Hello from Gregg C Levine If you can't convince them, confuse them. That being said, I prefer the systems from Star Trek. I'll leave that to the imagination of everyone here. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Alan Altmark > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 6:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] For the security weenies > > On Monday, 08/02/2004 at 05:37 EST, Adam Thornton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's really even safer if you just never build the machine at all. > > Nonexistent machines are the safest kind. Plus they're easy to brag > > about: "My imaginary 75-Petaflop Helium-3-cooled system with 14 > > googolplexbytes of disk." > > Helium *3*? *3*?!?!? Systems with H3 cooling were discovered to have > serious security flaws. The stupid BIOS had a function that could control > pump speed. It turns out a clever program could "pulse" the pumps > creating sort of a Morse code equivalent. That wasn't so bad except that > the VRUs on the first-generation "H1s" could hear it (low frequency) and > it would flat-line, ignoring voice input. You couldn't even tell it to > reboot - you actually had to find a keyboard to plug in and CAD. Only > because the H1s were so popular (and numerous) did this problem with the > H3s ever come to light. > > You might want to consider upgrading to H3+. Imaginary H4s are due out > next year allowing 100 PFLOPs, but the 6 month wait will be interminable. > > Engineers. Whaddaya gonna do with 'em? > > Chuckie > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX- > 390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
