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Wrote on the subject of Prism workstation is out! at April 26, 2005, 3:03 p.m...
Thaidog wrote:
That thing is Badass! If I had 8500 I'd buy it. The only question I have is will it be used for Discreet products?

PS Windows XP support has been pulled from the Itanium line so you'll have to run a server version of Windows if it's going to run one.


Indeed Windows 2003 (aka. NT 5.2) quite a decent version of Windows in my experience. My work involves adminstating about 15 Win2k3 boxes. As a tangent the 64bit version of Windows XP (for AMD64/ i AMD64) is built off the Win2k3 codebase and not the standard XP one (NT5.1)

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Wrote on the subject of Itaniums? sgi to use Dorado line to boost workstations? at April 27, 2005, 11:17 a.m...
codemonkey wrote: Hey Hamei,

Thats one fsck'ing hell of a post man.

Although I have to say it was a very, very interesting read


Indeed Hamei always has some of the best posts, pity Cosmo ain't around anymore be interesting to hear what he got to say :lol:
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Wrote on the subject of Prism workstation is out! at April 28, 2005, 2:44 a.m...
themacosxflies wrote:
unixmuseum wrote:
Antnee wrote:
Ian Mapleson has told me today that Cordnet are saying the price in the UK will be about £4200.

Which makes it $8,000, quite a scoop there Mr Mapleson :lol:


hehe, ask to Apple users here in Europe about the price Apple has in the States and then the price you get here, being able to get the Prism the same real price here and in the States is way cool.

Let´s see how much one must pay to get the new 2.7 Dual G5

USA -> $2999
EU -> $3720

same thing to get the freaking huge 30 inches Apple Display

USA -> $2999
EU -> $3914

so getting the dream configuration here is $1636 more expensive that there in the USA, that is not funny! :cry:


Indeed what's kinda funny about that is i had to configure up a laptop from Dell for someone at work and the same machine worked out 500euro (645US) cheaper in Ireland then in US (same configuration etc.!)

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Wrote on the subject of Prism workstation is out! at April 28, 2005, 2:45 a.m...
Antnee wrote:
chicago-joe wrote:
that better be one hell of a nice computer case for $4000. :roll:

No no, £4000 for us here in the UK apparently, $8500 fo you guys!

Still waiting on SGI updating the site to acknowledge the 1GHz R16000 for Tezro that they confirmed is available the other day


Seen that they've just released the "Prism deskside" trying to get a quote for a 1GHz Tezro is gonna be hard, they'll just bombard ye with details on Prism instead :lol:

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Wrote on the subject of Itaniums? sgi to use Dorado line to boost workstations? at April 29, 2005, 4:26 p.m...
jollyroger wrote:
Well guys, have you ever noticed the actual money KKR paid to acquire Alias from SGI? $57 millions...
If you don't call that a steal... it is pretty clear SGI is literally giving away its assets in a backyard sale...

Jollyroger


I wonder how much they would ask for the source code of IRIX now that would be interesting. Or even for something like XSGI or 4dwm

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Wrote on the subject of Progress bars? at July 8, 2005, 4:01 a.m...
roosmcd wrote: hey, I'm getting closer with each post :)


You have much to learn in the power of the post my Padawan...

:lol:
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Wrote on the subject of It's Official Now: Potential USB Drivers Developer For IRIX at Sept. 2, 2005, 1:55 a.m...
I wonder if the Solaris USB/Firewire stacks have been released under CDDL as part of opensolaris let. From what i recall reading about the license it allows the mixing of CDDL source with closed source (as long as any changes to CDDL files are kept under CDDL license). Solaris interfaces might be a closer match to IRIX then say those if ye were to try and port a stack from various *BSD's.

Then again i might be talking out of my arse... :)


--edit--

Here's what i found on the opensolaris site from a basic search:

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/common/io/usb/
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/common/io/1394/
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Wrote on the subject of this weather is fucked! at Sept. 30, 2005, 11:51 a.m...
Awh well it's pissing rain here, then again living in the wettest part of the wettest country in europe i should hardly be surprised :lol:
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Wrote on the subject of sgi meeting in europe at Oct. 21, 2005, 2:26 a.m...
sum][one wrote: would be nice France... cause closer to Italy.. but I damn want to drink Guinness.. which make the choice go for Ireland :p


I'd seconded that but i'm sure the sorta weather we get here might be a bit of a shock to the auld system for most of ye continental types :P
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Wrote on the subject of How can you call yourself an "IT" and not know SGI at Oct. 21, 2005, 11:34 a.m...
unixmuseum wrote: "IT" now sadly more than often means Microsoft Certified...


