The collected works of vishnu - Page 38

Last time Pete left it up until it hit the target. You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system!

smj wrote:

vishnu wrote: Last time Pete left it up until it hit the target. You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system!

Uhm, I can't donate $20 on Friday. I have to go see how they mocked up Grand Moff Tarkin in that new movie...

Did they actually do that? I just looked at the full cast credits on imdb and he wasn't listed. But then if his character was all cgi I guess they wouldn't have to list him, but wouldn't they have to get permission from his estate to use his likeness? Either way I don't think they should have done it; caaaaaaah- reep -y!

Donations have been stuck at 500 dead p's for a while now, come on guys let's rally 'round the flag!

Col Needham, the founder and CEO of imdb, gave the movie 9 out of 10 and it's got an 8.3 with 17,000 votes so far, so, it's prolly pretty good. Anyone seen it yet?

According to Alan Coopersmith's twitter on Dec. 2d: "There's still several times the number of kernel devs working on Oracle Solaris than on all the illumos distros combined."

Uh yeah, the counter is definitely stuck, if it's a counter at all. Could just be a typed-in number that Pete updates from time to time. But in terms of donating on a revolving schedule, every six months or whatever, that wouldn't have worked because Pete only made the donation link active again a few weeks ago. It had been off since we hit the target the first time...

GL1zdA wrote: Does anyone know what a DMediaPro DM1 was? It was briefly mentioned by SGI when the Visual Workstation Zx10 was released ( SGI Delivers a Fully Integrated Windows OS-BASED Workstation With SD Video I/O And Real-Time Graphics-to-Video Out ), someone even asked about a Zx10 with DM1 here , but I couldn't find any other information about it. Was it just a rebadged Intergraph StudioZ SDI card? Is this the SGI RavenDS Avid is mentioning in the Avid DS Supported Systems document?

Looks like they bought Intergraph, tried to market their rebranded products for a year and then killed them off, according to his linked in the Intergraph guy who developed the Zx10 was only at SGI for a year: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-netschke-215ba621

uunix wrote:

SiliconClassics wrote: There's an Anthony Rossano book called "Inside Softimage 3D" that was published by New Riders in 1998 - it's probably the best introduction to Soft|3D outside of the original manuals, and it's fun to skim because it's filled with full-color illustrations. You can buy it on eBay for $5.

I think I have this book already, bought it years ago, never read it, and now can't find it, but I know I have it.
Did though go to amazon.. £155
Then googled, found a link to Amazon for £4 What gives?

Anyway, I'll find the book if you think it's a good read.

[Edit] Found this site also http://www.edharriss.com/tutorials/tutorials_model_3d.html

Wow, if you look out at the front page of his site he's got 200-plus XSI tutorials linked...

foetz wrote: of course, otherwise autodesk wouldn't give it away just like that

Yeah but if you call Autodesk to buy a license they won't sell you one. Unless they have significantly changed their ways since the last time I tried to buy an Irix license from them...

No way to restore the posts though apparently...

Wow does that ever take me back! To a very painful era...

That is a find of staggering proportion!

jimmer wrote: Btw. if the UI stuff is anything to go by, the actual nedit codebase needs a refactor in my opinion. It's really ugly stuff

Really? Because in the Mark Edel Slashdot interview (admittedly a long time ago, but not that much has changed in nedit on the in between), he says "One noticeable difference between NEdit and other FS/OSS projects is that the code is neat and thoroughly documented. As I mention in a later question, enforcing this has not been fun, and has probably been counterproductive, as well. It's just something I've found hard to give up on, particularly where I'm going to be the one with the responsibility for maintaining a given section of code."

Interview here:

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/00/10/27/1516243/mark-edel-answers-project-leadership-questions

Well I liked it! Maybe you could have said something about SGI founder Jim Clark bailing out at the end of 1993 for (insert multiplicity of reasons here), but that strays into board politics and your focus is technology, so never mind...

jimmer wrote: As I recall I did this for 5.6 too and wanted to feedback to Scott Tringali who seems to be maintaining Nedit these days. However, never managed to get hold of him via sourceforge.

Anybody know how to contact him?

His email is s c o t t at tringali dot org, as of yesterday he's still active on the nedit mailing list (to which I subscribe).

Well, I think Mark enforced as much code-cleanliness as possible but when you're using X, Xt, and Motif things always end up getting a bit thick...

