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uunix
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Wrote on the subject of Newbie intro and O2 questions at Feb. 28, 2015, 9:02 a.m...
A few things here, on an o2 using the standard svga out, you don't need to worry about Synce On Green. There may be a possibility the Console (in the PROM) output is set to 'd' and 'g' meaning that it will not display anything until it passes diag.

You may need a serial cable.
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Wrote on the subject of Newbie intro and O2 questions at Feb. 28, 2015, 9:07 a.m...
I think (without restarting my o2) if you fire it up an type:
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SETENV console d

Then reboot, you may possibly et something.
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Wrote on the subject of Newbie intro and O2 questions at Feb. 28, 2015, 9:10 a.m...
sorry I meant

SETENV console g

or SETENV console=g
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Wrote on the subject of Request at Feb. 28, 2015, 9:54 a.m...
A lot of you guys and girls are from overseas and have probably never heard of a little team of men called Aston Villa.

If you have no allegiance to a football team in the UK, can I please ask you spare a positive thought for my little team (owned by an American and supported by Prince William, his son George, Tom Hanks to name a few) Aston Villa.

We are in the fsking shite! HELP!!!
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Wrote on the subject of Newbie intro and O2 questions at Feb. 28, 2015, 10:18 a.m...
josehill wrote: Welcome, pettersson!

uunix's advice might fix the problem, but the problem might also be that the O2 doesn't know what to do with a 2560 x 1440 resolution display. Is there some way to set the display to use a lower resolution or to use a different display? You might try setting your display to run at 1280x1024 @60Hz or even 1024x768 @60Hz, if possible.

SGI has a lot of documentation at its Techpubs site, including an O2 hardware guide .

PS. O2s do output a SOG signal, so while many modern displays will show the O2 desktop, if they are not truly SOG compatible, the display will have a green tint. For what it is worth, I just plugged an R5k O2 into an older, non-SOG Dell display, and I took a screenshot of the supported resolutions . Notice the green tint.

josehill, where did you get that resolution from? I can't see it in the OP?
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Wrote on the subject of Newbie intro and O2 questions at Feb. 28, 2015, 10:26 a.m...
o2s do not worry about SOG, I could plug mine into a microwave and it would work. Any monitor will work. If I'm wrong I will eat humble pie and stand in the corner.
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Wrote on the subject of Newbie intro and O2 questions at Feb. 28, 2015, 10:33 a.m...
josehill wrote:
uunix wrote: josehill, where did you get that resolution from? I can't see it in the OP?

I looked up the specs of petterson's display on the Dell website .


What you looked up sounds like the max, I think all monitors will display 1280x1024 etc heck I may be wrong. I've never heard of a monitor that wont go down to required res automatically. BUT.. if the o2 (or any unix machine) is set to a certain display, then that of cause is a different matter.
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Intel Xserv .. 2 of them is a half cabinet.
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LOL Wtf Oskar, we haven't played in Europe for years.. thanks for your support though ;-)
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That my friend will do as a jolly good answer.
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hamei wrote:
uunix wrote: If you have no allegiance to a football team in the UK, can I please ask you spare a positive thought for my little team ...

Who's your quarterback ?

lol
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Trippynet, You can rest assured that I was probably one of those laughing at Newcastle's demise some years ago, and also, going back even further at Man Cities drop into the 3rd.. as you know.. these things come round and bite you in the ass no matter..

But I'm very thankful that replying to this post means you are giving us positive vibes and deep down love us... Thank you.. ;)
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Wrote on the subject of What do you use your SGI for? at March 1, 2015, 11:54 a.m...
I've used SGI for years now, I did my C&G C/C++ cert on my Indy back in the late 90s and then used Maya (o2 R5000) as a hobby, now I use SMOKE for my new hobby of video editing (Octane2 + 02 + Indy).

Regardless of the money I keep spending, I have to remind myself .. IT'S A FSKING HOBBY!!
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Wrote on the subject of FS: Octane2 parts: CPU, mobo, Oddysey V6, PSU at March 1, 2015, 3:38 p.m...
location ivelegacy?
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duck wrote:
uunix wrote: now I use SMOKE for my new hobby of video editing (Octane2 + 02 + Indy).


By the way, do these old versions of smoke do 1080p video in some format? Rendering anything might be painful though... :-)

Not sure duck, I work at 720 at the moment. Give me 6 months and I may have a better answer.
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Wrote on the subject of sysmgr where the... is it? at March 1, 2015, 3:59 p.m...
I searched these forums and found an answer but for the heck of it I still can't find it in any dist

The Indy I put together some months ago was a quick and dirty install and lacks sysmgr.

What disk is this on?

Alternatively, and the reason I want sysmgr, is that I want to use /dev/ttyd1 to connect to something but returns an error because I think it's being used:
#cu -l /dev/ttyd1
Connect failed: CAN'T ACCESS DEVICE

It's set correctly in /etc/devices, but I recall when setting up ttyd2 I had to remove all traces of the port being in use for modems etc.
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Wrote on the subject of Problem installing Irix 6.3 on O2 at March 2, 2015, 4:28 a.m...
6.3 was specifically built for the o2, so it does seem strange.
What if... Installing 6.5 has updated the PROM and it's incompatible with 6.3? Just a wild guess here.

Do you have a serial cable? Maybe check what going on with that?
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Wrote on the subject of Is Windows 95 still supported? at March 2, 2015, 2:57 p.m...
ha only kidding.

I have a rather large Microsoft Office Box that comes on a zillion floppies and requires Win 3.1 & NT upwards (how upward, I will soon find out).

Out of interest, has anyone updated SoftWindows95 to 98?
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Soccer Mom returns strange google results.

