I'm working as tech. support engineer in the local office (in France) of a company "leader in the embedded market" (that what we are saying... lol ) selling an OS +compiler + tools....
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I wonder how soon this is gonna change again, since I've switched jobs quite often the past 3 years. But here we go:
I'm a freelance IT contractor in the J2EE field. Specificaly specialised in Novell exteNd. Currently I'm working away from home (The Netherlands) all the way in the United Kingdom. I think that's not bad for this 26 year old Steffen :)
I'm a freelance IT contractor in the J2EE field. Specificaly specialised in Novell exteNd. Currently I'm working away from home (The Netherlands) all the way in the United Kingdom. I think that's not bad for this 26 year old Steffen :)
Shall I describe it to you? Or do you want me to get you a box?
Likewise i've changed jobs twice since the last time i posted in this thread (2years ago)
Currently working as system/ops admin for a small specialised telco company. Mix of windows and Linux on a systems software point of view along with some nice telephony hardware.
Alot better then the last job which was completely in a windows house (well alright experience).
Currently working as system/ops admin for a small specialised telco company. Mix of windows and Linux on a systems software point of view along with some nice telephony hardware.
Alot better then the last job which was completely in a windows house (well alright experience).
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better"
same here, quite a few job changes and periods of just taking what came my way. currently trying to create a new position for myself with a mobile telecomms company here in Brussels, involves SUN gear, Oracle, custom apps and lo behold, Signaling System 7, which I as of now know nothing about, but I got a fivehundred page tome in front of me for today's reading. Let's hope it all works out for all of us 'dynamicists'.
Hakimoto wrote: and lo behold, Signaling System 7
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IRIX Release 4.0.5 IP12 Version 06151813 System V
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All Rights Reserved.
IRIX Release 4.0.5 IP12 Version 06151813 System V
Copyright 1987-1992 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
neko, i dread it already!
Me, I'm a senior software engineer at a company building FireWire (IEEE1394) analyzers. I spend my days writing code in C++ and making people follow the ANSI standards instead of the Microsoft interpretation of it...
I'm old enough to have seen the sixties, or at least the last three weeks of 'em.
I'm old enough to have seen the sixties, or at least the last three weeks of 'em.
Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet
It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
Currently in commercial service:
(2x)
In the museum : almost every MIPS/IRIX system.
Wanted : GM1 board for Professional Series GT graphics (030-0076-003, 030-0076-004)
It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
Currently in commercial service:
(2x)
In the museum : almost every MIPS/IRIX system.
Wanted : GM1 board for Professional Series GT graphics (030-0076-003, 030-0076-004)
jan-jaap wrote: I'm old enough to have seen the sixties, or at least the last three weeks of 'em.
Kewl!!!; Then I'm not the older guy of this thread anymore!!!
Hello, my name, as the nick would suggest, is Marco Pallante and I'm from Italy. I'm at the last year of Master of Science degree in Computer Science.
It has been a long time I dreamed to own a Unix workstation, SUN or SGI, until about a month ago I bought a SGI monitor and an Octane on eBay.
In the future, I'd like to see a new age for SGI Mips workstations and IRIX, but this is only a hopeless dream.
Well, that's all for the moment.
Goodbye!
EDIT: Oh, I'm 24 years old.
It has been a long time I dreamed to own a Unix workstation, SUN or SGI, until about a month ago I bought a SGI monitor and an Octane on eBay.
In the future, I'd like to see a new age for SGI Mips workstations and IRIX, but this is only a hopeless dream.
Well, that's all for the moment.
Goodbye!
EDIT: Oh, I'm 24 years old.
Well I think I've been lurking way too much since I got my iBook a couple of months ago. Time to get active again and what better way than to fill in the blanks for me in this story.
My name is Markus I'm 28 years old, living and breathing in Sweden. I work for an advertising agency as... well I do pretty much everything (it's a small firm). I mainly work with print layout and copywriting but also do illustration work and stylist work. If I had to choose, I would choose copywriting but I rather like the diversity.
By far my most precious hobby is computers. Today I own (my new found love) a 12" Apple iBook G4 and a SGI Indigo2 R10K. The SGI is my main server and irix playhouse. I used to own a PC but I gave it to my parents after I got the iBook.
Regarding SGI's and irix/unix in general I'm merely an enthusiast no BSc's here. I first came in contact with SGI's in magazines during the 90's but didn't actually aquire one until 2004. That was the Indigo2 I still own and love today. I got it from a friend who works as a tech. consultant, he saved it from being scrapped when they updated the computer park in some place he worked.
Yeah, btw I used to study martial arts more specific Shaolin Gong-fu. I was quite active for a few years and I even made a visit to the Shaolin temple in china. Quite an experience if I may say so.
Today the only exercise I get is at the gym or when training (I usually get my ass off the couch about one month before the race) for the annual half-marathon here in Göteborg/Gothenburg.
My name is Markus I'm 28 years old, living and breathing in Sweden. I work for an advertising agency as... well I do pretty much everything (it's a small firm). I mainly work with print layout and copywriting but also do illustration work and stylist work. If I had to choose, I would choose copywriting but I rather like the diversity.
