But why you need to stick to proprietary solutions and make them unreachable on platforms you’re caring about on this community? Wouldn’t be better to just use IRC like civilized people do?
Trying to convince people who want Slack or Discord to use IRC will get you nowhere.
IRC is awesome and some of us have been using it since dirt but it ITSELF lacks features some modern users really want - built in search / logging / voice chat / built in image / sound rendering, etc etc etc.
You can say “Bah that’s all crap” - and I’ll agree with you, but that doesn’t stop people from wanting.
Personally, I wish more open source folk would explore sollutions like https://zulipchat.com/
These bridging bots (between Slack/Discord/Matrix/Telegram/Hipchat and IRC) are quite incomplete solutions, as they can’t do “puppeting” so the bot impersonates all IM users as single IRC user and it’s bad to interact with them in that way.
This is a godsend. I’ve been staring at my Indigo2 for months wondering how I’m going to take the next steps in getting it back online. Bam, here we go! Now I just need to get a working SCSI drive and burn these CDs to reset the root password. Thanks!
I’ll always have a soft spot for IRIX and SGI hardware. I have an R5K Indy sitting in my garage and still lament trading my R10K O2 for a Sun Ultra 10. One day when I have more tuits and budget for vintage computers I’d love to get another high end O2 (a few months ago I almost bought a Fuel but couldn’t quite justify the expense).
And on the subject of SGI sites, here’s hoping Nekochan does return…
One of these days I’ll have to get my Octane up and running again. I finally tracked down an SCA drive, but it looks like I’ll either have to 3D-print or whittle an artisanal drive sled out of deadfall.
Even whittling probably produces tighter tolerances than what SGI was shipping BITD. I lost more sleep than I care to remember over badly machined drive sleds, to say nothing of the software, which was hellaciously fast, particularly at dumping core and rebooting; to be fair, most of those big boxen I used to herd would go tits up twice a day, so IRIX was under serious selective pressure to “reboot quickly”.
Awesome. IRIX 5.2 was my first ever unix. I had access to a couple of Indys at a tiny little web shop out the back of an Internet cafe with a 64k leased line where I worked in 1995. How I loved those things. (Along with the NeXT pizza boxes at college…) I still use the SGI screen font on my pre-retina iMac along with the best approximation I can of the desktop background & winterm colours, and it still makes me happy.
> discordGod please, no!
Better than slack.
Of course!
But why you need to stick to proprietary solutions and make them unreachable on platforms you’re caring about on this community? Wouldn’t be better to just use IRC like civilized people do?
Trying to convince people who want Slack or Discord to use IRC will get you nowhere.
IRC is awesome and some of us have been using it since dirt but it ITSELF lacks features some modern users really want - built in search / logging / voice chat / built in image / sound rendering, etc etc etc.
You can say “Bah that’s all crap” - and I’ll agree with you, but that doesn’t stop people from wanting.
Personally, I wish more open source folk would explore sollutions like https://zulipchat.com/
Direct link to the code for everybody’s convenience: https://github.com/zulip/zulip
I know Zulip but haven’t tried it personally yet…
And, more importantly - does it have an IRC gateway? :)
Sort of: https://github.com/zulip/python-zulip-api/issues/106
I still like zulip quite a lot, i think its concept of topics does really improve discussions.
They have an IRC channel too, and a bot that communicates between IRC & Discord
These bridging bots (between Slack/Discord/Matrix/Telegram/Hipchat and IRC) are quite incomplete solutions, as they can’t do “puppeting” so the bot impersonates all IM users as single IRC user and it’s bad to interact with them in that way.
I hope Matrix could solve this in the future.
I’ve been using Matrix for about 18 months, and it does puppeting perfectly when bridging to IRC, from either side.
The Slack bridging with Matrix looks to behave in a similar way; you’re almost unable to distinguish native users and bridged users.
This is a godsend. I’ve been staring at my Indigo2 for months wondering how I’m going to take the next steps in getting it back online. Bam, here we go! Now I just need to get a working SCSI drive and burn these CDs to reset the root password. Thanks!
Use DINA instead?
How will DINA help if @jamestomasino doesn’t have IRIX install media?
It doesn’t but it saves on avoiding the clumsy install process from CDs which involves swapping disks in and out multiple times.
I had a full Indigo2 with graphics upgrade that got abandoned in a move. :(
At one time we had a Challenge, a Fuel, an Octane (which I still, have, I think, or maybe an O2?), and that Indigo2.
I also have an Indigo 2 and an Indy sitting around in need of various little repairs. I hope this might help me get back into things.
I’ll always have a soft spot for IRIX and SGI hardware. I have an R5K Indy sitting in my garage and still lament trading my R10K O2 for a Sun Ultra 10. One day when I have more tuits and budget for vintage computers I’d love to get another high end O2 (a few months ago I almost bought a Fuel but couldn’t quite justify the expense).
And on the subject of SGI sites, here’s hoping Nekochan does return…
One of these days I’ll have to get my Octane up and running again. I finally tracked down an SCA drive, but it looks like I’ll either have to 3D-print or whittle an artisanal drive sled out of deadfall.
Even whittling probably produces tighter tolerances than what SGI was shipping BITD. I lost more sleep than I care to remember over badly machined drive sleds, to say nothing of the software, which was hellaciously fast, particularly at dumping core and rebooting; to be fair, most of those big boxen I used to herd would go tits up twice a day, so IRIX was under serious selective pressure to “reboot quickly”.
Such, such were the joys.
One of my early jobs, we sold SGI machines. I did most of my work for a year on an Indy.
In our IT student’s club we’ve had one octane 2, but couldn’t bring it up due to proprietary connectors.
Did my first internship coding some PHP on an Indy. Loved this system.
Awesome. IRIX 5.2 was my first ever unix. I had access to a couple of Indys at a tiny little web shop out the back of an Internet cafe with a 64k leased line where I worked in 1995. How I loved those things. (Along with the NeXT pizza boxes at college…) I still use the SGI screen font on my pre-retina iMac along with the best approximation I can of the desktop background & winterm colours, and it still makes me happy.