Anyway, Aston Villa vs West Brom tonight, I will keep you informed.
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22 Mins.. Villa 1 WBA 0...

Thanks people..
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Wrote on the subject of Is Windows 95 still supported? at March 4, 2015, 6:57 a.m...
That looks like a Windows ME upgrade Hamei..
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I'd like to thank everyone.. We did indeed beat WBA 2-1 (goal in the 94th Min).

I'll be in touch in this thread on Saturday..

Also, trippynet, definitely a pen tonight for you guys, and commiserations to Newcastle. Utd are such swines, they treat Villa Park like their training ground season after season.
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8-) You have fans...?
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Wrote on the subject of What do you use your SGI for? at March 5, 2015, 11:46 a.m...
There's a video on you tube of a guy got given a shitload of N64 development gear. It's a cool watch.
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Wrote on the subject of FS: IMPACT R10K 1Gbyte ram, SolidImpact and more at March 7, 2015, 4:13 a.m...
Nicely put Ian.
I've 2 o2s and I never expect super fast performance, but they are.. ok in my book, and the form factor, the CDROM etc and they way it plays with the 1600sw is just what I want. I don't want noisy and big for a lot of what I do (or have been doing over the years) I have my Octane2 for that.

I went from an R5000 195mhz to chicaneuk's R12000 (with more memory) and to be honest, it seemed like a clean install feel. It wasn't massively faster, but it hadn't had the build up of years of crap being done to it like my R5000 had.

Pros and Cons for me, Form Factor, Noise, Power Consumption, 1600sw and cuteness.
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Wrote on the subject of £10,000 to spare? at March 7, 2015, 4:27 a.m...
I'll let you know tomorrow after the lottery has been drawn tjsgifan.
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I was taught pascal as a predecessor to C, C++, it's quite cute, but I never touched it again.
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Wrote on the subject of CPU Upgrade R10000 - R12000 at March 7, 2015, 4:30 p.m...
I have coming (if it ever arrives) an Octane (1) 250MHz R10000 Single.

Now, I purchased it for reasons that are not going to require super performance obviously, but you know what it's like, you're looking at upgrades before you've even plugged it in.

So I just want to confirm compatibility and if it's worth the £30 it will cost to upgrade it to a 300MHz R12000 CPU Single.

It's going to be used as a 24/7 YP(NIS)/Backup/File Server for my IRIX machines.

I do have the option of dual 195MHz CPU that's in my loft.

Thanks.. Up The Villa!
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Wrote on the subject of CPU Upgrade R10000 - R12000 at March 7, 2015, 5:17 p.m...
Cheers Team.. I reckon I'll go for it for that price.
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Wrote on the subject of Intellistation 265 - Got it up and running - First impressions at March 8, 2015, 3:47 a.m...
I've got a 285, really nice machine, but I haven't really got round to doing anything with it yet, I plan to run PostgreSQL on it. The only thing I've done, is put AIX 7 on it.

And yes, my system is so quiet I have to check the green light on the front to see if I've left it on.

One of the things I didn't learn quick enough was the 'on the fly' disk repartitioning. Had I known about it, I possible wouldn't have stayed at AIX 5.whatever.
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Wrote on the subject of CPU Upgrade R10000 - R12000 at March 8, 2015, 6:43 a.m...
I wouldn't have thought so, especially with a small nis. I doubt either that I'll bench mark it, since the CPU will probably come before I've got round to setting up the yp ect.

For what it will be doing, I doubt it would be worthwhile, but for £30..

I suppose the other question would be, since I have dual 195 R10000's, would that make a difference?

I've bought the CPU now anyway.
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Wrote on the subject of Intellistation 265 - Got it up and running - First impressions at March 8, 2015, 11:05 a.m...
Without pulling the side off, just some big orange fans I think. Nothing special.

Interesting you ask that, I wonder if anyone has water cooled their Octane?
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Wrote on the subject of CPU Upgrade R10000 - R12000 at March 9, 2015, 12:50 p.m...
It does armanox, I notice though you have Xbow 1.4, I have no idea what Xbow is installed in this machine yet.
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Excellent. Outstanding find sgifanatic.
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Wrote on the subject of CAD software on irix at March 9, 2015, 4:56 p.m...
I'm going to have a cup of coffee with 6 sugars in it!
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If you get the parts I'll solder them in for you.
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I could tell my missis it was a new SMEG fridge freezer.... but you can't use it!
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Wrote on the subject of Octane R10K 250MHz 1152MB EMXI+SI+MCO 2x 9GB at March 11, 2015, 1:40 p.m...
And all for 1 Pence... brilliant.
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Wrote on the subject of Stolen at March 13, 2015, 6:47 p.m...
OK so I was just thinking about my machines getting stolen.

What if we created a script that ftp'd to your location, if the external IP changed or you couldn't ping a neighbouring machine (this wouldn't work if they stole the whole of your network and left in tack) with a header "I'VE BEEN STOLEN", thus giving the 'at the time' the culprits IP address?

I'm sure my quick idea has many flaws and many things missing, but would it be worth a service?

I've written this (although not to do with being stolen) in C# quite easily for servers that have DHCP external WAN addresses and email a recipient if the external address changes so that I can RDP into and run as a service.

I worry about my babies!

Thoughts?
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Wrote on the subject of Stolen at March 13, 2015, 7:11 p.m...
Team, I never suggested doing it in C# in Irix, 'm well aware of what C# is and the platform it lies on. My example was that I had done something similar in C#.

Now, see you have hit on something there. SGI boxes look nice, so I recon they would steel them. But, the majority are set to Console G which doesn't boot if the keyboard isn't present??

But lets say we got past that stage. They stole it and it booted.

What if they were on a different network.. first failure, unless you couldn't ping anything around you so you switched to a network until you could..
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