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| 2003/10/4-5 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:10465 Activity:low |
10/3 bios-ain't-done-till-linux-won't-run
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39116902,00.htm
\_ Time to adopt OpenBIOS
\_ time for osX
\_ what was the line from starwars: "The tighter they grasp,
the more of them will slip through their fingers.." ?
\_ Welcome to reality. That was a movie, this is life.
\_ Get over it. Compaq SmartStart bios for Proliant servers
has been WinNT-based forever now. If that's not enough,
for once I'd suggest a big 'hooray' for the ChiCom
electronics industry as a balancing factor. Combine
(http://tinyurl.com/ppo7 - propaganda) with Red Flag Linux
and you may realize that 1 billion screaming Chinese aren't
going to be voluntarily shoehorned into having their pirate
DVD PC game stations running Windows 2010. -John
[formatd was here even though John should be able to self-f]
\_ John apologizes, John was on way-too-wide xterm.
John promises introspection and betterment in
future. Please forgive John. And apparently URL
is dead too--was meant to refer to Dragon CPU.
future. Please forgive John.
\_ fuck you, John. Number of Communist Party member in
China is roughly around 100k. Consider we got
1.3+ billion people, it is so fucking unfair to label
us that way. Years of Berkeley, you haven't learn
how to seperate regime and the nation and its people.
you white imperalist. Yes, you are. Based upon
your logic, you are responsible for Iraq and Afghan,
especially consider the regime is elected by people
\_ Pardon me, but what the fuck are you talking about?
Dragon CPU development is Chinese government
sponsored, and the domestic electronics industry
there is "strongly motivated" by various govt. trade
bodies to compete with US commercial entities. Red
Flag Linux is openly sponsored by the Chinese
post office and other (government) organizations.
Chinese government is, well, communist, or at least
they say so. But if that pisses you off, I strongly
apologize and take back my assertion that the
Chinese (1 billion of them, and please _do_ point out
where I said they're all commies) are smart enough
to use technical alternatives to what M$ wants them
to buy. And I should add that after years of
Berkeley, I have a very solid understanding of
politics, sociology and economics, and in contrast
to you, a GRASP OF HOW TO WRITE A PROPER ENGLISH
SENTENCE, YOU BLITHERING FUCKWIT. Eat a turd and
wither, ChiCom troll. -John
\_ um, I think you've been trolled, John.
No one on the motd really writes English as
badly as the above poster claims to.
\_ law of averages. Idiots do exist.
like you
\_ yeah and uhm yeah so take that and that and that and
you're a big bad white cracker racist and china isnt
communist and john is evil whitey imperialist racist
and cant format and has big bad whitey xterm format
problem in afghan and iraq and Hey, did anyone see
future. Please forgive John.
my bag? I think I left it on the boat! |
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| news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39116902,00.htm It also raises concerns over who controls the software in PCs Microsoft has expanded its relationship with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies in a deal designed to more closely integrate the basic building blocks of the PC with the Windows operating system. The relationship, announced this week, is designed to make PCs simpler and more reliable, the companies said. The move is likely to put consumer rights advocates on their guard, however, since both Microsoft and Phoenix are involved in plans to integrate digital rights management DRM technology at the operating system and hardware level. DRM is designed to give copyright owners more control over how users make use of software and content, but has been criticised as eroding consumer rights. A BIOS, or basic input/output system, is the software that ties the operating system to a PCs hardware. Traditionally, it has carried out basic tasks such as hardware and system configuration, and has been standardised and simple enough to allow the installation of alternative operating systems, including Linux. Phoenixs Core System Software CSS is a next-generation BIOS with a more sophisticated integration of operating system and hardware, for example making it easier for system administrators to remotely monitor the hardware configurations of their systems. CSS is designed for non-PC systems such as blade servers and embedded industrial devices as well as traditional desktops. Microsoft said integration should mean simpler and more reliable computers. This is a pivotal change for the industry, and it will rapidly advance serviceability, deployment, and management for servers, mobile devices, and desktops, said Microsoft general manager of Windows hardware Tom Phillips, in a statement. Effectively, Phoenix is creating an entirely new category of system software. Microsoft said the next-generation BIOS would allow future versions of Windows to manage server blades when they are connected to a system, without needing to be turned on. The BIOS would also allow better control of unauthorised devices connected to a system, Microsoft said. Phoenix is one of the biggest BIOS providers, its customers including four of the top five PC manufacturers. Its products are also used by consumer electronics makers such as Pioneer, Matsushita, Sony and Toshiba. Both Microsoft and Phoenix are currently arguing for closer integration of Windows with PC hardware, and DRM integrated throughout. Microsoft is planning to tie Windows DRM features to the hardware platform via its controversial Next Generation Secure Computing Base NGSCB project, formerly known as Palladium. NGSCB is associated with the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, which is due in about two years time. Phoenix recently said it is touting round a BIOS with built-in DRM technology to major PC manufacturers. In September the company said it had developed a prototype of its Core Management Engine CME including DRM from Orbid. The DRM technology would allow content providers to identify which PCs and devices were authorised to play particular files, more effectively controlling content distribution, file-trading and moving software from one machine to another, according to Phoenix. Phoenix said the DRM-enabled CME was not part of Microsofts NGSCB, but that the technology was complementary. The CME would allow PC makers to embed digital rights management directly into the hardware, though they would have the option of allowing users to turn it off. Consumer electronics makers are particularly interested in the technology, according to Phoenix. Efficeon nets PC industry backing Stolen PCs can ping their real owner New group aims at universal security End of the road in sight for antique heart of PCs Email this Print this Tell us your opinion Bull. |
| tinyurl.com/ppo7 -> english.peopledaily.com.cn/200209/27/eng20020927_104011.shtml According to the analysis of persons from the business circle, the debut of the Soaring Dragon Sever marks that China has set out on the marketization of its Dragon Chip. The Dragon Chip, as a product of Chinas own intellectual property rights, has attracted the attention of the people in China ever since it came into the world. Undergoing many a strict examination and test by the Computer Institution of the CAS and other authoritative organizations in China, the Dragon Chip is proved to be very sound in performance, steady and reliable in operation and utterly sufficient to meet the working requirement of the server and website. It has made Chinas computer industry to follow its own and independent track of development. The person also made a further explanation, saying that China used the US chip in the past. Information security constitutes the first and foremost line in national defence. However, the line was built on the foreign technology and completed with materials from a foreign country, and so we cannot but be worried about it. The birth of Dragon Chip is considered a landmark on the road for the development of national sci-tech industry. Nevertheless, people are worried about it, thinking that though the Dragon Chip is designed on our own it will fall into the trap of foreign intellectual property rights provided it is compatible with that of the others. Moreover, the Intels monopoly of the market has made it to turn out an actual standard-maker in the market. Whats more important is that the CPU of the PC market is based on the Intels framework of X86 and so its quite easy to fall into the intellectual property right trap the Intel laid out, whereas the Shuguang Soaring Dragon Sever is based on the RISC structure, a totally another standard. Therefore, it will not fall into the intellectual property right trap. According to the estimation of the Ministry of Information Industry the semi-conductor market in Chinas mainland will witness an annual growth rate of 35 percent before 2005 to reach a scale of 40 billion US dollars with the chips needed to amount to 17 billion pieces. By the year of 2010 China is going to turn out the second large semi-conductor market in the world. In correspondence to this, 2001 saw the semi-conductor market in Chinas mainland reach 13 billion US dollars but that produced by it fell short of 10 percent. Experts come to conclusion that China has to develop chips of its own intellectual property rights so long as it wants to stand out a giant in the world of semi-conductor industry. |