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End Of reality For Silicon Graphics
Zurk writes: "SGI is turning off its famous employee web server http://reality.sgi.com on August 15th. The machine has been running for nearly 10 YEARS and has resulted in a number of really kewl IRIX applications (and some linux ones as well) distributed from employee web pages at SGI. Games/source code/pictures/irix tips and examples of working life at this once great company will no longer be available." Seems like the sort of thing that every business ought to maintain, for employee sanity and general niceness -- too bad this one is about to go.
Of course they're keeping the content. It's just that "nerds" and "geeks" grow more attached to hardware than people. So tears are being shed over its processor, motherboard, and SCSI controller, primarily.
Cuz they're good shit.
memachine
That would just make too much sense.
It was never funded and system administration was handled on a volunteer basis. The only funding would be a) power and b) whatever fraction of the sgi bandwidth it consumed. Both were pretty negligible. Item b is actually zero if they still purchase the bandwidth.
There was a beutifully voiced tech support operator named Melissa maybe, or Sally, i do not remember... I cannot in words express how sweet of a voice she had... she sounded like she was in bed, under the sheets... a sultry soft voice...
Anyhow, she was glad to replace and ship and handle any problem.
I still remember that to this day... it was crazy...
Okay, the question is begging to be asked.
Why exactly did you flop an Indy over the roof? I mean, were you joking, and accidently let it go? Were you threatening your boss - "Come one step closer and Mr. Workgroup server flies!"? I can find no good reason logically to have an Indy anywhere near a ledge. Yes, they are aging a bit, but are still good machines. Why not donate it to a school, or something? (Or some sgi freak like me!) Please, please enlighten us!
This change was known inside for several months. This is only a symptom of the major necrosis that is rapidly overwhelming them. Think of them as a company with Ebola.
To quote that grisled philosopher, Bones McCoy.
She's gonna die Jim, and there is nothing I can do about it.
Goodbye SGI, it has been real.
looks like it wont meet the 10 year uptime...
That's worse than the Linux companies are doing, isn't it?
I've been using IRIX (4D25, Indy, Indigo2) desktops nearly exclusively for 10 years - rock solid performers that are nearly trouble free (blow the dust out every other year or so). It's the only system I've used that I can leave running on my desktop and get 500-600 day uptimes. A few Solaris desktops have almost done as well. It's only the last year or so that the X86 Linux desktops are stable for that long, mostly due to the NSF and X server coding finally getting a lot better, but still not as stable as IRIX.
Any unix wannabe sysadmin can administer these systems - they have had easy GUI admin for years, long before the rest. Only WinDoze admins have problems with systems this easy to admin, as well as being able to RTFM.
the feedback page goes to the old admin for reality who was laid off. use : reality-closure@sgi.com
"The G4 is one of the BEST processors out there.
Have you ever heard of Altivec?"
Despite what Apple marketing tells you, there is more to a CPU than just a vector unit. Altivec is a pretty good example of a vector unit, but its hardly a revolutionary feature.
"(where's Photoshop for SGI?)"
Right here on the Indy I'm typing this on, actually. Pretty moronic choice of examples there. What's your next question? Where is Maya for SGI?
Despite your breathless and uninformed Mac cheerleading, I still can't purchase a G4 mac that is even remotely comparable to SGI's higher end visualization systems. And the vast majority of ex-SGI shops are moving to Linux, not OSX.
But I suppose I really shouldn't expect some junior photoshop jockey to know much about hardware.
Reality has always been maintained by volunteers. Recently admining the thing has become an enormous hassle and nobody seems willing to do the job for very long. This is the reason I'm told that Reality is being brought down.
It no longer exists at http://Reality.SGI.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
Now it lives at www.MemTest86.com
Thanks Chris,
Ken Hendrickson
bash-2.03$ wget -r reality.sgi.com
~AC
The REASON they're on life support is that IRIX is joke...
Only partially true... each version of IRIX was always released *far* before it was ready (compared to other commercial Unicies, at least). IRIX has traditionally had poor security with its default installation (always assuming that good connectivity on a non-hostile network is also the default).
But once patched and hardened, IRIX and MIPS hardware really shines. It's far smaller and more efficient than Slowaris and the memory bandwidth of even *ancient* Indigo2's is breathtaking, even by today's standards.
