The collected works of vishnu - Page 36

Well, but he's a physicist not a coder I'm pretty sure he doesn't know anything about the preprocessor. The code is copyrighted but this little snippet is free and clear for "fair use" wherever you'd like. The code is patented so the whole thing is totally "out there" compared to this tiny snapshot.

The best parts of Irix, in particular the SMP code, are now in Linux. And, in theory anyway Eric Masson has the blessing of SGI to to port the Irix interactive desktop to Linux. So, all you Irix loving Linux haters, pppppttttttffffffhhhhh!

You hardware guys are weird...

Yep NRMM is fortran, this particular Ph.D is a fortran whiz who only learned enough C++ to to call his fortran functions from the vehicle model, which we originally wrote in C. When we converted it to C++ I went through and converted all the #defines to consts, and of course you're right he should have used const float INCH = 39.37 and stuck it in the header file. Actually there are horrible amounts of code duplication everywhere. Apparently that's what you get when scientists write a million lines of code before they let a software engineer take a look at it...

skywriter wrote:

vishnu wrote: You hardware guys are weird...

we're the ones that makes software guys even weirder!!

For funzies I just did a regexp for "weird" in the mozilla codebase and got 571 hits in 400 files...

It never went back up after he said he was going to check on it a couple of weeks ago...

Krokodil wrote: Buttttt. Linux is becoming less and less like UNIX and becoming more and more ruled by the whims of systemd. It's quite possible there won't be much UNIX left down the road.

Slackware doesn't use systemd...

uunix wrote:

dexter1 wrote:

vishnu wrote: Slackware doesn't use systemd...

My first Linux system in '93 </misty-eyed>

DITTO .. I think it either came on the front of a magazine or I bought it from a Computer Fair..

I got it on 50 floppies from one of the IT guys at work. I was like, how do I install these and he said one of the disks had a README that explained it...

uunix wrote:

skywriter wrote: Binge-watching BSG reboot (who in their right mind could watch the 1st one?) for the 4th time. I discovered this gem late in life.

What? What? New Battle Star? Where? How? When? How do I get this?

I've got the miniseries and every episode on DVD! During one of the seasons the New York Times tv critic said "BSG is the best show on tv," note, he didn't say the best sci fi show, he said the best show. And, he was right...

Well, there was Caprica, but I don't think anybody watched it. I thought the the girl was pretty cute though...

In order to get BSG I think you have to watch every episode, in order. I can see where if you came in in the middle and skipped episodes it would be hard to get the point. They were covering topics in their society, the equivalent of which in our society no one's willing to go near, in terms of popular entertainment. I don't ordinarily agree with the New York Times about anything, but what their reviewer said I think was true, it was the best show on tv at the time...

I'm not speaking from experience but from what it looks like in chapter 4 of this document, it can be done: http://download.autodesk.com/us/systemdocs/pdf/EffectsEditing2007_Hardware_Setup_SGITezro-Octane2.pdf

My passwords are all dramatically different, but my username remains the same (apologies to Led Zeppelin)...

We bought some code from Georgia Tech, a 6DOF written in fortran entirely by one guy, one of their aerospace professors, we tried to build it with gcc's fortran compiler and got like 25,000 warnings and errors. So naturally we asked them what they used to compile it, turns out it was a 20 year old version of Microsoft's fortran compiler. Now, I'm not unused to the phenomenon of bitrot due to compiler improvements, but 25,000 warnings and errors? Our department manager wanted to scrap it but our Ph.D fortran whiz fixed the code himself, which is to say he fixed it without referring back to anyone at Georgia Tech. He assures us it still runs the same...

Krokodil wrote:

dexter1 wrote:

vishnu wrote: Slackware doesn't use systemd...

My first Linux system in '93 </misty-eyed>

It's yet to be seen how long that will last. It might not ever get systemd, but Slackware is a candidate for the Dead Pool.

It might not have the market share it once had ( *cough* 100 percent *cough* stick that up your Ubuntu and smoke it!) but I would argue that the upcoming release of 14.2 is as up-to-date as any of the currently popular distributions, which have whole giant companies behind them (mucking up the works).

I reiterate what robespierre said about spending your days logged in as root (not saying you are doing that, but if you are, that's begging for disaster, proper Unix hygiene is to spend your days logged in as a regular user and only su to root when you need to perform an administrative task). With regard the the Toolchest, having a ~/.chestrc should trump any settings that would otherwise default to the system-wide toolchest configuration file, see here:
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&raw=1&fname=/usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1/toolchest.z

pentium wrote: Admiring more of my photographs.

Scan-160224-0001.jpg

I think I saw that scene in Inception...

Since I never use my Sun to access the outside world I have my firewall set to drop every packet that it emits that wants to cross the boundary, same for both my SGI's...

Just checked the mozilla codebase; they did not refrain from using the f-bomb, 27 times in 11 files, though most of it seems to be related to spell checking. Gotta wonder who felt it was important to make sure people weren't misspelling such permutations as fuck, fucker, fuckhead, motherfucker and motherfucking...

BSOD, lol~!

A bit surprisingly the english isn't that bad. Whois says cdn77 dot com and dot org belong to someone named Zdenek Cendra...

fleetingthought wrote: Too bad about the flame install, after a bit of googling, it looks very interesting.

