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Wrote on the subject of Origin 350, 8xR16K 700MHz, 16GB RAM, SAS3041X-R, 4TB disk at Dec. 1, 2010, 11:03 p.m...

Great idea! Since I took the IO9 out of my second O350 this would be a perfect upgrade for that brick.

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Wrote on the subject of Mac Pro 2006 Upgrade at Dec. 2, 2010, 9:41 a.m...

I haven't run into any data corruption myself; I've been running with same 1TB drive and Intel driver since December 2009.

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Wrote on the subject of Mac Pro 2006 Upgrade at Dec. 2, 2010, 10:22 a.m...

If you're dual booting, make certain you're not enabling NTFS write support on the Mac side as that's been known to cause data corruption.

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Wrote on the subject of Mac Pro 2006 Upgrade at Dec. 5, 2010, 8:29 a.m...

I installed rEFIt (an EFI boot menu) to make that less painful:

http://refit.sourceforge.net/

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel DMediaPro DM6 PCI Digital Video at Dec. 20, 2010, 9:22 p.m...

Another kind of interesting detail is smj's card is keyed for 3.3V and recondas' card is 3.3V/5V universal.

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Wrote on the subject of Fuel DMediaPro DM6 PCI Digital Video at Dec. 21, 2010, 12:35 a.m...

Dr. Dave wrote:

Supposedly the DM6 works in Octane too. Anyone remember offhand if they are keyed for 5V or 3V in the shoebox/shoehorns?

Octane is 5V only, so they'd need to be the green 3.3V/5V version.

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Wrote on the subject of A few icons at Jan. 29, 2011, 6:26 p.m...

The latest link to the tutorial above is here: http://jamesholden.net/sgi-articles/fil ... -tutorial/

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Wrote on the subject of What's so appealing about Amiga machines? at Feb. 14, 2011, 6:44 a.m...

edikat wrote: I remember in 1993 my friend getting a CD DRIVE (!??) for his Amiga... sure my memory is correct but did they have CD drives back then????

Certainly. In fact, a CD-ROM based Amiga (Commodore CDTV) was released in 1991. In 1993 Commodore released the Amiga CD32 which was also a CD-ROM based system, but targeted as a games console.

The Amiga A570 (released in 1992) was the official CD-ROM add-on for the Amiga 500.

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Wrote on the subject of iPad 2 at March 4, 2011, 9:55 a.m...

sybrfreq wrote: Having the camera would be fun but not really.. It's not really something you can be seen with in public

Yeah, it's nice that it is there now but I can always use the camera(s) on my iPhone instead.

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Wrote on the subject of iPad 2 at March 5, 2011, 10 p.m...

ratfink wrote: Even with the heaviest use I have never had to recharge in the middle of the day.

That's been my experience as well.

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Wrote on the subject of Technical Reports at March 6, 2011, 6:35 p.m...

PymbleSoftware wrote: I downloaded the PDF and tried to upload it to the wiki but PDF is not an accepted file type (unless nekonoko wants to allow PDF) so I added a link to the Reality Engine page in the wik

Looks like that is straightened out now - PDFs and other popular document types can now be uploaded to the wiki.

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Wrote on the subject of Selling my Tezro and MacPro 8 core [updated with pictures] at March 12, 2011, 4:42 p.m...

duck wrote: So does the front bezel really double as a viable cupholder?

No, it isn't very strong plastic - if you put anything weighty on it you'd likely break the hinges

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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at March 16, 2011, 1:13 p.m...

I'm looking at it now

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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at March 16, 2011, 1:30 p.m...

Edit: False alarm; looks like it got it.

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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at March 16, 2011, 3:56 p.m...

I'd posted earlier that I disabled the Citation template due to performance issues. I updated a couple extensions and it seems better now.

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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at March 16, 2011, 4:07 p.m...

Sure, just let me know which templates need to be imported. It was an out-of-date "ParserFunctions" extension that caused the performance problem, so that's now fixed.

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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at March 16, 2011, 4:39 p.m...

PymbleSoftware wrote:

For some reason "Wanted pages" and "Wanted Templates" seem to be empty when I know that I left about 100 wanted pages and a lot of them were wanted templates.

When I was debugging the performance problem I set $wgDisableCounters and $wgMiserMode which turned those off. I've reenabled both.

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Wrote on the subject of Member Profile 404s at March 19, 2011, 5:57 a.m...

fu wrote:

probably a site-wide update, left 'em cold & lonely

Yep, those were linked back in phpBB 2.X days. phpBB 3.X moved a lot of things around.

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Wrote on the subject of New Nekochan Wiki! at March 19, 2011, 8:06 a.m...

fu wrote:

ok rockers, we broke the five-oh-oh record and pete rolled out the citation templates

I also cleaned up a few configuration problems I discovered while importing the templates which improve performance. In addition I figured out a way to stop the Chinese trackback bots that were clawing at the blog page, driving my load averages through the roof

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Wrote on the subject of WHat do we all do (occupation)? at March 26, 2011, 3:59 p.m...

Senior translations engineer for a major wireless telecom.

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Wrote on the subject of Personal iris dual color cursor hack at April 13, 2011, 2:17 p.m...

If anyone is looking to do this hack, there are a couple of the BT431KC chips currently available on eBay. I already bought and received two from the seller for my own use:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0619029119

It took two years to get any eBay hits on BT431KC (I created the search right after jan-jaap started this thread), so grab them while you can

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Wrote on the subject of Need tips for converting a bunch of Anime DVD's... at April 21, 2011, 5:02 p.m...

