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

From: DaLe aTchiSon (atch1951@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 14:03:33 EST


Doc,

Sorry I fogot about Consignment Computers on East Bay when I responded
to your original posting. The have all thingslaptop, and some fairly
reasonable prices.

DaLe

> > 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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