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[robbat2]

Ok, so I got a fair bit of work done today. After math class, I made a start looking at stuff on the Onyx, then Gord announced he had finally got the compiler going. I managed to get ssh compiled properly, I wanted to use OpenSSH, but I can't get it see the zlib for compiling on the Onyx.

Turns out to be just Java and C++ that he got working. No pure C yet. As soon as we get that, the system will be very set 8-).

Parallel make is very cool on quad-processors 8-). The system compiles insanely fast because of those quad processors and the 2Gb of RAM.

Around lunchtime, I set up exporting X displays from spitfire to the onyx. And we tried to watch the Planet of the Apes DVD. It plays just fine on spitfire, but the exported display's colours are totally messed up, and the framerate is only 7.5fps.

I will see about getting the raw vobs onto the SGI hard drives, since we have a few hundred gigs of space to play with, then the movie should play very well if I get a player. Ogle might even work.

For my first direct experience with DVD movies, it has been really cool. I actualy had not handled a DVD myself before. I had seen them in stores and around, but not played with one myself. Now I'm running a Linux DVD player, and exporting to our nice huge SGI screens for a 20ft x 10ft display :-). This is turning into a regular movie theatre.

If I get the movies onto the onyx myself, then I will be watching Matrix on tuesday during lunchtime.

I was really impressed with the RedHat on spitfire, for having correctly auto-configured the sound. It worked right out of the box. Now if we get the proper sound over to the main speakers, then we will really be rocking!

I'm sitting in the NMI/SVR lab, waiting for my NMI class to start (14h30).

I need to get more music on my playlist here!

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[afreak2600.livejournal.com]

I got two DVD players (PS2 and RCA), and once you go DVD you can't go back.