The collected works of skywriter - Page 4

in comparisons i did several years ago, MIPSPRO was definitely faster, but compared to not having an executable at all, gcc is acceptable. most of the work in getting the MIPSPRO version working at that time was dealing with the issues that blender was written assuming gcc and GNU tools. which meant you had to keep all of those up to date too. now with nekoware it's easier - you may only have to deal with the lazy data typing gcc lets you get away with.

Rhys wrote: UNIX purity
Replaced by Linux garbage
Die, x86

it's funny because it's true!

tesla wrote: Just to see how ridiculously high the prices actually were.

at the time they were not 'ridiculous', merely expensive.

hamei wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/03/BU3H1938SL.DTL

"The companies will continue to cooperate on many fronts, with Google providing the search engine for Apple's Safari Internet browser as well as several default applications on the iPhone."

Oh. Look at the way that is written. What a crock of poo. People with an iPhone can use the google search engine. Wow, what an intimate connection. Will someone please hurt the blithering idiots who write this junk ?

it means the the query is sent to google, with a google button in a google window inside the application. it's branding, and i'm not sure you can easily change that setting. or why you would want to bother.

google has 'kneenex'ed itself.

swap the search engine but leave the google button there, nobody would know the difference on the iphone.

edit: ok, so i can set yahoo in safari at least. whoop dee do!

directedition wrote:

mattst88 wrote: I talked with him about cool stuff like IRIX x86.

Whoa whoa whoa, back up. This was in the pipeline at some point? While I obviously have my heart reserved for MIPS, I would still kill to be able to run IRIX on PCs of the future.

large engineering organizations do this all the time. a couple of guys 6-9 months tops for an Advanced Development project. actually making it a reliable product is at least two orders of magnitude more work.

it would be more surprising if someone DIDN'T do it.

edit: oh i said that before... welp still true.

to be honest, i think SGI hobbiest get WAY more of their dream than any other tech-humper. SGI's biggest beast are peanuts now. you can't give them away. i was never able to get an of the DEC equipment - it held it's value far too long.

OS source code is a pipe dream - even if you got it you would be just be bug fixing forever - boring...

porter wrote:

skywriter wrote: OS source code is a pipe dream - even if you got it you would be just be bug fixing forever - boring...

But you might get a USB driver out of it!

i seriously doubt it.

another 'article'

http://cgenie.com/articles/246-the-fall-of-sgi.html

i have had a copy of electrogig on the shelf for years, also version 2.4. i remember loading it up on the crimson/re and not being all that impressed by it compared to blender at the time, at least not enough to spend much time on it. i also had the linux version, that was really a mess. apparently from the cd label they also had a sun version.

unless you really enjoy running retro-software (i don't) it only nice shelf-ware. i forgot who gave it to me. hmm.

i've got to believe the worst environmental computer offender is the consumer PC market. this group has the collective hardware attention span of 6 months. we would probably be much better off all around if consumers never had access to computer products, period.

probably an unpopular view but wtf.

inventory costs money, lots. nobody was buying the systems. scrap 'em. what's so hard to understand?

hamei wrote: In this case, rather than sell valuable assets in public and receiving money which would go to creditors and stockholders, they paid to crush hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of assets in secret.

let's go back to the original problem - what customers bought what products again?

it's not evil, it's business.

oh god not you too with the bold and italics. *sigh*

PiZzA EnGiNeEr wrote: Apparently this was sold my multiple vendors as a rebranded reference system... HP supports HP-UX on the i2000 and this looks almost identical to the i2000. Are there any chances HPUX for IA64 will run on this?

i think the vw320 and vw540 were the only x86 machines (other than altix) sold with any sgi customization that would preclude doing whatever you want with it. if what you say is true, then the only problem would be hp customization required to run hp-ux. as long as it's not linux, how can you go wrong?

i originally saw the foam air channels in intel reference designs for their servers. usually this is where all the cheapness starts.

anyway it's just a pc.

most people are not aware that 'blender' has a non-linear editing capability built-in. like everything in blender, it's a bit involved getting up to speed, but once you know the ropes you can get a lot done with it in this capacity; manage multiple sequences, write plug-in's, etc...

i'm waiting for early next year hoping the issues calm down. then i'll buy the awesomest one i can

skywriter wrote: i'm waiting for early next year hoping the issues calm down. then i'll buy the awesomest one i can

well... i'm on the fence every time i go shopping. i expect the 'Refurbished iMac 21.5-inch 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo' model is going to be everything i need in a mac, but for an extra 500, i can max it out with quad core i5, and 27 inches. this is the only computer i'm going to use besides a netbook, so i would like 'go for broke'!

however, that would make my imac better than my wive's imac and she wouldn't appreciate that! she got the top of the line 24 inch one earlier this year. too bad there isn't a 21.5 inch i5.

for non-diy, over $600 stuff i get usually the extended plan, and i've almost always needed it.

recondas wrote: I was impressed. <tho I might like to run that 27" panel at a higher resolution>.

2560 x 1440 resolution not good enough? wowsa! 27inch is really big though!

recondas wrote: <though to be fair I had just got done helping a friend rebuild the tranny on a harley and rode through just enough rain to have accumulated some patina so I probably did look a little rough around the edges>.

hehe! silly sales people i hope you had a greasy wrench in your back pocket. my wife says i always get this look on my face when someone says 'can i help you?'. 'as if' it seems to say...