The collected works of vishnu - Page 29

ClassicHasClass wrote: The Jurassic World previews have no SGIs in them and therefore the movie will suck.

Just did a quick check at imdb and unless I missed something (entierly possible) it looks like BD Wong and Alan Purwin (the helicopter pilot) are the only performers reprising their roles from the original movie...

hamei wrote:

In 1993 Alias started the development of a new entertainment software, later known as Maya which would become the industries most important animation tool. Steven Spielberg chose Industrial Light & Magic to provide the visual effects in 1993's Jurassic Park. In turn the animators at ILM picked PowerAnimator as the software of choice to model the huge prehistoric beasts. They delivered the very real looking dinosaurs with PowerAnimator and reaped the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

This is from a university web page ? Can any of these dipshits speak English ? I'd have got a 'D' and about thirty red pencil corrections for this in junior high school.

Aaah. "Dr. Wayne Carlson is the Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduates" .. people actually waste their hard-borrowed money on a degree from this so-called university ? This buffoon can't write even one complete sentence in English. He isn't qualified to be a dog-catcher. No wonder the US is sinking into a puddle of its own vomitous slime.

Actually he didn't write that, it says at the top of the page he cribbed it from the Alias website history section...

guardian452 wrote: I wonder where the one with "Ed McMuffin" is...

http://www.engology.com/eng5clark.htm

Clark and McCracken fought bitterly and at one point Clark replaced the nameplate on the chief executive's door with one reading `Ed McMuffin'. It is said that Ed took three days to notice the switch. Clark quit and looked for something new. He was not poor, but he was a pauper compared to the guys who had bought his equity at fire-sale prices.

Clark wrote about that in his book "Netscape Time," he said he changed the nameplate right after he'd hired McCracken and heard his little daughter mispronounce McCracken's name. But since McCracken had just been hired their well-publicized war had not yet started. Clark said McCracken appeared to be entirely devoid of any vestige of a sense of humor...

Pontus wrote: gosh.. what a whining lot you are..

Us? So you're not one of us now?

Pontus wrote: what about the Ebay auction, was it an Indigo proven to have been used for Jurassic Park CGI, or was it "just like one..." ?

Gotta say I looked on ebay right after the OP and could not find said auction. Thought that was a bit strange...

If all it's borking is the toolchest just grab the system.chestrc (or whatever it's called, don't have mine on at the mo to check for sure), copy it to your home directory as .chestrc and edit to your heart's content!

mopar5150 wrote: ...they are usually hammered or missing parts.

It's a never ending source of amazement to me how bad of shape these things are in, given what their original owner's must have paid for them you'd think they would have cautioned their users against mishandling, if not deliberate abuse.

Pontus wrote:

vishnu wrote:

Pontus wrote: gosh.. what a whining lot you are..

Us? So you're not one of us now?

Well! I'm... Uhm.. it's actual... OK! I'm a whiny internet forum poster as well

At my place of employ we call it BMWC, bitch moan whine and complain...

rwengerter wrote: esentation of WHIRL, too which can be dumped after a compiler phase.

If you want to see for yourself I have attached WHIRL documents from sgi and from Open64.

Thanks for that, I had no freaking idea sgi was still doing anything with compilers, wonders!

ClassicHasClass wrote: Here's a picture.
http://www.floodgap.com/iv/2580

Hey a closeup of that nameplate would be interesting! I've worked with SAIC on many projects over the years. The easiest way to describe them is to say they're basically the human equivalent of the Borg. Any technology you have that they don't, even if it's completely unrelated to what you're working on with them, they will assimilate it...

I've got the IRIX version of Catia five-point-something, but no license. If you contact them and ask about acquiring an IRIX license they just go

I'm pretty sure if you use gmake instead of Irix make that problem will go away.

Also, I don't know how I forgot this but foetz and I have already dragged the mozilla xfe widgets into the modern era: http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=16729171&p=7374588&

markh wrote: But does yours contain the grid widget that Microline has?

Uh... No?

markh wrote: But does yours contain the grid widget that Microline has? I downloaded the xfewidgets source from the link you mentioned, but didn't see it.
As to your suggestion of using gmake. I would like to, but the first command I need to execute is "xmkmf -a" and that immediately gives the above error.

Move make to something like sgi_make and then make gmake a simlink to make.

Looks like it was pretty useful, abandonware at this point apparently. More info:

https://www.nasa.gov/ames/spinoff/real_time_simulation/#.VY7GKReVv0M

guardian452 wrote:

shyouko wrote: I read the heroine ran all the time with her heels throughout the movie...

