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To: jbkelle who wrote (8182)	10/29/2000 11:05:23 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 14451

thank you jbkelle, one never tires of being told that one is appreciated. I live by the law that No one who is above me would consider insulting me and No one who is below me can insult me. I've received private thanks as well. I own a lot of SGI and I think it is a good investment and I welcome all who can offer support of what I believe. But I know from past experience that I don't know all. I am open to all sgi contrary arguments. I welcome contrary arguments. This board is about finding truth. sd;gjuj8k oh crap! I just fell off the soap box. NEW OFF topic FYI On the other hand this is SGI visual best being seen by the masses. I had occassion to us my portable presentation machine today. My wife yearly runs a Wedding Anniversary Mass at our church and I take pics and display in real time. I decided to photo document my portable slideshow machine. I also decided to hack together some program html writing to create the photo boiler plate and then I can edit in the text to explain the photos. This is not the Wedding Anniversary Mass page but a page I'll develop to show a fun use of my computer toys. So my first total auto generated web page.. watman.com Hey a pic is worth a thousand words For reference last years Wedding Anniversary Mass watman.com This is the tcsh script that creates from a set of photos the web page and content. I don't program pretty, I do scripts that get done what I want done. But I'd say that the html generation section at the end of the script is a tutorial on escaping. #!/bin/tcsh # this script creates a list of jpg files in current directory # Each image is then processed in a foreach loop # The image size is determined # several types of thumbnail are created. a label raised and a non labeled raise. # also vga and 1/2 vga images are also created in their own subdirectory. # After all the images are created a simple web page is created pointing to the # different size images. mkdir thumbs mkdir 640x480 mkdir 320x240 mkdir 160x120 set list = `ls .jpg` set port = 768 set port1 = 480 set land = 1024 set land1 = 640 foreach i ($list) set IMAGE_TYPE = `/usr/X11/bin/identify -ping $i\|awk '{print $2}'\|awk -Fx '{print $1}'` set ROOT_IMAGE_NAME = `echo $i \|awk -F. '{print $1}'` if ($IMAGE_TYPE == $land ) then echo image $i landscape 1024 # making labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 100x75 -label $ROOT_IMAGE_NAME $i thumbs/l$i # making non labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 100x75 $i thumbs/g$i montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 120x90 $i thumbs/g12$i montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 160x120 $i thumbs/g16$i # making mini 640x480 montage -geom 640x480 -borderwidth 0 $i 640x480/$ROOT_IMAGE_NAME".jpg" montage -geom 320x240 -borderwidth 0 $i 320x240/$ROOT_IMAGE_NAME".jpg" montage -geom 160x120 -borderwidth 0 $i 160x120/$ROOT_IMAGE_NAME".jpg" else if ($IMAGE_TYPE == $port) then echo image $i portrait 768 # making labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 75x100 -label $ROOT_IMAGE_NAME $i thumbs/l$i # making non labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 75x100 $i thumbs/g$i montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 90x120 $i thumbs/g12$i montage -pen white -raise 20 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 120x160 $i thumbs/g16$i # making mini 480x640 montage -geom 480x640 -borderwidth 0 $i 640x480/$ROOT_IMAGE_NAME".jpg" montage -geom 240x320 -borderwidth 0 $i 320x240/$ROOT_IMAGE_NAME".jpg" montage -geom 120x160 -borderwidth 0 $i 160x120/$ROOT_IMAGE_NAME".jpg" else if ($IMAGE_TYPE == $port1) then echo image $i portrait type 480 # making labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 75x100 -label $ROOT_IMAGE_NAME $i thumbs/l$i # making non labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 75x100 $i thumbs/g$i montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 90x120 $i thumbs/g12$i montage -pen white -raise 20 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 120x160 $i thumbs/g16$i montage -geom 240x320 -borderwidth 0 $i 320x240/p$i montage -geom 120x160 -borderwidth 0 $i 160x120/p$i else if ($IMAGE_TYPE == $land1 ) then echo image $i landscape type 640 # making labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 100x75 -label $ROOT_IMAGE_NAME $i thumbs/l$i # making non labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 100x75 $i thumbs/g$i montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 120x90 $i thumbs/g12$i montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 160x120 $i thumbs/g16$i montage -geom 320x240 -borderwidth 0 $i 320x240/$i montage -geom 160x120 -borderwidth 0 $i 160x120/$i else echo image $i who knows # making labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 100x75 -label $ROOT_IMAGE_NAME $i thumbs/l$i # making non labeled thumbs montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 100x75 $i thumbs/g$i montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 120x90 $i thumbs/g12$i montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -borderwidth 0 -fg white -geom 160x120 $i thumbs/g16$i # making mini 640x480 montage -geom 640x480 -borderwidth 0 $i 640x480/$i montage -geom 320x240 -borderwidth 0 $i 320x240/$i montage -geom 160x120 -borderwidth 0 $i 160x120/$i endif #montage -pen white -raise 10 -bg black -bordercolor black -fg white -geom 100x100 -label $i $i thumbs/r$i end # write html for a thumb to full size and table to mini sizes set list = `ls .jpg` echo \<html\> >mini_list.html echo \<BODY TEXT=\#FFFFFF LINK=\#aFaFFF VLINK=\#FF00FF ALINK=\#00FF00 BGCOLOR=\#000000\> >>mini_list.html echo \<HEAD\>\<TITLE\> mini_list.html created by script makeglassandmini.com \<\/\TITLE\>\<\/HEAD\> >>mini_list.html echo \<center\> >>mini_list.html echo \<br\> >>mini_list.html foreach i ($list) set ROOT_IMAGE_NAME = `echo $i \|awk -F. '{print $1}'` echo \<A HREF=\"$i\"\>\<IMG SRC=\"thumbs\/g16$i\" border=0 \>\<\/A\> >>mini_list.html echo \<table\> >>mini_list.html echo \<tr\>\<TH\>\<A HREF=\"$i\"\>Full XGA.\<\/\A\> >> mini_list.html echo \<\/th\>\<TH\>\<A HREF=\"640x480\/$i\"\> VGA 640x480\<\/\A\> >> mini_list.html echo \<\/th\>\<TH\>\<A HREF=\"320x240\/$i\"\> 320x240\<\/\A\> >> mini_list.html echo \<\/th\>\<TH\>\<A HREF=\"160x120\/$i\"\> 160x120\<\/\A\> >> mini_list.html echo \<\/th\>\<\/tr\> >> mini_list.html echo \<\/table\> >>mini_list.html #echo \<p\> >>mini_list.html end echo \<\/center\> >>mini_list.html echo \<\/html\> >>mini_list.html

