The collected works of uunix - Page 8

I'd love this site to be mobile friendly.

As it is, I struggle to read when I'm at the pub on my phone.

jimmer wrote: Go easy on the stout and you'll struggle a good deal less...

Stout LOL.. I'm not my Father!

It was indeed ebay, it was up for £15 and I made an offer of £10 (+£3 P&P).

bummer... wish I could help you out.

hamei wrote: But I understand your point. The first thing let's do, is hang all the lawyers

I was going to post something regarding our client base being lawyers and solicitors and then though better of it.. for any of you that can read my mind.. yup!

Now I've just won an old IBM PC
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151760295197?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&autorefresh=true
It has a 5 1/4 inch floppy, so I should be able to try out OS/2 1.x (or whatever it is I have on 5.25)

jan-jaap wrote: You need at least a 286 CPU to run OS/2 v1.x. You should have bought an AT, not an XT.

Pants!! ah well..

iPhone 5, and it's not that it's unusable, but more it uses the inbuilt iOS safari browser and you have to zoom in to click a link, zoom in to read and slide all over the place to read a post, then zoom out to get the list back.

It's like using a tiny screen.. which funnily enough it is anyway. I'm using the old standard theme.

Years back, I used to subscribe to comp.sgi etc and the posts used to get delivered (or fetched) like a list of emails and I was just thinking, that would be nice.

guardian452 wrote:

uunix wrote: I'm using the old standard theme.

The new theme is mobile-friendly. The old one isn't.

I will give it a go then.

uunix wrote:

guardian452 wrote:

uunix wrote: I'm using the old standard theme.

The new theme is mobile-friendly. The old one isn't.

I will give it a go then.

Ahhhhhhh much better, thanks SMJ, Guardian. I'd never even thought of the themes usage. All makes sense now.

Right I'm off to the pub to test.

I opened an NT4 box the other week and sent in the registration details for a chance of a weekend away for two at a hotel that doesn't exist anymore.

I haven't heard back yet.

I'm wondering why it has some 3.5 floppy disks included when the pics only show a 5.25 drive. There may be more included hopefully.

I do though have (on 3.5) a full boxed set of Interactive UNIX 2.2 with 50 odd manuals.

So picked up my £8 IBM XT tonight, and I have to say, thank god it was only £8 otherwise I'd have turned back, Walsall has to be THE worst place in the world to drive, even my SAT NAV gave up and told me to go fsck myself!!

Anyway, got it home, it's boxed in original box even with the foam. But excitement lead to disappointment when I realized the monitor is SVGA and the XT only has 9 pin output.
It does have some interesting cards in though, especially the Asynchronous Communications card, the manual supplied looks like it does some interesting things (the manuals are pretty cool).

So I'm sat here think, well, it will just have to go in the loft..... BUT THEN!!!

I suddenly remembered, a small boot load of stuff from my ex house arriving some months back via my daughter. That contained the monitor for my SAMSUNG 8088 9 PIN monochrome!

Back on track, tomorrow, I'll be extracting said monitor from loft, attaching big fat keyboard (another thing that didn't come with it) and booting the old boy up!!

It also has DESKVIEW by quaterdek..

On that note I've just won 2 INDIGOs'

Just a note to folks needing to share a USB keyboard with a PC(or something) and a Power5 285(possible applies to others).

Mine works fine, but when powering on the 285, the keyboard focus MUST be on the 285 otherwise the mouse fails to move.

Not sure if you guys know this and there is another workaround, but that's the safest method I have.

The KVM switch I use a little cute thing by ATEN model:CS-62U that just requires 2 quick SCROLL LOCK key presses.

I also use a KVM for 2 Octane2s' which is a DKVM-2 from D-LINK which works flawlessly.

Hope this helps.

robespierre wrote: better check what the graphics actually is, 9-pin could be MGA, CGA, EGA, or Hercules, all different and seldom compatible.
If there is also a composite RCA port (for a television) it's CGA. CGA also has a cool light pen port.
Conversion of CGA/EGA to regular VGA-style video is simple and there are very cheap adapters out there, but not all monitors can sync at the lower frequencies used

I'll bear that in mind Robespierre, thanks.
It has no RCA port, other wise I may have been looking at hooking it through one of my video type converters. But fingers crossed.. it will work. I recon the source machine is the same era, so I'm hopeful (pre-anything half decent).

If it doesn't work, then well foo bar! I'll no doubt buy a monitor that works and my £8 machine will end up costing thousands... NOT!

5th time lucky eh ive.. well. I may be coming after you for those that don't work should my loft residing monitor fails.

One thing, I know XT etc are big machines, but the box it came in FFS!! I don't know where I will store it!

Monitor is RCA.. giving up for the moment but will look out for a cheap IBM monitor over the course. It's all going in the loft now.

And in 20 years I'll post back with news of booting it up.

You're exactly right and informative on this.. BUT IT DOESN'T FIT THE FSKING PC!! SO IT'S GOING IN THE LOFT!!

hamei wrote: You know what would be really okey-dokey-smokey to have ?

