Platforms for Engineering school labs (Was: Re: RFC: Public targets having a big potential: Engineering schools)

2007-03-02 Thread Gergely Kis
Hello, Actually we are planning on doing this at the Technical University of Hungary. I have an Embedded Linux course, where in the past years we used Siemens Blue2Net devices + HP Ipaq 5500s with Familiar as the target, but the former device is very low power (50 Mhz PPC, limited peripherials),

Re: FOSDEM OpenMoko talk now on video.google.com

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Hodson
On 3/1/07, Ian Stirling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Get mplayer, and compile. This is playable with only the software codecs, no windows dlls are involved at all. (or at least it worked with them moved out of the usual place) As to why I picked it - I don't know offhand the switches to make

Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-02 Thread Bartłomiej Zdanowski DRP AC2
Martin Raißle napisał(a): On 3/2/07, Jonathon Suggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In combination of what was said before - the virus scanner - we could maybe use a database of application hashes, so not every app has to be configurated but only those that are not found in the database, maybe this

Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-02 Thread Martin Raißle
On 3/2/07, Bartłomiej Zdanowski DRP AC2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has to be as simple as possible. That's why I think this is a good solution .. users don't have to think about everything but only the problems, openmoko cannot solve. Of course a scanner will slow down the thing a bit and

Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-02 Thread Evgeny
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 10:19 +0100, Bartłomiej Zdanowski DRP AC2 wrote: I'm afraid that you're going a bit too far. I thought about making costs with illegal calls and smses. Virus protection should appear only when viruses appear. It still Linux based phone — there is absolutely no real-life

Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Aloril writes: Fortunately in Linux usually to be able to run executable arriving in email you need to do following: 1) Save file to disk 2) chmod +x that_file (or equivalent in GUI) 3) run_that_file That's only because Linux MUA's typically don't implement the 'run directly from the message'

Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-02 Thread Tim Newsom
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 6:09, Evgeny wrote: It still Linux based phone — there is absolutely no real-life viruses for Linux at this time, trojans are possible treat, but user have to install them by himself. That's a pretty strong statement.. Are you absolutely sure there are no viruses for

Re: Platforms for Engineering school labs (Was: Re: RFC: Public targets having a big potential: Engineering schools)

2007-03-02 Thread michael
Hi Gergely, That's wonderful news. This would make a great story for Linux Journal or Linux Magazine (not to great mention publicity for OpenMoko). I will be trying to make contact with those teaching courses like this in the universities around me (Stanford, UC Berkeley, etc.). If I am able

Re: Possible security hole for Dialers/troyan horses

2007-03-02 Thread Todd W
From: Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. Todd W napisał(a): I don't understand why people think this. I haven't ran in to a phone yet that I couldn't run my own apps on. A particular account may not have the proper level of network access, but that has nothing to do with the capabilities of

Re: 'My Account' - a way to store information about the phones owner, so they can be reunited if it's lost.

2007-03-02 Thread Ian Stirling
Paul Wouters wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Ian Stirling wrote: Reflashing never gets you back a different account number, it keys off the IMEI, which is not flashable. (well, perhaps it is, but it's not flashable from the linux side, and AIUI, nobody else knows how at the moment.) I really hope

Re: A new approach to Re: Itch3: Anti-lost/theft protection

2007-03-02 Thread Ortwin Regel
The thing has bluetooth so it should be able to connect to the Wiimote. Using one instead of an internal accelerometer makes sense, because when you move your phone around, it's hard to keep looking at the screen. Ortwin On 3/1/07, adrian cockcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to

Apple's multitouch pattent?

2007-03-02 Thread mathew davis
Just wonderign if any body knows for sure if apple has a pattent on their multi touch technology. check out this video on google. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6379146923853181774q=moviehl=en Very impressive stuff. I mean I am sure that this would probably be a lot of processing for

Re: Matchbox panel 2 not installed

2007-03-02 Thread Greg
Hi Wil, I had the same problem. On closer investigation it turned out that a missing pkgconfig file was the problem. Two of the demos require it. After much trial and error, I came up with the attached file, which finally solved my problems. Eventually the build went fine, but I never did