EFI sucks a bit because I'll miss the old real mode and the ability to install old OSs like DR DOS & DOS 3.1, and miss all those classic graphics modes, but that's a lot of baggage (service interrupts) for BIOS to have to support, and it's all a bit buggy anyway from BIOS to BIOS...
FYI, EFI is more than capable of presenting a BIOS environment to the next stage of the boot process, ask any mac owner.
And then the tiny ass bootsector loads another unchecked block of code that can easily be tampered with.
The boot sector is.... 512 bytes. That is bearly enough code to do anything useful, it is infact NOT enough space for the code required to boot my FreeBSD machine which has its root on ZFS, as such that process is two stage (well more than that in actuality) and the boot sector really just points to another boot block in an known location that the bios doesnt' give a flying fuck about.
There isn't enough room in the boot sector to verify the next stage is the expected one, hell there isn't enough space in the boot sector to store the fraking public key needed let alone the code and hashes.
You utterly fail to know anything about which you speak.
SecureBoot allows the system to boot from known binaries every time, no worries about a root kit.
Doesn't make the system un-hackable, but it gives you a known-good starting point, and that goes a long way.
Boot sector protection doesn't do shit in that respect.
So did you promptly post another review pointing out what the manager did and how you recommend no one visit that store ever?
That would have been about the best thing you could do. I realize that cutting yourself out of an in building place to eat lunch sucks, but a manager like that needs to be shit canned.
If Walmart suddenly ceased to exist, there would be a large abundance of unskilled workers, the end result is that the over-supply of workers would result in Costco and Target lowering their wages since they no longer have to compete.
No one in America makes 'shitty' pay. Go live in an ACTUAL shitty country and then come talk to me.
Yes, the horror in people having to actually work for a living. The standard of living in America is ridiculously high compared to what it was ANYWHERE in the world 100 years ago. Or plenty of places elsewhere in the world.
You aren't entitled to jack shit and you'll get much further in life when you realize that.
And so because the vendor thinks its entitled to more profit than it is, you're blaming walmart.
Pull your head out of your ass. If someone else will do it cheaper then the problem is yours, not theirs. If people don't like cheaper, they can go shop elsewhere.
Interestingly enough however, I buy the same shit from walmart that is sold by Amazon, BestBuy, Target and places in 'the mall'. Perhaps you should get a little bit of a clue.
Congratulations, you don't know your place in the world. You're going to get a rude awakening when you get out of school and find out you're thousands of dollars in debt and still not making a fortune just because you think you're entitled to it.
I've had this discussion with Walmart workers. There are two types. Kids who think their entitled to make a fortune doing the job of a well trained chip, and adults who realize that sometimes you have to work for a living. Been there myself. Its a job that can be done with an IQ of 12, you aren't worth paying more than the bear minimum for waht you do.
Find a different job. Its not Walmart's place to fix the problem for you, its yours. If you're too stupid to work somewhere else where you can make more and have have the skills to do so then you get what you deserve. The reality however is, you don't have the skills. You don't have any experience. You're just a punk with an entitlement complex. Read your own message, it applies to you far more than me.
Apple can do anything it wants with its OWN devices. When they start using their (non-existent) monopoly to force others to follow the same rules, its different.
You don't get to tell a company how to sell its own product just because it doesn't let you freeload on their work.
This is just the FSF being douches. They have a petition to get what they already have and want to make it out to be something more than it is.
This is why only fanboys really give a shit about RMS and FSF anymore. Fighting the good fight is one thing. Ranting around like raving nutters when you're already getting what your asking for but acting like you aren't just makes them look dumb.
I installed just a few days ago with my own key. Mine didn't come with a USB key anyway, it came with Internet restore. I made my own key just so I didn't have to wait for the Internet install to download everything as I knew in advance I would be wiping the machine (had to send it in for service, thus I had to remove all data as terms of my contract) so I was prepared.
My reasons or irrelevant, there is no truth to your statements in my experience.
1) SecureBoot has no bias towards Windows or OpenSource. The only "issue" is how to manage the certs.
Secure Boot has a definite bias towards Windows, Microsoft implemented the whole thing.
No they didn't, its an open standard they participated in. Along with many other companies. You don't know what you're talking about.
2) SecureBoot was ratified over 4 years ago. Why did they take so long to complain?
Because Microsoft is a UEFI promoter, no Linux companies have representation at that level.
No they aren't. Intel started EFI, Apple has been using it since the jump to Intel. Other makers have been using it as well before Microsoft jumped on the train to the future. Linux companies, you know the big ones are involved in it. You don't know what you're talking about.
3) SecureBoot is just a dumb system that makes sure the executing boot code has a trusted signature.
It's all about the key distribution.
