"Jean-Marc Desperrier" <jmdesp@alussinan.org> wrote in message news:bnj232$arq$1@reader1.imaginet.fr...
> Darrien wrote:
>> I'd make a comment about Linicks sucking here, but I don't think I can do 
>> any better than what Mandrake Soft has already done.
> 
> You can be unhappy about Mandrake not testing it's software with enough 
> hardware,
>

I'm glad I have your approval.

> but LG did the blunder here and any other Linux or OS 
> distribution could start the problem any time.
>

Which is yet another reason why I think that Linicks sucks.

> In fact after reading  more about it, I wonder if my windows software 
> Exact Audio Copy could not be at risk ...
> 

Ah, a Windows user taking offence to a Linicks comment.

> LG decided they didn't need to implement the FLUSH_COMMAND. Ok
> Then they decide they would reuse it, apparently to do an 
> UPLOAD_FIRMWARE with no checksum, no protection against a random call.
> 
> The updated LG firmware from version 1.01 do not have the problem, and 
> the testers from Mandrake who tried the 9.2 release with an LG drive all 
> were using the updated firmware.
> 

And that changes *what* exactly?