Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Put a Tube In It! SAN JOSE, CA, June 3, 2002 -- AOpen Inc. announced today that it is introducing the world's first vacuum tube motherboard, coinciding with Intel's announcement of the Pentium® 4 845E chipset. The new AX4B-533 Tube Motherboard incorporates the novel, modern-day adoption of an idea that was spawned by the invention of the electric light bulb by Thomas A. Edison back in 1879 - the vacuum tube. This is wild...check out these pictures of board. Talk about a step into the past. I can remember as a kid standing while my Grandfather tested tubes in a machine that you could find in any general store, or electronics shop. Funny to think that we have stepped back to a technology that only audio fanatics have been using these past 30 years....mj 2:12:00 PM

Let's put Verisign to death The best thing to come out of the Enron debacle was the swift and unrelenting vilification of Andersen. Enron may have been run by a pack of theiving, lying bastards, but that didn't come as a surprise to anyone -- they were in the energy-trading business, not the trustworthiness business. But Andersen, ah, they were in the trustworthiness business. Their entire value was as a disinterested, brutally honest third-party auditor. It's become clear -- to my surprise -- that Andersen can't ever rehabilitate their reputation. They have been sentenced to death by the marketplace for betraying its trust. Another trustworthiness company, Verisign, deserves the same swift retribution. Verisign is a certifier of certificates, a manager of critical Internet infrastructure, and a pack of bumbling, cheating incompetents. Their Network Solutions division -- whose practices Verisign endorses with liberal sprinklings of logos and checkmarks -- is notorious for failing to do its duty to the Internet in maintaining the integrity of the Domain Name system that is in its charge. [boingboing.net] Over the years I have had the pleasure of working with both Verisign and NetSol. It was a marrige from hell. Two companies with no ethics or values. My wife recently responded out of fear to one of Verisigns letters and renewed my domain. I had planned on moving to a new registrar. I guess their marketing worked. NetSol is a classic monopoly that still thinks like a monopoly. Death by a thousand cuts would be a good solution...mj 9:59:57 AM

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