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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