Folks,
Herbert Poetzl took a look at our utimes()/gid problem and has produced
a patch that he thinks will fix the bug:
http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/delta-cow-fix13.diff
His patch basically confirms that our work-around for updating
(rsync'ing twice) is correct; therefore, I feel
Go Bert!
Can you please publish this script so we can see if we can include it
directly in the build process?
Thanks,
Michael
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:01:23AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
I made a little script to list package changes between joyride builds:
Dear @sugar and @devel,
Our first Test Process Sprint is currently scheduled to start at 2:00
PM, EDT. The sprint will be conducted on IRC in #olpc-meeting and
perhaps by conference call. Everything will be documented on
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_process_sprint
and on pages linked to
Without knowing more about how your wrapper works, I'm unable to offer
useful advice about how it will interact with activity containerization
(i.e. the relevant part of Bitfrost).
Can offer me a few words describing your design and implementation?
Thanks,
Michael
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at
Ben,
First, please put your activity into the Joyride build using the process
described at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Build_system
(Basically, that means telling us exactly what your activity's '.xo'
bundle is named so we can tell pilgrim - our package composition tool -
to include it. We will
Dear Sugar and Devel,
ChangeLogs in the format described on
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Build_system#ChangeLog_Format
are now MANDATORY for package inclusion. Please write yours.
Special thanks to Bert Freudenberg (bertf) and Marc Maurer (uwog) for
setting a great example!
Let me know if you
Bert,
Builds joyride-129 and joyride-131 look finished to me but your script
reported them as failed.
This is probably due to changes that I made recently (#4251 and #4253)
but I don't know enough about how your script works to be certain.
Do you have any ideas on what's going on?
Michael
,
Michael
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:20:22AM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 at 18:55:34 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
Dear Sugar and Devel,
ChangeLogs in the format described on
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Build_system
Dear @sugar and @devel,
The sugar, security, and release teams have agreed that the file-system
isolation features provided by Rainbow [1, 2] are close enough to
maturity to be turned on by default in Joyride.
Unfortunately, there will be serious short-term regressions caused by
this change --
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:06:21PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Albert,
Thanks very much for your suggestions.
In fact, as you can observe in the call to CreateActivity() in rainbow's
service.py, we already install each activity we create in a new
namespace.
Next, bind-mount something
$SAR/instance seems like a safer place to me because there will be no
concurrency issues, but I have no plans to start the Apocalyse if
someone tries to check in a file from $SAR/data. :)
Incidentally, how do you feel about the claim that $SAR/conf is
superfluous and should be removed in favor
Dear everyone:
At long last, I have a new release of Rainbow [1] prepared for you
which, along with recent changes in Sugar, should go a long way toward
resolving the current crop of 'rainbow-integration' bugs that you have
worked hard over the last three days to document for me.
Notable
Dear @sugar and @devel,
We made two new builds tonight: joyride-258 and update1-630.
Joyride-258 appears to be worthy of your testing efforts.
Unfortunately, because rainbow-0.7.4 has not yet been tagged by the
release team for inclusion in update1, build 630 is not really suitable
for serious
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:36:08PM -0500, Eben Eliason wrote:
We still intend to incorporate that - the overhead of launching an
activity is silly.
More precision would make this particular comment more helpful. How low
an overhead (in seconds and MB of RAM IO) are we aiming for? What are
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:36:26AM -0600, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
How feasible would it be to run multiple Sugars on a terminal server
somewhere, and serve it up over the Java VNC client? It would require
the least Web-facing modifications.
Ryan
Is
Scott,
The Roadmap lists activity isolation as a release criterion for
Update.1. Was there a public announcement that I missed explaining why
activity isolation was ever turned off?
Thanks,
Michael
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:31:43PM +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
Hello,
we need to
Friends,
We'll be resuming our weekly security meetings on Tuesdays at 4:00 PM
EDT. A conference call number will be announced on IRC for remote folks
who want to join.
This meeting will consist of two halves. The first half will be a
collection of status updates on specific bugs (currently
Dear Everyone,
This email is a notification that we would like to make an API change in
order to make activity data persist across updates (#5033). The API
change consists of moving '/activities' to '/security/1/activities'.
