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thunng8
Who joined July 29, 2005, 12:35 a.m.
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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-current at Aug. 18, 2006, 8:16 a.m...
squeen wrote:
Not wanting to miss out on the renaissance in nekoware upgrades I put together the following 2-12's

neko_glib-2.12.2
neko_gimp-2.2.12

The glib rebuild fixes my long standing problem with GIMP (ie. I couldn't load any files with a memory error, in fact I couldn't even build GIMP until I replaced glib).
They're in /beta. Please give them a whirl. :)


That's strange, I never got the memory error before.

Just installed glib-2.12.2 and am now get the memory error (cannot load any files). I also get the memory error in foetz's gimp-2.2.12 build with this new glib.

Reverting back to glib-2.8.4 fixed the problems.

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thunng8
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Wrote on the subject of Nekoware-current at Aug. 18, 2006, 5:23 p.m...
squeen wrote:

I was wondering why more folks weren't complaining about the GIMP being broken. I have 2 systems (an Octane and Tezro) runing 6.5.29 that had the same memory error problem. What version of OS are you using? Again, I'm wondering if a serious incompatability exists!?! Oh, also I'm compiling with 7.4.4m. Anyone else with and experience to share?

@joerg: About prereqs: If an app as a prereq of GTK like the GIMP does, I do not feel it is a good idea to add all of GTK's prereq's to the GIMP. That's the way all the original nekoware wer packaged.


I'm running 6.5.29 on my Octane2. Was running 6.5.27. Never had the memory problems before. Only occurred when I installed the new glib. Very weird.

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thunng8
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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at March 14, 2007, 5:13 a.m...
Jarndyce911 wrote:
Well, it is not on the official download page just yet, but we are on the map again:

http://download.blender.org/release/Ble ... ps.tar.bz2

Please let me know if you have any problems. Sorry again for the delay!

I will try and work on a Nekoware version this week!


I'm getting the same error in this version as some other people:

iconv_open Erroriconv_open Erroriconv_open Erroriconv_open

The File Open does not show the filenames ...

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Apple iBook G4, 1.2ghz G4, ATI 9200, 768MB RAM, 80GB.
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thunng8
From Sydney, Australia
Who joined July 29, 2005, 1:35 a.m.
Wrote on the subject of LCD and Octane with EMXI graphics at March 14, 2007, 4:46 p.m...
Spidy wrote: Ne1 had any luck getting an LCD to work with this beast?


When I had an MXE, it worked flawlessly with my 19" Samsung 940N LCD monitor with a 13W3 to HD15 adapter.
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Apple iBook G4, 1.2ghz G4, ATI 9200, 768MB RAM, 80GB.
HP c8000, 1.1Ghz Dual Core PA-8900, ATI FireGL X3, 6GB RAM, 2x73GB
thunng8
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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at March 21, 2007, 2:23 a.m...
Jarndyce911 wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. I will put a post in the Nekoware topic and
see if anyone can compile the latest version of libiconv.


I just tried the neko_libiconv just placed in /beta and I'm still getting the same error :(

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Apple iBook G4, 1.2ghz G4, ATI 9200, 768MB RAM, 80GB.
HP c8000, 1.1Ghz Dual Core PA-8900, ATI FireGL X3, 6GB RAM, 2x73GB
thunng8
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Wrote on the subject of Blender Irix Development at March 21, 2007, 5:38 a.m...
joerg wrote:

Please tell me the IRIX version you use "uname -Ra" It might be possible that SGI have updated the libiconv and youre using a older release.

regards

Joerg


Hi,

I am using 6.5.29

uname -Ra returns

IRIX64 IRIS 6.5 6.5.29f 01090133 IP30

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Apple iBook G4, 1.2ghz G4, ATI 9200, 768MB RAM, 80GB.
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thunng8
From Sydney, Australia
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Wrote on the subject of Wide Screen (16:9, etc) resolution at March 23, 2007, 10:15 p.m...
nekonoko wrote:
recondas wrote:
nekonoko wrote: A V10/V12 Octane would have no trouble connecting to a 24" Dell TFT.


I'm using a Dell 24" LCD with a V8 equipped Octane at 1920x1200 - so a V8 could go on that list as well.


I don't recommend the V6/V8 for TFT due to the timing bug, but they do "work" in a manner of speaking.


The V6/V8 timing bug is mostly related to not being about to run at 1280x1024 at the most common refresh rates for TFTs (you will need to drop down to 8byte framebuffer to run 1280x1024 60hz).

This does not in affect V8s running at 1920x1200. In fact, in some ways V8 would be better than V10 running at 1920x1200 because of the higher framebuffer memory. V10 running at that resolution would have hardly any texture memory left.

