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Wrote on the subject of SSD and SGI Discussion Thread at Dec. 9, 2008, 4:23 a.m...

modology wrote: There is no doubt that SSD is going to replace HDD technology in next decade.

With the current economic climate, I don't think people will be replacing things with the regularity they have been doing for the last decade.

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Wrote on the subject of firewall: irix or openbsd at Dec. 22, 2008, 5:52 p.m...

Oko wrote: Risk architecture

do you mean RISC?

Oko wrote: ... are less prone to buffer overflows

Do they not use return addresses on the stack?

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Wrote on the subject of What about Japanese girls? at Jan. 20, 2009, 4:36 p.m...

ajerimez wrote:

Seems to me that American girls these days grow up with a strong sense of entitlement and certain amount of narcissism

Presumably due to TV continually telling them "Because you're worth it".

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Wrote on the subject of Japan in 7:39 at Feb. 2, 2009, 2 p.m...

pentium wrote:

I'll put it on my mid-life "to do list".

Is that before, in lieu of, or after the crisis?

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Wrote on the subject of Japan in 7:39 at Feb. 2, 2009, 5:52 p.m...

pentium wrote:

I have heard of going over to teach english but I really don't think I'm that good at teaching other people how to speak it, let alone write it.

Agreed, I think it has a capital E.

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Wrote on the subject of Bought an Intellistation POWER 275 at April 2, 2009, 2:16 p.m...

ritchan wrote:

The only thing is, it doesn't have a hard drive. What am I getting myself into? I can just see myself losing hair over where to find a drive tray and trying to figure out DASD and where to get the hard drive without further breaking my bank.

Get all the documentation you can from IBM on your machine. Get a copy of AIX 5.3, you'll need it. Also talk to nekochan member PymbleSoftware, he's been exploring the machine for sometime now.

My 7028-6C1 came without disks so I had to acquire some caddies first before I could install a couple of IBM 80 pin SCSI disks.

porter
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Wrote on the subject of Label value operator support in MipsPro ? at April 8, 2009, 4:02 p.m...

IBM XLC 8.0 wrote: The label value operator && returns the address of its operand, which must be a label defined in the current function or a containing function. The value is a constant of type void* and should be used only in a computed goto statement. The language feature is an extension to C and C++, implemented to facilitate porting programs developed with GNU C.

What plonker came up with this dim-witted idea?

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Wrote on the subject of sudo at April 8, 2009, 6:46 p.m...

nekonoko wrote: There's a version in Nekoware.

Is that the Phil Collins version?

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Wrote on the subject of Label value operator support in MipsPro ? at April 9, 2009, 4:08 p.m...

kramlq wrote: In kernels, this is sometimes necessary in relation to threads

Actually, setjmp/longjmp do this!

Fine to have things for kernels but not supposedly portable user-land code.

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Wrote on the subject of Bought an Intellistation POWER 275 at April 28, 2009, 10:04 a.m...

ritchan wrote:

Is there a reason why I should go for 5.3 when 6.1 is available and binary compatible with AIX 5 programs?

No, just price and availability.

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Wrote on the subject of IPv6 and IRIX at April 28, 2009, 10:06 a.m...

Not so good on 6.5.22m on an Indy...

Code: Select all


bash-2.05b$ uname -R


6.5 6.5.22m


bash-2.05b$ host -t AAAA ipv6.google.com


ipv6.google.com is an alias for ipv6.l.google.com.


ipv6.l.google.com has AAAA address 2001:4860:b002::68


bash-2.05b$ host 2001:4860:a003::68


Host \[x20014860A00300000000000000000068/128].ip6.arpa not found: 1(FORMERR)


bash-2.05b$ host -n 2001:4860:a003::68


Host 8.6.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.0.0.a.0.6.8.4.1.0.0.2.ip6.int not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

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Wrote on the subject of Bought an Intellistation POWER 275 at April 28, 2009, 2:39 p.m...

ritchan wrote:

FRU 00N7281

That is what my 7028-6C1 uses.

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Wrote on the subject of I want to make a QuickTime video from a sequence of JPEGs at May 16, 2009, 4:05 p.m...

But don't want have to buy QuickTime Pro to do so.

Back in the early days of QuickTime I'm sure you could make movie without the extra Pro package. When was that? How is/was it done?

Moderator Edit : Moved from the Apple Forum to the SGI: Video Forum since the solution involved IRIX. <recondas>

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Wrote on the subject of I want to make a QuickTime video from a sequence of JPEGs at May 16, 2009, 11:17 p.m...

