The collected works of vishnu - Page 27

These guys claim to be porting Freepascal to the MIPS architcture, could be worth a shot. Me, I've never even seen a line of Pascal!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpc-mips/

miod wrote: What if the numbers are stored in BCD form?

Actually I think they're stored in bi-quinary coded decimal...

It's part of the netsurf browser, not sure if anyone's tried porting it to Irix yet, it's not in nekoware beta or current...

Rollovers in pinball? Those guys must be good...

Any of those guys ever tilt? That's always been my chief difficulty at pinball, constant tilting...

The build instructions for netsurf look like a major PITA...

foetz wrote:

ivelegacy wrote: Octanes have the best performances/cost ratio.

oh absolutely

Concur. Fuels can be faster but still lose to dual CPU Octanes. And Octane is a true workstation compared to the more Dell-like Fuel. Fuel was an attempt to grab market share back from Sun which was undercutting the Octane with it's also-Dell-like Ultra 60. I don't think it worked. The Tezro is a rock to Octane's scissors but Tezros sell for Chinese Telephone Numbers (i.e. really big numbers )...

I wonder if those guys are sgi employees or actors, or an admixture of the two...

We had good results using the Simple Web Interface Link Library on a couple of projects at work, but it's probably not relevant for what you guys are talking about...

That thread is 12 years old but I don't think the CAD landscpe on IRIX has changed much since then. I can attest that Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 2 runs very nicely on my Octane2...

Wow, deluxe!

Did you make the case yourself?

ivelegacy wrote: it was done by laser cutting, you only need to design the case, export as CorelDraw, and send the project to a "service", that will cut plexiglas for you, shipping you the goods back. It may be cheaper than you can imagine. In my case i have bought an already made case and i have redesigned just a few parts, e.e. the frontal plane used to stock the 3 DHT boards

Really! Well you could knock me over with a feather...

It is a work of art though!

pentium wrote: As someone who has in the past tried to print CD labels made from discs with a reflective surface, they look terrible.

Concur. You want photographs not scans. You can use the flash as long as you angle the camera so the reflection doesn't come back to the lens. Also, I would be very surprised if any one member here had all those CDs. I've got a couple of complete install 6.5 CD sets, and the overlays for 6.5.30, I'll have a look at them tonight and see if any are in your target audience... 8-)

In order for a "phone home" app to work the sgi would have to either get an IP address via dhcp or the thief would have had to rework the network settings. I know there are "dhcp on Irix" threads hereabout, but are any of us really using it on our sgis?

pentium wrote: I seem to recall when SAQ was burgled they took everything BUT his SGI's.

Speaking of good 'ol SAQ, anybody heard from him? I know he and his wife were expecting last August, maybe he's just really busy being a new dad.

My firewall runs dhcpd for guests, but all my computers use static IP, that way I when I look at network traffic going through the firewall I don't have to enable hostname lookup to know who's who...

PowerGraphics wrote: Possible is doing dithering or not, I know that was possible when I wore irix 5.3! This is true!
I managed such a feat, but I lost the configuration file to 15 years.
If only it is possible using dithering, so what should write in Xservers file then?

So wait, you said your xserver is dithering? Or isn't? The only way an 8 bit indy can support 24 bit color is through dithering, from their own press release: ...virtual 24-bit (dithered 8-bit) or true 24-bit color but I'm not sure that trick was carried through to Irix 6.5, since the last of their 8-bit workstations went off the market 20 years ago. Anyone with a 5.x workstation see anything about virtual 24 bit in the x manpage? Because the 6.5 version doesn't mention it at all.

Well written applications do the legwork to find the best visual that's available on the hardware they're running on, and use that. You can use xwininfo to find out what visual any application with a window open is using. But the question of the hour is does XSGI from IRIX 6.5 still have the virtual 24 capability, `man xsgi` doesn't mention it...

He doesn't like Linux yet in the 24 years he's had in which to make the Mach kernel better than Linux, what has he done? Nothing. And that's really the problem, too much whining about non-free and open source and too little competing with them in the open marketplace. Build a better mouse trap Richard!

'Tis a thing 'o beauty!

One thing's for sure, the LibreSSL guys didn't think too highly of the state of the OpenSSL code when they forked it.

foetz wrote:

vishnu wrote: One thing's for sure, the LibreSSL guys didn't think too highly of the state of the OpenSSL code when they forked it.

they should've kept the build system tho. libressl comes with a bunch of crap such as hardcoded, gcc specific cflags and such

Well that's retarded. But apparently not as retarded as the OpenSSL codebase:

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00001.html

Even if only a tiny fraction of what he's saying is accurate, wow wwwww .. .

I had a hella time installing IRIX on my new Tezro, until I realized that the advertised-as-brand-new SCSI disk that I bought off ebay was toast. Things went much better after I put in a functioning disk...

foetz wrote:

• openssl_102.tardist

so that your box is safe

That's 1.0.2a, released today, right? Because they made five security fixes today to the 1.0.2 release in January...

commodorejohn wrote:

TeamBlackFox wrote: He would criticize your use of OS X, development of Classilla and TenFourFox based upon their license not being GPLv3, berate your non free hardware and AJX usage and narcissistically claim you are inferior to him. All in the span of just 5 minutes.

