The collected works of tingo - Page 2

SOM seems interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Object_Model

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Have you troed another network cable?

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FWIW, DINA will work with VirtualBox also (but the initial setup is less .. automatic).
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smj wrote:
General note: tingo has reported success using DINA under VirtualBox . I wonder what the changes were besides network interface name...

Hmm, I can't remember now, and it doesn't look like I wrote abything about it in my worklog.
I think it was just changing settings in VirtualBox for the (virtual) hardware until the virtual machine worked.

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@zafunk: well, did you correct those errors?
Hint: it's a wiki, anyone can edit it. It is made for users, by users.
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Thanks for the pictures - I enjoyed them.

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I wear a eZ430-Chronos for it's geek value. When I must, I keep myself informed about time by any means available. I prefer the times when I can ignore it.
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How hard is it to fix these machines? Are the easily repairable, or more like "only the bravest fools will try to test their stamina on such a task"?
There is a ACE-HD available: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... SS:US:1123
but the seller describes it as "junk".

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As you can tell, I haven no experience buying stuff from Japan. :-)
Thanks for all the information, much appreciated.

I could wait the three months for transport, but there is always the risk things get damaged. Doesn't that risk increase if transport takes longer time?

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I guess you're right; either you are "lucky" with your shipment, or unlucky. Most of the time it works out. :-)

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How about a chocolate printer?
Would it do: http://www.chocedge.com/ ?

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So now we are waiting for the third incident? :-)
(Hopefully not).
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Wow, that is a great-looking bike!
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ajw99uk wrote: Are there separate chkconfig settings for each account?

I don't think so. If you read again what he wrote: "...get root privileges..."
to me, that implies that chkconfig is only used by the root user.
I might be wrong, I'm only a newbie when it comes to IRIX.
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frankblues wrote: I should be clearer. I think Tim Berners Lee and a NeXT box (rumored to be the one he wrote the WWW browser on) at the Olympics is inherently cool.

Yes, I was pleasantly surprised to see that part. I also hoped that the NeXT machine was working; happy to learn that this was the case. :-)

frankblues wrote: That the American commentators didn't know who he was is pretty lousy.

Unfortunately, not a suprise for me. In my part of the woods, we are pretty used to clueless Americans on TV. :-/
(For the record, I know a few Americans; and all of them are good, intelligent people, they are knowledgeable about the world they live in, and friendly too. I guess the "only clueless Americans in media" is just a numbers thing.)
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If you run fsck a second time, does it report that filesystem is ok?
(in other words fsck (fixes errors)... fsck (no errors reported)

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Installed it on another SDcard and played with it briefly. It has a web browser (which lacks Javascript), first time boot opens a "welcome to RISC OS" file in the browser which is helpful.
Enabling networking was easy. Browsing worked, but lack of Javascript was painful on many sites. I managed to crash the Task Manager, tried to Google how to restart it, but didn't find out. Didn't have much more time to play with it.

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bluecode wrote:
kev009 wrote: Hardware member, though I do wish I kept the P/390 to throw in an RS/6000.


Curioser and curiouser...what did you mean by this? Can you put an RS/6000 board in a P/390? And what can you do with it?

I believe it is the other way around; you put the 390 board into an RS/6000. :mrgreen:
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My guess: dead / not working hard drive.
Perhaps the serial port on these can be used as a serial console?
More info here:
install Linux on a 860: http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~ayanic01/rs6k/
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The only Android phone I have is a HTC HD2 (Got it for free from my brother. Yes, I know, it came with WM6.5. I installed a CyanogenMod "port" on it). Initially, I installed CM7 on it, recently I upgraded to CM10. It works ok, but battery life isn't much.

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Offer on / offer two - doesn't matter. Statement: I will get some SGI boxes.

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Neat! I always wanted a real unix laptop / portable, but there aren't many of them available now, and they usually goes for a price well out of my range.

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ian_finder wrote:
ClassicHasClass wrote:
Hey, that's pretty hot. The closest thing I have in my collection to a SPARCBook is my "luggable" Solbourne S3000 with that feel-the-heat orange monochrome gas plasma display. Even has the case!


Dude that solbourne is the SHIT!
A retina-searing classic.

And that prompted me to search for some pictures, like these: http://www.sonic.net/~coad/s3000/index.html
Yes, that is one classy computer!
Droool....

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sgifanatic wrote:
... it's simply the most convenient, self-contained way to do things... ZFS taking care of things is a blessing in many ways. Soft raid, SSD-aware placement, built-in snapshotting, integrity, performance, relatively simple management etc. are all good ... There's also the added benefit that ZFS implementations are available for ... FreeBSD ...

This.
I have used FreeBSD since the 3.x days, and a while after ZFS came to FreeBSD, I had to try it out. I found out it was quite easy to learn, and relatively maintenance-free.
Now I use it for all my storage needs (fileservers, NAS boxes (using FreeNAS) and so on). It hasn't let me down yet (knock on wood).

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duck wrote:
Wasn't there a list of capable monitors somewhere? Ah.. http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/Monitors

Hmm, no BenQ monitors on that list. Yet my two BenQ monitors claim to support SOG ("Composite SYNC on green" as the specifications state). I have requested an account and will update the list if my reqest gets approved. :-)

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First things first: check if the guest account is active, and allows you access.

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kubatyszko wrote:
I have E2200HD , VFO here: http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16725900&p=7344708#p7344708

Works via DVI on Fuel, and DSUB on Octane,O2 and Indy.

Perhaps you should add it to the list on the wiki then?

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Yes, I'm sad to see that they are abandoning their own browser engine.
I hope they can still compete, but I fear for their future.

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GL1zdA wrote:
I don't think the rendering engine was their main advantage. I'm not using Opera, but all the people I know, who use it, praise especially its UI and "completeness" (no need for plug-ins).

I didn't say that the rendering engine was their main advantage either. :-)
As others have written about later in the thread, it means that there will be one less rendering engine to test against.
Variety is good!

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I think you are too late - there must be many before you in the lawsuit queue already. :-)

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Here is another one on eBay link .
To expensive for me with shipping and all, but maybe someone else wants it.

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And one more: link , this one is in the US.

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Did they ever make a T-1000 or T-2000 machine in a normal (workstation) cabinet?
I don't need (or want) any server-grade fan noise here...

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My current CP/M machine is a DracBlade: http://smarthome.jigsy.com/propeller and here http://smarthome.jigsy.com/build
(my DracBlade page http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/dracblade_v10 ) Someone else's build pictures: http://www.nathandumont.com/node/261

My future CP/M machine is a P112: http://frotz.homeunix.org/p112/

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I didn't get the Postfix joke?

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duck wrote:
In seriousness though, postfix has been awesome to configure and use, even for my obscure, small-scale scenario. I love it.

Yes, that must be why I didn't get the joke, Postfix is so easy to set up, and it just works.

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The SunPCi II pro is interesting.
Will it work in any machine with a PCI slot (support software excluded, of course), or does it have be a machine running Solaris 7,8, 9 or 10?

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vishnu wrote:
I'm afraid the Linux desktop is pretty much owned by Gnome and KDE... :cry:


But not mine (luckily). I prefer Xfce, use it on both Linux and FreeBSD.

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When I read the headline, I hoped for a SGI laptop. :-/

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