The Mother of all BIOS Guides

Joey Braff writes "Many of you have probably heard of the famous BOG - BIOS Optimization Guide. For those who have not, make sure you take a look at this mega-guide with more than 300 BIOS settings and they just added 10 more! If you doubt its authenticity, note that its author is a doctor and the guide is also available as a book."

Comments

Doctor?

[Blakey Rat]

Oh, of course. How silly of me to doubt a doctor would be the perfect person to outline all of our BIOS settings. For a minute there I was thinking a engineer would be a better choice.

Re:try putting up articles on time

[CUclimber]

This reeks of self-promotion here. Since when does Slashdot try to pass advertisements off as stories?

Re:try putting up articles on time

[woolio]

This has been happening ever since I first started reading Slasdot 2-3 years ago...

I believe the editors let an inflammatory article "slip" by one or twice a week go increase ad revenue:

This "article" went up on SUNDAY night... Which means most ./'ers will be spending their WORKday tomorrow (and the rest of the week) posting rebuttals, reading others rants, etc... Since this is a fairly specialized topic (BIOS config), unless the editors allow the summary to be inflammatory, most people won't bother to click the "Read More..." link...

This will probably be one of those articles that hits +500 messages real quick... Each message means multiple pages were loaded (login/preview, compose message, post response)... and thats only for those who bother to comment! Many many people will read the comments just to see what other are saying (since they will see so many were posted).

I think it is just a quick way for CowboyNeal to get some extra $$$ real quick. They [the editors] could at least be honest about it....

Hooray!

[Zanthany]

Can anybody say *cough*shameless plug*cough cough*?

Good lord. It's almost as bad as a pr0n site with a "Click here for h0tt EEPROM action!" link.

Re:"... note that its author is a doctor ..."

[Kymermosst]

I have performed tech support for math/computer science professors with doctoral degrees. I actually got the infamous "my machine won't turn on" issue that is resolved by plugging it in. Ph.D.'s don't necessarily reflect intelligence or for another matter, credibility.

As my algorithms teacher routinely quoted Dijkstra: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

I firmly believe that some CIS professors have never actually written a real program for a real compiler running on a real computer.