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mefull
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Who joined Nov. 28, 2004, 1:52 a.m.

Wrote on the subject of Alcohol Preferences at Dec. 11, 2004, 9:17 a.m...

Intel-OUTSIDE wrote: isnt Corona one of those american style "lite" beers that looks like dishwater and tasts like it looks?

No Corona is a cheap mexican beer that used to sell for $2.00 a six pack, now they call it an "imported beer" and charge you $8.00.

And yes dishwater is an important ingredent in the manufacture of Corona, but serve it with a slice of lime and you don't really notice. :lol:

Well this thread sure brought people out of the wood work huh?

My favorite drink is Earl Gray Tea, if its got to be alcohol then I'd have a Bombay Saphire Blue gin and tonic.

mefull
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Wrote on the subject of Compiling YafRay V0.0.7 On MIPSPRO at Dec. 18, 2004, 9:39 a.m...

Thaidog wrote:

I keep seeing adobe photoshop (like 3 or 4) and illustrator software for IRIX on ebay... i'm wondering if these programs will run on the latest hardware like the Octane 2? Is this software 64bit or 32?

The problem with buying these on ebay is that you won't be able to get a licence from Adobe to install these on your machine. As far as I know Adobe does not support either program on Irix anymore.

If you really want to run those you need to buy a machine with it already installed.

Maybe someone else on this list knows a contact at Adobe to get a new licence?

mefull
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Wrote on the subject of Who buys UNIX workstations anymore? at Feb. 2, 2005, 12:54 a.m...

zolotroph wrote:

Let's extend the question further: In 2005, who buys UNIX workstations in general (IBM, HP, Sun, etc.), and what applications do they use? -zolo

Maybe you don't count them as UNIX but Apple Mac OSX is unix with a sweet GUI.
They have some pretty nice products on the desktop and their xserve and xserv Raid look like pretty nice products in the server market. Their new SAN file system looks pretty nice too for the film and TV post business. Time will tell.

As for IBM, HP, Sun etc. I don't know maybe we should say "count the days." Their market seems to be going going gone. Even though CAD is a bigger market than 3D Fx I don't think its a big enough market to support new hardware development by itself.