[upchuck]

AFAIK, Dayglored manages the windows-centric ping list and Swordmaker manages the Apple-centric list.

If there’s another FReeper whose list would be more appropriate for this thread, please let me know.

[dayglored]

>> Really? You pinged dayglored to this thread? I thought he was all about the ‘doze platform, and not involved with the chipset side of things. Isn’t there another FReeper who is managing something I believe is called the Hardware Ping List? Or did dayglored take over that one as well? Just wondering... :)

> AFAIK, Dayglored manages the windows-centric ping list and Swordmaker manages the Apple-centric list. If there’s another FReeper whose list would be more appropriate for this thread, please let me know.

Okay, here's how I believe it's laid out:

• Swordmaker runs the Mac/OSX/Apple list

• ThunderSleeps runs the Android/Google list

• ShadowAce runs the "Tech Ping" list, which focuses on Linux/Unix but covers computer/networking hardware and software in general

• Dayglored runs the Windows/Microsoft list

• All of us include some amount of computer/networking hardware and software topics.

• Really cool non-computer new technology often shows up on ShadowAce's Tech list.

There are no hard-and-fast boundaries or "territories", just areas of primary interest as above. These lists (and we FReepers who run them) cooperate in the sense that we all alert each other to threads that might be of interest to our respective list members.

For example, this thread would be appropriate for my Windows/Microsoft list because Lenovo machines are primary Windows-based, so this BIOS vulnerability affects people who run Windows on Lenovos. It would be appropriate for ShadowAce's Tech list because it's about BIOS software, and because Lenovos are often used to run Linux. It would likely be of lower interest to Swordmaker's list because Lenovo hardware rarely runs Apple software; same likely in the case of ThunderSleeps and the Android list.

So upchuck's ping to me was appropriate, and a ping to ShadowAce would also be appropriate. A ping to Swordmaker and/or ThunderSleeps is not "out of line" but they would (I think) be unlikely to turn that into a ping to their respective lists.

Note, chipset stuff is of interest to the lists whose members might have hardware that includes that chipset, even if it isn't a personal computer (e.g. a set-top box or other embedded processor system).

Also note:

ShadowAce suffered a very serious cycle accident a short time ago and is only posting occasionally (and in lowercase!). Please send up some prayers for his recovery, and for strength and peace of mind for both him and his wife.