That's not how it works. The BIOS manufacturer (likely Phoenix) sends the reference code to the MB/Chipset people - who then tweak it to their liking.
Either Phoenix (or whoever) disables VT by default (unlikely - more features sells) or the MB/Chipset people disable it.
<troll> Most likely some overzealous marketing freak decided "hey! we can sell this!" and the MB/Chipset people disabled it as ordered by PHBs. Later, after someone figured out the aforementioned marketing freak is a douche-bag, the order was rescinded but the engineers never got around to re-enabling VT due to other such Marketing/PHB asshattery. </troll>
It's not really a problem when you have lots of letters in an acronym. It's more of a problem when you have at least three different things in the same industry with the same acronym.
The leadership of the operation might not be able to do that.
Nevermind that they can have an agent do it for them and report in - that's thinking it through too deeply. Remember, in these kind of cases, the objective is to make things look scary and dangerous to make their actions seem appropriate, when in the light of objectivity they are not.
Personally, while I don't agree with the actions, I can see why they would take them. That lessens the sting a small amount.
Honestly, I couldn't care less. The only interest in a UID that I have is that it identifies a paticular account. I have much bigger things to worry about than the size of my e-penis compared to others.
I also carry around DSL, but I use SRC more often. SRC is a little over twice the size of DSL, yet it doesn't have a window manager, web browsers, etc. It DOES have X, but a very minimal one designed for one-off uses of tools like qtparted.
Whoops, forgot to give you even a cursory description. From the main page:
Description: SystemRescueCd is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools,...) and basic ones (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use: just boot from the cdrom, and you can do everything. The kernel of the system supports most important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), and network ones (samba and nfs).
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Knoppix is nice, but it's a bit big for me. Personally, I prefer the System Rescue CD
It's got the important bits without the extra. Also can load to RAM, which is very nice for working with backups on systems that only have one optical drive. I'm not sure, but I believe it only requires 128mb or RAM or so.
I don't know if you have noticed, but most of the Motorola phones released around the same time as the V3 (i refuse to call mine a RAZR) had nearly identical interfaces. Hence, they didn't sacrifice the interface for from-factor. They made a kick ass form-factor and put the same interface they had already built and ready-to-go.
Even the internals of the phone (having played around with p2kman and PST) are similar.
Newer (anything on the shelves of a major US retailer) wireless routers do not work wirelessly until you run their software or figure out how to get it to enable it. The software makes it clear (at least Linksys and Netgear) that you should be using WEP at least, preferably WPA. These are also the default choices - the user has to choose to go open.
While it was true, the argument that routers are insecure by default is no longer strictly correct.
I'm waiting for routers that require you to sign something to be open, or even outright will not work without at least MAC filtering.
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That would be disembowelment...
That's not how it works. The BIOS manufacturer (likely Phoenix) sends the reference code to the MB/Chipset people - who then tweak it to their liking.
Either Phoenix (or whoever) disables VT by default (unlikely - more features sells) or the MB/Chipset people disable it.
<troll>
Most likely some overzealous marketing freak decided "hey! we can sell this!" and the MB/Chipset people disabled it as ordered by PHBs. Later, after someone figured out the aforementioned marketing freak is a douche-bag, the order was rescinded but the engineers never got around to re-enabling VT due to other such Marketing/PHB asshattery.
</troll>
It's not really a problem when you have lots of letters in an acronym. It's more of a problem when you have at least three different things in the same industry with the same acronym.
So... we can compare Xen and KVM to Qemu now? The next time nVidia updates their drivers we should benchmark them against MESA OpenGL...
Xen amd KVM utilize (require, if I remember correctly) support for virtualization-specific processor instructions. Qemu does not.
The leadership of the operation might not be able to do that.
Nevermind that they can have an agent do it for them and report in - that's thinking it through too deeply. Remember, in these kind of cases, the objective is to make things look scary and dangerous to make their actions seem appropriate, when in the light of objectivity they are not.
Personally, while I don't agree with the actions, I can see why they would take them. That lessens the sting a small amount.
No, you didn't "sign" an EULA.
You signed a contract - something that has a hell of a lot more weight than an EULA.
Honestly, I couldn't care less. The only interest in a UID that I have is that it identifies a paticular account. I have much bigger things to worry about than the size of my e-penis compared to others.
Standards are easily updatable for the most part, yes.
However, this is not a "standard" rather than a government mandate.
By mandate, we mean "Do this, or else" - a totally different arena.
It's primed now. Thanks!
Please don't click this link unless your genuinely interested in seeing it. I have a quota.
http://keleus.freeshell.org/dme-bug.png
Konquerer 3.5.5 on KDE 3.5.5
Don't bother trying to get in with Konquerer. Holy mis-rendering Batman!
Don't forget dependance on the rest of the Direct* family. (DirectPlay, DirectInput, DirectRape, etc)
WOOOSH
(sonic boom)
I also carry around DSL, but I use SRC more often. SRC is a little over twice the size of DSL, yet it doesn't have a window manager, web browsers, etc. It DOES have X, but a very minimal one designed for one-off uses of tools like qtparted.
If the number from your Subject is true, then yes. System Rescue CD will fit on an 80mm CD.
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Knoppix is nice, but it's a bit big for me. Personally, I prefer the System Rescue CD
It's got the important bits without the extra. Also can load to RAM, which is very nice for working with backups on systems that only have one optical drive. I'm not sure, but I believe it only requires 128mb or RAM or so.
I don't know if you have noticed, but most of the Motorola phones released around the same time as the V3 (i refuse to call mine a RAZR) had nearly identical interfaces. Hence, they didn't sacrifice the interface for from-factor. They made a kick ass form-factor and put the same interface they had already built and ready-to-go.
Even the internals of the phone (having played around with p2kman and PST) are similar.
Clearly, the solution is to ban CSS, repeal the DMCA, and make a constitutional amendment that makes lobbying a capital crime.
Newer (anything on the shelves of a major US retailer) wireless routers do not work wirelessly until you run their software or figure out how to get it to enable it. The software makes it clear (at least Linksys and Netgear) that you should be using WEP at least, preferably WPA. These are also the default choices - the user has to choose to go open.
While it was true, the argument that routers are insecure by default is no longer strictly correct.
I'm waiting for routers that require you to sign something to be open, or even outright will not work without at least MAC filtering.
It's called making an example of someone. I'm sure you can see the logic behind it, flawed as it may be.
That had absolutely NOTHING to do with the story. This has nothing to do with music/movies.
Wake me up when it's not a pain in the ass to install madwifi-ng - something I don't have to bother with on Ubuntu.
And you're saying China hasn't fucked Microsoft? I think that one goes both ways...