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03:15, 4 October 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0 (Created page with "{{imbox | type =license | image =90px<br />24px 24px | text = ''This work is licensed under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0] License. {{#if:{{{1|}}}|<br />Attribution: {{{1|}}}}}'' }}{{image other||:::::This template should only be used on file pages.}}<n...")
02:03, 4 October 2025 Raion talk contribs deleted page Template:JSON (content was: "<script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "{{{type|FAQPage}}}", "mainEntity": {{{content|}}} } </script>", and the only contributor was "Raion" (talk))
02:01, 4 October 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Template:JSON (Created page with "<script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "{{{type|FAQPage}}}", "mainEntity": {{{content|}}} } </script>")
15:57, 3 October 2025 Raion talk contribs deleted page Template:SchemaFAQ (content was: "<script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [{ "@type": "Question", "name": "{{{Q1|}}}", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "{{{A1|}}}" } }] } </script>", and the only contributor was "Raion" (talk))
15:47, 3 October 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Template:SchemaFAQ (Created page with "<script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [{ "@type": "Question", "name": "{{{Q1|}}}", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "{{{A1|}}}" } }] } </script>")
04:07, 29 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page CD Installation of IRIX (Created page with "'''Note that CD Installation of IRIX requires good condition CDs, ideally originals, a CD drive in good mechanical condition, and if using burned CDs, a DAO (disc-at-once) CD burning program like ImgBurn or CDBurnerXP. For this reason, and the onerous task of disc swapping, we advise using a network install method.''' IRIX can be installed via a local CD drive. This tutorial covers IRIX 6.5.22, but other versions are broadly similar. == Required CDs == To successfully...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
03:05, 27 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page 4D1-2.x (Created page with "4D1-2.x was the public initial release family of the 4D1 systems before they were officially called IRIX. It uses MEX similar to the earlier GL2-3.x product. == Known information == Scant information of this release is known.") Tag: Visual edit
03:00, 27 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Flexlm (Created page with "Flex License Manager is a form of DRM used on IRIX and other UNIX systems to lock out features and programs and authenticate them in a centralized form. == Purpose == As prefaced, this is an early form of software DRM. The license files are a plaintext file containing all centralized flexlm license keys. It contains the registrant, serial info, expiration date etc. == License Locations == * <code>/var/flexlm/license.dat</code> Primary for most software. * <code>/etc/...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
02:54, 27 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page L1 Controller (Created page with "All of the systems based on the Origin 3000 and Chimera architecture (Fuel, Origin 3000, Onyx4, Origin/Onyx 3x0, Tezro) include a low-level hardware monitor, power management and startup/shutdown system called the L1 controller. This system does many things that earlier systems either lacked the capability of doing, or had a separate system that performed those functions, including holding serial numbers and configuring NUMA access. == Power commands == To start an...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
02:40, 27 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page XSGI (Created page with "'''Xsgi''' is the IRIX 4.0 and up specific X11 implementation built to replace 4Sight. It implements X11R6 standards but is highly tailored to be specific to the SGI hardware context. == Early History == Work began around 1989 when SGI hired Tom Paquin from IBM to integrate X with SGI’s IRIS GL stack. At the time, SGI was using a NeWS-based GUI for 4D1 called 4Sight. NeWS was falling out of fashion in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to its heavyweight Post...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
02:25, 27 September 2025 Raion talk contribs moved page Category:No-Images to Category:No Images without leaving a redirect
02:17, 27 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Category:Power Supplies (Created page with "This page aggregates known information on SGI power supplies.") Tag: Visual edit
02:11, 27 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Indigo 2 Power Supply Information (Created page with "The '''SGI Indigo 2 power supply''' is a common failure point of this system with issues often traced to aging passives and semiconductor circuitry. This page serves to catalog the information originally aggregated by Elf on SGUG but later removed (and restored against his will). He has granted an exclusive license for TechPubs to use and publish his information. == Pinout (Non-IMPACT) == The Indigo 2 power supply used in non-IMPACT systems is a multi-board switch-...") Tag: Visual edit
01:56, 27 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page O2 Power Supply Information (Created page with "This page serves to catalog the SGI O2 power supply information originally gathered by Elf of SGUG. Due to him deleting that post, and giving TechPubs an explicit license to use his information, we are rehosting them here in the wiki. Here is the power supply pinout from the O2 front plane perspective, looking from the back into the recessed cubby hole for the PSU: Power is supplied over a 24 pin Molex Mini-Fit BMI connector. This is like the Mini-Fit Jr. commonly...") Tag: Visual edit