By far my most precious hobby is computers. Today I own (my new found love) a 12" Apple iBook G4 and a SGI Indigo2 R10K. The SGI is my main server and irix playhouse. I used to own a PC but I gave it to my parents after I got the iBook.
Regarding SGI's and irix/unix in general I'm merely an enthusiast no BSc's here. I first came in contact with SGI's in magazines during the 90's but didn't actually aquire one until 2004. That was the Indigo2 I still own and love today. I got it from a friend who works as a tech. consultant, he saved it from being scrapped when they updated the computer park in some place he worked.
Yeah, btw I used to study martial arts more specific Shaolin Gong-fu. I was quite active for a few years and I even made a visit to the Shaolin temple in china. Quite an experience if I may say so.
Today the only exercise I get is at the gym or when training (I usually get my ass off the couch about one month before the race) for the annual half-marathon here in Göteborg/Gothenburg.
Behold my spermlogo, for it is I: Quick, Ambitious, creative and a tad bit sexually oriented.
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[SGI Indigo2 R10K | High Impact | Indigo2 Video for IMPACT with indycam | Irix 6.5.22m]
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[SGI Indigo2 R10K | High Impact | Indigo2 Video for IMPACT with indycam | Irix 6.5.22m]
GeneratriX wrote:
jan-jaap wrote:
I'm old enough to have seen the sixties, or at least the last three weeks of 'em.
Kewl!!!; Then I'm not the older guy of this thread anymore!!!
no you're not Diego
and btw,
go hit your button
fu wrote:
GeneratriX wrote:
jan-jaap wrote:
I'm old enough to have seen the sixties, or at least the last three weeks of 'em.
Kewl!!!; Then I'm not the older guy of this thread anymore!!!
no you're not Diego
and btw,
go hit your button
Done!
I do what many people here do. I build and fix peecees for a little cash, after getting fed up with corporate web programming. I spend my working days fighting viruses and spyware, and replacing terrible machines with slightly better machines.
I get to do a little linux server work, which because of how M$-centered the company is, has been a source of a few small raises and some extra job security (given that no one else around here knows much about it).
In the mean time, my wife and I flex our artistic skills , which we hope to turn into a business someday.
I get to do a little linux server work, which because of how M$-centered the company is, has been a source of a few small raises and some extra job security (given that no one else around here knows much about it).
In the mean time, my wife and I flex our artistic skills , which we hope to turn into a business someday.
Hi all. My name is Enno, living in a small town in the west of Holland with my wife and 3 kiddies.
Started out, at AT&T, scheduling JCL jobs on an Amdahl mainframe running MVS/XA. After a year of stanby shifts and very little sleep, I switched to software development in FORTRAN on system V unix, calculating traffic and equipment needs for the AT&T 5ESS switch. Done that for some 5 years, and then switched to software development using, ahum, Visual Basic
trying to forecast factory capacity needs.
Currently working for a contracting firm (for the dutchies here, the one with the fish), who send me to a pharmaceutical company, fixing pc applications controlling various robots. While working there I also had to port a system (in perl) from IRIX to W2K. After doing that, the O2, it was first running on came free and was about to be tossed (yes tossed), so I stepped in, and gave it a new home, upgraded it and I'm a fan ever scince
Due to the fact that perl and W2K are not that good a match (virtual ttys and fork problems), the whole system is redesigned, and is now being build using J2EE/Struts/Tomcat/Oracle, which is what I'm currently working on.
Started out, at AT&T, scheduling JCL jobs on an Amdahl mainframe running MVS/XA. After a year of stanby shifts and very little sleep, I switched to software development in FORTRAN on system V unix, calculating traffic and equipment needs for the AT&T 5ESS switch. Done that for some 5 years, and then switched to software development using, ahum, Visual Basic
trying to forecast factory capacity needs.
Currently working for a contracting firm (for the dutchies here, the one with the fish), who send me to a pharmaceutical company, fixing pc applications controlling various robots. While working there I also had to port a system (in perl) from IRIX to W2K. After doing that, the O2, it was first running on came free and was about to be tossed (yes tossed), so I stepped in, and gave it a new home, upgraded it and I'm a fan ever scince
Due to the fact that perl and W2K are not that good a match (virtual ttys and fork problems), the whole system is redesigned, and is now being build using J2EE/Struts/Tomcat/Oracle, which is what I'm currently working on.
Guess what Jan-Jaap, were the same age, 1969 is it not ?!!!
That was a good year if you ask me, those where the day's when NASA did stuff they are still wondering if they can do it again today
But I'm drifting here,
My name is Bob Soetekouw I live smack in the middle of Holland in a small town with my wife and two lovely daughters ( 1 and 3 ) .
I have worked with SGI's since 1992 when I started working as a video editor for a small dutch facilities company.
And I've been collecting them since I got ( after some nagging and making some comparison to a giant paperweight ) the first SGI our company bought,
namely a Personal Iris 4D35, for free.
After they replaced it with an Indigo2Extreme an Onyx_desksideRE, an O2 and a Octane in that order the P.I. was just collecting dust.
