The collected works of porter - Page 4

porter
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Wrote on the subject of SGI Remarketed at Sept. 3, 2009, 5:19 p.m...

Alas, as humans, we are permenantly dispappointed, we cycle round a "covet, crave, buy, regret" loop.

Look at the financial mess that consumerism has got us into.

Land of the Long White Cloud and no Software Patents.

porter
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Wrote on the subject of Subtle, Very Subtle at Sept. 15, 2009, 6:18 p.m...

Timberoz wrote: antiquated RISC/proprietary Unix

As opposed to "antiquated CISC/proprietary Windows".

Land of the Long White Cloud and no Software Patents.

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Wrote on the subject of Subtle, Very Subtle at Sept. 16, 2009, 3:44 a.m...

.... and don't forget how much was written at universities rather than commercial environments. ( I'm taking the stand that Universities aren't just in it for the money

)

Land of the Long White Cloud and no Software Patents.

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Wrote on the subject of New MIPS based handheld at Oct. 1, 2009, 10:16 a.m...

Picked up a new MIPS based handheld, has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, it's rather cool.

The manual has this interesting entry at the end (page 57)...

Copyright (C) 1988-1997 Sam Leffer
Copyright (C) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

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porter
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Wrote on the subject of New MIPS based handheld at Oct. 2, 2009, 2:37 a.m...

Yes, a little PSP Go.

It doesn't do WPA2, but then neither does my Pismo with Airport.

It'll be interesting if they finally yield and provide a free dev kit like for the iPhone.

Land of the Long White Cloud and no Software Patents.

porter
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Wrote on the subject of New MIPS based handheld at Oct. 11, 2009, 9:51 p.m...

sybrfreq wrote: but does it have gran turismo?

... and Crash Team Racing?

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Wrote on the subject of New MIPS based handheld at Oct. 12, 2009, 9:37 p.m...

R-ten-K wrote: I thought Sony already announced they were going to make their development kits available for free for the PSP?.

They said they'd drop the price to 10% of what it was.

I think the problem they will have is you can write as much code as you want, you just can't load it or run it on the PSP.

Land of the Long White Cloud and no Software Patents.

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Wrote on the subject of Fractal benchmark at Oct. 27, 2009, 12:31 p.m...

ShadeOfBlue wrote:

If all SGI's had bidirectional parallel ports, the design would have been simpler.

I've generally been more in favour of serial port solutions as they are "more portable" between different types of machines.

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Wrote on the subject of macbook nekochan login loop at Nov. 1, 2009, 8:39 p.m...

hamei wrote:

My guess is its a bug in Safari but I'm not allowed near the Macbook too much

Perhaps it's the Great Firewall Of China?

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Wrote on the subject of Oh look. An HP 9000 D series at Nov. 12, 2009, 6:25 p.m...

pentium wrote:

Geez, now that I got this and a few cables, what exactly can be done with it? I know I have to find a new rack for it (ugh....) but what use is HP-UX, if that is still on the drive?

HP/UX is an excellent OS. Did you talk the opportunity of the offer....?

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=10771&start=0

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Wrote on the subject of Oh look. An HP 9000 D series at Nov. 12, 2009, 7:39 p.m...

pentium wrote:

Curious, I ask the guy in charge of recycling if it was being moved or something and he responded with "nah, it's being recycled. You want it?"

pentium wrote:

EDIT: Bad idea it was. I have to get it out of my fathers sight before dawn or else it is off to the scrappers tomorrow weather I like it or not.

Wow, things change quickly, it was almost recycled, but after you managed to save it from the recyclers it then gets scrapped.

Very few households recommend using the living rooms as storage areas.

porter
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Wrote on the subject of What IBM hardware do we have..? at Nov. 13, 2009, 10:42 a.m...

PS/2 Model 76i - AIX 1.3
7043-140 - AIX 4.3.2
7043-140 - AIX 5.1
7043-260 - AIX 5.3
7028-6C1 - AIX 5.3
THINKPAD 390 - NT 4.0 SP6

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Wrote on the subject of Oh look. An HP 9000 D series at Nov. 16, 2009, 6 p.m...

