The collected works of uunix - Page 11

I swear legacy, you are on more drugs than the Rolling Stones ever were!

vishnu wrote:

ivelegacy wrote: understood

the attic has

• no plants
• no cats
• no dogs
• no human beings

so, no bunnies dust exist there

logical consequence: put all your machines in the attic

Okay, post a picture of this magical attic containing your IP30 or I say it doesn't exist!

And make sure Lady GaGa is there as well.

Nyebodnye wrote: Maybe there are less hobbyists seeing as this tech is 20 years old.
I don't really see any way to get anyone who wasn't part of the wonder of SGI into SGI anymore.
Dwindling market.

Over the years I've invested tonnes into my love for all sgi stuff, but I'd probably not have bothered with the last few years had I not had the biggest win of my SGI life for £40. To which, I then spent something like approx. £800 to make the system complete-ish. Even this week I've spent £180 on a couple of things, just for this machine alone.. not only does it eat physical money from my pay pal.. but also my electricity.. but it also keeps me warm in these winter evenings. I come home at night, sit in my super lab, flick 50 switches and I'm surrounded by 1990.. and then I say at the end of the night, "I'll be up in a minute", I then type the shutdown command a zillion times and 20 minutes later I'm in bed.
It's an expensive hobby at times, but then so is restoring cars or ham radio and I can't complain, each night I turn my children on and fuck around with something so pointless yet so amazingly expensive and probably stuff you could get on a PI but I may one day become good at it.

Sometimes I also turn them on and they miss-behave.. on those night I generally whinge to you guys and relegate them to the loft!

But you're right, I tell the youngsters at work what I did the night before and they look at me behind their WOW mask with glazed eyes as if I'm mad.. Why would anyone start using SGI gear unless the only films they owned were Jurassic park & Disclosure.

If we didn't have SGI.. then we'd be all be on another forum I suppose.. but maybe it would be cheaper.

It's 20 past 2 in the morning here.. I can't sleep because I want to get in the loft.. DAMN YOU Vishnu!!

My Dad dated her in 60 something...

Speed isn't everything.. a Commodore 64 could crush the fsck out a PIE !

vishnu wrote: ^^^Not to be too shallow or anything but Russian women are just so spankin' hot...

Okay, that was pretty shallow.

ermmm

This sounds like a similar problem I had with an Octane 2 that was console only and set up as a server.
http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16729495
My solution required copying some x files from another machine. But, it was never that good, so I re-installed.

Hope it helps.

Received this email on Sunday night? Anyone else get one?

Clicked on the link from a VM it says This site is undergoing maintenance.

https://support1-sgi.custhelp.com/app/a ... word/cred/ [################################]

I haven't re-registered or anything, but do have membership from many many moons ago.

You need to stroke and caress your SGI every day otherwise they feel un-loved.

We are all being targeted by the SUN/DEC/[fill in gap] forums people.. It's war I tell you!

vishnu wrote: Classic Unix mount problem. BTW the mount authors are still looking for the "n" that's missing from the umount command, anyone stumbling across it should send it to them at once...

Discreete uses sw_unmount I kept typing sw_umount for some time wondering why the piggin ell it wouldn't work!

New email from SGI announcing new portal has just arrived.

So, telneted FROM AIX machine to my o2 running 6.5
exported DISPLAY to aix machine
Ran toolchest ok,
Ran ICON CATALOG ok
Ran Media Recorder & VIDEOIN & received:


Can I do anything about this?

vishnu wrote: The GLwMDrawingArea widget is open source, so you can compile that yourself, you should be able to get the GLX extension from IBM, in fact I'm a bit shocked it's not already in there, what version of AIX is it?

7 and to be honest Vishnu, it's a pretty shite install. It's like some half assed attempt at loonix, I've half a mind to put AIX 5 on it (if I could find the disk in the loft that is).

Zilch, nothing, string.Empty..

Most successful OS's have had a killer app.
An app that made people buy a certain machine.

It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on what you think THE killer app was for a platform.

This may be generic and not just IBM AIX specific, but I'm implementing on AIX 7.

Been reading up today, and setup sendmail on my power5 system and all went well, can collect, send etc no problem but..

I wanted to direct any email sent to my domain that is incorrect to be passed to single mailbox.

So, the answer my friends, is virtusertabl & virtusertable.db which I have set up thus:



I have created the has db using but, I am missing something.

sendmail has been restarted, also sendmail -bi (which I think reads the alias files, not sure.

sendmail.mc


Now, are you meant to to create the sendmail.cf from the sendmail.mc like

Been a long time since I messed with sendmail and I don't ever recall configuring it that much.

I suppose, the question is, how does sendmail.cf use sendmail.mc ?

oh and does this conflict with aliases?

Yes I know I'm mad and there are other MTA's available, but as Magnus Magnusson used to say 'I've started so I'll finish'...

