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vishnu
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Wrote on the subject of Higgs Boson found at July 7, 2012, 2:21 p.m...

I'll bet dollars to doughnuts I'm the only member here who's actually read both "The God Particle" and "A Hole in Texas"...

http://www.amazon.com/A-Hole-Texas-Novel/dp/0316010855/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341695988&sr=8-1&keywords=a+hole+in+texas

http://www.amazon.com/God-Particle-Universe-Answer-Question/dp/0618711686/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341696047&sr=1-1&keywords=the+god+particle

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Wrote on the subject of A delicate request at July 8, 2012, 11:32 p.m...

Another wild night in the monastery there, buckaroo? :lol:

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vishnu
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Wrote on the subject of Higgs Boson found at July 9, 2012, 2:13 a.m...

hamei wrote: So Bush has his autobiography out already ?

Ha ha! But, as President Regan once said, "No little titters of laughter! No little titters of laughter! My lovely wife Nancy has little ti---" At which point Ed Meese pulled him off the stage... :lol:

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Wrote on the subject of Repair horror stories? at July 15, 2012, 3:32 p.m...

At work we bought a couple of 22,000 volt 20 amp DC charging power supplies, which at the high end are consuming 440,000 watts from the AC line. Our facilities engineer didn't read the fine print in the manual that described the peak inrush requirement, so the first time we used it we knocked our substation offline. This was the substation that powered about half of our manufacturing facility, around a thousand guys. We had to lease a jet to fly replacement parts in from California, so production was down for about 12 hours. The next day our facilities guy said we're good to try it again, so we fired it back up and the exact same thing happened! Oh, the ignominy...

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Wrote on the subject of A delicate request at July 15, 2012, 11:32 p.m...

Oskar45 wrote: Who is "he"?

He who?

I'll throw in my two cents: I think the reason religion is important to most people is because they cannot tolerate the thought that the universe is a random statistical fluctuation, to which there is no point...

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vishnu
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Wrote on the subject of A delicate request at July 21, 2012, 1:05 a.m...

I only have an undergrad in physics so I can't claim any expertise, but the Weak Anthropic Principle seems to me to answer a lot about what we're arguing about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle But regardless of how we got here, I think the Doomsday Argument makes a fairly accurate prediction of how we'll depart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

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Wrote on the subject of 4Dwm app-defaults ? at Aug. 28, 2012, 6:19 p.m...

At the risk you might not know this; I'll point out that when you make changes to an X resources file you have to do `xrdb -merge filename` for them to take effect. That, or log out and back in again. Also, for editres to work editres support has to be compiled into the application, and not many vendors do that...

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Wrote on the subject of 4Dwm app-defaults ? at Aug. 29, 2012, 2:35 p.m...

Does the 4dwm stuff speak editres? I'll have to check it when I get home, can't do it at work anymore as the PTB took my Octane away and gave me a cursed Sun Blade 2500 in it's place... :evil:

The trick with editres is to use it to flash the widgets until you find the right one, then change the resource for that. It's the filemanager scrollbar that you're trying to modify, or what?

What version of Fireflop do you use? I don't use my SGI to browse anymore, since my Linux box is sitting right next to it and I "upgraded" to Fireflop 15 last night, it seems to work pretty good... :shock:

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Wrote on the subject of 4Dwm app-defaults ? at Aug. 29, 2012, 10:31 p.m...

Mitch Trachtenberg wrote mre, you could axe him about finding source or a binary, his gmail is mjtrac, my guess would be he'll tell you it's obsolete crap and to use editres anyway.

I don't know about having each fireflop window/tab be a separate process, since on my Linux box fireflop can't seem to instantiate itself without grabbing at least 135 meg of RAM. 'Course that wouldn't be a problem on my Octane, which has 8 gig of RAM (thanks to our beloved nekochan member RichTom1) but my lowly Linux box is barely scraping by with a meager 2 gig at the moment. :cry:

Though it does have two Xeons... :mrgreen:

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Wrote on the subject of 4Dwm app-defaults ? at Aug. 31, 2012, 9:22 a.m...

Yikes!

