From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 19966 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2023 03:35:29 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 28 Feb 2023 03:35:29 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185B2432E8; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:35:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from nsstlmta14p.bpe.bigpond.com (nsstlmta14p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.14]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05D01432E6 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:35:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.24.4]) by nsstlfep14p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20230228033513.YWXK6747.nsstlfep14p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:35:13 +1100 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedvhedrudeluddgheelucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuuffpveftpgfvgffnuffvtfetpdfqfgfvnecuuegrihhlohhuthemucegtddtnecunecujfgurhepfffhvffujgfkfhgfgggtsehttddttddtredvnecuhfhrohhmpeffrghvvgcujfhorhhsfhgrlhhluceouggrvhgvsehhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrgheqnecuggftrfgrthhtvghrnhepkeeiteejueeuhfefgeeuvdduieefvedugfevtdffkefhffejkefhuddtteehtefhnecukfhppeduuddtrddugedurdduleefrddvfeefnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrghrrghmpehhvghloheprghnvghurhhinhdrhhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgpdhinhgvthepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffedpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgpdhnsggprhgtphhtthhopedupdhrtghpthhtohepthhuhhhssehtuhhhshdrohhrghdprhgvvhfkrfeptghpvgdquddutddqudeguddqudelfedqvdeffedrnhhsfidrrghsphdrthgvlhhsthhrrgdrnhgvthdpghgvohfkrfeptegfpdfovfetjfhoshhtpehnshhsthhlrhhgudduphdqshhvtg X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (5.8.812) id 6392A87C0F508608 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:35:12 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 31S3ZALC001285 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:35:10 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 31S3ZA4k001282 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:35:10 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:35:09 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <58626A0B-EF9C-4920-8E20-CE0C4210BA6A@planet.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID-Hash: IOWNQT44F2ZG4OUKZOJ7KXNLALVDECCI X-Message-ID-Hash: IOWNQT44F2ZG4OUKZOJ7KXNLALVDECCI X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early GUI on Linux List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Sun, 26 Feb 2023, John Cowan wrote: > However, most configuration errors can't reduce your hardware to a > useless pile of junk, whereas older CRT monitors could definitely be > destroyed if the configuration was too far off nominal. Not to mention MS-DOS malware that used to set the horizontal deflection rate really high and creating massive inductive spikes, or the vertical deflection to zero and burning out the phosphor... -- Dave