From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ns.pcdesk.net ([65.100.173.137] helo=pcdesk.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CtH7q-00023E-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:12:18 -0500 Received: from merlin ([192.168.0.13]) (AUTH: LOGIN jbahm@pcdesk.net, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,RC4-MD5) by pcdesk.net with esmtp; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:11:30 -0700 id 0301BF01.41F5B8E2.00002EF1 Message-ID: <004901c5028b$a32ca950$0d00a8c0@merlin> From: "Joseph C. Lininger" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20050125013902.GA1078@romuald.net.eu.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:12:00 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: Re: gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:12:23 -0000 Greg, I don't know of such a program, but I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to write such an animal if one wanted to do so. I imagine it's just an instruction or sequence of instructions that you pass to the CPU to instruct it to disable this feature. Then as long as the kernel or some other program doesn't reenable it, it would stay disabled. You'd probably have to write it in asembly though, as the C functions don't provide access to that. -- A man is a fool if he has forgotten what it was to be young, as his experience is worth nothing. Joseph C. Lininger jbahm@pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" To: Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:39 PM Subject: gnu/linux CPU serial number control utility > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > Does anybody know of a processor serial number control utility for > gnu/linux like what Intel has for windblows? I'm talking about a > program here that would either enable or disable the cpu showing its > serial number. Yes, I know some bioses can control that, thus making > the utility program to do this superfluous, but the bios in this case > doesn't have that option. I did check freshmeat, but no luck. Thanks > in advance. > > Greg > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFB9aM27s9z/XlyUyARApHUAJ9b7K3Zf7/nUH7+BzxlJmQOgmfOrgCgxagy > WIr8y0OrReRDkMq286rDM5Y= > =jWlh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >