The collected works of smj - Page 17

Looking at the photos, I don't see the "Property of HI-TECH TOONS" label mentioned in the description... Did I miss it?

Nice headquarters for the Adventure Team...

GIJoe wrote: i do not see a problem with putting computers on wooden floors though? worst case just get some thin mat to protect the floorboards and isolate vibrations.

Rubber feet generally keep the floors safe from the machines, though all but the latest MacPros pose a challenge. I have those typical clear plastic office mats down to protect my floors from the chair wheels - and what could get ground under them...

Biggest annoyance I have with the wooden floors (probably any non-carpeted surface) is the herds of dust rhinos. I get all kinds of dirt and dustbanks building up outside travel areas, which are now annoyingly close to being sucked into the floorstanding machines.

Also: Nice choice on the Fractal case, if I make that out correctly. Very happy with my R4.

Looks like a good result - plenty of room above and below for the machines and worksurfaces. Carpet isn't all bad - inhibits dust rhino formation, for example...

A perfectly cromulent system. It's noble spirit would embiggen even the smallest nekochanner...

ClassicHasClass wrote: I've wanted one ever since WarGames* ...

* Ally Sheedy not included in purchase price.


There are a few folks using IMSAIs on the N8VEM S-100 mailing list. Andrew Lynch (N8VEM) and John Monahan have produced a silly number of new-design S-100 boards, including floppy and IDE controllers, and other folks have started bringing out their own. Start with this PBworks "wiki" page and check the S-100 list/group here on Google Groups .

If you don't already have links to folks/groups running CP/M, you can find some there with a little poking around.

nekonoko wrote: I also have about 30 IMSAI binders containing most of IMSAI's interoffice communications from their last two years of business - interesting stuff.

Holy control panel! Assuming this "new" duplexing Fujitsu scanner checks out, I'll find a day to drop it off where ever you are around Pleasanton, if you need one to start scanning the contents of those binders...

How can you possibly be active without your iPhone? How will people see that you're hip and with-it? Srsly, they want to use the M7 "activity processor" that's only in your phone so far, right? I'm sure they'll cram an M7 into a watch case a few versions down the road.

There was one watch with it's own cell modem that I heard about, but most of these are just second screens/microphones for your cell/mobile phone. Hearing pundits talk about how these things save people from the horrors of having to fish their phones out of their pockets leaves me scratching my head, but I'm also un-hip enough to keep trying to use a belt case. Then again, getting a 6" phone in and out of your front pockets in jeans must be a non-trivial exercise - especially when seated...

I was not thrilled when I learned that, in the shift to BLE/BT4.0, Apple had abandoned all the prior activity telemetry. (I went from iPhone 4 -> 6) Not surprised, no - this is Apple after all. But the last time I tried to sync the iPod nano I think I got a "yeah, piss off" WRT the old Nike+iPod stuff. I still have assorted old iPods, the Nike bits, and a Polar WearLink heartrate monitor, and sortof wish I could get that data from my hikes into Healthkit. But not enough to put much effort into it - just enough to gripe...

I think I have one (or a set of two) 9-tracks with 4.3bsd on it. IIRC I actually got the miniroot running on my 11/730 in 1990-91*, but the whole reason I got the thing was because the RM80 was throwing tons of bad blocks under VMS. A grad student in the magnet lab was using the thing as her personal workstation until that happened - I asked around and got her an 11/750 that another lab had taking up space in a hallway, along with a couple RA81s. Quite an upgrade...

I was surprised at even getting the thing to boot the miniroot, I had heard that the Nebula wasn't supported by any of the distribution/generic kernels.


* I had to run an extension cord so I could put the RM80 on it's own circuit, otherwise I'd just pop the circuit breaker.

foetz wrote: time to turn my alpha on and hold a minute of silence

Er, for most Alphas you're going to need to have that moment of silence before you turn it on, or after you turn it off...

DS10s are quite nice, as is that O2 - and what luck that the plastic skins survived shipping intact! You'll read plenty of horror stories about them disintegrating during shipping... And quite the collection of software, too. These are generally regarded as quiet machines, so I expect you may just have a noisy hard drive or fan that could be replaced.

Minor correction, though -- SSH originated in the mid-1990s, well before Digital UNIX was renamed Tru64...

kjaer wrote: I'd like to counter the idea that "pizza box" == "any desktop style enclosure". An Indigo2 is not a pizza box. The Tandy 1000 is not a pizza box. I'd argue that the Sun Ultra 1 isn't really a pizza box. Indy, sure.

The SPARCstation 1 really does resemble a pizza box in many ways. It was a novel package for a computer system, by 1989 standards.

+1. I don't recall anybody at the time referring to the Indigo2 as a pizza box *. And by coloring them teal and purple SGI made sure they weren't going to be compared to typical beige box PCs no matter what was inside...


