*chuckles* You know... I'm gonna have to call shenanigans here... I started reading thru... smiling all the way... then hit the part about SGI then knew you had to be full of it. Then I clicked the youtube channel link... and yep. Looks about 20 years old. Could I be wrong? well.. probably not considering the identifiable bedroom/dormroom in the flickr feed showing your dorm room, or the talk about college and age in the twitter feed.
Now... lets be REALLLLLLY charitable, and say that somehow they let you administer their college network. First... I think you should do the moral thing and let the world know which college was dumb enough to let that happen, and secondly if any administrator knowingly had a 500+ seat installation getting enough "software crashes" to matter without resolving it tout-de-suite, its 100% the administrators fault and he's going to (or should) get canned immediately.
Now, if you are an admin then of course, its unsurprising you're having issues keeping things in check with those "750 DELLs" and "mac Fleet" what with your college,
blog ("content central." and sweet Tokelau domain name, brah) and
development company (lawl.)
Now, the most ironic part of this post was how out of date the (now defunct) SGI references were... and that (the company that bought and used it for its IP) SGI now makes x86 blades and rack minicomputers that run not only SUSE or Redhat (sorry, no OSX support) but
Windows too. Up to 2048 cores.
So you could run a few racks in the basement for a
shared memory system with processor blades, install a retail WS08DC r2 and have a machine workstation that could literally decimate any known OSX workstation in any threaded task.
Oh.. and IRIX died about 5 years ago. Don't worry though... I didn't know **** back in college either (although,fwiw, I had been coding 3 kinds of assembler before you were born, by the time I was 12.)
1) I was a paid IT Technician for my sixth form college for 2 years, if you want proof Im sure I can find some for you. I finished there when I moved to uni.
2) I have an SGI Fuel. I like IRIX 6.5.30 It didnt die 5 years ago, they just stopped selling machines with it on it 5 years ago, and stopped development then. It has some really nice software, and I like the UI, then again I still use OS9 for some software (th0nk 0+2). And IRIX is still supported until 2013 - its hardly dead.
3) There were 5 of us managing a deployment of 750 DELLS and 150 Macs (iMacs - some white, some 20" Alu) - In a college of 2000 pupills across years 12 and 13 (Grades 11 and 12 in American) - I was the evening support tech, and worked over the summer upgrading and maintaining the network while a language school rented the school. - The software was required by the college, it wasn't our choice, it was a county level decision, and it crashed the machines regularly (It was a SIMS tool based on MS Access and SQL Server 2005 - and since it had to run on every machine at logon, so students could self-certify their absences before waiting approval from a tutor, it made logging in incredibly slow, and it caused all kinds of havoc). My experience in said environment was that the DELLs had a much higher software failiure rate than the Imacs. I didnt have purchasing power over the software, if I did we wouldve been using a properly done web-based system for certifying abscences from the start, and would actually assess departments needs instead of throwing OptiPlex 3xx series machines at them randomly, which is what happened.
4) SGI is no longer SGI, it is part of rackable systems - I like the old SGI, pre switching off MIPS, and pre-abandoning IRIX those machines are still useful to this day, and I love them. They also have plenty of relevance since they are still in use in many places for things, because people upgrade slowly
5) That isnt my development company, it is thecreativeg33k/ware.am.i's. I have absolutely nothing to do with it, and I dont know where you pulled it from, except from a RETWEET. Quite clearly labelled as such, which shows you cant use TWITTER
- I dont develop software for iOS, because I dont have the time to support it, I have other things to do.
6) I can code assembler too, although it isnt particularly enjoyable, because I prefer not having to remember 3-4 character instructions and what I left in which register. I dont have a development company however, because I have more important things to do with my time, such as teaching myself Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro.
7) That blog is 2 years old, and Im surprised is still there, Ive given up on blogging as it takes as much time as video content, which is what my subscribers prefer, I also took down the old entries as Id had enough of them, and didnt consider them valuable enough - that page was a quickly thrown together holding page in iWeb '08, and hasnt been touched in 2 years. If you could read youd see that.
8) Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro dont even run on Linux. The only part of my workflow that would run is Shake, and even then I doubt it would run any better than it does under OS X.
