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Ready for the iProd?
Fri, 16 May 2008 09:19:54 -0700
I felt certain this was an April Fool's joke, but apparently there's a real patent application behind it. (Picture from New Scientist.) Call it the iProd. The idea is you load it with answers to health-related questions, which the device uses to create a...
Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated)
Fri, 16 May 2008 08:17:15 -0700
Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored his 2007 tour. Note to Cupertino: send him a 3G iPhone, like, today.  Although RIM hasn't said...
Photo of rumored Palm Treo 800w appears
Fri, 16 May 2008 07:40:13 -0700
Back in the day when I had a Palm OS Treo I used to load up the custom ROMs created by Shadowmite since they took out a bunch of junk that was included by default and helped me recover some available memory. It seems he scored the first photos of...
Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008
Fri, 16 May 2008 04:46:07 -0700
Americans spent $1.23 bln on video games, hardware and accessories in April 2008, up 47% from April 2007. Total hardware sales grew 26% to $426.2 mln, with the Wii selling 714,200 units, followed by the handheld Nintendo DS at 414,800. Software sales surged to $654.7 mln from $389.4 mln in...
Introduction to BIT
Fri, 16 May 2008 00:15:30 -0700
This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...
Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
Thu, 15 May 2008 20:06:49 -0700
Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....

 

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Configuring and Debugging SLIP and PPP Connections - Information on how to setup and run a dialup IP connection on an SGI workstation.

IMPACTs Personal SGI Site - A very helpful site of SGI Systems, made for the growing SGI Community. It includes many Product Guides, self written Manuals and a lot of high quality System Parts Pictures.

IRIS Performer - Entertainment, virtual reality and visual simulation.
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JAVA for SGI Users - JAVA resources for SGI users from Paul Haeberli.

Marcus Herbert's SGI pictures archive - Marcus has the most comprehensive picture archive available. Not only does it cover almost every machine SGI have made, he also has pictures of rare promotional items or one-off custom machines.

Mashek Consulting Corp. - A Minnesota based company specializing in refurbished SGI parts and systems.

Minicomputer Exchange, Inc. - Sells, buys, rents, repairs and services Sun and SGI systems.
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500 Nekochan - Nekochan is an information site for users of SGI's machines. It has several active forums, an excellent gallery section, and a wealth of ported software available for download.

OLMOS Workstations GmbH - One of Europe's largest independent distributors of Silicon Graphics/SGI computer equipment (In German).

Perl5 for IRIX - Download locations, description, notes, and installation instructions.

reality.sgiweb.org - The volunteer run SGI employee site. It is the sucessor to reality.sgi.com which shutdown in September 2001.
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Reputable Systems Home Page - Specializing in refurbished, used workstations from SGI and peripherals and parts for other Unix workstations.
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Setting Up a Cable Modem on SGI/IRIX: HOWTO - Explains how to configure an IRIX system to use a cable modem with a dynamically assigned IP address.

404 SGI - ImageVision Library - This is a toolkit for creating, processing and displaying images on all Silicon Graphics workstations.
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404 SGI DOOM FAQ - Information for SGI people. Doom is a 3D arcade game.

404 SGI Quake - Downloads and documentation.

404 SGI Software Products - Silicon Graphics and Platinum Technologies announce Cosmo Software agreement.
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Silicon Graphics FAQs - One of the Silicon Graphics FAQs series.

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404 Silicon Graphics User Groups - Here's a summary of SGI users groups across the world.

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Supportfolio Home - Your Silicon Graphics technical support resource.

The Unofficial SGI 320 Website - The Unofficial SGI 320 Website will guide both new and advanced users through the minefield of intricacies that continue to plague this workstation today.
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Third Party Hardware Suppliers for SGI's - A list of products end-users bought from third party equipment suppliers.

This Old SGI - A site of notes to aid people who wish to fix up SGI's old 4D machines like the Personal IRIS.

404 Unix FrameMaker Equation Patcher - Unix FrameMaker Equation Patcher for FrameMaker 5.1x for SGI/IRIX 6.x keeps FrameMaker from crashing after you open or edit a document with an equation in it.

Video Format Compile - The VFC allows you to build custom video timing formats for some Silicon Graphics architectures. You can use these custom video formats to drive monitors which are not otherwise supported by SGI.
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XS Online - Specializing in new and refurbished SGI and Intergraph systems, along with RAID, disk, memory, and 3D software.
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