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| 10/10/05
| Reuben Schwarz
Posted on 10/10/2005 5:04:05 AM PDT by Salo
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I guess that movie is now tainted by communism.
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posted on
10/10/2005 5:04:05 AM PDT
by
Salo
To: ShadowAce; N3WBI3; Ernest_at_the_Beach
IBM running linux is communism ping.
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posted on
10/10/2005 5:05:49 AM PDT
by
Salo
(He hath touched me with his noodly appendage. Ramen.)
To: Salo
Weta Digital uses more than 1000 dual-processor IBM blade servers running the Fedora version of the Red Hat distribution of the Linux to produce special effects for movies that have so far included Lord of the Rings and King Kong."
Of course! Do you know how much it would cost to put Microsoft Server OS's on 1000 servers!?!?!?! They'd go bancrupt from the bill!
Microsoft 2003 Server: Retails for above $640. That's an extra $600,000 over Linux, and the Fedora probably uses the multiprocessor array better anyway.
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posted on
10/10/2005 5:51:26 AM PDT
by
z3n
To: Salo
Wait. Peter Jackson is producing the Halo movie? Sweet zombie Jesus.
The irony is probably lost on Microsoft. Netcraft shows a small herd of Microsoft.com servers run linux, and I seem to remember that MSN was hosted on servers running BSD.
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posted on
10/10/2005 5:53:23 AM PDT
by
Boxen
To: Salo
Your Ticket Supports Communism bump.
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posted on
10/10/2005 6:05:38 AM PDT
by
clyde asbury
(Can't you see it's just a silly ruse? They are lying and I am lying, too.)
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
10/10/2005 6:22:49 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Boxen; Golden Eagle; softwarecreator; Bush2000
That was Hotmail, not MSN and those were converted years ago.
As for the movie, I suggest Denise Richards for the role of Cortana!
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posted on
10/10/2005 6:24:42 AM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Salo
A movie about Halo? Just when I had stopped laughing about the trailers of the Doom movie...
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posted on
10/10/2005 6:25:53 AM PDT
by
Liberal Classic
(No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
To: Salo
Let me see... does this mean that Microsoft is communist now, too?
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posted on
10/10/2005 6:26:20 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
("Political looters" should be on sight)
To: z3n
Could one even do this on Microsoft-based servers?
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posted on
10/10/2005 6:28:37 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: Incorrigible
I suggest Denise Richards for the role of Cortana! I second that!
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posted on
10/10/2005 6:49:20 AM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: N3WBI3; ShadowAce; Tribune7; frogjerk; Salo; LTCJ; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Buck W.; clyde asbury; ...
OSS PING
If you are interested in the OSS ping list please mail me
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posted on
10/10/2005 7:52:37 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: Salo
No way I have it a decent authority that Linux is not nearly mature enough to do this... Has to be a mistake..
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posted on
10/10/2005 7:54:32 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: Salo
Halo was Bungie long before it was Microsoft.
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posted on
10/10/2005 7:57:31 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: Petronski
It totally depends on the rendering package that's used. I run Carrara 4 Pro on XP and it comes with a 5 render node license. I run nodes on 5 other XP machines and they all render animation frames together. No server OS is needed. You can purchase licenses for more nodes but then I would have to buy more computers and an OS for each one.
To: Liberal Classic
i had the same reaction. i love to kill me some sci-fi creatures but to watch them on the big screen? no so much.
i do LOVE to play halo so i might give it a chance, if it's the same guys that put together LordftheRings they might be able to pull off the halo monsters.
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posted on
10/10/2005 8:11:38 AM PDT
by
postaldave
(i've given up on being mad in exchange for bitter sarcasm.)
To: Salo
is microsoft paying these people? i thought communism was free. so confused.
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posted on
10/10/2005 8:13:19 AM PDT
by
postaldave
(i've given up on being mad in exchange for bitter sarcasm.)
To: N3WBI3
decent authority that Linux is not nearly mature enough to do this Links?
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posted on
10/10/2005 8:23:28 AM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
To: softwarecreator
Lets just say a little birdie told me, but in my continuing effort to avoid flame wars I will attach a /sarcasm to the post..
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posted on
10/10/2005 8:32:23 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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