I liked the following: Mr Doran said the creators of the original Bios only expected it to have a > lifetime of about 250,000 machines - a figure that has long been surpassed.
"They are as amazed as anyone else that now it is still alive and well in a > lot of systems," he said. "It was never really designed to be extensible > over time." This is a reminder to each of us that even the most short-term of solutions needs to be fairly well thought out, because short-term in theory might not be short-term in practice. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:59 AM, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069 > > Probably well overdue, in hindsight > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
