[ale] Sunday 05-22-05 6PM RUN-AS-ROOT CHALLENGE

[George Carless]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 
at 03:26:23PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jason Day wrote:
> >On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:40:52AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >
> >>>	- flashable hardware is still flashable.  Sure, some of them
> >>>	  have worked around their issues, but does it make sense to
> >>>	  assume they all have?  Nope.
> >>
> >>re-flashing is like fsck'ing.  IT IS NOT DESTRUCTIBLE.
> 
> I can write a piece of code that will trash the bios.  I'm not talking 
> about flashing new code.  The bios won't even begin to start, thus you 
> can't reflash it because the box is DEAD.

Two words: do it. ;) ... Tru's set up the challenge, and perhaps it'll give us some 
peace and quiet until he can replace his various bits and pieces.... ;p

--George
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