Because EFI has its own filing system that lives on a reserved part of the hard disk, it can become the standard home for a whole set of utilities that have always had an awkward fit with the BIOS: things like disk partitioners, multiple OS boot controllers, system backup and restore, will be natural EFI applications.
Am I the only one that finds this part a little bit scary?
Unless the reserved part of the hard disk is very well protected surely virus writers will take about 10 seconds to work out how to flatten your EFI filesystem thus causing you to lose your OS boot controller etc?
One of the best books I've read by new SF authors of recently has been by a guy called Richard Morgan.
The book is called Altered Carbon and deals with a world where there is no such thing as death in the traditional sense.
All human conciousness is stored in a cortical implant called a stack which, in the event of death, your conciousness can be downloaded into another body and you continue as the same person albeit possibly in a different body.
The book itself is very violent and has certain shades of William Gibson to it. Fans of Gibson or cyberpunk in general won't be disappointed!
Why bother with broadband at the South Pole when British Telecom can't even be arsed to enable ADSL in my local exchange because it's "not commerically viable to upgrade the exchange"?:(
Didn't they have some sort of exoskeleton that joined to them when they wanted to kick some ass? I seem to remember they had bikes and planes that attached themselves to their exoskeletons as well.
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Am I the only one that finds this part a little bit scary?
Unless the reserved part of the hard disk is very well protected surely virus writers will take about 10 seconds to work out how to flatten your EFI filesystem thus causing you to lose your OS boot controller etc?
Z.
The book is called Altered Carbon and deals with a world where there is no such thing as death in the traditional sense.
All human conciousness is stored in a cortical implant called a stack which, in the event of death, your conciousness can be downloaded into another body and you continue as the same person albeit possibly in a different body.
The book itself is very violent and has certain shades of William Gibson to it. Fans of Gibson or cyberpunk in general won't be disappointed!
You can read the Amazon reviews of it here.
Z.
Why bother with broadband at the South Pole when British Telecom can't even be arsed to enable ADSL in my local exchange because it's "not commerically viable to upgrade the exchange"? :(
Fantastic! I'm going to be hit by a big rock on my 43rd birthday! ;)
Still, I suppose it's an unusual way to go...
Am I the only one who remembers The Centurions?
Didn't they have some sort of exoskeleton that joined to them when they wanted to kick some ass? I seem to remember they had bikes and planes that attached themselves to their exoskeletons as well.
Poweeeerrr Xtttrrrrrreeeeemmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Amazingly, looking at their news page, they're still going!
Come on, where is the damn card guys? ;)