(computers & tech) FREE SGI Indy and O2 (North of Boston) (fwd)

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Josh Pollak)]

On Sep 9, 2004, at 6:00 PM, miah wrote:
>
> Anyways, IRIX is a pain, I wouldn't run it unless I had a specific
> application that required it (which was the case at that job).  And I
> do personally own a Indigo2, and to prove how useful it is, it sits in
> the basement of my workspace gathering dust.
>

You guys laugh, but we've got a contract here that requires us to port 
our Linux code to Irix, and the only box we've got is a pokey old O2. 
Compound on to that the fact that we can't use GCC, we need to use 
SGI's CC, and it keeps complaining about the license manager being 
down. Oh yeah, and none of us know crap about adminning SGI's beyond 
the basic Unix commands. Ugh.

I tried to convince the management we should be a newer, used SGI, but 
I think they are too lazy too look for one. And we wouldn't know how to 
admin it.

-Josh