Can't do anything today since I can't connect, looks like my attempts at creating a NIS master last night failed miserably, or rather, I should have a new guide-line of 'Don't go to bed until you have finished what you are doing'.

Anyway, going back to the m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf,
IF I have just a few lines in my mc files, will it integrate into the complete cf file or will it over-write the cf and leave the cf in the same state as the as the original mc file (a few lines)?

OK so I have my IBM back up and running, I had in fact messed up NIS, but not sure how. I found an interesting titbit that may be useful for AIX users setting up NIS that reverts back to local if your domain cannot be found or you just fsck it up.

add the following to /etc/environment
YPBIND_MAXWAIT=300

When nis is not availeble after 5 minutes the system will start and will use local access.

And another note, although I mentioned that the KVM works with USB on my 285 but the focus MUST be on the IBM at power on, selecting a different prom/boot option doesn't work and you have connect a USB keyboard directly if you need to boot single user (or use any of the other options).

Now I'm back up and running I will be re-addressing the evils of Sendmail whilst I attempt to acknowledge and admit the fact I'm actually watching Dr Who because of his good looking assistant and not the actual show!

What we may have to do here is boot single user and setmon to the required resolution.

It should ask if you want it as the startup default.

Welcome BTW, looks like you have a nice setup there.

If you type 'hinv' does it show the 1600sw display adapter ?

Also, I'm not sure if the drivers are separate or not.

Do you know if this machine was using the 1600sw before you received it? Have you ever seen it working together?

No idea about your problem, but it's looks fun and cool.

I'd like to sit in my study and control the lights whilst my partner watches TV.. HA!! She'd wet herself!!

I think Karma has just got me for that evil thought, I've just rubbed chili in my eye from my tea!! FSCK!!!

hinv should display:

I thought that was the whole idea of the British Empire.. to bring back curries?

Were you thinking I had Chili in my cup of tea? Gosh! Now that would be crazy!

IRIX is dead... Long live the CHAN!!!

Maybe they are working on a new version? Backwards compatible..

Have you pulled the drive and powered on?

Excellent that brings back memories, and good show Baphijmm for spotting my incorrect assumption it the PCi version.

Baphijmm wrote: What you're looking for isn't SunPCI, but rather SunPC;

vishnu wrote:

Vladio wrote: I'm actually watching Dr Who because of his good looking assistant...

Dude, the Doctor has companions not assistants. It's hamei who has an "assistant"...

Not according to John Pertwee .. maybe hamei is Dr Who..........

I ran out the NAAFI naked and did a lap of the camp (about a mile) in Bosnia during the winter of 95 (well 90 something). Actually I still had my trainers on, otherwise it would have breached Health and Safety!

I'm sure Robespierre also at some point said welcome in that barrage

Anyway, welcome BTW, BUT.. have you seen the MAXX project?

C'Mon folks I need your help, thoughts & Love.. we are at the bottom..

Oskar45 wrote: Sad. But in comparison, Chelsea is in a much worse shape...

I'm suspecting you logic here.. Trippynet & myself have9 months of misery ahead..

So, I write in C# every day at work, but thought to myself a few weeks back I'd try and get back to C/C++ that I studied back around the late 1990s (but never used).
I followed a few examples and got carried away on one on factorials, which I turned into a lotto draw program to try and predict the most common numbers drawn and in actual fact, by the time I'd finished, the factorials part had gone lol. I doubt it will ever produce the correct numbers but it was a fun exercise.

This program works fine when compiled and run with Visual Studio 2013 on Windows Intel but I wanted it to compile and run on IBM AIX xlC 13.0. Programming in Windows is pretty easy in that all I worry about is the .net version I'm building in and the relevant references.

In the program I reference stoi which I know is a C++11 standard and by rights the version of xlC should support, if I compile with the correct arguments. Alas it doesn't or more probable, I'm doing something wrong.

I'm trying xlC -qlanglvl=extended0x \lotto.cpp
It returns "lotto.cpp", line 47.15: 1540-0130 (S) "std::stoi" is not declared.

Ideas? and thanks for your time in what is probably a simple thing to many of you.

I have a Classic (Lunchbox) & IPC... both in the loft but both fire up.

I have a power5 285 and very nice it is too.

Thanks for listening.

FFS.. I was getting one of those cheapo Power G5 macs (I got for a tenner UKP) installed at work with no joy (possibly wrong install disk who knows) and it was like a mouse, I get it home, burn an Ubuntu or rather lunbuntu disk and boot up.. FFS IT'S FSCKING LOUDER THAN MY FSCKING LOUD OCTANE!!!!!!

To be honest dude, I just want to know it works, then I'll install osx 10.4 server (Once I get in the loft and dig it out). And as I type this, I have desktop appear.. woo hoo. After 30 mins! There's only One Linus in my house and that's my firewall!