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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:23:27 +0200
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On Wednesday 20 January 2010 20:13:11 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:23 +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> > i just wonder why we do not have BIOS flash program on linux.
>
> I wonder why we have BIOS flash programs at all.
<facetious reply>
because without them we couldn't flash stuff?
</facetious reply>
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