The collected works of ritchan - Page 1

I'm not expecting smooth 720p playback on SGI MIPS machines, but I still do want something fast enough to play my H.264 anime episodes, otherwise it wouldn't be that practical. What kind of CPU/speed would I need to play a 704x480 H.264 video using mplayer? What about slightly larger sizes (848x480, 1024x576)? Does video output performance depend very much on texturing hardware, or can mplayer use an overlay?

nekoneko, what exactly is the problem with mplayer's code? Optimized for 32bit machines perhaps?

D-EJ915: impossible. Stop using -vo x11 and use -vo xv, xvidix. My Athlon XP 1800+ can play 720p just fine.

Texhnolyze (Yoshitoshi ABe, designed SE Lain as well)
Lupin III - Castle of Cagliostro (ritchan's DVD9 rip, naturally)
Touch (yes, Touch. I love Touch. Highly recommended over anything else here except:)
Maison Ikkoku (like crack, except that it makes you laugh and slam your fist on the table. Also the shortest Takahashi TV series, so you don't have to clear up too much HDD space just around 20GBs)
Ghost in the Shell (movie), GITS:SAC, GITS:SAC 2nd GiG (if you don't get GITS:SAC or 2nd GiG, try the Laughing Man and Individual Eleven movies, it's ok nobody will blame you for not getting it)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (whole series+movies except games)
ef - a tale of memories/melodies
CLANNAD (funny for the most part, and jerks your tears more often than Kanon did)
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Mobile Suit Gundam (original Gundam, the one where Amuro was supposed to die halfway but the producers tuned it down for kiddies)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai (best with the lights turned off)
Deathnote (obviously)
Code Geass (at first I thought it was a DN ripoff, but then I watched it and decided I really don't care. Just lower your expectations for R2)
Sakura Taisen (oldschool, not much depth, but you should watch it for the ending song and general knowledge expansion)
Battle Programmer Shirase (multiplied my interest for rare computers, somehow... must have been the doujin SCSI card)
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (to this day, I have an altar of the GAWD Haruhi.... somewhere)
Galaxy Angel (all series except GA Rune, DAMN funny)
Utawarerumono (perhaps, I only played the game, which was good strategy-wise, but I hated some H-scenes)
Fate/Stay Night (the last episode was the worst last episode I've ever watched, but the beginning's great)
Magical Lyrical Nanoha As (well, it's... probably not your cup of tea, but it works, yeah? and it's required for the attachment)
Then finish Ever17: the out of infinity. If you feel like it, go on with Never7, Remember11, and 12Riven. You need Chinese or Japanese to go with the latter three, although there is an English translation project for Remember11.
Then you are ready for the following attachment. EDIT: Come to think of it, wow, that's a lot of anime I've watched there. And it's not even the full list.

Because I'm bored and this forum needs more discussion.

Code Geass (both seasons)
Gundam 00
ef - a tale of memories
ef - a tale of melodies
CLANNAD
CLANNAD After Story
GITS:SAC, SAC 2nd GiG and movies
Ouran High School Host Club (very, very entertaining)
Death Note
MONSTER
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Kai
Detroit Metal City (simply entertaining
Black Lagoon (simply entertaining)

And that's all I can think of. Be prepared to justify any suggestions you make.

What? How in the world does Hellsing make the list? It was short, rushed, and the only thing going for it was the vampire police officer, who wasn't fleshed out. The only thing going for the vampire police officer was that she was hot.

The ending theme is good, but that's all I'll give it.

Chaos;Head was boring. I watch 6 episodes, I think 'okay please explain this Di-Sword thing already please' and what do I get? More episodes that leave me hanging. The OP+ED themes suck. And guess what, it's only slated to run for 13 episodes. So much for pacing.

The other suggestions I haven't watched, so I can't bash yet. I'll be back.

Yay. Well, I might get a VPro in the future to speed up video output, so don't you dare give up on this halfway! I've already got two TRAMs on the way...

So I bought a 9114-275. I just searched on a whim, and once I found http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=220387082451 , I couldn't stop refreshing the page.
Dual 1.45GHz POWER4+, 4GB RAM, GXT6500P, DVD-ROM and floppy drive, replete with plastic door, 1Gbit Ethernet and dual channel U320 SCSI PCI-X cards. For 200 Euros. I saw beige RS/6000s go for this amount a couple months before. I even saw a dual Opteron 2.2GHz with a Quadro FX 1000 go for 130EURs... but for obvious reasons, I didn't go for that one. Glancing at the POWER4 and Opteron SPECint results on realworldtech, though, it seems I should have chosen the latter. Oh well, it's only integer.

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.

Hey I know what it is. It's any storage device that's not sequential.

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

I'll go out on a limb here because it's not finished yet, but Eden of the East is definitely shaping up to be a great anime. It's from Kenji Kamiyama and Production IG, what would you expect? It's hard not to recommend an anime that asks the protagonist to show his Johnny.

Well damn. My student account just hit its monthly withdrawal limit, and all because of this damn computer. No money=No freedom.

