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Low-down on laptop, unhurried exit

Why Yeddy didn’t go in a hurry

To most, B.S. Yeddyurappa, who just quit as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, might come across as crass, stubborn and greedy but to his family he’s above reproach.

Hear what daughter S.Y. Aruna Devi has to say.

“BSY’s resignation has helped the family to hold its head high. The way he conducted himself on his last day in office did his family proud.” BSY’s half-mile march to Raj Bhavan, his supporters in tow, reminded Ms Devi of Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March!

“Oh, and one more thing,” Ms Devi adds, “Dad is a proud and sensitive man. He was so disturbed by the Lokayukta report that he wanted to resign immediately. We all told him not to.” Indeed, Mr Yeddyurappa, caught in cleft stick, took so long to go.

Well, one could have believed the proud daughter had it not been for the sundry other reasons he himself has given. Reasons why he didn’t go promptly and quietly. One, he’s innocent. Two, every Chief Minister before him was corrupt, too. Three, he didn’t want to quit on or before amavasya. And what have you.

By far the best reason — call it excuse — came off his tongue when addressing a rally in the dying hours of his tenure. Addressing a rally of Balija community — a backward class — on his last day in office, he said, “I wanted to attend this rally as Chief Minister. That’s why I didn’t quit earlier!”

A “dying” man never lies.

Gadget theory smashed

On those tumultuous three days when the BJP’s central leadership was trying to persuade Mr Yeddyurappa to resign and the Karnataka strongman was holding out, fretting and fuming, many reports came out about the goings-on.

The most whacky report had to do with a laptop.

Dismissing reports that Mr Yeddyurappa broke the laptop of senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu, partymen now confide that the central leader from Andhra Pradesh does not even carry the gadget. So, where was the question of its being smashed, they ask.

Boot Sequences, The BIOS, The CMOS, and the POST

The BIOS is in charge of remembering what equipment you have inside your computer, and how to boot that hardware so the computer can run.  Essentially, the programming inside the BIOS is the first instructions your computer receives when it turns on.  It tells the video card to start, the hard drives to initialize, and your keyboard how to work.  Without the BIOS the computer couldn’t initialize to run your operating system. The BIOS is invoked by what’s known as a jump instruction.  The jump instruction is located at address FFFF0h in conventional memory.  This happens to be the first location that the microprocessor is designed to look at and run.  This in turn runs the POST, and then performs the necessary instructions to start the operating system. Most BIOS’s you will come across today are referred to as EEPROM. (Electrically erasable, programmable, read only memory)  This allows the BIOS to be updated to allow for new versions of hardware to be recognized through a process called Flashing.  Flashing the BIOS is essentially re-writing the BIOS by sending a specific electrical charge through the BIOS chip. To be honest, there are not many instances where flashing a BIOS will actually cure a problem on a motherboard.  BIOS’s are built pretty standard, and all the peripheral equipment inside a computer is generally built around the BIOS types.   If you are having a problem with a particular piece of equipment, it is possible that the BIOS may be responsible.  Check the web site of the vendor of the BIOS, the motherboard, and the peripheral for more information.  To find out what BIOS you are working with, watch the top of the screen after the video BIOS boots for the manufacturer and the version number of the BIOS. What is important to know is the boot sequence that is invoked by the BIOS.  Knowing the cold boot and warm boot processes of a system are vital to passing the A+ exam.

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