The collected works of vishnu - Page 22

Well, the guys who know say if you're compiling for debugging to leave optimization off completely, because otherwise the code you're debugging isn't the code you compiled, the optimizer can change a lot...
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Can you get a backtrace with dbx?
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Not to be picayune, but dumping std into the global namespace is considered harmful... ;)

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#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
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using namespace std;

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return 0;
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Okay, so I am being picayune... :P
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Keep looking, with software of that pedigree there's got to be a CPM/86 floppy in there somewhere... :P
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Seriously? On the root window? At what resolution? Because my Linux box and my Octane are both circa-1994, both dual processor, both using (what was then) state of the art graphics (Nvidia GForce 5700 w/256 meg RAM vs. V12 w/128 meg RAM) both running at 1600x1200, and the difference in smoothness is dramatically better on my Linux box... :|
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Ha ha sorry I didn't read all the way to the bottom. 8-)

Anyway that's not a very good backtrace it's not showing the whole stack, or at least it should show what part of dillo calls X which eventually calls XmbResetIC, it looks like something is stripped that shouldn't be? :|
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I don't know where you find the time foezt but this is awesome! How many people do you have on your staff anyway...? 8-)
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I hope she's wearing ear protection! :lol:
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Hakimoto wrote: ...MacBook Pro, early 2011, 13" unibody. I finally got her to move away from that! ;-P

You got her off crAp ple? How? To what? :shock:
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At one point a few years ago he seemed to think that SGI was going to let him start releasing at least some of the source but apparently that never happened...
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Freaking awesome, that's about as close as SGI ever came to marketing its products to the general public, thanks a bunch for posting it... :mrgreen:
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Can't have been fun shipping that bad daddy to Tasmania... :shock:
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Welcome to the fold Paul! NeXTs are rare birds indeed, good luck with that end of the spectrum... 8-)
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That's practically what I paid for a quad 700MHz Tezro w/ multiple gigabit fiberchannels and full a DMediaPro suite last week... :shock:
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japes wrote:
guardian452 wrote: But it didn't come with a bag! Worthless!


Anyone can have a Tezro if they want. Only a few can have an Indy bag.

The only material that would last for a Tezro carry bag would probably be kevlar, those suckers are heavy... :shock:
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nongrato wrote: Maya, Shake, Moviemaker

What versions and how do they run on your dual-360? Do you use it for rendering as well or do you farm that out?
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Hmmmm... That scene doesn't look that simple! 8-) If you set shaded view in the perspective window is it still responsive to pan, dolly and zoom? Beautiful render though, very nice. Is that the Maya built in renderer or Mental Ray?
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What are the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file? :?:
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Nice! jwz wrote the first version of the Unix Netscape Navigator (mostly) on an sgi.
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foetz wrote: you could install the older one to an alternative location (inst/swmgr option -r) and put the files that have different names than what comes with the current version of the lib into one of your library paths

He could try symlinking it first; ln -s libtiff.so.4 libtiff.so.3 - Of course the symlink won't be under installation control so it would need to be removed by hand when it's no longer needed. It might not work at all if features from version 3 have been sufficiently modified (or removed altogether) in version 4 (unlikely)...
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No disk at all or wiped disk? Either way you'll need the SGI specific installation media, I doubt if they sell it any longer but it can't hurt to contact them to find out. Relevant links
at techpubs and ars technica
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RageX wrote: I have three mint condition IndyBags sitting behind my desk. Maybe I'll be able to retire on them some day. The Indy's inside are unusual too, a dual head, an indyvideo+cosmo compress, and an XZ running ProE, all maxed out R5k machines. I used to have a 4th Ultra64 dev system with controller board and software and IndyBags but sold it for what seemed like crazy money at the time .... Should have held on to that.

Some nice Ultra64 eye candy here. The Nintendo/SGI alliance was one of the last things Jim Clark put together before he exited the business, or, more to the point, was driven out by the idiotic roadblocks thrown up by Ed McCraken and the BoD...
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The X Windows Disaster chapter of the Unix Haters Handbook has some truly hilarious things to say about environment variables... :lol:

Unfortunately, Don Hopkin's online version of the chapter has scores of really bad typos but here it is nonetheless (otherwise the whole manual is available as a pdf in serveral places on the webs):

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html
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josehill wrote: Here's an interesting blog post from John McCrea, former SGI marketing/business development guy from the go-go days.

http://therealmccrea.com/2014/11/13/mak ... sentation/

He has a few other interesting posts with some "insider history" under the "SGI" tag. Worth a look.


