[TML] Does "Operation Reset" Make Sense?

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 3 Dec 2007 at 1:44, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> At 11:54 PM -0800 12/2/07, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> >On 2 Dec 2007 at 22:39, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >  > be "fun".  The software used in the various steps is quite
> >>  specialized, often very expensive, and often requiring specific
> >>  license keys.  All in all
> >
> >"All in all" what?
> 
> Heh...  Excellent question, I seem to have gotten distracted when I 
> went back to add that bit, and am not sure what my point was.
> 
> Probably something about how getting all the pieces of software, and 
> all the pieces of hardware needed to setup shop wouldn't be very 
> easy.  In such a situation you could quite conceivably have entire 
> scenario's built around nothing more than obtaining specific pieces 
> of software, and it would be a near impossible task.

I recall the fun of using some multi-thousand dollar program for 
doing data modelling(?) diagrams for program design. We had a grand 
total of 5 dongles, and you had to have one attached to your printer 
port or the program wouldn't run.

If the EMP fried the dongle, you are *so* screwed.

--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com