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So, I'm wiping the drives on these old SGI machines that belong to a contract that's ending, and I start one of the O2s up. Hey, look, unlike every other fucking SGI on the planet, the O2 does not fall back to a serial console in the event that there are no input peripherals plugged in!
Goddamnit, I KNOW this is something that was foisted on engineering by some clueless fucking management weenie. The thought process went something like "Hey, it's got keyboard and mouse inputs and a VGA connector on it, why does it need a serial console? It doesn't!" Of course, this totally assumes that people like me don't do things like drag the chassis into our office, throw a null modem cable on the serial port, plug in a power connector, and plug in an ethernet cable and build them over the network. Every other SGI product up to the latest and greatest Fuel and Tezro models all do this, and all that came before from the Personal Iris on up to the Indy and Indigo2 do this. The O2's sibling, the Octane, also does this. But no, some clueless fucking dickhead, who was apparently barred from ever being allowed to influence design decisions at SGI ever again, decided that the O2 should be different.
I don't fucking have room for another goddamned monitor, mouse, and keyboard on my desk, and even if I did, I can sure as fuck think of far better things to do with the space.
So, who ever you are, under what ever rock you are currently hiding, when I find you, I am going to kick your ass so goddamned thoroughly that you'll twitch at the very idea of ever making a decision overriding normal engineering practices ever again. I hate you, and you deserve to die.
Goddamnit, I KNOW this is something that was foisted on engineering by some clueless fucking management weenie. The thought process went something like "Hey, it's got keyboard and mouse inputs and a VGA connector on it, why does it need a serial console? It doesn't!" Of course, this totally assumes that people like me don't do things like drag the chassis into our office, throw a null modem cable on the serial port, plug in a power connector, and plug in an ethernet cable and build them over the network. Every other SGI product up to the latest and greatest Fuel and Tezro models all do this, and all that came before from the Personal Iris on up to the Indy and Indigo2 do this. The O2's sibling, the Octane, also does this. But no, some clueless fucking dickhead, who was apparently barred from ever being allowed to influence design decisions at SGI ever again, decided that the O2 should be different.
I don't fucking have room for another goddamned monitor, mouse, and keyboard on my desk, and even if I did, I can sure as fuck think of far better things to do with the space.
So, who ever you are, under what ever rock you are currently hiding, when I find you, I am going to kick your ass so goddamned thoroughly that you'll twitch at the very idea of ever making a decision overriding normal engineering practices ever again. I hate you, and you deserve to die.
