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Wrote on the subject of Maxx Desktop--Support and Discussion at July 12, 2010, 5:19 p.m...

I posted earlier in a different thread. I thought I would breath life back into this one.

I installed via scripts and everything seems to work just great except I have no indigo magic desktop.

Are there any special config changes I need to make to get the indigo magic like desktop working? I tried searching for answers but can't really find anything.

I logged into IRC but no one is in the #maxx channel, is this project still under development?

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Wrote on the subject of Missing Silicon Graphics at July 12, 2011, 8:29 p.m...

Just down in the dumps and thought I would post. I miss the magic. I remember seeing an Indigo for the first time in the early 90s and then some Onyx/Challenge/Crimson systems. It was such an inspiring product line of software/hardware. I loved the exotic hardware and the case designs. Because those moments had such a strong impact on me at the time, I started on a path that has led me to build a very nice career as a Unix admin/engineer. I still use my fuel, o2, and octane on a daily basis at work. Although now I can really only use them for ssh machines to admin other systems, I still love them. I hope I can continue to use them for a long time.

I was never a really big Sun fan but have always supported them. Their older stuff was cool and they were great machines but just didn't have the polish and usability that IRIX has. Looking at CDE in Solaris makes me a bit sick to my stomach, whereas IRIX still looks good even though it is so old. The Oracle buyout has been a total pain in the ass. It took 4 months for them to ship a simple 2U system. Their support portal is the worst. One comment on the front page of their portal summed it up perfectly "This support site gives feces a bad name!". OpenSolaris is dead.... Oh well...

DEC is gone, HP-UX and AIX from IBM are so boring, I would rather use Win2k8 Server....

I won't touch on OSX server. That should be a post by itself. It could have taken over the entire Unix server/workstation market but Apple Computer dropped the computer from their name and are officially a consumer device company. I can't fault them for their choices, they are swimming in cash. I still use OSX as my main system on a daily basis and it is the best thing out there.

xBSD. Loved them, used to use Free and Net as daily machines back in the day... Sysinstall sucks. It was ok in 1998, but come on....NetBSD has a great installer. Simple, to the point. I even had my mom using FreeBSD on her laptop (window maker as her wm) in the early 2000s.

It seems like the only thing left is Linux....

Go ahead and flame me but Linux sucks in the enterprise. I do give thanks to all of the hard work and contributions so many have made to developing free software. Why does RedHat put games in an enterprise server os? I like to play with Linux but hate supporting it. I stopped using it as a desktop because it is just too much of a pain in the ass. SuSE and Ubuntu are no better.

I just miss the magic. I miss salivating over marketing material from SGI. I miss Dreaming of having a fridge sized Onyx next to my desk and a couple of brand new 21" Sony granite monitors with that logo "Silicon <cube> Graphics" at the bottom. Xsgi and 4Dwm were great, I didn't think X sucked using IRIX back in the day. I watched code rush again and it put me in this mood. SGI systems all over the place, Netscape as the browser, the internet blowing up. I miss that time period.

I have a dual socket quad core xeon/skull trail system with two video cards, 16GB of ram, chocked full of 1TB hdds, 2 24" flat panel displays in an ugly expensive (although cheaply made) and it is running windows 7. How boring is that? Will computers ever inspire me like they did when SGI was king? Will computers every be fun again?

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Wrote on the subject of UPDATED 5-20-2012 Huge SGI collection FOR SALE Netherlands at April 18, 2012, 1:26 p.m...

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Wrote on the subject of UPDATED 5-20-2012 Huge SGI collection FOR SALE Netherlands at April 19, 2012, 6:11 a.m...

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Wrote on the subject of Prism pro pack at Nov. 18, 2012, 12:38 a.m...

Recently got a prism in a crate of sgi goodies.

What would be the best way of getting a prism propack? I have a desk side with a blank drive. I have sles itanium disks but haven't had a valid support contract for years...

