A BIOS Update is one of those things that can steal much of your time - even though it should be something really fast. I wanted to update the BIOS of my old laptop, a Toshiba Portege M100. Toshiba seemed to provide only a Windows Utility to do that job. Since there was no important data on my laptop, I quickly delted my Ubuntu installation and installed Windows7.
The update program complained some missing Toshiba tools which I could download and install after a while as well. But the I thought I coudl finally update the BIOS, I was greeted by:
"user is not authorized to update bios"
I tried this, I tried that, I googled and only found suggestions that did not for me and many others. Well, maybe Windows7 is too new. So I installed WinXP. Something I though I would never have to do again. After installing the different Toshiba tools here as well, I was still greeted by the same message. Narf.
After some more searching, I finally found an alternative page from Toshiba with a different version of the updating tool. It contained the means to create a bootable disc and CD:
Toshiba Portege M100 BIOS Update
Luckily I read the instructions to learn that I had to press 'C' to boot from the CD. The normal way to choose the medium in the initial start-up screen did not work.
Thursday, August 5. 2010
Bios Update Toshiba Portege M100
Thursday, July 29. 2010
It is Thursday already...
Saturday, July 24. 2010
It is 3 weeks ago...
... that it was a really sunny and joyful day here in Germany. I hope the rain will pass soon.
Tuesday, July 20. 2010
Experience Abroad - in Dresden
Friday, July 16. 2010
The bus is not booting
The information display inside the bis was suggesting a rather odd route for today...
Looking forward to Saturday
Wednesday, July 14. 2010
I was here - Tübingen-Style

This is way some people in Tübingen mark their "I was here". And least the first pair has been around for a very long time.
Monday, July 12. 2010
I am being hotlinked
A blog has been hotlinking one of the pictures of my old blog. Hotlinking means that the picture was all the time on my server, not on theirs. Of course I was not asked before, no appropiate credit is given and I payed for the traffic on my domain.I have contacted them to negotiate a retroactive aquisition of a license to use my picture. We shall see how that is going to work out. In meantime, since my old blog was deleted including that picture, I uploaded a new picture, so that the article is still complete.
I have been tempted to use something really more provoking.
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