The collected works of vishnu - Page 1

Extraordinary... You guys are the BEST!

Buy her a ticket on the Alone Train to Aloneville, with stops in Ex-Girlfriend Junction and West Breakin' Up With You...

That's why you sign 'em up at soyouvebeendumped.com...

You mean posts asking for relationship advice can lead to a slippery slope? Who'da thunk!

Perhaps we should rename this thread "What about Cylon girls?" ...

I spent many years working with concentrated hydrogen peroxide (70 percent and above) and just the vapors wafting through the lab turned my hair blonde...

It was for propulsion but I don't know that it ever got used in any torpedo systems. We had a spankin' CFD model of it, that we wrote in fortran on our MicroVAX 3100. We only just retired that thing a few years ago. The computer not the code...

In case anyone's wondering (though I'm sure many of you already know); the xrdb program can be used to add/modify X resources into a running X server. For example, if you put the changes into your .Xdefaults file:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults

Nice!

I did some testing at the Wallops Flight Facility a few years back, do you ever get out there? Maybe we crossed paths. We were the guys that lost the Navy's underwater recovery sea lion...

The original source code to tenmillion.c is here:

http://www.oss.sgi.com/projects/performer/mail/info-performer/perf-96-11/0181.html

I got it to compile and run on my Linux box by changing the call to gettimeofday() to include a timezone struct and by changing the return type of main() to int. I'll try it on my SGI as soon as I get some caffeine into my system tomorrow morning...

If anyone's interested, to compile it (on Linux) I used:

gcc -Wall -L/usr/X11/lib -lGL -lGLU tenmillion.c -o tenmillion.c.exe

The -Wall switch is optional, but interesting. I always use it when I compile other people's code...

Yeah, I'm a Visual C++ goit from way back. But that doesn't alter the fact that consistent filename extensions are a good idea. I've always wondered Unix uses them for it's shared objects but not executables. Just to be different from Microsoft? I find it a tremendous convenience, for example if I want a list of all the programs I've compiled in $HOME all I have to do is `find ~ -name \*exe` ...

Oh right! I suppose next you're going to be telling me I shouldn't be renaming all my .so's to dll's...

tbcpp was working on the Blender port, but he hasn't been around at least half a year, so I'd guess probably not. Apparently it's a monumental task because the Blender coders keeps putting in gcc-isms that have to be ifdef'ed out and replaced (or bypassed) with something the MIPSPro compiler can understand.

Well if I didn't have Maya I'd be all over Blender like a cheap suit. Blender does some things much better than Maya, for example it is a much better "plain old" vertex, edge and face modeler, but in most other respects Maya blows Blender (and everybody else) right out of the water. Maya is down the road and around the bend compared to Lightwave, Realsoft, Softimage, Pro/ENGINEER... Okay that last one was apples to oranges but still...

Here at the 'ol Salt Mine we just upgraded to Wildfire 4.0. It is a world-class solid modeler with a user interface designed by kindergarteners. Turbocad is about 50 million times easier to use...

Uhhhhh... Actually it looks like there's nothing past python 2.5 yet:

https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/lib/irix-6.5-mips/python/

If they're on the same subnet; zero hops...

Wow that's bee-yoo-tee-ful!

Did you use Maya's built in renderer, Mental Ray, or something else?

I've got one of those mugs, purple with the gold lettering and cube, it's one of my prize possessions. No logos on the back though, I'm pretty sure that's strictly a zack touch...

The "old" sgi made some great acquisitions that in the end ended up helping them not at all. MIPS, Alias/Wavefront, Cray Research, all of which (under their new corporate umbrellas) are still chugging along...

Presumably you've looked at this:

http://terrain.cs.duke.edu/

...and found it inadequate?

pthreads is supported on Irix, presumably you've seen this(?):

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/p_man/cat5/pthreads.z

The tar file is an SGI executable that you want to install on your Octane? Presuming it was tarred relative to the root of the filesystem on which it was compiled, you can

mv filename.tar /

cd /

tar -xf filename.tar

Now, presuming that the tarball deposited the binary into a directory that's in your $PATH, you can just type the binary file's name into a shell and the program will run.

Of course, it's not installed on your system in the sense that the software manager knows anything about it (esp. how to uninstall it!), but you can at least run the program...

What now? You say someone's actually paying you to compile the latest QT on an SGI?

Who are they and are they hiring!

It does seem complicated at first, but if you stick with it before long you'll be amazed you ever thought it was hard! Pymble posted above a hint to use the ldd command to find out what system libraries the Blender executable needs to have in order to run. ldd = "list dynamic dependencies" - so libs are "shared objects," code sharing, or reuse is the computing world's mantra and has been for a long time. Programs that need to use code from a library dynamically link to it at runtime. If the library Blender wants to link to is on your system but Blender can't find it, you can add it's location to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable (also as Pymble mentioned above). To see what the contents of this environment variable are currently:

echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

To add a directory to the variable, using C-shell syntax:

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/some/new/directory

To do the same thing using BASH syntax:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/some/new/directory

You can use the same syntax to add directories to your $PATH (i.e. the directory where your Blender executable is located).

To find out whether you're using C-shell or BASH:

echo $SHELL

Good luck, stick with it, and HAVE FUN!

EEK-ceptional!

IIRC to cross-compile you can use the -TARG: argument but for mips3 I think it's as simple as cc -mips3 (???)

Don't worry about the libs, the MIPSPro linker is genius...