probably makes it sound like the D510MO is to blame, but it was really just a hard drive that quit while still well under factory warranty. The drive has already been shipped off for a free RMA. Aside from that drive (which failed quite loudly - clack! clack! clack!) I haven't had a single crash, freeze or unexplainable event occur since starting the FreeBSD server last January. I'm quite happy with the setup so far.

O2000/Onyx2 deskside is only 20" deep including skins; they're actually rather small. O300/O350 is about 27" deep

Yes, a Crimson is much deeper than an O2000.

Cool, I just updated my BIOS to that rev, thanks for the tip!

Did you wind up going with a USB based optical drive? If so, how is that working out?

Okay, I've done the same. This afternoon I built a RAID1 across the two internal SATA channels on fresh drives. I also tested the DVD-ROM with a USB to SATA converter and it seems fine, so if I need optical in the future I have that to fall back on.
Thanks much!

It's been a while since I played with it, but I seem to recall that binaries I created with the MIPSpro 7.1 Pascal compiler worked okay on IRIX 6.5.

Come to think of it, I have IRIX 6.2 installed on my Crimson. Next time I have it powered up I'll install Pascal and compile a test binary.

Maybe it's just giving default data due to lack of satellites. Etak was based in Menlo Park which isn't far from your indicated position fix (San Mateo county).

I wouldn't worry about that CFLAG - I never used it on anything I built for Nekoware. As you noted, it's too restricting IMHO.

Cute cover photo on this one too!

I ordered mine on Friday; the confirmation e-mail I received said it's supposed to ship at the end of this coming week. I'll try and post something up on the blog covering both issues after it arrives.

A basic HOWTO on the subject might be useful:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/FTP.html

It does look nice, but yeah - $280 is fairly steep!

Very cool! I have a 3/80 in the closet myself. I should probably drag it out sometime and see what its current status is.

If you'd like these added to the MIPS3 collection, drop them in /incoming on FTP and I'll move them over to the beta directory. They'll get soaked up on the mirrors that way.

Thanks much!

Probably quite a bit As time marches on and all levels of SGI systems fade into retrocomputing, it becomes more about which machines are most fun to tinker with than which are purely faster. At least it's become that way for me; I think some of the oldest SGIs are the most interesting/fun these days.

Right now I'm working on restoring a third Personal IRIS 4D/35; it won't benefit from MIPS3 Nekoware, but it sure is fun!

Technically there are MIPS4 capable Indys (R5K option) but yes, the R4K versions are still interesting

The May 2010 issue arrived today. I'll try and post something up on the blog shortly.

Not a problem I try to keep that sort of thing online and accessible whenever possible.

Not a problem - was pretty easy, and the site you linked had everything already laid out for entry into the appropriate fields. It's available for use now.

Much the same here. I also have the unlimited data plan and will keep it as long as I'm able. I didn't come close to using 2GB but I like having the option just in case.



I brought my iPad to Fanime last week and used it extensively in public; nobody gawked or bothered me about it. A friend of mine had his there as well.



I use iSSH myself. Doesn't solve the direct connect to serial issue but it is a capable console app. I've done quite a bit of remote admin with it so far.

I wouldn't mind an iPod touch version.

The Onyx2 is completely purple; the Onyx(1) was purple/black.

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/gallery2/v/SGI_ ... /album133/

That's usually an indication you're trying to run software compiled on 6.5.21+ on a a lesser version.

Yeah, my e-mail is already known by spammers, so no big deal there. Postgrey eliminates 95% of it before it hits my inbox though.

Here, let me google that for you.