I had a laptop running on BIOS that would not boot ever unless I entered the BIOS settings and changed settings. The CMOS battery was fine. It just refused to save anything.
That's not UEFI. This was before EFI even existed.
> Criticism Provisions of the CFAA that effectively make it a federal crime to violate the terms of service of Internet sites have been criticized for allowing companies [...]
@KazWolfe the picture on my git profile and lauchpad shows me shaved. In China we had a group of students attached to us as volunteers. At one point they discovered picture in my passport, which was taken when i was 17, so they all started saying : " oh, you look better without a beard". So i shaved for the ladies :p
> Aaron's Law (H.R. 2454, S. 1196[37]) would exclude terms of service violations from the 1984 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and from the wire fraud statute, despite the fact that Swartz was not prosecuted based on Terms of Service violations.
three wolves and two goats are now present in this chat.
I have a friend who has never owned a Mac. He has just built a "hackintosh" by installing VMWare on his PC running Windows, and downloading a pirated, hacked copy of Mac OS X Yosemite in a portable VMWare virtual machine volume from somewhere online.
He claims to be astonished and unbelieving wh...
The hackintosh tag refers to using Apple operating systems on non-Apple hardware. Since this is explicitly off-topic on Ask Different, I would like to propose that hackintosh be burninated.
Silly, probably i should have gone home and eat, but it's just an indulgence before i start living on ricre day to day and saving money. Ah, the beauty of student life
My machine "froze" and a few minutes later shut itself down in an "orderly" fashion, with messages saying it's going down.
However, I can't figure out why.
$ grep -i shut /var/syslog
turns up nothing. Since it "knew" it was going down, why didn't it log the cause?
Between the freeze and the ...