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Ah, another youngster who didn't hear the one about the IBM mainframe upgrades done by moving a jumper. P.S. it's kind of funny that people who make a living f
by B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago
Ah, another youngster who didn't hear the one about the IBM mainframe upgrades done by moving a jumper.
P.S. it's kind of funny that people who make a living from the sale of goods with zero marginal production cost (i.e. additional copies of a program) get weirded out by "pay-by-value" from hardware manufacturers ...
- PhilWright 11y agoThere is a diesel generator company that makes semi-truck sized mobile generators for backup purposes/remote locations. The difference between the cheap vs expensive variants is around $250,000. They only difference is the cheap one has software to limit the output. Now if you could hack that you could save yourself quarter of a mil.
- B1FF_PSUVM 11y ago> if you could hack that you could save yourself quarter of a mil. Pikers. Sneak in there a hidden octa-core Xeon server running ... ah ... 'cloned' Oracle licences, and that's probably a cool million.