Flame (originally named Flash) has been at the top of the heap in most Hollywood special effects studios for the last 25 years at least, so yeah it's interesting...

rosmaniac wrote: ...I have a 6.5.24 overlay set on the way from an eBay seller, but was hoping to get up to 6.5.30; and the eBay sellers who want $425 or $700 for a set..... well, I can't swing that. Oh well, it is what it is.

Well, you could always be bold, daring and reckless, and fill this out clicking "other" and asking for 6.5.30. Personally, I'd be more than a little interested in their response. If they say "no we won't sell it to you" it basically amounts to carde blanche to find it anywhere you possibly can in the wild. Of course, then (according to the letter of the law) you have to contact them again and ask to buy license to actually use it. Once again I'd be interested in their response. If they say "no we won't sell you a license...."

Imaging techniques for O2 developers:

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/Imaging_techniques_for_O2_developers

Enjoy!

This is brief but to the point:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/163933/sun_history_in_pictures.html#slide1

jammaster wrote: I love this workstation!
I'd like to buy one but just to know:
What is the best graphic card for this system?
Elite3D-M6, XVR-1000? (official, unofficial? ... The workstation is badged with the framebuffer installed)
How do it perform opengl with huge texture workload? as well as an SGI octane Odyssey card?

Thank a lot!

The XVR-1000 is the best bet on the Ultra 80, if the one you're going to buy has the framebuffer, that's the worst so you want to upgrade for sure if you can find one for a reasonable price which I'd say would be no more than 50 USD. As far as texture workloads in OpenGL, it's got 256 meg of dedicated texture memory, so, as long as you stay below that it should be pretty good. Keep in mind you're talking about a 15 year old graphics card running on a machine that maxes out at 450MHz. Here's Sun's XVR-1000 user guide:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19125-01/xvr1k.acc/816-1330-11/816-1330-11.pdf

uunix wrote: Any how... I'm off on my stag doo in 54 mins.. If I don't see you again, I love you all...

Who's getting married, anyone you know? Uh, it's not you is it? What ever happened to not making the same mistake twice?

For a Linux-based C/C++ IDE you probably want to use Eclipse CDT, link:

https://eclipse.org/cdt/

jammaster wrote: Same thing with 4 cpus @ 450mhz?

Really? Four CPUs? I see a guy who's got two for sale in San Josie for US $395, tempting...

Chinook homepage here, doesn't seem to contain the source code but as I'm at work I did not look exhaustively:

https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/

Pretty good rundown of what the elite3d can do here:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=B26A5031BDE1B81ADA0D083A49A68909?doi=10.1.1.195.8501&rep=rep1&type=pdf

uunix wrote: ...made a bootable USB drive and the machine didn't like it...

Huh! That's weird. Did you do it like this:

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/isolinux/README.TXT

Which brings to mind the question, did you download 14.1 or the the release candidate 1 of 14.2 (aka "slackware-current")?

I'm seriously tempted but hamei's horror stories about how bad his O350 treated him are a significant cautionary tale, do you think he just got unlucky with a lemon? Because on paper anyway thousands of Origins have been running 24/7 in sgi supercomputers for years, and you don't hear any tales of woe coming from them. Unless they're just like google and the second one of them shows a glitch it gets yanked and tossed on the scrap heap...

Uh, congrats on the upcoming nuptials? Personally, I'd be more excited about running the soon-to-be-released Slackware 14.2, but, then again, the view from down here in my parent's basement is... so great...

According to this link you are correct; *o*o means interrupt mask test failed, which mainboard do you have, IP6 or IP10? If you connect to the serial console you'll be able to see the tests as they occur during the boot cycle, with a 4D/20 it should look something like this:



Except in your case, it should be Interrupt mask registers test FAILED

Really great pics, beautiful to see!

Don't forget "Halt and Catch Fire," obvious, I know, but someone had to say it...

Are they date stamped at all? I know Seagate and WD have taken to obfuscating their date stamps in recent years. If they were in somebody's data center they've probably been through years of uptime. Admittedly the SCSIs from the 36GB era were built like battleships but (for example) the guys in my IT department at work scrap every drive that's been up for five years whether it's showing errors or not...

John, did you sell all three of them? Or was only one of your O350s an Onyx 4?

mopar5150 wrote:

vishnu wrote: John, did you sell all three of them? Or was only one of your O350s an Onyx 4?

I sold several systems and everybody wanted the Oynx4 plastics. I have one more set of the Onyx4 plastics and 3 sets of the Onyx350 plastics.


The rest of the system is standard Origin350. What setup were you looking for?

Wow, where'd you get all the plastics? There must be a bunch of bare Onyx4s and O350s out there somewhere. So that was your last Onyx4?

AI; after 50 years of research and "just around the corner" promises all they've been able to produce are unbeatable board game players and artificial stupidity bots...

commodorejohn wrote:

jan-jaap wrote: Looks like Microsoft hasn't nailed AI quite yet .

I'm sure this comes as a terrible shock to anyone who's never been on the Internet, ever.

Ha ha yeah, what's the phrase they use on Slashdot; "You must be new here...?"