I got the older gentoo disks to boot and give me a console off of the graphics card but then I ran into sas issues with the kernel modules. At least with a propack I could have a usable system. This feels almost as bad as figuring out back in the day that the vw320 wouldn't run Linux!

Any info would be most helpful.

Please share any prism stories if you've got them.

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Wrote on the subject of WTB: Tezro quad 1Ghz board. at Dec. 8, 2012, 1:29 p.m...

Anyone have one and at a decent price? How much do these things go for?

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Wrote on the subject of color depth help at Dec. 9, 2012, 11:33 a.m...

Hey guys,

I never really got down and dirty with all of the settings/memory calculations for the graphics stuff. I have a v12 card/dcd that I have connected to two Dell 2407wfp monitors. Can the v12 do 24bit color on two 1920x1200 monitors? Any help from you guys would be great. thanks in advance!

It looks like it is using the two resolutions as one screen: dimensions: 3840x1200 pixels (1040x330 millimeters)
My default visual id is 0x20 and it looks like it is set to 8bit:

Code:

  default visual id:  0x20
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x20
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:

Here is my info:

Code:

  nucleon 1# xdpyinfo
  
  name of display:    :0.0
  
  version number:    11.0
  
  vendor string:    Silicon Graphics
  
  vendor release number:    6600
  
  maximum request size:  262140 bytes
  
  motion buffer size:  0
  
  bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, MSBFirst, 32
  
  image byte order:    MSBFirst
  
  number of supported pixmap formats:    6
  
  supported pixmap formats:
  
  depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
  
  depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
  
  depth 12, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
  
  depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
  
  depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
  
  depth 30, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
  
  keycode range:    minimum 15, maximum 149
  
  focus:  window 0x4000006, revert to PointerRoot
  
  number of extensions:    33
  
  Adobe-DPS-Extension
  
  DCShare
  
  DEC-XTRAP
  
  DOUBLE-BUFFER
  
  DPMS
  
  DPSExtension
  
  ESA
  
  Extended-Visual-Information
  
  GLX
  
  LBX
  
  MIT-SHM
  
  MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
  
  Multi-Buffering
  
  READDISPLAY
  
  RECORD
  
  ReadDisplay
  
  SCREEN-SAVER
  
  SGI-CONTROLPASSING
  
  SGI-NewMultibuffering
  
  SGI-SCREEN-CAPTURE
  
  SGI-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
  
  SGI-VIDEO-CONTROL
  
  SGIFullScreenStereo
  
  SHAPE
  
  SYNC
  
  TOG-CUP
  
  X3D-PEX
  
  XC-APPGROUP
  
  XC-MISC
  
  XInputExtension
  
  XKEYBOARD
  
  XTEST
  
  XVideo
  
  default screen number:    0
  
  number of screens:    1

Code:

  screen #0:
  
  dimensions:    3840x1200 pixels (1040x330 millimeters)
  
  resolution:    94x92 dots per inch
  
  depths (6):    1, 8, 12, 15, 24, 30
  
  root window id:    0x48
  
  depth of root window:    8 planes
  
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 29
  
  default colormap:    0x45
  
  default number of colormap cells:    256
  
  preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 7
  
  options:    backing-store NO, save-unders NO
  
  largest cursor:    32x32
  
  current input event mask:    0x72003c
  
  ButtonPressMask          ButtonReleaseMask        EnterWindowMask
  
  LeaveWindowMask          StructureNotifyMask      SubstructureRedirectMask
  
  FocusChangeMask          PropertyChangeMask
  
  number of visuals:    37
  
  default visual id:  0x20
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x20
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x21
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x22
  
  class:    StaticColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x23
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x24
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x25
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x26
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x27
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x28
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x29
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x2a
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x2b
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    8 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x2c
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x2d
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x2e
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x2f
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x30
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x31
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x32
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x33
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x34
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x35
  
