The collected works of smj - Page 9

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Signed.

I know what you mean, but just when you think something has gone NLA somebody goes and finds a couple pallets in a warehouse, or they find another uncontacted tribe of native peoples in the Amazon...

There seem to be a few groups like sci.crypt and comp.os.vms toddling along in their niches. I would only be mildly surprised to find netnews servers still fulfilling a role on campus, running a local hierarchy alongside a Gopher server. (There you go, we're ready for you now Cameron... )

Uhm yes, they most certainly do. Though I have no idea whether or what role any spreadsheet may have played in any specific deal in the news.

Remember that 1) a few billion isn't necessarily that big a deal for these guys, price- or position-wise; 2) they aren't using the same kind of Excel spreadsheet you or I would use to manage the household budget. There are plenty of people at VLFIs* who need 64-bit Excel on 64-bit Windows, and have for years. If they think they can make money pricing something on an absurdly large/complex spreadsheet, they'll do it. If it means they can act independently instead of being reliant on some programmers to make changes that take days/weeks/months to code/test/deploy, they won't even waste a nanosecond thinking about it.


* Very Large Financial Institutions

I have a late 300 series in the back, takes the same RAM you referenced but has either an '030 or possibly an '040 - thought I'd determined it was a /375 but can't be sure. Anyway not easy to find that RAM, and when it did show up it was more money than I cared to spend. I found a nice NOS HIL keyboard on eBay, a two button HIL mouse at WeirdStuff in Sunnyvale, and a 3 button mouse on eBay.

I'm more interested in running 4.4BSD or NetBSD, but haven't gotten around to putting an image on a disk yet. I did manage to abuse a VGA HD15 <-> 5-BNC cable to get video to a Dell 2001FP. This use of the cable may have required a gender bender, but worked well enough for the PROM monitor to display the POST output and provide a prompt.

Sweet, thanks for sharing Richard!

Octane, or O3x0? Or did I misread that 8GB physmem total...?

You said you're "not managing to get a link light at all on ANY switch" - so you've tried both known-good ports, and known-good cables? Worth taking an extra moment just to cross that off the list permanently.

I see that OpenBSD managed to read the MAC address, but still might be worth re-seating the PCI tray per Miod's suggestion.

I wonder if you might be having an auto-negotiation failure between the O2 and the switch(es). I don't have IRIX handy and am too lazy to check specific flags on TechPubs, but the equivalent of "ifconfig ec0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" might be instructive - add an address, etc. That syntax might work as-is on OpenBSD, if you want to try that first.

Good luck!

Speaking only for myself, I appreciate a nice rack too...


Glad to see kais58's cabinet going to good use. Nice work.

So just to clarify vishnu, that would be a "no" vote on moving FF3 to /current?

You guys and your wacky conspiracy theories. Next you'll be trying to tell me that |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| put epoxy in the "extra" backplane slots of perfectly good VAXstation II's in order to create the lower-priced VS II/RC model...


Edit: Examples like this aside, I assume keying is there for a reason until shown otherwise. There are cases, Sun was hardly immune to these practices, but you need to do the legwork.

Did I need to put the sarcasti-smiley in there? DEC really did create the VAXstation II/RC by taking perfectly good VS II's and putting epoxy in the open backplane slots, then selling them cheaper. And of course offering an upgrade to a regular VS II that was nothing more than a backplane swap.

You don't have to tell me about corporate deceit hamei, I work in the financial sector...

... giving yet another dimension to the term, "screwed."



Oh come on, you knew somebody was going to have to do that when you wrote it!

I think I was stuck in a rut with a saved search on eBay for the 98229D (2x8MB, p/n 98229-66523) kits for some reason - I just did a Google search and found a lot of vendors with the 16MB part 98229-66524 on offer. Two of these make up a 98229E 32MB kit, FWIW.

Best price I saw was US$20 per 16MB board at Serverworlds.com .
Very honorable mention for Pinnacle Micro , who list 4, 8, and 16MB parts at similar prices.
Also making the podium, EZ Systems at $23 per 16MB part.

Other than having just placed an order with ServerWorlds for a couple -66524's, I have no relationship with any of these outfits. Sure it could be cheaper, but this is nothing like what I remembered from the last time I looked...

For reference, I've been running a MacPro 3,1 with 4 non-Apple 800MHz FB-DIMMs for a couple months with no issues heat-wise. Just flat heat spreaders, nothing like the fancy fin arrangements Apple mandated.

RC25?? Wow - I'm not sure I've ever seen one in person, let alone one in working condition. Sorry to threadjack, but what do you have one hooked up to?

I've got a VAXstation 3100 you could have, but surely you've got one already or could find one on your side of the continent...

My take on this: Because they originally designed the DCD for use use with Octane VPro cards, which just had a single 13w3 output. Later I guess it was easier to use the existing DCD as-is rather than design a new option card specifically for the Fuel.

Just received some immaculate 98229-66524 boards from ServerWorlds. Now as soon as the postman delivers a large box of round tuits I'll dig out the hp9k and check them out...

If you have time to kill, I immediately remembered this old chestnut: VAXen, my children, just don't belong some places

"... they have several large herds of VAXen..."
"He had a young apprentice gnome who was about 65."
"``Great, now we can have 24 hour video tapes of the operators eating Chinese takeout on the CPU.''"

Love the "ball & pole" shot duck - makes me think somebody gave Le Petit Prince a giant Meccano/Erector set...

Just finishing Justina Robson's Quantum Gravity series. But next I finally have a very tall stack of the first four GoT books...

