The collected works of sybrfreq - Page 3

he waited four months before bumping, how long was he supposed to wait... years? decades?

I got it one piece at a time
and it didn't cost me a dime
you'll know it's me when I come to your town
I'm gonna ride around around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'cause I'll have the only one there is around

bri3d is right. When you want to ban something, who's right is it to bring the banhammers? The government? What a fantastic fuckup that turned out to be.

The american government is too broke to afford a street vendor's hotdog, yet they feel they have the right to bust into peoples homes and do whatever the hell they want for pretty much any reason whatsoever. That's Freedom, with a capitol F.

Well that's 21 arrests right there. So there must be some kind of law on the books already, this new one is likely too expensive or there is some section that is unfavorable to the public. I'm not surprised at all by the Japanese decision.

Recondas covered the how but the why is that when you select "install system tools", one of the first steps is the installation needs to copy several things to disk. And if the disk isn't set up properly beforehand it can't copy things over.


FX is not hard... r,ro,yes,yes,..,l,sy,/exit
takes 30 seconds.

ahem:

no the server drive took a dump, it was just a picture of some carrying cases.

maybe you should try the heat gun and tinfoil approach? That's worked great for me on several of those ill-designed radeon thinkpads.

(sorry about the picture, it was dark in here and I was too lazy to clean up the clutter) The resemblance is uncanny, no?

There's a good story behind this one to make up for the lack of silicon graphics. Back when I was in grade school we played guts in gym class. all the time. also dodgeball. (are kids still allowed to chuck hard rubber balls at each other or was that banned along with peanut butter and sugar pop?) The aggrocrag involved climbing a rope to the gym ceiling, a good 30-35 feet up, and honking this horn thing when you got to the top. I was damn quick going up, but scared to death of coming back down. Also, incredibly loud disco music such as village people, ohio players, earth wind fire, etc, was played.

So in a sense, you could say I climbed the aggrocrag. Too bad we never had any glowing pieces of awesomeness to take home. This makes up for it. Inside is dual opteron 290s, 16gb of ram, radeon x1900xtx, and a bunch of good stuff stuffed in the expansion slots (hp-ib, FC, sound board that works with the internal speaker and front headphone jack).

If you're not in your twenties, not from north america, or otherwise have no idea what I am talking about, try here: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag.html


lol that's awesome.

We got the rubber 4-square-balls-but-smaller that made fantastic POING! sounds when you nailed somebody. Stung like hell. No injuries, just a little extra incentive to not get hit, much better than the rhinoballs. They came later in high school, and were harder to throw because they were so light (unless you squeezed all the air out first)

is that one of those "dumb" players that requires you to drag and drop your music via explorer or some other file manager? No thanks. I don't like the ipod style of micro-managing every little aspect of your music but a little hand holding is nice. And the podcast updating via wifi is nice.

There's also the jedi prototype: http://www.nekochan.net/gallery2/v/SGI_ ... 3.jpg.html

I believe there was a 7 of 9 system to go with it (or was the jedi the system and 7 of 9 the monitor?)

u/v blockers, you know, sunglasses. The sun gives off much more UV than any bulb could ever dream of. Put on your spectacles and you will be fine.

It's called a frontplane because it's in the front of the system ;P And the host ID is in that canister looking thing (called a "number in a can") on the frontplane. It is easy to exchange if need be.

Maybe they did it on purpose: back in the day, it was a neat animation of the machine being built while the image was loaded.

He said he was using it on an IBM PC. An Irix machine would load the pdf file too quickly to notice. But you could point a video camera at the screen...

Mine is actually the stock color scheme, but with this wallpaper: http://homepages.uc.edu/~wintermj/images/kitty.jpg

This is on my slow O2 with 1600sw. Trying to beat the heat Colors are a little bland, but it is nice and functional. On the octane I have set up a nice deep blue scheme but it has been in storage for a few months and probably won't come out until the end of summer (or I need to make a recording of something)...

works the same for bing (for those of us who don't want to be completely G-zombified) and probably most other search engines as well.

With bing, you can also type (for example) "nekochan NOT site:nekochan.net"

get a bluetooth to serial adapter. I assume the thing has bluetooth, right? Not sure how open the OS is (maybe bri3d can say how accessible the BT is) but a console shouldn't be too hard to build... it could exist already.

I got a pair of Arduino BT's for a project and considered repurposing them to do this until I realized they already make rs232 to bluetooth adapters.

like that? Or do you mean have the colors change automagic-like?

It's one thing to buy a knockoff purse or eyeglasses or something like that, but don't the people of china realize that this thing won't work nearly as well as a real iPad?

I thought that was precisely the appeal of the iPad: the itunes/apple OS and the fact that everything worked properly. Plus, if you can't see the screen in the product photo, how do you think it will look in the "real world" with that giant ball of fire in the sky?

Now wait a minute here. I have a Dayton Audio (local company) APA-150 amplifier that was proudly manufactured in China. With the exception of a linear-taper volume pot (which they replaced, no questions asked, and immediately admitted that it was a design defect) it is a damn fine machine. Monsterous transformer and other power handling components, fan that only comes on when needed, solidly machined aluminum chassis and cover.

I will agree that the number of quality products anywhere (especially from China) are few and far between. But it isn't all crap. That machine taught me to never dismiss any product because of it's country of origin.

