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BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years
Stoobalou writes with news that MSI is planning a big shift towards UEFI (universal extensible firmware interface) at the end of 2010, possibly spelling the beginning of the end of the BIOS as we know it. "It's the one major part of the computer that's still reminiscent of the PC's primordial, text-based beginnings, but the familiarly clunky BIOS could soon be on its deathbed, according to MSI. The motherboard maker says it's now making a big shift towards point-and-click UEFI systems, and it's all going to kick off at the end of this year. Speaking to Thinq, a spokesperson for the company in Taiwan who wished to remain anonymous said, 'MSI will start to phase in UEFI starting from the end of this year, and we expect it will be widely adopted after three years.'"
The problem with the standard MBR is that it does not support _partitions_ (note partitions, not disks) greater than 2 TB.
WTF?
Seriously, I don't care how big of a drive you have, if your BOOT partition is > 2 TB, you're doing it wrong.
Its the same reason I've always been opposed to point-and-click server administration. If you can't handle a command line, you have no business administering a server!
I don't think you're in much of a position to talk about trolling.
OK, you're not Noyce. In which case, you might tell her to vary her prose a bit. She always refers to "Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site." And wait, "Tom" always seems to be a link to your Slashdot home page...
No, I take it back. You're a sock puppet. Which is consistent with your various other bits of bullshit.