The collected works of vishnu - Page 31

Double hah, because my circa-1994 Permedia 2 card is still in use in my Linux/iptables firewall!



Which, by the way, has been up for a while:

Silly duck, see the dialog that says "it appears that this client does not understand the editres protocol?"

Go to the directory where the executable lives and do strings xdriver | grep "app-defaults" - that will give you the executable class name, then do strings xdriver | grep -i color or bg or bgcolor etc.

ivelegacy wrote: yo buddy, I am also trying to distill good vodka, and good grass in my greenhouse: oh, and a lot of MPUs and DSPs are controlling the grass, good grass without the need to call a good candyman, so call all of these " scientific projects "

Presumably there is no DEA in Italy then?

ivelegacy wrote: right man, I have just a pool of things waiting to be hacked when she is out. Call it "hobby"

Still waiting for you to post a pic of this mythic Lady GaGa lookalike...

ivelegacy wrote: oh, and about the attic, I had to struggle a lot to make a few photos, but I wanted to show you the big hole I have created in the floor in order to import the ethernet Cat5 into the cave-office .

PleaZe guys, appreciate my effort, I was taking the photo at the end of the stairs and the equilibrium was an hazard.

Holy crap you've got a terrazo tile roof!

And don't tell me you put in all the pvc piping just to route the cat 5???

With an Alice hack like that I think you need to be worried more about Umbrella Corporation security than the TSA...

ivelegacy wrote: how it might end of a DEA dude who rings my bell

• DEA dude : I am a Drug Enforcement Administration of Diversion Control Agent .. our quadcopters have taken photographs of your grass .. just a question, man: is that drug?
• me : it's a scientific experiment, combining the computer science, opto electronic for the lamps, and a lot of botanical matter, to learn how to make the growing curves more efficient, the science needs to know how to build an autonomous greenhouse!
• DEA dude : sorry?
• me : don't we aim to colonize mars? and before chineses will go there?
• DEA dude : oh great, alright, no problem with you, man, thank you for your collaboration, have a good day

(I am joking, they are chilli plants (e.g. red scorpion chilli), but I am really distilling vodka , and Limoncello , a lemon-flavoured Italian liqueur)

So you've got your own greenhouse too? Pic or I say it doesn't exist!

ivelegacy wrote:

vishnu wrote: And don't tell me you put in all the pvc piping just to route the cat 5???

they are old hydraulic tubes, they are not in use and I am not allowed to remove them, but I had to make a big hole in the floor in order to import the Cat5, it's an old house, it was not designed to have ethernet cables

Dude, no one, not even in Italy, would run hydraulics through PVC pipe, now what are they for really???

^^^Not to be too shallow or anything but Russian women are just so spankin' hot...

Okay, that was pretty shallow.

If you do 'strings xdriver' does it spew out a usage? Just by way of example if you do 'strings xclock' it gives (amongst pages of useless dreck)

Classic Unix mount problem. BTW the mount authors are still looking for the "n" that's missing from the umount command, anyone stumbling across it should send it to them at once...

Vladio wrote: BTW, thank you Vishnu! Apparently you "loaned" me an app which I had sitting on Drive2 just itching to be installed from Octane drive2 to Origin.

To paraphrase Jimmy Durante I got a million of 'em...

Nice!

What version of Maya did you use?

nongrato wrote:

vishnu wrote: What version of Maya did you use?

6.5.

Probably could be done in any modelling software, but Maya can export models to vrml.

Well it's very impressive! I had no idea CosmoWorlds had that level of functionality, I'll have to check it out...

The GLwMDrawingArea widget is open source, so you can compile that yourself, you should be able to get the GLX extension from IBM, in fact I'm a bit shocked it's not already in there, what version of AIX is it?

What does xdpyinfo | grep -i glx say?

Wow you guys are legend!

What OS do you run on those museum pieces?

So yeah, you def gots no glx extension then, sux to be at the whim of IBM but I can't imagine that extension isn't somewhere in the mass volume of installable AIX parts...

For me, on the PC in the 80s it was Wordstar, then a few years later (and still to this day) it's Turbocad. Any other die hard Turbocad users hereabout?

Welcome back to the Land of the Living...

hamei wrote:

vishnu wrote: Welcome back to the Land of the Living...

more or less ...

nekogeek.jpeg

True dat, these IRIX boxes we invest so much effort in keeping going really are the walking dead...

What we should do n order to compile this "modern" shite on our SGI's is to write and compile binary patches to MIPSPro that add the functionality that C and C++ now possess, that MIPSPro doesn't. Difficult? Yes. Impossible? Probably. Now, who's with me? Into the fray!

Yes to everything you guys have said but my point was that things like gtk and qt use language features that MIPSPro does not have, if we could add those features by patching MIPSPro we could compile latest versions of those widget sets, and all the modern killer apps like chrome and chromium and firefox. But since we're never likely to get our hands on the MIPSPro source code the only way we can do that is to patch the MIPSPro binary. Hence my statement that doing so would be either difficult or impossible. It's always been a mystery to me why no sgi engineers have ever outed themselves on here. Gotta be at least a few of them who are still fans of this stuff.

Interestingly this recent study found that "developers limit themselves to using goto appropriately in most cases, and not in an unrestricted manner like Dijkstra feared, thus suggesting that goto does not appear to be harmful in practice."

