It's not really a problem to have an AMD cpu with integrated memory controller in the BTX form factor. The AMD cpu would be located more centered to the board and memory slots while being rotated 45 degrees from the Intel cpu orientation.
The AMD design would still meet all the mechanical requirements of the BTX form factor.
If BIOS is Going to be an OS, Then I Choose Linux!
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More Power To The Firmware
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What's happening here with EFI is that the BIOS has now grown to become an OS. If all you want BIOS to do is init the hardware and then jump to an OS then that's all the BIOS should be, just some init code to set up memory, chipset registers and cache so that it can jump to an OS for all the rest. But if you want the BIOS to do a whole lot more than just call it an OS and use an OS with lots of support with drivers already written. And for this BIOS that's really acting and grown to be an OS, I choose Linux!
Ron on the LinuxBIOS list put this best earlier today:
You are not going to get the hardware startup code in Tiano. You're going to get the code that runs on top of the hardware startup code, and gives you a DOS-like startup system.
Don't expect to suddenly see northbridge code on the intel web site. Part of the goal of Tiano/EFI is to make the release of such information unneeded. There is a silver lining. Supposedly, the interfaces from the hidden hardware code to Tiano will be public. This means you can conceivably chuck Tiano and put your own thing in its place, which could be... a Linux kernel! You might need a small shim from the hidden hardware code to Linux, which could in turn be... LinuxBIOS!
This is how Linux NetWorx built the Alpha LinuxBIOS:
- hidden hardware code (Alpha SROM) [ not changed, left in place]
- LinuxBIOS [with Alpha support, minus memory setup code]
- Linux Worked fine, should work for Tiano platforms. In other words, the binary support code for Tiano could solve some problems for us:
- if we don't get the specs for the Intel chips (likely), then we can just leave the "hidden hardware code" in place, and flash over Tiano, replacing Tiano with LinuxBIOS. I believe Linux Labs did something like this for their ClearWater port 2 years or so ago.
- Makes porting to other Intel mobos easier.
Why the CPL, not the GPL? So that 3rd party vendors can add incompatibilities -- err, value -- and charge you for it.
Put another way, Tiano could be a linuxbios payload. I don't have much use for a Tiano/EFI payload, however. Tiano/EFI is very complex and if I'm going to put a complex thing like that into flash I'd much rather it be linux. I don't want something that's most of the work of an OS but not much of the capability, which pretty much describes Tiano/EFI.
I'm intrigued that they are open sourcing it. I had for years only heard that it would be available under a type of NDA. I think LinuxBIOS is part of the push for open sourcing this type of software. But I doubt you're going to see Phoenix et. al. open source their 'value-added' Tiano, which means a source fork is built into the model. That's trouble for us as customers -- we already suffer daily with all these BIOS extensions and undocumented, hidden gotchas. We already say this once: there was supposed to be a standard "hand off" on IA64 for startup. I found out that this "standard" handoff was modified by several vendors: it was no longer standard.
Let's hope the "hidden hardware code" to Tiano interface remains standard. Also, if this code is anything like the EFI code, it won't build under Linux, only builds under Windows. It won't "just work" for us.
All that said, I think Intel is doing a good thing by open sourcing the Tiano system, and I congratulate them on doing so.
Q9: Is it possible to write software that will run on Intel's processors with 64-bit extension technology, and AMD's 64-bit capable processors?
A9: With both companies designing entirely different architectures, the question is whether the operating system and software ported to each processor will run on the other processor, and the answer is yes in most cases. However, Intel processors support additional features, like the SSE3 instructions and Hyper-Threading Technology, which are not supported on non-Intel platforms. As such, we believe developers will achieve maximum performance and stability by designing specifically for Intel architectures and by taking advantage of Intel's breadth of software tools and enabling services.
Pioneering work by physicists and engineers at ANU to build a cheap, simple and robust wireless communication system may soon see regional Australia getting a workable connection to the Internet. The system is called BushLAN, and it's all about bridging that 'last mile'.
Regional Australia has never had adequate access to the Internet. It's either not available, too expensive or unreliable. A major part of the problem is the 'last mile' of access. This 'last mile' is the connection between the central communications hub in a local town to individual residences and businesses. Unfortunately, the 'last mile' is usually much more than just a mile. In rural areas such as Cowra, for example, the last mile has been measured to be anywhere from three to 100 kilometres from the town centre. In more isolated areas it can be much greater.
The cost of cabling to only a few customers over these distances is prohibitive and current wireless solutions aren't practical. Satellite connections are expensive and usually require a cable connection for a user to send information out (ie they receive downloads from a satellite but send information out via the telephone). There are ground-based wireless connections commercially available but these operate in microwave frequencies using directional antennas that require a clear line of sight to function. Given Australia's sparse population and frequently hilly terrain this would require a large number of repeater stations.
Dr Gerard Borg is a plasma physicist at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering. His work with radio transmission has convinced him that the last mile could be effectively bridged using the low-VHF radio spectrum. This part of the radio spectrum has much longer wavelengths than the microwave frequencies used by other wireless systems and this allows signals to be transmitted further without the need for expensive repeaters or satellites. What's more, it doesn't depend on line of sight as the signal has the ability to go around mountains and other large obstacles in the landscape. At the moment the low VHF radio spectrum is used to transmit TV signals but with the decommissioning of some analogue TV bands in 2008 (digital TV uses higher frequency radio) there's an opportunity to switch this unused spectrum over to data connections for regional Australia.
BushLAN (Bush - Local Area Network), as the system is called, has the potential to provide remote users in regional Australia with a permanent, high-quality Internet connection (at more than 100 kb/sec) at an affordable price. However, to get BushLAN up and running, many technical and marketing aspects of this multi-faceted system have to be developed first. To achieve his goal, Dr Borg has enlisted the assistance of a wide range of students from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology who have taken on the various jobs associated with the system as part of their Honours, Masters or Doctoral projects.
"The practical nature of BushLAN and its relevance to regional Australia really attracts the students," says Dr Borg. "Once they're involved, they become highly motivated about what we're trying to achieve. Quite often they finish the formal part of their work for their thesis, but then they stay on working on the project through the Christmas vacation."
The next step for BushLAN is to set up local trials to test transmissions, and then work with interested Internet service providers to see how BushLAN can be integrated into existing information systems. The hope is that with BushLAN as part of the system, the 'final mile' will no longer be an unbeatable hurdle.
Science Reporter is brought to you by the National Institute of Bioscience, the National Institute of Engineering and Information Sciences, the National Institute for the Environment, the National Institute of Health and Human Sciences and the National Institute of Physical Sciences. Written by David Salt.
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Yes, for some boards this is already true. If it's not already supported then you have to either work on the support yourself or wait for someone to do the work for you.
The keyboard scan, power managment (power buttons, cover open/closed, battery charger supervision) on a laptop is typically done separate from the cpu and chipset with a 16 or 32 bit micro (typically by SMSC, Renasas or Fujitsu) with its own firmware with lots of GPIO and keyscan I/O. These controllers are generally tied in with the SMbus for SPD, system management (temp & Voltage monitors) and FLASH ROM BIOS write enables.
Has anyone come across any open source projects that have started work on this?
You can find low cost mini-ATX mainboards at O.N.E. Technologies. They produce all mainboard formats including mini-ITX mainboards at costs much lower than embedded vendors and nearer to the costs of mass produced mainboards. They will custom tailor mainboards to your specs and turn around protos in only a few weeks.
High-Reliability motherboards don't use electrolytic capacitors for their onboard power supplies anyway. You'll only find these types on the typical built like crap (found in the majority of PC's built today)high volume motherboards. 5000 hour lifetime is what you'll find for typical ratings on low esr and long life electrolytic capacitors. This is only 200 days of continuous use.
High-Rel designs use very low esr tantalum caps. like these T530 Series
The Sony PlayStation 5, a 2,048-bit console featuring a 45-Ghz trinary processor, CineReal graphics booster with 2-gig biotexturing, and an RSP connector for 360-degree online-immersion play. See the specs at Playstation 5
Comments From the Article That Sum it All Up
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New Look at ADSL2
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"The real problem is that the guys in charge have so very little motivating them to implement new and better things..."
"Why bother? Do we actually think for a moment that US telcos will adopt anything decent? Please...if it's not a patented US currency printing press or a customer cornholing machine...they won't be interested."
