New joyride build 1460

2007-12-21 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1460/ +fontconfig.i386 0:2.4.2-4.olpc2 -fontconfig.i386 0:2.4.2-4olpc.fc7 -olpc-library-common.noarch 0:1-12 +olpc-library-common.noarch 0:1-13 -olpc-library-core.noarch 0:1-12 +olpc-library-core.noarch 0:1-13 -sugar-evince.i386

Re: downloading all .po files?

2007-12-21 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Do you need it immediately? I was planning to send you a tarball of all the translations sometime tomorrow. If you need it now - let me know - and I'll send you the tarball. I'll probably try to come up with a better system soon, which lets you download the tarball without manual intervention.

Re: downloading all .po files?

2007-12-21 Thread Erik Blankinship
Not needed immediately, just wondering if I was missing a download all widget in the interface. Thanks! Erik On 12/21/07, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you need it immediately? I was planning to send you a tarball of all the translations sometime tomorrow. If you need it now

Re: sudo, not su.

2007-12-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
I think people misunderstand the core problem: if root does not have a password, then *any activity on the system* can gain root privileges by su'ing to root. By restricting 'root login' to the olpc user via sudo, it becomes simple to restrict the activities which can gain root privileges,

Re: Updating a B4 machine for the first time

2007-12-21 Thread Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
On 12/21/07, Cesare Marilungo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The developer console says: OLPC Build: None. Firmware: None. That IS strange. The process of updating is easy, though. 1) Get a USB key with 500mb of free space. 2) Get the olpc-auto.zip (it's linked on the wiki) and extract it to the

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
No... reformatting to Fat32 didnt help :( On Dec 21, 2007 1:49 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. It is a FAT file system. But it isn't automounting :( And I can't figure out what it name would be to manually mount it... Maybe its the weird U3 Cruiser software. I'll

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: Hmm. It is a FAT file system. But it isn't automounting :( And I can't figure out what it name would be to manually mount it... Maybe its the weird U3 Cruiser software. I'll get a second drive, they're cheap now, and reformat it and see if

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:05:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: More Diagnosis: I bought an OLPC in the buy one/give one so i just tried the USB stick on the real machine and it works fine. So it just my emulated image that is refusing to mount it for some reason :( I'd really like

Re: DCON improvements...

2007-12-21 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:04 +, David Woodhouse wrote: Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately it didn't reach the people it needs to, because for some reason you dropped them from Cc. Please could you check what caused your mailer to misbehave, and remedy that? Btw, it also broke threading

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
On Dec 21, 2007 5:00 PM, Mike C. Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 2:36 PM, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:05:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: ... I'd really like to keep using VMWare. On my machine its both

Fooling with Java

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Okay, I have a JDK installed and it seems to work. For grins i put netbeans on my USB stick and fired it up. It seems to be working however I get no main display. I do get pop up dialogs though. My suspicion is that Netbeans is asking the X wm for a Window and, sicne from what I cna see the

Re: sudo, not su.

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Well, i understand. :) I was very surprised to find that by default root has no password on the OLPC! This seems a mite dangerous to me. I can just imagine OLPC viri springing up, propagtating through the mesh... I'd love to have a proper sudo on the thing. It would make me feel a lot mreo

Re: sudo, not su.

2007-12-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Dec 21, 2007 1:27 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think people misunderstand the core problem: if root does not have a password, then *any activity on the system* can gain root privileges by su'ing to root. This is not a given. Much has to be in place for this to happen. Off

Re: OLPC Debian root password

2007-12-21 Thread C. Scott Ananian
From looking at the build on updates.laptop.org, it looks to me like there is no password set for root. In any case, the debian build is rather old; you will get better results by repeating the steps at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_Debian_as_an_upgrade This will ensure you get the

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: No... reformatting to Fat32 didnt help :( On Dec 21, 2007 1:49 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. It is a FAT file system. But it isn't automounting :( And I can't figure out what it name would be to manually mount it... Maybe its the weird

New joyride build 1462

2007-12-21 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1462/ -Pippy-15.xo +Pippy-16.xo --- Pippy-16 --- * New slideshow example for datastore photos, by cjb. -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: Hi Guys, im trying to get started developign but ist pretty clear that my development environment wont fit on the emulation image's disk. No biggie, I figured, I'll put it on a USB memory stick. I can tell my emulator (VMWARE) to make the USb memory stick

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread Hal Murray
AFAIK there's no CDRom support in any of the builds, there not being a CDRom on the hardware. The XO has USB ports. I just tried it. Mine works. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 2:36 PM, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:05:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: More Diagnosis: I bought an OLPC in the buy one/give one so i just tried the USB stick on the real machine and it works fine. So it just my

Re: Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

2007-12-21 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 5:00 PM, Mike C. Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Side note: kqemu does work under 64-bit Linux (it's what I use to emulate on my AMD64 box). Do you run qemu or qemu-x86_64 ? qemu-x86_64, particularly I run: qemu-system-x86_64

Re: sudo, not su.

2007-12-21 Thread James Cameron
It doesn't seem like it would be difficult to write an activity that opens a pty (like Terminal does), issues an su, and thus gives itself elevated privileges. That's why the rest of the activity isolation security model is important. -- James Cameronmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sudo, not su.

2007-12-21 Thread Albert Cahalan
James Cameron writes: It doesn't seem like it would be difficult to write an activity that opens a pty (like Terminal does), issues an su, and thus gives itself elevated privileges. That's why the rest of the activity isolation security model is important. Uncomment line 6 of /etc/pam.d/su

New joyride build 1463

2007-12-21 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1463/ -TamTamJam-45.xo +TamTamJam-46.xo --- TamTamJam-46 --- * Fixed keep error problem (Lync) -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html