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...but I thought he was into dog-ma.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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My natural habitat is in the Lab
And yes, her name is Ruby and loves BBQ and hot sauce.
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This morning, I saw a Cardinal.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I am the current the recipient of a purring shoulder kitten. She's about a year old, and not getting any lighter. She's very distracting basically draped over me like a scarf. It makes it difficult to focus and code.
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They also have a "variable mass" system where they can get heavier at will - normally when they are both most comfortable and putting maximum stress on your joints. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Are you familiar with Maine Coons? They can weigh quite a bit. Maine Coon - Wikipedia[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I always thought there was something fishy about that proposition.
/ravi
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You and I tried the same word inrow 3! 
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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They're always the ones that find the dead bodies.
Just sayin'
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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You'd think it would be more dog walkers.
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Nah, they find dismembered bodies. Different skill set.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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But that's a subset, yes?
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Exactly, with better planning and an earlier start, they could have had a civilised walk.
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I have always protected my systems by keeping up to date system images and data backups, but I often wondered what would happen if some clever hacker developed a virus that corrupts the computer's BIOS. To the best of my knowledge, the BIOS is saved in a hardware chip on the computer's main board. Since the BIOS loads the operating system, if the BIOS is corrupted there's not much you can do about such a virus.
Yes, I have a utility from Dell that will reflash the BIOS chip, but since the BIOS virus controls the operating system, will it allow Windows to reflash the BIOS chip? I doubt it!
The main mechanism used by this malware is to corrupt the manufacturer's logo that first shows on startup, before Windows is loaded. I find this scary, but I have one point in my favor: I only bought Dell devices for my family. Here is a quote from the article below:
Quote: Many devices sold by Dell aren't directly exploitable because the image files are protected by Intel Boot Guard, making it impossible to be replaced, even during a physical attack.
You can read more here:
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack | Ars Technica[^]
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Cp-Coder wrote: if the BIOS is corrupted there's not much you can do about such a virus.
Some motherboards, such as some Gigabytes, comes with a backup BIOS which can't be flashed. So, if the machine is mission critical then it's worth considering a board that has one. You can literally just boot with the backup BIOS and reflash the main one.
Cp-Coder wrote: Yes, I have a utility from Dell that will reflash the BIOS chip, but since the BIOS virus controls the operating system, will it allow Windows to reflash the BIOS chip? I doubt it!
Windows has zero say-so on whether or not you can flash the BIOS. At best it can restart the computer. Any flashing software isn't using the Windows kernel, API, etc.
To your point though, a virus could in theory prevent the reflashing (not sure though). That being said, these days a BIOS is stored on EEPROMs, so nothing can prevent you from physically taking the chip out of the computer and rewriting a good BIOS on it before putting the chip back in the computer. Sure you'd have to soldier/desolder, but it would work.
Cp-Coder wrote: You can read more here:
The logo fail thing has been around for a while, just FYI. There may be a new instance of this that just surfaced, but it's nothing new.
Secure Boot will help mitigate some issues with this. It's not perfect since a virus could bypass that too, but it'll at least make it a bit harder for the virus.
All scare tactics aside, this is one of those cases where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure though. If a machine is mission critical it should be behind a DMZ/firewall/something with locked down restrictions.
Jeremy Falcon
modified yesterday.
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