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e1000e Bug Squashed — Linux Kernel Patch Released
ruphus13 writes "As mentioned earlier, there was a kernel bug in the alpha/beta version of the Linux kernel (up to 2.6.27 rc7), which was corrupting (and rendering useless) the EEPROM/NVM of adapters. Thankfully, a patch is now out that prevents writing to the EEPROM once the driver is loaded, and this follows a patch released by Intel earlier in the week. From the article: 'The Intel team is currently working on narrowing down the details of how and why these chipsets were affected. They also plan on releasing patches shortly to restore the EEPROM on any adapters that have been affected, via saved images using ethtool -e or from identical systems.' This is good news as we move towards a production release!"
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If you find this post offensive, don't read it! THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING! I am what I am because of how apes behave.
Old woman, what with the spanking Windows with quicker bug fixes or the oral abatement in the Mac vs PC ads?
Windows tries its best to hide behind all kinds of Unix technology, and all it comes down to is who to strawman the blame of their poor implementation of Unix to how Microsoft finally is forced to write its own obfuscated code to replace its NT from VMS to what it has become today. My MS-DOS 5 Apache 1 server with the GUI Spectra is far more responsive for desktop publishing while actively serving webpages that people should be aware of the FUD coming out of modern Microsoft. They are pumping out more Operating Systems averting from scientific design towards the graces privies of a bastard legislature that there is no productive computing willingly fruiting from Microsoft to prove the subsistence and superior design to their prior titles. Microsoft yesterday is superior to Microsoft today. Hello, Micros~1 != Micros~2, and freeDOS just keeps getting better that a XVesa with multiple QEMU of freeDOS is becoming the better implementation of multitasking than XP or Vista.
I am the nightmare of nightmares.
OJ walks out of the hands of the law AGAIN and this time with an even bigger grin !! His comment was, "If I can kill two white people and get off, I knew this was going to be a cake walk". Court observers agreed.
It's been a slow news week. Maybe the economic crunch is having an effect on geek news...
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
..after using it in Linux, it is not recognizable by any PC.
Don't know what pre teen modded you insightful, but if you think Intel or any other company goes around destroying hardware for bad publicity, cost of liability, or a secret conspiracy with the Bildebergers, then well, I suppose you too believe "accidents" only occur with babies and old people.