This week two leading PC companies announce their intent to create a single global PC powerhouse. IBM's Personal Computing Division, maker of the IBM ThinkPad® and the world's leader in enterprise PC innovation, will join forces with Lenovo, the most well-known brand in the world's fastest-growing PC marketplace - China.
The result will be a new company, the 3rd largest PC company in the world*, to be headquartered in New York. Driven by innovation and customer service, this new entity will have the global depth, heritage, and scale to set new standards in the PC industry. New standards not just for quality, support and cutting-edge innovation, but for value and choice for PC customers around the globe.
Just open one T42, as I have opened mine, and you'll plenty of parts "Made in China". That doesn't mean they're not designed somewhere else, but thinks like keyboards, the case itself and many other parts are "Made in China" already in mine.
Many cyrpto devices such as the ones to be used by persons for logging-in into networks and applications do need a password to "open" the "token" or crypto device first and then log-on to the application. Then, you have a two factor authentiation : something you know (to open the crytpo token, such as a Smart-card from Gemplus, Schlumberger, or USB token such as the ones from http://www.ealaddin.com/) and then the something you have (the token itself).
Those tokens usually let you try a predetermined/configurable number of password before locking themselves up. Then, you might need and administrator password to be able to open the devices, which it might itself have a number of tries to actually open. There are many implementation of these things...
On the other hand, these tamper-resistant devices such as smart-cards have been violated (ask Dave@direc....:-), but then again, we have seen this before in the tech area...
Hmmm... IBM dealed with SuSE back in the day where they were a German company. On the other hand, many CEO's have had no problems driving German stuff like Mercedes, AUDI and BMW, even back in the day where those companies were closer 100% german. Airbus, which you might be flying onto even if you are in the US, has no problem not being an US corp. And if a headache comes your way after this... what about an Aspirin (bayer?).
CNN : If the SE series is the Star Wars you " really wanted to make", can you please describe the technical difficulties when filming Greedo shooting first with the 70's technology so that you had to came up with Han shooting first instead?
George : eeehhhh, aahhhhh....
I guess, having received some spam about mortgages and stuff like that mostly directed to US citizens, it really makes one sad about the whole SPAM issue : even If I were stupid enough to buy one of those things, I would not be elegible for most of the stuff... what a waste of resources... anyway, nothing new in here.
Anyway, living in a small country outside the US, a few times I have received spam from local companies. On a couple of times, I just gave them a call asking for the product mentioned in the e-mail, mentioning the spam itself, when said products are something I could have bought at some point in time. Then I tell them that althought I'm doing this this and this, and that I could have had good use for your ethernet/printer/webcam/whatever, I'm writing down their phone numbers, names, brands they are selling and all that stuff just to make sure I'd never buy anything from then or that has to do with them ever again.
Yeah, it might be a loosing battle, but it made me fell good (and yes, I not buying nor voting any of you guys... Uruguay is a small country, and that's certanly a funny way of loosing either sales or votes).
Guess spam is for big countries/markets where you can have enough "market" for the stuff they sell. But in small countries like ours, some "respectable" firms that you see next to shopping centers or in offices down town are using "SPAM" techniques!! it's just awfull!! and even local politicians are jumping into the spam-game (even one that used to be the CEO of the government owned telco company!!! ) (or then again, maybe their adversaries sent the spam:-).
sad... sad... sad...
The 50Hz-Headache thing is very dependant on the person watching said TV set. Here, we have PAL TV over-the-air and cable (PAL-N, not to be confused with PAL-M which is similar to NTSC but with better colors, according to my tastes (uses NTSC B/W info + "PAL" coding for the color part), and also DirecTV which uses NTSC. I dont get any headaches while watching Over-the-air channels, and certainly miss the "color accuracy" of PAL while looking at DirecTV.
Also, if you get headaches with 50Hz TV with PAL/SECAM systems, you can always get a 100Hz TV.
I dont think SCO's case is strenghening. At the same time, the public opinon (and maybe the opinion of the tech people) is not going to be improving if, as in the light of the SSL vulnerabilities, they throw the following statement to CERT for their advisory:
"
SCO:
We are aware of the issue and are diligently working on a fix
"
Really? Are there any programmer left there or do they have lawyers starting training on "editing with vi"? Or on the other hand, if OpenSSL is GPL'd, what thing other than the "shaky" GPL does give them the right to use them in the future (or in the past, given that it seems they have the problem, since they're working on a fix (or should I say expecting someone else to come up with the fix))....
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A few words from it:
This week two leading PC companies announce their intent to create a single global PC powerhouse.
IBM's Personal Computing Division, maker of the IBM ThinkPad® and the world's leader in enterprise PC innovation, will join forces with Lenovo, the most well-known brand in the world's fastest-growing PC marketplace - China.
