The collected works of hamei - Page 33

So whadja think about the soil ?

I think they're drinking more than Jolt but in the absence of Martin Steen, who has real taste, I put this together. It is definitely not perfect but gives a better Irix look. Hope it can give people a little bit of a start on making this thing presentable.

userChrome.css


The font sizes will probaly be off for many people, my display is abby normal but at least it's organized and a start.

Any improvements, post them, please !

Oh god ! My eyes ! My eyes ! God, Sir, please .. not the blue ! not the blue !

Not sure what's causing this but it's repeatable :


Got to sfgate.com and open a bunch of stories in tabs ... I know, the reporting is pretty bad but shouldn't crash the browser

diegel : do you have any plugins ? Normally I use no-script, thought I'd take the opportunity to check for updates. Not so good ...

It goes through the motions, opens the windows, etc etc but crashes the browser if you attempt to do much more than look.

This might be an https:// thing ? Sorry for the blur, it's resized from an odd size.


Oh weird. I tried to make the url bar an irix color but it doesn't work in the main window. But in the "uploading the file" windows, it's the Irix pinkish. Strange.

edit : Checked around some, this appears to have something to do with SSL. Checked the preferences -> advanced -> encryption settings and both SSL 3.0 and TLS are checked. Then ran a test page, apparently I have a problem with SSL. Looked at < about: > didn't really see anything (such as --disable-SSL or any other obvious clues)

Is this just me or is it more widespread ?

The older flop does work with "secure" https:// pages ... (I have no idea why xxx.mozilla.org would have to be "secure". Do they have money in there ? )

about:config security < enable-ssl-2 > does not fix the problem (at least not so far. Have not rebooted yet, too many tabs open)

This *might* be enough ... put it in .Xdefaults


If not, we'll have to add some more stuff ... there's other ways to do it also but that's the easiest for me.

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Minimized ones are easy ... make a .icons directory directly under your home. Try not to dig up grandma in the process. Then create your graphic in that directory at the correct size (some weird size, similar to 60 x 80 but odd numbered) then name that as executable name_of_application .icon. Viola, when you minimize your app that's the icon that will show on the desktop.

The only app I have where that doesn't work is Thunderturd. Somewhere, deep in the bowels of the 'turd, is an icon that it insists on using. Finding it is a project for a rainy day.


For real actual icons that are linked with a particular application, best ask canavan or read the 4Dwm docs but in essence, it's similar to OS/2. Extended attributes in the file system connect an icon to an application. In Irix, you have to jump through some hoops with 'file type rules ' (ftr 's) and an incantation to associate the two. The Techpubs articles are not half bad.

The only really peculiar part about the process is choosing the "application type number" to use. Where do I get that ? out my ass ?

Pretty much

If Linux had the Workplace Shell it'd be hot. Instead, they built that grisly abortion named gtk2. Stay away from that place, it smells bad

A little update, especially since I read that Apple is "targetting China as their next big market ! Hurrah ! Hooray ! O frabjous day, tralee, tra-lay !"

The Assist, being a girl, had to have the next glorious new accessory, and she put off buying a new phone all through the iPhone 4 years, since there really wasn't much there.

So she was stuck dealing with face. Even though the wunderkids at Apple decreed the iPhone 5 would be impossible to get since with their brilliant planning and execution they didn't have enough to sell, she eventually got one in Hong Kong.

Result : the size is good, it fits a girl's hands better. The os is the same as everyone else, nothing so great about it. If all your friends also have i-whatevers, there are some apps that make playtime fun ... for a while. The Group of Three is already bored with facetime. Doing everything through iTunes sucks. No USB card for transferring photos sucks. Having to mess around with a non-standard SIM card was not fun - and pointless. The "locked to a carrier" thing is flat-out not going to fly here. Let me be blunt : you people are idiots. You pay three times what it really costs to get a "free" phone.

The bad part for Apple : the killer is going to be that the consensus of opinion in China is that the iPhone 5 is junk. It gets scratches and dings at the drop of a hat. People here actually use their phones and they are not happy when the phones look like shit through normal daily use. Less than a month old and the Assist's "new" iPhone has several dings, nicks, and scratches.

She won't buy another one.

Another stock scam. Apple tells the US stock market that they'll be "going into China in a big way !! Next big market, we'll be rich ! and famous !" Stock zoooms up, Tim Cook cashes in, Timmy et al pick up a few million, the idiot American public is five bucks each poorer.

I have to say, you guys really are morons. And then you let these dickwads put your retirement money into the stock market .. why not just take it to Monte Carlo and put it all on red ?

Back to the phone's market potential :

When the product comes out and people can't buy them, drop five points.

When the 'features" are not compelling, drop five points.