Substitute "heels" for 7" stilletos, and add "the 1600M Olympic finals while being eaten by dinosaurs" after "ran" for a better effect

Slate's take on "the backlash" over Bryce Dallas Howard's choice of footware in the movie:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/06/15/bryce_dallas_howard_s_high_heels_are_not_sexist_they_re_the_best_part_of.html

Very sorry to hear of your unravelling sitch but seriously, you have to leave Virginia? What, court order? New job opportunity elsewhere? I would think a man of your prodigious skills and experience would practically have to pound the headhunters off with a club...

EDIT: Never mind, I saw the explitive in your development thread. [EDIT REDUX: Additional insolicitous comment redacted].

armanox wrote:

uunix wrote: LDR?

Long Distance Relationship

Apparently the Kingdom is too small for such things as LDRs...

I was a bit surprised that they let nedit.org expire, but upon further reflection I realized there is no "they" anymore, none of the Fermilab folks have had anything to do with the project since they badgered DoE into letting them GPL the code. If you read Mark Edel's slashdot interview it becomes fairly clear why. There are a tiny handful of people (myself included) who still hang around on the mailing list. If it wasn't for Scott Tringali it would surely be abandonware by now...

Speaking of Nvidia an EVGA Geforce 5700 that I'd been using for, let's see, eleven and a half years ate itself last night. I get a million "Failed to allocate context pattern *** Aborting ***" messages and the screen stays dark. Gotta hand it to the Nvidia engineers for packing a world of information into such a terse error message!

Anyway, back on topic, yaaaaaaay Maxx Deskop! I've been a user since the very first days of 5Dwm...

uunix wrote: If they don't live in the same village, it's LDR.

Have been to the kingdom a few times, have seen the inter-village transport facilities and infrastructure, the phrase "donkey powered rickshahs" comes to mind, and so I concur with your sentiment.

zagnut wrote: Well, photo editing would fall into the pro category...not sure about RAID serving for that purpose though.

There's an Irix version of Photoshop 3, ancient but still usable. And any of the Irix versions of Shake are still world class at all aspects of photo editing, not to mention compositing.

magnet wrote: Im curious, has anyone ever ported an old mac os (system 7 or 8 ) to a MIPS SGI? Im not educated in fruit OS. Many years back I had a PowerBook 1400c....a beautiful laptop for its generation. I regret disposing of it But I digress....

Uh, wouldn't you need the source code to mac os 7 or 8 to do that? Did Apple release that source code? I must have missed that press release...

There's a fella on Ebay who sells Irix on 10 (and occasionally 15) K SCSI disks for a very reasonable cost. Not sure if he's got any on there ATM (too lazy to check) but a search for Irix && SCSI will eventually turn him up. With regard to the use of Linux vs. Irix, I hasten to point out that the prevailing sentiment among most members here (heretics notwithstanding) is "why would you ever want to run Linux on such a unique piece of hardware as that?!

It would appear that hamei is deleting posts to keep his post count at the rather artistic number of 10101. Outed!!!

It's a toothed coupler, typically used to connect a motor to something that needs power, like a pump or... Something!

zagnut wrote: Does this look like a good deal? http://www.ebay.com/itm/121679911986

That would be an outstanding deal if they were working, still a good deal even if they're not. From the pictures they look mint, not a spec of dust, possibly they've never even been turned on...

Altix-shmaltix! If it can't run Irix it's crap...

jan-jaap wrote: Never turned on? Are we looking at the same Origin350 or are you being sarcastic?

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Condition:    For parts or not working
Seller Notes: THE ITEMS HAVE COSMETIC WEAR THEY WERE POWER ON TESTED ONLY.

It's missing a drive bay door, most of the 19" rackmount rail kit, and the NUMA cable to connect the two units.

Beasts like these can aquire plenty of cosmetic wear just from being moved around, shoved under benches, propped up against walls, etc. If they never had rack hardware they may never have been mounted and thus may never have been used. Admittedly the pictures are a little blurry but the insides look dust-free, which is always the first best indicator of lack of use...

And it doesn't complain about the xserver missing the XSGI extension?

My method of transport is a rusted-out '97 Nissan Maxima with 185,000 miles on it; got stopped by the local constabulary on Thursday morning so they could point out that my cracked windshield is an equipment violation, and she (the officer) marveled at the fact that my passenger seat was missing. I looked over at the blank spot and said "I don't get a lot of riders." She gave me a look like "why the F did I ever want to become a police officer anyway" but all she said was "have a nice day" as she handed my license back and turned to walk back to her Crown Vic...

We used, or rather tried to use, IGBTs to trigger a power source that was 5 parallel banks of 70 optima redtop batteries in series (350 batteries total), into an equivalent load of 1 ohm. Didn't work too good. There were a lot of flames and smoke...

Darned impressive stuff, you guys are legends to my way of thinking!

