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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