The collected works of uunix - Page 16

Welcome nato, it has a hard disk yes?

dexter1 wrote: Otherwise i have to find a two color LED and some time to solder it in without my kids interfering and bugging me about "that little blue computer, which makes cool sounds!"

Funny, I have a back room at work that houses 2 company servers and a load of my SGI stuff, and when I reboot things I make a quick exit and close the door so people don't think I'm doing un-related work stuff.. which of course I am!

GL1zdA wrote:

nongrato wrote: Does that Cobalt chip support any version of DirectX? Does anyone have any experience running games that require graphics acceleration?

Took me some time to check and the answer is no - dxdiag screenshot attached.

A year and 2 months.. those things are so slow to boot!

x86 runs loonix very well.

Sorry I meant Loonix.. You may have seen this on slash dot, but some of the comments are interesting.

http://betanews.com/2016/03/07/sql-server-linux/

Looking into the future, can anyone see the end of Windows? I'm not a fan of Windows, but have to use it like many people and even OSX doesn't interest me anymore (since about 10.6-ish). Maybe loonix desktop should get it's act together, is there a better time for it to take over the world?

Years ago, one Christmas time I think, I recall being sat in the pub with the mumps developer who argued with me that mumps was a better database server than MS SQL.. my argument was.. it doesn't matter, MS are bigger and will just win.. simple as.. He ended the argument by calling me a ginger headed fscker! (I class that as a win). History has proved me right, but in all fairness I could have been wrong, MS SQL at that time was version 6 and we used VB, but was mumps a better DB?

The problem I have always seen with Loonix, is like UNIX all those years ago, there cropped up too many flavours, incompatibility issues etc and you invested in one flavour only to find out years later.. you chose wrong! Our mumps ran on HP-UX, Our MS SQL ran on NT4. How many loonix magazine covers had the 'LINUX DESKTOP IS HERE.. BLAH BLAH..'

As you know I'm not a lover of Loonix, and don't really follow what is going on.. so maybe they have cracked?

Not mine located in Chislehurst in London.

1x9GB System Disk, 2x72GB Option Disks all with Caddy's. Skins look very good. Dual SGI Monitors, card Cage etc, does look like a nice machine and obviously works.





Think he is looking for about £400 for the lot. I was tempted, but I just don't have the room. PM me if interested.

I quite like apples new surface book.

So, I have this all in one thing.. no, not a man kini.. it's a Pentium Dual Core 2.2GHx with 4GB Ram and the computer is basically IN the screen like an iMac.. The expansion of this machine is limited.. no raid.. graphics is WYGIWYS.. blah blah..

Anyhow, as much as I do love OS wars, I'm rather going with the Walkers crisps FLAVOURS WAR!!

I am going to install a Linux OS on it and try and convert myself somewhat, please note that the last Linux type OS I used in anger was Slackware in the 90s. After the Microsoft SQL news, I thought I should get on the bandwagon and just see if it could work...

So, outlining what I'd need to do on it..

Email.. Exchange connectivity (will accept IMAP and POP(booo) if some form of OWA not available)
Office app etc productivity etc..
Graphics, maybe Photoshop type, but they have no Photoshop on Linux do they?
Video? Editing like SMOKE? Although, not a must since I have that covered.
A nice IDE for C/C++ ? even C# with that mono thingy.
A nice desktop.

So, what is your favourite Loonix OS (if you have one) and why?

[Additional]
I know this has been done to death, but unlike IRIX stuck in stasis, Linux is an ever changing OS, and yes there are plenty of other sites, but this is really the only forum I go on so I trust your opinions.

dexter1 wrote: And the fun with Linux distro's: U NO LIKE? Nuke it and get something else...

You do rather seem to have gone along the same path as I, but after slackware all I ever did was 'nuke it and get something else'

So, I'm downloading slackware now, and will see how it goes.

Any how... I'm off on my stag doo in 54 mins.. If I don't see you again, I love you all...

vishnu wrote:

uunix wrote: Any how... I'm off on my stag doo in 54 mins.. If I don't see you again, I love you all...

Who's getting married, anyone you know? Uh, it's not you is it? What ever happened to not making the same mistake twice?

It's ok.. I'm not marrying my first wife..

vishnu wrote: For a Linux-based C/C++ IDE you probably want to use Eclipse CDT, link:

https://eclipse.org/cdt/

Yes, I have this on my AIX box.

Boot into the prom and set the date. Don't turn off the power though.

I can see I'm going to have to end up buying this!!

I'm trying to find the wedding suit receipts without my wife to(depending on this outcome)be noticing I'm beginning to sweat!

The guy is looking at packaging abroad, but it's never simple... but in answer to your questions.. yes and no I don't think I've sold anything I've ever bought.. which is why my house seems to shrinking!