A MaXX Live CD. Choose a lightweight "distro" (gag me with a spoon) and create an iso for d-load.

Yup, I'd give it a go if that were available.

How old do you want to go, my SUN BLADE 2000 was an excellent machine, Dual 900 MHz CPU, a PC Card, 4 Port Ethernet & XV500 Card. I may obtain a another one day (when I have the space) and rebuild it all.

I'm setting up a DOMINO email server on a 2003 VM. I wondered if anyone had Lotus Notes Client running on AIX?
I presume the setup will be pretty simple.

Neither (well, I probably have done something naughty, I pretty much always do), it's just something to play with really. I'd like my AIX box to use notes, and maybe just maybe my IRIX boxes (doubtful, but it is JAVA). Either way, I'm going to segment my UNIX boxes to have their own (non windows) domain. But really it's just to play with.

Yet another classic ivelegacy...

But what did it all mean? Does Lady Gaga love boot more than you? Is that all she wears? Do you love computers more than her?

Now I'm not Jeremy Kyle, but I'd say you are a match made in heaven.. she can boot up her boots while you boot up your boot()s

So, my birthday approaches once again (it occurs too quickly for my liking these days) and my parents asked me what I would like, shoes, shirts, jumpers etc..

I said, NO.. I'll take the cash please.. because I want to buy something awesome..

In all fairness my kitty will prob' be about £100-ish, but the question is.. what to buy.. what to buy!

I don't really need anything apart from loft re-enforcement, but something cool that no-one understands would be good.. actually I'm thinking a Professional VCR with remote control abilities for my Smoke machine.

I'd like to put the question out, what would you buy.. but lets round the figure up to £1k since £100 is a bit damp.

Welcome Adam, where about in the UK?

Rhodamine wrote: In Bristol, where abouts are you?

Stourbridge

Just gone past Bristol on the way back from aixminster.

My partner & I have a good thing going.. we like to spend time together, but also like to do our own thing, as long as we are in the same house-ish.

She now has a wedding to plan, which we talk about, but she already has it sorted, so I throw in comments and suggestions (that I know are not going to fit) and I'm greeted with a "that's a good idea, maybe.. but [THAT'S NEVER HAPPENING]" responses. Which is fine, as I wouldn't really expect her to help me get Certificate authentication server running so DOMINO can register users..

If I have Visual Studio running with code, she knows I'm working.

If she walks into the room and can't hear her own voice and see's video looping and the big blue boxes on.. she knows I'm doing fsck all constructive and just using electricity.

If she finds me sat on the dinning room table in front of my [sons] 586, I guess she thinks I'm just making it a bit better for him (not actually creating some 90s SKYNET).

If she finds I'm not doing any of these and its after 7.. then she phones the pub!

ClassicHasClass wrote:

She now has a wedding to plan

Congratulations are in order, then?

I did congratulate her on finding the perfect man..

hamei wrote:

uunix wrote: I did congratulate her on finding the perfect man..

Judging by the avatar, you guys are even bigger procrastinators than Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami

No idea who they are chap, but yes.. we have another child also.

Last month we had been together 7 years. It took that long for my ex to divorce me, so now we are getting married a year to the day my divorce came in.

But my ex still holds the cards... THE LOFT!!!

hamei wrote:

But my ex still holds the cards... THE LOFT!!!

You seem to take a lot of trips up there ... hmm

I'm a man of habit.. Find a woman.. buy a house.. take over the Loft..

Years ago I liked to name my machines after planets.. over the years that went to pot and there are only 3 machines on my network named such. I got lazy, calling thing X11 X22, Octane1, Octane 2 etc.. even to a point one was named 'fuckit', I'll tidy it all up one day.

What's your naming convention?

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/mips/58109

It does look like a boot disk issue of some type. Do they have terminators on SCSI port on the back? Not sure if required, I saw a pic of an Indigo the other day and it had a SCSI terminator.

It could need a bit of reseating, since the seller had taken pics of the HINV.

chicaneuk wrote: I had a 300MHz R10K O2 and have to say it never felt that quick to me. Always felt my R10K Indigo2 IMPACT felt like a faster system overall. Couldn't say why, and whether it was all in my mind though as I never did any benchmarks or anything to back that up.

Yes, I have said o2 and it's been put in storage for the time being. Speed wise, it seemed OK, but just indifferent to my R5.

The o2 will get use when I get round to buying a bigger house, it will just probably have a headless task since it still does look soooo sexy.

Check the power supply from the other system to rule it out?

Have you tried my machine with no disks in?

OK, I'm sure we will sort it when I get over there

hamei wrote: Firewire works with Octane, too. It might be a little easier to find than a small scsi external.

oooh I have a load of firewire cards at work. If I can get one working, then my main Octane would be fully loaded.

I think the 600 is compatible with the later 1.2MHz CPUs and it would be the XVR500 you would need.

hamei wrote: But if you want something reliable, you don't get an English car in the first place ...

There are no British cars left...