IRC log for #brlcad on 20091112

00:58.11 ``Erik yukonbob: I imagine the bios wouldn't be able to, but fbsd (and linux, and windows, and haiku, and...) don't use the bios after the bootloader starts up
01:02.41 yukonbob ``Erik: ya -- that's what I thought, but there's confusion surrounding that so I get conflicting messages...
01:03.14 yukonbob so, may require special consideration as a potential boot device, otherwise, all's well
01:03.18 yukonbob nice...
01:12.46 ``Erik I doubt the p3 has the ability to boot from usb?
01:12.52 ``Erik so *shrug*
01:13.00 ``Erik seems to be working fine as a secondary drive
01:17.42 yukonbob re: USB -- probably --- again, bios issue, but I'm saying if it were on PCI SATA controller, for example... (assuming this is a SATA disk).
01:18.02 yukonbob watching Rob Pike talk about "go"
01:18.06 yukonbob *golang
01:20.43 ``Erik not to be confused with go!
01:21.08 ``Erik <-- hasn't gone sata on any of his home machines, is still all pata
01:21.29 Ralith ``Erik: how the hell do you get 1.5TB on a p3?
01:21.38 Ralith I can't imagine the mobo being sufficiently up to date
01:21.42 yukonbob hahaha
01:21.48 yukonbob Ralith: read scrollback ;)(
01:21.52 Ralith ah, I see.
01:21.53 yukonbob * ;)
01:23.32 yukonbob hrmm... HP to buy 3Com $2.7B
01:25.50 ``Erik amusing, 3com was yet another company started after xerox ignored what came out of PARC, being sold for 40% of xerox's market cap
01:29.37 Ralith heh
01:35.01 yukonbob now bob metcalfe can re-stuff his $1000-bill matress
01:35.23 yukonbob with gold bricks :P
01:37.27 ``Erik can't be comfortable... but this is a man who eats blended paper *shrug*
01:44.44 yukonbob made of $1000 bills?
01:45.09 yukonbob sure doesn't like apple laptops, nor OS X
01:45.40 yukonbob gimme BSD on a thinkpad...
01:47.10 ``Erik nah, according to his wikipedia page, he predicted some major meltdown of the internet in the mid 90's, said he'd eat his words if it didn't happen... so he printed up his whitepaper on it, threw it in the blender and ate it on stage somewhere
01:47.46 ``Erik <-- is comfortable with osX as a platform for running firefox, ssh and wow O.o
01:48.09 ``Erik just a handful of fixes to make it a little more BSD-ish and it rolls ok
01:49.08 yukonbob running 10.4 on an old (g4) powerbook
01:49.30 ``Erik g4 powerbook was a decent machine, I thought
01:49.54 ``Erik re-enable the root account, sudo ln -s /Users /home, install macports, ... :)
01:50.31 ``Erik I'm using xquartz instead of apples x11.app
01:50.45 ``Erik and xterm instead of terminal.app
01:51.43 ``Erik defaults -write org.x.x11 -bool wm_ffm true
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05:08.48 starseeker ``Erik: I knew rice paper had to be good for something...
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11:23.03 d-lo 1.5TB on a p3 650. Nice :) Sounds kinda like a 3-cyl in a tractor trailer!
12:10.43 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r36472 10/brlcad/branches/ (34 files in 17 dirs): rename from dmtogl-branch to just dmtogl. the -branch was a cvs convention that svn takes care of with a branches parent dir. not clear why the windows files are marked as modified as they still have CRLF line endings
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13:38.46 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1642 10/wiki/Talk:Main_Page:
13:41.13 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1643 10/wiki/Talk:Main_Page:
13:41.43 brlcad no objections whatsoever..
13:48.54 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Sean 07http://brlcad.org * r1644 10/wiki/Talk:Main_Page: reply to ssd
13:57.27 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1645 10/wiki/MGED_CMD_3ptarb: example of removing prefix from category
13:58.47 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1646 10/wiki/Category:MGED: every category should have a description of some sort?
14:03.21 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1647 10/wiki/Talk:Main_Page:
14:26.08 ``Erik brlcad: lee is whining about not getting dns info
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14:52.04 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * r36473 10/isst/trunk/src/ (gui.c main.c): constify some, quell warnings
14:58.31 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1648 10/wiki/Documentation: lift this page up in the category list
14:59.50 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1649 10/wiki/Category:Development: New page: [[category:documentation]]
15:00.30 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1650 10/wiki/Developing_applications:
15:04.21 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1651 10/wiki/Category:Design_Documents: New page: [[category:documentation]]
15:05.42 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1652 10/wiki/Developing_applications:
15:09.17 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1653 10/wiki/Category:Development: category already existed? oops
15:10.35 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1654 10/wiki/BRL-CAD_Commands:
15:11.59 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1655 10/wiki/Category:Commands: New page: [[category:documentation]]
15:12.16 ``Erik "two go's considered harmful" *snicker*
15:13.10 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1656 10/wiki/MGED:
15:15.07 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1657 10/wiki/Hex: category, wikify format
15:15.28 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1658 10/wiki/Third_Party_Utilities:
15:18.37 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1659 10/wiki/Mged: merge back what I added to [[MGED]]
15:18.45 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1660 10/wiki/MGED: merging with [[Mged]] although the merge should go the other way prob (someone with more access can delete this page and move the other)
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15:22.45 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1663 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Proposal_Evaluation: [[category:Google Summer of Code]]
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15:24.34 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1668 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Application_Guidelines:
15:25.14 CIA-61 BRL-CAD: 03Ssd 07http://brlcad.org * r1669 10/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Acceptance:
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