Along with Compaq's recent statements regarding burying the DEC/Compaq Alpha CPU line and replacing it with Intel Itanium, it seems that the industry is heralding the supremacy of the crappiest, least efficient architectures (Sun USPARC, PowerPC-POWER, Intel Itanium) and the death of the best (MIPS, DEC Alpha).
This proves that aggressive marketing/salesmanship will always reign supreme over superior engineering.
:-/
Nvidia is not a spin-off from SGI. Nvidia sure has a lot of ex-SGI employees, but it ain't a spin-off.
There is no reason that the word 'kewl' should appear in a writeup on /. You guys should reject articles when the writer is thick with the stench of suck.
http://reality.sgi.com/csp/
In terms of having good product but poor marketing, SGI reminds me a lot of DEC, another three-letter acronym company. Alpha was way ahead of its time. There can be no doubt that hardware "creep" is hurting SGI (i.e. the gulf between low-end, commodity, hardware and high end SGI stuff is becoming smaller).
Indeed! All of the companies that have extensive and solid marketing (Sun, Apple, Intel, Microsoft) are the ones with the worst technology.
Unfortunately, it's the innovative, engineering-focused companies like DEC and SGI that have the worst marketing, hoping that the merits of their products will market themselves...
In the fickle consumer-space dominated by MBAs and technically-deficient CIO/CTOs, companies like DEC and SGI lose.
Who will play the role with SGI that Compaq played with DEC? IBM?
If what Compaq did with DEC Alpha is any indicator, then any acquisition of SGI by [Sun,IBM] would also probably infer that the buyer will kill any innovative SGI technology because it would:
For SGI, an acquisition by Sun/IBM would result in much the same. SGI was already transitioning off MIPS anyways but ccNUMA, MIPSpro compiler and XFS/LVM technology would either be one less competitive threat or a technological advantage.
As you can surmise, I have very little confidence in the technical expertise of Sun, Apple or IBM compared to SGI or DEC :-/
Likewise, I also have very little confidence in MBAs, bean counters and those idiots who believe that market forces create anything innovative or intelligent ;-)
Slashdot readers may appreciate this excerpt of Ken Olsen, founder and former CEO of Digital Equipment:
-davidu
# Hack the planet, it's important.
That's what I thought when i first read the /. story, but the Machine Info page said it had recently been upgraded, so i doubt its uptime is actually 10 years...
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If so, what's the chances of getting a few CD-ROM's of it... it'd be definitely something I'd want to hang on to, personally.
reality.sgi.com has been a friend of mine.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Exactly. The new logo means it's probably a piece of crap. If it has the new logo but isn't a piece of crap, you'll know because it takes up your entire machine room.
There was an announcement sent out a few weeks back:
The machine is still up, but it's a sign of a very similar situation to that at SGI - or at least that's what it looks like.For the record - SCO laid me off over a year ago, but my account on ocston is still there. The machine isn't actually maintained by SCO, but they pay (paid?) for the hardware and bandwidth - when the layoffs happened, the ocston admins announced that they wouldn't be kicking people off who'd been laid off. Respect to them for that.
Paranoia isn't an infectious condition, it's a way of life
Umm, SGI jumped on the Linux bandwagon too, for example their work on a journalling file system. That hasn't paid off for them either. It remains to be seen if IBM will make any money there either.
What are you smoking? Only reality.sgi.com is going away.
"In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people." --Linus Torvalds
We really need the http://webmuseum. Now! not .com., .now.!
Tell me about it. My college just bought two labs of those workstations for 3d modelling work. They're basically just PCs with fancy graphics hardware. Very nice hardware, but they cost far too much for what they do.
It took a bit of digging but I found a page with this explanation:
Will we ever see your homepage return, more specifically the "fire, explosions, and antics" section? I'd be glad to put a mirror of it on the extra space I have in my home account...
I'm not sure... maybe but honestly it was really out of date. It was kind of funny originally but it's over 4 years old now...
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Damn straight! Another excellent example: NeXT--they made the absolute *best* development environment, APIs, and user environment in the world but couldn't sell it. They live on in Apple, of course, but they've got that godawful Aqua interface and a bunch of Mac zealots who refuse to accept superior solutions on the basis of, "But...but...but that's not the way the OLD Mac OS does it!"
