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linux-sux@lycos.com wrote:
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> Greg Sullivan. wrote:
>> 7 wrote:
>> > Someone please share information about currently selling
>> > medium end / low end motherboards with bios
>> > options to boot from USB flash disk.
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>> > TIA
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>> From: 7 <website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com>
>> Subject: The USB boot conspiracy
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>> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:32:08 GMT
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>> The USB boot conspiracy:
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>> Sorrry to be so blunt, but it just appears
>> to be that USB boot option which is highly
>> favorable to Linux is being fudged, FUDed and fidooed
>> out of existence!
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>> Fudge 1
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>> Search engines don't return comprehensive
>> lists of motherboards that do it
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>> Fudge 2
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>> Motherboard suppliers don't boast about it.
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>> Fudge 3
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>> Retailors don't boast about it
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>> Fudge 4
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>> Ask newsgroups, and hardly anyone has access to lists
>> of motherboards.
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>> And yet we are in the 1Gb basic module size now
>> for basic USB flash disks and these are
>> capable of booting up dead PCs instantly
>> if they had the usb boot option, not to mention
>> changes to business models for some hosting
>> companies with diskless server farms
>> with 16Gb flash disks on sample now.
>>
>> What gives?
>>
>> Who and what is orchestrating this resistance to USB
>> boot capability? Is it convicted monopoloy microshit again?
>> And does it need a visit to the Anti-monopoly commissions in EU,
>> and elsewhere again?
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> oh yeah. its a international conspiracy. google is even in on this
> consipiracy because google and microsoft are such good friends.
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> typical lintard moron. too stupid to figure anything out. can't figure
> out how to use a s3earch engine so its microsofts fault.
Oooooo... fine by me. Just show me one list.
Unless of course you can't.