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To: pikachu

Trying to administer an IRIX box is like trying to drive a jet car with no steering wheel or brakes, and all the controls are labeled in Cantonese.


4 posted on 05/08/2006 11:22:53 AM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (Lt. Bruce C. Fryar USN 01-02-70 Laos)
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To: Michael Goldsberry
Trying to administer an IRIX box is like trying to drive a jet car with no steering wheel or brakes, and all the controls are labeled in Cantonese.

Damn! You had labels! Lucky!

Actually coming from Sun boxes and other Unix system I tought IRIX was pretty easy to admin. Plus the boxes were extremely fast. i was the webmaster for a large non-profit and the IT folks wanted me to give up an Indy and a Challenge X to migrate to Windows/IIS. I asked why I sould give up something faster, with better performance, and laready paid for -- and for once won a battle.

5 posted on 05/08/2006 11:40:14 AM PDT by pikachu (For every action there is an equal and opposite government program)
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To: Michael Goldsberry
SGI ships mostly Linux boxes these days, especially SuSE and Red Hat. SuSE SLES9 and upcoming SLES10 run out of the box on SGI Altix systems.
6 posted on 05/08/2006 1:14:15 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (We are but Seekers of Truth, not the Source.)
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