The collected works of techgrrl

<--- was in Japan 1986 - 1990, Misawa Air Base. I was a military dependent, though far from 'dependent'.

I sold PC/XT/AT clones purchased directly from Tai Wei Electronics out of Tai Pei Taiwan - mostly 'Beltron' equipment. Fun days.

I held a contract to support all Zenith Z100, Z248 systems on base - a good tax free way to make good money and keep myself busy.

My favorite thing to do was to drive off base and get yakitori from the mom and pop shops, canned Japanese coffee from the vending machines and hit the beach a short drive away from Misawa and have my moments of Zen as it were.

During my time there I had a ton of clone PC systems and had my stint with Amiga computers - A1000, A500 - and also ran BBSes from 1984 until about 1994 - I also got my first copy of SCO Xenix in 1987 - the rest as they say is history.

I also owned a 1977 Nissan Skyline at the time - I was, and still am, such a GEEK!

I had a great time in Japan, my ex prolly has a different view - he rarely saw me just the way I liked it! LOL!

Cheers,
Karyn

So anyway I do have a strong affinity for anime, but it isn't necessarily a direct connection to my computer obsessions. This is likely to be more common for a particular age bracket, but I was more intensely influenced by TRON than by anything out of anime with respect to computers and technology.

TRON - truly the movie that got me ADDICTED to computers(ing)! Just watched it today! Can't wait for the new one - just watched the trailer and it looks FANTASTIC ! Can you say readdiction ?

I found a company online that sells the side art to the TRON arcade games - I am SO tempted to buy a set and decorate the O2k!

Anonymous Freak wrote: Hell, I had dreams about Tron when it came out. The new one has made me (to use a quote from a different movie,) giddy as a schoolgirl. Which is funny, since I'm not a girl.

Hi all -

I have the later motherboard and am looking to populate it with 8GB. Can anyone point me towards a source?

Cheers,
Karyn

thegoldbug wrote: I happen to have an under-utilized Octane 2 with Dual 600Mhz cpus and 7 Gb of ram.

I'm doing a little computer downsizing so make me a huge offer on those 6-1Gb sticks and they can be yours.

I'm also willing to take serious offers on the Dual 600's.

All the great stuff is coming up when I can't afford it - right now I have dual 400's, seems to be okay, but knowing me, yes, I would like to eventually upgrade this beast - what would you want for the 600s?

Cheers,
Karyn

Okay - have a great Octane2, website up and running - thought I'd try my hand at https (fail), then wanted to try PHP, i.e. index.php and am having a bugger of a time - so far it's a fail and am hoping I'm missing something simple?

Anyone have experience just setting this up and working out of the box as it were?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,
Karyn

Well for https I just edited .htaccess for the rewrite rule, and then went further down the rabbit hole on the net to no avail - as far as php it also seemed simple but think I'm out of my depth - everyone on the web shows a few line solution that has not worked for me - may stick to plain http.
Perhaps if I could see / use a working httpd.conf and php.ini I could extrapolate what I'm missing.

My Octane2 is my baby - glad to have it up and running 24/7 - first time in years it's seen use

Jpstewart - good outline, and I thank you - what package contains libphp5.so? Could not find it on my system.

Cheers,
Karyn

Also in some threads I've been reading they say to install 'neko_php5.sw.sapi_apache2' but when I bring up the software manager for the package it doesn't show a check box next to it as 'installable' - it has 'cgi' instead.

nekonoko - I'm not seeing libphp5.so anywhere - am I missing something?

Cheers ...

Oh goodness me what a huge muck mire of dependencies - stuck at perl-common because I can't find the tardist.

foetz wrote:

• php_5530.tar.bz2
• php_5530_apache24.tar.bz2
• php_5530_ext.tar.bz2
• apache_2417.tar.bz2

this is a special set for techgrrl but also for anyone else interested in using their sgi as a webserver of course.
the first php has no special sapi and can be used as fcgi with any webserver supporting it or of course for just running php scripts otherwise.
the second one contains as the name suggests the sapi for apache 2.4.x. copy the module from its dir to the other apache modules and edit the config accordingly.
the third php package contains the modules. i built php without much additional stuff to keep it flexible so in most cases you wanna grab the modules as well and use whatever you like. there's quite a bunch of them inside.
apache is, well, just the latest of the 2.4 branch. built with all modules so you can pick whatever you favor

This is awesome, and I didn't even know there were other download directories there - is this mirrored anywhere?

Cheers my friend!