That $200 box would cost over a grand if it was made in canada or the US, so the salesman said. Too much for a poor college student like me. It's playing "serpentine fire" right now through speakers I built myself using components from a company manufactured in quebec. My car (chevy MC) was built in oshawa, parents used to have a TA built in montreal. Only the canadians would build a car that you could pop a wheelie with

It sounds like you were either in kalifornia or NY state... no $150 short pants here last time I looked, and the only time I've been charged $10+ for a crap fast food meal was somewhere along the I90 in between buffalo and syracuse. With places like moes, guidos, potbellys, 5 guys, etc, around, nobody eats at mickeys or the king anymore. they've closed 3 or 4 of them and turned into oil change places and the like here)

If you are so disgusted with outsourcing of manufacturing and other operations to china, I must wonder what it is, exactly, that are you doing there? I used to work in a manufacturing place in canada, most of the tractor accessories were shipped to germany, some to the US. A real old-school guy ran the place, you would love it.

What's really ironic about this thread is that the real Apple Ipad is also built in China.

If I ever needed/wanted a smartphone, I would get that one. But I don't. Nokia 6010 FTW!

It ISN'T about the benchmarks, unless you are going to be spending a lot of your time waiting for processing tasks: a tezro (for that matter, most any irix machine) will be much more responsive and reliable than any wuss-o-rama new age mac machine could ever dream of.

Yes, between $1k and $5k seems like a reasonable price range. Keep looking

I use office 07, not a big word user though (I've ranted on elsewhere about the virtues of mathematica). I use excel and outlook quite a lot and sometimes powerpoint. Change the color schemes to black and it will look fine. The UI is very different but I'm not sure if it is better or worse...

If I had my choice of word processor programme , I would choose none and just sit by the pool with babes. You're not supposed to like a word processor unless you're an author.

FWIW 06 was my freshman year so I have dyed-blue hair in my school ID (was my uncle's idea) I guess that's not too bad, because I have a shaved head in my driver's license photo...

interested to hear from ryan fox...

the photos were taken the end of june (so it was just dyed and it looks like it would glow in the dark) Funny thing is, the picture comes up on class rosters so people still bring it up.

I don't have an Indigo2 anymore but IIRC there are ports next to the serial ports, same size though, that are not RS232. wouldn't want to get those mixed up... I would bet that the serial is glued onto an ASIC somewhere but there might be a replaceable fuse somewhere that could need replacing. If nothing else a new mainboard is not the end of the world (though replacing one on an I2 is quite a chore)

Not familiar at all with the qube but maybe you made a similar mistake and plugged into a port that is not RS232. You also have no idea what is going on in the cube... maybe you just put 120V AC through your indigo2? Always better to try on a PC with questionable equipment first just for oopsies like this.

Probably, something in the qube was toast before this ordeal started, maybe even boobie trapped?

I didn't realize 07 was that different from 03. Outlook works the same, word works the same (you type stuff in and it gets printed out) excel is the same (you type numbers in boxes and add the boxes together) powerpoint works the same. Yes, they moved around all the buttons on the top. They probably spent a million bucks per button figuring out where they should be moved to. Is there something I'm missing? are you upset that the gray background is now shiny black (or blue or red or whatever colors you can set it to?)

I have 07 and 03, and 07 can read the files from 03 and 03 can read the files from 07. Sure, 07 bitches a little bit when you save in the old format and 03 takes an extra half second to open the new format. The price of progress

You guys are all, change is bad! change is bad! MS has to stay in business somehow, and coming up with new stuff is how they do it...

spreadsheets and word processors still do the same thing since the 80s. There are groundbreaking changes, they don't go into the bread and butter word, but rather into other programs. Lots of innovation in plain old text editors, for example, that wouldn't make sense in a word processor. CAS systems have innovations that wouldn't make sense in a spreadsheet, though there are always new functions etc.

There's not too many ways that you can jazz up a word processor before the program fits into a different genre...

Anything worth seeing? Anybody going/gone already?

I have one of those, awesomely loud (especially considering it is just a piece of plastic), the little kids love it.

Holy tail fins, Batman!

freudian slip?

I've done that but with two chevys and a ford. Welcome to Ohio!

who knows, you just might fry the card which then deep-fries the rest of the system. Better to solder a temporary lead to the underside of the board with the PCI-X socket on, or somewhere else where the -12V comes out. And that's only if you really want to know- but it would rule out the possibility of faulty monitoring.

yah, apparently, quite the accomplishment. IMO we got lucky with that penalty shot; I listen on the radio (only broadcast TV here...) so that opinion may be meaningless.

A friend of mine has cable and a big TV so... big parties often over there! Sunday morning was a little early for her though. I don't have a computer at work, and my wheezing internet at home can barely keep up with youtube (which is fine as I am only on maybe 2 or 3 hours a week). I have a soldering station, some hand tools, and an 8 year old xm2go and in ears. My other job is entertainment so obviously I can't watch or listen to the radio there.

Oh btw I just watched that gaff from the US slovenia game. I was assuming it was offsides, that's what the announcers were assuming at the time... in my rinky-dink indoor league at least we have a damn clock with a buzzer. The refs don't suck (else they'll get beaten to a bloody pulp in the parking lot). So what if the grass is fake and nobody is watching? Do these fifa people have no sense of... anything?

Even the pee-wee games with 5 year old players don't have this kind of idiocy. I don't get it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 01922.html
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/s ... xid=cnnbin

There are always bad calls but it seems like this year there are a LOT of REALLY bad calls. I think seeing kaka getting walked into was the tipping point for me...

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Handegg
(may be a bit NSFW if you are not familiar with ED's "style"; at least get a chuckle out of the title image.)

hey D maybe hold out for a 10k? Then you could have the complimentary pair!

lol, is that an e-stop on top of the cray or just a hood ornament?

Also, do I see dials (of "dials and buttons" fame) in the picture with the ICL machines?