Bah, that's small potatoes. You're not really in trouble until he starts singing .

I think I've told this story before but back in the days when we all had Indigo2s on our desks we used to telnet around and play annoying sounds on each other's workstations. You could open the mixer and as soon as the person you were pranking turned it down you could turn it back up again. Well I was playing that song on my buddy Greg's workstation and the guy in the cube next to him walked in and pulled the power plug out of the wall! For anyone who's never heard it, yes, it is that annoying...

If you do a search for Irix on mathworks website you'll find plenty of people who will tell you of their experience! Or, have google do the search for you.

TeamBlackFox wrote: http://maxxdesktop.com/

Same project. Its unfortunately Linux only and blows chunks

Ha ha, don't mind TBF he's our local "anything licensed under the GPL blows chunks" advocate.

I had serious issues with its motif libraries so I stopped using it, but I'm a motif developer so anyone who's not going to use it for compiling motif applications it would probably be okay. It's by no means a finished product and the developer, Eric Masson, is apparently the only person SGI is allowing to have access to the source code, so it's a one-person project and he's really busy with other stuff in life so the project has been pretty much stalled where it is for many years.

nekonoko wrote: I think I found that file too - moved it to ftp://ftp.nekochan.net/pub/downloads/contrib/axatax

Thanks for pointing that out Pete! Twice...

C'mon guys, read back a little bit, yes this thread is old but Pete posted on Sunday that he'd found the supposedly-lost-forever file...

foetz wrote: according to the homepage: "(Feb-2015) * The official DR4 release is cancelled"
which means?

It says that on maxxdesktop.com? Because I'm not seeing it anywhere, or finding it using the search button.Link! Please...

TeamBlackFox wrote: While it is true I dont like GPL software, I was more referring to the fact that 5dwm/MaxxDesktop is a poor representative of what 4DWM can do. I use GPL software but I wish to one day go without it.

I would say I don't like the license. I don't think the authors of end-user software should use it. By which I mean software that's not part of the GNU system itself. As I keep pointing out, all the whining about non-free is just another way of saying "I'm not good enough to write what you guys can write, so you have to show me yours!" The BSD guys were right; if you want your software to be used by as many people as possible, you have to use an unrestricted license. FreeBSD is in use on millions of computers running OSX by people who would never in million years choose to use FreeBSD by itself. And to me that would be the biggest satisfaction, more users, not "give me back your changes you scurvy knaves! I know I can never write anything as good as that!"

Yes you certainly have to admire the power of his convictions! Unless he's got a hidden bunker deep in the bowels of the MIT AI lab, where he's running Androids and iPhones and Windows 10 and OSX-whatever-the-latest is.

And what is up with him and Alan Cox looking so much like twin sons of different mothers?!

smj wrote: I picked up (via Craigslist) the corner unit guardian452 shows, plus a matching table that goes well next to it. Came with a keyboard arm fitted, I added cable races all along the backs of both surfaces, and a twin monitor stand out of frame on the edge closest to the camera.

Obviously getting it used was cheaper, and unfortunately you can't count on anything like that. But, it's an excellent setup.

Poor quality photo, that's a few years out of date now... You can tell because there's nothing piled up on the floor.

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Do I spy with my little eye... A real Henry Miller Aeron?

Uh, that looks like it's just the free upgrade from 13.00 to 13.02. Although if that's the case those Windows instructions don't make much sense. But the Irix dl is only 225 kilobytes...

I've often noticed that autodesk tends to leave e v e r y t h i n g on their website, they might not even know it's there, so it probably makes sense to grab it sooner rather than later, because if a crapton of people start dling it, and it's not supposed to be there, it could be gone in a flash.

"Due to the high demand" ??? He's got to be kidding...

Supposedly there are aerons aplenty in the surplus market but it hasn't seemed to drop their prices appreciabely, you're the only person I know who's got one, are they as good as is claimed?

Irix 5.3 is full of holes, any one of a number of these should get you in, link:

http://www.exploit-db.com/platform/?p=irix

Note there are three pages in total.

Vector Electronics used to make an EISA prototyping board, the part number was 4619-3, I looked around and mouser and allied know what it is but don't have any in stock, and digikey and newark didn't know what it was. Picture (from octopart.com):

Plus I'm sure there's no one out there looking for Irix boxes to crack into, in fact probably the last remaining Internet facing Irix box was the Origin Pete used to use to host this place...

Very cool, it looks like a little erector set!

robespierre wrote:

vishnu wrote: Vector Electronics used to make an EISA prototyping board...

That board in the picture is either PCI or MCA, but definitely not EISA!

I had a sneaking suspicion that might be the case! Nonetheless Vector does make, or at least used to make, a prototype board like that for EISA, but since nobody seems to have one in stock it's probably more likely that they used to make them...

foetz wrote: 6000 bucks?

Reminds me of the scene in "Trouble With Tribbles:"

Trader: Four credits.
Cyrano Jones: Is that an offer or a joke?
Trader: That's my offer.
Cyrano Jones: That's a joke.