The collected works of uunix - Page 17

uunix wrote: 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.

Well that went to pot, it appears I may have drunk too much last night since I put a few 'Make Offer's in on ebay..

Final Cut Keyboard
Final Cut Studio (Final Cut 6)
AJA KONA LHe & Break out box...

So much for looking for free memory!!!

Nice..

ClassicHasClass wrote: Dude. Power Macs and alcohol DO NOT MIX.

Indeed!!

But it has arrived (the AJA KONA card with breakout box).. albeit.. chucked over my garden fence

Downloaded drives/software and read the readme before hand.. and I swear it said 9.x was PPC compatible.. it wasn't and now I can't install 8.1 because the AJA removal tool (TOOL being the operative word here) isn't PPC compatible!! FFS!!

I feel I may do a new OSX install, but instead of RAIDing the two drives, make one drive a time machine drive! Or.. how do I remove it, because it won't let me install 8 over 9. So annoying!!

I remember the episode, some developer who coded in the bath?

It's OK, I deleted some library stuff, all seems ok now. Well I say OK, 8.1 AJA installed OK and it's passing certain tests.

First moments of success.. You all understand those moments of brilliance.. when you get a blip on the screen and you run over to your wife/husband/other and shout LOOK AT THIS!!! ........ and they just look you up and down with contempt at your productivity which could have been diverted to putting some shelving up!!

Yup B&W but I know what it's attempting, and I'm quite chuffed really, analogue and digital out, and it's throughput from the VBOB.

SWEET!!! My global dominating plan is coming together!

I'm looking at an 18U rack cabinet to tidy everything up.



BTW, does anyone know what AJ TV is meant to do?

fu wrote:

uunix wrote:
I'm looking at an 18U rack cabinet to tidy everything up.

is that jenga stack @ your home uu?

uunix wrote: BTW, does anyone know what AJ TV is meant to do?

it’s meant for quick previews and/or output of a quicktime sequence. instead of launching your editor, you fire up aja tv that talks to the aja hardware.

Yep and the stack was bigger with video and hi-fi stuff. I had to separate as it was wobbling.

AJ TV does sort of nothing, no window, I have a menu bar, but no window.

I reckon the OSX install is fine, but the AJA install maybe a bit skew-whiff.. So yes, it may be worth starting from scratch.

But what you are saying fu, is that starting AJ TV should open a window that display whatever input the card is receiving?

fu wrote:

uunix wrote: I reckon the OSX install is fine, but the AJA install maybe a bit skew-whiff.. So yes, it may be worth starting from scratch.

you said that you funked with the /Library stuff while trying to sort out the aja versions, so that may have broken something along the way

uunix wrote: But what you are saying fu, is that starting AJ TV should open a window that display whatever input the card is receiving?

yep, as long as there is input through the card, aja tv should display it live as it happens. check your aja control panel and its input settings.

i’m not in front of a cutting station right now but iirc, there should be a button like “continue playback when in background” that should be checked in aja tv preferences.

what's in the input channel of the kona? camera? vtr?

Removed AJA stuff from the library, possibly it could have corrupted OSX..

The input shows 1080i from the VBOB and I know it's correct as I have TEST SIGNAL output on a screen. So defiantly some input, and I know it's from the VBOB because I have the KONA set to a different pattern.

I'm going to do a fresh install.. (Curse myself for leaving the install DVD at work)..

Re-installed OSX, updated then installed the correct version of AJA and still no AJ TV displaying?
What gives? I can see it has input. This looks like a cool little feature. BAH!!!

fu wrote: you don’t really need aja tv (unless you are editing for 8h/day at least) but it should provide a live view of what’s cooking through the card.

Ahh.. bugger.. I was only planning on 7 hours a day, looks like I'll bin in then, it's no good to me.

ooops Yes, he sold it.. should have put up a sign. In all fairness, he wasn't willing to ship it anywhere.

We installed a mac mini server 10.6 for an accounting company running Windows 7 Clients. It was brilliant, mail, vpn, unlimited clients etc they started with minimal things set up and increased the features along the way.
All was good, until they started having files go missing (they accessed files once a year so to speak). They blamed OSX server so we moved them to Windows 2008 (I have the Mac now). So same things happened again, and I can't quite recall if we set file auditing up, but anyway, we found they had a rouge employee deleting files... BUT.. OSX server was really great, but I read reviews of the later add-on versions and they were not good.

In fact, I have just found my install disks and might get that mac Mini doing what it was born to do... SERVE!

smj wrote: They stopped offering the non-add-on version quite a few years ago now, right?

They did indeed. Change your desktop into a server they said!!! Oh and use it as a desktop at the same time as well..

Well, I've just spent a pointless 3 hours taking my family for a meal at a local pub after work. The great thing about this pub, is, the garden is enclosed so you do feel a bit safer with the kids. BUT...
Not only did it start taking a rather annoying time, when it arrived my steak was absolutely without a doubt the worse steak I have ever had.. In my life.. In fact the waitress asked if I was joking when I said.. "This is without doubt the worst steak I have ever had.. IN MY LIFE.. I've had this small cut in my mouth for 20 seconds chewing away and it's come out exactly the same as when it when it.. It's tougher than John Wayne!"

I'm not even sure now it was Steak...