Yep. "Keepin' the dream alive." ;-)
generated by http://lavarand.sgi.com/cgi-bin/corpspeak.cgi
To: fans of reality.sgi.com
From: bean counters
Date: Sat Jul 7 13:09:57 PDT 2001
Subject: immenent death/dismemberment
An OEM scripting language negotiates the mergers, on a going-forward basis. For us to grow, we absolutely have to develop scripting languages. Due to the meta-services and paradigm shifts, what has changed is the pace of change.
We absolutely have to develop a solution as well. Given current realities, communication empowers the Strategic Initiative. Having a plug-in that is fiscal, it follows that data disseminate a prominent suite of tools. As always, goals are the team.
Maybe they need to look at becoming a service company and produce machines that use the latest Linux X-servers and broadcast quality software preconfigured for use by 3d designers and animators and start sorting out suppling render farms for the new breeds of movies coming out. This really seems like the next big thing for the movie industry and even TV and this would be a good place to be supplying high end Linux machines and services keeping the state of the art.
When shit hits the fan get some of these https://youtu.be/pY-GncsZ-UE
Maybe they should run it from the International Space Station instead.
When shit hits the fan get some of these https://youtu.be/pY-GncsZ-UE
we'd be happy to host your site and any other not-for-profit information sharing site (.org but not .com) on http://ibiblio.org/
Certified Black Helicopter Pilot *** Unwitting Dupe of One World Gov'ment
It doesn't cost them any significant amount of money to keep up, so why are they doing this?
:-(.
Seems to me this is bad for employee morale, and that's going to be bad enough as it is
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Oh, man... That's so disappointing to hear. I've been wondering for quite a while where that page was at. I wanted to read one more time about those guys trying to heat a coffee pot only to watch the glass pot itself melt. Made me want one of those lenses.
Does anyone else remember a page on reality that had the details of an SGI employee purchasing an insanely large magnifying lens and using it to melt stuff? I thought I saw it about 3 years ago. That story was the basis for most of my opinions about SGI as a company. :-)
A non-correctable (transient) memory error doesn't necessarily take your system down, though. Unless you mean it's a stuck bit (a permanent problem), but every couple months seems pretty frequent for something like that to happen.
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
Well, at least this story has a silver lining :)
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
Wow, an accountant's joke.
;-)
So two percentages walk into a pub. says one to the other: 'hey buddy how are you'. The other replies 'raised'.
I guess I suck at accountant jokes
Back to creating stuff.
--- Hindsight is 20/20, but walking backwards is not the answer.
So I am looking for visualization solutions and
it ain't gonna be SGI 'cause they may not be there
in ten years. So who else can render 120 million
triangles per second (that's real, not zero pixel
triangles, shaded, lit by four lights or more and
textured with 1024x1024 texture)?
"Treat your customers like crap"
THAT must be why Wal-Mart is doing so good!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
tip to the author of the photo gallery web pages: put the navigation -/+ buttons at the TOP of the pictures, where they won't move. The buttons are currently located at the bottom of the pictures and they jump around the page as each differently sized photo is loaded. I really want to see your photos, so don't make it annoying or slow for your viewers.
cpeterso
When employees start posting their CVs and Resumes (1, 2, 3)on company sites run by their employers then either the site has to go or the employees have to go... or both.
Silicon Graphics still develops IRIX and MIPS processors.
Actually, Silicon Graphics has nothing to do with MIPS anymnore, other than perhaps being one of MIPS' best customers. Around a year ago SGI got rid of its remaining stake in MIPS Technologies Inc..
Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.
Perhaps SGI designed the processor itself, but I believe the intellectual property does actually belong to MIPS. Just as LSI, QED (now PMC Sierra), IDT, etc. design MIPS based processors with MIPS IP. (MIPS does not, of course, actually manufacture any processors; it's an IP only company.)
I did find this page of "MIPS-Based(TM) Products" at MIPS, which lists SGI's machines. That page states "Design efforts utilizing MIPS® intellectual property are continuing for the system and server markets by Silicon Graphics."
Also notice that SGI's R10000 processor page includes the following at the bottom: "R10000, ANDES, and Avalanche are trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc."
