http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069BBC.co.uk wrote: New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers.
The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initialises a machine so its operating system can get going.
The code was not intended to live nearly this long, and adapting it to modern PCs is one reason they take as long as they do to warm up.
Bye Bye BIOS
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bipedalhumanoid
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Bye Bye BIOS
...and don't let the door hit you on the arse on your way out!
"The fact of your own existence is the most astonishing fact you will ever have to face. Don’t you ever get used to it." - Richard Dawkins... being shrill and offensive again I suppose.
Re: Bye Bye BIOS
Well, that and all the antivirus software, TSRs and 100 other programs that feel they have to load themselves when you boot up. I would not have thought that BIOS, even as primitive as it is, makes a dramatic difference to booting times.
That said, anything that makes computers faster = YAY!
That said, anything that makes computers faster = YAY!
Re: Bye Bye BIOS
The day a computer loads in seconds is the day I start believing in God. After all only a miracle could make it happen!
Bad journalism from the BBC there, just because you get a nice Windows splash screen doesn't mean it's 'loaded'. In fact when you get the bloody desktop it doesn't mean it's loaded!
Still, could be worse, could be a Mac
Bad journalism from the BBC there, just because you get a nice Windows splash screen doesn't mean it's 'loaded'. In fact when you get the bloody desktop it doesn't mean it's loaded!
Still, could be worse, could be a Mac
Humans are an intelligent species. We just aren't smart enough to realise how stupid we are.
Wouldn't life be great if the 8 hours spent in bed were as long as the 8 hours spent in work.
Wouldn't life be great if the 8 hours spent in bed were as long as the 8 hours spent in work.
Re: Bye Bye BIOS
I sense a MacAttack coming on
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'Nother one
Re: Bye Bye BIOS
Oh goody, a Mac attack!!
Humans are an intelligent species. We just aren't smart enough to realise how stupid we are.
Wouldn't life be great if the 8 hours spent in bed were as long as the 8 hours spent in work.
Wouldn't life be great if the 8 hours spent in bed were as long as the 8 hours spent in work.
Re: Bye Bye BIOS
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net ... =macs_cant
Name one other thing a PC can do that a Mac can't....
RIGHT-FUCKING-CLICK!!
Ok, I'll stop now.
Name one other thing a PC can do that a Mac can't....
RIGHT-FUCKING-CLICK!!
Ok, I'll stop now.
Humans are an intelligent species. We just aren't smart enough to realise how stupid we are.
Wouldn't life be great if the 8 hours spent in bed were as long as the 8 hours spent in work.
Wouldn't life be great if the 8 hours spent in bed were as long as the 8 hours spent in work.
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bipedalhumanoid
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Re: Bye Bye BIOS
I'm not ignorant enough to fall for MAC hype, so I know they're a complete rip off and won't buy one.MyloD wrote:I can't afford a Mac, so I pretend not to like them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADkpyVWAwQ
"The fact of your own existence is the most astonishing fact you will ever have to face. Don’t you ever get used to it." - Richard Dawkins... being shrill and offensive again I suppose.
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bipedalhumanoid
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Re: Bye Bye BIOS
Is that why all the Linux people are such hippies?GazUtd wrote:The day a computer loads in seconds is the day I start believing in God.
Oh man my pc loads in seconds... freaky.
"The fact of your own existence is the most astonishing fact you will ever have to face. Don’t you ever get used to it." - Richard Dawkins... being shrill and offensive again I suppose.