Hey, that looks just like my D370! Quite how the qualified for the name UltraLight, I'm baffled.

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Wrote on the subject of Oh look. An HP 9000 D series at Nov. 17, 2009, 12:34 p.m...

leaknoil wrote:

Mine has "Turbo HSC" silkscreened at that connector. Not that I imagine it makes any difference at all.

Perhaps it is just saying it needs a fan to work.

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Wrote on the subject of What IBM hardware do we have..? at Nov. 21, 2009, 7:25 p.m...

ohland wrote: I was surfing for M-ACPA information, and stumbled on this thread. Who is running AIX 1.3? Who is running the microchannel PS/2 systems?

Hi, yes, I'm running a 76i with AIX 1.3.

I acquired my MCA ethernet and SCSI controller via the PS2 newsgroup and used your PS2/MCA website for valuable information and links.

We have a whole thread dedicated to AIX 1.3 on PS/2.

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=15704

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Wrote on the subject of Firefox 3.0.15 Gran Paradiso first run at Dec. 26, 2009, 10:39 a.m...

zahal wrote:

Is there something missing in libpthread on 6.5.22?

No.

Try

Code:

nm /usr/lib/libpthread.so

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Wrote on the subject of Firefox 3.0.15 Gran Paradiso first run at Dec. 26, 2009, 11:18 a.m...

I meant lib32...

Code:

bash-2.05b$ nm /usr/lib32/libpthread.so | grep MIPS_TEXT | grep pthread

[36]    | 201609564|     596|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_cancel

[37]    | 201610708|     476|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_setcanceltype

[39]    | 201611796|      32|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_condattr_init

[40]    | 201611828|       8|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_condattr_destroy

[41]    | 201611836|      24|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_condattr_getpshared

[42]    | 201611860|      68|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_condattr_setpshared

[43]    | 201618324|     180|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_atfork

[44]    | 201621408|     540|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_key_create

[45]    | 201621948|     212|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_setspecific

[46]    | 201622160|     144|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|__pthread_getspecific_addr

[47]    | 201622304|      44|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_getspecific

[48]    | 201622348|      80|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_key_delete

[50]    | 201626248|      24|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_getpshared

[51]    | 201626364|     164|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_setprotocol

[52]    | 201626528|      16|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_getprotocol

[53]    | 201626624|     148|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_settype

[54]    | 201626772|      16|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_gettype

[55]    | 201634464|     488|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutex_setprioceiling

[56]    | 201634952|      16|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutex_getprioceiling

[57]    | 201635504|     436|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_once

[58]    | 201638768|      12|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_equal

[59]    | 201638780|     944|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_join

[60]    | 201639724|     448|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_detach

[62]    | 201644560|      16|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_getstacksize

[63]    | 201644588|      16|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_getstackaddr

[64]    | 201644604|      12|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_setguardsize

[65]    | 201644616|      16|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_getguardsize

[66]    | 201644696|      20|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_getdetachstate

[67]    | 201645132|      64|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_getscope

[68]    | 201645196|      68|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_setinheritsched

[69]    | 201645264|      24|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_getinheritsched

[70]    | 201645288|      84|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_setschedpolicy

[71]    | 201645372|      24|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_getschedpolicy

[72]    | 201645396|     192|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_setschedparam

[73]    | 201645588|      24|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_getschedparam

[75]    | 201645864|      32|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlockattr_init

[76]    | 201645896|       8|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlockattr_destroy

[77]    | 201645904|      24|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlockattr_getpshared

[78]    | 201645928|      68|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlockattr_setpshared

[79]    | 201646204|     124|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlock_destroy

[80]    | 201646328|      88|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlock_tryrdlock

[81]    | 201646416|      88|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlock_trywrlock

[82]    | 201669056|     140|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_getrunon_np

[83]    | 201669196|     132|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_setrunon_np

[84]    | 201669328|     260|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_getschedparam

[85]    | 201669588|     628|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_setschedparam

[265]   | 201610160|     548|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_setcancelstate

[266]   | 201611184|     280|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_testcancel

[267]   | 201611464|      16|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|__pthread_cancel_list

[268]   | 201611928|      76|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_cond_init