And even better...
"For example, on longer phone lines, ADSL2 will provide a data rate increase of 50 kbps--a significant increase. This data rate increase also produces an increase in reach of about 600 feet, which translates to an increase in coverage area of about six percent, or 2.5 square miles."
Wooohooo...a whopping 50kbps, 600 feet...WOW...totally worthless! In about a zillion years they'll have enough range to reach me at 60,000ft from the nearest CO. Hell, telcos can even measure their copper runs accurate to 600ft. I'm serviced at my office at an actual copper length of 19,200ft...while Verizon originally estimated under 15,000ft.
Wow! It's good for a total of 8,000 feet! Instead of screwing around with short length technologies, why don't they develope something that has far better range.. like 15-30 miles from the telco...
Sorry to repost here, but the first try was truncated.
True Open Standard Blade Servers are just around the corner. Up until now the current offerings by RLX, HP and IBM have been proprietary blade server designs. The next generation blade servers will be based on an open hardware standards where different vendors blades can be swapped with each other the same way that Compact-PCI is a standard blade design where all cpu boards are interchangeable with each other.
Low power CPU's are needed for the current crop of blade server designs since they forgot to deal with any heat management. The current blade designs rely entirely on airflow across the cpu package for cooling in a 2U or 3U high blade with 0.7" between each blade. Oops!!... how many blades can you stuff into a rack with each processor pulling 30 - 60 watts each and keep the temp down under 70 deg C at the cpu package?
The next gen of blade servers will have at least 3X the current density of cpus (1K cpus per 42U rack) while still using Xeon and other x86 processors that produce over 60W of heat each.
True Open Standard Blade Servers are just around the corner. Up until now the current offerings by RLX, HP and IBM have been proprietary blade server designs. The next generation blade servers will be based on an open hardware standards where different vendors blades can be swapped with each other the same way that Compact-PCI is a standard blade design where all cpu boards are interchangeable with each other.
Low power CPU's are needed for the current crop of blade server designs since they forgot to deal with any heat management. The current blade designs rely entirely on airflow across the cpu package for cooling in a 2U or 3U high blade with 0.7" between each blade. Oops!!... how many blades can you stuff into a rack with each processor pulling 30 - 60 watts each and keep the temp down to 1K cpus per 42U rack) while still using Xeon and other x86 processors that produce over 60W of heat each.
The problem is that motherboard vendors still tend to only use 2M-bit flash devices and only route the address lines from the chipset to the flash for 2M bit flash BIOS devices.
An 8M-bit flash BIOS kit would need to have its memory footprint paged into the 2M-bit memory space that is routed on the motherboards or include schematics, solder, wire and soldering iron for the installer to tie the needed memory address lines back to the chipset.
LinuxBIOS is the Best System Performance Tweak
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Replacing your legacy BIOS with LinuxBIOS yeilds the best overall system performance gains.
SPD, ACPI and PCI init and config is still quite a mess these days. Using an open source BIOS allows system performance to be tuned and maximized beyond what the usual legacy BIOS setup screens offer.
Download the adblocker.xpi file (Shift+click to download).
When you download the adblocker.xpi file in Netscape 7, it will add.txt to the filename (adblocker.xpi.txt). Before saving the file, remove.txt from the filename and save the file to disk.
Then in Netscape 7 click File | Open to install.
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Nope, not a problem. A copper plate from the AMD cpu to the BTX type I or II thermal module is all that's needed.
It's not really a problem to have an AMD cpu with integrated memory controller in the BTX form factor. The AMD cpu would be located more centered to the board and memory slots while being rotated 45 degrees from the Intel cpu orientation.
The AMD design would still meet all the mechanical requirements of the BTX form factor.
What's happening here with EFI is that the BIOS has now grown to become an OS. If all you want BIOS to do is init the hardware and then jump to an OS then that's all the BIOS should be, just some init code to set up memory, chipset registers and cache so that it can jump to an OS for all the rest. But if you want the BIOS to do a whole lot more than just call it an OS and use an OS with lots of support with drivers already written.
And for this BIOS that's really acting and grown to be an OS, I choose Linux!
