[geeks] SGI Sadness

[Brian Dunbar]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:54:54PM -0500, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> 
>>velociraptor wrote:
>>
>>>On 7/10/05, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>SGI made other more important mistakes that were not related to that.
>>>>Also, not everything is SGI's fault.  The computer industry as a whole
>>>>is more than a little bit screwed up.
>>>
>>>
>>>Like all the low-number badge-holders who thought SGI owed them
>>>something and sat around collecting fat salaries doing nothing.  And
>>>keeping "C" staff around who did completely inappropriate things like
>>>dvr'ing themselves (using company equipment, to boot) 
>>
>>dvr'ing ?  What's that?
> 
> 
> Well the context of that acronym feels a bit strange, but I suppose it
> fits.  I read it as Digital Video Recording.  Maybe the C* used O2s at
> the time?  Or Octane SE+TRAMs w/ FC-AL and EVO cards?  Well, we can hope
> that's how they did it.  Using a USB cam on a wintel book to record the
> incident would just make it all the more depressing.
> 

Oh.  Recording themselves .. boffing .. subordinates.  Ew.

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