I got my SGI Octane2 few weeks ago. I also had to order 13W3 to VGA-adapter to get picture to my monitor. I've been very happy about the performance of the system and IRIX seems to be a crown jewel of UNIX. SGI really proves megahertz isn't everything when it comes to performance. Example IRIX's proprietary Xserver "Xsgi" really screams, i've never seen such performance on ANY X11-based systems. Back to the megahertz myth, though. It doesn't matter if your CPU is running at 3000MHz if everyt

I got nice christmas presents this christmas. First, i got Mac OS X Panther and it rocks. I have never seen anything scream like that and Exposé is very good stuff. I also got USB keychain memory, it's very nice stuff. Just put it in a mac and it automatically mounts it on your desktop, too bad i haven't got it working in FreeBSD (yet), it seems the ZIP-drive is da0 and the USB-memory wants to be da0 too so there's a conflict, i must force ZIP-drive to da1 with kernel recompiling. Im par

Im getting sick of *BSD is dying trolls in /., *BSD is experiencing somekind of revival with all the Linux security issues and rise of Mac OS X. Agreed, Linux is getting all the press now but hype isn't a positive thing in long term, i wonder when the tables start to turn here. FreeBSD's 5 branch Production release will be a one kickass release. (scheduled for may 2003). Linux 2.6 wasn't such big milestone after all (most of the improvement's were available in Linux distribu