The collected works of robespierre - Page 10

the pictures aren't very good on that one.
the missing piece is the wrist rest. It looks like you'd use the device with the lettering straight on, but that isn't how it was designed. You use it from the side, and the wrist rest attaches to either side so you can choose left or right handed. (the numbered buttons would be under your thumb.)

not sure there is anything that a spaceball would control in IFFFS; you mainly just drag and drop things.

I still use Altsys Metamorphosis Pro occasionally. It can convert between DPS Type1 and TrueType so you can use it to load pretty much any font (except OpenType) into Irix. It also does previews without installing the font, and can be used as a shortcut to make an .eps from a font (without going through Illustrator).

You can sometimes extract tapes manually from DAT drives, although it is a real pain. there are instructions on the net on how to do it, but they all come from the early '90s so can be hard to find now.
If a drive eats tapes my suspicion is that it is full of dust or dried grease. Cleaning them isn't that easy, although I have taken apart the Connor DDS2 types without that much drama.

hamei wrote: is that Truetype fonts are not as nice as Type1. Maybe it's the people doing it, maybe it's the format itself, I dunno what, but in general, Type1 fonts look better.

TrueType was solely created to get around Adobe's patent on bezier spline graphics. It never had a technical reason.
Check the Bitstream and ITC libraries, there are a lot of good fonts out there that aren't Adobe.

iFixit instructions are usually pretty hopeless.
The Crimson is a single-tower, I only have direct experience with dual towers from that era. The way they work is that there are bullet-shaped metal tabs molded into the skins, that slip into spring clips in the chassis. So if you take a flathead screwdriver and _slowly_ pry between the side of the skins and the chassis, they will release and pop out. The location of the tabs are a few inches from the top and a few inches from the bottom. Try to release the tension on each clip slowly and rotate to the other clips before pulling them out all the way, you don't to create too much torsional force.
The skins will be protected much better by removing them than by transporting the unit with the skins attached. The only concern I would have is if they have plastic tabs like the Personal IRIS, those don't stand up well at all. But I'm pretty confident they don't.
There are special prying tools that might be even better than a screwdriver, but they aren't really needed for the metal clips. I believe the front and back plastic skins are held on the same way.

Yuck.

I was alive for "BBS porn" (when the image had a watermark with a telephone number on it!) and I would be sincerely shocked if there was any after 1995. That's when almost all BBS's shut down for lack of interest.

It sounds like there is a problem where the PROM and the miniroot are talking past each other. You may have to start the installation manually, using the command interpreter. Something like "dksc(0,1,1)unix root=dks0d1s1"

It is indeed a IEC 60320.C19 plug. The OEM cords have a flat gasket that might be gas tight (appears to be based on 60320-2-3), but that isn't normally needed.

The general class of these devices are "space balls", and that was also the trade name of the original models by Spacetec. The company went through some type of acquisition (I don't know the details), and emerged as 3Dconnexion. The Space Mouse is a specific older model from the 3Dconnexion era. At around the same time they seemed to have dropped the rubber sphere for shapes with flat tops. I don't know exactly why, maybe they are cheaper to make or cause less RSI. It is true that when gripping the classic ball, your hand is flexed around it and motion comes from the wrist, whereas with the new shape, you can control some of the movements with only the fingers.

I wish I had some advice to give you! I suspect that making Illustrator obey normal X conventions (like Xresources) is a fool's errand, because it is not a native X application. It was ported with something called Quorum Latitude, which lets you compile Mac applications on Unix machines. So the application itself may not understand X displays enough to know what to do in this case.

Designs change with the seasons, that's part of progress for what it's worth. I do remember that a lot of people preferred the "Cadman", which was sort of like the Space Mouse but much flatter and lower to the desk. Kind of like people who prefer smaller mice for ergonomic reasons.
Then there was the Space Pilot with its LCD displays: I guess there's some use case for that, like moving your palettes off the screen?
It would be nice to have the official drivers, but the protocol isn't so complicated that you can't just roll it yourself. Like with the Wacom tablets.

sRGB is used by consumer digital cameras and is the default colorspace for JPEG images. Most web graphics are displayed in sRGB. Video is something else again, usually YPbPr.
Lab is used as a standard because it covers all colors the eye can see. But there is nothing that prevents direct conversion between other color spaces.
When you calibrate a display, you generate curves that will be stored in the graphics color LUTs. The image data isn't converted to the display color space; instead, the display system is adjusted to correct nonlinearity in the screen. It will be calibrated to a standard illuminant like D65.
You can choose different illuminants or color temperatures: the same RGB image data will look different at D50 or D70. There is really no way to "make the screen and the printed output the same color" because one is additive and the other is subtractive. What you do is decide under what lighting the print is going to be viewed (magazines are expected to be viewed under incandescent light, or used to be anyway. photographs sometimes under indirect sunlight) and calibrate your monitor to an appropriate illuminant. When the illuminants match then the colors should appear the same.

