RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
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

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
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 wrote: On Fri,

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Don Guyer
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:13 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 wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Steven M. Caes

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jonathan Link 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 *not* the big contribu

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Jonathan Link
What about the 2038 problem? On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Steven M. Caesare > 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 use

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread James Kerr
You think people will be reading the archives of this list in the around year 3000? - Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:01 PM Subject: Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh... On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 a

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Steven M. Caesare 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 -1900, or wha

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
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 pec

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Andy Shook
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RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Don Guyer
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RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Andy Shook
I always found it amusing when my northern counterparts pronounce it as by-ause. Freakin' Yankees :) 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 wi

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread RichardMcClary
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 wrote on 10/01/2010 11:32:43 AM: > Probably the sam

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Jonathan Link
Probably the same thing we call our equipment. You effing mo... Oh, sorry. On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Paul Gordon wrote: > 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-

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Paul Gordon
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

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
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... > >

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Maglinger, Paul 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 current year not -1

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Something like that... *ASB* * * On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > 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:

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Maglinger, Paul
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

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andrew S. Baker 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 it is s

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
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 rea

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Carl Houseman
ility is a requirement, as there are plenty of bootable programs that depend on the BIOS interface to hard drives in order to function. Carl From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 8:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh..

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I assume you are used to hearing laughter at small form-factor floppy units. -sc From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh... I found the picture of the floppy disk quite

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Sorry had to laugh when I saw this line: "New PCs could start in just seconds" My experience with UEFI is limited to IBM blade servers, but we have a lot of new HS22 systems, and they take forever to get past the UEFI. Dramatic increase in boot time compared to the previous HS20 and HS21, whi

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Andy Shook
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

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:18 AM, 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 they stop now? :) -- B

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread RichardMcClary
Perhaps it is BIAS? "James Kerr" 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 nigh... > > htt

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread James Kerr
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 nigh... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069 Probably well overdue, in

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread RichardMcClary
No more BIOS? That means no more chuckles over "Bad or missing keyboard - press F1 to continue" :-( James Rankin 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 asked, 'Pray,

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Erik Goldoff 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 more with dual c

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:59 AM, James Rankin 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 biggest driving facto

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

RE: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
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