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    Indy Power Supply information

    Hi! Sorry for the very late response. At this point recapping is something you can do, but buying my power supply is something that isn't possible, so I would just recommend recapping 😅 I've been moving out of my rural WA property since May (which is a much more involved, time consuming...
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    How to access files without being logged into the operating system

    You could mount the disk partition from a shell on the install CD, but the PROM doesn't really understand the filesystems to any significant degree though.
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    NFS phantom mount errors

    The only other thing that comes to mind (aside from custom scripts) would be the automounter ( https://nixdoc.net/man-pages/IRIX/man1/automount.1.html )
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    Indigo2 IMPACT - PSUs works only outside computer after recap

    The standby voltage is indeed generated separately, while the main forward converter (providing the main 5V output and others) is shut down
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    Universal SGI disk solution: 15kRPM 300GB SCA SCSI drives

    Interesting; I think there might be some variation in these, despite them looking the same. I have noticed this before with people reporting them working vs. not in the same type of machine. I was able to get mine working on the Fuel without issue, but it sounds like you figured out something...
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    Indigo2 IMPACT - PSUs works only outside computer after recap

    I have not done a recap or repair on these, but I could see if I have an open one that is the same. Do you know the SGI part number? Also one trick to make part numbers more legible is to wipe some heat sink paste over the top of the chip. It fills in the gaps in the lettering and makes it more...
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    DFRD, what happened to D1, and the possibility of a D2

    SLIC is a good find; the CPU performance is pretty impressive. I wonder how much point there really is to producing hardware, but what is essentially an improved remote desktop solution could be used for a very large number of things!
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    Sgidev-bridge to OFTC IRC - is it gone?

    Thanks for the heads up! This is run by @LarBob; unfortunately the software we use for it is a bit unreliable. It is not intended to be down, so I will make sure he knows about it :)
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    The start of a EPIC Dual Pentium Pro Build

    Ah I see, I missed the "VGA IN" lettering under the Mini-DIN; that was unexpected :)
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    The start of a EPIC Dual Pentium Pro Build

    Interesting, I definitely don't remember seeing the S-video and composite outs on the regular Voodoo IIs. Do these not need a separate 2D card, or do they still do SLI?
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    DD SGI XFS drive from Linux?

    Ah, hard drives used by IRIX it starts with a volume header (sometimes known as a disklabel), which is something like a partition table in the PC world. The volume header (as you are seeing from sfdisk) contains the offsets to the different slices, which have the filesystems on the disk (or...
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    Recommendations for decent UK-based web hosting?

    No problem, I definitely understand; I just wanted to put it up there for reference :)
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    Recommendations for decent UK-based web hosting?

    Just as an example on the costing front -- understanding the reluctance to use AWS -- but, for reference on our previous month's costs: CloudFront CDN: $0.01 S3 storage: $0.86 Data transfer: $0.01 This includes all of our software repository file serving etc. The reason it is (somewhat...
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    Recommendations for decent UK-based web hosting?

    No problem! Regarding pricing, my guess for a lower traffic website would be pennies to dollars a month or even totally free (and so almost definitely cheaper than any traditional option), but, I understand not wanting to use Amazon. I also have non-technical things about them as a company that...
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    Recommendations for decent UK-based web hosting?

    Static content makes things a lot simpler! :) You could host this without any running servers and just pay (a very small amount) for storage and traffic. What a lot of places do today (us included) is use something like S3 object storage paired with a CDN distribution. S3 object storage is...

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