I think the GIMP is enmeshed with a pretty recent gtk2, but I would think that some of the folks around here with gcc 4.7 would be able to compile them both. Hmmm... Maybe they're in /beta but it's far too late at night for me to look, perhaps in the morning. If I haven't forgotten. Getting old sucks...

I'll try my hand at Maxwell again, as I recall I managed to get every object file to compile but the makefile did something really stupid with them that resulted in no useable binary. Yeah, I'm remembering it now, that makefile was the result of a hand-rolled Makefile.in that made no sense, I'll see if I can't doctor it up.
"Who are you?"
"I'm the Doctor!"
Said every episode of Doctor Who ever...

By a coincidence which may seem strange I have 331 goto statements in the blackjack simulator I've been writing since last December...

As far as I can tell gcc will not let you goto a label in another function. Example:
does not compile:

Vladio wrote: I'm actually watching Dr Who because of his good looking assistant...

Dude, the Doctor has companions not assistants. It's hamei who has an "assistant"...

rosehillbob wrote: What this means right now people are basically running an updated version of our MipsPro compiler under MIPS Linux!
I think we should get the compiler working back under SGI!

Oh, LLVM eh? I wasn't notified I'll have to clear it...

uunix wrote: [ot according to John Pertwee ..

Ah, Jon Pertwee! There, fixed that for ya... I for one have vivid recollections of his assistant Jo Grant as portrayed by the ever lovely Katy Manning.

Created a poverty pocket in the heart of Beverly Hills and oversaw the arrest of the entire Supreme Court but let's see, computer wise... Oh! I left digger running on my dual-Xeon but unbeknownst to me the splash screen had a memory leak and this was back in the days when Linux would just reboot when it ran out of memory and swap, crazy!

toolchest doesn't start the window manager, xsgi does, see here: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1/X11/Xsgi.z

As others have mentioned, for serial com to work the cable has to be a null modem cable. So definitely check that yours is and if it's not that's the first thing to try. Otherwise, since the disk doesn't spin up it could be a power supply problem, if you've got a voltmeter lying about you might as well check that. If either of those don't provide the magic bullet then pentium's worst case scenario is probably right...

DaJuice wrote: I realized upon boot was that the white LED bulb in the lightbar had gone out.

All the bulbs on mine are out except the red one (which is the one that's only on up to successful POST or thereabout), why they felt they needed to use incandescent bulbs is a design fail that defies logical explanation...

robespierre wrote: or the easier alternative, use behind a firewall

Concur. I've got a really solid firewall between my home LAN and the Internet and I've never had any security problems with my IRIX boxes at all. Although, disclaimer wise I don't use my IRIX boxes to surf the Internet. But many members here do and no one's yet reported that their IRIX boxes were attacked as a result...

Trippynet wrote:

DaJuice wrote: This machine does actually have a LED modded lightbar, The LED just gave out for whatever reason.

OK, that's even stranger. I'd guess either a wiring issue (snapped core or something), or whoever did it used the wrong resistor so that the LED burnt out.

It's easy to check if the diode is nuked since most voltmeters have diode checkers these days. I've had it on my todo list to do the diode mod to my light bar for about eight years now...

Ha ha; "Deviation from this specification will not be tolerated."

Not exactly OT but I've found recent versions of Firefox to be almost unusable on my Linux box, the text widget is dogmeat slow and the URL typeahead is worse. I switched to a recent version of Chromium and it has no speed problems at all. My box has two 3.2GHz Xeons with a custom kernel (3.6.13) which compiled only support for my hardware and only runs services/daemons I use. I know Firefox is deadly slow on old hardware but come on, 3.2GHz? Seriously? Strange things are afoot in Mozillaland...

techgrrl wrote: Also in some threads I've been reading they say to install 'neko_php5.sw.sapi_apache2' but when I bring up the software manager for the package it doesn't show a check box next to it as 'installable' - it has 'cgi' instead.

jpstewart is right, this is the problem, you've got to figure out a way to get this package installed. Is the software manager complaining of any conflicts? It loves to find conflicts...

ClassicHasClass wrote:

vishnu wrote: Not exactly OT but I've found recent versions of Firefox to be almost unusable on my Linux box,

Another reason to prefer the ESR builds.

I have not tried that but I can't imagine it would be doing anything different with the text input widget or the URL typeahead. Another thing, if firefox sits at youtube for a while, not watching any videos and not having it as the active window, if you go back to that window, it takes like a minute to become responsive. What the heck is up with that? It's been doing that for years. Chromium does not do that. I'll be sticking with Chromium for the foreseeable future it seems.

ClassicHasClass wrote: Also, TenFourFox FTW.

Me no gots Power Mac...

Also, if you haven't done it yet have a look at your /etc/fstab and purge anything that looks like it's an NFS mount. Someone mentioned earlier in the thread that it might be trying to load network volumes that the previous owner had but I don't think the cure of editing fstab was specifically mentioned...

I didn't actually do this, but, it's pretty crazy:

ARTHUR:
So we’re actually going to land in a minute?

CAPTAIN:
Well not, not, not so much land in fact, I think as far as I can remember we’re programmed to, er crash on it.

ARTHUR and FORD:
”Crash”?

CAPTAIN:
Yes. It’s all part of the plan. … I think. There was terribly good reason for it which I can’t… quite… remember at the moment.

FORD:
[Yells in exasperation] You’re a load of useless, bloody loonies!!

CAPTAIN:
Ah, yes, that was it, that was reason it was. Ha. Pass me the loofah will you?

[The ship crash lands]