The collected works of surrealdeal - Page 1

I just installed it 3 days ago because I feel that linux is too unreliable. Locks up too often. When you backspace too many times on terminal, the pc-speaker beeps and the system crashes. Happens very often. Also happens under gedit. ( maybe it's just pc-speaker-beep drivers for my chipset? )

I'm kind-of off-put by the whole 'hipsterification' of unix, and share sentiments with hamei. But I relaly like the idea and think it's 'cool', regardless.

Also It would be nice if install scripts that worked under solaris 10 still worked the same way in openindiana...
And they had better documentation...........

I've read that ( in at least xemacs ), lisp code is compiled to byte-code, and because emacs-lisp is a smaller language than common lisp, they can get away with hacks such as getting rid of the first few ascii bits, and using smaller space per opcode. ( which the documentation claims makes this a much faster way to execute code ( according to jwz ).

It's kind-of how risc can be faster than intel opcodes because the archetecture is designed to do one thing quickly.

foetz wrote:

surrealdeal wrote: And they had better documentation...........

it's a niche product and free. i guess you can't have it all

Are you at all involved with oi development?

mostly so that I can kneel on cardboard outside during the winter and write stuff on my old thinkpad.

I can do it for like 20 minutes at a time now on just hardwood flooring, but it's exacerbating the ulcers in my legs.

discuss: masochism and you.

I literally just looked at this stuff on the solaris repository today, and was cheerful.

guardian452 wrote: Upon googling 'seiza' I realize that that is how I always sit, I've never found it comfortable to sit with legs crossed. I've sat like that since kindergarten...

I also run 80-100 miles per week.

surrealdeal wrote: discuss: masochism and you.

Drum corps.

I used to run 7 miles a night but then my jogging partner's husband beat me into a near coma...

oh well ; fun times

I used to have one of those from a thrift-store in 2004; had a bunch of boring files on it from the state sherrif's office on it.
The hard-drive ( fixed disk ) died after a day but I was strangely able to run a floppy based distro of linux on it, although it gave me non-maskable-interrupt errors every few minutes.

could be worth the $200 in gas:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16728769

Do yourself a favor and get an SDF account. You even get free usenet access when you register.

staggering

The problem with things like lisp, is that it suffers the original sin of being comprised of mere mathematical abstractions; and when you traverse an integrative level, you're forever confined to the arithmetic logic unit.

Mathematics is a mere closest-metaphor for modelling phenomenon, and I've always disliked it because it was used by reductionist thinkers that tended to wrong conclusions. I don't think it is suitable for implementing intelligence.

Of course neural-nets are interesting and used in engineering. In this case, AI was a success: the development of a human being with everything severed from his brain save for the regions essential to performing regressive analysis. How desirable to the department of defence. How far more viable than hiring a mathematics intern, economically. Autistic persons have higher maintenance costs, require ancillary personnel, and generate lower throughput. Interns get tired, need to be paid, and their disposal and sanitation costs are higher.

In this case, AI was a success.

during irix net installation,
when resolving conflicts, how can I select something like

'keep all'

/* there seems to be unresolvable conflicts */

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Also after installing, I end up with

Unable to execute xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)/unix: media not loaded

Autoboot failed.
xio(0)pci(15)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)/unix: media not loaded

Hit Enter to continue.

Is there something that will set the disk as the active partition or something like that ?

Oh well, my problem seemed to be that I had to individually select CD directories to 'open' and then just select a huge directory with everything already zipped into it under 'open' and that seemed to get irix installed

but now I get

KERNEL FAULT
PC 0XA800000020326258 EP: 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFBC48
EXC CODE: 128, 'Software detected SEGV'
Bad addr: 0x3e8, cause: 0x8<CE=0

nongrato wrote:

Bad addr: 0x3e8, cause: 0x8<CE=0

Exactly like mine:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16728612

In my case that seemed to be a graphics board fault.

Yeah, my graphics board seems to overheat every hour, and shut down the system. After which it no longer powers on indefinitely, but swapping another graphics board in seems to solve this instantly, which makes me think 'oh it just overheated'. Both boards overheat after an hour, but setenv fastfan 1 seems to cool it down for long enough to install irix.

It's just odd to me that it functions the entire time, and then segfaults upon boot. I guess it's some sort of accelerated hardware that you don't need during boot. ( even passes hardware diagnostics hmm. )

Was it an SI board that was defective for you? What did you replace it with?

nongrato wrote:

surrealdeal wrote: Was it an SI board that was defective for you? What did you replace it with?

I never replaced my EMXI. Can't afford a new one at the moment

Disassembling, cleaning and replacing old thermal pads with a fresh grease helped.

And the error message went away with new thermal pads?

something like this you are referring to:
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/18131 ... d=ijInLtAn

jan-jaap wrote: Start with re-seating the TRAMs. Saved my day twice already (with two different MXE's).

Don't tear things apart unless you have a good reason. You just risk damaging it.

oh wow that actually worked ( kind-of )

it boots now but it's a black and white image of a terminal mirrored over eachother, lots of static, and over a test-pattern : /

Since I'm able to run diags this time around from prom, it says:

RDRAM QUICK FAILED
Failure detected on the GRAPHICS BOARD in XIO slot 12
Part number info:
Part: 030-1240-003 Name: MOT20 Serial: GSJ118 Revision: C
press <Enter> to continue

I guess the board is dying (unusable, currently anyway)

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jan-jaap wrote: What if you run it without the TRAMs? You can, you know. It'll be an SSI and not an MXI, but if it gives a picture you know it's the TRAMs causing the problem, and not the graphics board itself.

