>> This is going to sound depressing, but the only way to know for sure is >> to >> pop the eeprom and program it with an external programmer. > > As someone who flashes a lot of laptop firmware roms, it's really not > that bad. The soic-8 flash chips are not hard to remove with a $40 hot > air station, and you can rewrite them with flashrom on a raspberry pi, > a breadboard, some jumper wires, and a $10 clip. Takes a few hours to > do the first time, but you get the hang pretty quick. > > -Ben > Been there, done that, but .....
The point is that not everyone has the wherewithal or inclination. This gets me off on a tangent. If you look at the history of any mechanization, like the rise of the automobile, or the rise of the computer, camera, etc. There is a primitive stage where "nerds" do this. There is an intermediate stage where less nerdy nerds try to bring this to the general population. (early adopters) Then then the stage of techy non-nerds pick up on the nerds and capitalize on the nerdy ambitions and subvert them to marketing stuff and gets really close to what people want and use. (breaking success) Then the last stage where the MBAs with no knowledge or respect of the technology create a system where users walk away because it no longer does what it did or what they hoped. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