02:46, 24 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Using Reanimator to Install IRIX (Created page with "This guide uses '''Reanimator''', described by the authors as "Reanimator allows Silicon Graphics IRIX network installation using a Raspberry Pi or VirtualBox" to install IRIX 6.5. Other versions of IRIX are supported. == Setting up the Installation == To enter Command Monitor, boot the SGI and click on "Stop for Maintenance dialog" or press Esc. Click on "Enter Command Monitor" or press "5" (on Indy, numbers can change on other SGI model). Two IP client addresse...") Tag: Visual edit
05:39, 23 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Intel Itanium Logo.png
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22:10, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Onyx4 (Created page with "The '''Onyx4''', is a rack-mounted, mid range server and workstation sold by Silicon Graphics from 2005 to 2007. This system uses MIPS-based processors, and shares architecture with the Origin 350. == Features == Each CPU brick has four PCI slots across two PCI busses. Each CPU brick also has a Fuel-style XIO slot, which can accept a DMediaPro DM3 card or a VPro graphics card. The first CPU brick in a system has a single PCI slot holding an IO9 BaseIO card with SC...") Tag: Visual edit
22:08, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Challenge L (Created page with "The '''Challenge L''', sharing codename '''Eveready''' and '''Terminator''' with the Onyx systems, is a mid-range to high end HPC server available in deskside and rackmount formats starting in 1992. Three distinct CPU families were used for this model, all 64-bit. R4400, R8000 and R10000. === Challenge R4400 Configurations === {| class="wikitable" !Model !# of CPUs !CPU !CPU MHz !L2 cache !Memory !Enclosure |- |'''DM''' (Departmental) |1, 2 or 4 |R4400 |100, 150,...") Tag: Visual edit
21:58, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Origin 200.png
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17:50, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:750 Manual Graphic.gif
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17:49, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Category:Tutorials (Created page with "Tutorials for IRIX and GL2 related topics go in this category. This is how we track tutorials and ensure they live up to quality standards. IRIX Setup 101 is the gold standard here.") Tag: Visual edit
17:23, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page UNIX Tar (Created page with "'''tar''', short for '''tape archive''' is an archival format used on UNIX, Unix-like and BSD OSes for storing files. It simply groups files together in a concatenation, compression is provided separately by gzip, bzip2, xz/lzma, or zstd compression. IRIX also uses tar for its tardist format. == Implementations of tar for IRIX == Three implementations of tar for IRIX are available: * IRIX tar, the standard /sbin/tar command. It is not recommended to use this tar f...") Tag: Visual edit
17:19, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page VRML (Created page with "'''VRML''' ('''Virtual Reality Modeling Language''', pronounced ''vermal'' or by its initials, originally—before 1995—known as the Virtual Reality Markup Language) is a markup language and file format for displaying 3D models in a web browser. == WRL file format == VRML is a text file format where, e.g., vertices and edges for a 3D polygon can be specified along with the surface color, UV-mapped textures, shininess, transparency, and so on.[1][2] URLs can be associ...") Tag: Visual edit
17:12, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Cray (Created page with "Cray Research was a corporation owned by Silicon Graphics for a period of time.") Tag: Visual edit
17:11, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page TechPubs Wiki:Privacy policy (Created page with "==General scope== This policy covers personally identifiable information collected or stored by TechPubs Wiki on its servers in relation to the pages and their communities. Consistent with its Data Retention Policy, TechPubs Wiki collects and retains the least amount of personally identifiable information needed to fulfill the site's operational needs. ==The public and collaborative nature of pages== All pages on TechPubs Wiki are collaboratively developed by its users...")
17:10, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Test (Created page with "==General scope== This policy covers personally identifiable information collected or stored by TechPubs Wiki on its servers in relation to the pages and their communities. Consistent with its Data Retention Policy, TechPubs Wiki collects and retains the least amount of personally identifiable information needed to fulfill the site's operational needs. ==The public and collaborative nature of pages== All pages on TechPubs Wiki are collaboratively developed by its users...") Tag: Visual edit
16:49, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page TechPubs Wiki:General disclaimer (Created page with "<div style="text-align: center; font-size: x-large; padding: 1em;">TECHPUBS WIKI MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY</div> The TechPubs Wiki is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia; that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of human knowledge. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by...")
