This is because your card doesn't support video acceleration from one source onto both framebuffers. Afaik, all newer cards now support this. If you turn off hardware video acceleration, it should work, but your CPU will be doing way more work.

Are you calling Word a good text processor?

While it may have a lot of features, be already well-known by users, and have a large install base, that doesn't automatically mean it qualifies as a "good text processor". Software has a lifecycle, and any program is going to have features that make it over-specialized or less modern compared to newer contenders.

I was under the impression they had smugness to spare.

Nah, the O2 is light. Probably only about 30lbs. An Octane will kill a bull elephant when dropped from three feet, however.

What will make him sad, however, is that SGI boxes and IRIX are not epoch-safe and won't work by them time I at least am a pensioner.

Maybe I came to the game late, but installing software, even OS upgrades, to IRIX 6 was kinda easy. Also the GUI was quite slick. It looked great at 1600x1200. The desktop pager was the best I've ever seen on X. Vector icons?! I'm still crying that the GNOME weenies took features that were in 4DWM out of their window manager.

I guess installing was slow on slower boxes. GO figure. The downside to SGI was that you had to buy another $15k computer every 3 or 4 years instead of another $2k PC.

Um, I like everything you've said... until that last sentence.

Labor laws get in the way in high school a little, but in college, you should be OK. The reason people take out loans is because unless your parents or some benefactor is quite well off, a good university costs many times more than an entry level job pays. Education in the US has a somewhat inflated price tag.

Legends wasn't Open Source. It was a re-write of Tribes 2 with licensed Tribes 2 code, with the mechanics of Tribes so you know, it was fun. I know this because my Debian box was used by a friend to test build it during college (yes, Linux support was a goal). I've looked to see if the source tree was still in my backups, but I think I lost it. Oh well, shouldn't really have had it anyway.

Are you like the one guy in the whole world that thought T2 was better that Tribes? Or did they fix a lot in the last 7 years?

Oh. When did they add that feature to slashdot?

It was a Futurama quote. I can't remember which one or even the speaker, honestly. Hope that narrows it down. Also, thank you for being funny by accident.

Did you change your sig to make another on-topic joke?

If not, have you been waiting to make the first joke for years now?

That's an interesting idea and maybe it will happen one day, but hardware virt hasn't trickled down that far yet. It' still at the mid-range server level, except a few power users, developers, and engineers. Cards now how have dynamic virtual memory mapping, which might just make this possible, but certainly not simple.

In the Land of UNIX Where Everything Works you can send GLX over the network for 3D graphics where ever the card lives, whether it's a VM host or a cluster headnode. That's probably more useful than emulating the 25 year old VGA BIOS and umpteen stupid extensions.

I've never seen a 6400 in the wild, so I had to look it up. Looks like an oddball. Even the All-in-one Performas could be opened easily. The PowerMac 7x00 desktops could be opened by grabbing two handles and lifting. Shortly after this era came the clamshell towers, which were extremely accessible (although the hard drives had to be screwed to metal plates, wtf).

I know what you mean, but I bought a white MacBook a little while ago, before they went nVidia, and was pleasantly surprised when I could play HL 2 with CrossOver Games about as well as I could on my old Athlon 64. OK, so HL 2 is probably considered "old" now, too, but you don't need all the sliders to the right to enjoy a game.

It's not always a burp.