Mouching through the shed with my kids.. have found so far a set of Walki-Talkies (but no charger yet), binoculars, a PSION Series 3a that we put batteries in and it worked fine and an SGI 540 that I though was in the loft. Also found the remote control to my fathers Sound bar.. he lives 5 miles away.. WHY is it in my shed???

qsecofr
qsecofr

MrBill wrote: I tried popping the scsi disks into a linux server and made images of all the drives, in the hopes that i could make some sense of what is on there and get the password. Now the machine no longer boots up. Not sure what the issue is.

This would not have been my plan of actions. Maybe though the disks are in the incorrect positions?
Where the disks mounted RO ?

Wish I still had mine now..

Bit of porn.. bit of horror channel.. bit of moving 20 PC's to the new domain at work... APART FROM ONE!! ONE CLUSTER FSCK !! One cluster fsck who after multiple emails attaining to the said domain transfer to NOT turn their computer off on Friday the 13ths May.. TURNED HIS OFF!!! It would be nice that I had set up each PC to wake on lan.. but I never, and I have to go in tomorrow! MY fault for not thinking about people not doing as they are told.

Well, for this, he will at least suffer from remote shut downs at the worst time and I might even delete the occasional important file! (of cause I'd copy it to some location first and claim I saved his life... ) this from a guy that gave me 6.5 out of ten for a perfect cuppa just because the cup wasn't to the brim!.. GRRRRRR!!!

Porn is good though!

Outstanding machine old chap. Does that peak SGI Workstations?

What's 200MHz(x4) among friends

Less than a night with a high class prostitute.. but lasts forever I say!

ivelegacy wrote: who's been a good boy? who's been a bad boy?
" American Horror Story " I am watching the first series, " Murder House "
even Gaga, whose tastes are exemplary, likes the series

That is a good series, unlike the second one.

Watching grown men kick a ball around and falling over like toddlers..

I have though purchased some XLR - RCA cables as I have neglected sound in my conquest of Video editing.. <- ooh Wrong thread!

Hi FlasBurn,

Was it a clean disk you installed IRIX on? or Did you make a new file system on your install procedure?
Just wondering if there are left over remains from NFS/NIS ?

Although stopping an install before it's finished is never ideal.

FlasBurn wrote: label/filesystem

Label/filesystem is not the same thing old chap. You can label a drive and keep the filesystem.

Does the following ring a bell..


Just want to make sure the drive was completely clear.

If it's called mkfs, then you can safely say it's clear. But I would if it were I, restart the install again..

FlasBurn wrote: But I use the 3 Overlay disks of 6.5.22,

Can someone Confirm that 6.5.22 is compatible?

I cannot recall the earliest IRIX version.

Dodoid wrote: Someday I want to run a Windows VM with black desktop background, hidden taskbar, and a VNC connection to an Octane or something. When scammers call, I will open teamviewer so they are controlling the VM and then quickly alt tab to the VNC client. Watch as scammer tries to figure out IRIX.

Maybe I could pass on the numbers of some of our clients who have managed to obtain this crypto locking thing.. quite possibly they could do a better job than their own IT departments.

Unfortunately, we live in a world where you cannot educate any user.. I agree with your statements .. saying that, on installation of a server and the setup of any AD, you have the opportunity to implement setting via server or GP to minimise any future issues...

1/ Shadow Copies
2/ Software launch restrictions via GP + many other GP options.
3/ Backups!!

An IT company should take responsibility for looking after it's users, regardless of their IQ.

[EDIT] BTW I left off AV.. since it obviously doesn't cope with human intervention!

If you designed a new SGI MIPS box, how would it look, and what colour would it be?

That is a nice video chap.

As far as packaging goes, I will vouch for Ian on this.

Some years back I bought VBOB , Disk array and a whole bunch of stuff. All came striped down in to smaller sections and was just so well packaged.

The kids had more bubble wrap than they could ever imagine, in fact we didn't have to get them anything for Christmas that year..

But even each cable, module was labelled both ends so fitment was a breeze.

I'm not saying this because I want discounts from Ian, he really does an outstanding job.. although Ian, please remember this before you reply to my email about the Tezro.

You pay for what you get in life.

mapesdhs wrote: There was an email? Oh! Must be my other account, will check tomorrow, am on an island atm.

So am I..

Maybe we should have sticky for ebay related stuff..

Anyway, check this out in the UK http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-SGI-320-Visual-Workstation-Windows-NT-Full-working-system-/162234533772?hash=item25c5ee878c:g:YzIAAOSw8gVX-~UT

Looks nice. I don't want it though. (Save you navigating to it, it's a 320 + 1600sw)

I was talking about Ian erm.. Pimpleton from Pivot Drive, Surrey..

What is this? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SGI-550-Workstation-Arrows-F1-livery-fully-working-/122181014777?hash=item1c728e54f9:g:4h8AAOSwZJBX~-t1
Just a bit of cosmetic dust?

Shiunbird wrote: What is interesting is that... well, it comes with the monitor and I could use when I finally score my first IRIX machine, and it looks in great condition.

But I will pass, because I would need to arrange with one of my friends in the UK to keep it until I'm back from Brazil, and then I should come to the UK in November and pick it up.

You can only use that monitor in certain conditions, MLA from a DVi or 1600sw FPA(o2 / 320/540 etc), there are other options, I have a [fore....something] card for a Mac and there is another MLA type box out there also.

Unless the Orange version is different of course.

Shiunbird wrote: I see.
I'm really torn. I love non-standard hardware. =)
But logistically would be a nightmare. I only buy computers in good condition, and this one seems to be looking ok.

If you've never owned one before, you need to buy it.