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Wrote on the subject of Who is General Error and how did he take over the forums..?? at Oct. 21, 2012, 12:23 a.m...

It was database corruption; I don't check the forum nearly enough these days and missed seeing it. I wound up starting the database in recovery mode and exporting/reimporting. Fun times.

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Wrote on the subject of Commodore 64 turns 30: What do today's kids make of it? at Dec. 11, 2012, 5:02 a.m...

theinonen wrote:

robespierre wrote:

As a programmer, I'm not sure that was a good thing; the experience of writing programs in BASIC is said to leave one "mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration".

People saying that have no experience with more modern BASIC languages and were probably using some of the worst BASIC dialects like the one in C64. In the more advanced BASICs there is no need to use line numbers, or even single GOTO in your program as you can just use procedures instead. Besides arrays you can find things like structures/arrays of structures.

I find BASIC very good for non programmers like me, as you can quickly get some results with minimal time and effort.

That's a (paraphrased) quote by Edsger Dijkstra ("... whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery. "). He also said "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." The man was not a fan of unstructured languages

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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan Wiki Access at Dec. 13, 2012, 4:05 p.m...

Was performing some upgrades; should be enabled now.

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Wrote on the subject of Some experiences with WIndows8 at Dec. 15, 2012, 2:32 p.m...

kshuff wrote:

I can't even get it to install or upgrade from Win7

I wound up doing a clean install to take advantage of UEFI fast boot and flipped the registry bit to avoid the upgrade-only restriction afterwards.

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Wrote on the subject of beta : neko_dia-0.97 at Dec. 30, 2012, 7:50 p.m...

canavan wrote:

(would be in /incoming by now, but the ftp server says "I'm sorry anonymous, I'm afraid I can't do that.")

Let me know when it does that so I can restart FTP. If you just sit on it and hope it magically corrects itself it may stay that way a long while (until I eventually stumble on it myself, who knows when).

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Wrote on the subject of Hackintosh Snow Leopard + iboot, intel dp43tf at Dec. 31, 2012, 10:53 a.m...

smj wrote:

I believe there would be no software mods, let alone soldering irons - though physically removing heatsink assemblies may be challenging, some gripes about some screws on the memory cages being tough to remove. People report successful swaps on their MacPro 1,1 without a firmware update where the CPUs were not properly labeled in About This Mac, but there's a thread on putting 2,1 firmware on 1,1 machines that should cause them to be properly recognized/reported.

I've done both mods - replacing the dual core CPUs with quad core as well as the MacPro2,1 firmware update. It's fairly painless - just remove the heat sinks, swap CPUs, apply new compound and reinstall. I didn't find the mounting screws overly difficult with the right tools at hand.

@recondas - I have a few (bad) memory modules you could steal heat sinks from if you want them. Was going to toss them anyway.

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Wrote on the subject of Hackintosh Snow Leopard + iboot, intel dp43tf at Jan. 2, 2013, 12:17 a.m...

zmttoxics wrote:

Things I hate? The 5400 rpm drive it came with is terrible, worst I have ever had in a mac. I get like 65MB/s in disk perf. It will be replaced, along with an upgrade to 16GB of ram.

I did the same, picked up a Samsung 830 256GB SSD and a Mac mini dual drive kit from iFixit. Put the 5400RPM drive is the the top bay and the SSD in the lower. Huge difference in performance.

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Wrote on the subject of Hackintosh Snow Leopard + iboot, intel dp43tf at Jan. 2, 2013, 10:12 a.m...

smj wrote:

Interesting - are you using the drive fusion stuff, or just using them as two independent volumes?

I've thought about trying drive fusion, but at the moment they're independent. I have MacOS on the SSD and Windows 7 on the standard drive.

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Wrote on the subject of gcc-2.95 at Jan. 3, 2013, 7:49 p.m...

Not sure if it helps, but you can get gcc-2.72 here: http://reality.sgiweb.org/drk/freeware/ ... notes.html

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Wrote on the subject of proposed change to nekoware ? at Jan. 7, 2013, 1:52 a.m...

porter wrote: ... and N32 shared libraries should go into /usr/nekoware/lib32

+1 against - the reason we dumped that was due to o32 not being used anymore. No need to have a special n32 directory.

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Wrote on the subject of beta test: firefox3.0.19 at Feb. 2, 2013, 2:15 p.m...

I got it installed and working on my Onyx2 today (the system hasn't been used since ~2007 so it took a lot of updating). Everything seems fine; the Javascript on twitter.com is borked, but that's probably a version thing rather than a bug.

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Wrote on the subject of Beta test: neko_imagemagick-6.8.1-10 at Feb. 3, 2013, 4:09 p.m...