We where doing 3D animations on it with Softimage 3D and dumping it to tape frame by frame with the videoframer VME option.
Since then I believe that SGI's multiply when I'm not watching here's proof :
You can see my oldest daughter is watching finding Nemo on on of my Octane2's, mind you this starte out with just one P.I. ...
That was a good year if you ask me, those where the day's when NASA did stuff they are still wondering if they can do it again today
But I'm drifting here,
My name is Bob Soetekouw I live smack in the middle of Holland in a small town with my wife and two lovely daughters ( 1 and 3 ) .
I have worked with SGI's since 1992 when I started working as a video editor for a small dutch facilities company.
And I've been collecting them since I got ( after some nagging and making some comparison to a giant paperweight ) the first SGI our company bought,
namely a Personal Iris 4D35, for free.
After they replaced it with an Indigo2Extreme an Onyx_desksideRE, an O2 and a Octane in that order the P.I. was just collecting dust.
We where doing 3D animations on it with Softimage 3D and dumping it to tape frame by frame with the videoframer VME option.
Since then I believe that SGI's multiply when I'm not watching here's proof :
You can see my oldest daughter is watching finding Nemo on on of my Octane2's, mind you this starte out with just one P.I. ...
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I can feel it, my mind is going ....
Wow, that looks impressive, where do you live (can I come by perhaps
)?
I only have one O2, one Octane and one Origin 200 (for now) and my dad has another O2 and Octane.
But I'm only 17 years old, so I'm still at school, very boring, as it is too easy.
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I only have one O2, one Octane and one Origin 200 (for now) and my dad has another O2 and Octane.
But I'm only 17 years old, so I'm still at school, very boring, as it is too easy.
Bluefan wrote:
...I'm still at school, very boring, as it is too easy.
...school's always boring
You have got to have one sturdy table to have all those SGI's on it. Nice setup by the way. You should request a gallery from Neko and post some more pics.
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Omega_Trion wrote:
You have got to have one sturdy table to have all those SGI's on it. Nice setup by the way.
Thanks, the desk is bolted into the wall and with all the SGI's on it I could probably
stand on it aswell
Omega_Trion wrote:
You should request a gallery from Neko and post some more pics.
I've already tried to, but I'll guess that a PM might do the trick
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I can feel it, my mind is going ....
Time to join the topic...
I'm Rene, born in '71, living in the northern (green) part of Rotterdam, Holland.
ATM i'm working at the IT department of an accountancy firm, but come februari '06 i'll shift homebase to the KLM IT department.
Much more interesting hardware/software (switching from a bunch of Novell/Windows servers to about 300 pSeries IBM's running AIX), and a better pay as well!
Before this i've done maintenance work on our fighter planes (F-16's) for 3 years at an AFB in Volkel.
Currently i'm planning to sell my apartment, as me and my girlfriend (a KLM stewardess) have decided to buy a house together.
I've always been a techy-kinda guy, having done MTS (Middle Technical School), LETS (military school where i learned how to maintain F-16's), and several courses for Novell and Windows.
I have a knack for wanting stuff that's 'not mainstream', so i own about 6 SGI's and a SparcStation 5.
My hobbies include my motorcycle, reading, listening to some good music, kicking the pedals of my mountainbike, fitness,
tinkering with computers (duh!), motorsports, snowboarding (if money permits), and having good fun with my friends...
Future dreams (be it attainable or not): lots of travelling around the world (i need to see SO much more of this world before i get to old), and building our own car for track-days with my brother.
UrbanHero.
I'm Rene, born in '71, living in the northern (green) part of Rotterdam, Holland.
ATM i'm working at the IT department of an accountancy firm, but come februari '06 i'll shift homebase to the KLM IT department.
Much more interesting hardware/software (switching from a bunch of Novell/Windows servers to about 300 pSeries IBM's running AIX), and a better pay as well!
Before this i've done maintenance work on our fighter planes (F-16's) for 3 years at an AFB in Volkel.
Currently i'm planning to sell my apartment, as me and my girlfriend (a KLM stewardess) have decided to buy a house together.
I've always been a techy-kinda guy, having done MTS (Middle Technical School), LETS (military school where i learned how to maintain F-16's), and several courses for Novell and Windows.
I have a knack for wanting stuff that's 'not mainstream', so i own about 6 SGI's and a SparcStation 5.
My hobbies include my motorcycle, reading, listening to some good music, kicking the pedals of my mountainbike, fitness,
tinkering with computers (duh!), motorsports, snowboarding (if money permits), and having good fun with my friends...
Future dreams (be it attainable or not): lots of travelling around the world (i need to see SO much more of this world before i get to old), and building our own car for track-days with my brother.
UrbanHero.
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1 Indigo R3k-33 32MB XS24-Z;
1 Indy R5k-180 256MB XZ;
1 Indy R4k-175 64MB XL;
2 Indigo2 R10k-195 512MB MaxImpact;
2 Indigo2 R4k-200 256MB (XL+Extreme);
2 Octane Dual R12K-300 1024MB (MXI+V6).