I'd been meaning to respond to this since I've converted all my media to online storage as well. Unfortunately, I'm not using a general purpose device so I don't have much advice to give in this specific instance (I use Handbrake encoded MKV files streaming from a file server to a dedicated media computer).

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Wrote on the subject of Happy Easter Nekochaners at April 23, 2011, 5:34 p.m...

Thanks, and to you as well!

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Wrote on the subject of Need tips for converting a bunch of Anime DVD's... at April 25, 2011, 8:28 p.m...

The Keeper wrote: There were a couple parts to the original question...

Yep, I realize that. It's just that the best solution to unconditionally enabled subtitles (in my personal experience) is to use an MKV container.

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Wrote on the subject of Happy Star Wars Day!!... 8-) at May 4, 2011, 10:18 p.m...

Heh, hadn't heard that one before - I like it

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-current at May 17, 2011, 9:28 a.m...

ianj wrote:

Also, is there a clear path for packages to go from /beta to /current? It seems like we're approaching a situation where many commonly-used packages are in /beta, which makes it more of an issue that some of the /beta packages aren't really tested.

As I've said before, someone just needs to let me know. I'm not clairvoyant - I don't know which packages you use and have had good success with. I also don't currently have an SGI system running to test myself (all machines are currently in storage or just not hooked up).

By the same token, if packages are totally broken, let me know that as well so they can be moved to the obsolete directory. Once again, I don't have mystical powers of deduction to determine which packages borked your system. You need to tell me.

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Wrote on the subject of quick update at May 25, 2011, 1:24 a.m...

We miss you as well! Hopefully everything resolves in your favor and you feel better as well. As always, just give the word if there is anything I can do to help.

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Wrote on the subject of DEC Legacy Event, Oct 8/9 2011, Windermere UK at May 25, 2011, 2:22 a.m...

I posted your notice on the blog page as well. Thanks!

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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-current at May 28, 2011, 8:22 a.m...

Rincewind wrote:

I wanted to upload a new version of the neko_git package, but I was unable to log into ftp.nekochan.net. Is there a new place to upload stuff?

The ftpd just needed to be restarted.

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Wrote on the subject of WWDC, Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), etc. at June 7, 2011, 2:38 p.m...

ianj wrote: The installer is more iffy. I don't care whether it comes on a DVD or not, but I like to apply new major OS X releases as fresh installs, not upgrades. It's important to me that the OS be available as some sort of full-install image and not just an update pulled from the Internet by a running OS X installation.

You can do a full, clean install with the app store download. You can even burn a bootable DVD or USB drive if need be.

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Wrote on the subject of SOLD: [SF Bay Area] Origin 350 8xR16K 700MHz 16GB RAM at June 22, 2011, 12:27 p.m...

Testing the waters on this; would prefer local pick up. If there's any interest I'll retrieve it from storage

Info/HINV here: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16717825

Looking for around $600 for the whole thing, but open to offers.

Thanks much!

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Wrote on the subject of Unknown Apple II / 6502 mainboard update: Unitron APII at June 29, 2011, 8:22 p.m...

If you need Apple II ROM images, ReactiveMicro has them on their website:

http://www.downloads.reactivemicro.com/ ... /II_&_II+/

They also offer them burned to physical ROMs if you aren't in the mood to do-it-yourself.

http://www.reactivemicro.com/index.php?cPath=1_35

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Wrote on the subject of Make "Notify me on new private messages:" default to yes at July 6, 2011, 1:48 p.m...

It's already set on by default.

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Wrote on the subject of ftp.nekochan.net not working at July 12, 2011, 1:59 p.m...

NcFTPd seems to do that after being up continuously for 30 days or so (I had the same issue with the IRIX version). I probably should create a cron job that restarts it every week.

Anyway, it's been restarted and is working again.

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Wrote on the subject of New smilies.....for other system at July 12, 2011, 2:01 p.m...

pentium wrote:

Needs transparency.

I second that. I wouldn't mind adding them but they should match the existing systems for some consistency.

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Wrote on the subject of SOLD: [SF Bay Area] Origin 350 8xR16K 700MHz 16GB RAM at July 16, 2011, 2:30 p.m...

Local pick up, I'm not shipping this. Sorry.

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Wrote on the subject of Getting a X68000? at July 21, 2011, 3:29 a.m...

I have a Sharp X68000 XVI I bought through eBay almost four years ago (October 2007). It came in the original box (with all documentation and accessories) and set me back $799 (shipping from Japan to the US came to $165 for a total of $964). I've also purchased a lot of game titles over the years, they mostly ranged $10-$20 each unless they were exceptionally rare.

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Wrote on the subject of SOLD: [SF Bay Area] Origin 350 8xR16K 700MHz 16GB RAM at July 21, 2011, 4:31 a.m...

smj wrote: NOT HELPING!

It also has a dedicated L2 w/LCD display (not sure if I mentioned it in the hinv thread). I could probably find some other SGI things in storage to pass on well

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Wrote on the subject of Getting a X68000? at July 25, 2011, 2:25 p.m...

smj wrote:

I'm assuming competency reading Japanese would be at least "helpful" if not absolutely required...

It can be helpful. Most of the arcade/console style games don't require any Japanese proficiency while the RPGs and visual novels certainly do. I guess it depends on what you plan on using the machine for

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Wrote on the subject of Changing User Name at July 25, 2011, 2:27 p.m...

I can update 'sybrfreq' to whatever name you like if you'd rather keep your post history.

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