  class:    PseudoColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    4096
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x36
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    16 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0xf, 0xf0, 0xf00
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x37
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    16 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0xf, 0xf0, 0xf00
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x38
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    12 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    16 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0xf, 0xf0, 0xf00
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x39
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    15 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    32 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x1f, 0x3e0, 0x7c00
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x3a
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    15 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    32 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x1f, 0x3e0, 0x7c00
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x3b
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    15 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    32 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x1f, 0x3e0, 0x7c00
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x3c
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    24 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0xff, 0xff00, 0xff0000
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x3d
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    24 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0xff, 0xff00, 0xff0000
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x3e
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    24 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0xff, 0xff00, 0xff0000
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x3f
  
  class:    DirectColor
  
  depth:    24 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0xff, 0xff00, 0xff0000
  
  significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x40
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    30 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    1024 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x3ff, 0xffc00, 0x3ff00000
  
  significant bits in color specification:    10 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x41
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    30 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    1024 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x3ff, 0xffc00, 0x3ff00000
  
  significant bits in color specification:    10 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x42
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    30 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    1024 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x3ff, 0xffc00, 0x3ff00000
  
  significant bits in color specification:    10 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x43
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    30 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    1024 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x3ff, 0xffc00, 0x3ff00000
  
  significant bits in color specification:    10 bits
  
  visual:
  
  visual id:    0x44
  
  class:    TrueColor
  
  depth:    30 planes
  
  available colormap entries:    1024 per subfield
  
  red, green, blue masks:    0x3ff, 0xffc00, 0x3ff00000
  
  significant bits in color specification:    10 bits
  
  nucleon 2#

Code:

  nucleon 2# cat /var/X11/xdm/Xservers
  
  :0 secure /usr/bin/X11/X -bs -nobitscale -c -class TrueColor -depth 24
  
  -solidroot sgilightblue -cursorFG red -cursorBG white

Code:

  nucleon 8# ./gfxinfo
  
  Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.
  
  Managed (":0.0") 3840x1200
  
  BUZZ version B.2
  
  PB&J version 1
  
  128MB memory
  
  Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3
  
  Monitor 0 type: Unknown
  
  Dual Channel Display option
  
  Monitor 1 type: DEL -24553      Monitor 2 type: DEL -24553
  
  Channel 0:
  
  Origin = (0,0)
  
  Video Output: 1920 pixels, 1200 lines, 60.00Hz (2@1920x1200_60p)
  
  Channel 1:
  
  Origin = (1920,0)
  
  Video Output: 1920 pixels, 1200 lines, 60.00Hz (2@1920x1200_60p)

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Wrote on the subject of color depth help at Dec. 9, 2012, 12:03 p.m...

Nevermind. I thought logging in and out would cause X to pick up the changes. I finally rebooted the system and it picked up the changes and is showing 24bit.

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Wrote on the subject of color depth help at Dec. 9, 2012, 4:41 p.m...

thanks Canavan. I will keep those in mind when building out my next box. I am trying to get 5 systems up and running again after years of cold storage with fresh installs.

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Wrote on the subject of Fair price for Onyx2? at Nov. 18, 2013, 12:18 p.m...

I bought mine last year for 500 bucks. Skins are in great condition. Specs were low. I think entry graphics and two 300ish MHz node boards? I can't remember. I have a power cable and plugged it into my wall 110v wall outlet in the basement. I booted it up and it worked, I just haven't played with it because I am afraid of power needs off that 110v outlet. I read through the forum about people using them hooked up to 110v outlets. Who is doing that now? Could anyone with one running off a 110v outlet throw out some info? Is it safe? Will it pop the breaker or melt the cable? I am just a worrier, that is why they call me whiskers

Do you really need a 120v outlet installed on a 30amp breaker?

I would love to run it instead of my octane 2 during the winter since it gets cold down here. I would think it would be cheaper to run than a space heater, I am only using it for ssh and not much else.

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Wrote on the subject of Nice! SGI on Slashdot at May 6, 2015, 4:22 p.m...

Why on earth Rackable didn't immediately change back to the cube and old font is beyond me. The SGI logo is utter crap, has always been utter crap, and will always be utter crap. It's like having a Ferarri in the garage that you never touch and drive a gremlin. What is new with the new logo? It looks like they embossed the "syfy" logo.

