The collected works of vishnu - Page 35

necron2600 wrote: The node board should be the same as the Tezro, and that fits in a desktop case already with the Tezro.

I've got a Tezro so I can say with some authority that you need a really big desk for it to be used as a desktop...

V12 can't do more than 1920x1200, dual V12s can give you twice that but you need two monitors. Unless, I guess I don't know if modern monitors can take inputs from two graphics cards and show them side by side. I suppose probably they can.

Anyway, an ancient sgi graphic showing an Octane with two V12s:

My place of employ following the infamous Armistice Day Blizzard, in the lower left corner the watercourse is the Mississippi River:

So wait, you're saying there are three disks in that tiny little thing? Wonders! Looks cool as hell though, can I have it?

Running CDE or the Java desktop?

I worked at the NASA Goddard Wallops Flight Facility during 1999 - 2000, the launch buildings were like museums of the early years of rocketry.

You guys are a regular education!

All I can say is that vfo stuff makes my head hurt. I've read multiple times recondas' explanation of how to write and compile them, and never understood a single word. hamei posted numerous times about his multiple-thousand pixel T221 monitor, and I read those posts, so I should have known better. It's off to the punishment room...

FTA:

"this editor rhapsodizes about exciting misfeatures of the new instant format like tilt-to-pan images, which means if you don't hold your phone steady, the photos will drift around like a Ken Burns documentary."

OMG I busted out laughing when I read that, and I honestly almost never laugh out loud...

Yeah, CDE is faster but it fails the like factor for most folks (don't tell zizban! ). I'm still huffing down the mwm koolaid from Motif 2.1.30 on my main workstation...

ClassicHasClass wrote: For things like Firefox and other gtk-based apps, do they still run okay under CDE? I imagine they would, I've just never tried. Java Desktop has enough little differences from regular GNOME that it feels unique, but, yeah, de gustibus non disputandum.

the sales engineer pulled out his tadpole.

No wonder we have such issues with women in STEM.

True dat...

And this...

guardian542 wrote: I'll show myself out...

Hey we buy from those guys!

We control all our power systems through fiber, that way when they flash over there's no conductive path back to our sorry asses...

What editor did you use to change emu_dd.o? If I may be so bold as to enquire...

Still down. Somebody wanna send Eric a PM? He was just here last week so presumably he still wants to keep things scootin' along...

The prevailing sentiment seems to be that SGI and Sun deliberately made installing their OSs difficult in the hope of increasing their field service revenue.

They just put everything up and leave it up until someone bitches, then, if it looks like the complainant is well enough heeled they take it down...

We use Orcad 16-point-something at work but it is mondo expensive. LT Spice, in addition to being the best Spice ever , has great schematic capture but no PCB layout capability.

Depending on how many channels you want it would get prohibitively expensive to use multiple VBOBs or the Challenge series Sirius Digital Video options. If you only want two channels, either of those would be fine. Obviously you already know that's not what they were designed for...

There's really nothing to worry about, nobody who's written serious code thinks that anything approaching human self-awareness, much less actual intelligence, is going to come out of a computer program...

The Maya coders take pride in the fact that they've never changed the user interface, if you know 2016 you'll instantly be able to be productive with 6.5. I have never used a version newer than 6.5, but members here who have have said the new features are "cruft." If you're happy with what Blender gives you you'll be fine with 6.5.

Maya 6.5 Unlimited also comes with Mental Ray which in my humble opinion is better than any other Irix renderer, but obviously you can export to any Mac - Linux - Windows renderer.

Now, for hardware I would say you'd want a V12 2-processor Octane (or a 4-processor Tezro) rather than a Fuel, the extra processors make a big difference if you want to run Mental Ray while you're modeling or in particular if you're playing back scenes.

Is there a doctor in the house!!! Turns out yeah, there is...

uunix wrote: Analog-->SD convertor I purchased from Blackmagic...

To paraphrase Hit-Girl herself, "Hey I've got one of those!"

"Cooking With Dog" ...

To serve man! "It's a cookboooooook..."

Hem hem, bit of a testimonial here but in my case I've got a maxed out Octane2 and a quad 700 Tezro and I do not find their performance to be disappointing on any of the high end apps I've got (Shake, Maya, Catia, Pro/E), and I in particular do not wish to spend the tens of thousands of dollars it would cost to upgrade to their "modern" equivalents. So in summary I expect my sgi's to remain important to me for far into the foreseeable future...

My former inside guy at sgi (he's at Cray now) told me many years ago that sgi management had long since ceased to care about Irix installables showing up in the wild. I mean, if you called sgi and asked to buy an Irix license would they even sell one to you?

Octane is a freakin' marvel; a true workstation in every sense of the word, every component engineered to the nines, tight tolerance precision machined parts, giant heatsinks and fans to keep it running no matter what, zero internal cables, same HEART as used in sgi's highest-end supercomputers, who wouldn't want one? Oh wait, every member here who can't stand more than 50 decibels of fan hum...

Much to my amazement there are still seven nekochan hits at sgi.com.

uunix wrote: they still cannot comprehend the 'Double Tap' method.. hit the evil guy once.. hit him again..

Then you put the third one between his eyes and it becomes the The Mozambique Drill

I don't think you nuked it due to improper storage, it probably died of natural causes. Static sensitive chips are vulnerable by themselves but once they're soldered into a big ass printed circuit card like the Onyx2 raster managers they're pretty safe...

The Maya coders always blame that on "the user's corrupted preferences," and say to reset to the Maya default. At the risk of being obvious, if you can't afford to be without your prefs, back them up before you do the reset...

Yep, fastfan is why my Octane's C slot will forever remain empty...

I'm pretty sure it's not very hot on Oberon, since it has no atmosphere. I think you could make a pretty good case for Jupiter though, it's known to be pretty toasty there...

Eric said he was going to look into why the site's been down a week or two ago. But that's sort of been the history of this project, short bursts of enthusiasm followed by long periods of radio silence. PM him or send him an email (maxxi.desktop -> gmail.com, don't know if he reads it or not), either way don't expect much, he's a busy guy with a burgeoning family... 0_o

There are always a couple of indys on ebay, usually ridiculously overpriced (I wouldn't pay 10 bucks for one), but taste is a matter of taste. In my own case, we've still got an indy in production where I work, that we use for running a fairly ancient but still eminently usable version of PV Wave, which still works great...

skywriter wrote: ...girls really don't have any other characteristics other than their breasts.

Your point being?

I honestly don't find the fans in my unmodified octane2 to be that loud, though it's entirely possible that the reason why is that my hearing has been irrevocably damaged by my lifelong loud rock 'n roll obsession...

uunix wrote:

vishnu wrote: I honestly don't find the fans in my unmodified octane2 to be that loud, though it's entirely possible that the reason why is that my hearing has been irrevocably damaged by my lifelong loud rock 'n roll obsession...

Or slot C is empty ?

Always and forever...

So we use the Nato Reference Mobility Model in our vehicle simulator, I was hacking on it the other day and noticed something one of our Ph.D physicists wrote; thought it was a hoot:

I have pretty bad tinnitus in both ears which I don't hear when my computers are on because they drown it out, so really the white noise from the fans is a relief for me. You kids out there; be careful with the volume levels on your headphones, you don't want to end up like this old fart!

GIJoe wrote: never seen anybody use the hotbox much though, outside of demo videos. that thing looks like it would need some serious customization to become useful. can only take in so much text at once - arghl.

From what I've heard the hotbox was popular with people who used Maya for their full time employment back in days before 2000+ pixel screen widths became available. Like so much else with Maya or any other high end 3D application, the hotbox is a royal PITA for occasional users...