* The referenced DG ad from 1991 was cute, but it's a misleading example for that article as the AViiON 7000 and 8000 systems were cabinet-based SMP machines. The CPU board in question was certain pizza-sized, but the machines it would be used in were not desktops.. Arguably the first generation desktop AViiON workstations, the 300/310, would qualify as they were similar to the old Sun-3/60 - a single outsized board in a thin enclosure with no internal peripherals.

ClassicHasClass wrote: ... vinyl stickers ... see http://www.floodgap.com/iv/2412 (I do have some more of these).

Are you surreptitiously placing them on new PCs and laptops that show up in the office?

Script link on wiki page updated.

It's more than 51GB - and that's without following the links like /graphics and /opengl. That's when I ran out of space on the volume I was using to mirror it, so I don't have the full size...

I won't miss him, but I'll remember him fondly. Letterman was deliciously different even when he was an ass, at least for the first ~15 years, and somebody would inevitably bring up something from the show the following day, so...

I saw what I remember as his first week on the air doing his short-lived morning show - home sick from school - and loved it. All of the regular bits they did to a series of object the first however many years - running a steamroller over them, throwing them off a tower - they first did on the morning show as quick bits done to the then-ubiquitous NYC cardboard cup of coffee with blue greek-style artwork on the side.

Late Night was a fixture for me until something like the end of the 90s, I guess, even if it was only to tune in just long enough to catch the Top 10 list. I'm not sure when I stopped doing that. For that matter, I'm not sure when The Daily Show became the same sort of evening ritual...

But Letterman was just entertainment. Shockingly different for network television, and a trailblazer for those that would follow on cable especially. Would Dennis Miller or Bill Maher have gotten their first late night shows if Letterman hadn't gone ahead? But by contrast Stewart and Colbert had more of a message, with something current that deserved attention, delivered in an entertaining way. Seems more important to me now, and I wonder what Colbert's show will be like in September.

Hmmm... I'd actually be tempted to try that. Good work.

Actually, this is being displayed/handled pretty well by Safari on my (Sp)iPhone 6...

A little fussier when I jump into the full editor, but when I start editing it scales/zooms appropriately.

... and none of you have set your location, which could have avoided some of these questions.

Go to the top of this web page. On the right you'll see a link "User Control Panel" - click on it. In the box on the left titled "Options" look for the link titled "Profile" and click on it. In the big table look for the field labeled "Location" and fill it in.

Nekochanners around the globe will thank you.

Rather than saying "works for me," why don't we see if we can help uunix find a better solution.

uunix, what phone and browser are you having trouble with? Which forum theme do you use?

Edit: For instance, I had selected the "subsilver2" theme (or whatever) in User Control Panel -> Board Preferences, because I was used to the old theme when using a desktop browser. But I just switched my preference to the newer "prosilver" theme, and the display of the forums on my iPhone seems even more betterer suited to the display...

Gee, if I could get it for 100 quid I'd surely consider that bike...

How about: Rip them all to .iso and tell me where I can download them

Given that write support for XFS appeared after ZFS support was well established in FreeBSD, I'm not terribly surprised they never saw significant uptake of XFS...

Right now if I get my '97 Kawasaki EX500 urban assault vehicle licensed again, I'll consider myself ahead of the game...

I've used different themes at different places of employment - a few I came up with, some I walked into. Of those I walked into, I thought one of the most fun and amusing was using HP Lovecraft's Elder Gods for servers... But at large sites a system of local subway stops, public squares, and street names seemed to work well. Of course most larger, corporate sites I've worked at since 2000 eschewed names in favor of impersonal schemes reflecting location, sequence, and department: MEMUBE03, RCH09CICFLS.

On the personal side, since I've had the domain crash.com since 1994, the servers and desktops tend to be named after UNIX signals. Main fileserver is "io," webservers are "fpe" or "ill," general purpose server at home is "int" while the colo box running several VMs is "emt." My desktop is usually "abort."

I've also used different themes for different makes. The SGI servers are named after Pixar shorts - tintoy, knickknack, luxojr. The SGI workstations are just based on external characteristics so far - rosso for a Fuel, bluelight for an Octane where the white lamp was replaced with a blue LED.

Referring to what makes it an "a" versus an "au" - didn't the "au" models always have SCSI, whereas some "a" models were only shipped with IDE?

hamei wrote: Why put a Chebby six-cylinder in your Jag ?

You know better, hamei - you do that because you want it to run reliably... /me runs


(A common jibe/complaint/swap in the States, at least; perhaps limited to the British Leyland era cars of the 70s and early 80s.)

Would PC-BSD be any better?

Desktop or laptop? Desktop seems okay. But out-of-the-box it doesn't seem to support suspend/resume or the trackpad on my ThinkPad T400s (not exactly a recent product...). Other makes/models probably work just fine, but you may want to check first.

