![]() Working for a government facility, poor security is not an option. In an environment with over 300 servers, manual installation is not an option. Want tighter security? Use the JASS finish scripts.Įverything from the way root is sliced to the installation of third party applications can be handled by Jumpstart. Need more atomic customization? Use a finish or post-install script. ![]() don't you?) There is literally nothing that connot be configured, added or deleted from the install from within the Jumpstart profile. I can tell from reading your post that it is unlikely you have anyone there with any real Solaris skills, let alone any knowledgeable Jumpstart admins.Īn automated install is really the only way to ensure that all of your systems meet the standards your Unix engineering group publishes. I was considerating moderating you down, but I feel a response is more in order. They already lost and are dying as we speak. They need to change their image to a corporate server one and pay erp and mrp software writers to port their apps to irix. All their customers have left mostly to Windows and the rest to Sun and Linux. Sgi should focus on the server market and leave the workstation market. Sun in the late 90's took a very large chunk of their market as well. Infact info world claims MS now owns %50 of the server market. Sgi itself is losing marketshare to Sun, IBM, Linux, and w2k. They ported the same video technology and it was far behind the quadro's and other high end cards. I remember when sgi tried to come out with wintel workstations. If sgi was so fast then why did pixar claim that the latest dell's with redhat were 3x faster and many times cheaper then equilivant sgi's on the market? Intel is smoking all the benchmarks agaisnt AMD recently because of faster 1066mhz rambus ram and its 533mhz bus! However that gap is now closing thanks to better memory and faster bus speeds. The only thing sgi traditionally has is better i/o. The latest wildcat video cards and the nvidia quado's are many times faster then sgi's fastest. Yes, I know risc is faster but not that much anymore. Today's pentium4's are close to 3 gig while the latest irix workstations are at 700mhz. PCs are certainly coming close, though.īoth the video cards and cpu's are alot faster. There are some things the SGI can do as far as video I/O that PCs simply can't do at all. Flame/Inferno compositing, for one, and some real time 3D applications. We still use SGI's for a variety of applications that, as the article pointed out, a five year old SGI is still better than a brand new PC. Our render boxes are Windows, for consistency. We use Maya, though, and while Maya is available for Linux, the other tools we use (many Adobe tools, for example) are not. The person who was demonstrating said they had up to 20% speed improvements on Linux over Windows 2000, although there are certain features in the Windows version not available on the Linux version. On a side note, we had a recent visit from SoftImage (no longer an MS subsidiary) demonstrating XSI (very cool but expensive application). PCs are great for render farms, but I still think the interactive use for the high end 3D applications is better done, and more cost effective, on SGIs. I've been arguing in my department that the cost savings don't outweigh the drawbacks of using Windows with demanding applications: blue screens, flakey "drive mapping", license servers that don't work as expected. The speed/cost ratio is much better with PCs, even though you need a fairly high end PC in order to run demanding 3D applications. I don't know what the status of Maya on Linux is now. We tried Linux for the render farm, but at the time Maya did not render, pixel per pixel, the exact same images that Windows would render, and that wasn't acceptable. ![]() We (sadly) replaced a number of SGI animator computers with Windows 2000k. Is my only option to make this a startup script? I couldn't believe that this would be such a problem in such a standard DE.Isn't it more a case of gfx/animator studios are buying loads of Intel boxen and slapping Linux on them rather than buying SGI kit (expensive kit I might add), and is working out to be cheaper for the studios? ![]() Will do the trick, which it did! But it is overwritten on reboot. I found in another answer that doing setterm blank 0 I edited ~/.kde/share/config/kscreensaverrc into: The xscreensaver is set to "disable screen saver" I have configured it not to do anything when hooked up to AC power. I unchecked the timer (and put a large timeout time in the unchecked setting). In System Settings > Display and Monitor > Lock Screen When no actions have been made for like 10 or 15 minutes or so the screen locks and Spotify/youtube/anything is paused. I'm trying KDE desktop on Ubuntu 14.04LTS (the start screen now says "kubuntu" but the DE was installed on top of regular ubuntu).
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