[geeks] Jesus this guy could be me
David Cantrell
david at cantrell.org.uk
Wed Jan 29 06:36:58 CST 2003
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:58:40PM -0600, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:00:02PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > Some people actually run an OS on their PC instead of MS' dos extensions
> > > called windows. They buy pc's because they're cheap.
> > It's my experience that such people tend not to bother with video cards.
> There are a growing number of exceptions.
Of course, there are always exceptions.
> Like say all the studios
> switching from Irix to Linux.
Render-farms don't need monitors. Of course their desktop machines do.
> Or the Ohio Supercomputer Center's new
> Linux visualization cluster (saw a really great presentation on it
> Thursday).
Weren't you saying that several of the presentations were obviously bollocks?
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