I will send a second email when the changes begin to be committed into
---
olpc-configure |4
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/olpc-configure b/olpc-configure
index 342be4d..1f68cf0 100755
--- a/olpc-configure
+++ b/olpc-configure
@@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ __EOF__
if [ -x /usr/sbin/rainbow-replay-spool ]; then
SJ,
To date, /security is used by the initramfs and firmware to store the
developer key and activation lease. We also considered using it to
communicate with the initramfs, e.g. to install a developer key found on
a USB key but this has not been implemented.
/activities arose to be Rainbow's
questions about this process.
Thanks!
Michael
We are about to begin committing
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 03:06:31PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
Dear Everyone,
This email is a notification that we would like to make an API change in
order to make activity data persist across updates (#5033). The API
Why did Etoys drop back to version 60 and why were etoys and squeak-vm
removed?
Thanks,
Michael
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:30:03PM -0500, Build Announcer Script wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1506/
+Etoys-60.xo
-Etoys-74.xo
-etoys.noarch 0:2.3.1870-1
Jani,
Adapting Rainbow (the activity isolation component) to work on regular
linux systems is an interesting challenge that I'd love to discuss with
you.
At present, there are three or so issues that would need to be overcome:
First, magic numbers. The rainbow codebase hardcodes some magic
I assume you're talking about the virtual terminal here; not the
Terminal activity. As root, you my try a command like:
setfont sun12x22
Michael
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:27:54PM -0200, Emiliano Pastorino wrote:
How can i change the font size of the console? My eyes hurt...
Thanks!
--
When inetd runs upgrade-server/upserv.py, it does so with in the working dir /.
Since the upgrade-server's python modules are not installed in PYTHONPATH, this
choice of working-dir interferes with the module loading that occurs when
re-running python inside fakeroot.
Hardcoding the correct
This should probably become a command-line option (or even an inference based
on the path to the python script being executed).
---
upserv.py |3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/upserv.py b/upserv.py
index fa4fb17..216104f 100755
--- a/upserv.py
+++
Tomeu,
I have hacked the rainbow service in the following way:
Please publish your code so that we can have a look at it.
- rainbow preimports pygtk, telepathy, dbus and some slow sugar modules.
- after cloning, reconnect to X.
- instead of execvpe sugar-activity, directly execute the code.
Bernie,
olpc-audit is a filesystem-status-verifier written for us by Marcus
Leech. I think it would be decent to include in olpc-utils because,
analogous to the network and battery status detectors, it's handy for
figuring out if people have done funny things to their filesystem. Also,
I'd like
Tomeu,
The only remaining issue is that activities cannot update their journal
entries. They are able to create the entries in the datastore, but the
second call to the DS service fails.
Please publish the traceback so that I can help you debug the situation.
Next, some notes and some
Alexander,
Dennis Gilmore has previously worked on some scripts for producing .spec
files for activity bundles with adequate metadata that may be of use to
you.
Also, while I'm unable to commit any time at the moment to assisting
you, I'm certainly interested in what you're doing and I look
Tomeu,
No, you're not wrong at all.
My apologies for forgetting to push as a part of #5537 and #6316.
Michael
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:42:10AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Hi,
last terminal bundle was released from a private tree [0] instead of
from the main repository [1].
* Minimize size of announced services (i.e. drop unnecessary data from TXT)
- The biggest item in the TXT of contacts is the key (which is BIG). But
this key is a requirement of bitfrost, so we can't get rid of it.
So far as I have been informed, the Bitfrost protections that
Ixo,
But alas, the response from ssh
Permission denied (publickey).
This error message implies that git was unable to use your ssh-agent to
log in dev. In order for git to be able to use your ssh-agent, you need
to have the ssh-agent running and you need to set SSH_AUTH_SOCK to the
value
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:12:35AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Waqas Toor wrote:
| can anybody please see the log i am attaching and tell me is rainbow
| stoping it ??
