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post #1 of 18
6/3/08 at 6:44am
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Unless you've got an Asus, Compal, Quanta, or Clevo computer, you probably don't know which company originally built your system, since most brands contract out. But the good news is, if you run Linux, there's a tool that will tell you your system's original manufacturer. Just type
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dmidecode
into your command line program (you'll need to use
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sudo dmidecode
if you're running Ubuntu) and look for the base board information and chassis information. They should tell you which company REALLY built your computer. Enjoy, and post your computer brand name, model and ODM here! My computer is an Asus, which is its own ODM. But so you've got the format, Asus Z71V - ODM: ASUSTek p.s.: thanks to qhn for finding the link that shows this method!
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post #2 of 18
6/3/08 at 10:19am
Interesting... one to file away for later use.

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post #3 of 18
6/3/08 at 6:31pm
looks like the XPS 1710 is Dell through and through..
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Base Board Information
    Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
    Product Name: 0CF456
    Version:    
    Serial Number: .u|-||-|u|-|r1g|-|7.

Handle 0x0300, DMI type 3, 13 bytes
Chassis Information
    Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
    Type: Portable
    Lock: Not Present
    Version: Not Specified
    Serial Number: u|-||-|u|-|r1g|-|7
    Asset Tag: Not Specified
    Boot-up State: Safe
    Power Supply State: Safe
    Thermal State: Safe
    Security Status: None
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post #4 of 18
6/3/08 at 7:38pm
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Originally Posted by drlouis View Post
looks like the XPS 1710 is Dell through and through..

Code:
Base Board Information
    Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
    Product Name: 0CF456
    Version:    
    Serial Number: .u|-||-|u|-|r1g|-|7.

Handle 0x0300, DMI type 3, 13 bytes
Chassis Information
    Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
    Type: Portable
    Lock: Not Present
    Version: Not Specified
    Serial Number: u|-||-|u|-|r1g|-|7
    Asset Tag: Not Specified
    Boot-up State: Safe
    Power Supply State: Safe
    Thermal State: Safe
    Security Status: None

well it pulls the information from the BIOS. Dells have the funky completely custom BIOS, so it's not likely going to have the ODM information in it in very many cases
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post #5 of 18
6/6/08 at 7:43pm
Code:
IBM
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post #6 of 18
6/9/08 at 2:41pm
Dell Inc. Inspiron 9300
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post #7 of 18
6/9/08 at 3:21pm
what did i do DJ?

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We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these two things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.

Password:
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post #8 of 18
6/9/08 at 3:25pm
did you put sudo in front of it Steve?
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post #9 of 18
6/9/08 at 3:27pm
yes
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post #10 of 18
6/9/08 at 4:43pm
What version of *nix are you running?
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post #11 of 18
6/9/08 at 5:29pm
You will see that the first time you use sudo. It is a common sense warning to everyone that uses it, that you can screw up your system doing something stupid with it, just as if you were running as root. (... and do something stupid like rm -R /)

All you do is type in your password to run the command like normal. You will likely never see that message again on that login.

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post #12 of 18
6/9/08 at 7:14pm
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well it looks like that doesn't work for Dells, which stinks. I guess we'll have to find out Dell ODMs from Conda's secret sources
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post #13 of 18
6/10/08 at 9:20am
its a work PC.

after i typed in my password i got

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Dukefrukem is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
thanks guys
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post #14 of 18
6/10/08 at 10:24am
Hmm...

Is this on your own personal computer? Do you know the root login(Or is there one?) So long as you know the root login, I would add DukeFrukem to the wheel group which would allow you to do that. Also in as far as it being reported, it sends a local mail to the root user, that is about it on most home computers

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post #15 of 18
6/10/08 at 10:29am
It's not really "Dukefrukem". Its the username to my work account.

I dont have access to root. but the PC is in my office.
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post #16 of 18
6/10/08 at 12:40pm
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Originally Posted by Steve@NBF View Post
It's not really "Dukefrukem". Its the username to my work account.

I dont have access to root. but the PC is in my office.
if you don't have access to root, you probably won't be able to run it. The command reads and displays a lot of system information from the BIOS. It's not dangerous and running it won't get you in trouble. The reason it sent a report or whatever is because you tried to access an administrative command (by using sudo) and you weren't allowed to access administrative commands on that system.
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post #17 of 18
6/10/08 at 1:55pm
oh
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post #18 of 18
6/10/08 at 2:05pm
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