[269]   | 201612004|     144|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_cond_destroy

[270]   | 201612148|     476|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_cond_signal

[271]   | 201612792|     664|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_cond_broadcast

[272]   | 201613620|     652|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_cond_wait

[273]   | 201614732|    1380|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_cond_timedwait

[274]   | 201626200|      40|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_init

[275]   | 201626240|       8|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_destroy

[276]   | 201626272|      92|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_setpshared

[277]   | 201626544|      64|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_setprioceiling

[278]   | 201626608|      16|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutexattr_getprioceiling

[279]   | 201626900|     104|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutex_init

[280]   | 201627004|     148|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutex_destroy

[281]   | 201627152|     336|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutex_trylock

[282]   | 201628084|     396|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutex_lock

[283]   | 201631252|     404|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_mutex_unlock

[284]   | 201638216|      80|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_self

[285]   | 201638296|     472|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_create

[286]   | 201640172|     408|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_exit

[287]   | 201644464|      56|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_init

[288]   | 201644520|       8|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_destroy

[289]   | 201644528|      32|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_setstacksize

[290]   | 201644576|      12|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_setstackaddr

[291]   | 201644632|      64|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_setdetachstate

[292]   | 201644716|     416|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_attr_setscope

[293]   | 201645996|     208|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlock_init

[294]   | 201646504|     772|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlock_rdlock

[295]   | 201647604|     760|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlock_wrlock

[296]   | 201648644|     688|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_rwlock_unlock

[297]   | 201651620|     784|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_kill

[298]   | 201652404|     644|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_sigmask

[299]   | 201668404|      40|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_getconcurrency

[300]   | 201668444|     612|FUNC |GLOB |DEFAULT  |MIPS_TEXT|pthread_setconcurrency

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porter
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Wrote on the subject of AIX 1.3 at Feb. 17, 2010, 11:15 p.m...

neozeed wrote: I know it may seem silly, but AIX will run on Virtual PC 2004?

I would expect no, remember we are talking over a decade ago, AIX needs an MCA machine with PS/2 BIOS.

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Wrote on the subject of AS/400 9404-C10 at Feb. 18, 2010, 2:37 p.m...

Do you have an RPG compiler?

It may take you a bit of time to port all the nekoware to it. :lol:

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Wrote on the subject of windows can't see the disk in my alphastation (noob help) at Feb. 21, 2010, 7:26 p.m...

Quote:

... the only current UNIX that still uses COFF

Doesn't AIX?

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Wrote on the subject of _POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112 and timeval? at Feb. 28, 2010, 2:09 p.m...

I would include <sys/types> first.

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Wrote on the subject of good read whether you agree with it or not :) at March 9, 2010, 4:02 p.m...

sybrfreq wrote:

I wouldn't go to guns&pickups random USA website and bash president obama

I thought they did that already. I thought anything refering to guns was typically the right wing side....

Bashing Apple Pie would be different though.

On topic though, one of my minimum standards for a cartoon is that the jaw also moves when the characters talk.

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Wrote on the subject of Any AIX or IBM mainframe programmers here? at March 10, 2010, 4:28 p.m...

I've got AIX 1.3, 4.3.2, 5.1 and 5.3 running here. I've coded for them all. I also used to code for 3.2. I even use 5.3 in my current job.

The closest I got to a mainframe was programming an AS/400 using ASNA-C and ILE-C.

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Wrote on the subject of AIX freeware repositories? at March 23, 2010, 2:50 p.m...

PymbleSoftware wrote:

RPM

Heathens! What about .bff?

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Wrote on the subject of "Unlimited Detail" - new rendering technology at March 27, 2010, 12:08 p.m...

Megatron-UK wrote:

... and of course, the number one culprit; Dick Van Dyke :lol:

I remember an original Tom and Jerry set in as Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest, ie, vicinity of Nottingham. On of the main mouse characters had this dreadful broad cockney accent. Gor blimey, luv a duck.

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Wrote on the subject of Plotting... at March 29, 2010, 4:43 a.m...

So what's wrong with digging out the old PET 8032 and HP GPIB plotter and cranking out the print# commands yourself?

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Wrote on the subject of Plotting... at March 29, 2010, 8:26 p.m...