As Tomeu said, Rainbow has detected that
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 06:16:34PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
According to my software engineering professors, a program should
always handle any input data without an assertion failure. Assertions
are for catching bugs in internal invariants. Therefore, any time an
assertion failure
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:22:31PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
Michael Stone wrote:
| My central error-handling goal has been to compactly express my
| assumptions in a form that will prevent them from being violated in
| ignorance. Should I have different goals?
1. I find Rainbow
Friends,
It's completely unsafe to use the new USB customization keys to execute
software located on-key or on-NAND because any opportunity for arbitrary code
execution as uid 0 represents a serious threat to our first-boot activation
security.
Since we appear to want to be able to customize
RPMS and better developer documentation will probably appear tomorrow,
as soon as Polychronis and I manage to cut a release.
As for the 'sugar/telepathy' help: the plan is to fill in the stub
'telepathy-cerebro' Telepathy ConnectionManager, then to implement a
cerebro_plugin in the Sugar Presence
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:11:06AM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
Classic privilege-escalation attack.
/, /home, and /home/olpc, are only writable by uids 0 and 500. Both uids
0 and 500 have direct access to uid 0. Therefore, if Mallory can affect
what files are pointed to by $PKGDIR, then she
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:04:29PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I asked for specific use cases.
I apologize if I was inadequately specific in my previous email. As I
alluded to before, three specific groups who I am confident would
benefit from the ability to install RPMs via a USB-based
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:32:14PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
First, thanks very much for the constructive criticism.
This discussion is ultimately about Bitfrost's P_SF_RUN,
We should certainly design a solution compatible with P_SF_RUN. I submit
that the tactical part of the
Friends,
In order to demonstrate that our that our bundles really don't require
require post-install hooks in order to function, I decided to attack the
dynamic library problem in its simplest possible form.
In the end, I wound up rebasing the Mako's make_index.py script on top
of Ivan's
).
Michael
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:11:07PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Mar 16, 2008, at 15:00 , Walter Bender wrote:
18. Rainbow: Michael Stone prototyped a network isolation primitive
described by Daniel Bernstein
(http://cr.yp.to/unix/disablenetwork.html), demoed an activity
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:31:32PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
Why is it necessary to have at least three unrelated
methods of naming builds? To me that just confuses people.
Our build names are structured as:
branch-ordinal
This structure is designed around the notion that builds occur
Folks,
I went through the bugs Scott mentioned in his previous State of
Update.1 mail and looked for status changes. I also surveyed the Trac
Timeline looking for new gems. To make a long story short, no one has
_reported_ changes to any of these bugs in the past 5 days.
Michael
Build to test:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:18:05AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
how can I tell what kind of file I am receiving when
someone shares a file with me?
You might examine python's mimetypes module or the 'file' command.
Michael
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Friends,
Chris Ball and I spend several hours last night measuring the behavior
of Read sharing. The data we collected are reproduced below.
Michael
A Fragment of the Critical Path for Successful Read Sharing
This chart was
Folks,
First, thanks are due to gdesmott, morgs, cscott, dwmw2, daf, walter,
wad, mstone, and Blaketh for contributing helpful updates to our U.1
bugs. If your name isn't on this list: shame on you! Update a bug!
Next, we're blocked on testing results for:
Packages
Sjoerd,
This one is fixed in the latest salut packages. Please ensure that you
test that too :) (See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6728)
My TST designator means that the bug requires testing _in a release
candidate build_. It's helpful and encouraging to know that the new
salut package is
Bernie reported on Wednesday that new demands on his time make it
impossible for him to commit to closing bugs on our accelerated
timelines. However, it looks like a fairly simple packaging change is
required. Either Dennis or I should be able to take care of it. We'll
see who wins the race. :)
Dear devel,
While drafting release notes for Update.1 RC2 (signed update.1-699), we
realized that we need a good story about what we want the ecosystem of
activity and library packs (for use with the customization key [1]) to
be.
The rough sense emerging from the folks I've interviewed so far
Mikus,
Thanks for the experience report. Have you tried holding the
'✓' (check) gamepad key in order to disable pretty-boot?
Joyride is definitely not supposed to be broken, but it's hard to tell
what to revert without better knowledge of what's actually failing.
Examining
Aaron,
I apologize that I was unable to reply promptly to your second question.
