It seems that the encrypted BIOS' integrity will be verified by a special chip or flash ROM, and will in turn verify the 'authenticity, integrity and privacy' of the boot loader and the operating system.
Going by the above statement, one could interpret it as meaning you need a digitally signed bootloader... is this going to be a problem? (OSS that is).
The K-6 was one of the worst processors to ever hit the market.
Yes and no. They had crappy floating point, but for integer apps - not too bad. I had a K6 233 that was a major improvement over the Cyrix/IBM PR200+ (IIRC, 150mhz actual clock speed!) That chip still ticks me off!
I've had a couple Pentium Pro 200's... they were very decent machines....and ran linux like a champ!!:) I used one as a file server for a loooooong time. The other "Pentium Pro" experience I had though weren't exactly PPro chips:) The motherboard was for dual Ppro processors, but in the sockets were Pentium II 333 overdrive chips (no, I didn't pay for those! heh) And it had 256mb ram... I had red hat 7.0 on it when i let it go.
Hang on this is a step in the right direction, a watch with a radio on it I was guessing just text data but...
This is interesting, because I can envision a future with everyone listening to their watches... that will be a big racket in waiting area, etc.:) Hopefully, the watch comes with headphones!
Didn't work for me last time. I got a BSOD on boot telling me it could not access the disk. Probably due to the fact that during the installer for Win2K I have to supply it with a driver (Press F6 to install 3rd party driver, etc..). It is an HPT370 controller, built into my motherboard.
I tend to use the kernels made available by the vendor (in this case RedHat). When they release an updated one in rpm format, I upgrade. Not to say I haven't compiled my own. But when I do, I compile in the most common IDE controllers on the market, not just the current one in my system. (Just in case I need them.)
There is every possibility that it is a hardware/driver problem. But, I wouldn't be so blind as to say that there is no way that it cannot just be a bug in Windows XP. I have had similar results upgrading this system to XP. It runs Linux fine, and I've had FreeBSD 4.7 on it for a test-drive. No problems there. This machine really LOVES Win2k though, I kid you not. XP, however, mixed results. I tried XP when it came out, and it performed OK, but crashed and burned after a month for some odd reason. Anyway, my current Win2k install is 10 months old and still kicking at this point. And it gets good uptimes as well, considering it gets "abused" a lot.
I was not happy at that point. Thankfully, I backup my important data (unlike some folks I know) and all was OK. Although I went back to Win2K:) I've had no real problems with Win2k that I couldn't handle on this machine.
Yeah, I know what you mean there! That's the one thing that ticks me off about the Windows NT lineage... just try and do a motherboard swap on a machine running NT/2K/XP and expect it to boot! I haven't been able to get one to boot afterwards except: 1) the new board is exact same as old (i.e. replacement board) 2) the new board has same ide controller 3) the system used scsi and therefore the same card was used on new mobo
Seriously, it was sooooo easy to do motherboard swaps (or an upgrade of mobo+cpu+ram) in Win9x, all I had to do was yank the old mobo drivers, install new mobo, and pop in driver cd after boot to load the drivers.
I'm sure some MCSE will reply saying there is a way to do it, but seriously, when windows is supposed to be "easy", then NT/2K/XP is a step backwards in this respect.
I still like my Linux box better:) I just use Windows for games, and school related stuff (i.e. Visual Studio).
and besides that, I have a 9GB Cheetah (10K RPM also) sitting in the other bay... used for downloads and misc storage. It is much noiser than the 18 gig though.. I assume it was a first generation 10K drive. My 18G is waayy more quiet.
Of course:) Seagate SCSI rules... I still love my 18GB 10K RPM SCSI drive (Cheetah). Even though it's not a large drive by today's standards, my needs on the Linux box don't exceed about ~12GB anyways (that leaves 6GB to spare).
Beige G3/233 (eBay) $195 256MB PC100 $58 Apple Student discounted OS X (jaguar) $69 I had a 20 gig drive laying around doing nothing $0 And I had a USB card already $0
Now granted, I still need to upgrade the CPU for it to be truely livable, but so far I've only spent $322
I can get a OWC G3/533 for Beige G3 for $160 so that brings the total to $482
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Personally, I'd like to see Apple do just that. (Go Apple!)
It seems that the encrypted BIOS' integrity will be verified by a special chip or flash ROM, and will in turn verify the 'authenticity, integrity and privacy' of the boot loader and the operating system.
Going by the above statement, one could interpret it as meaning you need a digitally signed bootloader... is this going to be a problem? (OSS that is).
The K-6 was one of the worst processors to ever hit the market.
Yes and no. They had crappy floating point, but for integer apps - not too bad. I had a K6 233 that was a major improvement over the Cyrix/IBM PR200+ (IIRC, 150mhz actual clock speed!) That chip still ticks me off!
