Re: [SLUG] Fw: Ellison Hammers M$ vs UNIX & Need Laptop Memory Source ?

From: Rusty (irisinc@tbi.net)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 21:12:03 EST


I had never heard of this computersurplusoutlet before so I went to the
sight. What a rip-off. These guys are selling hard drives at prices
higher that you can buy them on www.pricewatch.com, neverless ebay.

Rusty

DaLe aTchiSon wrote:
>
> Doc,
>
> Didja look at www.computersurplusoutlet.com ? I was checking out
> memory modules for my Dell and they were only $20 ('course I don't even
> have $20, so I passed for now).
>
> DaLe
>
> --- Doc - KD4E <e.net@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Don't see the sense in encouraging bad behavior but always happy
> > to read someone else pointing out M$'s flaws and hypocrisy (below).
> >
> > I am still looking for a local source of a used 12 or 16meg memory
> > module for my old IBM ThinkPad 360cse (prefer to buy local and
> > support our FL economy in a small way).
> >
> > Anyone seen such a critter or can suggest a source? So far Internet
> > searches only turn up $79. - $89. new modules ... way too pricey for
> > such an old laptop.
> >
> > Thanks! doc
> >
> > > ORACLE'S BRASH AD CAMPAIGN SEEMS TO BE DOING ITS JOB
> > > Oracle's new "Unbreakable" ad campaign -- challenging hackers
> > > everywhere to try to break into the company's servers -- has
> > increased
> > > by tenfold the number of break-in attempts, which are now in the
> > > range of 30,000 a week, most of them naively hoping to exploit a
> > hole in
> > > Microsoft's Windows NT operating system (which Oracle doesn't use).
> > > Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison boasts: "People are sending
> > attacks
> > to
> > > Oracle.com to try to find the NT bugs, but sadly it's like a fly
> > hitting a
> > wind
> > > screen. The wind screen doesn't budge. Microsoft doesn't even use
> > NT on
> > > their own Web site. They use Unix. It's rather ironic." Microsoft
> > executives
> > > were unavailable for comment. (Reuters/USA Today 10 Dec 2001)
> > >
> >
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/12/10/oracle-hackers-challenge.
> > htm
> >
> >
>
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