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unusual facts about BIOS


Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix Corporation, 203 F.3d 596 (2000), is a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which ruled that the copying of a copyrighted BIOS software during the development of an emulator software does not constitute copyright infringement, but is covered by fair use.


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American Megatrends

Some earlier AMIBIOS versions also included a cut-down version of the AMIDIAG utility that AMI also sold separately, but most later AMI BIOSes do not include this program as the BIOS DMI already incorporates detailed diagnostics.

Biological Innovation for Open Society

As described by Richard Anthony Jefferson, CEO of Cambia, the BiOS Initiative worked with small companies, university offices of technology transfer, attorneys, and multinational corporations to create a platform to share productive and sustainable technology.

BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society

The Director of BIOS is Martin White Professor of Sociology at LSE, Professor Nikolas Rose, who has been recently awarded an ESRC Professorial Research Fellowship for a three year project entitled 'Brain, Self and Society in the 21st Century'.

Brodosplit

BSO also constructed off-shore platforms, luxury yachts, small cruise ships, catamarans, medium-size ferries like Jadran for Jadrolinija, as well as some specialised ships like the "Bios Dva" research vessel, launched in 2009.

Bus encryption

Such bus encryption is used by the Microsoft operating system Windows Vista and newer to protect certificates, BIOS, passwords, and program authenticity.

Code page

When, early in the history of personal computers, users didn't find their character encoding requirements met, private or local code pages were created using Terminate and Stay Resident utilities or by re-programming BIOS EPROMs.

Escadabiidae

The name of the type genus Escadabius is combined from the type locality Escada (Pernambuco, Brazil, and Ancient Greek bios "living".

Flashrom

Flashrom is a universal flash programming utility used to detect, read, verify, erase, or write BIOS chips in DIP, PLCC, SOIC, TSOP, or BGA packages.

Gare de Toulouse-Matabiau

The station took the name of the borough it was situated in, an area called Matabiau, named after the martyrdom of Saint Saturnin, mata-bios meaning kill the bull.

History of Firefox

The Phoenix name was kept until April 14, 2003, when it was changed because of a trademark dispute with the BIOS manufacturer, Phoenix Technologies (which produces a BIOS-based browser called Phoenix FirstWare Connect).

Master boot record

DL values of 00h and 01h may also be used by Protected Area Run Time Interface Extension Services (PARTIES) and Trusted Computing Group (TCG) BIOS extensions in Trusted mode to access otherwise invisible

Multi-booting

Since Windows XP is incompatible with Extensible Firmware Interface (the successor to legacy BIOS), the firmware on early Intel Macs need to be updated to support BIOS emulation first.

OKS Recordings of North America

The artists on the label include The Painful Leg Injuries, The Harmful Free Radicals, El Plan De Aguavodka, Marco Oppedisano, David Lee Myers (aka Arcane Device), BIOS, Barry Seroff, Alex Spalding, and the Unevenness of the Moon's Surface.

PlayStation 2 technical specifications

For example, the PS2 BIOS will not boot an ISO image from a USB flash drive or operate a USB printer, as the machine's operating system does not include this functionality.

Xbox modding

Within a few months of its release the initial layer of security on the Xbox BIOS (which relied heavily on obfuscation) was broken by MIT student Andrew Huang and the contents of the "hidden" boot ROM embedded on the MCPx chip was extracted using some custom built hardware.


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