the market is saturated. major players like Philips have basically handed over their factories to get out from under the pressure years ago. we're left with Sharp, Samsung, Mitsubishi (Panasonic,) and several Red Army Factions.
just like there used to be a dozen CRT plants in the US alone, dwindled to channel master and Sony, and they're all closed. Clinton is closed in China. there may not be a working CRT plant left any more, anywhere.
and as the complexity and demand for higher grade screens rises, it's a double squeeze... everything you have is obsolete and pennies per diagonal inch, but everything you need to make yesterday is already on the verge of oversupply because the competition's plants are already announced and half-done.
used them in a Motorola eXorcisor and, of course, the VAX 11/785 booted from a Wang floppy drive. came time (past time, DEC was not going to support us any longer if I didn't apply the 3 years of updates my predecessor had not installed) that I had to build a new boot floppy for VMS 6.x, and man, was that the most careful I have ever been in my life.
the endless copyright screen on Unix may be instructional. last change I had to view one, back before endless IT mergers, 14 companies from ATT through DEC to HP had copyrights on that screen.
if these cutthroat outfits today would hold their exclusivity for a year max, then license the patents to a common use pool, everybody except the lawyers would make out nicely, thanks.
there can be some dreadful cruft left behind by some of the snakey charmers out there, even if you format the drive. bogus partitions of evil, and the like. I have gotten into the habit, thanks to some 90s viruses that created a reinfect partition every time the PC got reinfected (once found 19 partitions of evil!) of blowing the drive away by installing Linux in a clean "wipe it all" install. then if you have to put the Microsoft Virus back on, again do a clean "wipe it all" install of Windows. if the little darlings haven't hosed the BIOS, that should do it.
until the next time. instruct your pigeon that they need to "practice safe hex," and not hook up with characters they don't know.
(the punchline used to be "... and wrap all your floppies in condoms," but who has floppies any more?)
you cannot have security if you have random connections... walkabout machines, removeable media that can be read by office and home machines, modem connections, most evil The Connected Internet... that permit a cross of the security barrier.
there has to be an airgap, and the secure stuff stays inside the secure area, and the other world(s) can't get in there.
otherwise, you are open to attack, and eventually will be attacked.
amazing how damn lazy everybody has gotten. I learned this in the 70s.
because if it's on a machine accessable to The Connected Internet, and anybody who wants to punk or bleed you wants it, they'll find a way to it.
there's still such a thing as a microcassette recorder, and such a thing as a digital recorder, that you can start, set next to the conferencing phone, and have a clerk type up. not all technology needs to migrate to the cloud by 5 pm today.
we recently had a wheeler-dealer in our area who was trying to turn $2 billion in bad debts to carmakers, finance companies, and the like into 6 billion bucks. bankruptcy court threw his chapter 7 out because he was gaming the system. this is exactly what should happen to SCO, as they are trying to maintain operations (lawsuits) while filing for dissolution. dismiss the petition with prejudice, judge! they are scamming you, too!
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guess the US meets the definition of a terrorist state. we need to boycott ourselves.
or maybe fix the defini.... nah, it's a trick, boycott ourselves! keep America free! -- uh, wait....
computers never lie. but "idle time" is actually spent figuring how close they can come and still not be lying.
wait for Japan to come to you.
they're copying RIM
the market is saturated. major players like Philips have basically handed over their factories to get out from under the pressure years ago. we're left with Sharp, Samsung, Mitsubishi (Panasonic,) and several Red Army Factions.
just like there used to be a dozen CRT plants in the US alone, dwindled to channel master and Sony, and they're all closed. Clinton is closed in China. there may not be a working CRT plant left any more, anywhere.
and as the complexity and demand for higher grade screens rises, it's a double squeeze... everything you have is obsolete and pennies per diagonal inch, but everything you need to make yesterday is already on the verge of oversupply because the competition's plants are already announced and half-done.
I accidentally saw a Samsung phone when I went to buy my iPhone. I'm in violation!
find any new ones in space?
used them in a Motorola eXorcisor and, of course, the VAX 11/785 booted from a Wang floppy drive. came time (past time, DEC was not going to support us any longer if I didn't apply the 3 years of updates my predecessor had not installed) that I had to build a new boot floppy for VMS 6.x, and man, was that the most careful I have ever been in my life.
worst floppies ever... 1.2 Mb PC-DOS format. scratch, scratch, scratch Abort, Retry, Fail?
the endless copyright screen on Unix may be instructional. last change I had to view one, back before endless IT mergers, 14 companies from ATT through DEC to HP had copyrights on that screen.
if these cutthroat outfits today would hold their exclusivity for a year max, then license the patents to a common use pool, everybody except the lawyers would make out nicely, thanks.
there's a reason they call becoming a practicing lawyer "admittance to the bar."
there can be some dreadful cruft left behind by some of the snakey charmers out there, even if you format the drive. bogus partitions of evil, and the like. I have gotten into the habit, thanks to some 90s viruses that created a reinfect partition every time the PC got reinfected (once found 19 partitions of evil!) of blowing the drive away by installing Linux in a clean "wipe it all" install. then if you have to put the Microsoft Virus back on, again do a clean "wipe it all" install of Windows. if the little darlings haven't hosed the BIOS, that should do it.
until the next time. instruct your pigeon that they need to "practice safe hex," and not hook up with characters they don't know.
(the punchline used to be "... and wrap all your floppies in condoms," but who has floppies any more?)
put all the rats in one place and drown 'em. my, oh, my, dreams come true for millions :-D
ahhh, the outfit we cloned and put on the tors two years ago. yeah, they're real smart. A-D-M-I-N, P-A-S-S-W-O-R-D. at least they spelled it right.
so I'm still in the pink, sitting on my own front step.
"who's that? are they on the list?"
"nah, washed up wannabe lost for Congress. ain't worth the bullet in either case, and I don't want to fill out the forms today."
"how about lunch at the Italian place, then?"
tell all, make the media circuit, and when the 15 minutes of fame is over, they won't care about me any more. lose the election, go home, it's over.
short version is, "A tangled clusterfuck that can't get out of its own way."
by changing the single worldwide default key and sending out new manual pages telling you what it is.
isn't it always?
i-th root of pi minus 1 in a 17-bit field. you're welcome, feel free to implement it in Gray code.
you cannot have security if you have random connections... walkabout machines, removeable media that can be read by office and home machines, modem connections, most evil The Connected Internet... that permit a cross of the security barrier.
there has to be an airgap, and the secure stuff stays inside the secure area, and the other world(s) can't get in there.
otherwise, you are open to attack, and eventually will be attacked.
amazing how damn lazy everybody has gotten. I learned this in the 70s.
for faster access, you know. http://downloadinternet.funnypart.com/
because if it's on a machine accessable to The Connected Internet, and anybody who wants to punk or bleed you wants it, they'll find a way to it.
there's still such a thing as a microcassette recorder, and such a thing as a digital recorder, that you can start, set next to the conferencing phone, and have a clerk type up. not all technology needs to migrate to the cloud by 5 pm today.
and fully believes all kinds of impossible, stupid, and just plain unrealistic things. it's in his blood.
whine, whine, whine. the real reason is DEA has a bunch of incompetents running around burning cash, doing nothing.
we recently had a wheeler-dealer in our area who was trying to turn $2 billion in bad debts to carmakers, finance companies, and the like into 6 billion bucks. bankruptcy court threw his chapter 7 out because he was gaming the system. this is exactly what should happen to SCO, as they are trying to maintain operations (lawsuits) while filing for dissolution. dismiss the petition with prejudice, judge! they are scamming you, too!