Excellent, just what I wanted, my little Indy struggled with the 124 jpegs but got there in the end!

Thanks alot, indeed!

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Wrote on the subject of I want to make a QuickTime video from a sequence of JPEGs at May 17, 2009, 12:46 p.m...

recondas wrote:

makemovie(1)

Just like Dire Straits.

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Wrote on the subject of Bought an Intellistation POWER 275 at May 18, 2009, 3:09 p.m...

ritchan wrote:

browsing the net without any slowdown on a RISC machine is cool and all that

I don't surf the net with any of my UNIX boxes, they all have jobs to do, else they are switched off! But then all my boxes are headless.

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Wrote on the subject of Acorn Archimedes A310 at June 8, 2009, 1:42 a.m...

eMGee wrote:

I wish they still made ARM computer systems, it's all (or mostly) embedded nowadays.

I'm lucky enough to get to program those Atmel ARM9 things in my day job!

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Wrote on the subject of Motif fileselector box is blue at June 11, 2009, 9:56 a.m...

Martin Steen wrote:

AFAIK is Motif the "lowest common level" for Unix systems and it
works without installing additional libs (at least I hope so).

Not quite, it's a layered system...

Motif sits on X11 Intrinsics (Widgets), which in turn sits on XLib, which then sits on sockets (well actually they sit on ICE and SM).

For instance Linux & NetBSD (et al) include XLib and X11 Intrinsics, but not Motif.

There is a free impersonator called LessTif, and also OpenMotif, they fall into the "install additional libs" catagory.

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Wrote on the subject of Captcha at June 17, 2009, 6:27 p.m...

Gray Fox wrote:

Just hope we dont get anymore.

Um, this is the internet .

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Wrote on the subject of Finally got around to making a frame... at June 23, 2009, 5 p.m...

Have you heard of 3/4/5 triangles?

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Wrote on the subject of Finally got around to making a frame... at June 23, 2009, 7:30 p.m...

Perhaps it's just perspective, or the lens.

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Wrote on the subject of Cool (open source) software you would like to see ported... at July 4, 2009, 1:08 p.m...

hamei wrote:

porter wrote:

Serious question: Is anybody interested in playing with an implementation of SOMObjects on IRIX?

SOM is a wonder but Porter .... it's a huge undertaking and Irix is the best of the crappy Unix desktops, so maybe you are barking up the wrong tree ?

I've got a reasonable implementation of sc, som, somtc, somir, somd, somdd, regimpl, somdserv going. It's OpenDoc and WorkPlaceShell that are taking the time

. I'll package what I've done up (source code package) so people can have a play.

As some proof...

Code:

bash-2.05b$ uname -a

IRIX indy 6.5 10070055 IP22

bash-2.05b$ ldd ./somdd

libsomd.so.2  =>         /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomd.so.2

libsomdcomm.so.0  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomdcomm.so.0

librhbcdr.so.1  =>       /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/librhbcdr.so.1

libsomu.so.1  =>         /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomu.so.1

libsomir.so.2  =>        /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomir.so.2

libsomestrm.so.1  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomestrm.so.1

libsomtc.so.1  =>        /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomtc.so.1

libsomref.so.70  =>      /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomref.so.70

libsom.so.1  =>  /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsom.so.1

librhbmtut.so.1  =>      /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/librhbmtut.so.1

libpthread.so  =>        /usr/lib32/libpthread.so

libc.so.1  =>    /usr/lib32/libc.so.1

libsomcorba.so.0  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomcorba.so.0

libsomany.so.0  =>       /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomany.so.0

libsomabs1.so.1  =>      /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomabs1.so.1

libsomnmf.so.1  =>       /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomnmf.so.1

libsomos.so.1  =>        /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomos.so.1

libsomu2.so.1  =>        /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomu2.so.1

bash-2.05b$ ./irdump ::Repository

An instance of Repository at address 1000f110

InterfaceDef "::Repository"

id: ::Repository

9 modifiers:

file = repostry.idl

line = 22

releaseorder = lookup_id,lookup_modifier,release_cache,saveIR,_get_subrepositorylist,_set_subrepositorylist,queryException

callstyle = idl

majorversion = 2

minorversion = 1

filestem = repostry

dllname = somir.dll

metaclass = M_Repository

contains 7 items:

TypeDef "::Repository::RepositoryDescription"

id: ::Repository::RepositoryDescription

2 modifiers:

file = repostry.idl

line = 24

type: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_struct, "RepositoryDescription", "name", TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_string, (long)0), "id", TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_string, (long)0), "defined_in", TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_string, (long)0), NULL)

TypeDef "::Repository::irOpenErrorCodes"

id: ::Repository::irOpenErrorCodes

2 modifiers:

file = repostry.idl

line = 29

type: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_enum, "irOpenErrorCodes", "NOACCESS", "BADMAGICNUMBER", "MISSINGVERSIONINFO", "IOERROR", "VERSIONMISMATCH", "NOWRITEACCESS", "INDEXINCONSISTENT", "INDEXNOTPRESENT", NULL)

ExceptionDef "::Repository::irOpenError"

id: ::Repository::irOpenError

2 modifiers:

file = repostry.idl

line = 30

type: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_struct, "irOpenError", "errorCode", TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_enum, "irOpenErrorCodes", "NOACCESS", "BADMAGICNUMBER", "MISSINGVERSIONINFO", "IOERROR", "VERSIONMISMATCH", "NOWRITEACCESS", "INDEXINCONSISTENT", "INDEXNOTPRESENT", NULL), "fileName", TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_string, (long)0), NULL)

OperationDef "::Repository::lookup_id"

id: ::Repository::lookup_id

1 modifiers:

line = 31

mode: NORMAL

result: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_objref, "::Contained")

contains 1 item:

ParameterDef "::Repository::lookup_id::search_id"

id: ::Repository::lookup_id::search_id

1 modifiers:

line = 31

mode: IN

type: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_string, (long)0)

OperationDef "::Repository::lookup_modifier"

id: ::Repository::lookup_modifier

1 modifiers:

line = 32

mode: NORMAL

result: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_string, (long)0)

contains 2 items:

ParameterDef "::Repository::lookup_modifier::name"

id: ::Repository::lookup_modifier::name

1 modifiers:

line = 32

mode: IN

type: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_string, (long)0)

ParameterDef "::Repository::lookup_modifier::modifier"

id: ::Repository::lookup_modifier::modifier

1 modifiers:

line = 32

mode: IN

type: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_string, (long)0)

OperationDef "::Repository::release_cache"

id: ::Repository::release_cache

1 modifiers:

line = 33

mode: NORMAL

result: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_void)

OperationDef "::Repository::queryException"

id: ::Repository::queryException

1 modifiers:

line = 34

mode: NORMAL

result: TypeCodeNew (/*constant*/ tk_boolean)

bash-2.05b$ ldd ./docshell

libodshell.so.1  =>      /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodshell.so.1

libodutils.so.1  =>      /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodutils.so.1

libsom.so.1  =>  /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsom.so.1

libc.so.1  =>    /usr/lib32/libc.so.1

libodui.so.1  =>         /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodui.so.1

libodlayout.so.1  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodlayout.so.1

libodpubutl.so.1  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodpubutl.so.1

liboddatax.so.1  =>      /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/liboddatax.so.1

libodstorag.so.1  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodstorag.so.1

libodcore.so.1  =>       /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodcore.so.1

libodsomuc.so.1  =>      /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodsomuc.so.1

libsomem.so.1  =>        /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomem.so.1

libX11.so.1  =>  /usr/lib32/libX11.so.1

libXt.so  =>     /usr/lib32/libXt.so

libodimagng.so.1  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodimagng.so.1

libpthread.so  =>        /usr/lib32/libpthread.so

librhbxtutl.so.1  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/librhbxtutl.so.1

libXmu.so  =>    /usr/lib32/libXmu.so

libXext.so  =>   /usr/lib32/libXext.so

libodbindng.so.1  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodbindng.so.1

libsomu.so.1  =>         /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomu.so.1

libsomref.so.70  =>      /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libsomref.so.70

libgen.so  =>    /usr/lib32/libgen.so   delay-load

libodregsty.so.1  =>     /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodregsty.so.1

libodcm.so.1  =>         /usr/people/porter/develop/products/mips-sgi-irix6.5/default/lib/libodcm.so.1

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Wrote on the subject of vBulletin at July 11, 2009, 3:11 a.m...

It is the content, not the medium that I am interested in.

What would be the benefits if nekochan changed?

porter
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Wrote on the subject of Installing Solaris 10 on E450 at Aug. 4, 2009, 4:52 p.m...

IndyFred wrote: Any help or install guides would be most helpful.