More at : http://www.linuxbios.org/
Download available here:
X YZ 77_XYZ55_XYZ33.html
http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/NV-
Ron on the LinuxBIOS list put this best earlier today:
You are not going to get the hardware startup code in Tiano. You're going to get the code that runs on top of the hardware startup code, and gives you a DOS-like startup system.
Don't expect to suddenly see northbridge code on the intel web site. Part of the goal of Tiano/EFI is to make the release of such information unneeded. There is a silver lining. Supposedly, the interfaces from the hidden hardware code to Tiano will be public. This means you can conceivably chuck Tiano and put your own thing in its place, which could be
This is how Linux NetWorx built the Alpha LinuxBIOS:
- hidden hardware
code (Alpha SROM) [ not changed, left in place]
- LinuxBIOS [with Alpha support, minus memory setup code]
- Linux
Worked fine, should work for Tiano platforms. In other words, the binary support code for Tiano could solve some problems for us:
- if we don't get the specs for the Intel chips (likely), then we can just leave the "hidden hardware code" in place, and flash over Tiano,
replacing Tiano with LinuxBIOS. I believe Linux Labs did something like this for their ClearWater port 2 years or so ago.
- Makes porting to other Intel mobos easier.
Why the CPL, not the GPL?
So that 3rd party vendors can add incompatibilities -- err, value --
and charge you for it.
Put another way, Tiano could be a linuxbios payload. I don't have much
use for a Tiano/EFI payload, however. Tiano/EFI is very complex and if
I'm going to put a complex thing like that into flash I'd much rather
it be linux. I don't want something that's most of the work of an OS
but not much of the capability, which pretty much describes Tiano/EFI.
I'm intrigued that they are open sourcing it. I had for years only
heard that it would be available under a type of NDA. I think LinuxBIOS
is part of the push for open sourcing this type of software. But I
doubt you're going to see Phoenix et. al. open source their
'value-added' Tiano, which means a source fork is built into the model.
That's trouble for us as customers -- we already suffer daily with all
these BIOS extensions and undocumented, hidden gotchas. We already say
this once: there was supposed to be a standard "hand off" on IA64 for
startup. I found out that this "standard" handoff was modified by
several vendors: it was no longer standard.
Let's hope the "hidden
hardware code" to Tiano interface remains standard. Also, if this code
is anything like the EFI code, it won't build under Linux, only builds
under Windows. It won't "just work" for us.
All that said, I think Intel is doing a good thing by open sourcing the Tiano system, and I congratulate them on doing so.
64 Bit Extensions
From the Intel FAQ Site:
Q9: Is it possible to write software that will run on Intel's
processors with 64-bit extension technology, and AMD's 64-bit capable
processors?
A9: With both companies designing entirely different architectures, the
question is whether the operating system and software ported to each
processor will run on the other processor, and the answer is yes in
most cases. However, Intel processors support additional features, like
the SSE3 instructions and Hyper-Threading Technology, which are not
supported on non-Intel platforms. As such, we believe developers will
achieve maximum performance and stability by designing specifically for
Intel architectures and by taking advantage of Intel's breadth of
software tools and enabling services.
ANU... go to bottom of page
Conquering that 'last mile'
Pioneering work by physicists and engineers at ANU to build a cheap, simple and robust wireless communication system may soon see regional Australia getting a workable connection to the Internet. The system is called BushLAN, and it's all about bridging that 'last mile'.
Regional Australia has never had adequate access to the Internet. It's either not available, too expensive or unreliable. A major part of the problem is the 'last mile' of access. This 'last mile' is the connection between the central communications hub in a local town to individual residences and businesses. Unfortunately, the 'last mile' is usually much more than just a mile. In rural areas such as Cowra, for example, the last mile has been measured to be anywhere from three to 100 kilometres from the town centre. In more isolated areas it can be much greater.
The cost of cabling to only a few customers over these distances is prohibitive and current wireless solutions aren't practical. Satellite connections are expensive and usually require a cable connection for a user to send information out (ie they receive downloads from a satellite but send information out via the telephone). There are ground-based wireless connections commercially available but these operate in microwave frequencies using directional antennas that require a clear line of sight to function. Given Australia's sparse population and frequently hilly terrain this would require a large number of repeater stations.