Or as a current Radio ad playing here says:

"Microsoft we put the IT in productivity"

:roll:
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Wrote on the subject of any cheap (or free) x11 on windoze? at Oct. 25, 2005, 12:52 p.m...
zappa wrote: Or Cygwin/X, of course...


Xming as well:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming

Unlike Cygwin/X you just install an X-server and don't need any of the cygwin stuff.
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Wrote on the subject of any cheap (or free) x11 on windoze? at Oct. 25, 2005, 1:01 p.m...
zappa wrote:
Dubhthach wrote: Xming as well:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming

Unlike Cygwin/X you just install an X-server and don't need any of the cygwin stuff.


Who'd want to miss that stuff on a windows machine? It's the only thing that makes working with it tolerable :mrgreen:


True to an extent but it's always nice to have options, as regarding displaying OpenGL on X clients, i came across this on opengl.org might be usefull

http://virtualgl.sourceforge.net/

October 18, 2005 VirtualGL v1.0 is a framework for allowing Unix/Linux OpenGL API applications to be displayed to thin clients. VirtualGL runs on an application server, equipped with 3D accelerator hardware. It intercepts GLX calls made by applications and re-routes OpenGL rendering contexts into Pbuffers on the application server's 3D hardware. VGL monitors calls such as glXSwapBuffers(), glFinish(), etc., to determine when a frame has finished rendering and is ready to be read back and sent to the client display. VirtualGL can be used to provide hardware-accelerated 3D capabilities to VNC, and it can also be used as a higher-performing alternative to remote GLX. Instead of passing vertex and texture data over the network, VirtualGL passes only compressed images over the network, so its performance is not dependent on the amount of data being rendered. It has been tested with a variety of Linux applications and games (32-bit and 64-bit), with more being added all the time.
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Wrote on the subject of What we* do for a living... at Nov. 8, 2005, 3:28 a.m...
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).
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Wrote on the subject of What we* do for a living... at Dec. 20, 2005, 12:52 p.m...
Glock wrote:

But my biggest passion is martial arts. Started out 19 years ago in Taekwondo, then Hapkido, some kickboxing and Win-Tsung and since a couple of years I've been practicing Escrima (first Sinco-Tero but now IKAEF). My main motivation is self-defence (not competition) so that's the reason for the exotic cocktail of fighting systems (each has its pros and cons).


Interesting mix i'm a Taekwondoka myself :)
Escrima basically filipino fighting system with a high emphasis on stick fighting as well right?

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Wrote on the subject of SGI Opteron boxes to tip up soon at April 20, 2006, 12:04 p.m...
Arie van Schutterhoef wrote: If this is true:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31135
we can say that SGI came to their senses...
About bloody time, I guess.
Otherwise, never mind

AvS


Pricing and availability
Star-P for SGI's Opteron-based servers will be available in the summer with pricing starting at under $8,000, and can be pre-ordered immediately.


From article theinquirer mentions http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060417213014878
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Wrote on the subject of dexter2 or deedee2 at April 26, 2006, 6:04 a.m...
dexter1 wrote: Now clocking at 13 weeks, we still have a long way to go. Hopefully everything will go allright, but passing the 12 week milestone gives us confidence we might be looking at a new life soon.

Yay! :D


Congrats :)

Aye getting through first trimester is important bit, my mother's a midwife so i know way too much already :lol:

Still all the best, though i do wonder what ye missus thinks of ye posting her ultrasounds pics on an internet forums :wink:
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Wrote on the subject of Brasil, World Cup Champion 2006 !!! at June 7, 2006, 11:24 a.m...
Like most irish people i'll cheer for who ever is playing against england .... :lol:
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Wrote on the subject of Location, location...Location! at Oct. 28, 2008, 7:44 a.m...
VenomousPinecone wrote: I thought half the fun was trying to figure out where everybody is!


Especially when their location is in a language other then English -- like mine!
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Wrote on the subject of ORIGIN 400 at May 12, 2010, 6:16 a.m...
josehill wrote:
skywriter wrote:
ah, yes the O3!

aka, "The Ozone."


Reminds me of my post from nearly 6 years ago! :shock:

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4282&p=33015&hilit=ozone#p33015

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Wrote on the subject of Document regarding the port of NeWs windows to 4D/70 at June 17, 2010, 1:55 a.m...
I like reading about old Windowing systems from the 1980's. Often the problem is finding enough documentation about them. Anyways while doing some reading up about Sun's NeWs system I came across the following in google books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=xHSoK66z34YC&lpg=PA193&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q&f=false

Has a section regarding the port of NeWs done by SGI. Not huge amount of information but it's a nice little bit of history. For example seems the first port done internally was to an IRIS 3030 before they ported it to the 4D/70.

Anyways hope people enjoy :)

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