SGI O2's run on a shared memeory idea. This format makes graphics on O2's quick because the common operation of sending data from what would be main memory to what would be texture / video memory on a PC extremely quick. Instead of having to travel through a latency timer and a PCI or AGP bus, the memory is just copied or a far jump send to the video controllers.
However... With as fast as linux boxes are now, and as old as O2's are, I think you'll see a performace increase on the Linux side. I suggest you run a non-free windowing system instead of XFree86 (you'll find there are some commercial X-es out there that benchmark dramatically faster than XFree), and do a little streamlining of your kernel before putting the boxes live.
I don't know what butcher you had cut on you, but my 5 y.o. daughter had one removed on her wrist about 4 months ago, and the scar is so small that it's hard to tell which wrist had the thing on it. The Dr. made a horizontal cut that went along the grain of the skin (yes, skin has grain) so as she grows, the scar won't elongate or continue to keloid. We had tried several other treatments before (draining, constant pressure, etc) but it always came back in a week or two. Surgury worked, and if a Dr. can remove something from a wrist no bigger than my three fingers, then you can find one that will remove it from your hands w/o damage.
"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent" -- Asimov
There are quite a few 3D apps on the market that have good CLIs. Rhinoceros , Alias|Wavefront's Maya (through MEL scripting), 3D Studio (with MAX script) come to mind, but I'm sure there are others.
There was a small app for MacOS 7.1 back in the day that would allow you to submit DOS style commands: mkdir, rename, copy, move. Basically an experiment in API calls. I haven't owned a mac since '94, so I don't really know if this little app still exists.
The name of this publication and it's significance needs to be added to Eric S. Raymond's New Hacker Dictionary so it can be preserved and passed down to our child processes.
While hardware might not be a problem, you may have issues with what _type_ of hardware you get. Schools have recieved big discounts on mac hardware for years, so you may end up with old macs.
However, if you want all your computers to look the same, then you could run BeOS on all the computers. It looks and feels the same on both mac and PC, so your students wouldn't get confuesed. (Yes, Be Inc. was purchased by Palm, but the OpenBe Project is getting close to a release, and you can insert the open modules directly into the current Be distrubution).
The Linux kernel is the largest work of collaborative genius that exists in today's software community. It's become important because people care about it (and its version numbers). A nerd is defined by his/her passion for technology. If you suggest they change their focus, then you're asking them to give in to the asses who tried to change my nation.
Events that shape history need to be presented as history. If we continue to live out the horrors of our generation each day, nothing will get done. If a nerd somewhere sat on his ass playing video games before these attacks, then playing video games again _is_ getting on with life.
If you want to help: survive; don't whine. So go away you... you... poo-poo head!:-
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I think you ment to post this on WebMD. We're geeks, not Dr.'s.
SGI O2's run on a shared memeory idea. This format makes graphics on O2's quick because the common operation of sending data from what would be main memory to what would be texture / video memory on a PC extremely quick. Instead of having to travel through a latency timer and a PCI or AGP bus, the memory is just copied or a far jump send to the video controllers.
However... With as fast as linux boxes are now, and as old as O2's are, I think you'll see a performace increase on the Linux side. I suggest you run a non-free windowing system instead of XFree86 (you'll find there are some commercial X-es out there that benchmark dramatically faster than XFree), and do a little streamlining of your kernel before putting the boxes live.
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I don't know what butcher you had cut on you, but my 5 y.o. daughter had one removed on her wrist about 4 months ago, and the scar is so small that it's hard to tell which wrist had the thing on it. The Dr. made a horizontal cut that went along the grain of the skin (yes, skin has grain) so as she grows, the scar won't elongate or continue to keloid. We had tried several other treatments before (draining, constant pressure, etc) but it always came back in a week or two. Surgury worked, and if a Dr. can remove something from a wrist no bigger than my three fingers, then you can find one that will remove it from your hands w/o damage.
"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent" -- Asimov
There was a small app for MacOS 7.1 back in the day that would allow you to submit DOS style commands: mkdir, rename, copy, move. Basically an experiment in API calls. I haven't owned a mac since '94, so I don't really know if this little app still exists.
The name of this publication and it's significance needs to be added to Eric S. Raymond's New Hacker Dictionary so it can be preserved and passed down to our child processes.
You probably won't find a cheaper price than that, either.
Cheers
However, if you want all your computers to look the same, then you could run BeOS on all the computers. It looks and feels the same on both mac and PC, so your students wouldn't get confuesed. (Yes, Be Inc. was purchased by Palm, but the OpenBe Project is getting close to a release, and you can insert the open modules directly into the current Be distrubution).
good luck!
Events that shape history need to be presented as history. If we continue to live out the horrors of our generation each day, nothing will get done. If a nerd somewhere sat on his ass playing video games before these attacks, then playing video games again _is_ getting on with life.
If you want to help: survive; don't whine. So go away you... you... poo-poo head! :-