To: jbkelle who wrote (8182)	10/30/2000 3:05:33 AM
From: AustinPowersIII	Respond to of 14451

Please keep to the subject matter, you can see what your note has elicited from the "tomwhatsamatterwitme!" ie. 4 to 5 full screens of self praise & adoration. In the case of NINE which he also praised to high heaven & now sells for less than .17 cents he obfuscates the truth & suspiciously buries all reference to it as with APLX. He should stick to technical writing & leave the investment scene for others more skilled than he. We really don't care what his hobbies or interests are but he has a need to force them like Jehova's witness's upon us wasting good bandwidth. Patting each on the the back all day just doesn't hack it & wastes time. Judging from the performance of your beloved CATT he probably recommended that to you also! Message 14684559; <VVBG>

To: jbkelle who wrote (8182)	10/30/2000 11:47:32 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14451

SGI and ESI Power BMW for Faster Designs and Greater Safety biz.yahoo.com Origin 3000 Series Achieves More Than 12 GFLOPS Sustained Performance With ESI PAM-CRASH MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI - news) and ESI today announced that they have succeeded in achieving unprecedented computing power using the latest generation SGI(TM)supercomputer, SGI(TM) Origin(TM) 3000 series, and ESI PAM-CRASH to assist BMW in creating a crash simulation engine. BMW was also able to significantly shorten the design-cycle time using SGI Origin 3000 Series rather than conventional design analysis technology. The result for future BMW Series 5 owners is even safer automobiles delivered in a shorter period of time. The thing that's cool is that SGI's 3000 series is bringing expandable supercomputing to a linear attractive pricing model and in reality the pricing is now where business can afford to do modeling that only a few years back was strictly the province of the DOD. It seems to me that DOD in past did well over 90% of it's edge science with SGI. Now competing in the commercial market place for technology based commercial science SGI is the leader of the pack with both computer technology and applications. The key is applications as that implies that all the folks who know how to do this know SGI. In past Sgi lost to sun in commercial areas because sun dominated this space. But I think a new and big era of big science is happening. I have to think about SGI in this market in a new way. Hp is to diverse a company and sun just really does not do this area well. It's not IBM's backyard either. hmmm.... is this important. Irix has the clostest IMHO opinion linux feel of all unixes. A pentium III at 650 with linux gives a technolist the ability to work on and test smaller pieces of big problems on home systems and the seemless portability between Linux and Irix I did not feel with Solaris or HP-ux. Does this make any difference Also SGI in the leader in streaming media delivery and in graphics content solutions. In this area SGI has the lower cost Linux solutions that will do well with the very cost conscious. What the Hell is that Damn Mr. Bishop doing wrong? Why can't I see it. He's right and He's right and he's right and he's very right. Well that did not get me anywhere. Time to start thinking about where the holes are. Anybody got a 3000 I can borrow to model where to look for the hole. Tom Watson tosiwmee