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MrBill wrote:

uunix wrote: Short for time? Dinosaur's seconds away from breaking down the door..? An operating system you know..? but only by flavour..? What you need is FSN.. The WORLDS slowest way to navigate a file system.. lucky there was a directory named security!

Not sure how hard it would be to build on irix, but there was some similar program called FSV i compiled on debian a few years back. that might be something interesting. Might be too big of a challenge for myself right off the bat though. Not a programmer and it looks to have a bunch of odd dependencies.

http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

Would it help in a dinosaur attack?

not sure if it will take longer to compile or to use. so maybe?

MrBill wrote: There is a Y2k issue? A webserver is completely out the window?

There is, yes. The Crimson cannot correctly keep the date after 31st of december 1999 between boots. There is a workaround for that in viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1298

Once applied and booted the Crimson can happily serves files and webcontent and behave normally, even between boots.

That is a great solution, thanks. I'm still waiting to get a keyboard and mouse, and still have yet to fix the scsi issue. Regardless, I'm going to set it up to serve some files.

OK so this is what happens..
Woman runs to SGI and moves mouse.. not locked, just screen saver on.. (system had been reset.. but who logged on? and if it still had the fat mans login, surley it would password protected)..
Next clip she runs to the door to help Sam Neil, as she leaves, FSN is starting up (running). Taking into account that it was not running when she moved the mouse or pressed a key. But it could have been in the icon view at the top. It does look like she moves the mouse to start the app. FSN is defiantly at root level when she leaves the desk.
Along comes young Unix wizard..
Young girls states she 'knows unix'
Looks like 200 files/folders in FSN
She navigates to directory PARK
Then I think Zoology then Security.. which appears to be .Security
Then some porn appears.. then this

The porn btw.. looked like she must have KVM'd to mac...

You have spent A ton of time looking into this. So the screen was not on a sgi at all and they just switched over to a mac?
The overview screen of the park you posted Would make a neat screen saver.

ivelegacy wrote:

skywriter wrote: if you like programming, there's a lot to keep you busy with one

I am already too busy with my woody box, but i'd like to have a time machine in order to go back and observe engineers in SGI while they were developing Lord Crimson. I am interested in knowing their best practices, something never told in my university, never written in books, probably lost for ever. How the Hell they debugged the hardware they were developing when PC, ASIC (can't say FPGA) and equipment were far away from the definition of "comfortable" we have today.

I did a couple of ASCI's with LSI - the major ASIC vendor that SGI worked with - around the time the SGI was doing tons of ASIC's with them. Things were better than you might imagine. Oddly, the discipline to work on an ASIC created an environment that ensured less bugs than you might find in each 'turn' of an FPGA; which was a lot more sloppy back then than ASIC designs - not to mention the designers themselves.

Put Softimage on that thing if you can find it. That'll make the RealityEngine flex its muscles.

The crimson is only half of what I have been paying off.
I am scheduled to pick up a couple tezro's along with a crapload of irix software. Among the software is softimage, adobe stuff, and power animator, among a ton of other stuff. Tons of books too.
No sense getting a machine if i do not have the software to run on it.

I'm planing to rent a car and go pick it all up in February around my birthday.

Mmmmmmm. Mmmmmmmanuals.

I would post a pic of all the Maya books I've bought over the years, but nobody here (except maybe hamei) has a monitor with enough pixel resolution to load the f-ing thing. By which I"m trying to say, I bought a lot of Maya books...

Challenge accepted, can you link picture? i got some fancy pants mac here at the shop and have it for a few more days till the owner picks it back up. might as well mess around with it while I've got it.

It would take days to gather them all together, and then there's the risk of the accumulated mass sinking into a black hole, and I hate when that happens, it looks bad on my report...

MrBill wrote: The crimson is only half of what I have been paying off.
I am scheduled to pick up a couple tezro's along with a crapload of irix software. Among the software is softimage, adobe stuff, and power animator, among a ton of other stuff. Tons of books too.
No sense getting a machine if i do not have the software to run on it.

Oh my god you are just banking out on a haul I've not seen happen around here for years.

Does it make me crazy to have spent more on this stuff than my car?

Having travelled 3000km round trip to pick ONE HP 7925 disk drive on my last road trip and have the car break down twice in the process, nope, you're par for the course.