To me it looks like SGI behaves like any of MIPS licensees; they use intellectual property that (now) belongs to MIPS Technologies Inc., and design their processors using that. Perhaps there is an agreement between MIPS and SGI, but I couldn't find details of it. I'd be very appreciative (really) if you can show evidence to the contrary. I'm not trying to be argumentative; I would actually like to know how this is set up.
Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.
Soon Going Insolvent.
I guess you haven't seen to many compaines die have you? This is an early sign of impending doom.
This was part of the standard testing process:-) I worked support for the manufacturing division at sgi from '93 to about '96. We had lifts at various points in the conveyor to raise systems up to move them to various other places. One lift was notorious for getting confused and once every couple of months or so would just dump a system into space.
Made a great noise.
From the Stats Page:
"Automaticly Updated on: 07/09/19101 01:43:07"
As we can see, this is future Reality. 17,100 years from now. SGI has relized the paradox this can create, when we know what will be Reality in the future (we can steer circumstances to modify the future), and they are just tired of rewriting future Reality every time someone goes against The Plan.
Give me my freedom, and I'll take care of my own security, thank you.
In 1999, I contracted at SGI for a few months. Since I had an Indy R5K with a webcam, I took the opportunity to post a little "Ciannait's office" page on reality.
Ever since I contracted there, I've been known to reference The Annotated Aerial View of the Cray Research Park as evidence that yes, I worked there. I was in Building F, in the supercomputing department.
Despite my waste of bandwidth site on reality, the creative and intelligent people at SGI used it for all sorts of things. SGI folks are demoralized enough as it is, and I feel for them, considering that this resource is being taken away. What's next, the end of Ducky Day?
"During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I was riding the pogostick."
A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Looking at the new SGI logo is like having a 10 pound roast pulled out of your ass with a plastic fork.
SGI has been hovering around around a dollar since May. They've been steadily eroding since their plan to make money building high-end NT/x86 workstations just isn't working out. I hate to say it, but reality.sgi.com may not be the only server they're turning off.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
...it'll be down in half an hour. The quickest way to kill a webserver; post a link on slashdot.
Cleanstick.org: Dumb weblog about nothing
The page says that content should be moved prior to the shutdown. Perhaps some of these interesting projects can be mirrored/hosted elsewhere? It would be a shame to see it all just disappear. I'm not sure how much disk space would be needed or if the FTP archives are going to go down as well, but certainly the most important projects could find a new home.
Yea. Im dismayed about that too. But the information on how to make your own is there and the process needed
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You da man. Thanks. I didn't not know that site existed.
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This reminds me of This past 4th of july. We threw an SGI Indigo 2 out of a third story window onto concrete. That glorious box just dented and bounced!!!! If their staff can build such rock stable pieces of equipment then dammit. Oh well.... Atleast SGI will still have their Lava Lamp Random Number generator page up. http://lavarand.sgi.com !!!!
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I spent about 30 minutes on this page...
_ essays.html
http://reality.sgi.com/chinster_studio/html/photo
I installed gcc and simple programs will compile, but just about anything that needs kernel headers -- won't compile ...
Free Techno/Jazz/DNB/MI Music by guys obsessed with monkeys!
Nice tidbit of info, but what is the reason(s) they are turning off the machine?
It's hyperbole to say that this is bad when it may be the case that SGI is going to replace it with a better machine or an improved program...
People say, "Jimmy, are you mad God created retarded people?", and i say, "No, i like President Bush." - SouthPark
Moderators need an additional choice: "Karma Whore" for people who cut-and-paste articles as their comments!
If so, I would like to try them out myself.
Urhm.. yeah I mirrored it, I'm sure it's illegal and all because of the copyright issues, but oh well. I suppose If I get a notice telling me to remove it, I will.
mirror.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
It was grand--he made a four foot by three foot refracting lens out of a block of glass. I don't know how he ground and polished that huge hunk of glass, but he made a rather odd-looking rectangular refracting lens mounte quite high in a mobile wooden frame, with the point of convergence far enough from the ground to keep it from starting fires when out in the sun. Our astronomy class got to play with it on a bright day, and it's amazing what a large refractor can do. We got a can of Mountain Dew to come to a quick boil, and of course the refractor vaporized the coloring from the outside of the aluminum can in short order. Lighting my cigar in it was instantaneous of course, though I did manage to scorch my knuckles painfully in the process (no real damage, but--ouch!).