The result will be a new company, the 3rd largest PC company in the world*, to be headquartered in New York.
Driven by innovation and customer service, this new entity will have the global depth, heritage, and scale to set new standards in the PC industry.
New standards not just for quality, support and cutting-edge innovation, but for value and choice for PC customers around the globe.
Just open one T42, as I have opened mine, and you'll plenty of parts "Made in China". That doesn't mean they're not designed somewhere else, but thinks like keyboards, the case itself and many other parts are "Made in China" already in mine.
Many cyrpto devices such as the ones to be used by persons for logging-in into networks and applications do need a password to "open" the "token" or crypto device first and then log-on to the application. Then, you have a two factor authentiation : something you know (to open the crytpo token, such as a Smart-card from Gemplus, Schlumberger, or USB token such as the ones from http://www.ealaddin.com/) and then the something you have (the token itself).
Those tokens usually let you try a predetermined/configurable number of password before locking themselves up. Then, you might need and administrator password to be able to open the devices, which it might itself have a number of tries to actually open. There are many implementation of these things...
On the other hand, these tamper-resistant devices such as smart-cards have been violated (ask Dave@direc....:-), but then again, we have seen this before in the tech area...
This one is still working : http://www.es.ioccc.org.nyud.net:8090/years.html . please, use nyud.net:8090 while at it...!! :)
and just in case : http://mywebpages.comcast.net.nyud.net:8090/traile rnews/full.mov
I'm trying http://www.tomservo.net.nyud.net:8090/etc/vid/star wars3teaser.mov and downloading..!! Let's see if we get a mirror as a side effect.
Hmmm... IBM dealed with SuSE back in the day where they were a German company. On the other hand, many CEO's have had no problems driving German stuff like Mercedes, AUDI and BMW, even back in the day where those companies were closer 100% german. Airbus, which you might be flying onto even if you are in the US, has no problem not being an US corp. And if a headache comes your way after this... what about an Aspirin (bayer?).
CNN : If the SE series is the Star Wars you " really wanted to make", can you please describe the technical difficulties when filming Greedo shooting first with the 70's technology so that you had to came up with Han shooting first instead? George : eeehhhh, aahhhhh....
I guess, having received some spam about mortgages and stuff like that mostly directed to US citizens, it really makes one sad about the whole SPAM issue : even If I were stupid enough to buy one of those things, I would not be elegible for most of the stuff... what a waste of resources... anyway, nothing new in here. Anyway, living in a small country outside the US, a few times I have received spam from local companies. On a couple of times, I just gave them a call asking for the product mentioned in the e-mail, mentioning the spam itself, when said products are something I could have bought at some point in time. Then I tell them that althought I'm doing this this and this, and that I could have had good use for your ethernet/printer/webcam/whatever, I'm writing down their phone numbers, names, brands they are selling and all that stuff just to make sure I'd never buy anything from then or that has to do with them ever again. Yeah, it might be a loosing battle, but it made me fell good (and yes, I not buying nor voting any of you guys ... Uruguay is a small country, and that's certanly a funny way of loosing either sales or votes).
Guess spam is for big countries/markets where you can have enough "market" for the stuff they sell. But in small countries like ours, some "respectable" firms that you see next to shopping centers or in offices down town are using "SPAM" techniques!! it's just awfull!! and even local politicians are jumping into the spam-game (even one that used to be the CEO of the government owned telco company!!! ) (or then again, maybe their adversaries sent the spam :-).
sad... sad ... sad...
The 50Hz-Headache thing is very dependant on the person watching said TV set. Here, we have PAL TV over-the-air and cable (PAL-N, not to be confused with PAL-M which is similar to NTSC but with better colors, according to my tastes (uses NTSC B/W info + "PAL" coding for the color part), and also DirecTV which uses NTSC. I dont get any headaches while watching Over-the-air channels, and certainly miss the "color accuracy" of PAL while looking at DirecTV. Also, if you get headaches with 50Hz TV with PAL/SECAM systems, you can always get a 100Hz TV.
I dont think SCO's case is strenghening. At the same time, the public opinon (and maybe the opinion of the tech people) is not going to be improving if, as in the light of the SSL vulnerabilities, they throw the following statement to CERT for their advisory: " SCO: We are aware of the issue and are diligently working on a fix " Really? Are there any programmer left there or do they have lawyers starting training on "editing with vi"? Or on the other hand, if OpenSSL is GPL'd, what thing other than the "shaky" GPL does give them the right to use them in the future (or in the past, given that it seems they have the problem, since they're working on a fix (or should I say expecting someone else to come up with the fix)) ....