Thou shalt keep windows on thy machines (was Re: [ILUG] Naive..etc.)

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, jm at jmason.org wrote:

> IBM did this for the T40 -- 
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Hidden_Protected_Area . However they 
> didn't support BIOS updating from that; they required that you use 
> Windows to upgrade the BIOS, instead.

Don't buy IBM so..

>> - Write your own firmware update. Ask the vendor for the procedure
>>   and write a utility for your own OS.
>
> !!!  This might be possible if you're (a) a skilled sysadmin (b) have lots
> of free time and (c) are willing to sign NDAs etc... that's a pretty small
> group, in my opinion.

My personal experience says all three of those are straw-men. Not a 
good sample size, but maybe it beats yours. ;)

> So, saying that Tim could *write a firmware updater*, is somehow a
> *better* excuse?  wtf. ;)

I'm saying there are quite a few options. You're picking on the least 
accessible example - try the "FreeDOS bootdisk" one instead.. ;)

regards,
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