So, how exactly are you going to pay for your kids to go to college? Or do you want to put them at the same disadvantage that you were at? And are you going to have worked enough to have money set aside for retirement, or are you going to rely on your children to care for you?
It's not just a question about whether you and your wife can deal with squeezing by, your kids will have to deal with it too.
During development, I've corrupted a couple EEPROMs, but that's why development boards have socketed EEPROMs and a burner 5 feet away. In the field though, I haven't received word of the Windows or Linux flash utilities corrupting a BIOS, especially in the way you're mentioning.
Something sounds a little weird about the BIOS for your ASUS board tho. I would expect that if there was a problem during flashing that you'd be getting checksum or CRC errors detected during POST, and that POST wouldn't allow you to continue. I guess if early POST was corrupted and you can't get far enough to checksum the ROM, but then I don't see how you'd be able to boot a floppy to flash in DOS.
My guess is that the Windows flash from ASUS was an afterthought. The Windows and Linux flash utils that I work on are part of the product from charter to GA, so our testers have tested the crap out of them.
I see... Incidentally, how much time did you take to prepare the submissions to the USPTO? Or if you had some lawyers prepare the submissions, how much out of your pocket did you spend on them? And those computers that you were working on when you came up with those ideas, how much did you pay for them?
Oh that's right, your company handled all that for you.
If you don't like having a steady paycheck and would rather try to hit home runs on licensing patents to companies, stop whining and quit. I'm sure there's someone else who would love to have your job.
by the time the last sandal-shod Apple engineer has been driven nuts by some east coast guys that wear ties
I'm a developer for IBM and am in my office during normal business hours in North Carolina (East Coast). I'm wearing a t-shirt and jeans, as are a lot of my colleagues. It would be difficult to find anyone on the site (~13,000 people) wearing a suit coat or a tie. Your mid-nineties generalizations don't apply anymore.
IBM has a site in Austin that does some of the development on the eserver xSeries line (PC servers). However, since Sam P. lives in Armonk, NY, the previous poster is correct about the location of Austin's nose.
Similar to the trackball motif, I use a TrackPoint keyboard (the little eraser thingy between the G and the H keys) instead of a regular mouse. This has had two effects:
1) My wrist is no longer sore from clicking and 2) I work a heck of a lot faster. I never noticed how much time I was losing by taking my right hand off the keyboard to mouse!
Yeah, I can see how your fast food analogy applies to programming...
All kidding aside, I think we have all gone home early once in a while because we needed to blow off a little steam. Quitting != leaving early one day.
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Q: What do you call a couple who uses NFP (Natural Family Planning)?
A: Parents!
So, how exactly are you going to pay for your kids to go to college? Or do you want to put them at the same disadvantage that you were at? And are you going to have worked enough to have money set aside for retirement, or are you going to rely on your children to care for you?
It's not just a question about whether you and your wife can deal with squeezing by, your kids will have to deal with it too.
During development, I've corrupted a couple EEPROMs, but that's why development boards have socketed EEPROMs and a burner 5 feet away. In the field though, I haven't received word of the Windows or Linux flash utilities corrupting a BIOS, especially in the way you're mentioning.
Something sounds a little weird about the BIOS for your ASUS board tho. I would expect that if there was a problem during flashing that you'd be getting checksum or CRC errors detected during POST, and that POST wouldn't allow you to continue. I guess if early POST was corrupted and you can't get far enough to checksum the ROM, but then I don't see how you'd be able to boot a floppy to flash in DOS.
My guess is that the Windows flash from ASUS was an afterthought. The Windows and Linux flash utils that I work on are part of the product from charter to GA, so our testers have tested the crap out of them.
Not defending 50 Cent, but you might want to get that whole uncontrollable vomiting thing looked at.
Why not use WinPE/BartPE with the Windows-based BIOS updates? Or use a live-Linux CD with a Linux-based BIOS update?
BTW - I know that BIOS updates for Linux exist because that's part of what I do for a living!
My Neuros does! http://www.neurosaudio.com/
You'd also better hope that said EEPROM is socketed!
I see... Incidentally, how much time did you take to prepare the submissions to the USPTO? Or if you had some lawyers prepare the submissions, how much out of your pocket did you spend on them? And those computers that you were working on when you came up with those ideas, how much did you pay for them?
Oh that's right, your company handled all that for you.
If you don't like having a steady paycheck and would rather try to hit home runs on licensing patents to companies, stop whining and quit. I'm sure there's someone else who would love to have your job.
Good point, the only things IBM is involved in are desktops and laptops.
IBM's don't need floppies for BIOS updates either:
BladeCenter HS20 (8832) BIOS update on Linux
BladeCenter HS20 (8832) BIOS update on Windows
These updates flash the BIOS from inside Linux or Windows (i.e., no rebooting into DOS or using a floppy).
Tinfoil hat much?
One IBMer opens up the intranet web page, sees the top story about SP2, and posts the info to Slashdot.
No puppetry... just normal IBMers who post to Slashdot.
Only no-ops use TOTALS.
Now go get me some coffee!
Or you haven't heard of the Neuros: it has Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WMA support.
They've got a dedicated development team based in Chicago and they just shared the source to their syncing application.
Disclaimer: I don't work for these guys, but I do own a Neuros 20GB and love the thing.
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It sounds like you are taking the anger you feel towards strangers and directing it at your family.
Acting rude to your family shows that you have no respect for them.
IBM has a site in Austin that does some of the development on the eserver xSeries line (PC servers). However, since Sam P. lives in Armonk, NY, the previous poster is correct about the location of Austin's nose.
College kids have parents and parents have assets that can be sold to cover damages.
Yeah, it used to be called Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company back in 1911. CTR merger in 1911
Similar to the trackball motif, I use a TrackPoint keyboard (the little eraser thingy between the G and the H keys) instead of a regular mouse. This has had two effects:
1) My wrist is no longer sore from clicking and
2) I work a heck of a lot faster. I never noticed how much time I was losing by taking my right hand off the keyboard to mouse!
Yeah, I can see how your fast food analogy applies to programming...
All kidding aside, I think we have all gone home early once in a while because we needed to blow off a little steam. Quitting != leaving early one day.
The processors are in powers of two because the IBM xSeries 335 and 345 machines are dual processor machines.