Recent modifications on a wiki page

[Andrea Lazzarotto]

Dear Christopher and other contributors,

thank you for your message (and thanks also for sending me a copy
privately, but don't worry I am subscribed).

2016-02-23 23:25 GMT+01:00 Christopher M. Penalver <
christopher.m.penalver at gmail.com>:

> my initial understanding of the change was that it didn't have a fully
> contained way to find the BIOS update for a given model, and apply it.
>

Ehm, I guess my first choice for the heading was not very clear.


> However, it may be of higher usefulness to present the method in a "do
> these keyboard click-for-click steps, with the least explanation to confirm
> a BIOS update is available" way, as if one is the user who doesn't really
> care about understanding anything, and just wants the steps to perform to
> move forward.
>

My fault. I am used to write directions on my blog. Since I hate when other
people instruct to do stuff without explaining what it does, I tend to be
very verbose.


> A rough skeleton would be:
> 1) Run sudo dmidecode -t0 to find the the Platform ID.
> 2) Place this in the URL and download.
> 3) Update via precise method(s) (in progress).
>

I like this option, but the details should still be available somewhere.


> Despite this, regarding the placement of this information, it still seems
> better suited to be in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate,
> offering a "one stop shop" nature of BIOS updating that the article intends.
>

But it's quite long while the other sections look very short. Should we do
a separate subpage?


> Putting such a method at the bottom of a tangentially related article
> [...] instead of in the main one seems to not place it in the most useful
> location for folks who are looking to update their BIOS.
>

Yes... partially. For now the procedure tells you what is the most recent
BIOS version. I believe this is also related to SamsungBIOS:

*This page is dedicated to easily collect BIOS versions seen in the wild or
> available to download for Samsung computers*


As a side note, I think there was an error in my markup. In the last
sentence it should read "The ROM file can be flashed by using [...]".

Also, could someone who is a native English speaker check my grammar on the
page? :) Italy is not well known for the level of English taught in schools
or academia. ;)

Best regards

-- 
Andrea Lazzarotto
http://andrealazzarotto.com
http://lazza.dk
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