Which is required to be controllable by the user per Microsoft's requirements for getting the Windows 8 certification logo. So basically if you want Microsoft's blessing and key in your UEFI implementation, you have to allow it to be managed by the user. You don't know what you're talking about.
4) Linux seems to have bad relations with BIOS makers.
No, it has "relations" with BIOS makers that focus on Windows to a ridiculous degree thanks to their Monopoly on the desktop.
And who's fault is that? Its not like say... IBM has no control over the bios used in its computers. You're hiding behind a bullshit excuse that isn't even relevant. Its not Microsoft's problem that your favorite OS is statistically irrelevant. Its rather stupid of you to expect anyone else to care.
Linux was having ACPI issues and eventually MS has to step in and help them by showing the work-aroundw that MS figured out because hardware manufactures not following the specs. MS learned that companies don't always follow specs.
Linux implemented ACPI to spec. Microsoft's own ACPI compiler will accept ACPI code that breaks the spec but works for Windows. MS didn't have to "step in and help them," people had to reverse engineer and lie about being Windows to get the correct ACPI parameters because Microsoft has so fucked up the standard.
So Microsoft is at fault for making things work rather than crapping out due to buggy implementations. You clearly aren't an engineer, or if you are, you've got to be the worst possible kind. The real world isn't some idealistic fantasy land. Linux also could refuse to support broken ACPI implementations, but it doesn't, so whats your point? Its okay for Linux to do the wrong thing because they are the little guy but not okay for the big guy to do it? Hypocrite.
So your upset that you bought something that doesn't fit your requirements and you're bitching about the vendor rather than instead going and buying something that does actually meet your requirements?
Freedom isn't granted to those to stupid to use it properly.
In what way? Because you care about some store that wasn't able to compete? Because you think workers are mistreated even though most of them don't actually care? Let me guess, you've got no real reason other than some silly ultra-left wing fantasy reasons that the world should be a happy place where everyone gets along and farts butterflies?
You need special dimmers, which cost a multiple of dimmers for incandescents. And then the cost saving of using CFL over incandescents is less than the extra cost of the dimmer.
Not anymore, now you just need dimmer aware CFLs that can deal with the clipped sine wave.
Sure, PC-bsd is desktop focused, may do it well. May do fine on a laptop as well, I stopped tying to have a bsd desktop years ago and a lot has changed.
I really just meant fbsd isn't so much workstation centric as server centric.
I love Fbsd, haven't had a day without it in my home and office since I switched from Linux and started using 2.2.x back in the day:)
So basically you are upset that you use hardware from shitty companies who don't follow the spec (in both examples you use) and are blaming something ENTIRELY UNRELATED on secure boot.
You then proceed to say something silly about relying onBIOS makers to give you something back as a bad thing when you would have no functioning computer at all if not for those same bios makers?
You are a joke. You clearly don't see how silly you make yourself look. You rely on those bios makers anyway and have for years but now you can't because you bought shitty hardware that had a bug? Get a coupon dude.
Refuses to sign GPLv3, and that's because the license intentional prevents itself from being used this way. I'm sorry your ignorant of the issues but GPLv3 code being signed would legally require MS to make their signing keys public which entirely defeats the purpose and makes it worthless.
GPLv3 is the problem, Microsoft is simply honoring it as intended and required.
I'm not delusional. I know the FSF is not all about universal freedom. It promotes GPL. GPL is most certainly not about universal freedom by definition. Go read it and then explain to me how a list of restrictions is universal freedom.
The reality is a bunch of otherwise intelligent people have their heads so far up RMS's ass that they imagine conspiracy everywhere and can't separate his personal political agenda and belly aching temper tantrums from reality.
You would do a world of good by learning to think for yourself than continuing to let the FSF think for you.
OSX is the FreeBSD for your laptop. Yes, I know its not FreeBSD per say, but FreeBSD isn't trying to be everything, and its certainly not putting much effort into being an awesome desktop.
If you want a fast server with an awesome filesystem or the fastest TCP/IP stack on the planet, then you want FreeBSD. If you want a desktop GUI OS, you want something else.
No, not the end of the VC era. Crowdfunding as it stands now via the popular implementations such as kickstarter is not investing, its just donations and its not even new. Its only new because some silly projects get massive amounts of money when any VC person would know better than to invest. Ouya as an example. Ridiculous amounts of donations for a project that offers no reason what so ever that it will be anymore than just another Android device, and not even a particularly impressive one at that.
VC is crowd-investment. A bunch of people get together, make a fund and invest in a bunch of businesses knowing 9 out of 10 will go belly up but that 10th one is going to make far more than enough to cover the loss of the others.
The only thing different is because you're doing it on a website from your livingroom with very little effort, you think its new and doing something different.
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EFI sucks a bit because I'll miss the old real mode and the ability to install old OSs like DR DOS & DOS 3.1, and miss all those classic graphics modes, but that's a lot of baggage (service interrupts) for BIOS to have to support, and it's all a bit buggy anyway from BIOS to BIOS...
