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From: "Francisco J. Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:25:36 +0200
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Never understimate a screwdriver.

----- Mensaje original -----
    De: "Ronald G. Minnich"<rminnich@lanl.gov>
    Env.: 22/07/05 1:00:21
    Para: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs"<9fans@cse.psu.edu>
    Asunto: Re: [9fans] First-timer help
      
    
    On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Dave Eckhardt wrote:
    
    > If you can't trust the BIOS, you can't trust *anything* about the
    > machine.  There are business-card-sized CD-R's, so if you do trust the
    > BIOS you can have a read-only bootable system in your wallet at all
    > times.  If you use the disk only for a "cfs -r", you don't need to trust
    > its contents.
    
    it's almost always assumed by people on this list that all computers have
    an orifice of some sort or another into which bootable media can be poked.  
    I don't know why.
    
    ron
        

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