Re: [Arm-netbook] next step is a boot image

2023-01-13 Thread Philip Hands
worry about the A10 vs. A20 distinction, we started out using the A10, but it's all about A20 now" somewhere, but I'm not sure where. BTW If a mass-renaming is in order, I can do that trivially via git, but I suspect we don't want to break links, so I won't do that unilaterally. Cheers,

Re: [Arm-netbook] Site updates (was Re: Schematic and PCB layout CAD files)

2022-01-30 Thread Philip Hands
ess load-inducing than the old hybrid nginx/apache setup that left most CGI stuff to apache) If you notice any oddities, please mention them, as I may have missed something in the move. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/htt

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Philip Hands
each pair of partitions, and then add the resulting raids into LVM as PVs -- that way you get more choices about what to do when later migrating to bigger disks, or deciding that adding a third disk might be good, say. > Thank goodness for virtual machines as play areas. Definitely. Cheers, Phil

Re: [Arm-netbook] OpenPOWER virtual coffee continues every Tuesday UTC 22:00

2020-10-07 Thread Philip Hands
tting this off for far too long :-( I imagine it will be a little painful to teach your fingers to type the debian versions of some sysadmin incantations, so I'm sure I'd also put this off if I was migrating in the other direction. Here's hoping that you have fun learning some new tricks. Cheers, Phi

[Arm-netbook] Free ASIC fab. for open designs

2020-08-25 Thread Philip Hands
line event): https://debconf20.debconf.org/talks/86-debian-electronics-bof/ The video of that session should appear within a day or so. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 210

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 Computing Devices Update: Command Not Found

2020-05-20 Thread Philip Hands
via write(1) in each direction, which then lead to the memory of the joy of discovering talk(1) as a better alternative. Thanks for the moment of Proustian nostalgia. :-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.or

Re: [Arm-netbook] How about an opensource nuclear reactor?

2020-03-11 Thread Philip Hands
Christopher Havel writes: ... > There was a kid a few decades ago who tried to do up a civvie reactor on > his own, some years ago, here in the US. I'm not sure what state... Here you go: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eagle-scout-nuclear-reactor/ Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands

Re: [Arm-netbook] Urgent statement on Cryptocurrency ethics

2018-03-22 Thread Philip Hands
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > >> I'd like to announce a revolution in data priva

Re: [Arm-netbook] Urgent statement on Cryptocurrency ethics

2018-03-22 Thread Philip Hands
n my not screing that up? NO! and I definitely want a court to go to if my bank tells me they lost track of my money. I think you can be sure that the people will fight viciously to avoid taking any sort of responsibility. See: Facebook & Cambridge Analytica. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip

Re: [Arm-netbook] Urgent statement on Cryptocurrency ethics

2018-03-20 Thread Philip Hands
bitcoin-blockchain-illegal-content erm, oops! Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY ___ arm-netbook mai

Re: [Arm-netbook] Error trying to edit rhombus-tech wiki

2018-02-20 Thread Philip Hands
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > >> hopefully the

Re: [Arm-netbook] Error trying to edit rhombus-tech wiki

2018-02-20 Thread Philip Hands
quot; box because it says "invalid > cgi" within a couple of seconds of pressing the "edit" link. I think that's something that's being cached in your browser. Try reloading that page and/or flushing related browser history. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)2

Re: [Arm-netbook] Error trying to edit rhombus-tech wiki

2018-02-20 Thread Philip Hands
er do no harm. I also note that 'be' (the bug tracker) takes a couple of seconds at the end of every site rebuild, which strikes me as a bit slow given the lack of recent activity. Luke, are you actually using 'be' at present? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 95

Re: [Arm-netbook] pyra computer

2018-02-16 Thread Philip Hands
that it is _not_ copyright that we're talking about. Until Luke or someone else points at an authoritative source to show otherwise, I would assume that he's just mixed up several of the barely related branches of law that people unhelpfully lump together under the "Intellectual Property" umbrella ter

