Tips and Hints for Administration of SGI Systems
This is a list of some of my favorite scripts and techniques. Please share
them
with others, and I would welcome your comments/suggestions.
Updates to this page
SGI
technical library -- Need to find a book or a manpage and you don't have
them installed? Go here.
Here's
a schedule of current customer education offerings in the US.
NEW!
Palm Pilot configuration.
OpenGL
Course Notes:
This is a series of weekly tutorials which I've written as an on-site
consultant
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Sites of interest for SGI Users:
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Recommended Patches on SGI WWW site.
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Supportfolio
Online.
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Anonymous
FTP sites for Silicon Graphics software.
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Demonstration/Evaluation
Licenses.
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Scripts:
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topsit: a shell script to print out text
on a laser printer two sheets on one page.
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wish: a customizable script which will connect
to a remote system with unique window background colors and fonts. Try
it!
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mis-spell: Terrible at typing? This
will help.
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change_ext: This will take a filename
and change its extension. Handy!
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Techniques:
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Disk cloning: How do do a low-level clone of a disk with XFS filesystems
(coming soon)
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Window manager techniques:
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How to change the input focus mechanism of 4DWM from following the
mouse!
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How to change the 4DWM cursor color!
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How to change the window size and font
for xwsh and winterm
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How to make a customized icon for your application
in the Indigo Magic Environment.
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How to add your own items in the toolchest!
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Tutorials:
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Reference Material:
Contact:
Ken Schwarz kschwarz@sgi.com
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