1. Put CD one in the CDROM drive.
2. From the prom type "boot cdrom".
3. Follow on screen instructions.

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Wrote on the subject of Installing Solaris 10 on E450 at Aug. 5, 2009, 4:03 p.m...

IndyFred wrote: Should I be using standard or Flash?!

Standard interactive.

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Wrote on the subject of Installing Solaris 10 on E450 at Aug. 5, 2009, 7:16 p.m...

Are the disks from foreign systems? You may want to run format on the disks, and reinstall again.

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/format_utility.jsp

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Wrote on the subject of WTB: Onyx2 in New Zealand at Aug. 11, 2009, 2:12 p.m...

eMGee wrote: Isn't WETA Digital based in New Zealand? Maybe they [still] have some? (Perhaps in storage or so).

Yes, but they are hopefully rendering "The Dam Busters".

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Wrote on the subject of WTB: Onyx2 in New Zealand at Aug. 12, 2009, 9:45 a.m...

hamei wrote: Buster Keaton, Buster Crabbe and Buster Brown ?

Not Möhne, Eder and Sorpe?

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Wrote on the subject of What led to The Fall of SGI? - From www.vizworld.com at Aug. 12, 2009, 11:24 a.m...

skywriter wrote: OS source code is a pipe dream - even if you got it you would be just be bug fixing forever - boring...

But you might get a USB driver out of it!

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Wrote on the subject of Mac OS X Netbook Compatibility Chart Updated at Aug. 17, 2009, 2:13 a.m...

skywriter wrote:

10.5.8 still isn't debugged on dell yet.

I'm sure Apple are working on it. :shock:

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Wrote on the subject of Question: still worth buying a powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz? at Aug. 18, 2009, 11:33 a.m...

I've just acquired a "G3 Pismo 400Mhz" and I think it's absolutely great! Running Tiger, 1Gb memory and a 30Gig harddisk.

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Wrote on the subject of Question: still worth buying a powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz? at Aug. 18, 2009, 12:48 p.m...

kramlq wrote: .... or perhaps long time mac owners never really got into the Wintel style hardware cycle where you upgrade just because something is newer.

Typically Macs cost more hence the psychology of previous investment. You don't get the same kind of attachment with commodity hardware.

For many people being on the bleeding edge isn't the place to be, far better to have a system that is a joy to use.

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Wrote on the subject of Question: still worth buying a powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz? at Aug. 22, 2009, 6:46 p.m...

kramlq wrote: I think its only going to get worse.

Agreed. The problem also occurs when people use libraries and have no idea how they are implemented. Sure "X does Y", but also "X does Y better if you also do Z".

I am amazed at the level of the knowledge of some people who claim to be "IT professionals".

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Wrote on the subject of Question: still worth buying a powerbook G4 12" 1.5GHz? at Aug. 22, 2009, 7:35 p.m...

Hopefully there will be a reduction in pointless visuals inorder to support mobile devices.

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Wrote on the subject of WTB: Onyx2 in New Zealand at Aug. 24, 2009, 12:05 a.m...

strandedinnz wrote: I doubt they'd sell them to a mere mortal like me though

You know it's two degrees of separation down here?

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Wrote on the subject of Help in installing System7 on Ye Olde Macintosh at Aug. 30, 2009, 11:49 p.m...

You may have luck running Basilisk-II on Linux, if you can download a harddisk image with operating system and locate a suitable ROM image.

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Wrote on the subject of Help in installing System7 on Ye Olde Macintosh at Aug. 31, 2009, 1:48 a.m...

I would expect them to be MacBinary SMI (Self Mountable Images). You need somebody with a Mac to write them all to floppies, then get raw copies of the floppies.

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Wrote on the subject of Help in installing System7 on Ye Olde Macintosh at Aug. 31, 2009, 2:39 a.m...

If I can find the time, I'm sure I could do something.

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Wrote on the subject of Help in installing System7 on Ye Olde Macintosh at Aug. 31, 2009, 8:46 a.m...

strandedinnz wrote: I've an old LC II macintosh that had a dead hard disk

(a) you can run System 6.0.8 on a LCII to get started

(b) you may be better served getting a CD-ROM image of the OS and booting from CD.

I presume you have replaced the harddisk? If so you'll most probably need the hacked version of HD Setup.

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Wrote on the subject of Help in installing System7 on Ye Olde Macintosh at Sept. 1, 2009, 10:11 a.m...

strandedinnz wrote: or I could buy you a beer should you ever come to New Zealand, your choice

Been here for quite a while now......

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