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It's been awfully quiet here the last few days? Has everyone gone elsewhere? Was hamei more than 1 person? Is it because Christmas is around the corner?

oh men, I guess he is exercising in xmass songs
(here I am so ahead that
I am focused on the Happy New Year Compilation)

Still here myself, albeit a tad busy the last couple of days (typing this from Heathrow departure lounge heading back home after a business trip). Still, I agree that it has gone rather quiet unfortunately.

Edit: One thing I would say (if hamei is still lurking) is that I'd urge him to reconsider. Granted I don't know what's gone on behind the scenes (if anything), and I do wonder if there's more to this than just one thread he's disgruntled about. However, Nekochan needs its community - even if people don't necessarily see eye to eye with absolutely all others.

There's few enough SGI fans around these days as it is without people leaving over a squabble. Hence for the good of the community, can't we all just get along? If hamei were to return after a short break and admit that leaving for good was maybe a slight overreaction, I personally would respect him for having the balls to come back and say so.

Like I say, I imagine there's more to this than meets the eye, so I fully appreciate I may be missing some of the situation, but that's my 2 cents anyway...

Still here. Often read without logging in. Still chasing the Certain Impact sound problem. Octane and O2 are running good. Keeping the room toasty in the frigid Canadian winters.

I'm here, but I have no life.

i hope he'll reconsider. even if you don't share his opinion his posts are just a great read over and over again

ClassicHasClass wrote: I'm here, but I have no life.

Hey, that's MY line!

ClassicHasClass wrote: I'm here, but I have no life.

I have a life and it comes at the expensive of time spent on a computer hobby

Also most of my hobby time is currently spent on migrating my home server to a new system.

I'm still here as well, but where is "here"... running around the globe with a lot of work, so that I don't have so much time at home, and I spend it nowadays more with the family than on my computers.
I'd miss hamei's prose, too, if he didn't reconsider. Hopefully he will.

here I am spending "a lot" of my free time writing strange things
(what the frog should I have to do with a BTREE? Who on the Earth knows?)

last but not the least: interviewing all the English girls I can meet
around the Linate Airport/Milan in order to "learn" English
(I have a few job tasks on my desk there, in the Theory )

Sorry to be a party pooper, but there was was far too much unsubstantiated China and US bashing from him. I surely was not a favorite, but the only reason I came back was that he left. His parting shot wasn't a kudos for the board either.

uunix wrote: It's been awfully quiet here the last few days? Has everyone gone elsewhere? Was hamei more than 1 person? Is it because Christmas is around the corner?

It's cold outside. We're all running our machines as long as we can while the air conditioning is free.

skywriter wrote: Sorry to be a party pooper, but there was was far too much unsubstantiated China and US bashing from him. I surely was not a favorite, but the only reason I came back was that he left. His parting shot wasn't a kudos for the board either.

Yes, he had a bizarro take on US/China relations, but in so many other ways he was a pleasantly sensible kind of person and great to have around. I'll miss him just for his immunity to starry-eyed futurist bullshit alone (a depressingly rare thing among the IT crowd, even with people like engineers and programmers who should have a strong practical understanding of the difference between promised fiction and plausible reality...)

pentium wrote: It's cold outside. We're all running our machines as long as we can while the air conditioning is free.

Here in Germany we had the warmest November since 1881 (see: http://news.discovery.com/earth/global- ... 151203.htm ).
It is still warmer than in a normal December.

What a bad idea to leave now...since Dex is back, I see that the Dev-corner got more support and new optimism to manage and
port later versions of open source software and Hamei has often been a contributor of software suggestions worth being ported
to Irix.
Now if finally the "porting FAQ" everybody is waiting for will be published (maybe 2 versions for both popular compilers), I can imagine
more members are willing to either try and port or contribute to porting projects.
I'm sure that he is reasonable enough to overcome a quarrel with another forum member (isn't there a friend/foe option in the profile ??)
since he is estimated for his contributions by many others and finally, his furious monologues regarding corporate america,
capitalism in general and former SGI management in particular are still unmatched in this forum.

I come here for the great advice/tips/hacks on the boxes we all love. Everything else just becomes white noise. Which is pretty much every other forum on the interweb these days anyway.

He's back! Complete with lengthy rants to make up for lost time. They were missed

Hamei, don't worry. Some people like to listen to Noam Chomsky and read his books. Others prefer to watch the weekend sports results. And everybody thinks their way is the best way to deal with life. That's nothing anybody should take personally.

blah, blah, blah hammy. give us a rest.

hamei wrote: okay, gottit

Phew! I'ze scared there for a minute...