No. And I'm fairly certain of that.

IRIX was discontinued in 2006 by SGI - http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html - and most of the cool technical features of IRIX were ported over to Linux ages ago - like xfs http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/. Actually, the correct question is will this new, improved and revived SGI continue to support the open source efforts of the old SGI regime? http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ . I don't see a point in reviving IRIX, but there was a lot of OSS work done out of that shop and I'd hate to see it disappear. Right?

http://xkcd.com/574/

I'm not sure if that's funny, ironic, satiristic, scary or just reality, but, you've GOT to wonder...

I'm compelled to ask what your phb actually does for a living. because it's not networking
In the data centre, all of our runs are custom. Even in the lab and development rooms, the runs are custom built cables. If a "belkin" cable gets into the datacentre, it's lost.
Now, I'm not promising that YOU can make the cables, there's a definite knack to it ( I personally don't have it, I hate making cables but our datacentre guys are wicked awesome at it). I've ever heard of these magical special jacks dies and cable he's referring to.

Maybe he wants you to get some of these?: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9967991-1.html ?

... one of the drawbacks of the WIndows platform - from an development and engineering point of view - is that it's backwards compatible all the way back to (if I'm not mistaken) Windows 1.0. That's an insane codebase to be dealing with. By bundling an XP VM with Win7, they can- for the first time - take the backwards compatibility crap out of Windows and concentrate on providing a stable OS.

Isn't that essentially what Apple did with the transition from 68000 series chips to PowerPC, from OS 9.x to OS 10, and then again from Power PC to Intel?

I've believed this was a necessity for quite a while.

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1) Create Robotic Dinosaur
2) Go extinct.
3) ???
4) Profit!

In the absence of physical security, taking over a vista, linux, mac os x or (insert vendor here) UNIX system is not difficult, providing you know the platform. No, the 'average gramma' can't do it, but most of us most likely can - with not much more than a google search and a quick download.

I'm not a microsoft (or apple, or linux) fanboi by any means, but a system is only as secure as you actually make it. Disk encryption helps - it's a great idea - so I've honestly never met anyone who's used it.

While this is certainly an interesting exploit, I doubt highly that many systems will be compromised in the wild with it.

Yes! We could start out with robotic, sentient bipedal metal human analogs.

But why limit them to exploration? They could also work in our factories, mines, and ... oh... even better - wage our wars. We could call them "Centurions", in honour of our ancient roman brothers. I suppose we could also give them one red back-and-forth scanning eye, too.

Why does this all sound familiar suddenly?

Remember, this is "pre-release" software.

Looks like there's lot of good stuff in there though - X.Org 1.6, Gnome 2.26, a kernel based on 2.6.28, ext4 support... (I'm especially interested in wacom hotplug tablet support in a mainstream distro


This won't be the year of the linux desktop- but we'll see how it goes on my laptop :)

They're gonna invent the index finger?

Why not Author?

We don't call people who use Microsoft Word "Document Developers". My dad didn't call his secretary a "Movable Type Engineer".

People who "Do HTML" - meaning just the front end - are not "developers" or "programmers" - they're authors.

You've obviously never been to The Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
An unlit, shifted, out of focus, annoyingly distorted orchestra would be an improvement.

Worst. Venue. Ever.

I had to look it up- but my last post felt incomplete:

There was some controversy a little while back when SPAR/MacDonald Dettwiler's Information Systems and Geospacial Services operations division was to be bought out by to Alliant Techsystems of Edina, Minnesota for $1.325 billion..

However, that move, while approved by the shareholders was blocked by the Canadian Federal Government.Nice to see CSA is on the ball again :)

(There, that's better)

There was some controversy a little while back when SPAR/MacDonald Dettwiler was to be bought out by foreign interests. Nice to see CSA is on the ball again :)

Well, In this case, they're not looking for some kind of morality charged justice to be handed out, they're looking for tax revenue.

But it remains an Interesting point. You're basically asking "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" When those who are tasked to protect the weak exploit the weak, who will protect us from our protectors?