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	Booting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Typical modern PCs boot in about a minute (of which about 15 seconds are taken by the preliminary boot loaders, and the rest by loading the operating system), while large servers may take several minutes to boot and to start all services - to ensure high availability, they bring up some services before others.
		If there is no active partition or the active partition's boot sector is invalid, the MBR may load a secondary boot loader and pass control to it and this secondary boot loader will select a partition (often via user input) and load its boot sector, which usually loads the corresponding operating system Kernel.
		Warm boot or soft reboot (as opposed to hard reboot) refers to an abridged start up which does not require that power be removed and reapplied.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Booting (1439 words)

	AMIDiag - Industry Standard PC Diagnostics
		BIOS is an integral part of the computer and comes with it when you bring it home.
		When BIOS boots up the computer, it first determines whether all of the attachments are in place and operational and then it loads the OS (or key parts of it) into a computer's random access memory (RAM) from a hard disk or diskette drive
		Although BIOS is theoretically always the intermediary between the microprocessor and I/O device control information and data flow, in some cases, BIOS can arrange for data to flow directly to memory from devices (such as video cards) that require faster data flow to be effective.
	www.amidiag.com /support/glossary.cfm (11674 words)

	Viruslist.com - Classic Viruses
		Boot sector viruses write themselves either to the boot sector or to the master boot record or displace the active boot-sector.
		The boot viruses which are currently known about infect the boot sectors of floppy disks and the boot sector or Master Boot Record (MBR) of the hard disk.
		Boot viruses act on the basis of the algorithm used to launch the operating system when the computer is switched on or rebooted.
	www.viruslist.com /en/virusesdescribed?chapter=152540474 (1904 words)

	RAV AntiVirus - Common Questions about Viruses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Boot viruses – they use for replication the boot sector of the floppies, MBR (master boot record) or the boot sectors of the fixed disks.
		Change the boot sequence from BIOS, so the floppy won't be the first in that sequence.
		Booting from the floppy drive could be necessary only when installing/reinstalling the Operating System or scanning for some special viruses.
	www.ravantivirus.com /basics/basics1.php (1376 words)

	Rules of Card Games: Shithead
		All the subsequent plays must also be legal, so the sequence would be terminated by an eight, since after an eight the next card is required to be lower or equal.
		If the sequence reached 10 the pile would be thrown away and the same player would start a new pile with any play.
		An optional rule for games with more than two players: when the pile is picked up, play reverts to the previous player, rather than passing on to the next player.
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	Strange Horizons Reviews: Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute, edited by Farah Mendlesohn, reviewed ...
		are without a doubt the benchmark for SF reference works, and do some heavy critical lifting to boot (particularly the
		Any narrative which tells or implies a sequence of events, in any order which can be followed by hearers or readers, and which generatres a sense that its meaning is conveyed through the actual telling, may be called a Story.
		He blogs at Torque Control, and still hates writing bios.
	www.strangehorizon.com /reviews/2006/03/polder_a.shtml (3080 words)

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