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The problem is trying to do everything with one computer. I gave that up long ago. Either ditch the Targa or the Sound card. Neither PAR nor TBC will allow you much room to flex.
I don't know what the FMC II 12 is. I assume it's a hub. If you use coax all over you don't need a hub. If you do get an Indy or a Sun however, you will need something like that because they come with RJ45's. There are some pretty…
Yes, it is another full length board and it MUST sit right next to the PAR as the cable connecting them both is only around 2 inches long. You will have to make room for it.
Ok… You can get a brand new Sun for less than $3k (SparcStation Classic – dog slow) or a little better (SparcStation 5 – pretty zippy) for around $5k. For 3D Studio work, however, it makes more sense to get a bare bones Indy (around $5k) (talk to Kevin Krell).…
>> Weird?… We *always* enter Windows after exiting 3D Studio on our >> Mach 64… Is your ATI PCI or VESA? The problem is with the PCI version.
Targa 64+ 4sale
Message #150988
Hey dudes and dudettes, I still have some left overs… Targa 64+ with everything (orig cables, orig manuals, orig disks, etc.). 87 Vanden Plas… oops… wrong forum… Best offers by the end of the week takes it (don't e'mail me asking for price, just shoot something)… Gus
Hey dude, It's ok to do what you do. It is NOT ok to carpet bomb the forum with the same message over and over. Sooner or later some guy will begin selling green cards too…
There are, at least, two threads currently going on discussing the same problem. You just found another behavior. I assume your machine is the (Lantastic) server, right? What is happening is that while Lantastic is servicing the requests from the slave (frequent checks to see if there is anything to…
Ok, Let me take a stab at this. I assume the machine having the problem is the machine acting as a server and is also the machine with the EVO attached to it. If this is the case, the problem is that when Lantastic is servicing its requests, it basically…
Kevin, this has nothing to do with you, it's just following with the thread. I'm an Autocad user for almost 10 years (since version 2.0). I have never, ever asked for tech support and I couldn't care less about it. What really bugged me for years and years was the…
I'm not 100% aware of everything that goes on while net rendering but I can tell you that an idle machine will check the server (NET-PATH) looking for stuff to do. I assume it does that by opening 3DS.MCS. In order to avoid problems, it also probably "locks" the file…
This is a problem of the network software. There are, actually, two problems here. First is the raw performance of the "Server" software. This is the program running all the time waiting for requests and replying to those requests. The better the "Server" program the better the performance. The second…
Hey Chris, Welcome to the Mach64 PCI user's club… I gave up.
What else do you have plugged to your parallel port?
>> Do you know why they stripped commute from PCTools? Well, if you noticed, they stripped everything out of PCTools. Even Central Point has been stripped out of PCTools! Now it's all in the hands of Symantec (and the Peter Norton group). They've got their own pcAnywhere.
That's silly. Both Abekas and Accoms are nothing more than stand alone computers running their own version of Unix. The "normal" way to transfer stuff back and forth is using standard Unix tools (over a TCP/IP network). You can also control them through a SCSI port if you want to…
>> very successful long range-services with Commute from PCTools… Interesting to find someone using Commute. I wrote Commute several years ago! Gus
Note that it doesn't make much sense using 100MBps Ethernet (or FDDI) with just a handful of PC's. No PC will pump much more than around 20MBps any way (20 Mega Bits per second = 2.5 Mega Bytes per second not counting the overhead which is greater than 200%). Your…
If you boot the machine and select DOS, that's exactly what you get. In fact, you won't even see the NT stuff as it lies on a separate hard disk partition (provided you installed it in its default configuration). No portion of NT is loaded and as far as you're…
What "exactly" do you have attached to your printer port (nothing, a printer, a scanner, etc)…
The SGI port of Doom is a straight port, not an emulation. Doom was first written for the Next Machine (sorta Unix) and in fact, the DOS version is a hack as Doom is basically a multithreaded engine. Regardless, it runs pretty well on a Pentium though it ain't that…
The current shipping version of OnNet is 1.1. The only thing I needed was setting up pcnfsd on the Irix. The source for pcnfsd is all over the place including in the distribution of both PCNFS and OnNet (with OnNet you get a CDROM with a quazilion utilities).
I run OnNet on the majority of my PC's. It's by far more flexible. The only oddity was that I could not get the [normal] pcnfsd located in the Sun server to authenticate those machines when attempting to mount drives on the SGI. I have never used the SGI as…
You don't really need that other than for looking at the source code. Those functions are in the IPAS library you're using. Just use them as any other function.
