The collected works of vishnu - Page 8

Do the boot messages over the serial terminal look normal? Does it respond to pings?

Tom Davis' infamous "Software Usability II" document about what went wrong in 5.1, must reading: http://owww.molgen.mpg.de/~wwwutz/Unix_Haters/old/usability.html

So basically the owners of these various infractors are incapable of requiring ethical business practices from their leadership and DOJ and it's sundry regulatory offspring are incapable of enforcing same...

Heresy!

Anyone here who's actually ever been to Des Moines, except me?

You may dis the soils all you wish but you can't argue that the girls aren't cute...

One of these should be able to present you with a nice shiny root shell: http://www.exploit-db.com/platform/?p=irix

I am oddly put in mind of:

Dobbs: [Over the radio] Help him! Help him!
Yossarian: Help who?
Dobbs: Help the bombardier!
Yossarian: I'm the bombardier, I'm all right.
Dobbs: Then help HIM, help HIM!

Anyone name the movie? Anyone? Anyone?

Oh, and to the OP: Yes with a little more infodata and we can (probably) help you...

One of the best books I've ever read, an exceptional mix of gritty reality and otherworldly surrealism. Kind of like skyrockets in RSS, yes? There, I almost got back on topic...

Needs some Blue Meanies...

Nice!

How much of Flint made it into Smoke/Flame? I think it's kind of unscrupulous for a software maker to pull a product that they've charged as much money for as Flint, I mean, you spend a fortune for the software and spend years getting better at using it, and they pull it and tell you to buy something else, that's even more expensive? Harsh!

All? Then add a cheat code for invulnerability!

Hey guys, I'm trying to compile the Dillo browser, with an eye toward adding it to nekoware, using the MIPSPro compiler this time since there appear to be intractable problems with gcc, but after I made a ton of changes to three files in their most recent release (version 3.0.2), the authors told me to give up on that and start over using the tip of their mercurial repository. Admittedly, I had been bugging them a lot on their mailing list. So anyway, I want to merge my changes into the pull I made of their mercurial repository, but I'm a total mercurial newb. I mean, I think what I'm trying to do is really simple, but I just spent hours digging through the mercurial docs and so far I've got nuthin! So my question is, if I've got their latest and greatest in directory dillo3, and my changes to the 3.0.2 source are in directory dillo-3.0.2-irix-changes, how do I merge those changes back? What I tried, but that didn't work for reasons I don't pretend to understand:

From the dillo3 directory (note: all the changes that I made are "commited" in the dillo-3.0.2-irix-changes directory):

vishnu@starhunter:~/dillo3$ hg pull ../dillo-3.0.2-irix-changes/
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 3 changesets with 3 changes to 3 files
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)


At this point I found that doing `hg update` doesn't merge the changes I made, it blows away the files with all the changes the authors have made since the 3.0.2 release and replaces them with the files I changed from the 3.0.2 release. So I undo that and instead try to merge:

vishnu@starhunter:~/dillo3$ hg merge
abort: there is nothing to merge - use "hg update" instead


What the hell? Did it not just tell me at the pull that it sees three changesets with changes to three files? And mercurial is supposed to be an improvement over CVS?

I didn't make any patch files, I just edited three of the files from the Dillo 3.0.2 release and hoped mercurial could merge those into a pull I made from the tip of the Dillo repository. I just wasn't sure how to tell mercurial to do that...

Indeed the dillo source tarball that I'd been working from didn't have an .hg directory, so I pulled the 3.0.2 source from the dillo mercurial repository to get one...

Thanks Classic that worked!

You'd think that would be in the faq somewhere...

And I'm sure subversion and git are just as bad, if not worse. Kidding! I only kid. No seriously...

Huh! I converted it to an stl and tried to attach it, but phpBB says The extension stl is not allowed.

You'd think I could have thought of that myself!

Do any professional CAD products export to Sketchup yet? Or, perhaps more to the point, will they ever?

How about 3ds? Sketchup claims to be able to open that...

3ds as a file exchange format, whoda thunk...

Hmmmm, this might not be so simple:

VRML read error: File does not have a valid header string, @ line 1
VRML read error: Wrong Header [/home/vishnu/doc/proe/sgi/O2_assembled.wrl], @ line 1

I think I got it, give this a try (attached)...

Titox could you please post the VOF you're using for that monitor? I've got one and I'd love to try it out with my Octane...

Wow...


I've been trying to get it to work through the DVI connector(s) on my DCD and so far I've got nuthin' but 1920 by 1200 of blank screen...

If not for usenet, Linux might still be one guy's basement project and we'd still be stuck with Minix...

Yep that's kind of been on my todo list for a while now.

We should probably pull all that information together and create a step-by-step process for building custom VOFs and put it in the Wiki...

I might have to check some of that out on the wayback machine...

Greetings and solicitations! I meant salutations...

Just as an aside, if your heart is really set on an I2 then by all means go for it, but a far more generally useful machine would be a newer O2. Or an Octane or a Fuel. Or a Tezro. Thanks for signing up and welcome to the site!

Can I have some of your sgi/aw swag? Kidding! I only kid. No seriously...

recondas that is becoming very close to a Wiki entry!

Somebody's got to document that stuff before it's lost to history, might as well be you...

Back when A/W was still A/W they sold Maya t-shirts in their webstore. If I'd have known Autodesk was going to put an end to that I'd have bought a lifetime supply...

Well can't expect much good out of a system that's built on equal parts greed and paranoia...

Okay, reuploaded...

All I've got is this stoopid coffee cup...

Well, and my Octane!