The collected works of vishnu - Page 33

I urge you in the strongest possible terms to reconsider, without you, who will we have to call "bullshit" on all the...bullshit?

robespierre wrote: Techpubs seems to have already removed its IRIX 6.2 and 5.3 section. Are those backed up somewhere?

I'm sure they've got a backup of it, that they will never in a million years release to the public...

I agree with "no politics," especially since our membership is so international, why should anybody care about what I think about the congressman who represents the 4th congressional district in Minnesota? Nobody should, so I shouldn't be allowed to waste everyones time and Pete's disk space and bandwidth blabbering about it. However, in my opinion, how the international community reacts to a world crisis does not fall under the category of politics. If posting something heated about the crisis in Syria is a violation of the TOS, then the TOS should explicitly say so. So instead of saying just no politics, how about "no politics, nothing contentious, libelous, religious, sacrilegious, sacrosanct, heretical, antithetical, bellicose, partisan, polemical, or anything that might cause irritable bowel syndrome to erupt in any other member. In short, keep it to rainbows, ponies and the like. Thank you! The Management."

That's a beaut!

Mopar didn't have any provenance as to where it came from? If anyone's looking to buy I believe he still has a ton of good stuff available...

skywriter wrote: I also got the Pro to see if the extra 3 inch diagonal would help my mom read. Her sight is so far gone giant font's on a mid size iPad is so large you can only fit 7-8 words on the screen.

My mom had the same problem due to cataracts, so she had cataract surgery that was entirely unsuccessful and only made things worse. She had abnormal interior eye pressure that had to be treated with eyedrops for the remainder of her days. Hope your mom does better...

hamei wrote: okay, gottit

Phew! I'ze scared there for a minute...

Wings3D is written in Erlang!

I've always thought of Erlang as a weird corner case language but according to ivelegacy it's the Way of the Future, who knew? Well, apparently he did...

Time for an update; something's regressed, now it's crashing before it can open its window, I have no idea what's going on I had it working at the end of November. Well, working in the sense that you could type into it, change the fonts, do bold and italic, you couldn't open a file or save one without a crash but at least you could try out the features on the default blank document that it opens to. I really don't want to upload the working copy I've got if it can't even open a window. Continuing with the debug, will update with status when there's more status to update...

Using a lighter to do the heat shrink; that's a trick I learned in 'Nam...

Think I've posted this before but we, by whom I mean my co-workers and I, were working on the infamous Sandy Point Range at Aberdeen Proving Ground circa 1989-1990, and at that time they were still using a PDP 11 to run an automated pressure transducer calibration on their ballistic devices before each test. Was très cool...

Thanks dexter!

I'm really at a loss, I didn't change anything, I just left town for a week and when I got back it had bitrotted into a new crash bug.

skywriter wrote: The worst was Goldfire http://his.com , so called 'innovation' tools.

Typo! It's ihs dot com not "his dot com"...

skywriter wrote: arg! damn you auto-correct!!!!

Har!

So it's vaporware huh? Expensive vaporware: "However a typical entry-level configuration of Invention Machine Goldfire starts at about $100K."

Here at the 'ol saltmine we use PTC's stuff for that, their CAD software is pretty good but the rest of it is mostly bloated fluffware: http://www.ptc.com/product

Have you tried using gimp_pixel_rgn_init() to write the Wavefront image data directly into a GIMP image region, and then you can save that as a new image?

Yes all of Suns ^h^h^h^h "Oracles" Solaris products are free now, provided you're not a big commercial company. Presumably their "educational" user category includes those of us who have Blades sitting in our home computer rooms.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/

Sounds like a great box, you must have gotten it for a song because even the Blade 2500 Silvers are going pretty cheap on Ebay these days.

I can't remember how much I paid for my Blade 2500, which is a good thing, because if I could I'd probably be pretty upset about it...

The Ultra 45s are nice, but they're not that much nicer than the Blade 2500s to justify the Chinese telephone numbers the sellers are asking for them.

ivelegacy wrote:

ivelegacy wrote: ( emm, I am touching for good luck )

emmm, and many superstitious beliefs and practices are connected with sneezing
so my handkerchief said (like an oracle) there is no hamei's departure, just a common cold

Norman, coordinate...

[[[ - insert hamei rant about use of /usr/local/ here - ]]]

And there's always ^Z...

necron2600 wrote: Some errors in cmake or autogen.sh logs seem to be "Identifier va_list is undefined"

The problem there is that variable argument lists aren't implemented in MIPSPro C++. Depending on how much they're used in GemRB that can be either a slight pain in the ass or a complete show stopper, which for example it was with Dillo. What we should probably do is get the gnu va_list source code and compile it into a library and stick it in /usr/nekoware/lib and document in the wiki that you have to link against it to get va_lists to work in MIPSPro C++. I'd be willing to do that but I won't be able to get to it until the first week in January since my year-end todo list is at the total nightmare level this year.

We, by whom I mean my fellow employees and I, wrote a lot of software for the Army's vaunted Future Combat System. SECDEF Robert Gates canceled it because it was more along the lines of fighting a massive Soviet incursion into western Europe, which at the time didn't seem too likely. Seemed like a good idea at the time, now, not so much.

Huh!

I had an 8-track tape player in my '71 Challenger, I don't remember what brand it was but I'm pretty sure it wasn't SGI....

dexter1 wrote: ...which is strange since wholeparty is a std::vector<Injured> template and std::vector does have the .at() class function. So this needs weeding through code.

Sometimes you can fix that by moving the #include <vector> line to a different place in the source code file, for example try moving it to be the first #include directive in the file. For some reason the preprocessor gets confused if it's already read in a bunch of headers and the compiler starts calling non-member errors on things that definitely are members...

Say what you will about Javascript but Is it any coincidence that within a year of Brendan Eich fleeing the Mozilla Corporation firefox has become so buggy as to be essentially unusable? No it is not.

If I were Brendan I would call that poetic justice...

"Isn't that the tape drive they call "The Widowmaker" Tim?"

That is one happenin' hot spot!

Here's another copy of the manual, looks like it's a router alright, sucky...

That's top notch investigative coding dexter, nice work!

fleetingthought wrote: I came so close to pulling the trigger on that deal, except I was pretty sure I wouldn't survive long enough to enjoy it.

Uh, that just does not sound good!

If you want to be able to open 3D images and spin them around then you need opengl for sure, but you might want to consider SDL for all other image types, the IRIX version has everything you need and it's fast...

Loving devoted wife or Tezro... Split decision!

Am away from my SGIs through Jan 4 but will definitely be seeking to contribute to this effort thereafter...

silicium wrote: EDIT2 - power supply fan control stuck in fast mode...

I'm sure you know but if you have a card in XIO slot D fastfan is always on regardless of whatever other slots are populated. Some members have conjectured that setting fastfan=0 in your environment prevents that, I have yet to try it but as soon as I get a fourth XIO card in my Octane2 I plan to...

Two V12s each with a DCD! Do you actually run it with four monitors? Permanent fastfan?

Santa is a Time Lord and his sleigh is a Tardis. Like The Doctor's Tardis is chameleoned to look like a police call box Santa's is chameleoned to look like a sleigh with eight tiny reindeer...

dieu wrote: Just curious, is any other place good like nekoware ?

For software that runs under IRIX? No. To paraphrase, we are all that's left of their religion...