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Wrote on the subject of Strange link on SGI website? at May 6, 2015, 5:17 p.m...

Maybe it was the gate keeper software back door.

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Wrote on the subject of The ghetto Onyx2: 4*300MHz, IR3 at May 8, 2015, 8 p.m...

This has given me an urge to finally play with the Onyx2 I got a couple of years ago. Time flies working 3 jobs but now things have slowed down a bit. I ran it for a few hours with one node board. I was just paranoid about power. I am already running a Macpro 3,1 with 4 monitors, a skulltrail PC maxed out (The only game I play is D3) so I don't think the 1k PSU is pulling that much power, 3 dell optiplex 980 sff (vmware esx cluster), 2 dell optiplex 990 mt, and a dell 745 nfs server.

Anyone have a guess at what power the Onyx2 would draw if I am just using terminal windows and not doing any serious graphics work? It has two 400mhz node boards with 2GB of ram if I remember correctly. I need to pull everything and check.

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Wrote on the subject of Prism drives me crazy at May 12, 2015, 12:46 p.m...

I have the iso files at home. Did you ever get this system up and running? I bought one and tracked down the pro packs and sles. I just never got around to installing it.

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Wrote on the subject of Firefox3 rebuild at May 13, 2015, 10:52 a.m...

I am not a tree hugger by any stretch, but that is just insane lol. It would burn more than a quart of gas to get that quart of milk! I just DL'd the files, I am going to test it out. I am hoping that a retro web bug hits and people go back to building pages that look like the late 90s without a bunch of junk code.

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Wrote on the subject of For sale, "Bob" at May 22, 2015, 5:56 p.m...

Don't even think about it

I have been waiting for days....

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Wrote on the subject of For sale, "Bob" at May 26, 2015, 5:17 p.m...

I was down in the basement. I left my phone upstairs and missed the notification. Not sure if I would have gone that high though...

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Wrote on the subject of Funny scammer phone call at June 20, 2015, 3:17 p.m...

So I am home alone today with nothing to do. I was upstairs reading Introducing the UNIX Sytem by Henry McGilton and Rachel Morgan and waiting for my new ebay Indy to arrive. The phone rings and I don't recognize the number so I answer it. It is a gentleman with an Indian sounding accent and he tells me that my computer has problems and is reporting errors to their web server. I think, oh this is going to be fun....

I switch to a noob idiot kind of voice and start answering his questions. I chum the line so he smells blood in the water. "Oh no, how can we get this fixed?" He asks me to go to my computer and then asks me to locate the ctrl key at the bottom left of my keyboard. He then asks what is the key to the right. I respond "da A L T key" (spelling out the letters). We go round and round for a minute and he starts to get agitated and thinking that I am an idiot and can't see the Window$ key. I then tell him "It is an older granite keyboard, I don't have a Windows key.". He then asks what kind of computer I have. I respond with "It is a Silicon Graphics Indy". I can hear him telling someone in the background and it seems like they are looking it up on the internet. He then tells me that he is transferring me to the senior technician. There wasn't any technology with the phone, the other guy just started talking to me. He said, "That is a nice computer you have!". I say "thanks!". He then asks me what I see on the screen. I say "I see my Indigo Magic Desktop, the ToolChest, the Dumpster, home directory, Photoshop, and Buttonfly icons.". This really confuses him. He asks me if I have a Windows laptop, I reply "No, I don't like Windows very much.". He asks what internet connection that I use. "I got one computer that is using an Integrated Services Digital Network line, OC3 on the WAN interface of my router and I also running a token ring and FDDI network with my six other computers.". He asks what other computers I have. "Onyx2, Indigo, Indigo2, Tezro, Octane, and an old azz O2." He then asks if I can go to Google and type in team viewer or something like that. I imagine that is some sort of remote control software. He has me click the download button and then asks me to double click it. My response " I am going to have to download that in SoftWindows, I won't be able to open a .exe file directly... It won't run on my RISC MIPS R5000...Probably cause it ain't got no branch prediction.". He then asks what operating system I am using. "IRIX 6.5.22m with Nekoware!", I enthusiastically reply! He then said that he would have their IRIX specialist give me a call back in about 30 minutes.