When the company is from the US with Hillary Clinton blathering on and on about how evil China is while Samsung keeps its fat fucking trap shut , drop ten points.

When the products don't hold up in a society where appearances are very important, drop ten points. Gossip is THE rule of the day here, and the iPhone is getting nothing but bad reviews from real users. The Assist won't buy another one. The Samsung she bought for her mom is functionally comparable in every way yet it is also sturdy.

I don't see them doing very well in China. Our phone market is open and free, not tethered to "providers" who control your every move. People choose the product that works well. The iPhone 5 is second-rate. There will be a surge of interest since it's New ! New ! New ! but after a while that wears off. In a truly free phone market, Apple is downscale "junk" (and that's a quote from the Assistant, who has no slashdot hi-tech axe to grind.)

In the real world, there's a lot more assistants than there are slash-dotters. They will sell some but long-term they aren't going to be much competition for real players, like Samsung.

Conclusion : buy stock now while it's cheap. Apple will soon have to make a few announcements of grand and glorious new products, market share, 600 new stores in the biggest phone market in the world, etc etc. Stock will zoom up as the marks rush to buy. Sell at that point, before reality strikes.

Repeat, repeat, and you, too, can become a smart investor ! job creator ! hi-tech knowledge worker ! Master of the Universe ! con artist, shyster, thief, crook, swindler, jerk, asshole, worthless scumbag ...

Too bad you're not here ... every little shop in the computer 'burbs has a three-axis chip-remover and resolderer. About a third of them have microscopes. They can't be very expensive ... is there a market for such things in the US ?

I take it that's a no

I'm wondering why tho ? People don't fix things in the US ? It seems like every little computer place in baoshan has one of these - simple x-y table and some sort of heating element to remove and replace chips. They can't be very expensive. If I hadn't been so lazy I'd have taken the Fuel mainboard over to do a pinball enviro-chip replacement.

So kshuff gets to throw out his HP digital oscilloscope because a $2 chip died.

Now that is a forward-looking sensible economic model.

Put your location in your profile. For all we know, you're three blocks away from another SGI owner who would be happy to stick your Indy drive into their Fuel, blow away the passwords and hand it back to you.

I have no idea what he's trying to say. Sounds like he doesn't, either. "Available on China Mobile "? Almost any phone you buy is "available on China Mobile." (They don't have CDMA.) The "mobile market" here is just like the bread market or the sweater market or the pizza market. We go to the phone store and buy one. Nothing special about it. Stick your SIM card in it and away you go.

Oh. You guys oughta try that 'free market" thing. It's not so bad, when you actually have one

China Mobile will trade in your old normal SIM for the mini-SIM for a small charge, that's about the only control they have over the iPhone. They do sell them but they aren't the only ones ... but it is a limitation. Apple is stupid. If they sold through all the 2.5 million little phone stores they could sell a lot more. We have phone stores everywhere . If they'd just sell the phones like Samsung and Nokia and Motorola do, they would sell more. But noooo they have to be special . Clue for Apple guys : China Mobile is not special . China Mobile is your grandma.

I think most people do go to China Mobile for the SIM exchange since the cut-down-yourself thing is not guaranteed to work. They also have a pay-as-you-go plan like the US - I forget the name - but only a few businesses use it. There is also a not-too-ridiculous data plan that China Unicom has. The only trouble with that is China Unicom sucks.

China Mobile is not the first choice for buying an iPhone. They are about $100 cheaper in Hong Kong. You also have to be careful if you buy from unknown suppliers - could be anything inside that patented plastic rectangle with the round corners



One of the Assist's friends was convinced anyone could get an iPhone for $200 by going to Best Buy and saying the secret password to 'the Chinese guy." Oh-kaaaay. Kind of odd ... I can't think of anyone I know who has bought one at the Apple store. Must be somebody but ... probably they don't have any in stock. When they didn't have any to sell in the US it was because "Sales are so high we can't keep them on hand !" now that the stock has crashed $200/share, it's because "sales were disappointing." It would be really nice if these people would get their lies straight. Assist is doubly pissed now, she bought something from iStore, paid for it, then when she went to download got a message "This is not available in your country." Nice work, dickwads. Couldn't bother to mention that upfront, eh ?

It does appear that the experience of owning an iPhone is something that could limit their sales here. Chinese people gossip. A lot . Easy to scratch and rob me of $15 bucks and honey, you got youself a potential enemy. iPhone is not that great. Take away the lockin and they're going to have a rough time competing with Samsung.

Does no one else think the stock market is a total fraud when the "value" of a company can change by 800 billion dollars in three days ? This is one of the stupidest things I ever heard of. Why do people listen to that shit ? The "financial news" is about as relevant to reality as stories about Janet Jackson's tits falling out. It appears that the US has jumped the shark.