16:45, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Created page with "'''Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)''' is a high performance and enterprise computing company split off from the original Hewlett Packard corporation. It is the current rights holder of several pieces of SGI technology including NUMA, Cray, Itanium, IRIX, and more.") Tag: Visual edit
16:43, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Rackable Systems (Created page with "'''Rackable Systems''', later known as '''Silicon Graphics International''' was the successor company of Silicon Graphics. Due to its abandonment of all "SGI" ideals and only using its name, this wiki henceforth refers to it as Rackable Systems or Rackable for short. == History == Rackable Systems Inc. went public in June 2005, with 6.25 million shares offered at $12 per share. In 2006, Rackable announced it had signed an agreement to a...") Tag: Visual edit
16:32, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page The Great TechPubs Fiasco (Created page with "This page serves as an explanation for the data loss incurred by TechPubs Wiki in August of 2025 and explains steps taken to ensure this will not occur again. == Background == TechPubs was created in early 2025 by Raion to serve as a home for SGI documentation of a higher quality than other sites. == Disaster == Due to circumstances beyond Raion's control, in August of 2025, our host Virtarix lost our VPS, and all backups before anything could...") Tag: Visual edit
16:25, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Jurassic Park EarthWatch.jpg
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16:22, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Nintendo 64.png
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16:21, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page ESP (Created page with " '''E'''mbedded '''S'''upport '''P'''artners (ESP) is a system service that calls home with data to provide assistance with support issues. With the demise of Silicon Graphics it has become a major security issue. This page documents ESP for historical reasons. == Disabling ESP == Simply run <code>chkconfig esp off</code> and <code>/etc/killall esp</code> to terminate it immediately. == Extreme slow down on log in == ESP also works in conjunction with configmond,...") Tag: Visual edit
16:11, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page NIS (Created page with "'''Network Information Services''', also called '''Yellow Pages''' or '''yp''', is supported on IRIX. Similar to Active Directory or LDAP it provides indexing of hostnames and DNS configuration synchronization. == Transfer NIS Master In IRIX == Tar up the directory with the NIS flat files live in and copy it over to the new master. <pre> 8:12am dragon /etc/yp %ls aliases local.make.script.pre-6.5.x auto.direct mac auto.home...") Tag: Visual edit
16:02, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Nekochan.net (Created page with "Nekochan.net was a website registered on January 21st, 2000 according to public WHOIS. It was founded by Nekonoko, real name Peter Plank, who started it for the purpose of discussing SGI software and hardware. In 2003, the Nekochan forums were started and Nekochan.net became an intensely popular icon in the Silicon Graphics community as the main hub for non-corporate users of SGI hardware and software. It was shut down May 21st, 2018 under alleged GDPR compliance issues....") Tag: Visual edit
15:59, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page LTO Drive Configuration (Created page with "HP Ultrium 1 / LTO-1: { DATTAPE, TPDAT, 2, 7, "HP", "Ultrium", LTO-1: , 0, 0, {0}, MTCAN_BSF|MTCAN_BSR|MTCAN_APPEND|MTCAN_COMPRESS|MTCAN_PREV| MTCAN_SYNC|MTCAN_SPEOD|MTCAN_CHKRDY|MTCAN_VAR|MTCAN_SETSZ| MTCAN_SILI|MTCAN_SEEK|MTCAN_CHTYPEANY, minimum delay on i/o is 4 minutes, because when a retry is <nowiki>*</nowiki> performed, the drive retries a number of times, and then <nowiki>*</nowiki> rewinds to BOT, repositions, and tries again.: 40, 5*60, 20*...") Tag: Visual edit
15:58, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page UltimateVision (Created page with "'''UltimateVision''' was the final high-end graphics architecture that was SGI branded, with ATi (now AMD) providing the chipsets for the Onyx4 and Prism workstations. == Information == Introduced in 2006, UltimateVision was offered as the graphics option for SGI’s Prism and Onyx4 visualization systems,. The UltimateVision subsystem was designed to scale from a single high-performance graphics pipe to multi-pipe configurations for visualization walls, immersi...") Tag: Visual edit
15:50, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Rackmount Tezro.jpg
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15:49, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:G-Brick Origin.jpg
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15:48, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Origin350 .jpg
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15:47, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page Sgidoom (Created page with "'''sgidoom''' was a demo of Doom on IRIX included with many IRIX demo CDs in the 1990s. == Specifications == It was designed to run on IRIX 5.3 and later. IRIX Doom was originally based on the unreleased DOS version 1.5, though later updates were based on versions 1.6 and 1.8. No effort was made to take advantage of SGI's advanced graphics hardware, and like many other ports the game was rendered entirely in software. sgidoom lacks sound, but includes sndserver fo...") Tag: Visual edit
15:41, 21 September 2025 Raion talk contribs created page File:Origin 2000 Deskside.jpg