Postfix or Exim will be fine for most folks. Out of the two I'd recommend Postfix - Wietse tried hard to make it logical and most won't notice the performance hits from the extreme modularity. Postfix and UW IMAPd should do for most folks. If you don't mind using free versions of commercial software there's the community edition of Communigate - friends have liked it and used it, handles IM/VoIP stuff in addition to email.

I use sendmail for an MTA, a handful of milters, and Cyrus for the mailstore. It's massive overkill for a few mailboxes in each of a couple of domains, but I like the flexibility. Most people would rather not be bothered, nor should they.

I used to work for Sendmail, Inc. I suppose in a way I was paid to write rulesets, but I always preferred to use a FEATURE() or a milter, if that was a viable option. Claus Aßmann, a senior engineer at Sendmail and contributor to sendmail, has said that people should think of the .cf file as a binary file that shouldn't be messed with (use the m4 files instead). Unless you have a need I'd agree, but then I come back to comments about APL and Perl - it's not impossible, it's just very very tedious...

When I first encountered sendmail in 1989 it was pretty much the only thing that could do all that it did, as well as it did it, except maybe MMDF/PMDF. Both of which still exist in some form or another, PMDF in two different commercial flavors (Sun JEMS -> Oracle Communications Messaging Server, and Process Software).


Milters :
greylist-milter - delaying unknown connections a few minutes to discourage spammers
sid-milter - SPF and Sender-ID
opendkim-milter - DomainKeys Identified Message (DKIM)
SpamAssassin - classic anti-spam filtering
opendmarc - DMARC layers policy atop SPF and DKIM, combats phishing

The 98229-66524's work well enough for the PROM self-test and the system is reporting a mighty, ahem, 75,497,156 bytes (72MB) of RAM with the two 4MB boards installed as well. I only pulled it out to test the RAM before they disappeared into the mulch on my desk, but...

According to the HP Computer Museum I've got a 9000/380 - system board is a 98574-66511 and it's got a 25MHz 68040 sitting in a shim/adapter. Two other boards are the 98549 framebuffer (1024x768x?bpp) and 98626A serial board, and that fills the backplane of he 98574Y enclosure.

Hmm... Is that a banjo I hear off in the distance?

There was a release of SimCity via DUX software for SunOS, IRIX, SCO, Linux, perhaps others. You could actually download it from ftp.uu.net in the 90s and run in demo mode - the cheapest license, single-user node locked, was $49.

There's a GPL'd version of it called Micropolis out there, too.

* README for DUX SimCity
* Don Hopkins' postings about SimCity

BX as in Builder Xcessory, as in from ICS in Cambridge, MA? Worked there briefly, really fun place to be back in 1994. Oh, the machines I should have rescued from them a few years later...

I may be missing something, but surely not this! Looks to me (while sleep-deprived) like you're wiping out the old definition for 1280x1024_96 - that way lies madness! Use x setmon instead. You don't want to be that guy posting in a few years, "I have a new monitor, but every setting I try displays 1024x768_60..."

Kudos on finding your own answer, though, and following up in your thread!



Edit : Yeah yeah, "setmon" not "xsetmon". Sheesh, I said I was sleep deprived...

Welcome Feelies! Click on "User Control Panel" in the upper right of this site, then "Profile" in the left side "Options" box. Fill in the Location: field with your general location on Earth (or where ever). Might save some time down the road.

The Power Mac G5 running OS X is certainly UNIX-based, though maybe not USDA 100% Grade A Certified Organic UNIX™. And while I've only had my hands on the G5 Xserve and Intel-based Mac Pro, I'd say they're built to traditional workstation/server standards. But remember, this is your collection so you call the shots.

Bienvenue, Eve!

Nice collection. Everybody goes crazy for the Crimson... I guess it all depends on how, when and where you encountered things for the first time. I'll always have a fondness for the PI and Indigo since they were the first machines I ever saw that could do "real 3D."

À bientôt,
--Steve.

That's why I have to struggle mightily any time there's a hint of an IRIS 3130 in the wind. First thing I owned bigger (much!) than a PC-XT clone, bought from Eli Heffron's in Cambridge, MA for $2k cash in 1990. Mitre in Bedford hadn't wiped the machine, but all the truly interesting bits had been on NFS mounts. But after a while I badly wanted BSD and X, and when the 20" monitor died I sold it on for just $2k and bought a Sun-3/140, CDC/Imprimis 300MB disk, and Telebit Trailblazer...

But back to the point - Eve, what was the first SGI you ever saw? How did you get hooked?

Shouldn't that be:

Unless you made a typo in your post, you need that first slash after the colon in the remote filespec. So that first.

The other question is whether or not you exported that volume from your Linux box. I have something like this on a CentOS Linux box here:

You don't need the network restriction, but if you keep it adjust for your 192.168.1.0/24 (I'm guessing) network. Check your man pages for exportfs(1m), exports(5), and showmount(1m) to hash the rest of it out. Or there's undoubtedly a well-written section of doc on TechPubs, maybe in the Linux Doc Project, if I bestirred myself to find it...

Ssssshhhhh! Collectors are a boon!! They generously keep these machines out of the recyclers' yards and landfills at great personal expense. Then eventually they come to their senses, or get married, or die - and years after we'd given up on ever owning a decent example of a Banana Jr. 2000, Fate guides one into our sweaty little hands. To use ...

Please don't tell me it's thinking meat !!

You can't get to it at Harry's main site ? I was just able to bring it up.

I had to pull my server from one colo, haven't gotten it to the new one yet, and apparently missed a spot in swapping DNS over. Should be cleared up for the mirror at shiftleft.com as soon as any bogus entries are removed from your local DNS cache.

First get a charged battery of some kind attached, then get the CMOS settings set. Your call if you want to preserve the machine or rework the battery connection to use something more common than whatever IBM used.