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."--Tacitus, *The Annals*
The classic lavarand site (random numbers via Lava Lite Lamps), which is hosted on reality, is going away as well.
We are planning to bring on-line a and improved version of LavaRnd (open sourced and patent-free) at www.LavaRnd.org hopefully before reality goes away.
chongo (was here)
My SW1600 was the last batch made with the old cube logo... the new ones have the new logo on 'em it seems. Guess this makes it more valuable! ;o)
blessings,
"Only in their dreams can men truly be free 'twas always thus, and always thus will be."
--Tom Schulman
Exactly, you shouldn't have marketing zombie restards trying to market super computers.
This Wiki Feeds You TV and Anime - vidwiki.org
that extra A really detracts from my point
This Wiki Feeds You TV and Anime - vidwiki.org
SGI is having a hard time because they are selling computers like the OCtane 2 (400 Mhz MIPS) for $28,000. Yes I know that a current MIPS proc is much faster per Mhz than almost any other proc and that there is alot of bandwidth inside those sweet looking cases, but what is going to have more power, 1 Octane, or an entire lab of Athalon + Geforce 3's ?
This Wiki Feeds You TV and Anime - vidwiki.org
Maybe before sgi finally dies they will become a portal. Hey someone had to say it. : )
How about you tell us why its being taken down? I mean, is it because of budget problems, or is it due to a change in management?
Why does Slashdot keep using the old cube logo for SGI? The glory days of SiliconGraphics (and thus, the cube logo) are long gone. The x86/PC days are here along with the fitting 'sgi' logo. Quit using the cube.
(6.4 was almost a rogue port of 6.2 to support the 10k proc)
The R10K (MIPS R10000) was supported as far back as "IRIX 5.3 Including R10K" in 1995. But I agree about 6.4 (as well as 6.3 for O2)... rogue port indeed. Luckilly 6.5 has been great, especially the quarterly updates that slowly roll in new features and fix the bugs. Heavily tested, too (SGI stays about 1.5 quarters ahead of their users, heavily testing each new release on their own machines first).
I [heart] IRIX 6.5
(now at 6.5.12!)
97... are you running 6.4?? I don't believe 6.2 supported the Octane 10k procs, and 97 would be pretty early for 6.5.
. html) that should give you everything that you might need outside of gcc (linker, header files, etc).
On freeware.sgi.com under gcc they have a link to a page on Developer Central (http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/apis/irix
If you aren't there already, you really should see about getting Irix 6.5; SGI cleaned up lots of messes (and added a few.. nsd). But you get snmp, file ACL's, NFS, etc. there are just lot's of enhancements in 6.5 (6.4 was almost a rogue port of 6.2 to support the 10k proc). It's only 600 bucks, you get lots of stuff for you money. But if possibly you check out the above you should be able to do pretty much anything you need to.
As a side note, if a compile fails, I've had best luck getting it to go by adding a couple of CFLAGS when using 3rd party apps from the -n32 (or -64 depending upon CPU) & -cckr; I normally use these on the Irix cc compiler but should also work on gcc.
Good luck, happy compiling
What exactly is the problem you are/were having. Using them for years I can say Irix is my favorite, as long as people are willing to *not* use the GUI for administration (elsewise you are really limiting yourself) it can't be beat (give me "inst" over any other rpm, aptget, pkgadd crap).
Are you having a performance issue?? Memory, CPU, disk I/O? More than likely it's a simple thing that you don't know about, or has been fixed in the past 4 years.
Irix must work properly/reliably for lots of people or else they wouldn't continue to sell their thousand proc plus single image configurations. You can't have downtime or not have it work exactly the way you want it when you are 30 days in to a 60 day calculation.
The *REAL* reason SGI is floundering is because for years they could never market themselves out of a paper bag. You can have the best stuff in the world, but if your sales force doesn't quite get it...
i'm no expert on his server, but down 3 days out of a hundred, while not GREAT, would be understandable if the 3 days were in a row while he was otherwise occupied.
Check out the Segfault story about this too.
Well, yeah, it is really strange, considering that people tend to use huge e-mail attachments, when it would save a lot of resources dumping it on an URL (behind basic authentication if needed), and send the URL instead. If this had been practiced, most companies could save a lot. So, closing down the employee webserver just don't make any sense from a resource management perspective either.