70 batteries in series, with a relay between each ten, around 900 volts because they were Optima Redtops which fully charged are 13.1 volts. We had five of those that we put in parallel, so we could dump each of the five into a single load, which was this launcher. The load was an ESR of about an ohm so each bank dumped about a kiloamp into the load, five kiloamps through the load in total. Each of the five banks was switched into the load with an IGBT, and the output of each bank had a big flyback diode in series to keep the banks from trying to dump into each other if their output voltages didn't match. We tried to keep the banks charged with a 1000 volt power supply, which taught me some very hard lessons about series charging multiple batteries, which is to say, you can't do it! Maybe if you had two or three batteries which were all in an exact same condition of charge and sulfation, but 70 batteries? No way, it can't be done. You get one or two bad apples in there and they dump waaaaaay more than their share of the voltage, now you're cooking the sons of bitches so I would go up and down the lines with a battery tester and if one had more than 16 volts across it I would slap that thing on there and suck a few hundred amps from it for four or five seconds to knock it back in line, it was a crazy ass game of whack a mole and though it worked obviously it was completely impractical as a long term maintenance solution.

I also built up a kick ass desulfator that would dump 50 amp pulses at a five percent duty cycle at a thousand hertz, I found I could recover fully discharged Redtops, which is to say, Redtops that were down below a volt, in about 24 hours with that thing. The problem with commercial desufators is they're too wimpy, you've got to hit a sick battery hard if you want to recover it in less than a month...

Trippynet wrote: You've beaten me. I'm currently driving a 2000 VW Bora with 138,000 miles on it. It's in surprisingly good nick actually. No rust, all passenger seats present, even the air-con still works.

My commute is 20 miles all freeway which, given the winters around here amounts to 40 miles a day through road-salt enfused mist, which no rust preventative can withstand.

Trippynet wrote: I think if I ditched the passenger seat though the wife would definitely make me replace it

A few years back my wife realized that divorce was a great career move with an excellent retirement plan. If she ever needs a ride anywhere she has to sit on the floor...

I ran 5Dwm as my main desktop for years on Slackware, but the releases after the project was rebranded to Maxx were problematic specific to Motif apps. This would have been with Slackware 13 through 13.37, I have not tried it with 14.0 or 14.1. As I recall the problem was that motif windows would come up black on black, which obviously made it a bit tough to get any serious work done...

spiroyster wrote: using namespace , is frowned upon as all it does is allows you use std stuff without typying 'std::' in front of it.

Yes doing something like using namespace std; is generally recognized as bad form but I frequently do things like using std::cout; and using std::endl; to avoid the monotony of having to type std:: a million times in front of library function calls. Just my 2 cents YMMV.

With a cryptohash of its mac address, sgi serial number and the address of the manufacturing facility in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin...

There's a full price list from 2006 posted (as a pdf) here: http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16728414

No Octane systems in the list because Octanes were discontinued after 2004, but there are prices for the Octane accessories that they were still offering. Some of those numbers are a bit out there...

Vladio wrote:

vishnu wrote:

Pontus wrote:

vishnu wrote:

Pontus wrote: gosh.. what a whining lot you are..

Us? So you're not one of us now?

Well! I'm... Uhm.. it's actual... OK! I'm a whiny internet forum poster as well

At my place of employ we call it BMWC, bitch moan whine and complain...

"BMWC", gotta borrow this!

It does sort of roll off the tongue doesn't it...

Was offhand listening to right wing rabble rouser radio at work today and I probably don't remember the numbers right but they were saying that the entire US stock market in 1980 was worth something like 1 trillion dollars, and today it's worth something like 60 trillion. A trillion here a trillion there pretty soon you're talking about real money!

guardian452 wrote: ...specially the mental cases such as mild depression that requires $80/month addictive medication that will eventually turn into $300/month medication (again... 'addictive').

Uh, pretty sure that SSRIs, which are almost exclusively used for treatment of depression these days, are not considered habit-forming. Disclaimer-wise I have never taken one but my ex gf did (paxil), and she had no problem tapering off it over the period of just a few weeks.

uunix wrote: Don't even get me started if the Wedding was on a bank holiday and you had a broken arm! OMG.. and then there's the school holiday period!

I broke my arm once, at summer camp. Fell off a horse. An Arabian stallion. A big one. That was galloping at full speed. I had never ridden before, they were supposed to be teaching me how. Their "instructions" amounted to putting me in the saddle, then taking off down the road on their horses at full speed and telling me to follow...

guardian452 wrote:

hamei wrote: What would happen if I started selling blenders that ran on 93 volts, 35 hz ac ? "Well, once upon a time in Bumfuck, Idaho, the electricity used that voltage and frequency ..." Yeah right. Good luck with that, Bunky.

Well, then, you are expected to include at no extra cost a power supply that can provide that.

That's pretty much what took Apollo 13 out of their mission plan...