Officially supported resolutions:
http://www.sgi.com/products/remarketed/ ... tions.html
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Apple iBook G4, 1.2ghz G4, ATI 9200, 768MB RAM, 80GB.
HP c8000, 1.1Ghz Dual Core PA-8900, ATI FireGL X3, 6GB RAM, 2x73GB
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Wrote on the subject of Bought an Intellistation POWER 275 at April 23, 2010, 4:33 a.m...
R-ten-K wrote:
Was there a power4+ with a single core?

IBM's terminology has been all over the place regarding multicore systems. In its current iteration, IBM parlance seems to refer to n-way as the number of processors, not cores. Processor now seems to imply "physical" chip.

A friend was offered a pSeries for a song, but he ended up having a hard time telling from the description if the n-way referred to the number of physical power5 chips, or the cores.


There shouldn't be any confusion. n-way has always referred to how many cores are active in the system. So a 1-way POWER 275 here has only 1 core active. a 4 way system has 4 cores active (2 x 2 core chips).

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thunng8
From Sydney, Australia
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Wrote on the subject of What IBM hardware do we have..? at Aug. 18, 2011, 8:06 p.m...
ilukeberry wrote: I have to disagree with you... There is a lot of opensource software being compiled and packaged in .rpms for AIX.. and it's fairly up2date http://www.perzl.org/aix/
Also my 9111-285 is build like a tank and it works very well.. currently the fastest RISC box i own.


Looking to getting back into UNIX workstations and the 285 caught my eye .. and maybe learn AIX as well :) PCs and Macs are so boring ...

Its down to trying to get a HP c8000 or a IBM 9111-285. How does HP-UX and AIX compare?

Also, how fast the 285 for general use .. eg. using Firefox 3.5/3.6? If you don't mind, trying running this javascript benchmark on your machine:

http://www.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0. ... river.html

Thanks!
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Apple iBook G4, 1.2ghz G4, ATI 9200, 768MB RAM, 80GB.
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thunng8
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Wrote on the subject of HP C8000, PA-8800 1GHz, 4GB, FireGL X1 at Aug. 24, 2011, 11:21 p.m...
I'm the proud owner of a used, but great condition HP c8000.

Specs:
- Dual Core 1.1Ghz PA-8900
- 6GB RAM
- 2x73GB 10k SCSI HDD
- FireGL X3 256mb graphics card
- DVD-Writer

a few Q:
- it doesn't seem to have an audio card, do I need to buy one? Will only the official HP one work or are there cheaper alternatives?
- it didn't came with a pedestal stand, but already seems stable without one. I'm guessing I won't need to buy one. Is that correct?

Will try to load the operating system this weekend :)

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Apple MacBookPro, 2.66Ghz Dual Core i7, Nvidia 330M GT, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD + 750GB (optibay)
AMD Phenom II X4 3.4Ghz, Nvidia 9800GT, 8Gb RAM, 2TB + 1.5TB
Apple iBook G4, 1.2ghz G4, ATI 9200, 768MB RAM, 80GB.
HP c8000, 1.1Ghz Dual Core PA-8900, ATI FireGL X3, 6GB RAM, 2x73GB
thunng8
From Sydney, Australia
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Wrote on the subject of What IBM hardware do we have..? at Aug. 25, 2011, 12:24 a.m...
SAQ wrote:
Given the choice of the two I'd go AIX, no questions. HP-UX is pretty plain SysV+Veritas, while AIX still has some neat tricks in it that other systems don't necessarily add (going off of what I've skimmed, as my systems are all old MCA-based so I've not played with 5.3, 6.1 or 7). If you know of a specific reason for you to go HP-UX that may swing things, but otherwise it's not too interesting.

It also doesn't hurt that POWERs are still being produced whereas PA-RISC has been on the dump pile for a few years. If you do go HP-UX I'd recommend looking for a Itanium so you're at least at the current version on current hardware. On the additional bump note there you can try out OpenVMS as well, and get the feel for another OS with some very innovative/well implemented features that may sadly be dying.


I ended up getting a c8000. I wanted a IBM 285, but none were listed in Australia and shipping from overseas would've costed a fortune. I'll definitely keep an eye out for a 285 and maybe also get back in SGI as well :)
My Systems:
Apple MacBookPro, 2.66Ghz Dual Core i7, Nvidia 330M GT, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD + 750GB (optibay)
AMD Phenom II X4 3.4Ghz, Nvidia 9800GT, 8Gb RAM, 2TB + 1.5TB
Apple iBook G4, 1.2ghz G4, ATI 9200, 768MB RAM, 80GB.
HP c8000, 1.1Ghz Dual Core PA-8900, ATI FireGL X3, 6GB RAM, 2x73GB