>> So did you run into any problems or potential issues getting the >> first Beta up and running? Not really. I did have two problems but they were related to system configuration. At first my resolv.conf had a typo (came in like that) and it was not resolving names…
Yo, I had "unclicked" this forum from OzCIS and had totally forgotten about it. So far this [SGI] stuff is working just fine (all the stuff said it is supposed to do and granted that it is just slightly faster than a Pentium 60). Any clues when I will be…
#3DS3 Window NT
Message #147431
>> version without a lock -and- you change the undocumented Pharlap >> settings. Can someone from Autodesk confirm this stuff?
>> But be sure it would take a lot of time to compute on a PC . If it runs fine on a Indigo II, there is no reason for it not to run just as well on a Pentium.
It's not easy to benchmark network performance. There are simply too many variables at play to have any reasonable confiability. You usually get what you pay for though. >> 1 – Can you say what software and hardware works well together? In my experience… NONE! Again a tough question. It…
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#Better paint and fonts
Message #146976
Rasterizing PostScript is the main reason I use Photoshop. If text (fonts) rasterization is what you want, I don't know of any better choice. Corel Draw's idea of a paint program (Corel Paint) is a joke to put mildly.
It has to be, though I never heard that name. There are about 100 Grubba's in the US (mostly in Wisconsin). They came from Prussia around the turn of the century. Not many are left in Europe after WWII. So, a Prussian named Nicolai expert in Mayan glyphs… yeah, that…
No, how about Rumba?
They're all out of sight.
I don't know what could be but I can tell you that the message you see is comming from Smartdrv. You have it with write delays and it can't, for some weird reason, write. Do you have any oddity running along, such as Stacker, Wizbang TSR, etc? Have you tried…
Andrew, Greg had to leave to Florida for an emergency but he should be back next Monday.
>> I do not have a manual and can begin to understand it … Yo, dude! What happened to your manuals? Did the dog eat it?
As long as all your [rendering] PC's can see a shared drive somewhere in the network you should have no problems.
You find them in "hack" computer stores or electronics surplus stores ($1 each type deal). They vary in size between 1" and 4". You should look for anything that will fit inside your computer and it must be 12V (though you could use 110V I wouldn't advise). Just use a…
>> I am from 3Dlabs and if there is anything you would like to know >> about GLINT please send me an email or give us a call at (408-436 3455) >> and ask for Neil or Raj. I sent you these and several other questions the last time you…
I think a regular SVHS will do just fine for you. You will not take any advantage of the single frame portion of the unit. It does offer some other "professional" features but for what you want I don't think it's worth the added cost. If you want some features…
Of course not. Had it, it wouldn't work with the Sun. Nevertheless I've installed 5.2, the development option, the network file system and several others non SGI disks with no problems. It complains but it goes. The option is paying SGI $1,000 for the exact same thing with just a…
What happened to the original manuals? Have you seen the tutorials?
#Lots of stuff for sale
Message #144066
Yo, I want some new toys and I'm selling off stuff… – Sanyo GVR-950 Single frame S-VHS recorder (comes with controller for 3D Studio). It's got less than 20 minutes of use. (original packaging, docs, cables, software, etc.) – FAST Video Machine (The full one, not the "light"). All original…
Hey dude, Are you up here? Let's go skiing… Monday just for kicks… Got a brand new K2 begging for some snow…
>> All the Banging and Slapping in the world don't seem to make any >> difference… That fixes 99% of all high tech problems. The rest needs to be replaced! Something inside your monitor ain't doing contact 'till warm enough to expand. A cold solder joint all right. If you…
Your monitor cable is bad. More likely, the connector (VGA-DB15). If you get everything blue, you're missing the RED (and probably the GREEN too).
I left a message describing this problem to Vibrant several months ago. To date I have not heard back from them. The Vibrant drivers leave the video hardware in a state that causes the system to lock up when you boot Windows. That could just as well be an ATI…
I don't know… but this is prone to be interesting. IBM with its screwy announcement of dropping the Pentium (obviously in favor of it own crappy Power PC). Specially when you think that less than 5% of IBM sales involve systems with the Pentium. I won't be surprized of this…
#3DSR4 for $1,300?!
Message #141132
I was just talking to a friend who visited an architectural firm in Brazil and he said Autodesk (themselves, not a dealer) is selling 3DS R4 for $1,300 down there. This is for a full blown version, not a student one. Is this true? If so, why the difference? I've…
That's pretty absurd. The limit is actually 4 Terabytes, a bit more than the 64M they told you. What they might be thinking is about the "light" version of PharLap included with some compilers such as the Borland junk. That one is limited in order to make you pay for…
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