Does any one have any experience creating Apple Help Books?

It looks like a pile of crap to me.

I can create the HTML viewable by Safari no problem, but try as I may I can't arrange it into a book recognized by Apple Help Viewer. Eg I have a directory XXXX.help/Contents/Resources and the various xxxx.plist files. Even if I take an Apple provided help book and just copy it into another directory the Apple Help Viewer just shows an empty page when I view it.

What is the point of a help viewer that can't view help?

I have copied the Bluetooth.help to another directory and it says

Code:

Help Viewer does not know how to handle the selected URL

The selected URL is: file:///Volumes/data/helptest/Bluetooth.help/

So there must be some external reference requirement to the directory?

( Tiger, Leopard )

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Wrote on the subject of Plotting... at March 29, 2010, 10:39 p.m...

Yes, it looks like you can't have standalone help books, they have to be within another bundle, and if they are in another bundle the user can't easily navigate into it. Sounds like it's not the medium to use for help unless it's help within an application, not help about an application.

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Wrote on the subject of Plotting... at March 30, 2010, 12:07 a.m...

Solution: a manpage!

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Wrote on the subject of AIX 1.3 at March 30, 2010, 2:32 a.m...

neozeed wrote:

... however you'll be plagued by constant hdr0 interrupt issues

That's really good emulation, just like my real PS/2 76i.

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Wrote on the subject of April 3rd, Launch day! at April 4, 2010, 2:19 a.m...

According to BBC, Wozniak queued up for one. :roll:

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Wrote on the subject of April 3rd, Launch day! at April 4, 2010, 2:32 a.m...

skywriter wrote:

please, if you have something negative to say

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Wrote on the subject of IRIX patches at April 4, 2010, 9:06 p.m...

Nekochan has hosted patches that SGI had previously made available then removed, I'm thinking specifically of a roll-up for 32bit 6.5.22m with XFS fix.

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Wrote on the subject of Microsoft kills Windows for IA64 at April 5, 2010, 2:18 p.m...

eMGee wrote:

Sorry, I'm not following you here, you're upset that Windows won't run on your hardware anymore?!

I think the main complaint is the majority global CPU architecture is based on the 4004.

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Wrote on the subject of Microsoft kills Windows for IA64 at April 5, 2010, 3:13 p.m...

SAQ wrote:

Money, at least immediate cash outlay, is very evident to the purchaser, and it's hard to argue with AMD64 on a price/performance standpoint.

Perhaps with mobile and ecological awareness ( and economics of electricity bills ) power usage will become a more important consideration.

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Wrote on the subject of Microsoft kills Windows for IA64 at April 5, 2010, 4:21 p.m...

sybrfreq wrote:

I don't understand... electricity is getting cheaper and cheaper to generate and batteries have ever-increasing capacity. re the environment IMO it is better to use something already existing than throw it away and buy something new.

Not from where I'm standing. My electricity bills only go north, similar for server farms. We will be seeing some major constraints powerwise in the not so distant future.

Yes it's better to use what you have than throw away and buy new, but mix that in with a consumer society that requires people to throw away and buy new and you have a problem.

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Wrote on the subject of G4 macmini at April 7, 2010, 10:10 p.m...

I have 10.5.8 on my 1.25Ghz G4 mini. I like it, Photo Booth is sluggish ( I use an EyeToy camera ) but the kids have fun.

Next major investment will be an intel mac mini.

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Wrote on the subject of Unisys machine - can they run linux? at April 12, 2010, 2:19 p.m...

I've got an old UNISYS PC. It currently runs Slackware 3.0.

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Wrote on the subject of Unisys machine - can they run linux? at April 13, 2010, 5:05 a.m...

CNET wrote:

Unisys said it will introduce three new machines Monday.

The ClearPath Plus CS7402, which can use up to four Unisys custom processors and runs the OS2200 operating system as well as Windows, has a starting price of $413,000.

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Wrote on the subject of Unisys machine - can they run linux? at April 13, 2010, 11:09 a.m...

Sounds rather like IBM's AS/400s where they added PC network integration by including an internal i386, except for the "obscenely fast" reference.