FYI, EFI is more than capable of presenting a BIOS environment to the next stage of the boot process, ask any mac owner.
And then the tiny ass bootsector loads another unchecked block of code that can easily be tampered with.
The boot sector is .... 512 bytes. That is bearly enough code to do anything useful, it is infact NOT enough space for the code required to boot my FreeBSD machine which has its root on ZFS, as such that process is two stage (well more than that in actuality) and the boot sector really just points to another boot block in an known location that the bios doesnt' give a flying fuck about.
There isn't enough room in the boot sector to verify the next stage is the expected one, hell there isn't enough space in the boot sector to store the fraking public key needed let alone the code and hashes.
You utterly fail to know anything about which you speak.
SecureBoot allows the system to boot from known binaries every time, no worries about a root kit.
Doesn't make the system un-hackable, but it gives you a known-good starting point, and that goes a long way.
Boot sector protection doesn't do shit in that respect.
So did you promptly post another review pointing out what the manager did and how you recommend no one visit that store ever?
That would have been about the best thing you could do. I realize that cutting yourself out of an in building place to eat lunch sucks, but a manager like that needs to be shit canned.
Nope, you're just another ones bitching about using a free service and demanding they do it your way.
Perhaps if you're so afraid of people knowing what you post online you should think a little better before you post it.
You have no clue how supply and demand works.
If Walmart suddenly ceased to exist, there would be a large abundance of unskilled workers, the end result is that the over-supply of workers would result in Costco and Target lowering their wages since they no longer have to compete.
No one in America makes 'shitty' pay. Go live in an ACTUAL shitty country and then come talk to me.
Yes, the horror in people having to actually work for a living. The standard of living in America is ridiculously high compared to what it was ANYWHERE in the world 100 years ago. Or plenty of places elsewhere in the world.
You aren't entitled to jack shit and you'll get much further in life when you realize that.
And so because the vendor thinks its entitled to more profit than it is, you're blaming walmart.
Pull your head out of your ass. If someone else will do it cheaper then the problem is yours, not theirs. If people don't like cheaper, they can go shop elsewhere.
Interestingly enough however, I buy the same shit from walmart that is sold by Amazon, BestBuy, Target and places in 'the mall'. Perhaps you should get a little bit of a clue.
Congratulations, you don't know your place in the world. You're going to get a rude awakening when you get out of school and find out you're thousands of dollars in debt and still not making a fortune just because you think you're entitled to it.
I've had this discussion with Walmart workers. There are two types. Kids who think their entitled to make a fortune doing the job of a well trained chip, and adults who realize that sometimes you have to work for a living. Been there myself. Its a job that can be done with an IQ of 12, you aren't worth paying more than the bear minimum for waht you do.
Find a different job. Its not Walmart's place to fix the problem for you, its yours. If you're too stupid to work somewhere else where you can make more and have have the skills to do so then you get what you deserve. The reality however is, you don't have the skills. You don't have any experience. You're just a punk with an entitlement complex. Read your own message, it applies to you far more than me.
Apple can do anything it wants with its OWN devices. When they start using their (non-existent) monopoly to force others to follow the same rules, its different.
You don't get to tell a company how to sell its own product just because it doesn't let you freeload on their work.
This is just the FSF being douches. They have a petition to get what they already have and want to make it out to be something more than it is.
This is why only fanboys really give a shit about RMS and FSF anymore. Fighting the good fight is one thing. Ranting around like raving nutters when you're already getting what your asking for but acting like you aren't just makes them look dumb.
Bullshit.
I installed just a few days ago with my own key. Mine didn't come with a USB key anyway, it came with Internet restore. I made my own key just so I didn't have to wait for the Internet install to download everything as I knew in advance I would be wiping the machine (had to send it in for service, thus I had to remove all data as terms of my contract) so I was prepared.
My reasons or irrelevant, there is no truth to your statements in my experience.
Secure Boot has a definite bias towards Windows, Microsoft implemented the whole thing.
No they didn't, its an open standard they participated in. Along with many other companies. You don't know what you're talking about.
Because Microsoft is a UEFI promoter, no Linux companies have representation at that level.
No they aren't. Intel started EFI, Apple has been using it since the jump to Intel. Other makers have been using it as well before Microsoft jumped on the train to the future. Linux companies, you know the big ones are involved in it. You don't know what you're talking about.
It's all about the key distribution.
Which is required to be controllable by the user per Microsoft's requirements for getting the Windows 8 certification logo. So basically if you want Microsoft's blessing and key in your UEFI implementation, you have to allow it to be managed by the user. You don't know what you're talking about.
No, it has "relations" with BIOS makers that focus on Windows to a ridiculous degree thanks to their Monopoly on the desktop.