No idea if it would make any difference in terms of MaXX support though - PC-BSD doesn't change the fundamentals, just some packaging and the installation process.

I don't see any reference to ZFS send/recv, but a colleague had recommended Tarsnap ( http://www.tarsnap.com/index.html ) for online backups. Pricing looks better for rsync.net though - USD0.20 per GB per month, versus USD0.25/GB/month plus USD0.25/GB bandwidth charge.

Being able to use zfs send/recv directly is attractive, but I'm not clear how you'd handle encrypting the data. I reckon you'd have to setup the local ZFS volume with encryption, but I don't know if the remote system could handle the "receive" without access to the key... Maybe I'll sign up and find out. Thanks for the tip!

They mean the environment variable $DISPLAY -- as in:

I'm not sure changing that will help, but from a terminal window you could try setting it manually, then running Illustrator from the command line. Worst case it doesn't change the behavior, but perhaps if it starts with 0.1 it won't query for 0.0 and expand to use both...

You're nuts if you think they weren't getting every possible tax break already.

My take: It's an organizational change that lets Larry and Sergey continue chasing whatever new/random thing they want, but the top lieutenants get recognition as CEOs of their own operations while staying within the Google/Alphabet fold.

It's tempting to think that armchair analysts would stop worrying that every new seemingly hare-brained scheme they start chasing will somehow destabilize Google's advertising operations, but that's pretty unlikely - in the absence of real issues, some people create things to worry about as needed.

Find out what model of SoundBlaster, and check against the wiki page for the Fuel: Fuel#Add-On_Options

ivelegacy wrote: but I am speaking about Octane+shoebox (triple PCI slot), isn't there a note page for Octane about that Sound card?

If there was, I assume you would have found it rather than asking us.

So aside from that, your best approach would be to take models you know are supported by the IRIX drivers, for example from the Fuel page, and see if one of them will work in the Octane's shoebox -- hence my suggestion. Sorry I couldn't give you a ready-made solution, but that's how it goes.

Dammit, I want to be purple too!

Glad you got what you needed, Pete. I guess I'll just have to pay closer attention in future...

uunix wrote: ... next time you open up the donations you may have a situation akin to the January Sales here in the UK..

In that case I demand to be added to the mailing list for the advance notice "door buster" specials that US pre- during- and post-holiday sales are now littered with!

Since I couldn't find a version number or year, I just took the shrinkwrap off a SunSoft Workshop media kit. Turns out it's from 1995, "Volume 4, Number 2" -- I'm guessing it predates Sun Workshop 3. In fact it includes discs for both Solaris 1.x and Solaris 2.x:

1.x has SPARCworks 3.0.1, SPARCompiler C 3.0.1, C++ 4.0.1, F77 3.0.1, etc
2.x has SPARCworks 3.1, SPARCompiler C 4.0, C++ 4.1, F77 4.0, F90 1.1, etc

It'll get imaged eventually, unless somebody has an urgent need. And yes, a license is needed...

If I ever touched sendmail on AIX, it was back around 1992 - and nothing remains. Caveat emptor.

On my FreeBSD-based mail server, there's a Makefile in /etc/mail -- when you tweak the sendmail.mc file you should be able to run the command "make cf" and it will invoke m4 with whatever it needs to pull in the supporting files.

What a given .mc file produces depends on what's in the .mc file, in terms of OSTYPE, FEATUREs, etc. If you invoke the right things, you'll get a long and functional .cf file. Try to find where AIX has put all the mc files that shipped with sendmail - FreeBSD puts them under /usr/share/sendmail/cf. Look for a README there. Some sample .mc files are in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf.

For virtusertable to work, you may need the domain being rewritten to be listed in the text file /etc/mail/local-host-names. Check the file /etc/mail/virtusertable.sample if you have it. Better, grep for "virtuser" in the IBM-supplied sendmail.mc if you have it.

Gosh, has it really been four years? Well, welcome back again!

Was tempting at $200, but not with the $500 more in S&H to get it to California...

"Location, location, location."

Love that they've decided to outsource the whole site to custhelp.com. Even the account reset email. One more thing that helps people be taken in by phishers. "Well it looks like an SGI email, and I know not all of their URLs are under sgi.com, so I'll click the link in this message from [email protected] and enter my information." Feh. They're hardly the only offender...

That aside, glad they're still offering what they do, etc.

Regarding HTTPS -- I didn't see any reference to generating certificates or loading mod_ssl...

Resolving the issues keeping PHP from running seems like a good plan. But when that's done, if you didn't mention certificates because you didn't tackle that part, this may not be a bad walk-through . The openssl CLI example should work under *nix as-is (just worked on FreeBSD).