You have to remove both (or none)

No, I did that and now after selecting 'start system'

the screen goes black and never turns back on. : /

No HDD activity, and can't get numlock to toggle. nothing.

Well, those chips lack multi-media extensions. Linux in general is painful on anything less than a pentium4 for this reason for what 'normal people' use it for.

My pentium 3 has always ran swell using fvwm. Almost sort-of looks like 4dwm.

SAP Certified seems like one of those tongue-in-cheek euphemisms.

I stopped reading at

Before parallelizing a code, a programmer should optimize his code for single CPU execution

I currently have 3 dead ones.

acquired ; thanks @ teamblackfox

dhjj wrote: give us a hint, what kind of graphics do you want?

SI boards, but I'd consider something like vPro, since I have a system that has everything else to make it run.

'dead after 3k writes per cell' has been the standard practically since flash memory has been invented.

i keep reading conflicting information that 'openbsd now supports x on MIPS' as well as 'bsd is text only on octanes'


I wanted to see if using only the unaccelerated framebuffer would give me x11 on a defective card that causes segfaults under irix.

Forrest M. Mims will always be one of my childhood heroes.

guardian452 wrote: framebuffer X works on octane with gentoo linux.

This is a better tip than what I was mentally doing: assuming I'd be stuck with only a kernel.


oh ontology, you misguide me once more.

ivelegacy wrote:
yesterday i was asked for 200 USD for just the front plane + shipping X___X
when i can pick up a whole IP30 (full machine, so front-plane + CPU + power supply + disks + V6 + plastic case + metal case) from ebay at the same price

i was shocked X_____X

Really, where? I almost never see prices like that for anything.

For what you are colloquially referring to as IRIX, is, actually, GNU/IRIX ; or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU + IRIX.

I guess by the time I check it, all of that stuff is gone. I was about to buy a vpro card a while back, but by the time I loaded a prepaid debit card someone bought it within a few hours of it being listed. Same thing with a nice 300 dollar fuel.

When I get a better job, I'll let you guys all have root on my 500 core athlon cluster.

He was at loyola university giving a speech on the four freedoms of software, and bashed linus a bit. Said that the broad ga-noo capabilities that the FSF needed most was hardware reverse-engineering and campaigning against malware such as windows and other drm mechanisms embedded in 'open source'; said he disliked 'open source' people as they were traitors to the ideals of the free software foundation in that they compromised and sold out.

I guess it was somewhat interesting. I kinda wished he gave a lecture on lisp bytecode, but it was sorta-interesting.

discuss: richard stallman

I have had the same problem(s) in the past. I'd recommend getting a bunch of steel-frame banquet tables @ $50 /ea, or possibly some used steel-desks built for the navy. I don't think 200 lbs of computer is going to go over well on ikea furniture.

I'm not sure how you type; perhaps something like this would work: https://www.schooloutfitters.com/catalo ... 202_CAT211

I can fit an octane, and a thinkpad on a 60" generic plastic table comfortably, two octanes if I really stretch the space, but afterwards rather useless for reading / reference material. I've tried finding nice desks for $250-ish, but they really don't exist at that price point. I found them too high for my wrists, and since they don't have keyboard trays, I cut the legs a bit with a conduit pipe cutter. ( will destroy your floor )

Maybe a cheap L-desk and some of these: http://www.officedepot.com/a/browse/woo ... =5+532593/

this is 30" high, so maybe you don't need a keyboard tray thing depending on your height:
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/4 ... aped-Desk/

All my engineering friends keep talking about it, but I don't really get it, so I thought I'd ask you guys that are actually involved with product design and engineering.

It seems like a scam to create something that has some plausible but undeliverable value in order to cheat investors out of their money and line the pockets of CEOs and friends while doing so.

I mean as long as you get paid, why care about actually creating anything, right? It's not like you can get sued for breach of contract by a bunch of crowdfunders...

this thread literally made me sick, thinking of all the unusable gaudy linux distributions.

I've always liked slackware, however, I can never get it to install on flash media ( which was only recently supported ), and all of my dvd drives are dead.

recently, I've been using lubuntu, which is nice if you decorate it properly.

it's kind-of nice not having to manually extract tarballs and compile 20 different dependencies just to get glut to work

all these asian-type recipes i come across want me to add a bunch of corn starch
what does it do, just make things crunchier?

My password with all of my sensitive job information on my email (may) have been compromised by political terrorists, and yet microsoft told me I had to wait 30 days in order to change it........ " for security purposes "

skywriter wrote:

ClassicHasClass wrote: Working on [snip] Linux. [snap]

That's pointless enough right there!

Do you ever get that creeping feeling that dealing with source-code is one of those zen things, like raking a garden of sand, designed to distract a person from the fact that their life is empty and that they are poverty ridden?

I thought the whole point of microsoft stuff was to 'leverage value' for people who can't afford a sysadmin, but still need a web-server, so they pay to have IIS running out-of-box.

I can see this being profitable if they have a whole product lineup of " Microsoft Certified Enterprise Linux " stuff, and expensive course-ware with ' how to get any girl to sleep with you guaranteed ' bootcamps. Let us not forget Microsoft Visual GCC 2016 Pro Edition Team Server Private GitHub iCloud ( on Rails )

that feel when