I've had a couple Pentium Pro 200's... they were very decent machines....and ran linux like a champ!! :) I used one as a file server for a loooooong time. The other "Pentium Pro" experience I had though weren't exactly PPro chips :) The motherboard was for dual Ppro processors, but in the sockets were Pentium II 333 overdrive chips (no, I didn't pay for those! heh) And it had 256mb ram... I had red hat 7.0 on it when i let it go.
IIRC, AMD never said they were going to stop manufacturing cpu's.
They just weren't going to compete with Intel anymore (Like Cyrix maybe?)
All we need is Apple to put them in Macs.... :) (I think so)
Yes, wouldn't that be great?
Hang on this is a step in the right direction, a watch with a radio on it
:) Hopefully, the watch comes with headphones!
I was guessing just text data but...
This is interesting, because I can envision a future with everyone listening to their watches... that will be a big racket in waiting area, etc.
That's why you get an ultra-cool iBook or TiBook with Mac OS X (drool) and a nice cool running G3 or G4 :)
Ok, not everyone can afford a TiBook, but iBook's aren't bad at all. I would kill to have one (OK, not really but you get the point!)
Nvidia puts the driver in kernel space. I was under the impression that the XFree86 project's drivers run in user land.
I have swapped a mobo on a Win XP install... same probs as Win2k....
Didn't work for me last time. I got a BSOD on boot telling me it could not access the disk. Probably due to the fact that during the installer for Win2K I have to supply it with a driver (Press F6 to install 3rd party driver, etc..). It is an HPT370 controller, built into my motherboard.
That is rather nifty. Hopefully MS can make it catch more things like that in future versions.
I tend to use the kernels made available by the vendor (in this case RedHat). When they release an updated one in rpm format, I upgrade. Not to say I haven't compiled my own. But when I do, I compile in the most common IDE controllers on the market, not just the current one in my system. (Just in case I need them.)
There is every possibility that it is a hardware/driver problem. But, I wouldn't be so blind as to say that there is no way that it cannot just be a bug in Windows XP. I have had similar results upgrading this system to XP. It runs Linux fine, and I've had FreeBSD 4.7 on it for a test-drive. No problems there. This machine really LOVES Win2k though, I kid you not. XP, however, mixed results. I tried XP when it came out, and it performed OK, but crashed and burned after a month for some odd reason. Anyway, my current Win2k install is 10 months old and still kicking at this point. And it gets good uptimes as well, considering it gets "abused" a lot.
I've seen that one too...
:) I've had no real problems with Win2k that I couldn't handle on this machine.
I was not happy at that point. Thankfully, I backup my important data (unlike some folks I know) and all was OK. Although I went back to Win2K
Yeah, I know what you mean there! That's the one thing that ticks me off about the Windows NT lineage... just try and do a motherboard swap on a machine running NT/2K/XP and expect it to boot! I haven't been able to get one to boot afterwards except:
:) I just use Windows for games, and school related stuff (i.e. Visual Studio).
1) the new board is exact same as old (i.e. replacement board)
2) the new board has same ide controller
3) the system used scsi and therefore the same card was used on new mobo
Seriously, it was sooooo easy to do motherboard swaps (or an upgrade of mobo+cpu+ram) in Win9x, all I had to do was yank the old mobo drivers, install new mobo, and pop in driver cd after boot to load the drivers.
I'm sure some MCSE will reply saying there is a way to do it, but seriously, when windows is supposed to be "easy", then NT/2K/XP is a step backwards in this respect.
I still like my Linux box better
and besides that, I have a 9GB Cheetah (10K RPM also) sitting in the other bay... used for downloads and misc storage. It is much noiser than the 18 gig though.. I assume it was a first generation 10K drive. My 18G is waayy more quiet.
Of course :) Seagate SCSI rules... I still love my 18GB 10K RPM SCSI drive (Cheetah). Even though it's not a large drive by today's standards, my needs on the Linux box don't exceed about ~12GB anyways (that leaves 6GB to spare).
Delays such as that are usualy human error, not the system.
I didn't spend $999 to get OS X.
:)
Beige G3/233 (eBay) $195
256MB PC100 $58
Apple Student discounted OS X (jaguar) $69
I had a 20 gig drive laying around doing nothing $0
And I had a USB card already $0
Now granted, I still need to upgrade the CPU for it to be truely livable, but so far I've only spent $322
I can get a OWC G3/533 for Beige G3 for $160 so that brings the total to $482
Less than $500 to run OS X and I love OS X
4 GB ram drives!! :) (just kidding)
So what's wrong with cut & paste?
I really don't care.
Just get yourself a copy of FreeDos
http://www.freedos.org
(sorry, cut & paste url.. never bothered to learn html)
You can get it from Apple's site or from www.opendarwin.org
Yeah, I'd much rather have the CDs and install it myself, if I were interested. Especially since I already have Mac OS X on my PowerMac G3