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

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