Hi Carlos,
On 11.01.2009 05:25, Chris Ball wrote:
How do we protect children from accessing porn or other
questionable content, and how do we prevent malicious persons from
communicating with kids, like say, child predators in IRC?
You can't prevent this, if you also want to
Hi,
On 09.12.2008 22:37, Chris Ball wrote:
Hello, I need to know what is a good way to find out if the local
machine running a python script is a XO.
One way might be to cat /ofw/model. If the file doesn't exist, or
doesn't return a letter and number, you probably aren't running on
Hi Robert,
On 27.10.2008 00:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 26, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Booting both into Windows would allow file sharing.
Compared to what Sugar does, file sharing is very reliable.
It works with **all** programs, without any developer effort.
It's
On 17.09.2008 08:22, Mitch Bradley wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e18
This is the version that we hope to include in the 8.2 software bundle,
so please test it like crazy.
It won't brick B2s ...
Thanks for fixing this bug! Any chance you can give an assessment about
On 16.09.2008 18:26, Mitch Bradley wrote:
E-series firmware prior to q2e17c will brick B2, as indicated by the
bright red warnings at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware .
Could you perhaps add a warning for B1 as well (if appropriate)?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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http://www.hailfinger.org/
On 29.08.2008 22:19, Edward Cherlin wrote:
I also want to see Open Firmware replace proprietary BIOSes
everywhere. In fact, I would like to see OFW-only embedded systems,
since FORTH is designed for that environment. (I am assuming that
Mitch can add real-time capabilities to OFW, and that a
On 18.08.2008 17:25, Richard A. Smith wrote:
Victor Lazzarini wrote:
I have an A-board in my office which I would like to bring back to
life if possible.
Any suggestions?
You are running an ATest that was never upgraded from Insyde bios.
If you set the RTC clock back then
On 21.07.2008 11:53, Ivan Krstić wrote:
On Jul 19, 2008, at 9:36 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
But a certain former
security wizard at OLPC removed that recommendation from the Wiki
page, thus leading to your current troubles.
This is untrue; please support your claims with diffs. As
On 25.06.2008 08:07, Michael Stone wrote:
We have an activity that wants superuser privilege in order to poke
kernel memory.
Hello? Please take the poor activity out back and shoot it. No activity
has any business poking kernel memory.
The real questions we should be attempting to address
On 23.06.2008 20:29, Jim Gettys wrote:
While in theory, USB devices can/should send serial numbers, that part
of the spec is honored mostly by it's absence (due to cost).
As John said, unfortunately, with USB you have to go down to the device
and see if they have something usable to
On 17.06.2008 22:26, John Watlington wrote:
As replacing the SPI flash becomes a more regular
occurence,
Ouch. Do you have any further pointers about that?
reinstalling the manufacturing tags is becoming a problem.
What tags are absolutely essential for our software to operate ?
These
On 30.05.2008 08:34, Albert Cahalan wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, I think
Hi,
On 23.05.2008 17:16, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:06, Chris Ball wrote:
Yes. We have the openssh-blacklist package installed, which contains
keyhashes of all possible weak keys and disallows logins using them.
AFAIK not all possible weak keys, but only for
On 23.05.2008 17:15, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 15:50, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
I claim [...]
And you were right.
Thanks for checking my math.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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On 23.05.2008 21:37, Richard A. Smith wrote:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
As I stated before on this list, bypassing P_THEFT is very easy. You
don't even have to desolder the complete flash chip, one pin is
sufficient. All of this is doable for less than $1 per laptop if you
have access
On 22.05.2008 15:38, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I'm not on the hardware team, so this is just a wild guess:
[...]
Some other features that have been discussed:
d) GPS (unknown whether this will be able to make the cost budget)
This is not only a cost problem, but also a big power drain
On 22.05.2008 17:01, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On 5/22/08, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
h) hardware-protected RTC (bitfrost desiderata)
I'd be very interested in the reasons for that. P_THEFT is still mostly
unimplemented for cost reasons. A hardware-protected RTC
Hi Chris,
On 19.05.2008 17:02, Chris Ball wrote:
I've disabled logins with DSA keys on dev.laptop.org. Turns out that
while your RSA key is only vulnerable if *created* on a weak Debian or
Ubuntu machine, your DSA key is vulnerable if *used* on Debian/Ubuntu¹,
due to DSA having a greater
On 21.05.2008 14:36, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
What happens to those who never logged in *from* a Debian/Ubuntu
machine? There's no reason to not let them keep their DSA key.
The point, iiuc, is that if even one such key was sniffed, crank is
compromised
On 21.05.2008 15:12, Ivan Krstić wrote:
On May 21, 2008, at 5:58 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
OK, but then a statement from the user like I never logged in anywhere
from a Debian/Ubuntu system should suffice to reenable the existing
key.
Given the trivial cost of generating a new RSA
On 20.05.2008 13:31, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hi,
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 04:08, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
Hopefully this doesn't mean that the _private_ DSA key can be
compromised if the _public_ key was copied on a Debian/Ubuntu machine.
Not by copying to, but by using with, yes,
On 10.05.2008 00:13, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 09.05.2008, at 20:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bert,
if you try and say that the entire world is wrong in how it writes
software,
Actually, that's exactly what I think, and entire world includes
yours truly ;)
But this isn't
Hi,
On 03.05.2008 16:52, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
While the support is not there, NYC is considering disabling NetworkManager
but this is not a good solution for (1) the XO will not boot into sugar and
That would be a bug.
