Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:22:22 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.18-pre9-mjc2 |
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Hi!
> > > If you want to get arrested it sounds a great idea. Thats up to you > > > > Huh? They are shipping faulty products. Unless their manual say "you > > are only allowed to run windows 95 release 1, Word version 3.71 and > > Outlook 17.32 and nothing else, you have handled your computer > > properly and its *their* problem. > > You didnt handle it properly. You'll find the old "you cannot damage the > computer" messages vanished about the time of the IBM/AT. You instructed > it to erase critical internal data, so it did.
I asked it to read temperature sensors *then* it commited suicide.
I believe consumer protection laws require manual to be shipped with a product, and manual should state how you should handle your computer. Unless they say "never run anything you downloaded", they should return your machine.
> > repair. Everyone with a clue has jumper on stuff like flashing, and I > > can imagine that opening the case can void your warranty. > > You don't however have a jumper to protect your disk firmware do > you...
In such case disk should either:
*) have "firmware flasher" part unwritable,
or
*) check signature on whatever it is flashing in, and if it does not match, refuse to flash it.
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