Not in my case. We purchased it for a block of Sun servers, and had a LOT of problems with backing up. Performance was awful (> 24 hours to backup 40GB systems), and really bad error recovery. I was really disappointed with their tech support, and I had to educate them about the normal operations of Sun systems. When backups finally succeeded, restores were pertty straightforward.
This was a couple of years ago now. I believe they've gotten better, though, and we didn't upgrade the license to newer versions of the product
A few years back I was supporting a dot com startup that was writing an app to do this, and they were going to market it to companies so they could review their security cams easily.
Halfway through the project, someone broke into their office and stole a lot of their stuff. They did NOT get the burglars on video.
Where the leader of the "Impossibles" was flexible, but was a really smug SOB, his wife could only turn her facial skin invisible (exposing the muscles underneath), her brother whose skin would burn in normal air (and cause pain), and her dimwitted relative, whose body was one big callous. Mr. Impossible hired a bunch of super-scientists to help out in their secret research lab. Meanwhile, Hank was exposed to a chemical that turned his body into a living bomb...
I have an account at my university that I used when Usenet was the thing, aka 15 YEARS AGO. I never played with it outside of there, and I used to have a few thousand emails waiting for me every few months. Only recently did I forward everything to/dev/null.
More recently, I returned to a consulting job I had left 6 years prior, around the start of the WWW days, when Usenet was pretty much the big thing. I re-opened my closed account, and received 50 spams within 30 minutes. Eesh.
My addresses were obviously harvested from Usenet archives (or maybe groups.google.com, but I digress). I pity the people who buy these 'guaranteed' lists of email addresses, expecting all addresses to work.
Yep, all of the graphics were rendered on on a Power Challenge 440. I remembered looking at the credits, and realized that one of our servers was equipped identically, except for the graphics boards (ours had none).
Back in the day, SGI blew the crap outta any of the high end servers' IO performance available at the time. Sun servers sucked, HPs reeked, and so on.
We did our own storage support (pre RAID), and we got the cabinet sellers to paint the cabinets and disk trays in SGI blue and black.
We ended up purchasing more than a dozen Challenge L and XL servers and used them, even though the parent company balked.
That was over 6 years ago. I moved on to other jobs, and as luck would have it, I returned to the same position, but as a consultant.
The organization still has these bad boys in service, but will be decomissioning them because they've finally bought decent Sun systems with fibrechannel, and FDDI support is ending in the company soon. I'm the one to do shut 'em down.
Irix's inst program still rocks. Sun's pkgadd and OS install programs have a lot to learn about how to manage software on your systems (does Solaris 10 fixed all that??)
SGI really blew it from the marketing perspective. They had high performance servers that kicked ass, and they were never able to shed their image as a "graphics company".
When Oracle stopped supporting SGIs, I knew IRIX was doomed.
I thought it was so that their TV listings would stand out from the others in the listings and such.
It annoys me to no end. I wish TiVo would allow you to schedule truncated shows that are missing a minute here or there (without resorting to the "record by time" option).
Well, there was Dot, which was a parody that was really close to the mark.
More info at The Sneaky Kings website.
Startup.com was real, but as a parody, Dot was pretty close to the mark as well. A little too close.
I was having continual problems with the Solaris port of a backup package. They preferred that we log all support calls through email and their website rather than speaking to a live person. The company had a method of collecting all the goodies from the system (/etc/system,/var/adm/messages, st.conf, and so on) so that they can diagnose the real nature of the problem.
So, I sent in the collection, I almost immediately got an email back saying that my system was dumping core when it was rebooting, and that was the source of the problem! When trying to explain, they included "proof" by including some the text from/var/adm/messages:
May 18 18:11:34 SERVER genunix: [ID 454863 kern.info] dump on {Partition} size 1280 MB
When I read that I wanted to reach through the terminal and strangle the guy, but for some reason, I patiently explained that that message was NORMAL.
That was typical of their support staff. We never got our problem resolved after numerous attempts, until we purchased a completely different software package.
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If this is what it takes for them to port TiVoToGo to the Mac, I'm all for it.
I bet you could take 80 screenshots of either of the 1st two movies and make them look great, too.
Not in my case. We purchased it for a block of Sun servers, and had a LOT of problems with backing up. Performance was awful (> 24 hours to backup 40GB systems), and really bad error recovery. I was really disappointed with their tech support, and I had to educate them about the normal operations of Sun systems. When backups finally succeeded, restores were pertty straightforward.
This was a couple of years ago now. I believe they've gotten better, though, and we didn't upgrade the license to newer versions of the product
A few years back I was supporting a dot com startup that was writing an app to do this, and they were going to market it to companies so they could review their security cams easily.
Halfway through the project, someone broke into their office and stole a lot of their stuff. They did NOT get the burglars on video.
