Until the day arrives when computers are arguably better able to improvise during a live jazz performance better than a human, I for one refuse to accept the notion that computers can perform music better than humans.
In addition, until computers can arguably compose a piece of music as beautifully as mozart or thelonious monk (jazz pianist for those who don't know) has, I will not consider a computer's rendition of any piece of music to be professional quality.
Improvisation and composition requires ingenious creativity. Such creativity, in my opinion, is far beyond the bounds of the abilities of a computer. Therefore it is my opinion, that computers will never be as good as a human musician.
Using your assumptions that more complicated == faster, one could argue that CISC based cpu's are inherently faster than RISC based cpu's. We know this is definately not true.
thats what the keyboard setting is for in the bios. (At least in my box which uses AMI Bios) There is a setting which allows you to tell the MB that its ok to boot normally if there is not keyboard. I think you can do this in AWARD. If I'm not mistaken there is a setting on which you set either IGNORE or HALT if a "Serious" error occurs. Play around, you'll find it if your BIOS is fairly recent.
I know some motherboards, (like mine SuperMicro P5MMA98) will beep and complain when they dont find a video card or a keyboard. When I set up my standalone server there were settings in the BIOS which allowed you to tell the motherboard to ignore such conditions.
As far as getting the console on the serial port, thats a kernel option. I am not sure about how to issue a hard reset via this method; I just used to telnet to the machine and issue a shutdown command .
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Until the day arrives when computers are arguably better able to improvise during a live jazz performance better than a human, I for one refuse to accept the notion that computers can perform music better than humans.
In addition, until computers can arguably compose a piece of music as beautifully as mozart or thelonious monk (jazz pianist for those who don't know) has, I will not consider a computer's rendition of any piece of music to be professional quality.
Improvisation and composition requires ingenious creativity. Such creativity, in my opinion, is far beyond the bounds of the abilities of a computer. Therefore it is my opinion, that computers will never be as good as a human musician.
Using your assumptions that more complicated == faster, one could argue that CISC based cpu's are inherently faster than RISC based cpu's. We know this is definately not true.
thats what the keyboard setting is for in the bios. (At least in my box which uses AMI Bios) There is a setting which allows you to tell the MB that its ok to boot normally if there is not keyboard. I think you can do this in AWARD. If I'm not mistaken there is a setting on which you set either IGNORE or HALT if a "Serious" error occurs. Play around, you'll find it if your BIOS is fairly recent.
I know some motherboards, (like mine SuperMicro P5MMA98) will beep and complain when they dont find a video card or a keyboard. When I set up my standalone server there were settings in the BIOS which allowed you to tell the motherboard to ignore such conditions.
As far as getting the console on the serial port, thats a kernel option. I am not sure about how to issue a hard reset via this method; I just used to telnet to the machine and issue a shutdown command .