Re: [Arm-netbook] pyra computer

2018-02-14 Thread Philip Hands
relevant ... although being even-handed about it is liable to ensure a better atmosphere amongst those who remain. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-

Re: [Arm-netbook] pyra computer

2018-02-06 Thread Philip Hands
ludicrous attention to detail -- the previous incarnation took at least an extra 6 months because they didn't like the feel of the gaming nubs and/or their robustness so went through _many_ test versions and suppliers IIRC. If you want an open gaming platform that will survive several generations, this

[Arm-netbook] Exclave -- Factory Test Infrastructure

2018-01-30 Thread Philip Hands
. BTW The LCA talk includes some handy tips on how to make such tests work for factory workers who are not likely to read English, nor to have a lot of time/concentration spare. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http

Re: [Arm-netbook] Can’t LogIn To Wiki?

2018-01-28 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 28 Jan 2018, Alexander Ross <maillist_arm-netb...@aross.me> wrote: > or is it just me? No, it's not just you -- It seems that nginx had a disagreement with fcgiwrap, and got in a huff about it. I think it's all better now, so give it another try. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Phi

Re: [Arm-netbook] OT: Librem 5?

2017-09-27 Thread Philip Hands
then I suggest that you stop shouting "Splitters!" at them for using the word Free when you think they meant Libre, or vice versa, or whatever. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.u

Re: [Arm-netbook] OT: Librem 5?

2017-09-26 Thread Philip Hands
because they have taken so long that they've lost their opportunity -- there is probably not going to be a vibrant developer community coalescing around a phone that is so far behind the curve and expensive. Also, even if it did become popular somehow, the parts are probably not available for a second

Re: [Arm-netbook] hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license

2017-09-21 Thread Philip Hands
stronger" than if it were in software. Most of the time, what you're calling hardware is liable to just be software running on a different processor, perhaps in a box that has been glued shut such that it's less convenient for bugs to be found, fixed and patched. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Han

Re: [Arm-netbook] hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license

2017-09-20 Thread Philip Hands
the Russian Mob, that's different, at least > potentially... but that's also a comparatively pretty rare circumstance, > I'd think. Obligatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/538/ ;-) Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk

Re: [Arm-netbook] riki200 v3 first print: success

2017-09-20 Thread Philip Hands
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: >> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: > >>> yep he recommended to the arduino package maintainer that the actual

Re: [Arm-netbook] riki200 v3 first print: success

2017-09-20 Thread Philip Hands
in order to make her IKEA kitchen have a working turntable in the microwave, and a blue LED to simulate water coming out of the tap, etc. I was actually using the IDE for that (which now works with Xmonad) just for expediency, but this reminds me that I should use it as an excuse to make sure tha

Re: [Arm-netbook] severe systemd bugs (two of them)

2017-07-05 Thread Philip Hands
all that out, and then knocked up a very short script that waited for calls, made the ringer ring, and looked out for a button press on the physical button -- that allowed it to behave quite like a phone with no fuss. If anyone wants an OpenMoko, I have one going cheap :-/ Cheers, Phil. --

Re: [Arm-netbook] systemd nonsense ad-infinitum

2017-07-04 Thread Philip Hands
committee then, and these days I am: https://www.debian.org/intro/organization#tech-ctte so, if that doesn't qualify me to comment on happenings in Debian in your eyes, I'm not quite sure what would. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http

Re: [Arm-netbook] systemd nonsense ad-infinitum

2017-07-04 Thread Philip Hands
ink that's pretty much the mindset that most Debian Developers have adopted to people howling about systemd, so be warned: Life can always get worse, and if you don't want that, stop screaming and put some effort into building the world as you'd like it to exist. Cheers, Phil. -- |)|

Re: [Arm-netbook] severe systemd bugs (two of them)

2017-07-03 Thread Philip Hands
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > >> Might I ask in response: What the hell are you doing not fact checking >> this before repeating it? > > because in the scheme