If it wasn't for the variadic macros in Dillo I'd have had it running on our sgi's months ago, it can't possibly be worse than that debacle...

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Wrote on the subject of 3D Studio at Sept. 4, 2012, 11:38 p.m...

I've got Maya 6.5 on my Octane2 (dual 600 V12 w/ 8 gig RAM) and so far it's still covering all the bases for me. The Intel/Nvidia stuff is light years ahead of it in terms of speed and Maya development maxed out at 6.5 on Irix, but really, 6.5 is pretty nearly feature complete. Maya 2012 is full of brand new widgets that do the exact same thing in a completely different way... :lol:

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Wrote on the subject of 3D Studio at Sept. 7, 2012, 3:31 p.m...

Yes you can do everything Maya does from it's scripting language, Maya Embedded Language aka MEL, without ever using the UI. Are you saying Mental Ray doesn't come with the Windows version? I've never used a non-IRIX version...

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Wrote on the subject of 3D Studio at Sept. 10, 2012, 3:46 p.m...

Uh, I'm pretty sure the current version of Mental Ray is 3.1... :shock:

Which, considering that version 3.0 came out 10 years ago seems to indicate that Mental Images considers it to be a finished product...

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Wrote on the subject of Emacs dropped support for Irix from version 23.1 at Sept. 10, 2012, 10:45 p.m...

Don't worry, once Oracle open sources Java we'll port the latest version back over to Irix... Bwaah haa ha haa ha!!! :twisted:

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Wrote on the subject of 3D Studio at Sept. 12, 2012, 9:53 a.m...

But if you model something using Maya 6.5 on Irix, you can open the model with Maya 2012 on Windows, yes? Then you can render it with the Windows version of Mental Ray, yes/no?

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Wrote on the subject of 3D Studio at Sept. 12, 2012, 1:37 p.m...

Allow myself to correct... myself. The current version of Mental Ray is 3.10.1.2, released January 17th 2012, the release notes: http://docs.autodesk.com/MENTALRAY/2013/ENU/mental-ray-help/files/relnotes/relnotes.html

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Wrote on the subject of Indy rides again (a new member appears) at Sept. 26, 2012, 12:03 p.m...

Final Cut! So you must be a former Nothing Real/Shake user eh? I've got Shake 3-point-6 something on my Octane, still kind of annoyed by how rudely Apple dropped Shake... :evil:

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Wrote on the subject of 3d Modeller and renderer at Sept. 26, 2012, 3:50 p.m...

mia wrote:

Talking about pov, has someone managed to compile 3.0-RC6 on Irix (with or without SMP and/or display options, doesn't matter).

Actually, the current non-Windows version of povray is 3.6.1, and it's in nekoware-current... :mrgreen:

What we should do is port Erlang to Irix so we can use Wings: http://www.wings3d.com/

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Wrote on the subject of Indy rides again (a new member appears) at Sept. 27, 2012, 11:58 a.m...

Yeah but now they've yanked Final Cut Express too, though, right? Software lockin followed by bait 'n switch, bastards... :evil:

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Wrote on the subject of Indy rides again (a new member appears) at Sept. 28, 2012, 5:50 p.m...

For a company whose stock just hit $700 Apple sure gets a lot of things wrong. I think the last time I used my Macbook Pro was last December...

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Wrote on the subject of Indy rides again (a new member appears) at Sept. 28, 2012, 10:49 p.m...

That attitude probably makes a lot of sense for a company that spent literally years circling the drain. Regardless though, I'm still hacked off at the unceremonious way they shitcanned Shake. And the way they run iTunes and the App Store is a particularly egregious mix of fraud and usury... :evil:

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Wrote on the subject of 80ties CG - typical rend/raytr features compared to newer CG at Oct. 3, 2012, 8:01 a.m...

Surprised no one's mentioned UNISURF yet, developed by the man himself, Pierre Bezier in 1965: http://books.google.com/books?id=XY9qFd6TjskC&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false

By comparison everyone else was late to the party! :lol:

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Wrote on the subject of Successors to Inventor? at Oct. 6, 2012, 9:42 a.m...

