The collected works of vishnu - Page 21

Tempting, very temtping...

BEE-YOO-TEE-FUL, thanks!

According to this link (stanford.edu) there was a floating license scheme available for Softimage around that time. The license info is near the bottom of the page under the "Components of the SoftImage package" heading.

Softimage wove a convoluted path through it's various corporate overlords, and met a very undeserved and ignominious end.

Ha ha I forgot all about this thread! Pic of me after the best golf shot I've ever hit in my life, from 258 yards (234 meters) to here. Yes, I'm chomping on a celebratory cigar. No, I did not make the putt...

miod wrote:

vishnu wrote: Yes, I'm chomping on a celebratory cigar. No, I did not make the putt...

The first rule of the celebratory cigar, is that you should always set up the grounds for a future achievement which will obviously need to be celebrated with a cigar. Don't kill too many birds at once with your stone!

That's why I torched that baby up before I rolled the putt! I missed the eagle but I did two-putt for birdie. Hence celebratory cigar number two...

mapesdhs wrote: After that though, never played golf again I think.

That's practically heretical coming from a native Scotsman!

Nice! Did you import the Matterhorn data into Performer yourself?

They turned out pretty great, in particular the Catia World walkthrough is poignant, talk about how the mighty have fallen...

ClassicHasClass wrote: Not even hamei in a string bikini is motivation enough.

Ha ha ha-- *Urk!*

I was trying to compile Dillo with MIPSPro, but the stumbling block is that Dillo makes massive use of variadic macros, which are supported under MIPSPro C99 but not MIPSPro C++, so I was rewriting all the Dillo variadic macro calls as C++ overloaded functions, but I never managed to slog through the whole thing to the end. The way I was doing it was to make no changes to the Dillo code but to #ifdef everything I wrote with #if defined(__cplusplus) && defined(__sgi) . Now I wonder if there isn't a varargs class in Xt that wouldn't be easier to use than writing a mind-numbing crapton of overloaded C++ functions. Probably there isn't but I dare to dream...

EDIT: Fixed my #ifdef text

Well I don't know, but if it was that easy why wouldn't sgi drag 'n drop the variadic macro code from their C99 preprocessor into their C++ preprocessor? Because sgi said they were committed to supporting the version of the C++ standard that supports variadic macros, but then they never did. Lyin' sacs 'o shit that they are. I admit to knowing nothing about preprocessor innards but what you suggest seems to make a hell of a lot of sense, C++ macro code shouldn't be any different than C, classes and name mangling and v-tables have no part to play in macros at all...

In the deep dark past I had Wordperfect 8 for Linux; long since stopped working due to the libc5 -> libc6 abandonment of backward compatibility...

Or, don't use routers period. My firewall is Slackware box with a kernel that I configured, running a firewall with rules that I wrote, no one from the Great Beyond is getting inside my lan. I'm pretty sure. Knock on wood...

nongrato wrote: another video uploaded: CosmoPlayer demo "Chomp" - an early browser game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuQ5lz6LVhA

Ha ha, that's a lot of Chomp to watch...

I think they just thought they'd save a bundle by making the switch to Linux. Bye bye IRIX it was nice while it lasted...

Some guys on the dillo mailing list have gotten dillo to compile and launch on IRIX, there seem to be some printing related issues, which they're working on, but apparently they are able to browse...

TeamBlackFox wrote: ...or else pollute the other systems with GPL code.

I agree that the GPL is a pollutant.

TeamBlackFox wrote: GCC/binutils: Memory hogging, slow to compile, breaks binaries run as -O3 ( Clang doesn't )

I use the shell color syntax code from GNU binutils on my Octane, it works great...

guardian452 wrote: If you're looking for 3D cad then I got nuthin.

How about Siemens NX.
Also, it's not CAD but Maya runs great on Linux...

Linux has something better than a word processor, LyX the document processor!

Okay you smarites, how about Arbortext then...

Just for funzies I'm still working on a MIPSPro compile of dillo that I pulled from the tip of their svn on August 30th...

No, it should still boot with a dead battery, the boot process will see that it's dead and say:

Slowlaris wrote: Can’t read mem-layout table from sys SEEPROM. Using default!
WARNING: HOSTID data should be moved to socketed SEEPROM!
HW support required for hostid reprogramming!

When the disk spins up can you tell if it's reading anything? The usual cacophony of a SCSI read head clicking back and forth?

Sounds like a clear cut case of the dreaded Dead Hardware.

Next you should try disconnecting the boot disk, see if it's not a disk failure that's preventing the OS from posting...

Last I looked, and it wasn't too long ago, there's nothing BIND can do to stop a classic man-in-the-middle DNS hijack. And what is the GFW if not a classic man-in-the-middle? Doesn't every packet headed out of or into the country go through the GFW? They can bork with them any way they like...

hamei wrote: Have an idea to get around them but not telling what it is

Satellite Inernet?!

ClassicHasClass wrote: Or, maybe this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/15 ... ing_world/

Mining Investorite...

Wow, that Steve Jobs Octane testimonial is definitely One for the Ages...

Makes you wonder how many so-called national security services have backdoors provided graciously and at no extra charge by Cisco, all in the interest of Doing the Right Thing and Not Being Evil...

No bootable Solaris CD?

Try hooking up a serial console, if it's actually getting as far as spinning up the disks there should be some output there from the power-on self test.

Frequent flyer summary in the lower right shows a date of 1992...

Just installed the latest patched bash to my Internet-facing firewall (running Slackware 14.0), of note, see highlight below:

Installing package bash-4.2.050-i486-1_slack14.0.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# bash (sh-compatible shell)
#
# The GNU Bourne-Again SHell. Bash is a sh-compatible command
# interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or
# from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn
# and C shells (ksh and csh). Bash is ultimately intended to be a
# conformant implementation of the IEEE Posix Shell and Tools
# specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2).
#
# Bash must be present for the system to boot properly.
#
Executing install script for bash-4.2.050-i486-1_slack14.0.txz.
Package bash-4.2.050-i486-1_slack14.0.txz installed.

Wow nice! How much did you have to hack the code to get it to compile? gcc compilation I presume? Or am I owed a backhand from yet another rider of the MIPSPro only high horse...

Everyone has that issue, we can upload to incoming but the only person who can see the content of incoming is neko, we have to suffer the burden of time til he moves it to beta...

Presumably the skins are crap? And the CPUs are 175s? And the graphics are rock bottom SIs?

I'm pretty sure I've posted this before but this is my mint SGI Computer Systems mug (in SGI purple), alongside my equally mint NSCP mug.

Wow nice! What compiler are you using for these?

Did you include skyrocket from rss? On my V12 equipped 600MHz Octane2 skyrocket drops something like 19 out of every 20 frames...

guardian452 wrote: I like microsoft, I like my xbox and I used to have a zune for christsakes... Just what I need, above and beyond office of course, windows doesn't offer, and what it does offer I don't need.

Seriously?

What do you use for schematic capture and circuit sim?

foetz wrote: the current status on 5.3. tried gnu pth were accepted but there seems to be an issue with X itself:

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Process 18138 (dillo) started
paths: Cannot open file '//.dillo/dillorc': No such file or directory
paths: Cannot open file '/usr/local/etc/dillo/dillorc': No such file or directory
paths: Using internal defaults...
paths: Cannot open file '//.dillo/keysrc': No such file or directory
paths: Cannot open file '/usr/local/etc/dillo/keysrc': No such file or directory
paths: Using internal defaults...
paths: Cannot open file '//.dillo/domainrc': No such file or directory
paths: Cannot open file '/usr/local/etc/dillo/domainrc': No such file or directory
paths: Using internal defaults...
dillo_dns_init: Here we go! (not threaded)
Disabling cookies.
** WARNING **: preferred sans-serif font "DejaVu Sans" not found.
** WARNING **: preferred serif font "DejaVu Serif" not found.
** WARNING **: preferred monospace font "DejaVu Sans Mono" not found.
** WARNING **: preferred cursive font "URW Chancery L" not found.
** WARNING **: preferred fantasy font "DejaVu Sans" not found.
Process 18138 (dillo) stopped on signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation violation (default) [XimCompResetStatus:1127 ,0xf5d37e4]
Source (of imComp.c) not available for Process 18138
(dbx) where
>  0 XimCompResetStatus(0x1003bc7c, 0x0, 0x0, 0x230) ["imComp.c":1127, 0xf5d37e4]
1 _XimCompMbReset(0x1003bc7c, 0x0, 0x0, 0x230) ["imCompIc.c":94, 0xf5cf7a4]
2 XmbResetIC(0x1003bc7c, 0x0, 0x0, 0x230) ["ICWrap.c":437, 0xf56d8ec]
3 <stripped>() [<stripped>, 0x57e5b8]


Did you used g++ to compile it? If so could you recompile with -ggdb in $CFLAGS and get a backtrace from gdb?