2004/12/10 dmidecode

Dumps BIOS information. From http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/:

Beware that DMI data have proven to be too unreliable to be blindly
trusted. Dmidecode does not scan your hardware, it only reports
what the BIOS told it to.
 

We all know how dishonest your average computer is. Is that because we lie to them so much?

DMI (Desktop Management Interface) is going away (` http://www.dmtf.org/newsroom/newsletter/2003/06/page5), to be replaced by Common Information Model (CIM).

A longer article about dmidecode is at http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/18/2012237

and here's another interesting article about using it to be sure you are running an appropriate kernel: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/1923212

Yet another: Scripting with dmidecode

You may have "biosdecode" also.

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