In any case, OpenFirmware is a bitch. It scrolls so slowly, you might wanna go get a coffee while you type dev / and ls. Damn thing boots real slowly, too, and the only way to disable those pesky power on diagnostics is to use a serial cable to connect to the Service Processor.

Not to mention that it has the gall to display the CPU clock in hex. Thanks. Really.

On the bright side, it's not that noisy. I could definitely sleep with this on, unlike the Octane, which requires me to be really tired before I can sleep. The tons of foam padding on the front door and the rear metal cover help. And the LCD on the front is a cool touch.

FRU 00N7281
Is this the drive tray/carrier for the 9114/275 (EDIT: no it isn't)? This info is surprisingly obscure. If only it used regular SCA connectors - so far all I've been able to find are hard drives for over 200EURs with the trays which have golden fingers instead of the normal SCA.

The first 9114-275 I received had the front plastic thing (really is flimsy, as Pymble said) in what looked like a Ravensburger puzzle. For the record, I never managed to figure out the one Ravensburger puzzle my relatives bought for me when I was around 10. Not to mention the rare Samtec cable that linked the Operator Panel to the media bay was torn. How? Don't ask me And because it's so damn heavy, IBM was nice enough to provide plastic rollers - on one end of the case, so you have to drag it along like luggage while bending uncomfortably.

So I complained with a scathing email ("Did the packaging materials cost less than 5EURs?") and the next day a replacement was shipped. They were even so nice as to tell me to keep the components from the 275 I already had. Which means I now have two GXT6500Ps and two redundant Artesys 500W PSUs and a ton of hard drive bay filler panels in the pictured system. The memory was already maxed out at 8x512MB DIMMs, so the extra RAM didn't help, unfortunately. RAM seems to be pretty expensive for the 275.

The muffler is a really nice touch. Without it, the 275 looks about as long as... say, a Cooler Master Cosmos S. And very loud, especially with two PSUs. With the muffler on, it is indisputably the longest computer I've ever laid eyes on, and one of the quieter ones I've owned. I'm serious, the muffler is incredible. It gets a bit warm back there, but there's enough space for the cables, the foam probably catches all the dust or something, and it's very quiet. Pop off the side panel while the system's running and you'll see just how loud those three fans are. It's incredible they managed to make it quiet.

Being quiet is also important because the PSU fan runs all the time, even when it's not powered on. As soon as you plug in the power cable, it does some check with 4 digit hex codes on the green backlit Operator Panel, and the fans never turn off. With the muffler on, it's unnoticeable.

It's also a freaking cool system because it's never in a hurry to turn on, just like that cool guy who always saunters around with two chicks at his sides. Guys like that never walk quickly, in case you haven't met one before. This one's the same idea - it takes about 20-30 seconds from the time when you push the power button till when the fans turn on. Then it takes about 5 minutes to do a complete system diagnosis, after which you'll get a few seconds to press a few keys to enter the SMS menu or configure boot options. In order to skip the diagnosis, you'll have to hook up a serial cable to the Service Processor (which, like the PSU, runs all the time) and jiggle around with the settings. Yes, that's the only way to do it.

And once you get into OpenFirmware, everything scrolls real slowly. Don't type ls. You'll be stuck there waiting for minutes while a complete hardware inventory scrolls by, like using framebuffer console on Linux while maxing out your CPU on something else, except 100 times slower.

That's all I know about it now. Overall, I think it was very worth the 200 EURs I spent on it, considering I got more than I asked for and 2x1.45GHz POWER4+ CPUs at that. Then again, 200EURs is still a lot of money for me, and I don't have a permanent residence in Germany. Shipping it back home when I graduate will be a nightmare.

Girls are the same everywhere. They type their livejournal posts the same way, they send pretty much the same amount of text messages every day (unless they're being excluded), it's just a problem of which ones are worth bothering with and which ones aren't.

Because I'm Asian, I find blondes very attractiive. And not just dirty blondes - gold-white blondes.

Not deep enough for me, har har har!

Bad news - I broke one of the plastic tabs that holds the door closed. And on top of that, I unplugged it. The 2 PSUs that run 24x7 were getting on my nerves when I was trying to sleep. I currently don't foresee myself powering it back on anytime soon - browsing the net without any slowdown on a RISC machine is cool and all that, but... it doesn't feel special (KDE), and if I hook up my Syncmaster 950p to the IBM using the DVI-VGA converter, I get visible convergence artifacts which never appeared in a direct 13W3-VGA connection from the Octane to the 950p. I guess I'll have to get a used Flexscan L685 next month so I can finally use it on a big enough screen and without artifacts.

For now, I'm back on my Octane. Next time I use the IBM, I'll probably log into CDE instead. Damn, I can't believe I'm doing this after I spent 200 on it...

I don't have to pay for electricity in the dorm, you see. That might change if I ever get a Origin 3400.

I've just finished watching good old Hatsukoi Limited. I'm a huge fan of Mizuki Kawashita's works, read the manga of Ichigo 100%, Hatsukoi Limited before I saw the anime, hardcore I tell you, her new series starts on July, and as usual, I can't wait.

