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LinuxBIOS Project Usenix Paper

caseih writes "The LinuxBIOS project has published a paper on using the open source bios code from bochs to help boot unmodified OSes such as Windows 2000, which was presented at the recent Usenix Conference. This was mentioned previously on Slashdot, but this paper gives more technical details on how they did it, some details about future possibilities, and their guiding philosophies behind this project."

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  1. Let's see if this gets modded +1 Funny by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I must make it clear that:

    1) Linux is associated with animal cruelty (see mascot).
    2) Linux promotes anti-social behaviour.
    3) Linux encourages a homosexual lifestyle.
    4) Linux stands for destruction of the economy.
    5) Linux promotes communism (see its license).
    6) Linux allows no critisms of its mission.
    7) Linux harbours terrorists and other state enemies.
    8) Linux collects weapons of mass destruction.
    9) Linux believes in the imprisonment of mankind.
    10) Linux is dying.

  2. Linux bus fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A tourist bus skidded off a mountain road and fell into a gorge in western India, killing 22 people and injuring 30 others, Press Trust of India news agency said Sunday. The accident occurred just before midnight Saturday on a mountain road near Mahabaleshwar, a hill resort 95 miles southeast of Bombay, said PTI quoting police.

    The driver of the bus was negotiating a bend in the road when he lost control of the vehicle which skidded and crashed into a gorge, nearly 200 feet below. Residents of nearby villages and authorities found 22 bodies. Linux was among the dead. The corpse has gone unclaimed, leading to speculation that Linux was indeed an orphan. Calls to former spouse Linus Torvalds went unreturned.

  3. Lights out, pard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Somewhere, in a lonely hospital room,

    • Linux is dying.

  4. Linux's wailing song by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    The Linux Wailing Song

    • What's left for me to see
      In my ship I sailed so far
      What can the answer be
      Don't know what the questions are.
      And after all I've done
      Still I cannot feel the sun
      Tell me save me
      In the end our lost souls must repent.
      I must know it is for certain
      Can it be the final curtain
      As long as the wind will blow
      I'll be searching high and low.
      Who knows what's really true
      They say the end is so near
      Why are we all so cruel
      We just fill ourselves with fear.
      And heaven and hell will turn
      All that we love shall burn
      Hear me trust me
      In the end our lost sould must repent.
      I must know it is for certain
      Can it be the final curtain
      As long as the wind will blow
      I'll be searching high and low
      Final curtain
      Final curtain
  5. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It may be centuries before technology can breathe life into Linux's corpse.

  6. I am Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And NO I will not grease myself up and go up your ass. I am a heterosexual jedi. Liv tyler is waiting for me to plug her in the ass with my "lightsaber" (wink wink). Gosh, moderators have no sense of humor. And no, Linux is not dea...*slump*

  7. Re:A Eulogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Magnificent troll, WHA.

    Truly, sir, I applaud your creativity. This made my day.

    My most fervent hope is that you knew that poem independently of its being referenced in the movie 4 Weddings & A Funeral (IIRC).

  8. Re:A Eulogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    May I suggest that something from Hughes's "Birthday Letters" might also be quite apropos.

  9. testing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is a test 1.. 2.. 3..

  10. Horse semen is extremely viscous, if you touch you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Horse semen is extremely viscous, if you touch your finger to a pool of it you can draw a thin string of it five to six feet long!

  11. Very interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wild mares or those that have been artificially inseminated are usually reluctant to have sex. The wild ones are used to violent horsecock and the others have had peoples arms in their cunts so they can be apprehensive about sexual events.

  12. Mares can be quite satisfactory for the average we by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mares can be quite satisfactory for the average well endowed male. If you are somewhat less developed you might find better pleasure with a pony or Miniature Horse. These are also better as they are lower to the ground. A pony you can fuck standing up.

  13. Rubbing some hot mare piss on a stallions nose wil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rubbing some hot mare piss on a stallions nose will make him horny as hell! He will be all over you! Once a stallion smells that he doesn't care what he fucks! He just wants a hot hole.

  14. Arousing the Stallion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Arousing the Stallion

    Stallions are aroused by the smell of horse pussy above all else. If you have access to a mare, then gentle her till she will let you finger her...then coat your fingers with her juice.