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We've shown our desks, now show your desktop!
From: william (WILLIAMA)
2 May 2020 20:02
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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and God smiles on windfarms
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From: Dave!!
2 May 2020 21:04
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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That's a biggie! The one in Aberdeen only has 11 turbines, but they are some of the biggest in the world apparently. We live several miles north of Aberdeen so they're a lot smaller in the pictures. In Aberdeen, they look absolutely massive, despite being several miles offshore.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
2 May 2020 21:20
To: Dave!!
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It's big at around 72 square kilometres, but not in the top 5 around the UK.
From: Dave!!
4 May 2020 20:26
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To spice things up a bit, here's also the desktop from my Silicon Graphics Indigo2 machine. The operating system is IRIX 6.5.22 here.
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From: Dave!!
4 May 2020 20:30
To: Dave!!
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And here it is running "fsn" (pronounced "fusion"). This is the 3D file navigator program that famously appeared in Jurassic Park in the "this is a Unix system, I know this!" bit. It is an actual program, albeit one of limited real-world use.
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From: koswix
4 May 2020 20:53
To: Dave!!
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:D
That's cool. Why*/how?
*as in are you supporting some ancient tech, or just for fun? No justification required beyond fun.
From: Dave!!
4 May 2020 21:28
To: koswix
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Fun, basically. My dad worked at the VR centre at a local university back in the 90s, I went in from time to time during the school holidays and fell in love with the SGI machines there (beautiful and impressive things, coming from a world of beige PCs as I was back then). Several years later, I got my hands on a couple of the older student systems when they were being let go cheaply.
Got bored with them mid-2000s and popped them in the loft, but caught the bug again after moving house a few years back (and finding them in the loft). I've since added slightly to my collection to acquire my most "sought-after" machine (the Indigo2). It's just pretty cool to play around with a system that was worth around £50,000 when new - especially with their connection to the movie industry, plus playing with pure old-school Unix is also quite fun.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
5 May 2020 03:55
To: Dave!!
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Now that's a proper desktop.
From: koswix
5 May 2020 13:41
To: Dave!!
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Do you do anything fun with it?
From: Dave!!
6 May 2020 17:23
To: koswix
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A few odds and sods! IRIX is an interesting OS to customise and play around with, and I've done a bit of work with porting a couple of apps to IRIX, mainly rdesktop (open-source Remote Desktop client), plus also some work a while ago with OpenTTD. Other than that, the Indigo2 sounds great for music and can rip vinyls quite nicely, playing the odd retro-game like Doom or various ScummVM games is also fun.