Gavin Seddon, mused, then expounded:
>
> For imaging we use SGI Octane or Octane 2 however I have found recent
> Nvidia graphics cards to be as good, here at least I stick to crt SGI
> monitors; they are cheap and perform. Also, Irix (SGI OS) is awful.
> For weeks now I've been trying to install
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 10:45 +, Gavin Seddon wrote:
> That's valuable info. These dual core amd's are on ebay for
> 'next-to-nothing', pls tell me more, what are the PPC machines, I have
> seen PPC to be an option for a Gentoo dist. but didn't know what it is.
>
> > There's a reason that Itin
Dear Bob,
You obviously know you tech stuff. The number crunching I (we) do is
huge floating point calculations used in drug design (quantum
dynamics/quantum mechanics). At the moment the fastest results come
from the Opterons with 1Gb ram. I'm not sure of their spec. But, we
have found calcula
That's valuable info. These dual core amd's are on ebay for
'next-to-nothing', pls tell me more, what are the PPC machines, I have
seen PPC to be an option for a Gentoo dist. but didn't know what it is.
> There's a reason that Itinium was called the Itanic It's probably
> the biggest waste o
Gavin Seddon, mused, then expounded:
>
> I have found Gentoo to be excellent due to it's configurability (is this
> a word) and speed. I have no intention of changing now however, I am
> always 'on-the-lookout for a superior workstation so I may change in the
> future to ia64 Gentoo. Are Iitaniu
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:32 +, Gavin Seddon wrote:
> Hi,
> thanks Duncan. I have renamed this since the topic has changed and it
> isn't really relevant to updating. Has anyone seen this months new
> scientist? There's an article about OS's used for browsing. It gives
> the percentages of
Hi,
thanks Duncan. I have renamed this since the topic has changed and it
isn't really relevant to updating. Has anyone seen this months new
scientist? There's an article about OS's used for browsing. It gives
the percentages of different OS used to browse the www. Windows is by
far the most
