Nekochan Net

Wow that is very sad - on my many trips out to the Bay Area over the last decade I've swung in there every trip. Lately not buying anything, but I have gotten some sweet items over the years: -Sealed software from the 90s (IRIX 6.5.30, Windows, Office, Solaris) -Cisco Gigabit managed switches for ne...

After Jeb if there are any of the node boards left I'd be up for 2 as well.

For me personally I feel like the innovations and uniqueness of Apple's laptop/desktop products ended with the Power Mac G5 Tower. I do have to give them credit for helping to force the removal of cheap plastics from HP/Dell/etc. in their higher end laptops in favor of a nice chassis/keyboard/etc. N...

Figured I'd chime in on this since I have been on here off and on for 12 years. I started down the SGI path back in 2004 when I got a Reputable Systems Octane, found this forum a little later in 2005. Then life stuff hit, moved out of the house (became super poor as a result), did eventually get a V...

His recollection of that time (and even pre-SGI) was impectable - I hope when I'm that age I still can remember everything that well.

Thanks for passing that on - was a nice way to start the holiday.

Raion-Fox wrote:They're not worth your time. Qualcomm's ARM offerings outwin them in speed and driver support.

I'll second that - I got one thinking it would be comparable to ARM offerings, but was largely disappointed.

foetz wrote:anyway probably more important is that the octane turns 20 this year

And Quake II

As others have said, it seemed like by the time the Fuel was shipped SGI had already decided to end IRIX/MIPS in favor of Linux/IA-64. Fuel was more of a stop gap imo. They could have really made a successor to the Octane with it and given it an upgraded VPro and Dual CPUs to coincide with the upgra...

and am now remembering how much I enjoyed NT4 back in the day. :? It may be just nostalgia because during my NT4 days (96-00) it was probably the biggest kickstart into programming (VB, C++, Perl), 3d animation/modeling (TrueSpace, 3ds max) and 2d graphics (Photoshop) a kid could have had. Laid the...

While not my latest purchase, my most recent restoration (kinda counts?): Silicon Graphics 320 Visual Workstation (Dual P II/768mb configuration) The hard drive was dying and without the specific NT4 disk (all the links to the sgi_ssk.exe are dead from what I've found) I couldn't simply reinstall to...

I run my Qube2 every now and then with NetBSD - a fun quiet box.

Went a little crazy last year and got every RaQ model to complete that collection from the first model to the 550.

Raion-Fox wrote:Git error'd out last time I tried to use it too.

Alright cool I'll spend some time one night this week getting one working and package it together for nekoware.

Before diving into compiling it locally - anyone have git running on their machines? Tried the latest and 2 versions back from nekoware on my Tezro and am getting "Cannot Successfully map soname 'liblber-2.3.so.1'" errors when cloning.

If you can be patient - they do pop up on eBay for about $100. RM11's are the more rare find for reasonable money.

I could use one. I went to turn on my Fuel tonight and it's completely dead.