I gave this a run, pulling in whatever dependancies were in /beta first. Found two unresolvable conflicts; neko_libtool8.sw.libshr (5) and neko_pango.sw.lib (13). I tried the neko_libtool8 in /beta and the neko_pango in /current (nothing in /beta that I could see).

I did a rulesoverride and checked the binaries with ldd; neko_libtool8.sw.lib (6) is providing libltdl.so.8 successfully, but an ldd on the pango.so plugin shows a missing libharfbuzz.so.1.1.

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Wrote on the subject of Music? at Feb. 4, 2013, 11:52 a.m...

fu wrote:

and he was a sakamoto right? i always thought that ryuichi sakamoto is related to him but he keeps reminding me otherwise

Speaking of Ryuichi Sakamoto, I've been listening to Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor recently. RYDEEN is one of my favorites.

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Wrote on the subject of Beta test: neko_imagemagick-6.8.1-10 at Feb. 4, 2013, 5:34 p.m...

I don't recall specifically pulling neko_pango-1.28.3.tardist from /beta, but it may have had reported issues as hamei suggests. I do see it in /obsolete/archive, so that must have been the case.

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Wrote on the subject of beta test: firefox3.0.19 at Feb. 5, 2013, 9:25 a.m...

recondas wrote:

hamei wrote: Do you still run the IR graphics ? Would be interesting to hear a comparison.

Installed ff3 on the the Tezro, Octane and Onyx350 IR yesterday afternoon. Works equally well on all of 'em.

I'm running it on an IR3 system myself. No major issues.

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Wrote on the subject of Beta: neko_sox-14.4.1.tardist at Feb. 11, 2013, 1:06 a.m...

Just a note that neko_sox-14.4.1.tardist currently in /beta requires neko_x264.sw.lib (3) which doesn't exist in /beta, /current or /obsolete. Since it was just uploaded this may be something that is coming shortly.

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Wrote on the subject of Petition: keep Google Groups compatible with older browsers at Feb. 11, 2013, 1:03 p.m...

porter wrote:

Or perhaps the Hurd may have progressed faster.

Don't forget the *BSDs as well.

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Wrote on the subject of Nekochan 10th anniversary? at Feb. 12, 2013, 10:40 a.m...

hamei wrote:

Neko, do you still have that Indigo with the Galileo video that you got way back when ?

Yep, still have it in storage along with a few other Indigos of various configs.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI and AW swag and promo stuff at Feb. 18, 2013, 4:37 a.m...

yetanother**ixuser wrote:

so the SWAG ( Silently we are gay) has reached nekochan...good good

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/swag.asp

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Wrote on the subject of Microsoft Surface? Windows8? at Feb. 19, 2013, 5:43 p.m...

hamei wrote:

Jesus, guys. Are you blind ? the guy is a spammer. He found a post that mentioned L E D lights and reworked it to fit his "subtle" clickthrough advertising scheme. Go look at what he did.

No wonder google has "safe browsing." Wakey uppy, kids !!

Indeed. I've deleted the URL references (including all those in massive requotes) and banned the spammer.

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Wrote on the subject of Yahoo Japan Auctions at March 4, 2013, 10:26 a.m...

There are quite a few bid proxy services out there that will do this if you can't find a willing individual.

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Wrote on the subject of Developer Tools Question at March 21, 2013, 3:39 p.m...

Unfortunately, MIPSpro is still commercial software. Please refrain from such requests on this forum in the future.

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Wrote on the subject of Excellent Job, Nekonoko. at March 23, 2013, 3:17 p.m...

guardian452 wrote:

Back on topic... I looked through the avatar gallery and while the artwork is very nice it is not something I would use to represent myself

Most people are going to upload their own avatar - it's more or less there just to have something there, not as a serious offering

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Wrote on the subject of beta neko_freetype2-2.4.11-infinality at May 5, 2013, 10:23 a.m...

Not totally on topic, but I figured I'd mention it. Adobe/Google just introduced a new Freetype rasterizer which is said to be "dramatically improved". It's part of Freetype 2.4.12 but not enabled by default. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2 ... t-cff.html

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Wrote on the subject of Mavericks at Nov. 6, 2013, 10:46 p.m...

guardian452 wrote: I can see why they don't have tinted icons anymore. With so much emphasis on icon design nowadays, and many finder windows already looking like a technicolour yawn, it would get out of hand quickly:

That, and it was done because tags are a lot more powerful now then simply a color code (plus you can assign more than a single color to an item at once). Good introductory article here: http://www.macworld.com/article/2059213 ... -tags.html

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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at Jan. 26, 2014, 1:05 p.m...

