Bringing Us All Together - The Amiga Kegger -

You know - my comment about that came out of left field on the podcast last weekend. Funny as it was - I am actually quite serious. I think some sort of organized Amiga-centric Keg party would be a terrific and well-needed/deserved meeting. I mean think about - there are so few of us out there truly but yet so many divided lines within our community. Its very sad in my opinion.

If we could pick a day in the future to for this function - we could really do this in one central location or even better all around the world on the same (so-to-speak-barring-time zone issues) day. Bringing everyone together to put things into perspective, come up with solutions instead of negative attitudes, and well - drink. Why??? I say to bring about perhaps a positive attitude amongst each other . What is perceived as a negative situation is now filtering down once again amongst all of us users. The mudslinging and name calling is starting to harken back to 2002-2003. Maybe this event can culminate around something positive - perhaps MOS 2.0 launch? A new Aros development, or the closure to the court case (we might be waiting on that one though - for a bit)

What do ya say?!?! :)


Syllable Update:

Ok - want to hear more about what was announced at Slycon2007?!?! Take a look at this report! Port of Syllable to the Linux kernel, new Abrowse (syllable browser) now built under Webkit (ala-Apple's Safari) - very interesting developments. Give it a try!

News, Notes, and Nonsense

Ok so the Indy project is on hold a bit until I can get a tad more ram and the external. Also let me make this a shout out to any SGI folks that may be reading my blog - drop me a line and let me know if you are willing to put your neck out for me to ask you some questions as I go along.. there is a nice T-bone steak off of my BBQ grill in it for you. :) Don't worry however - I will complete this challenge - just need to get my ducks in a row.

The Amiga Roundtable podcast show #2 has been released and of course, it was a lot of fun. Rich took me by surprise in having me plug my little blog - anyhow if you made it here because of the show...welcome! Mike was a great guest, and I implore you all to check out #AmigaGuide Magazine and AmigaWeb.net.

There are a few items that have occurred over the last week that I thought I would drop on you all - Kinda news item-type stuff that I have been following.

SyllableOS - "The little hobby OS that could", had their SylCon 2007 meeting in Europe over the weekend. I am still trying to have a moment to digest the mailing list items and forum posts to see what was announced -but so far not much. I assume most that attended are trying to recover or something. The email client Whisper has a new version that was launched, ver. alpha 8, the big thing that was added is API to give the ability for other apps to control Whisper. Its pretty slick - just like most crucial applications that have already been written for it while many other OS projects struggle. The progress that these folks make with so few active developers is at times, astounding. I urge you all to take a look at this little OS, it is pretty cleaver.



Free Software Daily - Me like - check it out. Devoted to free and open source software. Ala-Digg allows you to vote news items up and down - but that is not what I like about it actually just a great way in a snapshot to get the latest news about the open source movement.

A few bumps in the road...

I made time Friday to get the Indy set up once again. The one thing I really need is an external SCSI CD-rom, which I don't have one that functions any more. Jerry, a fellow member of our local Amiga users group and all around nice guy, offered to help - and I had the intention of driving up to his place and picking it up. Well...

2 things happened - First, Rich (Amiga Round Table Podcast co-host and originator) contacted me say that we needed to move the recording session 2 hours earlier from 1PM to 11AM on Saturday. I just wouldn't have been able to do both. Secondly - I had a few rounds at the bar and was hungover most of the next day I am such a lightweight now ;).

My Indy has a fairly well-stocked hard drive that came with it when I bought it on ebay years ago. I don't know about you all - but that kind of stuff usually ends up driving me nuts. I like to know exactly what I have on my drive, configure the desktop how I like, etc. So I really would like to do a fresh install once I get the Cd-Rom drive. Some of the programs I have to work with are: NetscapeMail (yikes! I think I may just use PINE), Mozilla 1.0, Photoshop SGI, Abiword, Open Office. So most of the core productivity apps are covered. Mozilla is a bit sluggish - But it will do.

While being hungover and watching TV yesterday afternoon I decided to watch a late 90's Nuclear/Terrorist/Action flick called the Peacemaker. It was um... kinda bad... but the ironic thing was that movie had an SGI Indy or Indigo in any scene with a computer. So I thought that was pretty cool and also a bit weird.

So in short - I am not quite ready to move forward yet - I really want to get the hardware set - add more RAM too) and also get more accomplished with Irix 6.5 as well - lots of things I just don't know yet. So far I think Irix kicks ass and I hope to have some screenshots soon.

***Shameless plug : ART Podcast URL***
AmigaRoundtable Podcast

(if you choose to d/l - use a mirror or iTunes please)

Objectives

Objectives

I have common needs like most - probably less than some, I'm not a coder, for instance. Nevertheless - I think this shouldn't be to hard to achieve to be honest but I am sure I will have some bumps in the road. I hope to be pleasantly surprised in some situations as well. Should be fun.

1.) Email

2.) Web

3.) Word-processing

4.) Audio/Video Use - (MP3 and other types of formats for music & I have have a video that I recorded on my camcorder that I have yet to transfer - see what the
Indy can do eh?)

5.) I have a design idea for a 3D image that I would like to take a stab at. I have an Indy - WHY NOT!!?

6.) IRC & IM

Project SGI Indy

Ok, so I am on a new start-up site dedicated to Alternative OS use...

Alt.OS: http://acill.com/modules/news/

Being caught up in the discussion and the vote to have some Irix/SGI forums set up on this site really got me thinking about my cool little SGI Indy (Circa ~1994). The Indy was IMHO such a groundbreaker for SGI - it brought a graphics/unix workstation to the masses for a fairly affordable price. It is by no means the current "chosen" model to hack around with in the SGI world right now - but I have one, haven't really used it much, and I am pretty partial to it just because I had always wanted one when it was released - and was able to aquire one a few years ago.

Sooo getting back to Alt.OS - I thought it would be cool to do my own spin on the, (example) "I used a Mac SE/30 for a month as my primary machine"-type concept. I am going to get my way through using my Indy as my primary machine a week, month, or perhaps longer - and kind of blog-out the expierence.

This will be my first foray into this blog of mine and I am looking forward to getting started with "Project Indy". Wish me luck - I am pretty much going into this blind. :)