On 10/11/06, David H. Barr dhbarr@gozelle.com wrote:
On 11/9/06, Dave Crossland dave@lab6.com wrote:
Ouch. When he says, "The driver remains completely functional in the absense of the binary piece", surely some functionality is missing - what is this? I don't understand enough (yet) to know from that post :-(
I would guess, since he specifically mentions MacroVision, that it's all that "protected media" stuff, AKA DRM. Maybe the part that would let an Intel device authenticate itself as a "trusted" pathway?
Okay that makes sense - part of the "High-bandwith Digital Content Protection" stuff I suppose, based on my limited understanding of it from http://fuckbluray.com
Not functionality I'm interested in, I suppose, as I'll just rip BlueRay discs to TheoraOGG to watch them anyway :-)
Well, you -did- say workstation, which generally signifies (to me, at least) dual socket and ECC.
Yes, ECC for sure, and dual socket or dualcore is fine.
The MSI Workstation board is definitely NOT obsolete; I'd go with "not widely available in the UK yet".
Okay, that's really what I wanted to hear! :-)
What spec are you looking for? That is to say, what level of machine?
I'm basing my ideas of what I want mainly from http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20060107.html