*countable infinities only

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Fri Jun 1 16:59:04 UTC 2012


On 06/01/2012 12:55 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Tom Callaway wrote:
>> Do we want to support dual-booting with Windows 8? Microsoft describes
>> SecureBoot enablement as "Required for Windows 8 client" [1]? What does
>> that mean? We're not sure. At best, it means that BitLocker isn't going
>> to work, at worst, big chunks of Windows 8 functionality will simply
>> refuse to function until you turn SecureBoot back on.
> You are assuming here that there will not be some cracker (or even just some 
> frustrated dual boot user) patching this requirement out of Window$ 8 (no 
> matter whether doing that is legal or not). (See what has been done to OS X 
> and its restriction to Apple hardware only.)

wHackindows-8




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