Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:39:33 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PIII "Anti Piracy Feature"? Message-ID: <19990316203933.A260@marder-1.localhost> In-Reply-To: <199903161652.LAA27020@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 11:48:28AM -0500 References: <36EE7FEF.5B2D6587@uk.radan.com> <199903161652.LAA27020@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 11:48:28AM -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> > Apparently civil rights types and other "concerned" people are up in
> > arms over it, claiming it will allow Big Brother to watch what you do
> > and where you go on the Internet. In response to this Intel say they
> > will ship the chips with the feature turned off. Apparently it can be
> > turned off by software, but only turned on again by power-cycling the
> > chip.
> >
> > I find this hilarious. These "experts" jumping up and down about it
> > like it is new technology. They obviously don't know that proprietry
> > Unix boxes have had this for years. On any Sun, type ``hostid'' at the
> > prompt and it'll return a 32-bit hex number.
>
> I can change my hostid on a sun. Can you change the serial number on an
> intel?
>
Don't think so.
How do you change the hostid on a Sun? Aren't they "burnt-in" to the NVRAM chip? I know that when the NVRAMs fail hostid returns FFFFFFFF.
> Jamie Bowden
>
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>
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> -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
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