I ran across a great history of bootstrap firmware, BIOS, and PC architecture at the website of Lennart Benschop . Mr. Benschop wrote a s...
History of Bootstrapping Computers
The EDKII Build Data Viewer
The EDKII Build Data Viewer is a handy (free) tool from Intel that analyzes UEFI BIOS build logs and provides the user with information...
Microsoft Kinect…but for Nintendo…and in 1989!
Continuing now my exploration of The Computer Chronicles television series. It’s the end of 1989 and Stewart and crew are discussing Chris...
Conversion Specifiers For Fun and Profit
You’ll never believe it, but I think I actually found something interesting to say about CONVERSION SPECIFIERS, of all things. What is a co...
Dell is Hiring BIOS Developers!
Are you a BIOS engineer looking for a job? Or maybe just looking for a better job? How about a job at a better company? I bet you want a ...
Spring 2015 UEFI Plugfest: Presentation Materials Now Available
The Spring 2015 UEFI Plugfest just completed. This year it was held at the lovely Embassy Suites hotel in fabulous Seattle, WA, U.S.A. ...
A Steve Jobs Milestone
I was watching the February 13, 1986 episode of The Computer Chronicles recently. The news segment contained a brief throw-away story abou...
Introduction to the EDKII C Coding Standards
You may not be aware that Intel has made publically available on Tianocore an EDKII C Coding Standards specification. As of this writing,...
The Best Movies You’ve (Probably) Never Seen
The nice people at Intel have put together some excellent training videos, and they’re available for free, on-demand download! I’m willing...
Syntax Highlighting for EDKII Files: .dec, .dsc, .fdf, .inf, .uni, .vfr
UEFI requires us to work with a plethora of different BIOS-specific file types. Among them are .dec, .dsc, .fdf, .inf, .uni, and .vfr files...
Government Collecting Telephone Metadata…in 1985!
In this classic episode of The Computer Chronicles , Stewart is reading through the news and discusses a program whereby the U.S. General Se...
You SHALL NOT Skip This REQUIRED Blog Post
Do you read specifications? If you’re a BIOS developer, the answer to that question is YES! Specs often need to convey to the reader a lis...
Prof. Metcalfe in Youthful 1985!
In my continuing exploration of The Computer Chronicles , the date is 24 October 1985 and the subject is Local Area Networks (LANs). The ma...
“Understanding and Using C Pointers”
In an article several years ago that struck a bit of a nerve in the industry, Joel Spolsky discussed the phenomenon he called a “ JavaSchoo...
OS/2—The Outlook is Quite Rosy!
With this post I continue my exploration of The Computer Chronicles ! This gem from the show is taken from 1987. It’s the news segment fro...
SMBIOS 3.0 Release Overview Webinar
The Distributed (or Desktop) Management Task Force ( DMTF ) is sponsoring a live webinar to discuss the recently announced SMBIOS 3.0 speci...
NIST 800-155: BIOS Integrity Measurement Guidelines
In an article last week , I talked about NIST document 800-147, a set of guidelines for BIOS developers to create a secure BIOS flash update...
NIST 800-147: BIOS Protection Guidelines
Introducing NIST The U.S. Federal Government operates the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST’s mission is to “Pro...
Copernicus for BIOS Security
The Mitre corporation is a non-profit organization doing security research for the U.S. Federal Government. Lucky for BIOS engineers, Mitr...
We’re Married!
I’ve been away from the website for a while, getting married! We enjoyed a (bitterly cold) honeymoon in lovely Niagara Falls . The upside...
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