Ok, cya in a few months I guessIn that case, replace weeks with months *hides*
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...It's a pity that some people I know can't see this.
. May be they will stop calling me "Gentoo maniac" .
for MacTeX you need either the 2010 version for tiger or the 2016 version for leopard. i just upgraded my system to leopard last night so i'm using the 2016 version. you can download them from this server: http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/mactex/That looks great. Can you link to the versions of MacTeX and TexShop that you're using? I'd like to give this a try myself.
In that case, replace weeks with months *hides*
and for TeXShop, you need version 2 which was the last one to support tiger and leopard. you can download it here: https://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/texshop.zip
Take off the "Gentoo" and you have an accurate description of me...It's a pity that some people I know can't see this.
Busy ripping all my old CD's via MorphOS with Flacapella and then saving it on network share for the family to use.
Excuse me if I'm asking in wrong thread... Does it worth to buy dualcore G5? (Gentoo is excluded from the start on this HW ). Found a pair of annoucement on local second hand market.
). Found a pair of annoucement on local second hand market.
Y'all making me want to start playing with Linux again...
It's well worth it if you aren't afraid of making some mistakes as you go. I'm planning to put MintPPC on my SLSD sometime soon.
Oh, I have plenty of Linux experience. It is all fun and games until you soft-brick the laptop! Lessons in frustration but a nice challenge. Been doing it with multiple systems for years but I never could get it *just* right to work for 100% of my uses, especially games. (Oh, they run, but either there's zero acceleration or the anti-aliasing is non-existent) so while I love the idea of FOSS, it just never works enough to make it a daily driver system.
I wish there were some means of bringing back the ancient UNIX errors that were hard-coded by the actual software users back in the day, such as:
Lint's little mind has blown
Not enough data (%bytes) with which to do jack, ignored
Man overboard
BUGS: no life raft
Tried the commands that are supposed to make those errors appear but they're not hard-coded into BASH. I was, however, able to replicate the script that produced the animated GIF of Nedry going 'ah ah ah! you didn't say the magic word!' when you get 'permission denied' three times in a row from Jurassic Park. It's a simple script really
I wish there were some means of bringing back the ancient UNIX errors that were hard-coded by the actual software users back in the day, such as:
Lint's little mind has blown
Not enough data (%bytes) with which to do jack, ignored
Man overboard
BUGS: no life raft
Tried the commands that are supposed to make those errors appear but they're not hard-coded into BASH. I was, however, able to replicate the script that produced the animated GIF of Nedry going 'ah ah ah! you didn't say the magic word!' when you get 'permission denied' three times in a row from Jurassic Park. It's a simple script really
Ah, ok! That would be nice if we could get those errors back, at least QOTD is something that can be set up with relative ease, and that has a nice old-school UNIX vibe to it.
I love that scene, I'd be interested in the script so I could set that up on one of my machines as well if you'd be open to providing it.
Oh that was so many years ago. I was a member of Jurassic Park Legacy forums around 2009-2011, and the system I did that on is long gone now. I had it replicating the IRIX layout and even the Jurassic Park Alpha BASH with blue background
It was a simple batch file I just messed with, edited the entries for 'permission denied' where after the third time it echos a bunch of 'And...you didn't say the magic word!' scrolling down the screen and starts up some type of frame buffer image to load the GIF. If I'm not mistaken, there's plenty of software resources on that forum. Some guy named Cyrix was doing all the simulations and made a screensaver of the bootup and the Ford Explorer software used in the movie. He had copies of some of the assets I used such as the animated Nedry GIF image.
When I get off work for the end of the year (late November) I planned on toying with Linux on my gaming rig, trying to make games run (properly, not like they're on an i486) using Ubuntu's gaming version. Might try finding some means of bringing that chaos back. I still have the old hard disk from that system but Linux never liked playing well with another motherboard.
Back then, there was a website that was trying to replicate the OS from the movie too, called Jurassic Park OS, or jpOS. It was alpha stage so not fully functional, and the site had to be taken down to find new servers to run, and I never got back to see if it ever came back up. Nice concept though.
It was a simple batch file I just messed with, edited the entries for 'permission denied' where after the third time it echos a bunch of 'And...you didn't say the magic word!' scrolling down the screen and starts up some type of frame buffer image to load the GIF. If I'm not mistaken, there's plenty of software resources on that forum. Some guy named Cyrix was doing all the simulations and made a screensaver of the bootup and the Ford Explorer software used in the movie. He had copies of some of the assets I used such as the animated Nedry GIF image.
When I get off work for the end of the year (late November) I planned on toying with Linux on my gaming rig, trying to make games run (properly, not like they're on an i486) using Ubuntu's gaming version. Might try finding some means of bringing that chaos back. I still have the old hard disk from that system but Linux never liked playing well with another motherboard.
Back then, there was a website that was trying to replicate the OS from the movie too, called Jurassic Park OS, or jpOS. It was alpha stage so not fully functional, and the site had to be taken down to find new servers to run, and I never got back to see if it ever came back up. Nice concept though.
Ah, ok, cool! Thanks for the info, I'll have to look into that.
I have to say, I have always wanted to try older Linux/UNIX/BSD, but I've always been limited by the fact that I primarily own newer hardware. Once I get an era-appropriate box (probably something mid to late 90s), then I can start really toying with the older stuff and using it truly on era-appropriate hardware.
I was doing it with a old Pentium MMX, with like 512MB RAM, and a 2GB HDD. It dual booted that plus Windows 98 SE, I used the latter for more serious work while Linux was just there imitating IRIX/SGI/console from the movie, but it did look quite authentic, and the Internet worked. I set the browser home page to that jpOS but later on I just lost interest. I let my account on that forum lapse too so it's probably long gone, not that I'd recall the login today.
The IRIX clone was using free software and some IRIX assets, so you had the CPU/HDD/RAM graphs like that scene too, although without multiple CPUs it wasn't dancing quite like the SGI Indigo in the movie did.
The IRIX clone was using free software and some IRIX assets, so you had the CPU/HDD/RAM graphs like that scene too, although without multiple CPUs it wasn't dancing quite like the SGI Indigo in the movie did.
It's around 60-100$ converted, self-delivery
. What stops me - don't have other peripherals & RAM\storage devices...
Can you pls translate this for someone who is not too deep in macs?
SLSD is, as far as I know, referring to a PowerBook G4 prior to the high resolution models.Can you pls translate this for someone who is not too deep in macs?
ooooo, that's awesome!
I just by chance came across this, which is a modern "version" of the IRIX environment of sorts, and it looks pretty cool.
MaXX Interactive Desktop
docs.maxxinteractive.com
I've been meaning to play with this too. The IRIX GUI is pretty cool.I just by chance came across this, which is a modern "version" of the IRIX environment of sorts, and it looks pretty cool.
MaXX Interactive Desktop
I agree! I want to get a MIPS machine so I can play around with IRIX for real. Maybe QEMU will allow me to do that once I get Linux set up on real hardware. I could also play with other OSes made for odd architectures as well at that point.
You need an SGI MIPS box for IRIX - but I believe those are the most common MIPS boxes anyway.
https://sgi.neocities.org/
EDIT: Changed link.
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