The collected works of Ryan Fox - Page 2

If Rackable didn't come out with products like the Octane III and the Origin 400, you might hear fewer negative comments

Most SGI lovers really wanted them to do well but they seem pretty talented at butchering (what remained of) the SGI mystique.

Ryan Fox, that'd be amazing and almost a ‘dream’ come true. I won't be counting on it, but like you say, who knows. (I know this site draws attention, because a lot of people I speak to — interested in UNIX and UNIX-like/derived systems — have often heard of this place.)

Update: She's now a real IR3! I just installed a GE16-4, and all is working great.

~ and gently blowing the compression connector ~

I would also agree that there's no point learning Blender if you want to go pro. Maya is where it's at...

Now that I'm pimping IR3, I'm developed a snobbery against V12, even in a Tezro.

all this faster easy magic push-the-button nonsense is frying perceptions left & right, high & low, like a mile a minute. we're all expertz now dude, i got mo magic buttons, just don't ask me to do anything original.
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Until you get an autocad drawing not made in autocad which is scaled different than any standard, 3 different ways, none of which are documented. That happened to us a few weeks ago.

"Maybe it's the print setting?" "no." "It's metric, isn't it?" "yes." "maybe their metric is actually inches?" "no." "Maybe there's another scale somewhere?" "probably, look, you know this beam is supposed to be 17.4 meters so just scale everything to that." "It won't scale." "What?"

Turns out the whole drawing was in some sort of read-only container file that had been imported into a dwg by a 3rd program different than autocad and the program used for the drawing. Yes, cad programs are wonderful; but nobody "plays with them for fun" for a reason.

Agreed. Unfortunately, I don't have a decent digital camera, but I may be able to borrow one. I'll try and get some pictures up by tonight.

Update: Pics aren't happening this weekend; too many things going on.

Does an Onyx2 have an internal speaker? If so, where is it?

I didn't think it would but when running apps that use audio, certain sounds cause my Onyx2 to emit a nasty crackling noise. The workstation never emits any other sounds, such as boot chimes. (Other than fan noise, of course!) It doesn't matter if I have external speakers plugged in or not. External speakers do work properly with this machine.

Only certain clangy/crashy sounds do this, for example, when a tank is shot in bz or pretty much any sound when flying around in vroom . At first it sounded like electrical arcing but it seems more likely there's a ripped speaker cone somewhere in the chassis.

I thought someone here might know something before I tear the thing apart to find it.

Guess this is my month to ask SGI audio questions!

It could be fun to see which programs cause the noise and how to trigger it. Then you can pin down where the problem is. OTOH you should probably just repace it.