Hatsukoi Limited is unremarkable. I'm serious. I'm recommending an anime with average music, characters that have their own personality but don't sparkle all the time (well, Misaki is an exception, she is definitely what I'd go for IRL), all because it depicts the process of falling in love very well.

That's the only reason I'm recommending it, and that's the only reason why anybody should watch it. At the end of it all, you don't feel let down, you don't feel like there are any loose ends (and if there are, why, it's not the anime's fault, it's because it lasted only 12 episodes), you feel like you've just fallen in love with falling in love.

Just watch it. And then read the manga.

EDIT: I love every GITS except Innocence. That movie SUCKED.

I registered as ritchan, but I don't see an option anywhere to upload images onto the Gallery. What gives?

I don't think there's a problem with what gives, but I played it safe. Thanks.

Alternative OS screenshots, mostly... and a few photos of my systems here and there.

Direct download so you don't have to wait for seeds:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8f38 ... 4aa771dc95

Sorry this isn't ported to IRIX yet, because I'm not really enthused about all those errors I've been getting. But I managed to get it to compile and work on AIX 6.1! I'll post the binary later when it's cool enough for my Intellistation to run again without sounding like a turbine.

Since this is 20080823, don't expect anything from al|together 2008 and beyond to work. LEAVEs didn't, but Narcissu and OMGWTFOTL do. Now you can (theoretically) fap to Arcueid while working with WPARS or whatever it is people actually do with their RS6Ks! Or play planetarian (theoretically)! Or play Higurashi/Umineko (theoretically)! Or (theoretically again) Kagetsu Tohya!

In case you're wondering, all those visual novels that I mentioned are halfway across the world in Malaysia. When I do get there, I'll probably continue porting ONScripter-EN over with my maxed-out Indy R5K and complain about how slow it is running ONScripter and how many seconds it takes to do a simple fade in of an image while playing Vorbis in the background. For now, just be content with these screenshots.

Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 4. Convmv reports that the filenames are already in UTF-8... and changing the encoding to UTF-8 in Konsole gives the correct Japanese names for the filenames, so I'm not sure what's the problem here. Maybe this version of ONScripter doesn't support UTF-8. EDIT: Yup, Windows version of 20080823 gives the same message. Even tells me not to use Vista. I'm hard at work trying to figure out why the SVN ONScripter doesn't detect my installed SDL library.

Judging from the response, I guess nobody cares about ONScripter for workstations not that I care, it's really cool to see it run on another platform and with sound.
Your library config may differ from mine (perzl's SDL, SDL_ttf, SDL_gfx, SDL_Pango installed to /opt/freeware via rpm), so you probably should compile your own binary. All libraries are provided for by this image.

Make sure that sdl-config is in your path, the included SDL doesn't compile. The compiled binaries onscripter and onscripter-en are naturally included, but may not work, I'm not familiar with static and shared libraries and all that.

http://nscripter.insani.org/
A visual novel engine. A visual novel is a novel with music and images and branching plotlines. And NScripter happens to be one of the most widely used engines. Higurashi, Umineko, Tsukihime and its derivatives, planetarian and much more are all based on NScripter. ONScripter is a GPL clone of NScripter.

Umineko episode 4 now works if you convert the 0.txt (by un-xor84-ing nscript.dat) from Shift_JIS into UTF-8, but it seems to have problems playing back Vorbis BGM. Latest SVN version of ONScripter-EN found to build with the same fixes.

Any visual novel with the file game.id needs to have that text file converted into Unix LF format, otherwise it'll hang. LEAVEs now works, and I'm sure a lot of VNs will work if you apply that game.id thing. I suppose I'll have to figure out how to correct the game.id bug in the source...

http://forums.novelnews.net/showthread.php?t=35673

Maybe later tonight I'll fire up my Octane again, I have to do some shopping atm. My Intellistation is really fast compared to my Octane, so I suppose it's only natural. Plus, the speed at which pbzip2 flies never ceases to amaze me with how much those CPUs of mine can do.

Come to think of it, I wonder if a 4CPU Onyx 350 could outrun this baby of mine... heh heh heh...

I never felt comfortable with vBulletin. For me, it's got way too many buttons and sections and menus. So yeah, keep it as it is. Plus the fact that phpBB is free and vBulletin is not should be enough incentive to stay on the current option.

And I see that Gallery3 has become Gallery2 again! Thanks nekoneko!

wut? catgirls are so yesteryear

Second core is disabled. The POWER4 was IBM's first multicore CPU. I heard a Mac Radeon 7000 PCI flashed to a XVR-100 might work. Or you could just find a GXT130P or something like that. Nothing to do with the distro, just whether it includes the drivers out of the box or not.

Signed up AND voted.

That would be lovely. There are very few sites out there that actually state the difference between a R10K and a R16K, and I mean every detail, not just "has double the L1 cache".

To be fair, I haven't seen any architecture papers on the R12K-R16K.