Forum: Geek Forum
Topic: it blew
started by: CatKnight
Posted by CatKnight on May 29 2001,12:29
my little sgi oxygen box (the little tiny blue one) blew up! the power supply died, after i plugged in a gig of ram. they won't let me fix it though because it has classified data on it. so they just gave me a new indigo box. hehe im so spoiled 
Posted by DuSTman on May 29 2001,13:06
They'll let you add more ram to it, but not replace the power supply? Or did you have to get some other dude with clearance to add the RAM?This message has been edited by DuSTman on May 30, 2001 at 08:08 AM
Posted by CatKnight on May 30 2001,11:38
changing the power supply requires admin access to change the settings or something. besides those things aren't cheap, even compared to a gig of ram.
Posted by solid on May 30 2001,18:16
What's the practicality of 1000 megabytes of ram, CK?What're you gonna do? Run quake3, internet explorer 5, unreal tournament, unreal ed v 2.0, half life, counterstrike, 5 instances of mIRC, cool edit, and winamp at the same time? Cool nonetheless, but ... jeeeeezuz, overkill.
Posted by DuSTman on May 30 2001,18:19
Well. he has a dell dual-p3 PC as well :]So I suppose that he is sposed to use the PC as his day-to-day usage machine, and the SGI oxygen box was probably for doing some intensive stuff like running simulations on.. This message has been edited by DuSTman on May 31, 2001 at 01:26 PM
Posted by L33T_h4x0r_d00d on May 30 2001,18:43
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Originally posted by solid:
What're you gonna do? Run quake3, internet explorer 5, unreal tournament, unreal ed v 2.0, half life, counterstrike, 5 instances of mIRC, cool edit, and winamp at the same time?
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Posted by CatKnight on May 31 2001,12:39
j00 fools! first of all it's an SGI with unix. second, it's a workstation used for video capture and editing and making 3d models of radar signatures for stealth fighters and stuff. the gig of ram and the oxy card are for rendering huge maps in detail and calculating radar reflections. 
Posted by Spydir on May 31 2001,15:01
isn't that comprimising your company's security or something?...------------------
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Posted by KL1NK on May 31 2001,21:20
I think after reading that we all will be killed.
Posted by CatKnight on Jun. 02 2001,20:03
nah the basics aren't classified
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