Well it arrived, I banged in a SCSI card and it worked.. sweet

The software on the monitor is Cineon ( kodak sfx / restoration )

I have a SCSI scanner in the loft, but have not connected it yet due to lacking the cable and no desk space.. sorry cannot help.. ask me again in a year and I might have got round to doing something with it.

Oskar45 wrote:

dexter1 wrote: Edit: found it, it was a 4D/480.

That's what I was after. I thank you for your help.

PS: in the 1994 match, after 6 games against Chinook - all draws - Tinsley resigned; 7 months later he died of cancer at the age of 68.

Just like War Games... And he didn't die!!

Progress was ..... ZERO.. I downloaded SLACKWARE, ran out of DVDs, made a bootable USB drive and the machine didn't like it.. and my desktop space (the table I use for non static stuff) has become full of another project (which should be replaced today) and a load of Wedding stuff.

vishnu wrote:

uunix wrote: ...made a bootable USB drive and the machine didn't like it...

Huh! That's weird. Did you do it like this:

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/isolinux/README.TXT

Which brings to mind the question, did you download 14.1 or the the release candidate 1 of 14.2 (aka "slackware-current")?

I used isoToUSB on a windows machine to create the 14.1 version. The readme is instructions for creating from a Linux box.

Anyhow, I will re-visit after (my table is cleared || I have new wife).

I'm not sure 6.5.22 is supported on the Indigo.

ivelegacy wrote: the DSO in the above picture is a Yokogawa DL1540C , 4 Ch. @ 200MSa/s Dig, 150 MHz, it looks like a macintosh/SE , ain't it ?

here I have a Rigol cubed-shape DSO, it comes with dual channels @ 100Mhz engine, yesterday I tried the Yokogawa , one of my friends owns it, and … it was machine-love at the first threshold shoot

That really does look like a pumped up mac..

I'm downloading UbuntuBSD, it's in BETA 2 and looks interesting.

vishnu wrote: The header files and whatnot? Didn't that used to be a freely available download so people could use the GNU compilers if they didn't want to pay for a MIPSPro license? Cause I'm pretty sure it was...

Must be, I recall using gcc at the turn of the century on my INDY and I had no MIPS, but did have the IRIX CD's if that what's meant.

I wonder what he will do next?

ivelegacy wrote: my speculative engine has said: he will probably buy a raspberry3

That made me chuckle Iva'

One very similar went for £800-ish last year in the UK.. I was very tempted, but the collection was too far. In fact, even the pics look the same..

My last purchase was a pint of Lager... sorry never took a pic..

Arrived today at work, although I purchased it last week, a 5ft FireWire cable so I can test out Mac (output) - Fuel (input) video.

FFS Iva.. he only said he was selling something!!

And you are located in Stourbridge UK..

leosoft wrote: 1x Display cable 13W3 ( 1.8 meters ) $20

Are you trying to rescue your bankrupt company?

Appreciated

5 Months later and with the assistance of a friend, I have 1 G5 Power Dual 2.3GHz up and running with OSX 10.5.8 and I have to say, it is rather a spiffing machine. It looks nice, and in contrast to the original statement in this thread, it's very quiet. It's also very fast, but it really has just a clean install, so I'm not surprised.

So what will I be doing with it?
My initial idea was to output firewire to my DMedia10 via some application. I tested this on my mac mini, and found the protocol not identified so I'm expecting the same, but that's another story.

Also, after using macs for some considerable time, and updating my mini to always the very latest, I've come to the conclusion, that this (10.5 era) is probably my fondest.

Next step, it's got 3 GB of memory so, I'll dig round and see what I can muster up without spending any money. So far, it's cost me £10 for the two macs, £10 for a power lead and £20 for a pack of dual layered blank DVDs. I've changed the DVD player to a super drive and it has two 230B drives raided in Raid1.

I also have in the loft a ProFormat 1600sw Card and 5 1600sw monitors sitting in the loft. Not sure of any compatibility but hey ho, I'll have a look anyway.

guardian452 wrote: Washing El Car-O
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Why don't you guys have a front number plate?

We have to have them front and back.

I'm curious about distscp and wanted to created a tape install of IRIX 5.3. The version doesn't matter really, I could have gone for 6.1, both support boot from tape.

I have Disk 5.3 in the DVD drive on my Fuel

I have a tape drive in an Octane.

From the Octane


So the first part is the FROM, I'm copying distribution from a remote machine [n] 192.168.1.50
The second part is TO.. to my default tape drive.

I'm receiving:


maybe a faulty disk?
I will try 6.1

foetz wrote: to eliminate unnecessary problem sources i wouldn't use a remote drive

Same result.
Doing this on my Fuel, from CD to LTO (same machine) produced the same result.

vishnu wrote:

japes wrote: I hope the community continues to support the site and it's able to stay vibrant and free of ads.

Blipverts!

Was that from the Max Headroom movie?