How about Crystalspace: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Main_Page

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Wrote on the subject of Alias Studio V7 - Scans at Oct. 6, 2012, 9:49 a.m...

Beautiful! You scanned these from a magazine? Do you mind telling us what kind of scanner and what scan settings? I've been trying to scan magazine pages for years with my HP Scanjet 6300C and never came up with a way to make them look as good as these...

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Wrote on the subject of Alias Studio V7 - Scans at Oct. 6, 2012, 2:01 p.m...

Being without any Windows machines I don't think Corel is an option for me... :oops:

For denoise, is that anything like despeckle? I always despeckle magazine images but GIMP doesn't have a denoise option (but it does let you play with HSV and RGB noise values). Usually I use GIMP's "auto" setting to adjust the color levels, that seems to work pretty well, and my scanner has an autodetect for contrast that works nicely. I've tried innumerable dot-per-inch settings, which I think is really important for magazine images since if you scan too many you can really see the ink dots, ideally you'd know exactly what magazine publisher printed the image at and use that, usually I start at 300 and work my way up or down depending on how it looks. My scanner creates TIFF's; when I convert it to jpg I set quality at 85 percent. For example this is about as good as I can get, Morgan Pressel at the 2005 US Open scanned from the United States Golf Association tournaments magazine:

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Wrote on the subject of Primary Nekoware Mirror Upgraded at Oct. 6, 2012, 4:15 p.m...

Resolves fine from a few hundred miles north of you:

Code:

vishnu@starhunter:~$ whois dustytech.net | grep --ignore-case -A 5 "domain servers"

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.HE.NET

NS2.HE.NET

NS3.HE.NET

NS4.HE.NET

NS5.HE.NET

Traceroute seems to get lost at kcmodatacenter.com though:

Code:

vishnu@starhunter:~$ traceroute dustytech.net

traceroute to dustytech.net (208.94.240.187), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

1  vishnu (10.4.0.101)  0.779 ms  0.966 ms  0.943 ms

2  73.205.46.1 (73.205.46.1)  9.373 ms  14.088 ms  14.070 ms

3  te-4-1-ur01.edina.mn.minn.comcast.net (68.85.164.33)  14.030 ms  14.224 ms  14.215 ms

4  te-0-10-0-6-ar01.roseville.mn.minn.comcast.net (68.86.232.14)  16.938 ms  16.932 ms  17.151 ms

5  pos-0-12-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.93.217)  34.118 ms  34.102 ms  34.087 ms

6  pos-1-3-0-0-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.158)  24.807 ms  24.291 ms  24.046 ms

7  te0-2-0-1.ccr22.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.11.253)  22.999 ms  18.555 ms  17.566 ms

8  te0-4-0-1.ccr22.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.209)  22.013 ms  21.963 ms te0-2-0-1.ccr21.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.29.17)  21.456 ms

9  te0-4-0-0.ccr22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.33)  44.134 ms te0-5-0-7.mpd22.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.181)  22.290 ms  21.972 ms

10  te0-1-0-0.mpd22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.154)  44.554 ms te0-2-0-0.mpd22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.158)  44.636 ms te0-1-0-0.mpd22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.154)  43.929 ms

11  te2-1.mag02.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.166)  43.671 ms  43.647 ms  42.923 ms

12  38.104.86.74 (38.104.86.74)  40.907 ms  44.897 ms  44.864 ms

13  DC2-SW1.KCMODATACENTER.COM (96.43.134.38)  45.582 ms  46.333 ms  50.796 ms

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vishnu
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Wrote on the subject of irix - windows 7 - network, sharity, etc at Oct. 15, 2012, 5:32 p.m...

And you're sure you have correct the read permissions set on the Windows directory you're trying to access from Irix?

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Wrote on the subject of irix - windows 7 - network, sharity, etc at Oct. 16, 2012, 12:38 p.m...

Lars1355 wrote:

vishnu: im not really sure actually, pretty standard setup permissions as far as i know, any advice there?

Sure have a look at this: http://www.freebsddiary.org/sharity.php

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Wrote on the subject of So my dad dropped the O2... at Oct. 19, 2012, 4:33 p.m...

