The collected works of iKitsune - Page 1

theinonen wrote: Logo is only a part of the corporate image. People do not buy something, just because it has a great logo.

BMWs are not that great looking. Compared to some real classics, like Ford Capri. It is only a box with rounded corners and four wheels. People buy BMWs because they are seen as a status symbol.

But they avoid an established brand if it suddenly changes appearance.

If I had been in a cave for the last 5 years, came out, and saw a server with that goofy logo on it, I would think it was someone passing off, which is pretty much what's going on here - Rackable bought a brand, and ruined it as soon as they had it.

SAQ wrote: As far as I can see, Rackable has only changed the logo somewhat. Saying that they ruined SGI is a bit premature at this point.

SGI as a brand may live on, but all the magic is gone, at least for me. I grew up fascinated with SGI technology. In my middle school, they had an Iris Indigo. I remember it had a 33 MHz CPU and 64 MB RAM or so. It didn't even have a proper Ethernet port, just an AUI interface. That machine was what I learned UNIX on. I guess I'm just nostalgic for those magical purple, blue, and green computers.

The new logo just drives home that those days are gone. Really, SGI ruined SGI, but this just gives visual proof to it. Maybe they'll bring back the cube, and then I can at least look at the clone servers in some data center and feel the magic that Iris Indigo brought me when I was still young.

hamei wrote: Pardon me for breaking the forum rules but you guys are a bunch of idiots. Rackable just bought the place, it's only a stupid logo, let's see how they do with things that actually matter like sevice, support, and products instead of running off at the mouth about a damned font. It was stupid of SGI to piss away big money on a font and it's equally stupid to have a heart attack, wailing and gnashing your teeth over a different one. "The magic is gone" ... what a crock. It's not magic, they make and sell computers.

What are we, a bunch of teenage girls here, all upset about the new Hello Kitty box ?

It's just like your favorite baseball star from when you were a kid getting convicted for crack posession.

I guess I get the message and I'll shut up though.

Thanks.

hamei wrote:

iKitsune wrote: I guess I get the message and I'll shut up though.

I'm sorry but jeeze, guys, it's just a logo and they just bought the place. Cut them a little slack, maybe ?

I would feel different if I hadn't had several run-ins with Rackable at work. Some mergers like Sun/Oracle and Symbol/Motorola, I can be optimistic the product quality won't take a slide. After my experience dealing with Rackable, I expect that all IRIX/MIPS legacy support and docs (what little there was!) will be the first against the wall, and the new logo is just the first sign of it.

That's the same reason my poor V880 is off for the summer. I'm considering trying to vent it to outside, but not sure how usable a proposition that would be. That, and its 1600w draw is only beneficial in the winter, when the heat it puts out is comparable to the 5kw electric heat in my flat.

The Onyx2 + v880 had it so warm I had to open the windows in the middle of winter to moderate the temperature. At least I only had a $70 electricity bill.

recondas wrote: The other <unanswered> question is; if the V10 iss an identical to the V12 fab to save making two different PCBs - why did they switch an to the Samsung chips ?

Probably got a better deal on the RAM from Samsung? NEC couldn't meet their volume needs? Who knows? It wouldn't be a major change to change RAM brands, as long as they were the same configuration.

recondas wrote:

hamei wrote: I often do that. Kinda messy but you can sort of tell by the sound when you're hitting the sweet spot

...or your shoes.

Usually my cat does that for me.

And that's where my usefulness runs out; when I had to choose between a soldering iron or a compiler, I took 'soldering iron'.

a SGI granite keyboard, as shipped with the Indy, is what I swear by. Good keyswitches, and not too loud.

Granted, my model M would get more use if the roommate could stand it sounding like a machine gun when I type.

strandedinnz wrote: Hmmm ... would dropping in a PCI graphics board work ? Or do those cards need special bios to make them go ?

Mark

I just had a horrible thought of putting a PCI Radeon in an Origin 3000. Call it the "half-assed visualisation solution".

Just to satisfy curiousity; Comcast does -not- block 80, 20, or 21. Only port they block is 25, and I can understand stifling SMTP traffic.

Not upgrading until I can get a video card with WDDM 1.1 support so Aero Glass still works. That's the only reason I use Vista - I personally think it's the most jaw-droppingly beautiful UI I've ever seen.

indyman007 wrote: Yeah, but that is like getting a ferrari without an engine.

It's called sharing, mate. Not sure if you lil London chavs have heard of it. A Ferrari without an engine would be with the IP board out. This is more like a Ferrari without doors.

JacquesT wrote:

dc_v01 wrote: Too bad, I used to have a bunch of these I couldn't give away. Don't know what shipping to the UK would be, but O2s aren't that heavy...

Even lighter if you take out the old SCSI HD's!

I have access to skids and skids of em, but I doubt ya wanna pay the shipping from here to Europe. :/

Ford Crown Victora Police Interceptor. Fun, fast, safe, and affordable by mortals. Besides, it's like driving a land-boat, the last of the great body-on-frame rear-wheel-drive American gashog monsters.

pierocks wrote:

iKitsune wrote: Ford Crown Victora Police Interceptor. Fun, fast, safe, and affordable by mortals. Besides, it's like driving a land-boat, the last of the great body-on-frame rear-wheel-drive American gashog monsters.

This is exactly what I drive Fantastic car...it's an absolute tank and it hauls ass!

So YOU'RE my evil twin that keeps subscribing me to Consumer Reports!

Is that real estate, or a cleverly disguised 04:19 scam?

ramq wrote: It would be fun to know the list price on a 16-proc O3800 were at the time...

Probably around the GNP of a small Communist state.

Or lee-nooks.