Dr Gerard Borg is a plasma physicist at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering. His work with radio transmission has convinced him that the last mile could be effectively bridged using the low-VHF radio spectrum. This part of the radio spectrum has much longer wavelengths than the microwave frequencies used by other wireless systems and this allows signals to be transmitted further without the need for expensive repeaters or satellites. What's more, it doesn't depend on line of sight as the signal has the ability to go around mountains and other large obstacles in the landscape. At the moment the low VHF radio spectrum is used to transmit TV signals but with the decommissioning of some analogue TV bands in 2008 (digital TV uses higher frequency radio) there's an opportunity to switch this unused spectrum over to data connections for regional Australia.
BushLAN (Bush - Local Area Network), as the system is called, has the potential to provide remote users in regional Australia with a permanent, high-quality Internet connection (at more than 100 kb/sec) at an affordable price. However, to get BushLAN up and running, many technical and marketing aspects of this multi-faceted system have to be developed first. To achieve his goal, Dr Borg has enlisted the assistance of a wide range of students from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology who have taken on the various jobs associated with the system as part of their Honours, Masters or Doctoral projects.
"The practical nature of BushLAN and its relevance to regional Australia really attracts the students," says Dr Borg. "Once they're involved, they become highly motivated about what we're trying to achieve. Quite often they finish the formal part of their work for their thesis, but then they stay on working on the project through the Christmas vacation."
The next step for BushLAN is to set up local trials to test transmissions, and then work with interested Internet service providers to see how BushLAN can be integrated into existing information systems. The hope is that with BushLAN as part of the system, the 'final mile' will no longer be an unbeatable hurdle.
Science Reporter is brought to you by the National Institute of Bioscience, the National Institute of Engineering and Information Sciences, the National Institute for the Environment, the National Institute of Health and Human Sciences and the National Institute of Physical Sciences. Written by David Salt.
For more information on any of the stories presented here please visit http://ni.anu.edu.au/
Yes, for some boards this is already true. If it's not already supported then you have to either work on the support yourself or wait for someone to do the work for you.
CCS and EFI are both trying to be more like an OS rather than just a BIOS. If you really dig into either of them they are just quite a mess.
Time for LinuxBIOS www.LinuxBIOS.org
What really needs to be worked on is not just a laptop that runs Linux but laptops that feature the completely open firmware of LinuxBIOS.
One of the final hurdles in open firmware for laptops is having support for the "system/keyboard scan controllers". Closed source offerings include:
Insyde Software
Phoenix
The keyboard scan, power managment (power buttons, cover open/closed, battery charger supervision) on a laptop is typically done separate from the cpu and chipset with a 16 or 32 bit micro (typically by SMSC, Renasas or Fujitsu) with its own firmware with lots of GPIO and keyscan I/O. These controllers are generally tied in with the SMbus for SPD, system management (temp & Voltage monitors) and FLASH ROM BIOS write enables.
Has anyone come across any open source projects that have started work on this?
Los Alamos to get Lightning computer system from Linux Networx
LANL
For more specific technical detail on the supercomputer Linux Networx is building for Los Alamos, go to
LNXI Newsroom
You can find low cost mini-ATX mainboards at O.N.E. Technologies. They produce all mainboard formats including mini-ITX mainboards at costs much lower than embedded vendors and nearer to the costs of mass produced mainboards. They will custom tailor mainboards to your specs and turn around protos in only a few weeks.
OK.... now it looks like we need a mirror for the mirror.
High-Reliability motherboards don't use electrolytic capacitors for their onboard power supplies anyway. You'll only find these types on the typical built like crap (found in the majority of PC's built today)high volume motherboards. 5000 hour lifetime is what you'll find for typical ratings on low esr and long life electrolytic capacitors. This is only 200 days of continuous use.
High-Rel designs use very low esr tantalum caps. like these T530 Series
The Sony PlayStation 5, a 2,048-bit console featuring a 45-Ghz trinary processor, CineReal graphics booster with 2-gig biotexturing, and an RSP connector for 360-degree online-immersion play. See the specs at Playstation 5
"The real problem is that the guys in charge have so very little motivating them to implement new and better things..."
.. like 15-30 miles from the telco ...
"Why bother?
