My desktop
It's the SGI O2 workstation, of course. With the 1600SW LCD screen. Details are given here. Of course, modern web and some other tasks have made it's use more difficult so I have been using other machines for on-line tasks and for heavier computing.
From 2005 to about 2019 I used the abovementioned SGI O2 workstation. Details are given here.
From 2019 to early 2026 I used the Raptor BlackBird-based workstation with the POWER9 Sforza CPU. Unfortunately, some hardware failure and my inability to repair it make me rely on an another device.
So from about mid-2026 I have been using the MNT Pocket Reform (with external screen) as my temporary workstation. Mine is in black color as I wasn't sure about the purple color (my fault, it's cool).
Software
I used to have a github account but after some changes (I even don't remember the issue: was it access method or license change?) I lost access to it. But some software like the otl2a might be still of some value for a few people.
I have been developing my very own FEA (finite element analysis) package uFEM for a long time. While and old version is on the GitHub, you can try to use its current on-line port (its GUI is pretty limited, requires WASM but almost all - if not all - commands and models work). Note: this code was touched by AI (but still, 100000+ lines of code is purely mine...). Some documentation is hopefuly here. The "normal version" uses Gtk+ v2.0 and OpenGL 1.1 and runs on IRIX 6.5 (the Htk+ and dependencies from the SGI Freeware or the NekoWare are required) and Linux machines. The Gtk+ v4.x port is available but incomplete. And there is a simplified GUI which uses Gtk+ v1.0 + GtkGLArea (or even simpler port which uses terminal and GLUT for non-interactive plots). If your system has one of these you can run uFEM up to the latest version. And, terminal-only version (which still does text outputs and PostScript plots) compiles on any system with the ANSI89 C compiler...
For 2D frames and beams with some EUROCODE check/design support you might want to try the LittleDef (fem1.tcl). Note: this code is written in the Tcl/Tk and many parts of it were touched or even written by AI. The original code is of course mine. Started about 2005, updated during the COVID times but actually have been usable from 2026... It requires at least Tcl/Tk 8.0 so with some hope (and free disk space) you can run it on the IRIX 5.3. But an ANSI89 C comiler is recommended to the optional C libraries which made computations on old machines much faster. For those who rely on Tcl 7.0 and Tk 4.0 a simplified version called fem0.tcl (no advanced features, no EUROCODE, no C libraries but still can read and write fem1 files) is available.
Hobbies
Old computers (as you already noticed...), hiking, biking, (very) amateur analog photography, and learning Japanese (still struggling...).
Links
Please note that some of these links require a fairly modern web browser in order to see at least something. Unfortunately, the Lynx/Links might not be enough.
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