Wow... MS was one of the most evil companies for a while in snuffing out Netscape - pressing company powers so badly that they get hit by antitrust.... and people forget. MS fights it so long in court that they last until the Bush admin, which wimps out on pursuing it (some states keep pursuing it).... and people forget.
Sony puts a rootkit on, later removes it (granted, not of their own immediate volition)... and people threaten lifetime bans for something arguably of less weight than the things MS did.
I'm not saying those people who boycott Sony are wrong, but those who act like MS hasn't been the more "evil" company need to take a longer look.
Yeah, the SGIs are pretty sweet. I picked up an Indigo2 (purple) with Irix 6.5.17 installed, the r10k chip, 384 megs of ram, 20 GB drive, the built in ethernet AND the EIO addon 10/100 network card and Impact graphics for about 80 bucks. It's just great. It's no speed demon, but it's fast enough to use as a daily desktop. Irix media is pretty expensive, but luckily, a friend of mine worked for SGI and had Irix cds just lying around.
It's pretty sweet and a great way to learn a lot about 64 bit os's
Another option for 64 bit computing is to get one of the SGI Indigo2s with one of the newer cpus. I have the one with the r10000 running irix, and it's a great toy to play around with. Only drives me nuts when it needs the 64 bit dependancies and I can't find them on my irix cds. But it's fully 64 bit (or can be, if you run the 64 bit version of Irix) and I got mine for like 80 dollars on ebay.
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Wow... MS was one of the most evil companies for a while in snuffing out Netscape - pressing company powers so badly that they get hit by antitrust.... and people forget. MS fights it so long in court that they last until the Bush admin, which wimps out on pursuing it (some states keep pursuing it).... and people forget.
Sony puts a rootkit on, later removes it (granted, not of their own immediate volition)... and people threaten lifetime bans for something arguably of less weight than the things MS did.
I'm not saying those people who boycott Sony are wrong, but those who act like MS hasn't been the more "evil" company need to take a longer look.
Yeah, the SGIs are pretty sweet. I picked up an Indigo2 (purple) with Irix 6.5.17 installed, the r10k chip, 384 megs of ram, 20 GB drive, the built in ethernet AND the EIO addon 10/100 network card and Impact graphics for about 80 bucks. It's just great. It's no speed demon, but it's fast enough to use as a daily desktop. Irix media is pretty expensive, but luckily, a friend of mine worked for SGI and had Irix cds just lying around. It's pretty sweet and a great way to learn a lot about 64 bit os's
Another option for 64 bit computing is to get one of the SGI Indigo2s with one of the newer cpus. I have the one with the r10000 running irix, and it's a great toy to play around with. Only drives me nuts when it needs the 64 bit dependancies and I can't find them on my irix cds. But it's fully 64 bit (or can be, if you run the 64 bit version of Irix) and I got mine for like 80 dollars on ebay.