The collected works of vishnu - Page 34

For anyone who may not have memorized it yet, the Viewkit developer's guide is here.

By a strange coincidence I have the Linux version of Viewkit that SGI released through ICS for a mere $200 about 15 years ago. ICS still has a webpage for Viewkit here, but they no longer list it as one of their available commercial products...

A maxed out system like that; whoever had it before you must have been doing some serious stuff with it. My Octane2 was a boring 400MHz V6 when I got it, but thankfully the disk hadn't been scrubbed and it had fully licensed versions of [redacted] [redacted] and [redacted] software on it. Kidding! I only kid. No seriously...

Ha ha brilliant action figure pic, thanks for posting it! I suppose I should know who that little guy is but I don't...

Nice! And, not to belabor the point made by foetz but it'd be nice to know what you used to make it...

ivelegacy wrote: my gentoo/IP30 has no GFX, I have installed an empty carrier

Well, I'm sure once you've got the kernel running all that nifty IP30 hardware you'll jump right onto the open source xserver for VPRO and MARDIGRAS...

A million thanks for doing this, you guys are the best!

Wow that thing is mint! Who'd ya get it from anyone we know? Can I have it?

A good start to what the Octane can do with its rather excellent audio hardware:

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1/dmedia/audio.z

It was a "last straw" situation, very regretable...

I know a guy who's got one, he hasn't used it in decades, I sent him an email asking him if he'd like to sell it but he hasn't responded, probably he's just not checking his email over the holiday season. Cue Santa smiley...

With respect to the forum Terms of Service, I always thought that "no politics please" was more of a guideline than a hard and fast rule. I also think that if a thread doesn't violate the TOS then the thread should not be locked just because a single post within the thread goes "too far." The mods have the ability to delete individual posts. Anyway, my opinions might change but not the fact that I'm right...

GL1zdA wrote: Not sure if this has been posted before, but I've just found the OCTANE Technical Report .

I had not seen that before, thanks for tracking it down, very well worth a read, it fleshed out a lot of details I'd always wondered about...

Hmmm, your system sounds pretty borked, you might want to try starting fresh. You can download bootable Solaris 10 CD/DVD images here:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris10/downloads/index.html

And you said they were FC-AL drives right? What's it say if you do probe-scsi-all?

The Solaris device mapper can get confused if there are two identical disks on the system, might want to try taking one of them out or create an extra partition on one to make them distinguishable from each other...

commodorejohn wrote: And now that I get it all in a text editor and look at it, I'd bet that the issue is this "unsupported logical block size" error. I just wonder how one goes about fixing that...

Ask... And you shall receive! http://www.glennklockwood.com/sysadmin-howtos/converting-blocksize-on-solaris.html

I don't think you can mount things on the USB from the OB prom...

Hot mix 18, apparently: http://www.vertexia.com/Hot_Mix_18/vendors/charybda/index.html

"Charybda's DIVER Batch Software for SGI a number of years ago, Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico-based Charybda used its DIVER software to automate tedious tasks necessary for transferring files with Silicon Graphic's IRIX operating system. DIVER (Digital Image and Video Encoder/Reformatter) automated functions including image file-format conversion, scaling and cropping, file-name manipulation, cross-platform conversion, and transfer to and from most major digital disk recorders. Recorders supported (connecting via a direct SCSI, GIO, or Ethernet connection) include Accom's WSD, RTD, Abekas A66, Abekas Diskus (Abekas is now owned by Accom), or Sierra Design Quickframe.

Users without D-1 recorders could output files to various tape backup systems for later transfer to D-1.

Now, release 3.3 of DIVER includes 10-bit YUV processing, matte-mode processing, and translation to and from Alias|Wavefront's Maya IFF file format. Charybda has improved file selection, and users can move between formats with a simple mouse click. Animators who are not programmers do not have to deal with command-line operations in a shell script; they can do batch image operations directly within DIVER's point-and-click interface. Prices are $1,500 for a single user or $7,500 for a ten-user license. Prices include six months of updates and support. For more information, contact Charybda at (505) 776-1400."

It looks from their website like they've permanently exited the software industry in favor of organic farming...

Most of the Linux SMP code came out of SGI, if you're of a mind to look at any of that. Probably you're not...