Service-wise, you have China Mobile which is the big good one - decent coverage, good quality, locations everywhere, okay prices (costs me about $15 a month). China Unicom has CDMA and a reasonable wireless data plan and maybe has coverage in a few places that China Mobile doesn't go, but no one likes them. You do China Unicom if you have no other choice. I was stuck with them when I had a Linux powered patent-infringing (round corners) Samsung i519. Our office connection was a smaller company, pretty good, and then China Unicom bought them and two days later it was shit. They are kind of like China Eastern - if it's a choice between walking and China Eastern and you only have three days, you take China Eastern. Otherwise, for distances less than 1,000 km, walk

Oh, I see the confusion. China Mobile is a service provider and they sell phones. They may provide a phone if you buy a service plan but I have never heard of anyone doing that. We ain't stupid enough for that schtick. People use them as a pre-paid service provider. You can buy a $15 card within 100 yards of almost anywhere. Scratch off the number, punch it in and you're set for another month. It's totally easy. C Mobile aren't big in retail phone sales. So equating the number of users with the number of phone sales is total ignorance.

I read that you are going to put people in prison for unlocking their own phones now. Good work ! US isn't owned by corporations, oh no !

Girls like Korea stuff but they also like Japan stuff. And France stuff. Juicy was hot a while ago and before that Abercrummy and Footch. I would not say that Chinese people flock after anything in particular. They flock after whatever is stylish at the moment but Korea doesn't own the definition.

Did I ramble enough yet ? can try harder if it's necessary. Not sure what's wrong with my brain today, maybe the start of fireworks season

One thing to consider : if you are interested in the "common file system" (or whatever they call it) so that you can share with Windows machines easily, 10 does not include that. 11 does. "Services for Unix" on Windows is pretty clunky.

Not sure whether "does not support" = "will not run" or just "Oracle won't help you." If it's the latter, well, Oracle isn't going to help you anyway so no great loss.

n-3 ?

Ah ! So there was a 1.28.3 there ! That's what I had installed. When I went to check over my Firefox dependencies, I was running that one - but couldn't find it in /beta. So I just removed it and installed whichever one is now available. (1.12.4 or something ?)

One thing about the pango 1.28.3 : I was getting a lot of "deformed output" warnings in FF3 and the browser would shortly thereafter crash. That isn't happening with 1.12.4 So perhaps that beta pango was not a good one to have if running FF3.

The libtool8 homegrown testing package seems to work okay but we (I, anyhow) would welcome an updated standard version

If you have other SGI machines, the 80 pin drives with an adapter are more versatile. With 80 pin drives you can swap them into an O2 or Octane very easily for various purposes. A 68 pin drive can't do that.

An 80 pin data drive running xfs could be used in a Linux box as well. If it's a server-style computer it will have 80 pin sockets. It's easy to put an adapter on an 80 pin drive for a 68 pin cable but difficult to fit that setup into a computer intended for use with sca drives.

The electronics are less than minimal. It's a couple of chips and two connectors and there's plenty of room for them inside the Fuel case. Not so in the other direction.

Well, that's the poops. Good to know tho, thank you for the info.


Samba sucks dead donkey balls and it's going the wrong way anyhow (need Sharity ?) but otherwise, Solaris 10 works nicely for me, so I'm not crying.

@astouffer : Solaris 10 is actually nice but don't install the graphical desktop . That thing is worse than a nightmare. It's the interface that drove Freddy Krueger around the bend. You have been warned.

Remember deja news ? Sigh.

It's all about control now. Innovation my left walnut, it's all "How can we fuck people by charging them for what's really theirs ?"

Patents on a round corner, what a large appetizing bowl of fragrant steaming pigshit. It's class warfare all right, and pretty obvious who is winning, one little piece at a time.

If you want to know the truth, petitions do nothing. An Uzi in Google headquarters is the correct response to this. 枪杆子里出政权

Wull, damn ! I finally found something that win2k pro cannot do ! Maybe save someone, somewhere some time : RDP is called terminal Services on win2k and you need the server edition to make it work. And you can't just booger in the relevant files.

Poop.

Mine has a resistor. That's probably why it was $3

Maybe. But Sun had at least 376 different incompatible window manglers all on their own.

It's easy to find documentation for Solaris. It's exasperating to sort through the 86,957,219 returns in .02 seconds to figure out which documentation applies. Freddy Krueger was a normal human being before his grandpa was committed and he inherited a V240

It wasn't the CDE or window manager so much - altho that's sort of a pain also - but the Xservers were different, the gui administration tools seemed to change every three days, nothing was the same from one version to another. Check google for "how to add a new user" and you'd get twelve different sets of tools, none of which match your computer.

At least < useradd -options > is consistent !


Damn straight ! And it works good. Just no gui tools, puh-lease !!