I've got the official Solaris 7 installation media circa 1999/2000, but I don't suppose it would be on that. But if you think it might be I'll take a look. I'm pretty sure it was on a different CD that you had to buy separately, anyone know for sure?

Looks like member escimo has that license, but the link he posted in the other thread no longer works, maybe send him a PM?

Dodoid wrote: Pointing a cantenna at my friends house and hoping we can connect via Xbee.

When I was your age we did that with two tin cans and a piece of string...

No pictures on floodgap?

SGI jumped the shark when it dropped MIPS, just say no to all things SGI on Intel/Linux...

I've never even heard of most of those food items...

I think 'intel inside' means intel icide ...

Ah! The dreaded Dual Channel Display option, do you have it working?

uunix wrote: I had another attempt today, but no joy, drivers installed, but not showing.
It does though show something on PCI 5

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PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4165, device 51297) pci slot 5

But that's it. It is definitely a DM12.

smj has one of those! He references it in this post: http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?t=16724548

If you follow the rather labyrinthine branch of threads spawned by that post it looks like links to a couple of potential driver files are provided, perhaps we can get smj or BSDero to weigh in on their subsequent experience with that board...

A gig of ram! And a tape drive! Nice...

When Slackware first came out it was so bare-bones that if you wanted to use anything that was at all useful you had no option but to download and compile it yourself. Now Slackware comes with everything but the kitchen sink. After every upgrade it takes me days to remove all the junk I'll never use. Not that I have to, I've got two 300GB drives on my main Slackware box, I'm just a Ludite like that...

Holy freakin' wow, socketed ICs!

guardian452 wrote: P.S. see the "bone" creeper? 300% recommended!

Wow you guys have very nice facilities, must be nice to work in such cleanly appointed spaces...

Speaking of creepers we have a couple of the Creep-Zit Pro kits, also worthy of the coveted 300 percent recommendation...

I had a '71 Challenger once, made the mistake of driving it in the winter and it rusted bad. Driving in Minnesota in the winter means driving through a continual fog of flying salt spray, absolute hell on everything but Deloreans...

- the serial for the IP30, 030-1467-001, suggests it is a later revision but it has a black handle. Is that normal?

You mean the handle on the back of the IP30 for racking it in and out of the case is black? Then no, that is not normal. I've never seen one that wasn't your basic high-chrome stainless. Anyway, beautiful box! Company that owned it must have gone out of business fast in that the disk wasn't scrubbed of what is probably a crapton of customer Intellectual Property.

I just say "Well among other things these computers did all the special effects for the Matrix trilogy, what cool stuff have people used your computers to do?"

If anyone at SGI had a conscience they would release the models for all their skins so we could start making our own replacements. But nooooo, they will never do that because we might put SGI logos or (worse) funky non-SGI logos on our homemade skins, and as a result SGI might be made to look bad...

Have you tried rebooting? Much as I hate to say it, since /etc/TIMEZONE is read by init(1), could be worth a try...

pierocks wrote:

vishnu wrote: If anyone at SGI had a conscience they would release the models for all their skins so we could start making our own replacements. But nooooo, they will never do that because we might put SGI logos or (worse) funky non-SGI logos on our homemade skins, and as a result SGI might be made to look bad...

If you think you're going to be able to 3D print new skins that don't look like total garbage, you are more delusional that the OP is about finding a set of intact o200 skins

Nah I'd send the models to my local injection molder...

Are you sure you're compiling it with the all the debugging symbols compiled in? And then running it in the debugger until it crashes? Because, generally speaking that will tell you exactly where in the code it's failing...

Testing:



So, works for me, using Linux & firefox 51.0.1

I have seven desktop PCs, one laptop, one Sun and four SGIs (only two of which are in my sig because so far there's no sig image for the Onyx4, of which I have two).

And speaking of clocks (as we were a few posts above), I'm sure you've all heard the rather amazing story of "Clock B" by now:

http://wornandwound.com/the-240-year-old-pendulum-clock-thats-more-accurate-than-your-watch/

japes wrote: Monitor 0 type: DEL 16472

So this would actually be a Dell P2012H? Green tinted, which is to say, no sync on green?

Raion-Fox wrote: Nikon you mean?

Nope, Nikkor is correct. They are a subsidiary of Nikon, they make all Nikon's lenses, and damn fine lenses they are...