Re: [Arm-netbook] severe systemd bugs (two of them)

2017-07-03 Thread Philip Hands
ntainers to make sure that the only DNS server they talk to is the one they control that is running on the physical host. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 2107

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68-A20 2.7.4 pre-production prototypes received and working

2017-06-22 Thread Philip Hands
' line of his mails, since that makes emacs ignore the whole mail as an empty top-post. He managed to do it a couple of times before the strain became too much, so he was trying before he became trying ;-) On the plus side, people that resolutely stick to talking in their own preferred style, rather t

Re: [Arm-netbook] Side-Topic: Liberating PocketCHIP

2017-05-10 Thread Philip Hands
It is certainly a shame when one sees new scripts being written with ``, but that's what one gets when people are learning by example, and there is too little curation of the examples to weed out the archaic usage. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-17 Thread Philip Hands
helf TP-Link outdoor wifi units that cost less than 40 EUR at each end (that's what some of the longer lines are, at the south of the map above -- you can click the lines to find out). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://

Re: [Arm-netbook] A suggestion why Systemd may be bad

2017-02-16 Thread Philip Hands
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: >> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> w

Re: [Arm-netbook] A suggestion why Systemd may be bad

2017-02-16 Thread Philip Hands
hat you're talking about. Perhaps you can cite some examples where they've failed in that quest. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signature.as

Re: [Arm-netbook] A suggestion why Systemd may be bad

2017-02-15 Thread Philip Hands
as a normal user process with running it as PID1, and then insisting that getting rid of libsystemd0 is important for some reason, makes the water so muddy that anyone that's been paying attention to this subject for any time at all is _very_ bored by it by now. Can we stop please? Cheers, Phil. -

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-11 Thread Philip Hands
Elena ``of Valhalla'' <valhall...@trueelena.org> writes: > On 2017-02-11 at 17:47:18 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >> > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2118 >> >> That should be: >> >> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tr

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-11 Thread Philip Hands
be fine: > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2118 That should be: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10156 Note the "" against all releases. The "fixed" in the status column actually means "didn't need fixing in the fir

Re: [Arm-netbook] Logging and journaling

2017-02-11 Thread Philip Hands
that the source of the critism is fatally biased, and then spend mental effort on contradicting what is being said by coming up with counter-arguments, which they then remeber for later. *sigh* Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.c

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 In A Intel Card World?

2017-01-25 Thread Philip Hands
s ignored them completely, and the ensuing argument was pretty unedifying -- as was often our way back then :-/ Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GERMANY signa

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 In A Intel Card World?

2017-01-24 Thread Philip Hands
> I am going to try out a horizontal version as soon as I have more > feedback. Could one perhaps use the E as a representation for the socket. Perhaps someone with graphical skills would like to take inspiration from: ***** * O +----+ ** M | 68 | * A ++ * Cheers, Phi

Re: [Arm-netbook] Intel at CES

2017-01-05 Thread Philip Hands
e careful not to show the business end of the socket -- so is that the old tactic of an incumbent announcing vapourware in order to try and kill interest in a disruptive product that they would prefer not to have on the market? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HAN

Re: [Arm-netbook] offlineimap syncing off of gmail...

2016-12-16 Thread Philip Hands
han you're talking about, and searches return useful results in sub-second mostly. % find ./Maildir -type f | wc -l 559007 % du -hs Maildir 12G Maildir Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(|

Re: [Arm-netbook] aorus x3 plus v6

2016-12-11 Thread Philip Hands
I did _not_ spend a lot of time on this. There is no secret evaluation report circulating in Debian circles. This is not a conspiracy. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg,GER

Re: [Arm-netbook] Debian GNU/Linux, nonfree software, and FSF's free distros list

2016-10-16 Thread Philip Hands
;The Life of Brian's" Splitters scene is just a way of not getting on with something useful instead -- please give it a rest. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34,