(2) collaboration will not work, because the mesh view will be
On 24.04.2008 20:32, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
4. Journal and Datastore.
One part of the zooming UI not discussed in item #3 (above) is the
Journal view, the XO's replacement for the traditional files and
folders metaphor. Our current implementation is based on Xapian,
which compiles on
On 24.04.2008 02:00, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
(...)
This isn't what I was talking about. Forget about the mesh. Ban it
from your mind.
(...) the troublesome Mesh and just live with the 802.11b/g,
Ban (...) the troublesome Mesh you say. Sigh.
You forgot to quote the from your
On 22.04.2008 23:25, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I always forget that when I reply the message does not go to the list.
On the support-gang list there is quite a bit of discouragement over
Walter leaving because Negroponte
On 22.04.2008 23:29, Ivan Krstić wrote:
On Apr 22, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
Who says Negroponte is shifting? Certainly not Walter in any of his
public posts. Can't happen. We would all be out of here like a shot
to fork Sugar. Nicholas is weird, but not utterly stupid.
On 23.04.2008 03:09, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The laptops are even more wonderful with a child-friendly UI, loads of fun
activities, and a non-proprietary software stack. But in the steady
state, the
web is the
On 21.04.2008 18:00, Build Announcer v2 wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1889
Changes in build 1889 from build: 1870
Size delta: 17.57M
+kernel-PAE 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
-kernel 2.6.22-20080408.1.olpc.de2a86ff3b60edc
--- Included kernel-PAE version
On 21.04.2008 20:58, Marcus Leech wrote:
Also, was the fact that it bricks your machine design intent?
I'm sad now.
Wrong kernel. Didn't we have recovery mechanisms for such situations?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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On 22.04.2008 02:13, Michael Stone wrote:
What in this description of events leads you to the conclusion that OLPC
is shriveling up and dying?
Perhaps not shriveling up, but quite a few contributors/participants
from the early days (pre-A-Test till B2-Test) have left and the
perceived goals
On 09.04.2008 05:50, Jaya Kumar wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Joshua N Pritikin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:24:34PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
A paper called Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO
Security Model will be
On 22.03.2008 00:30, John R.Hogerhuis wrote:
I'd agree with Mitch. Performance, or for us, UI responsiveness, the most
visible and painful issue being start up time of applications is paramount. My
4-year old, with no cushy performant computer experience, loses interest in
the
10 seconds+ it
On 22.03.2008 02:09, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if Windows runs faster
...
once somebody has a child-friendly UI for Windows
You are going from if to when with absolutely no support from facts
Hi,
On 15.03.2008 17:08, Jean Piche wrote:
I wish to state my profound disagreement with the inclusion of this
activity on the XO. It goes counter to the essential cultural
neutrality of OLPC. If countries wish to put this activity on the XO,
so be it, but IMO, OLPC should not in any way be
On 15.03.2008 17:40, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:35:35PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 15.03.2008 17:08, Jean Piche wrote:
I wish to state my profound disagreement with the inclusion of this
activity on the XO. It goes counter to the essential
On 22.02.2008 23:41, Ben Goetter wrote:
hours...using gravity! :-) (Consider the XO using
about 2 watts...)
There seems little danger of this mechanism being useful on Earth for
the XO-1. A 30kg human child who can move her own mass a meter
vertically (via a series of pulleys, or
On 04.02.2008 18:21, James Simmons wrote:
To accomplish this I have created my Zip files with the extension
.slides and I'd like to be able to use the MIME type
application/slides for such files.
I'm also interested in creating a reader program for Gutenberg etexts.
I'd like these files
Hi James,
On 06.02.2008 16:46, James Simmons wrote:
I agree I have no business inventing my own MIME type. What I really
want is a file suffix association like I can do with Windows or
Midnight Commander on Linux. The MIME type of application/zip works,
but Etoys is using that one too. I
On 17.01.2008 02:02, Mitch Bradley wrote:
Ricardo Carrano wrote:
Hi Mitch!
Would you recommend using firmware version q2d07 on a B2-1 unit?
Yes.
So Q2D07 has been tested on B2-1? How about B1 and B2-2? IIRC there were
some EC changes incompatible to B1 and B2 models.
(I
On 11.01.2008 03:33, Ivan Krstić wrote:
On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:21 PM, Albert Cahalan wrote:
The non-nerd kids are getting toys.
(Sidenote: this displays a stunning level of ignorance and failure of
comprehension of the project's goals.)
Reminds me of a nice quote from an OLPC
On 22.12.2007 17:32, Walter Bender wrote:
2. Hinge: Jacques Gagne has been investigating the laptop hinge—the
clearance between the two rotating parts should be tighter and this
would reduce wobble. Mary Lou Jepsen and Quanta are investigating a
possible run-in change at the earliest possible
On 27.09.2007 01:44, Jim Gettys wrote:
As we run up to mass production of systems, the team at OLPC must
focus its efforts on testing and bug fixing on the mass-production
hardware.
To date, we've been careful to ensure that our firmware and software
works on all five variants of our beta
On 28.09.2007 19:49, Mitch Bradley wrote:
Mitch Bradley wrote:
B3 and later machines are essentially identical as far as the firmware
is concerned. OFW senses the board revision and reports it in the
device tree, but does behave differently as a result of board revision
difference.
I
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