From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 12 16:17:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18CAF37B405 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 69820 invoked by uid 100); 13 Jan 2002 00:17:01 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15424.53757.481922.381948@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 18:17:01 -0600 To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FIC on updating BIOS ;-) In-Reply-To: <20020113001000.A92296@tisys.org> References: <20020113001000.A92296@tisys.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.43 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nils Holland types: > Folks, > "It is recommended to refrain from updating BIOS without a good reason. If > you don't see your problem listed in the fix list, do not update your BIOS > - better go to a shareware website (www.winfiles.com, www.shareware.com, > tucows.com) and update your software or do something less dangerous." > > I had to laugh when I read this - it seems to say something like: "You're > to stupid, if you want to mess around with your computer, download some > software, but keep your fingers off the BIOS! ;-) I don't think I've seen a website from which I could download firmware - whether it was a PC BIOS or some other bit of hardwares operating software - that didn't say something along those lines. I'd say it's good advice for most users: installing a new BIOS (or whatever) may well break something that is currently working. Why risk that unless there's a good chance it'll fix something that *isn't* currently working? More importantly - at least as far as the vendor is concerned - it probably causes a noticable drop in their support calls. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message