Dunno if MaXX is compiled with support for editres, but if it is then changing the fonts is easy. Otherwise, if there's no app-defaults file you can use xwininfo and xprop to find out as much as you can about the app (in particular you need its X Window classname) and then you can start hit-or-miss hacking up an app-defaults file for it...

I would post a pic of all the Maya books I've bought over the years, but nobody here (except maybe hamei) has a monitor with enough pixel resolution to load the f-ing thing. By which I"m trying to say, I bought a lot of Maya books...

It would take days to gather them all together, and then there's the risk of the accumulated mass sinking into a black hole, and I hate when that happens, it looks bad on my report...

Graphics hardware can make a difference, for example Adobe Premier on IP 30 works fine with SI, SSI and MXI but with VPRO it hangs permanently at launch, before even putting up it's splash screen.

Alias/Wavefront used to have extensive hardware qualification lists for what their binaries required, they assiduously wanted to avoid people buying their admittedly super expensive software only to find it wouldn't run on their hardware...

pkgsrc is kind of retarded (oops I prolly shouldn't use that word with a medical professional!), you have to have usr/sfw/bin/gcc in your $PATH as well.

Hmmmm, weird! 5dwm.org is still up as is the (empty) sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxxdesktop/

Wait, what? A MaXX backup on a Microsoft website? The Microsoft web team must have some seriously wonky renegades for something that weird to ever have happened...

Ha ha, you guys are all cooler than shite...

So I found an Nvidia Quadro FX 3000G lying around at work, I brought it to the IT guys and they said I could have it because they would just throw it in the recycle bin, now admittedly this thing is old but HP sold it for $3000 back in the day, and it's got a genlock and full multisystem visualization and multidevice film and video environment skills, so I'm hoping I'll be able to get it working with my Octane and Tezro VBOB's for doing... Really Cool Stuff. Anyway it took me all day to get it running on my Slackware machine because the Nvidia driver source code has to be hand hacked to get it to work with modern Linux kernels (like mine) that no longer support the acpi_remove_notify_handler() function call, and who's bright idea was it to remove that from the kernel source anyway? Some crazy ass crackers are saying Linus did it deliberately because he hates Nvidia, and, by extension, any Linux users who use Nvidia products.

All Sun^h^h^h, pardon me, "Oracle" Solaris software is free now, here's a link to dl Studio 12.4:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solarisstudio/downloads/

And here's a link for everything:

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

Eric, did you see the MaXX backup at live.com linked above? I didn't download any of the files so I can't verify if they are in fact genuine MaXX files, I guess the site is a Microsoft owned cloud service or somesuch weirdness...

sd1 just means the disk is at scsi ID 1, there should be more in the system log file, possibly even a description of exactly what's wrong with the thing...

No doubt it's a superior architecture but it would take major jingo jango from the VC's on Sand Hill Road to get it implemented competitively, and the experience they had with Transmeta will prevent that from ever happening.

jimmer, 0.4.2 would not build for me, I had to add #include "UI.h" and #include <iostream> to both UI_callbacks.C and UI_methods.C, which then worked...

Also, would you be so kind as to paste in the result of -ls -l /usr/lib32/libvk* for me? Thanks a bunch my viewkit library seems to be borked...

Don't know about PA but in Maya there's always been the option to turn off everything but the view window and run the program entirely from the hotbox. In these days of megapixel LCDs there's not really much of a reason to do that anymore. Oh hotbox, we miss you so....

Ah, how I long for the days of the tall return key...

Is it sitting on your ironing board though? Or is that one of those handy portable workbenches from the Home Despot. I need a bunch of stuff from the Home Despot. I think we all do...

Ha! Devil Master's new icon is from the video, outstanding ...

"Molecular modeling in cyberspace..."

Software wise, a lot of these will run on your Indy: http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/Catalog_of_Free_and_Commercially_supported_IRIX_software

Linus Torvald's on 13 November 2012:



Link to the original interview

Devil Master wrote:

vishnu wrote: Ha! Devil Master's new icon is from the video, outstanding ...

Actually, that's me, wearing a Z800 head-mounted display and Sony MDR-XD200 headphones.

Oh yeah, what I meant to say was inspired by the video not from the video, sorry!