Re: CAS attack

bad sector wrote:

> About the least eye-stressing backgrounds, ahemmm, I HATE to say this,
> but *Bill Gates WAS (almost) right* on the money with his
> windows-green :-)

Don't think that was his choice, just the only available phosphor color
for a monochrome CRT.  When amber phosphor came out, oooh, it was so
much easier to read.  Just don't turn up the brightness too high on
either, or there's be a lot of blooming.  Green has a burn-in problem.
Amber could be turned up on brightness without burn-in.  Man, I'm old.

Bill sold Seattle DOS to IBM as MS-DOS, and used existing parts to build
a PC.  There were computers before the Age of Gates.

> Tupolev spent a LOT of effort to come up with what 
> THEY insisted was the best: 
> 
> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dd/c7/e7/ddc7e797e50dfab4a9660bc585c6dd5a.jpg

That teal colored panel is very distracting, and why a non-black laptop
case would be, too.  Your Boing pic makes the console better disappear
with its dark gray color.  I prefer black, but not glossy black (I don't
want to see reflections).

> the lighting sometimes makes them look more 'inkish':
> 
> https://ctl.s6img.com/society6/img/9tlWo27iuyU3BX6F0X7xdeBcopo/w_1500/bags/medium/close/~artwork,fw_3500,fh_3500,fx_-879,iw_5258,ih_3500/s6-original-art-uploads/society6/uploads/misc/3f57e92bbb8641479236eb1f04e5f6dd/~~/tupolev-tu-154-cockpit-bags.jpg

Maybe a color-blind person chose the panel color.

> They were right (before Billy even) and now the 
> american makers are sliding over to much lighter 
> beige-like colors as well:
> 
> https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/603831/files/10668254/890x820x2/aviation-training-graphics-cockpit-training-poster.jpg

Or to differentiate themself from a competitor, or maximize visibility
of printing on the panel in low-light.

> In research labs Tupolev's is being slightly passed 
> by shades just a touch closer to very light John-Deere 
> green.. no rocket science, ever since humans have 
> slithered out of the oceans the human eye will tire 
> of sea blue before grass green.
> 
> https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2022/05/10/PDEM/6b3dc539-e6d4-4ed4-bf90-08149e06db5a-280162524_7477863915588659_4375377387365353225_n.jpg?crop=1637,921,x0,y921&width=1600&height=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp

Humans (not primordials) have 10 times as many green receptors than red.
That's why I use a green laser sight on my home defense handguns.  Red
disappears faster in daylight than green.  Both are equal in low-light
or dark, like when an intruder breaks into your home at night.  Green
LEDs consume more power than red LEDs, and why red laser sights are
cheaper than green laser sights (but recent LED development has lowered
the power consumption of green to be comparable to red).

>> I selected as many of your specs as newegg.com could match (no filter on
>> multiple SSD/HDD), and got 0 (zero) results even when trying their
>> advanced search filters (and LOTS of checkmarks to select your spec, or
>> high).  Somebody might have exactly what you specified, or nobody does
>> and your specs are a pipe dream.  Seems you want in a laptop format what
>> can be got in a desktop build.
> 
> I was in my twenties when I once entered a shoe store
> in the days when them very pointed shoes were the fad.

A long time ago, there were no left and right shoes.  A shoe fit on
either foot.  Wasn't until 1818 when someone in Philadelphia realized
the outside arch of the foot is different from left to right, and
created left and right side shoes.  

> Speaking of which, it's now 3 days with no laptop, I don't miss it on
> bit and I might just not replace it at all.

Keep it.  Mine was a savior when my desktop got fried by a lightning
strike to the house (which took out a lot of other stuff).  Took a
couple weeks to find, order, ship, and build a new desktop.  However, I
couldn't stand the keyboard, touchpad, and monitor on the laptop, so I
used my then-unusable desktop keyboard, mouse, and monitor.  Kept me
working until my sole desktop got replaced.  This was before the age of
smartphones and tablets of which I have a each.