Do we actually think for a moment that US telcos will adopt anything decent? Please...if it's not a patented US currency printing press or a customer cornholing machine...they won't be interested."
And even better...
"For example, on longer phone lines, ADSL2 will provide a data rate increase of 50 kbps--a significant increase. This data rate increase also produces an increase in reach of about 600 feet, which translates to an increase in coverage area of about six percent, or 2.5 square miles."
Wooohooo...a whopping 50kbps, 600 feet...WOW...totally worthless! In about a zillion years they'll have enough range to reach me at 60,000ft from the nearest CO. Hell, telcos can even measure their copper runs accurate to 600ft. I'm serviced at my office at an actual copper length of 19,200ft...while Verizon originally estimated under 15,000ft.
Wow!
It's good for a total of 8,000 feet! Instead of screwing around with short length technologies, why don't they develope something that has far better range
Sorry to repost here, but the first try was truncated.
True Open Standard Blade Servers are just around the corner. Up until now the current offerings by RLX, HP and IBM have been proprietary blade server designs. The next generation blade servers will be based on an open hardware standards where different vendors blades can be swapped with each other the same way that Compact-PCI is a standard blade design where all cpu boards are interchangeable with each other.
Low power CPU's are needed for the current crop of blade server designs since they forgot to deal with any heat management. The current blade designs rely entirely on airflow across the cpu package for cooling in a 2U or 3U high blade with 0.7" between each blade. Oops!!... how many blades can you stuff into a rack with each processor pulling 30 - 60 watts each and keep the temp down under 70 deg C at the cpu package?
The next gen of blade servers will have at least 3X the current density of cpus (1K cpus per 42U rack) while still using Xeon and other x86 processors that produce over 60W of heat each.
True Open Standard Blade Servers are just around the corner. Up until now the current offerings by RLX, HP and IBM have been proprietary blade server designs. The next generation blade servers will be based on an open hardware standards where different vendors blades can be swapped with each other the same way that Compact-PCI is a standard blade design where all cpu boards are interchangeable with each other.
Low power CPU's are needed for the current crop of blade server designs since they forgot to deal with any heat management. The current blade designs rely entirely on airflow across the cpu package for cooling in a 2U or 3U high blade with 0.7" between each blade. Oops!!... how many blades can you stuff into a rack with each processor pulling 30 - 60 watts each and keep the temp down to 1K cpus per 42U rack) while still using Xeon and other x86 processors that produce over 60W of heat each.
If their servers are so good, why is their site down after only 20 of being /.ed?
The problem is that motherboard vendors still tend to only use 2M-bit flash devices and only route the address lines from the chipset to the flash for 2M bit flash BIOS devices.
An 8M-bit flash BIOS kit would need to have its memory footprint paged into the 2M-bit memory space that is routed on the motherboards or include schematics, solder, wire and soldering iron for the installer to tie the needed memory address lines back to the chipset.
Replacing your legacy BIOS with LinuxBIOS yeilds the best overall system performance gains.
SPD, ACPI and PCI init and config is still quite a mess these days. Using an open source BIOS allows system performance to be tuned and maximized beyond what the usual legacy BIOS setup screens offer.
Download the adblocker.xpi file (Shift+click to download).
When you download the adblocker.xpi file in Netscape 7, it will add
Before saving the file, remove
Then in Netscape 7 click
File | Open to install.
Then In Netscape 7 click
Edit | Preferences | Advanced - Scripts & Windows to unselect or select the Open unrequested windows
How to disable unrequested (pop-up/behind) windows:
.txt to the filename (adblocker.xpi.txt). Before saving the file, remove .txt from the filename and save the file to disk. Then in Netscape 7 click File | Open to install.
Add this line to your user.js or prefs.js:
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
OR
Download the adblocker.xpi file.
http://techaholic.net/adblocker.xpi
When you download the adblocker.xpi file in Netscape 7, it will add
In Netscape 7 click Edit | Preferences | Advanced - Scripts & Windows to unselect or select the Open unrequested windows.
As close as the article came to mentioning terrorists:
The magazine pointed out that rogue nations such as Iran routinely seek replacement parts for their U.S.-manufactured military planes.
Take a look at this Cluster-in-a-lunchbox
aka BentoBox