I have to hand it to them, they really did give it the old college try. I was kinda surprised that they didn't figure out I was messing with them. If they ever call back, I promise I will record it!

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Wrote on the subject of Indigo2 - Scan at June 22, 2015, 4:50 a.m...

Is that the news window manager before 4dwm?

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Wrote on the subject of Indigo2 - Scan at June 22, 2015, 6:42 a.m...

What is it? Was there something called 4sight? It has been so long.

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Wrote on the subject of WTB: Indy corona presenter card with cable. at June 22, 2015, 6:51 a.m...

Just as the subject says. I am looking for a reasonably priced card to connect a presenter 1280 to my Indy

Cable would be great too!

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Wrote on the subject of WTB: Indy corona presenter card with cable. at June 22, 2015, 7:29 a.m...

Thanks hamei. I will look it up and try to find some info. I haven't played with presenter tech since the early 2000s.

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Wrote on the subject of WTB: Indy corona presenter card with cable. at June 22, 2015, 7:53 a.m...

I found this:

viewtopic.php?t=16723000

interesting, I wonder if the presenter card would work being plugged into the Indigo's GIO32 bus. I always thought that it needed to be connected to the Indy video card.

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Wrote on the subject of Email from SGI Support at Jan. 29, 2016, 9:13 a.m...

So sad. I have several HPC clusters and I have never heard anyone bring up the letters SGI in any meeting in the last 10 years. I had a dream a couple of months ago where I was installing Onyx XL racks in the data center and was so excited. I didn't want to go to work when I woke up and realized it was just a dream. There just isn't anything exciting about a rack full of Dells....(or Linux). I couldn't imagine how much I would love my job if I had a DC full of Silicon Graphics hardware and was able to use techpubs for support.

Back on topic, I got that same email and thought, "I will never need to log into that site again anyway, I already have 6.5.22".

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Wrote on the subject of [BYTE 1993] Some Indy for you! at Jan. 29, 2016, 9:35 a.m...

I used to sit in the bathroom with my SGI workstation marketing materials in 1995 for hours.... Out of order instruction set execution, branch prediction, R10k tech... it was orgasmic!

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Wrote on the subject of Microsoft to release SQL server for Irix at March 30, 2016, 12:20 p.m...

The thing for me about HPC is that it just isn't fun or exciting anymore. Great, I rack commodity crap and add another linux node.... I remember the excitement of when finally getting the PO signed off and then waiting for the big iron to be delivered. Unwrapping and boxing a beautiful non-intel work of art on pallets. I miss having to worry about getting spinters. I swear those moments were better than Christmas morning as a kid.

P.S. Each year, I just despise linux more and more. The most excitement I have had in the last few months was upgrading the Tezro to quad 700s. About 10 years ago, I thought the future would be OSX Server on Xserve nodes. Managing those with Apple Remote Desktop and ssh.... My how boring IT is these days....

P.S. M$ would have to be smoking crack if they think I would ever put MSSQL Server on Linux in my environment (not even thinking about the underhanded BS they pulled putting nails in SGI's coffin). I wonder if the boxed copy comes with a complimentary gimp mask and strap-on in a death of Supermanesqe black baggie.

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Wrote on the subject of What did Octane 2's sell for? at March 30, 2016, 1:08 p.m...

I always hated the fact that SGI didn't have some sort of PC priced system. They could have tweaked the Indy and had sold something low spec. I don't want to discuss revenue, etc....That was my fantasy. I just wished they had something for people that didn't a job at a company/university with access to them. The jobs I had back then were tough to sell on choosing SGI over SUN. Everyone that had a SUN pizza box would come over to my desk and drool over my Indy and Indigo1 in the mid to late 90s. I never did anything other than use them as glorified ssh/Xterms on my desk (and still to this day, that is why I am still able to use IRIX daily).

