The collected works of Krokodil - Page 5

I have occasionally heard that as well. I just explain that it's fun and the computers are more interesting than modern ones. They are more involved and that makes them fun. Lets face it. Modern computers are bland and not very exciting. But the older ones and SGI's in particular have interesting and unique designs not seen elsewhere in the known universe.

Shiunbird wrote: no spending a year playing games without sound because you couldn't figure out how to get the sound card to work, etc..
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You did that too? In 2001 on my first computer with a Pentium 1 and Windows ME. I could not get a sound driver onto that computer since although it had a modem, I didn't have an RJ-11 cable long enough to reach to my room. The sound driver was too big to fit on a floppy and I didn't have anything more advanced for removable storage. So I played Wolf3D, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Streets of Sim City and Midtown Madness 2(barely) with no sound. Until one night quite a while later I installed Windows XP home and it had support out of the box.

Raion-Fox wrote: I

I will refuse drive or own a self driving car. I will fight tooth and nail to keep my right to drive a manually driven car, and if one day a country stops allowing it, I'll simply leave that country.

I imagine at some point there will come a day where I will stop buying new computer and network equipment and forgo a modern cellular phone for today's equivalent of the N900.

I won't be doing the self driving car thing either and am also wary of cars with steer and brake by wire technologies. I don't presently have a cellphone, but if I did, it would be a dumb phone, no smartphones allowed. If a day comes where modern computer equipment is too tarted up with crap and spying, then I will be distancing myself from it completely. I will not be railroaded into software as a service either.

Dodoid wrote: Getting back to how I explain my hardware, my friends obviously aren't bothered by me owning things that don't affect them, but they probably think I'm strange for owning a ton of old computers (8 SGIs + parts, Sun Blade 2000, 7 ThinkPads, 5 old Apple machines, Atari 600xl, etc) and not just selling them to replace my X220 with a MacBook Pro (something I actually used to have, but replaced with an X220 ). My family is fine with the machines so long as I keep them in my bedroom or "lab" (more of an asssorted mix of working and nonworking systems of numerous ages with monitors on top of everything and random ethernet cables all over the floor, rather than your traditional idea of a "computer lab" like in a school).

My friends and others I know don't seem to understand the computer hobby, but whatever. I sleep with an Octane II in the room, going 24/7. Been up for over 200 days straight. My cables are also on the floor, but I really need to get around to neatly bundling them and running them along the baseboard. All my computers are in my room, but I don't run them all at the same time. Dragged an old computer desk out of the basement to store the other SGIs in. They have their own dedicated area now.

Raion-Fox wrote: Those are nice. My father has one from a Soviet clock. Is yours beige, with black background, a red star and the wind-up under the hands?

This is how it looks. It is a heavy clock weighing several pounds. No plastic parts at all, except the spacers between the metal plate and the movement. The artwork on the dial says Typhoon and has an art of a Typhoon class submarine.

Raion-Fox wrote: I'll get a pic of the one in my father's shop sometime this week. Nice clock

Thanks. I think so too.

Raion-Fox wrote: Currently I have three PCs, all laptops, 8 SGIs, two Suns and a C64C. Its funny that most of my computers I own are as old as, or older than me

I have 3 desktop PCs. Four laptops. Four SGIs, one Sun and an Alpha.

uunix wrote: We are stuck in a catch 22.
We need a site, not affiliated with neckochan whatsoever run by person[s] willing to take the chance.
Everyone needs to know about it, but we cannot advertise it here.
And here is where everyone comes for SGI related info...

What we need is .. 'the purple web'.. or blue, indigo, green.

I feel dirty even talking about this stuff.

I do agree. Someones whose got nothing to lose.

There has to be a software depot. Somewhere.

I have bought it. It's $99 for the first 90 days, then increases to full price $130 after.

It's pretty nice. Plays nice with Virtual Machines as well. It even comes with some modern applications to make it useful. New theme and screensavers. Has a package manager.

Yes. RIP Roger Moore. Funny last year after watching Live and Let Die, I wondered if he was still alive and he was. Now a year later and he's gone.

The first Bond movie I ever saw was either Moonraker, or Man With the Golden Gun. So he was my first Bond as well. Moonraker was kinda hokey. But I have come to like MWTGG. Didn't care much for his other ones though. Watched MWTGG again immediately after learning of his death.

ClassicHasClass wrote: What date is that 90 days from, i.e., when does the $99 expire?

From release of the software to the market.

For cataloging. I just use a simple text list.

Also there's the issue of those stupid dongles. I have some old versions of Discreet systems software(came from old Octane2 HD) that are unusable because the dongle isn't present.

Edit: Never mind. Forgot. We're not living in sane, or normal times anymore... My bad.