From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pop-a065c05.pas.sa.earthlink.net ([207.217.121.183]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CtHGz-0002Fo-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:21:45 -0500 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by pop-a065c05.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CtHGo-0004mg-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:21:34 -0800 Received: (qmail 1924 invoked by uid 1023); 25 Jan 2005 03:21:36 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:21:36 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20050125032136.GA1894@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20050125013902.GA1078@romuald.net.eu.org> <004901c5028b$a32ca950$0d00a8c0@merlin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; x-action=pgp-signed; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004901c5028b$a32ca950$0d00a8c0@merlin> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc 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 03:21:50 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joseph, a good idea. However, I don't know if the specs I'd need are open, and I myself don't know x86 assembly at this time, though I do want to learn it in the future. Greg On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:12:00PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: > 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 - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB9btA7s9z/XlyUyARArSSAKDFY8Ip2sLRKC8bsO2pq5dh8eVMjwCfS/dM M/LN43tuZs46JzAOq3wf68U= =7SCF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----