Wow, cool! 8-)

"SGI had gotten rid of all PCs and Macs; the company ran its entire business only on SGI hardware."

I wonder how long that policy lasted... :roll:
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toxygen wrote: :) check 0:33 in the video in the article http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/chi ... story.html

How the heck did you spot that in the 1 second it was on the screen? :shock:

Presumably it's a Windows 8 take on the original 4DWm classic, source code from 1992 attached for everyone's viewing pleasure. 8-)
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I ran 5dwm for many years prior to the Maxx Desktop reload (at which point it stopped working under Slackware, and since which point I've been running mwm from Motif-2.1.32, old school, much?). For funzies I just looked in my pix directory and was surprised to see a couple of ancient screenshots, this one's from December 2006:
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Unix on the desktop would have been viable if the Open Group/OSF had ever gotten off their dead asses and convinced Microsoft to port Office to X. The fact that Office ran on the Mac is the only thing that kept Apple alive until the Steve Jobs/NExT reboot.
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foetz wrote: they had stdbool.h in 1992 :?:

Nope.

But I have a copy of the old info-iris archive on my FTP server: ftp://ftp.jurassic.nl/pub/info-iris/twilight.c

Dated 1992 :)

Not dramatically different:

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At work I have both Windows and Solaris 10 in my cube (guess which I prefer!) but I can't think of any reason why I would put Windows on a piece of hardware that I personally own. To paraphrase jwz I don't use any Microsoft products and neither should you. 8-)
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Another country heard from, top notch! 8-) Thanks for joining the fold, good luck with your double-Os and your SOG-less Octane... :mrgreen:
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sgifanatic wrote: I you might consider system usage demonstrations, irix desktop interactions.


Such videos are best with a commentary, but I'm not the best english speaker in the world. Although I could do videos with text commentary.

Well regardless of how well you're able to enunciate it your written use of the language is certainly flawless, how did you come to know it so well? If I may be so bold as to enquire... :P
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Really great story (understatement) really well told (also understatement) but then how could it not be from a guy who's got a creative writing degree from MIT? 8-)
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Windows Explorer is a great file manager but really there's no functionality it has, even in Windows 8, that you can't get from a host of Linux or Unix filemanagers, or for that matter even from the 10-years-since-it's-been-updated TkDesk for graciousness sake... :|
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Is classic shell a separate install or a mode of the existing windows explorer? I only use windows at work, where I have no administrative privilege and thus, at the risk of being obvious, cannot install anything...
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Wow! :shock:

That thing might be the most mint Indigo2 in existence, anywhere. :mrgreen:

Did the original owner say how much he paid for it? I think they were going for around ten kilobucks in 1996... :o
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What genlock generator did you get? If I may be so bold as to enquire... :mrgreen:
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This one time, I was at the Red Dolly casino in Blackhawk Colorado and at the moment of departure my companion decided to visit the facilities, so I was standing in a row of slot machines waiting, and I never play slots but I stuffed the nearest one full of quarters and it hit for 500 dollars. Sort of like that! 8-)

Your Bell System Technical Journal of 1978 beats the oldest Unix publication I've got in my collection, the book Understanding Unix from 1983.
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Wow! :shock: Those are beautiful but talk about when worlds collide... 8-)
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Yes that was the interactive desktop we had on our 3B series Unix RTRs (Real Time Reliable, they were anything but!) when I first got hired by AT&T. We had the Xenix installation media but I don't remember anyone ever installing it. IIRC the installation media was a number of 5.25 floppies, which, being that it was 1985 is not that much of a surprise. Yeah, I know, I'm one of those old dudes... :P
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And not to be overly pedantic but your nameserver's IP address needs to be in the file /etc/resolv.conf, what does yours say? To use OpenDNS all you need is two lines in the file, like so:

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nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
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