When you transfer image files, whatever the format, they can be tagged with a color profile. That profile will be from the scanner or from the printer (never the screen profile). Then the recipient can view and print the image with its original colors.

One problem is that unless the application was compiled to use NXagent, it will only work when a true DPS extension is present. This might have something to do with the font problem also...

H.264 contains some algorithms that are much more efficient in hardware than in software (specifically bit packing). Without hardware support it is probably a lost cause.

hinv shows Texas Instruments PCI2050 PCI-to-PCI bridge chip, must be on that mystery card as there is nothing else there.

the hostid sticker is usually on the timekeeper. don't know if they are in a file.

All SCSI devices need to support parity, it is part of the standard. Some drives have a parity jumper, but it is designed to only disable the parity check on received data; data transmitted by the device still has parity. For this reason, a CDROM drive would normally act the same no matter the jumper position.
Parity should not be disabled except on some old PC class machines with crippled HBAs.

I may be missing some detail, but the MacIvory Breath Of Life application should be all you need for rebuilding the FEP partition?

the code is using an incompatible definition of index(), which is an obsolete pre-ANSI C89 definition.
replace it with strchr().

changing the shell is so easy that the default is (imho) completely irrelevant. changing it to tcsh is literally the first thing I do to any computer.

are you using a null-modem cable?

IRIX 5.3 didn't come with support for XFS until very late. There was a CD for "IRIX 5.3 With XFS" but it doesn't sound like you have it.

I expected you to mention Cherry 2000!

I have it on (I think) 4.0E, but haven't done much with it because I really despise the keyboard on that system. Some day I'm going to adapt a decent keyboard and spend more time with it.
You might have to mess with soft/hard exports, the way Genera deals with NFS is different than Unix and kind of stuck in the late '80s.

I wasn't impressed by Penrose's reasoning, and his books don't seem to me to have much in the way of structure or exposition.
All physical phenomena below a certain size are influenced by quantum effects, but there's no reason to think that (e.g.) brains are any more than semiconductors. In fact, all real work on neurobiology assumes a classical model.

I would have chosen this video as somehow appropriate to the future of AI.

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you can display either Graphics or Memory buffers to the AV2 output. So any video that's playing on your screen in any application (like mplayer) can be output, or you can output directly from a file using an appropriate video tool.

No, you would just run mplayer like normal, but use videoout(1) to make it go over the SDI output.
Or you could use a program like avplayback(1) to play a file over the output; I don't know whether mplayer supports the VL....

Have you tried using the updated packetfilter.mod released by Symbolics? It says it's for 4.0F but may be required for other versions, I'm not sure.

it could be a source of long term unreliability, since PCBs have internal power and ground planes. if the bent piece shifts it could short them together.

That's giving them too much credit... that was simply the "new corporate font" they commissioned from Ideo in 1999.

The 712 is most similar to the second generation of 715 machines like the 715/100XC.

The ultimate source of dust is organic material from living things. People shed skin and hair; clothes shed fibers; and plants shed pollen, leaves, and bark. This is most of the dust that you see. Computers don't make any dust, they just trap it in places where it gets stuck.

Unfortunately, my attic has loads of fiberboard, wood, and mineral wool, all excellent sources of dust whenever anything moves. But, it has no "dust bunnies" because there are no hairs, clothing or carpet fibers. I think the attic idea is fine so long as it doesn't get too hot.

The flat flex power cable is required for all Impact boards. The white square connectors on the midplane are used to supply power to the Impact boards, which draw higher currents than the older boards, and they are only connected to the flat flex power cable.
The cable can be parked on the side of the PSU when you don't have any Impact boards.

It sounds like the Impact drivers aren't installed.

format of the url is obviously for phishing

Trippynet wrote: Also, bear in mind that the Indigo2 was designed in 1992 and released in 1993. Soft-power-off PSUs were decidedly in their infancy at this point - ATX didn't come along for PCs until 1995, so all PCs of the time still had clunky manual power switches.

But Sun had soft-power on/off at least as early as 1992 (SS10), and Apple had it since 1988. It wouldn't shock me to hear that some computer had it in the early '80s.