That is harshly painful to look at, poor little blue guy... :cry:

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Wrote on the subject of sharity light, automount while booting? at Oct. 20, 2012, 4:22 p.m...

Ha ha good one Regan, zing! :mrgreen:

The brief and expurgated version is that the Irix bootup scripts are located in the /etc/init.d directory. Proper Unix etiquette would be to have a script named "local" (or some such, in Linux it's rc.local for example) that you would put commands specific your machine, although I don't think it would hurt anything if you put them in network (the file, er, shell script named "network"), as that is where Irix tends to all of it's NFS duties already...

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Wrote on the subject of WHat do we all do (occupation)? at Nov. 7, 2012, 6:22 p.m...

My job title is "Staff Scientist" and I work for a global defense and aerospace juggernaut with major operations in Australia, India, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States, and minor operations pretty much everywhere...

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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at Nov. 9, 2012, 6:51 p.m...

hamei wrote: Kinda modern ... maybe a nice pen plotter of some sort ?

I saw an HP 7475a pen plotter sitting in the scrap bin at work today, those things were thousands of dollars when they were new... :shock:

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Wrote on the subject of xtdigvid software question at Nov. 10, 2012, 2:41 p.m...

In this screenshot of my software manager, it shows the size of my DMediaPro Development Environment to be 8 bytes, that can't be right can it? For example I'm looking for the xtdigvid_confidence script in /usr/diags and it's not there, so my installation must be horked, right? Can anyone with a working installation of this stuff tell me what package the xtdigvid_confidence test is in? Thanks a bunch!

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vishnu
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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at Nov. 10, 2012, 2:44 p.m...

hamei wrote:

vishnu wrote: I saw an HP 7475a pen plotter sitting in the scrap bin at work today, those things were thousands of dollars when they were new...

You should grab it !

Can you even buy pens for them anymore :?:

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Wrote on the subject of xtdigvid software question at Nov. 10, 2012, 6:20 p.m...

Ha ha yeah I guess that wasn't my best thought out post; big picture wise the problem is that I've got a Dual-Channel Display, a DMediaPro 2 board and a DMediaPro 5 equipped VBOB, and none of it works. Then I saw this post: http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16725699 and I thought ah cool I'll just run xtdigvid_confidence and my troubles will be over and I'll be on the way to winning. But so far, not so much... :lol:

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Wrote on the subject of xtdigvid software question at Nov. 11, 2012, 12:24 p.m...

Huh! For some reason it didn't install on mine. Obviously a clear-cut case calling for a do-over... :shock:

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Wrote on the subject of My new computer room at Nov. 11, 2012, 2 p.m...

Amazing! For anyone who's never seen a 7475a at work, it is no end of entertaining, there's a bunch of video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=HP+7475a&oq=HP+7475a

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Wrote on the subject of xtdigvid software question at Nov. 11, 2012, 6:02 p.m...

Hmmmm, it does not appear to be a part of the tardist I downloaded, 6.5.21_dmediapro_DM2_DM3_1.1.3ml.tar.gz, would you happen to know offhand where I can find the complete version?

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Wrote on the subject of xtdigvid software question at Nov. 11, 2012, 10:51 p.m...

Huh! I just assumed for no good reason that everything that was inside those top level directories got installed by default, but you're right, the diagnostics and sample code are in there and were not installed, but now they are, thanks! :mrgreen:

It's actually a lot of work popping all those subdirectories open looking for NEWs... :roll:

So I just tried xtdigvid_confidence and mostly it fails. I don't have one of the white LVDS cables, just two black ones, I know I've seen conjecture about whether there are any differences between the two, and in this instance I was assuming there aren't, but could that be the reason it's not working? That the white LVDS cable is somehow different from the black one?

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Wrote on the subject of xtdigvid software question at Nov. 13, 2012, 12:08 p.m...

Thanks recondas, I'll have a look at it tonight. Those files are monstrously long and I just thought if someone actually knew that it is necessary to have both a white and a black LVDS cable between the DM2 and DM5 (as I mentioned above I don't have a white one so am trying it with two blacks), I wouldn't have to slog through them... :roll:

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