However, the universal reply is always "Byte me"
From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh... Awesome. Down in the south it's "Hey, Bubba. Git to peckin' on that thar F1 key so you can dun git into th' configurin' screen 'n such" Shook From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh... I don't know about the rest of the "northern" people, but here near Philly, it's not BIOS, it's "Yo, Frankie, hit f1 to get into that setup thingy". Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh... I always found it amusing when my northern counterparts pronounce it as by-ause. Freakin' Yankees.... J Shook From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh... But how will we pronounce the new acronym?... we're all used to saying "Bye-ohs", what about UEFI??? - perhaps "You-fee" or how about "you-ay-fee" or even "you-ee-fee" These things matter!!! J Paul G. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 01 October 2010 12:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: The end of the BIOS is nigh... 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 ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ 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
