[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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  engineer: n. one who, regardless of how much effort he puts in
    to a job, will never satisfy either the suits or the scientists


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