Daily Archives: 1 October, 2006

Google would be damn proud to hear …

1 October, 2006 – 4:28 pm

Leaning on a comfy leather chair in one of the computer labs at the campus, I was most curiously asked by a classmate thoughtfully looking at the screen of the monitor in front of me, “What are you doing? Using GOGGLE?”

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Freely redistributable firmwares and open documentation: Is Intel going to give in?

1 October, 2006 – 7:08 am

Firmware is a piece of code that is stored in a read-only section of a piece of hardware. It not only bootstraps the device, but also defines, activiates and makes useable the functionality of that device. Without the firmware, the device is not usable.
Since firmware carries code laying out the logic of operation of the [...]

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