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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."
- deal with the inevitable.
- grieve for your loss.
- move on.
Never let your emotions get mixed up with something as silly as a computer operating system. It isn't healthy. So Linux fails. Big whoop. Deal with it and move on.Hope this helps.
Hrm. The paper that was linked to is not well formatted for web publication. It does not wrap at all. Somebody got stuck between some [pre] tags, huh?
Oct. 23 -- Linux resumed receiving life-sustaining care yesterday in a
Florida hospital room, but many experts said there is virtually no hope
that it will ever recover, despite its fan boys' desperate hopes.
"IF IT'S over a year, Linux's not ever going to get up," said Fred Plum, a
professor emeritus at Weill Cornell College in New York. "You'd just
don't see it. It just doesn't happen."
Linux, 12, has been in a persistent vegetative
state since its heart stopped for unknown reasons in 1995. A feeding
tube in BSD's stomach was removed this past Wednesday after its husband,
Linus Torvalds, who said his wife had told him she (Linux) would not want to
be kept alive under such circumstances, won a long series of court
battles to have life-sustaining nourishment withdrawn so she (Linux) could
die.
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.
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.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message Linux Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
Linux was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that it would last for ever; I was wrong.
Elegy For *BSD
I am a Linux user
and I try hard to be brave
That is a tall order
Linux's foot is in the grave.
I tap at my toy keyboard
and whistle a happy tune
but keeping happy's so hard,
Linux died so soon.
Each day I wake and softly sob
Nightfall finds me crying
Not only am I a zit faced slob
but Linux is dying.
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
1. You can not play games on it.
2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
4. There is no support available for it.
5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
7. You have to compile everything and know C.
8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
9. It is incompatiable with BSD.
10.It is dying.
It may be centuries before technology can breathe life into Linux's corpse.
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*
...to provide this BIOS on new systems.
Or is there some Mysterious Subterfuge preventing this?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
this is a test 1.. 2.. 3..
Doesn't sound like it boots DOS. If you want a "PC", it's gotta boot DOS.
(And I'm not joking -- every new P4 that shows up at work boots first into DOS to pull down the Ghost image.)
It's interesting because Open Firmware is based around a FORTH interpreter, using which high-level BIOS code is implemented. This code is portable across different binary architectures. This has interesting implications for the initialisation of peripherals. It also means you can program your own BIOS at a command line at system start up.
There are loads of other uses, and it's already an establishged Open standard, and has been in use for well over a decade.
Stick Men
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!
A full grown stallion's cock, when fully erect, will measure some two to three feet long. It can be three to six inches thick at the base, to about two inches thick at the head. Horses are somewhat different from other animals in the way their cock head works.
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.
Horse cum has a nice flat taste to it...not at all bitter like man's cum. You can easily drink cups of it with no discomfort.
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.
Horses are somewhat different from other animals in the way their cock head works. When a horse is fully erect and excited and ready to mount, his cock head is somewhat pointed and not as thick as might be normally observed.
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.
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.
NOONE SHOULD ATTEMPT VAGINAL OR ANAL INTERCOURSE WITH A STALLION unless they have are experienced in fist fucking or have taken a large dog in to the max ( IE knot and all). A horse has an enormus cock and could do serious damage to someone who is not prepared.
Kthx BYE!