It will be interesting to see if this version manages to do what EFI
didn't...
-sc
From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 7:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: The end of the BIOS is nigh...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069
It’s all about standards … either it has to emulate BIOS to interface with
existing Operating Systems, or the OS developers have to code future
versions to it and drop any backwards hardware capability. ( or bloat the
os more with dual capability ??? )
Chicken or the Egg ?
Erik Goldoff
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:59 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069
We've heard that before. Maybe this time it will come true.
Modern BIOSes usually don't take more than a few seconds to boot, so
that seems like a non-issue. The single
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote:
It’s all about standards … either it has to emulate BIOS to interface with
existing Operating Systems, or the OS developers have to code future
versions to it and drop any backwards hardware capability. ( or bloat the
os
No more BIOS? That means no more chuckles over Bad or missing keyboard -
press F1 to continue :-(
James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote on 10/01/2010 05:59:49 AM:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069
Probably well overdue, in hindsight
--
On two occasions...I have been
Love how they capitalize UEFI but not BIOS. Quality.
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From: James Rankin
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 6:59 AM
Subject: The end of the BIOS is nigh...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069
Probably well overdue, in
Perhaps it is BIAS?
James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote on 10/01/2010 08:21:15 AM:
Love how they capitalize UEFI but not BIOS. Quality.
- Original Message -
From: James Rankin
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 6:59 AM
Subject: The end of the BIOS is
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:18 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
No more BIOS? That means no more chuckles over Bad or missing keyboard -
press F1 to continue :-(
Oh, I'm sure IBM's implementation of $NEW_THING will retain their
error messages. They've held on for 30 years, why would
I found the picture of the floppy disk quite hilarious.
Shook
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...
Love how they capitalize UEFI but not BIOS. Quality.
- Original Message
It's all about names and marketing. The underlying and overall function of
the firmware must still be the same. But this is NEW! and You Need It to
be on the cutting edge. It wouldn't have the same promotional value had it
been called BIOS 2.0 or NGBIOS.
For sure, compatibility is a
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
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
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
Like the Y2K issue?
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 10:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...
I liked the following:
Mr Doran said the creators of the original Bios only expected it
to have a
Something like that...
*ASB*
* *
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote:
Like the Y2K issue?
*From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Friday, October 01, 2010 10:01 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: The end of the
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote:
Like the Y2K issue?
It's interesting to note that Y2K bugs keep happening, even in
entirely new code. It's amazing how many programmers just don't
expect users to enter a two-digit year, or assume tm.tm_year is the
Everybody programming now will be dead in 3000... why should they
bother?
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at
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
Probably the same thing we call our equipment.
You effing mo... Oh, sorry.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Paul Gordon paul_gor...@hotmail.comwrote:
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
Reminds me of a university choral organization to which I belong...
A breathing exercise/warm-up has us going F... S... SH...
repeaditly. All I can think when doing this is, Hey, that's been my
whole afternoon!
Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote on 10/01/2010 11:32:43 AM:
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
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
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote:
It's interesting to note that Y2K bugs keep happening, even in
entirely new code. It's amazing how many programmers just don't
expect users to enter a two-digit year, or assume tm.tm_year is the
current year not
You think people will be reading the archives of this list in the around
year 3000?
- Original Message -
From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is
What about the 2038 problem?
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com
wrote:
It's interesting to note that Y2K bugs keep happening, even in
entirely new code. It's amazing how many
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
What about the 2038 problem?
That's a somewhat different beast.
Y2K is mainly a human factors problem, as it's humans who like
two-digit years, not computers. (Contrary to popular belief, data
storage capacity was
That's OK, it's all over by 2012.
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 mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com
From: Jonathan Link
Don't forget 12/21/2012...
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...
What about the 2038 problem?
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
I was more commenting in the laziness of people.
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Steven M. Caesare
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