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hamei is right, Suns are great in the datacenter (the datacenter at my place of employ is jam packed with 'em), but if you're interested in a workstation, I've got a 2 x 1.6GHz sparc Blade 2500 with an xvr1200 graphics card running Solaris 10 that I'm actually quite fond of. If you prowl around on e...

When I was working at the University of Minnesota (during my undergrad days in the Power and Propulsion Lab on the fourth floor of the Mech E. building for Dr. David B. Kittelson) we used to frequently raid the Ax Man on Selby Dale for electronics stuff. In fact I've still got one of the keyboards w...

I just use xv, you can grab the whole screen by clicking and dragging with the middle mouse button, or set it to grab whatever window the cursor is in after a setable delay. There's an IRIX version but IIRC it didn't work exactly right under 6.5 and so I ended up compiling it myself. If you'd rather...

That is some world-class ass-kickin' stuff there my friend, I shudder to think what all that would have tallied up to at retail prices back in the day...

My inside guy at SGI in Chippewa Falls said that over the decades they made vast quantities of that kind of promotional swag to give away to enterprise buyers...

Sorry, I think I was only in a Maplin's once to pick up a replacement electrical plug adapter whilst in London. It seemed like a perfectly reasonable place. But: ... now we're down to one, Ax Man. Ax-Man Surplus is definitely on my list if I ever make it to the Twin Cities! If the DoD had any idea ...

Can you get at the system disk at all? If so, have a look at this:

ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/cdburners/hints.html

The section headed Indigo/Indigo2/Indy SCSI Disconnect Notes

It gets saved in the IRIX equivalent of ~/.mwmrc, embarrassingly I can't remember the filename offhand (I can check on one of my systems when I get home from the 'ol salt mine) but a quick way to find out is to save a new color scheme then do 'ls -at' in your home directory, the relevant file shoul...

Doug has been a member here since way back when: http://forums.nekochan.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=677

I've always appreciated how much Sony lives the Taguchi mantra of no defects.

Sometimes it's research and development and sometimes it's wreck and destroy...

Very cool indeed! They had the right idea, go big or go home, shame it didn't pan out for them...

All those "undefined" errors are because it's missing some fairly common X and C++ #include files, is 'make' on your system a symlink to 'gmake'? If not, make it one and try again.

According to this post, that is (or at least might be) a SCSI termination error.

It gets saved in the IRIX equivalent of ~/.mwmrc, embarrassingly I can't remember the filename offhand (I can check on one of my systems when I get home from the 'ol salt mine) but a quick way to find out is to save a new color scheme then do 'ls -at' in your home directory, the relevant file should...