15 Oct
2002
15 Oct
'02
11:12 p.m.
At 02:47 AM 16/10/2002 -0500, Tothwolf wrote:
If you notice the car on the left of the image, it
gives two clues that
show the location is in the US somewhere. The license plate, even though
you can't see all of it, is US sized. The steering wheel is also on the
left side of the car. Another noticeable item in the photo is the DSS dish
on the roof of the red brick building.
I'm inclined to agree that this photo is from the US, but of course the
majority
of cars in Europe have the steering wheel on the left hand side of the car. If
the UK is anything to go by, there are lots of satellite dishes there too...
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
| "If God had wanted soccer played in the
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15 Oct
15 Oct
11:50 p.m.
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
Revisting the first message about this to the mailing list, the original
message can be traced back to this post today in comp.sys.sgi.misc:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3DAC895C.62302443%40hammerhead.com&…
The original poster's IP address which happens to be for Pac*Bell ADSL.
So it's most likely California where that poster lives. The license
plate doesn't conflict with the style of current California plates.
The surrounding vegetation, especially the tree in the foreground,
matches that of SoCal. And the soft atmospheric haze you see in the
picture does actually match what we've been having here in Los Angeles
for the past couple of days. It's been bright and hazy due to the
marine layer from the morning through nearly noon time. Since the
original message was posted at 2:33pm PST, and he mentioned seeing this
earlier in the day, it doesn't contradict a hypothesis of it being local
to L.A.
Also, http://www.hammerhead.com/, the website associated with the domain
of the original poster, is a small vfx company local to North Hollywood.
Since he said that the Onyx was located at an area service provider,
that will might narrow things down quite a bit. I'm assuming it's at an
SGI service provider. The main one is SGI of course, but there are some
others in town.
-brian.
At 02:47 AM 16/10/2002 -0500, Tothwolf wrote:
If you notice
the car on the left of the image, it gives two clues that
show the location is in the US somewhere. The license plate, even though
you can't see all of it, is US sized. The steering wheel is also on the
left side of the car. Another noticeable item in the photo is the DSS dish
on the roof of the red brick building.
I'm inclined to agree that this photo is from the US, but of course
the majority of cars in Europe have the steering wheel on the left
hand side of the car. If the UK is anything to go by, there are lots
of satellite dishes there too... 
16 Oct
16 Oct
4:12 a.m.
At 01:51 AM 10/16/02 -0700, you wrote:
Also, http://www.hammerhead.com/, the website
associated with the domain
of the original poster, is a small vfx company local to North Hollywood.
Since he said that the Onyx was located at an area service provider,
that will might narrow things down quite a bit. I'm assuming it's at an
SGI service provider. The main one is SGI of course, but there are some
others in town.
-brian.
Provider of what? Some cable and telephone companies own SGI hardware
that they use to run GIS software such as Arcinfo with many layers
of data; it is essential for their maintenance and repair operations.
carlos.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
8:14 a.m.
Is there a reason why y'all don't contact the original poster of it?
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
Revisting the first message about this to the mailing list, the original
message can be traced back to this post today in comp.sys.sgi.misc:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3DAC895C.62302443%40hammerhead.com&…
The original poster's IP address which happens to be for Pac*Bell ADSL.
So it's most likely California where that poster lives. The license
plate doesn't conflict with the style of current California plates.
The surrounding vegetation, especially the tree in the foreground,
matches that of SoCal. And the soft atmospheric haze you see in the
picture does actually match what we've been having here in Los Angeles
for the past couple of days. It's been bright and hazy due to the
marine layer from the morning through nearly noon time. Since the
original message was posted at 2:33pm PST, and he mentioned seeing this
earlier in the day, it doesn't contradict a hypothesis of it being local
to L.A.
Also, http://www.hammerhead.com/, the website associated with the domain
of the original poster, is a small vfx company local to North Hollywood.
Since he said that the Onyx was located at an area service provider,
that will might narrow things down quite a bit. I'm assuming it's at an
SGI service provider. The main one is SGI of course, but there are some
others in town.
-brian.
At 02:47 AM 16/10/2002 -0500, Tothwolf wrote:
If you
notice the car on the left of the image, it gives two clues that
show the location is in the US somewhere. The license plate, even though
you can't see all of it, is US sized. The steering wheel is also on the
left side of the car. Another noticeable item in the photo is the DSS dish
on the roof of the red brick building.
I'm inclined to agree that this photo is from the US, but of course
the majority of cars in Europe have the steering wheel on the left
hand side of the car. If the UK is anything to go by, there are lots
of satellite dishes there too... 
10:22 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Is there a reason why y'all don't contact the
original poster of it?
There are multiple ways skin a cat--and it's often wise to run multiple
efforts in parallel. So while waiting on the original poster to reply,
we can also be attempting to track down the Onyx.
-brian.
