In Fire We Trust

The silicon is a strange thing. No i am not talking about the silicon being pumped in someones tities, i am talking about the silicon in our machines. It’s correct name is silica, but everyone is refering to it with silicon. It is a strange animal, it has rules to abide to. It grows works. But not allways. Man how happy was i when i got my hands on my firs celleron. It worked at 400Mhz and it was a pure beast. Man how much the landscape changed since then … The CPUs had grownup, became faster, easier on the power usage, can be updated, and caught bugs. I never thought about cpu’s in this way … bugs, that should stay in the software land not hardware. And now what provoked all this.
Intel Core 2
A short writeup from Teo De Raat from *BSD teams. Lots of darkness creeps in this thread. I start to wonder with so many shits in the silicon, what CPU to purchase for my next machine. Intel or AMD. Maybe not … Maybe MIPS or RISK, maybe even CELL based.
Let alone that but from this thread there is more lurking, separated architectures, MMU and Instruction management granted to different controlers. TPM my ass that’s not for protection that’s for total and utter control.

There is no more trust in me. I can’t be sure even about my machine, even it is separated from the world …