Employee of Inrupt, Project Release Manager and Community Manager for Solid
What version of Irix are you running?
Irix 6.5 comes with the kernel headers that you need for free.
maybe you could contact your local SGI office to see if that machine is entitled to run Irix 6.5, and if it is, where to get a media set from.
Once you have that, then you can use GCC to compile whatever you need.Alternatively, there is a good selection of freeware for SGIs at http://freeware.sgi.com
That includes a quite large amount of GPL software in binary form for you to download and install
meow! Maria
I read the headline and before I read the body, I thought SGI was no more.
In terms of having good product but poor marketing, SGI reminds me a lot of DEC, another three-letter acronym company. Alpha was way ahead of its time. There can be no doubt that hardware "creep" is hurting SGI (i.e. the gulf between low-end, commodity, hardware and high end SGI stuff is becoming smaller).
Who will play the role with SGI that Compaq played with DEC? IBM?
SGI Brass: Shutting down this machine does not help your customers,
will probably hurt morale, and will not help you make more money.Why are you doing this???
"Never bullshit a bullshitter" All That Jazz
It just goes to show you that full-service customer support will only get you in trouble. "Treat your customers like crap," I told them years ago. "They'll respect you more that way." But they wouldn't listen. You have a $15k graphics board go hinky on you? They'll drop ship it with a moment's notice.
My hat is off to the beautiful people at sgi. They did the support thing right and are paying the price for it.
When I die, I hope to go to the place most like sgi tech support.
show me a mac that you can put 256GB (YES GIG) of ram into and I'll be a happy man.
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I task you to find one instance of it on a current piece of hardware. It's not there and hasn't been in a while. So long, that at work, I avoid any equipment with that logo because it's guarenteed to be old & slow.
/. still uses the "bug" for sgi stories, did that confuse you?
I remember when they ditched the old one, a bunch of sales people came by with a collection of their new (at the time) NT/intel boxen and a bunch of marketing tripe. I wish I could remember their marketing department's take on the new "sgi" logo, I remember it making me want to puke. Nobody on the front lines (engineers and sales alike) liked the new look, much less explain it. Yes, I like the old one much better.
I guess the announcement of reality.sgi.com's imminent demise means the Widget FAQ , a primer on widgets in the Intrinsics, Athena and Motif families, will be gone. Several years ago the widget FAQ used to have or point to C source code for several really useful extension widgets for Athena -- does anyone else remember the extremely compact rotary/slider/radio combination widget?
Scroogle
Let's not forget another SGI-boosted website that originally started up at reality.sgi.com which is the International Obfuscated C Contest . The contest has now moved from SGI to its own domain www.ioccc.org hosted by Plaidworks(??).
Scroogle
KK: LavaRand, in haiku form, what do you think about the end of reality?
LR: new stuff eternal /
nuclear mighty jolt shy /
fish ginormous wail
KK: Beautiful words, LavaRand. Back to you, Taco.
It's sad to see that some people blame the machines instead of their competences... Shame on you.
More 13337 than 1337
... find it odd that Segfault got the scoop on this little tidbit 3 days in advance of slashdot :-D
I wish I had a sig, I wish I had a sig, I wish I had a sig, oh, wait...
I was guesstimating, but I have sinced moved, and als no longer work with web servers. Just in case you actually do read this, It was hardly in a controled enviroment (Frat house closet) and since it was an non-profit website, 97% was acceptable.
"Get them before they get....
I kinda sad to see SGI starting to turn out the lights. I have an old Indy system that still kicks ass, got the kwel little camara and a built in ISDN modem. Its been serving up webpages for 6 years with about 97% uptime!
"Get them before they get....
Its sad to see a company like SGI go...
Especially when XFS is such a nice filesystems, I currently am using it on a few Linux boxen.
Its also interesting to note that Nvidia was originally made up almost entirely of ex-SGI employees.
It seems that the masters of graphics took a back seat when they lost the talent to Nvidia and starting reselling Microsoft based products...
Legalize the constitution. Think for yourself question authority.
While looking around reality.sgi.com, i bumped into this page...
:)
Nichice disk usage meter, but check out the date marked on the top of the page, when I read it, it said 07/07/19101, SGI still hasnt got the Y2K bug sorted out? TWO years late?
It's a wonder they're still going
Mark.
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Cat: The other white meat.