Using Barrier

Using Barrier for OSX and IRIX. What is Barrier? it’s the open port of Synergy – one of the best apps for sharing mouse and keyboard events across systems. Synergy was great until it went down the hole of commercialization and subscriptions. But luckily for us Barrier does it all with much less fuss. Goal…

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SGI Land

So I’ve been very busy this year working, collecting and playing with my growing collection of SGI systems. My most interesting one to date is the Power ChallengeL that I obtained from an associate who found it destined for the trash at an NYC University.   Picking up the Challenge from NYC. It was suprising…

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Dive into IRIX

I’ve been diving into IRIX lately, setting up both 5.3 on my Personal Iris and 6.5.22 on my Indigo. It’s been interesting unlearning 20 years of Linuxisms and embracing the IRIX. There is an interesting project going on called irisware which aims to resurrect a modern pool of open-source software for IRIX. Which is not…

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SGI Indigo Elan

I’m in the middle of this one, but it’s booting from the SCSI2SD v6 and a totally minimal install of Irix is installed. More to come.   It’s a eBay surprise as it was listed as a R3K Indigo, but turned out to be a R4k with Elan Graphics installed. Not bad.      …

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