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX pre release - need Linux testers at March 30, 2016, 5:02 p.m...

Nice to see MaXX back. Is the big daddy kane version still a purchase? If it works on OpenBSD, that would be awesome.

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX Desktop has a Facebook page at March 30, 2016, 5:13 p.m...

The one screenshot looks beautiful! Can't wait to use the new version!

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Wrote on the subject of IrisVision (ISA model) on eBay at April 5, 2016, 10:43 a.m...

It has been up for some time. That price is insane. Maybe he is reading from the SGI price sheet lol.

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX is back! at April 5, 2016, 10:50 a.m...

I bet it is those crazy mofoes over at that CDE fork or perhaps it is Tom from TWM... I know he hates competition!

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Wrote on the subject of IrisVision (ISA model) on eBay at April 5, 2016, 1:14 p.m...

If I were going to launder money through ebay, it would def be an ISA SGI video card without a doubt!

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Wrote on the subject of IrisVision (ISA model) on eBay at April 6, 2016, 8:40 a.m...

HAHAHAHAHAHAA that is insane... Kinda cool, but insane. I have around 6 Model M keyboards from the 80s in mint condition. Are those worth 2k? Those are my 2nd favorite keyboard. They seem to work okay with SGI gear. My first favorite keyboard is the granite Onyx1/Indigo keyboard. This dude in NC kept putting them on ebay for 60 bucks a few years ago. I would just instantly buy them when I would get the alert. That keyboard just feels sooooo good. I was really hurt when I found out that I couldn't use that indigo to ps/2 converter in reverse to allow me to use that keyboard on PCs.

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX is back! at April 6, 2016, 8:42 a.m...

Well it isn't me, I think it is awesome what you are doing. The phrase "the lord works in mysterious ways" comes to mind. lol

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX Desktop Modern Look and Feel Preview at April 6, 2016, 12:54 p.m...

I do like it. It would be cool if there was a granite theme. The motif window borders and the gray backgrounds. I always thought the bluesteel enlightenment theme from back in the day would look cool with a light gray granite theme. Will this new version cost money? Are there any customers left from the corporate world that want this window manager/DT env? I have to bring up a Linux system this weekend and install this.

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Wrote on the subject of IrisVision (ISA model) on eBay at April 7, 2016, 7:51 a.m...

Insane. I am curious what the profit margin was on the Tezro. Does anyone know how many Indys were ever sold? If the VW320 was just a PC with a hellish SGI graphics card and priced competitively, would it have been successful?

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Wrote on the subject of IrisVision (ISA model) on eBay at April 7, 2016, 8:49 a.m...

I love that keyboard. I loved the Thinkpad track points. I remember in the 90s I called them nibbons. Everyone looks at me crazy when I call them that. Did anyone else ever call them that? I have no idea where I got it, but I remember that being the name of that little red "nibbon".

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Wrote on the subject of IrisVision (ISA model) on eBay at April 7, 2016, 9:15 a.m...

mopar5150 wrote: I think it would have been successful with SGI grade graphics and a reasonable price. I like the look of the system.

I think so too. I would have bought one for sure. I remember running Win2k prof on that box. It looked great on my desk. Why did they go with the whole ARCS prom cobalt custom graphics on a custom mobo? It would have been cool if they had put in some kind of bios compatibility mode.

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Wrote on the subject of Ebay.. IMSAI 8080 at April 8, 2016, 7:50 a.m...

That is a beauty. Wow, am I that old that 8k is what these dinosaurs are going for these days? I always loved the look!

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX Desktop Modern Look and Feel Preview at April 8, 2016, 8:03 a.m...

I have a few questions:

What is the current stable release of the MaXX Desktop?
Before it looked like there was a paid version for SGI customers, is this still the case?
Is there an Indigo magic desktop with the fm?
Where do we download stable and the betas you are currently working on?

thanks!

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