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ASUG meeting
Here's an announcement for next week's ASUG meeting. We're touring
Crawford Communications- if you've never seen their offices, you
really ought to come see them. They're quite impressive.
They do lots of video production / special effects work. It's also
where The Learning Channel and the Discovery Channel originate
(they have a huge satellite farm).
Robbie
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:05:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randy Carpenter <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: ASUG Meeting, May 12th @Crawford
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A T L A N T A S G I U S E R ' S G R O U P
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Topic: Crawford Communications Site Tour
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 18, 1999
7pm - 9pm
Where: Crawford Communications (see directions below)
535 Plasamour Drive
Atlanta, Georgia 30324
404-876-7149
PLEASE RSVP TO [email protected] or 404-894-9046 IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND.
THANKS!
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Our May Meeting...
Our May meeting will be held at Crawford Communications (on I-85 just North
of the I-75/I-85 downtown connector...see directions below). Crawford is
an award-winning, Atlanta-based company (since 1981) that offers a full
spectrum of services in all aspects of television, film, Internet, audio,
satellite and interactive media. They utilize SGI workstations in a number
of areas and we'll get to see them in action.
Crawford Communications is housed in a 150,000-square foot facility on an
eleven-acre site two miles from downtown Atlanta. The company is comprised
of editorial and audio production suites, CGI animation, film lab and
telecine, video production services and studios, interactive design and
development, an international satellite teleport and a fleet of satellite
trucks. Studio Two, Crawford's complete sound stage facility, is located in
a nearby facility.
We'll be touring...
- the Crawford Satellite Services, where Discovery and Learning Channel
are being beamed up to the birds from here in Atlanta,
- the Film Group and Crawford Digital, which do commercial film scanning,
color correction, video editorial and post/fx/design work, for broadcast
commercials and medium-length documentaries,
- the Crawford's Hi-Def production pipeline, including the Onyx2, Octane,
and disk storage used to process these huge images.
We'll also be viewing the impressive Crawford demo reel.
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Directions to Crawford Communications
(See http://www.crawford.com/master.html for a nice map)
Going North on I-85
Take exit 28 (Buford Hwy)
Take 1st exit (Monroe Dr)
RIGHT onto Monroe Drive
RIGHT at traffic light onto Armour Drive
Take 1st RIGHT onto Plasters Ave
506 Plasters Avenue is located immediately on left
Going 400 South
Take exit 1 (Sidney Marcus Blvd)
Turn LEFT onto Sidney Marcus Blvd
Stay in RIGHT lane
Turn RIGHT onto Hwy 13 South
Take 1st exit (Armour Dr/Monroe Dr)
Turn RIGHT at the bottom of the ramp
Take 1st RIGHT onto Plasters Ave
506 Plasters Avenue is located immediately on left
Going South on I-85
Take exit 28 (Peachtree and Hwy 13 South)
Take 1st exit (Armour Drive/Monroe Drive)
Turn RIGHT at the bottom of the ramp
Take 1st RIGHT onto Plasters Ave
506 Plasters Avenue is located immediately on left
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Headlines
Silicon Graphics, Inc. is now just "SGI"
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http://www.sgi.com/features/1999/apr/brand
In a move to update their image, Silicon Graphics recently changed it's
name to just "SGI". Independent research by Landor Associates revealed
that the company is misunderstood in the marketplace. The name Silicon
Graphics communicates very literal meaning to people (i.e., that they are
a graphics company). Yet two-thirds of the company's revenue comes from
non-graphics products: servers and services. Actually, SGI will use a
combination of names. Their visual workstations will continue to be named
"Silicon Graphics", while their servers will use the "SGI" brand and the
Cray supercomputers will continue to use "Cray".
Most of us refer to them as "SGI" anyway, but did they have to ditch that
twisty, pipe cube logo thing? I kind of liked it.
Susan Decker joins James River Technical, Inc.
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http://www.jrti.com/
If you've been doing business over the years with the regional SGI office
in Atlanta, then you have almost certainly been helped at one time or
another by Susan Decker. Susan recently accepted a sales team position
with James River Technical, a value added reseller of Silicon Graphics
computers based in Virginia. Susan will be working out of their Alpharetta
office. Good luck in your new position, Susan!
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Did You Know:
Small PPP - an IRIX PPP configuration utility
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http://www.aztechdesign.com/SmallPPP
Mark Lasersohn recently announced Small PPP, a GUI driven utility that will
help you setup PPP on IRIX. Small PPP is provided as a binary only, was
compiled using the FLTK toolkit on Irix 6.2. It carries no warranty or any
other such stuff. It does change system files and thus must be used from
the root account. Use with care.
SGI Freeware May 1999 edition released
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http://freeware.sgi.com
The open source software packages on this site, brought to us by SGI, have
been authored by many generous individuals and organizations throughout the
world. It is through their noble efforts that these useful and high
quality software packages exist. It includes nearly 200 packages, about 40
of which are new or upgraded from prior versions. Thanks to all the
volunteers, most of all to Kevin Wang and David Kaelbling, who made this
happen.
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About ASUG...
The Atlanta Silicon Graphics User's Group (ASUG) is a volunteer-run
organization that meets 6 times a year usually on the 2nd Tuesday on
alternating months to share ideas and talk about experiences with Silicon
Graphics hardware and software. Our meetings involve visualization and
general UNIX topics. We don't elect officers, impose dues or charge
cover. ASUG is populated with professionals from around the Southeast and
from a wide spectrum of commercial and non-commercial institutions. Our
meetings provide excellent opportunities for people to share their
experiences and techniques with others, express their interests and
concerns to Silicon Graphics, and pick up bits of information worthy of
taking back to work. Our group is always looking for volunteers and ideas
about future meetings.
A group of ASUG organizers meets between ASUG meetings and subscribes to
the [email protected] mailing list. If you are interested in
helping out, please contact:
Randy Carpenter
Georgia Institute of Technology,
College of Computing
(404) 894-5218
[email protected]
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The ASUG E-Mail List...
An Internet electronic mail list is available for ASUG people, and can be
used for various communications concerning ASUG and Silicon Graphics:
[email protected]
To subscribe to this e-mail list, send a note to "[email protected]"
with the following message (no subject is necessary):
subscribe asug
To unsubscribe from the list, send a note to "[email protected]" with
the following message (no subject is necessary):
unsubscribe asug
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Randy Carpenter http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~randy
Georgia Institute of Technology [email protected]
College of Computing (404) 894-9046
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