"Tim Smith" <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:reply_in_group-A4BAC9.16532325072008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
How does the motherboard know you are using Linux? Is it a setting
somewhere in the non-volatile BIOS settings? If so, what happens if
you
simply change the setting to say you are running Windows?
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--Tim Smith
This is the same idea as your Web browser can tell
the other party you're using Windows software; and I
expect a fix will be published shortly.
But a better fix, is to publish how one identifies a
Foxconn motherboard so that everyone can know these
boards are defective and don't buy them. *That*
should get the mfr's attention as well as be very
useful information to everyone.
The interesting question this raises is, is Microsoft
the instigator of this scheme? Where else are they
doing this to us? ??
And, it shows Microsoft products cannot stand on their,
uh, merits; and Microsoft knows it.
Titeotwawki -- mha [2008 Jly 25]
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