Saw this on Twitter and got it running on my Onyx2; launched with 4 separate threads (one per CPU) with each thread pulling around 0.23 khash/sec. Hardware info here: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=13448

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Wrote on the subject of Litecoin Mining on IRIX at Jan. 28, 2014, 9:02 a.m...

They're actually *500MHz* CPUs, not 550MHz :-)

But yes, the big reason I decided to get rid of my 4x700MHz Tezro was because it wasn't much faster CPU-wise than the Onyx2 (and IR3 blew the doors off of V12).

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Wrote on the subject of Interesting lot of old apple stuff (ebay) at Aug. 31, 2014, 6 p.m...

Only an Apple IIc from the pre-Mac era as well (no Lisa, Apple ///, II, II+, IIe, etc). I take it he's mostly a Macintosh fanatic.

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Wrote on the subject of Need help resurrecting a Mac Color Classic at Sept. 18, 2014, 4:01 p.m...

It may need a recap - the surface mount capacitors tend to vent their electrolyte all over the board. Look for evidence of vented caps (dark oily areas) on the motherboard. Sometimes just cleaning that up with some alcohol is enough to get it working again short term.

http://wiki.68kmla.org/Capacitor_Replac ... or_Classic

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Wrote on the subject of Need help resurrecting a Mac Color Classic at Sept. 22, 2014, 9:18 p.m...

sgifanatic wrote: Gosh darn it. Battery didn't do anything. Recap here I come.

Any recommendations on recap service in the central Texas area? Guesstimate of a fair price to pay?

I had good experiences with Charles at MacCaps: http://www.maccaps.com/MacCaps/Repair_Service.html

Prices range from $25-55. It's pretty reasonable, and he does a great job.

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Wrote on the subject of My first attempt at using Retr0brite at Oct. 27, 2014, 2:05 p.m...

Excellent work. One of these days I really need to try Retr0brite; I just got a keyboard that looks like ornamental corn:

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Wrote on the subject of My first attempt at using Retr0brite at Oct. 27, 2014, 8:41 p.m...

uunix wrote: Looks like they only used 21 keys... unless it was used in George Orwell's Time Machine in some bizarre way!

Perhaps! The only thing I can think of is that some of the keys were made with a different plastic formulation that's more resistant to UV discoloration. At first I thought maybe some of the keys had been replaced, but the keyboard was so universally filthy when I received it (took me two hours to clean) that seems less likely. It was like the thing had been stored in a barn for 20+ years.

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Wrote on the subject of My first attempt at using Retr0brite at Oct. 27, 2014, 10:44 p.m...

sgifanatic wrote: Exactly. http://deskthority.net/wiki/Keycap_construction

Nice! Probably a combination of ABS and PBT keys then. Commodore was kind of a penny-pincher so it wouldn't surprise me if they used a mix of keys.

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Wrote on the subject of Classilla 9.3.3 at Nov. 1, 2014, 6:44 a.m...

Hakimoto wrote: Classic, nice work, but the liner notes don't pass Afghan censorship. Nudie pics there, perchance? ;P

Now I'm gonna have to fire up tor...

Probably the blogspot.com domain in general - you can find just about anything on there.

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Wrote on the subject of "Spielberg Edition" Indigo at Nov. 1, 2014, 6:47 a.m...

I saw that the other day - very nice! I wouldn't be surprised if had something to do with Jurassic Park production.

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Wrote on the subject of Indy Ebay Result at Nov. 5, 2014, 10:21 p.m...

Geez, maybe I should sell my Indy bag.

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Wrote on the subject of 600Mhz O2 CPU at Jan. 6, 2015, 9:15 a.m...

vishnu wrote: Not to tip my ignorance too much but what the hell are those things? Their manufacturers website doesn't ID them other than to say they're EOL...

http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/o2cpumod.html

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Wrote on the subject of 600Mhz O2 CPU at Jan. 6, 2015, 3:28 p.m...

vishnu wrote: Wow!

There's even a 10 year long thread about this mod that I somehow never noticed:
http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1071

Yep, even still have one of the converted 600MHz CPUs in my O2

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Wrote on the subject of phpBB 3.1 at Jan. 10, 2015, 11:47 p.m...

I've been wanting to update the forum software for the past month so finally got a chance to do so this evening. Hopefully everything is working as it should - the upgrade went pretty smoothly as far as I can see.

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Wrote on the subject of phpBB 3.1 at Jan. 11, 2015, 1:24 a.m...

It's now an optional theme - I'll see if I can add it.

Edit: Installed and should be selectable now from the UCP.

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