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Article #33Re: Don't buy Foxcon Mboards being sold with dodgy BIOS
From: Tony
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:56
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:56
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Bollocks! More bollocks i've just recently tested the foxcon motherf*ucker boards with every operating system you can dream of. Sure enough that piece of shit linxus failed. chuckcar wrote: > Conor <conor_turton@hotmail.com> wrote in > news:6f0faiF9bkjnU1@mid.individual.net: > > > In article <WYCik.33137$E41.31782@text.news.virginmedia.com>, 7 > > says... > >> > >> Don't buy or become reseller for Foxcon Mboards being fitted with > >> dodgy BIOS > >> > >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249 > >> > >> They have now been reported to the FTC. > >> > >> It will be a support nightmare. > >> > > There is no problems with the BIOS. The problem is with Linux's > > dependence on the tables in the BIOS. > > > > Power management is fucked on Linux anyway so would anyone even > > notice? > > > Nonsence. It works properly and *doesn't* get corrupted like happens > *all* the time on windoze. You just have to know what you're doing. > > -- > (setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) ) -- The Grandmaster of the CyberFROG Come get your ticket to CyberFROG city 2 years ago I showed him that one ludicrious (sp? I don't care) thing he posted was complete nonsence Using my technical prowess and computer abilities to answer questions beyond the realm of understandability Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday
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X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,71aabdb4563c4437 X-Google-Thread: 1063f0,71aabdb4563c4437 X-Google-Thread: faa3c,71aabdb4563c4437 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,gid1063f0,gidfaa3c,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feeder5.cambrium.nl!feeder6.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.k-dsl.de!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Tony <Tony@TheDeli.Sandwich> Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,uk.comp.homebuilt,24hoursupport.helpdesk Subject: Re: Don't buy Foxcon Mboards being sold with dodgy BIOS Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:56:45 -0400 Organization: Sultans Of CyberFROG Lines: 47 Message-ID: <488B2D1D.E80F70FB@TheDeli.Sandwich> References: <WYCik.33137$E41.31782@text.news.virginmedia.com> <6f0faiF9bkjnU1@mid.individual.net> <Xns9AE75ECD36461chucknilcar@127.0.0.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: 9JBfVd7mbEcHGiC/2AkzDA.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en