And who's fault is that? Its not like say ... IBM has no control over the bios used in its computers. You're hiding behind a bullshit excuse that isn't even relevant. Its not Microsoft's problem that your favorite OS is statistically irrelevant. Its rather stupid of you to expect anyone else to care.
Linux implemented ACPI to spec. Microsoft's own ACPI compiler will accept ACPI code that breaks the spec but works for Windows. MS didn't have to "step in and help them," people had to reverse engineer and lie about being Windows to get the correct ACPI parameters because Microsoft has so fucked up the standard.
So Microsoft is at fault for making things work rather than crapping out due to buggy implementations. You clearly aren't an engineer, or if you are, you've got to be the worst possible kind. The real world isn't some idealistic fantasy land. Linux also could refuse to support broken ACPI implementations, but it doesn't, so whats your point? Its okay for Linux to do the wrong thing because they are the little guy but not okay for the big guy to do it? Hypocrite.
So your upset that you bought something that doesn't fit your requirements and you're bitching about the vendor rather than instead going and buying something that does actually meet your requirements?
Freedom isn't granted to those to stupid to use it properly.
Yet you're okay with replacing bulbs with new ones full of dangerous heavy metals and/or created with extremely toxic chemicals.
Power generation isn't all there is to pollution.
And still, that doesn't make it 100 or 350% efficient.
In what way? Because you care about some store that wasn't able to compete? Because you think workers are mistreated even though most of them don't actually care? Let me guess, you've got no real reason other than some silly ultra-left wing fantasy reasons that the world should be a happy place where everyone gets along and farts butterflies?
You can get CFLs usable with dimmers to.
You need special dimmers, which cost a multiple of dimmers for incandescents. And then the cost saving of using CFL over incandescents is less than the extra cost of the dimmer.
Not anymore, now you just need dimmer aware CFLs that can deal with the clipped sine wave.
The increased radiation from being at 35k feet is far far worse than wifi, or even an X-ray or two.
Sure, PC-bsd is desktop focused, may do it well. May do fine on a laptop as well, I stopped tying to have a bsd desktop years ago and a lot has changed.
I really just meant fbsd isn't so much workstation centric as server centric.
I love Fbsd, haven't had a day without it in my home and office since I switched from Linux and started using 2.2.x back in the day :)
So basically you are upset that you use hardware from shitty companies who don't follow the spec (in both examples you use) and are blaming something ENTIRELY UNRELATED on secure boot.
You then proceed to say something silly about relying onBIOS makers to give you something back as a bad thing when you would have no functioning computer at all if not for those same bios makers?
You are a joke. You clearly don't see how silly you make yourself look. You rely on those bios makers anyway and have for years but now you can't because you bought shitty hardware that had a bug? Get a coupon dude.
Refuses to sign GPLv3, and that's because the license intentional prevents itself from being used this way. I'm sorry your ignorant of the issues but GPLv3 code being signed would legally require MS to make their signing keys public which entirely defeats the purpose and makes it worthless.
GPLv3 is the problem, Microsoft is simply honoring it as intended and required.
I'm not delusional. I know the FSF is not all about universal freedom. It promotes GPL. GPL is most certainly not about universal freedom by definition. Go read it and then explain to me how a list of restrictions is universal freedom.
The reality is a bunch of otherwise intelligent people have their heads so far up RMS's ass that they imagine conspiracy everywhere and can't separate his personal political agenda and belly aching temper tantrums from reality.
You would do a world of good by learning to think for yourself than continuing to let the FSF think for you.
There is absolutely nothing rational about this discussion in the first place. It's entirely FUD based and/or ignorance.
OSX is the FreeBSD for your laptop. Yes, I know its not FreeBSD per say, but FreeBSD isn't trying to be everything, and its certainly not putting much effort into being an awesome desktop.
If you want a fast server with an awesome filesystem or the fastest TCP/IP stack on the planet, then you want FreeBSD. If you want a desktop GUI OS, you want something else.
Wow, just wow ...
Your statement pretty much proves why wikipedia shouldn't even be allowed anywhere near school research. No bias? Are you 8?
No, not the end of the VC era. Crowdfunding as it stands now via the popular implementations such as kickstarter is not investing, its just donations and its not even new. Its only new because some silly projects get massive amounts of money when any VC person would know better than to invest. Ouya as an example. Ridiculous amounts of donations for a project that offers no reason what so ever that it will be anymore than just another Android device, and not even a particularly impressive one at that.
VC is crowd-investment. A bunch of people get together, make a fund and invest in a bunch of businesses knowing 9 out of 10 will go belly up but that 10th one is going to make far more than enough to cover the loss of the others.
The only thing different is because you're doing it on a website from your livingroom with very little effort, you think its new and doing something different.