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1rst I was at Mac world today and let me just say that the Cube is the most sexy, insane computer I've ever seen, and is neither over priced nor competing with G4's. Most people don't need the Extra PCI slots, and this thing can have, 1.5gigs of Ram. It's totally silent and drives a 22inch studio display playing whatever 3d game you want at 1600X1200 like there is no tomorow. It is simply beautiful. The Mouse is actually amazing, it feels really good and is easier to use than the old mice.
but enough of this. The Coolest thing I saw at the show was a cluster of 8 or 10 G4's running yellow dog linux the whole thing rack mounted with a studio display showing all the processes, and to crown it of managed from an iBook trough AIRPORT. They have made a PPC Linux Airport driver, and it works. OK I was lusting so hard I had to be shoved to move away from this set up. It was just AMAZING. I walked a little further away and the Rack MAking company was selling these insane cases that could repackage an iMac into a 1U enclosure, so that you could fill a whole rackload of these guys in one humoungoulitounos cluster. My hardware hormones where so titalated I almost passed out at thata moment, and all I could do is leave so that I would not go crazy. I mean imagine combining the power of Linux, with the 1gig a flop velocity engine having G4, and that further making a 50 machine Beowulf cluster. Whasssssssssssssssssssuuuuuppppppp. I think I'm seeing thinkerbell flying all over my face yo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I though the site (deepcold.com) is very beautifully crafted. The attention to detail, the planning, and the focus on process is great. I was very impressed by the page which describes the making the models, and I love how the whole thing was made by one (1) person USING CHEAP READILY AVAILABLE MACINTOSH SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE. This is a reminder to all of the creative, talented, amazing people out there, that it does take a 256 processor SGI Onix reality engine, with Softimage XSI, Maya , and Pro-Engineer, and a crew of 400 animators and designers and editors etc; to create really amazing work with creativity, perseverance and passion. People on this site have tons of great ideas, but spend too much time talking about them, and rumminating both about which tools to use and how much god damn linux nodes, it will take and wether to use overclocked atlhons, verses liquid cooled Alphas./.ers get a grip and remember that why you are using this site (News for Nerds) in the first place is that you where the geeks in school who spent countless hours soldering together random parts to make your own computers, or in some cases film recorders. Instead of merely yapping, put your money where yo mouth is and challange, George Lukas and the like by producing your own "Starwars", (shieet!! he's even using All hd VIDEO for his next Episode 2) which hopefully wont SUCK as much as the first one --Did that freakky ridiculous comic relief character need to have a stupid Jamaican accent, and why is there so much ecco's of the Aryan Power movement in this movie (Darth Vador's mom has a German Accent?) . Why is it if Linux is so so great, there still isn't real strong video support in it, why is it that even BeOs has more tools to make a Starwars than all of the Linux distro's and it's legions of coders? Let's not even talk about content. it seems the Whole culture of linux is driven By 4 or 5 people, with a bunch of others just following and repeating everything they hear. This is supposedly the place of people who take their lives into their own hands, by making their own tools and thinking their own ideas. But all I really see here is a bunch of drones, who spend their time Politiking and creating more conjecture to pile on top of all the shit we already have, and none really pushing the enveloppe by creating something trully amazing. But I guess we only really need one Linus. the rest of youz, can just follow around, and FANTISIZE, which is a lot different than CREATING. (the only way things get done is by doing them) Sorry about being so High and Mighty but I needed to rant about something that I myself is as most of you are guilty of.
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1rst I was at Mac world today and let me just say that the Cube is the most sexy, insane computer I've ever seen, and is neither over priced nor competing with G4's. Most people don't need the Extra PCI slots, and this thing can have, 1.5gigs of Ram. It's totally silent and drives a 22inch studio display playing whatever 3d game you want at 1600X1200 like there is no tomorow. It is simply beautiful.
The Mouse is actually amazing, it feels really good and is easier to use than the old mice.
but enough of this. The Coolest thing I saw at the show was a cluster of 8 or 10 G4's running yellow dog linux the whole thing rack mounted with a studio display showing all the processes, and to crown it of managed from an iBook trough AIRPORT. They have made a PPC Linux Airport driver, and it works. OK I was lusting so hard I had to be shoved to move away from this set up. It was just AMAZING. I walked a little further away and the Rack MAking company was selling these insane cases that could repackage an iMac into a 1U enclosure, so that you could fill a whole rackload of these guys in one humoungoulitounos cluster. My hardware hormones where so titalated I almost passed out at thata moment, and all I could do is leave so that I would not go crazy. I mean imagine combining the power of Linux, with the 1gig a flop velocity engine having G4, and that further making a 50 machine Beowulf cluster. Whasssssssssssssssssssuuuuuppppppp. I think I'm seeing thinkerbell flying all over my face yo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I though the site (deepcold.com) is very beautifully crafted. The attention to detail, the planning, and the focus on process is great. I was very impressed by the page which describes the making the models, and I love how the whole thing was made by one (1) person USING CHEAP READILY AVAILABLE MACINTOSH SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE. This is a reminder to all of the creative, talented, amazing people out there, that it does take a 256 processor SGI Onix reality engine, with Softimage XSI, Maya , and Pro-Engineer, and a crew of 400 animators and designers and editors etc; to create really amazing work with creativity, perseverance and passion. People on this site have tons of great ideas, but spend too much time talking about them, and rumminating both about which tools to use and how much god damn linux nodes, it will take and wether to use overclocked atlhons, verses liquid cooled Alphas. /.ers get a grip and remember that why you are using this site (News for Nerds) in the first place is that you where the geeks in school who spent countless hours soldering together random parts to make your own computers, or in some cases film recorders. Instead of merely yapping, put your money where yo mouth is and challange, George Lukas and the like by producing your own "Starwars", (shieet!! he's even using All hd VIDEO for his next Episode 2) which hopefully wont SUCK as much as the first one --Did that freakky ridiculous comic relief character need to have a stupid Jamaican accent, and why is there so much ecco's of the Aryan Power movement in this movie (Darth Vador's mom has a German Accent?) . Why is it if Linux is so so great, there still isn't real strong video support in it, why is it that even BeOs has more tools to make a Starwars than all of the Linux distro's and it's legions of coders? Let's not even talk about content. it seems the Whole culture of linux is driven By 4 or 5 people, with a bunch of others just following and repeating everything they hear. This is supposedly the place of people who take their lives into their own hands, by making their own tools and thinking their own ideas. But all I really see here is a bunch of drones, who spend their time Politiking and creating more conjecture to pile on top of all the shit we already have, and none really pushing the enveloppe by creating something trully amazing. But I guess we only really need one Linus. the rest of youz, can just follow around, and FANTISIZE, which is a lot different than CREATING. (the only way things get done is by doing them) Sorry about being so High and Mighty but I needed to rant about something that I myself is as most of you are guilty of.