3:10 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Chase" <vaxzilla(a)jarai.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Sign of the times :(
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
I don't know who you mean by original poster, but I forwarded this from
comp.sgi.whatever last night. The *original* original poster seemed
reluctant to nail himself down any closer than what was mentioned in his
spamnetnews post, and as I didn't ask his permission before forwarding it, I
tried to respect his apparent wish for anonymity while reaching an audience
with a better chance of rescue than J. Random Usenet-reader.
In any case, I do hope someone in the Hollywood area manages to track it
down and rescue it, even if it isn't me. It'd be a crime to let this go to
the scrapper!
Is there a reason why y'all don't contact
the original poster of it?
There are multiple ways skin a cat--and it's often wise to run multiple
efforts in parallel. So while waiting on the original poster to reply,
we can also be attempting to track down the Onyx.
-brian.
Bob
3:17 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Chase" <vaxzilla(a)jarai.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Sign of the times :(
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
I don't know who you mean by original poster, but I forwarded this from
comp.sgi.whatever last night. The *original* original poster seemed
reluctant to nail himself down any closer than what was mentioned in his
spamnetnews post, and as I didn't ask his permission before forwarding it, I
tried to respect his apparent wish for anonymity while reaching an audience
with a better chance of rescue than J. Random Usenet-reader.
In any case, I do hope someone in the Hollywood area manages to track it
down and rescue it, even if it isn't me. It'd be a crime to let this go to
the scrapper!
Is there a reason why y'all don't contact
the original poster of it?
There are multiple ways skin a cat--and it's often wise to run multiple
efforts in parallel. So while waiting on the original poster to reply,
we can also be attempting to track down the Onyx.
-brian.
Bob
3:18 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Chase" <vaxzilla(a)jarai.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Sign of the times :(
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
I don't know who you mean by original poster, but I forwarded this from
comp.sgi.whatever last night. The *original* original poster seemed
reluctant to nail himself down any closer than what was mentioned in his
spamnetnews post, and as I didn't ask his permission before forwarding it, I
tried to respect his apparent wish for anonymity while reaching an audience
with a better chance of rescue than J. Random Usenet-reader.
In any case, I do hope someone in the Hollywood area manages to track it
down and rescue it, even if it isn't me. It'd be a crime to let this go to
the scrapper!
Is there a reason why y'all don't contact
the original poster of it?
There are multiple ways skin a cat--and it's often wise to run multiple
efforts in parallel. So while waiting on the original poster to reply,
we can also be attempting to track down the Onyx.
-brian.
Bob
17 Oct
17 Oct
4:53 p.m.
New subject: Onyx hunting [ Was Re: Fw: Sign of the times :( ]
This is only in the realm of "educated guessing" but based on the
original post, the image, and some asking around. The best information
I have leads me to believe this system might be (or at least have been)
sitting outside of a small SGI hardware and service provider in
Hollywood, by the name of RFX--736 Seward St., Los Angeles, CA 90038.
Lat/Long: N 34.084049 W 118.33212
http://www.acme.com/mapper/mapper.cgi?lat=34.084058&long=-118.33211&…
The aerial photography is a bit too old and too poor in its quality at
the above link for me to recognise anything more than there being some
streets, an alley, and some trees which may or may not match up with the
existing ground photo: http://world.std.com/~bdc/pics/sgi.jpg
I'll consider doing some ground based recon over the weekend. :-)
-brian.
18 Oct
18 Oct
5:11 a.m.
New subject: Onyx hunting [ Was Re: Fw: Sign of the times :( ]
+AD4- Lat/Long: N 34.084049 W 118.33212
+AD4-
http://www.acme.com/mapper/mapper.cgi?lat+AD0-34.084058+ACY-long+AD0--118.3…
+ACY-theme+AD0-Image+ACY-width+AD0-3+ACY-height+AD0-2+ACY-dot+AD0-Yes
OnTopic: This search is pretty hilarious.
The fact that the photo just cuts of the Licence plate
is rather funny. Note that the gate may be open to the
street only temporarily.
OffTopic: Acme Mapper seems to have all the maps that MS
Terraserver has, but it gets the LatLong search right,
where I found the MS one brain dead, off by over 10
miles on most searches. So: Thanks+ACE-
John A.
Fight Microsoft Errorism
16 Oct
16 Oct
3:18 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Chase" <vaxzilla(a)jarai.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Sign of the times :(
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
I don't know who you mean by original poster, but I forwarded this from
comp.sgi.whatever last night. The *original* original poster seemed
reluctant to nail himself down any closer than what was mentioned in his
spamnetnews post, and as I didn't ask his permission before forwarding it, I
tried to respect his apparent wish for anonymity while reaching an audience
with a better chance of rescue than J. Random Usenet-reader.
In any case, I do hope someone in the Hollywood area manages to track it
down and rescue it, even if it isn't me. It'd be a crime to let this go to
the scrapper!
Is there a reason why y'all don't contact
the original poster of it?
There are multiple ways skin a cat--and it's often wise to run multiple
efforts in parallel. So while waiting on the original poster to reply,
we can also be attempting to track down the Onyx.
-brian.
Bob
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