Exactly what I do. It happens with Moz 1.7.5 and now FireFox. What is the actual error that causes this?
I had one, then I upgraded to an Indy...6 years ago.
Gotta love how MS is the only one to reuse defunct names like this...
Where the leader of the "Impossibles" was flexible, but was a really smug SOB, his wife could only turn her facial skin invisible (exposing the muscles underneath), her brother whose skin would burn in normal air (and cause pain), and her dimwitted relative, whose body was one big callous. Mr. Impossible hired a bunch of super-scientists to help out in their secret research lab. Meanwhile, Hank was exposed to a chemical that turned his body into a living bomb...
Oh Wait, that was on The Venture Brothers
I found a bootleg DVD of it on ebay, but haven't had the nerve to watch it.
They should retitle this discussion "Man eBays his 15 minutes of fame"
Yeah, I've heard it found the local Mar(s)Bucks, and recently visited a Jiffy Zoob for an oil change...
that a little Pi symbol would appear on the screen and allow me to bypass all security on all sites everywhere.
I have an account at my university that I used when Usenet was the thing, aka 15 YEARS AGO. I never played with it outside of there, and I used to have a few thousand emails waiting for me every few months. Only recently did I forward everything to /dev/null.
More recently, I returned to a consulting job I had left 6 years prior, around the start of the WWW days, when Usenet was pretty much the big thing. I re-opened my closed account, and received 50 spams within 30 minutes. Eesh.
My addresses were obviously harvested from Usenet archives (or maybe groups.google.com, but I digress). I pity the people who buy these 'guaranteed' lists of email addresses, expecting all addresses to work.
So these people who don't have a debit or credit card are spending money on iTunes? How?
Yep, all of the graphics were rendered on on a Power Challenge 440. I remembered looking at the credits, and realized that one of our servers was equipped identically, except for the graphics boards (ours had none).
Back in the day, SGI blew the crap outta any of the high end servers' IO performance available at the time. Sun servers sucked, HPs reeked, and so on.
We did our own storage support (pre RAID), and we got the cabinet sellers to paint the cabinets and disk trays in SGI blue and black.
We ended up purchasing more than a dozen Challenge L and XL servers and used them, even though the parent company balked.
That was over 6 years ago. I moved on to other jobs, and as luck would have it, I returned to the same position, but as a consultant.
The organization still has these bad boys in service, but will be decomissioning them because they've finally bought decent Sun systems with fibrechannel, and FDDI support is ending in the company soon. I'm the one to do shut 'em down.
Irix's inst program still rocks. Sun's pkgadd and OS install programs have a lot to learn about how to manage software on your systems (does Solaris 10 fixed all that??)
SGI really blew it from the marketing perspective. They had high performance servers that kicked ass, and they were never able to shed their image as a "graphics company".
When Oracle stopped supporting SGIs, I knew IRIX was doomed.
I thought it was so that their TV listings would stand out from the others in the listings and such.
It annoys me to no end. I wish TiVo would allow you to schedule truncated shows that are missing a minute here or there (without resorting to the "record by time" option).
Well, there was Dot, which was a parody that was really close to the mark. More info at The Sneaky Kings website. Startup.com was real, but as a parody, Dot was pretty close to the mark as well. A little too close.
But, so many of them were carrying around WMDs that unleashed havoc upon peaceful realms. You know they had to be eliminated.
WMD= Weapons of Magic Destruction.
Can I have some Mountain Dew?
Hal 9000 can have proper memories?
Freeman Lowell (Free men are Low, get it?) never raced the bots. He played poker with 'em, and later ran over one of 'em, but never raced 'em.
I mean, COME ON ALREADY!
George, LEAVE IT ALONE!
At this rate, I don't think I'll ever give up my laserdisc copy of Star Wars (Not Labelled Episode 4!)
Maybe they're looking for a place to dump these!
Don't the Shuttle astronauts use diapers, just in case?
Well, at least this search method is good for getting your streaming audio/video.
I was having continual problems with the Solaris port of a backup package. They preferred that we log all support calls through email and their website rather than speaking to a live person. The company had a method of collecting all the goodies from the system (/etc/system, /var/adm/messages, st.conf, and so on) so that they can diagnose the real nature of the problem.
/var/adm/messages:
So, I sent in the collection, I almost immediately got an email back saying that my system was dumping core when it was rebooting, and that was the source of the problem! When trying to explain, they included "proof" by including some the text from
May 18 18:11:34 SERVER genunix: [ID 454863 kern.info] dump on {Partition} size 1280 MB
When I read that I wanted to reach through the terminal and strangle the guy, but for some reason, I patiently explained that that message was NORMAL.
That was typical of their support staff. We never got our problem resolved after numerous attempts, until we purchased a completely different software package.