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From:	ANT_THOMAS	21 Apr 2020 17:07
To:	Manthorp	40 of 59

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I was quite impressed the other day looking at how much had been made 3D. Wanted to check if a canal path joined to a bridge to plan a walk and didn't expect it to be so clear. The answer was no, so I walked elsewhere. A
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From:	Manthorp	21 Apr 2020 19:33
To:	ANT_THOMAS	41 of 59

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It miffed me a bit. Keighley has not yet been modelled, and it's a little - pointedly ignored, I felt - absence amid a sea of dodgy procedural modelling. "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951 www.mynameislegion.org

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From:	Matt	21 Apr 2020 22:20
To:	Lucy (X3N0PH0N)	42 of 59

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No Taskbar/Dock/Menu and no desktop icons. Use Command+Space on Mac and Windows key on Windows and type to search for the app I want to open or switch to. Same problem as Kos. Left hand screen is Macbook Pro and middle and right are two 24" monitors. Two different DPIs and resolutions, but I rarely use the Macbook for much other than email or slack, so it doesn't bother me too much.

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From:	Lucy (X3N0PH0N)	21 Apr 2020 23:17
To:	Matt	43 of 59

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No desktop icons and no dock/taskbar <3 , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	Dave!!	2 May 2020 13:50
To:	ALL	44 of 59

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This is my current desktop. Despite having three screens, I don't use them for my main PC, only for my work laptop. Well, I also use the left hand screen for my Silicon Graphics machines from time to time... ---
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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	2 May 2020 14:23
To:	Dave!!	45 of 59

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When the internet as we know it was in its infancy in the early '90s, my brother worked on an Indigo at a medical research laboratory, and showed me the mosaic browser in action on it. ISTR they cost ~US$7Kat the time. “a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	2 May 2020 17:25
To:	Dave!!	46 of 59

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Is that a local sea view? Just wondered because of the wind farm. never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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From:	Dave!!	2 May 2020 17:37
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	47 of 59

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Yep, taken from a nature reserve about a mile from our house last year. I often use local pics these days as wallpapers, simply because the scenery up here in the north of Scotland is so pretty. I have mixed views on the wind farm. On one hand it does spoil the view a bit, but on the other hand Trump hates it and spent years unsuccessfully challenging it. So it wins some bonus points for that! ---

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	2 May 2020 18:06
To:	Dave!!	48 of 59

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There's a big wind farm off the coast here as well. To be honest, the horizon isn't especially exciting; there's no scenic coastal curves or spits of land - and I've got quite used to it. never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	2 May 2020 18:28
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	49 of 59

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Beats oil spills, smog &such. “a man gets struck by lightning and goes “zzzt”, Jason gets shot and dies and the submarine blows up.”

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	2 May 2020 20:02
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	50 of 59

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and God smiles on windfarms never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead
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From:	Dave!!	2 May 2020 21:04
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	51 of 59

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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. ---

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	2 May 2020 21:20
To:	Dave!!	52 of 59

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It's big at around 72 square kilometres, but not in the top 5 around the UK. never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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From:	Dave!!	4 May 2020 20:26
To:	ALL	53 of 59

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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!!	54 of 59

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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!!	55 of 59

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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.


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From:	Dave!!	4 May 2020 21:28
To:	koswix	56 of 59

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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. ---

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From:	Lucy (X3N0PH0N)	5 May 2020 03:55
To:	Dave!!	57 of 59

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Now that's a proper desktop. , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	koswix	5 May 2020 13:41
To:	Dave!!	58 of 59

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Do you do anything fun with it?


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From:	Dave!!	6 May 2020 17:23
To:	koswix	59 of 59

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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. ---

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