Indeed, while builds are authoritatively named as I described in my
previous email, many people frequently leave off the stream name because
it can usually be inferred from contextual or circumstantial evidence.
As
The updates server pulls down builds lazily on request. In other words,
rsync'ing against it only tells you what builds it has _cached_, not
what builds it can provide.
Still, please let us know when you're unable to update to builds with
olpc-update, and file bugs if necessary.
Thanks,
Michael
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 05:35:28PM -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
Updated from 695 to 702.
No activity icons on the frame...
Ricardo,
See
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6598
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-March/011984.html
for some explanation of what's afoot.
Also, Chris
Ixo,
Thanks very much for your excellent start! I'll try to reflect on it
more carefully as soon as I am able.
Michael
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some
of the buttons on the Glide Sensor. We do this and we attempt to explain why
each bit in the PT and GS device structs is set or unset.
This patch was coauthored by Blake Setlow and Michael Stone.
[1]: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5628
[2]: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6079
Signed-off
Folks,
First, thanks are due to kreneskyp, sayamindu, uwog, dgilmore, rsmith,
marco, wad, rwh, and hhardy for contributing to the state of our
knowledge of Update.1 by updating tickets in Trac. Everyone else: get
behind us, review these bugs, and help push out this release! See
Andres,
Thanks for the feedback on our patch.
- Please don't change the magic values without giving justification. Also,
do it in a separate patch.
A good suggestion which I shall keep in mind in the future. If the need
arises (which depends on your current plans for the PT), then Blake or
Dear devel,
I just noticed a post [1] describing the contortions that Sulochan and
Bryan had to go through in order to get a 1-shot flashable build
containing their desired software. They represent the second group who
has wrestled with copy-nand in the past three weeks.
In my opinion, this
The initial round of faster work has been pushed; look for joyride
builds containing rainbow-0.7.11 or later. As always, patches are
welcome. Thanks to Tomeu for this one.
(Incidentally, this rainbow release also supports setting rlimits on
activities via a permissions.info file. I'll try to
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:05:19AM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
I disagree with #2.
I disagree with both #1 and #2 and, as the current maintainer of
Rainbow, that should tell you something. More bluntly, please experiment
and please publish your work with a public solicitation of
Folks,
Pursuant to recent discussions about P_IDENT, I've begun drafting
principles and use cases in order to discover some of the communications
security needs of XO-users.
My thoughts to date (with substantial input from both Daf and
Polychronis) are recorded, haphazardly, at
Dear everyone,
At today's software status meeting, several individuals, including:
dgilmore
erikos
bemasc
Blaketh
mstone
volunteered [had their arms twisted] into running the
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/1_Hour_Smoke_Test
on Update.1 702 with Spanish-language laptops when
Joel,
What kind of improvement did you have in mind?
Two things:
* First, get software and instructions that allow one to get
N images mounted simultaneously so that images can be more easily
diffed. Or that allows one to change which image is mounted after
copying it to a
Bryan,
Several weeks ago, I was asked to do reverse engineer an image created via
save-nand for another client and I discovered many unexpected differences
that had crept into the image as a result of lack of detailed knowledge of what
happens during the first boot and lack of established
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:21:10PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
I would argue that the existence of first-boot configuration changes is
in itself a problem.
I thought a bit about this last night as I was falling asleep and I came
to the realization that we would also do a better job of running
Could we possibly get a signed 704 out the door tomorrow for testing
in Peru and Mexico?
We'll do what we can. What changes do you want to see in 704?
(After reviewing Jim's bug list, I just discovered
#6185 STK jg/sayamindu (translate devkey request page) [5 weeks]
which might be worth
Friends,
At long last, we have a new Update.1 Release Candidate, signed and
waiting for your attention at
http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/703/jffs2/
Release notes continue to develop at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes
with more technical
Folks,
Jim and I are skeptical that having a software status meeting today will
help us so we propose to cancel today's software status meeting in favor
of spending the time on other tasks. (If you do have a weekly status
update that you wish to deliver publicly, please include it in a reply
to
That's the big on/off switch for all isolation. Sugar also independently
decides to turn off isolation for a small number of activities listed in
its source code.
Michael
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:33:36PM -0700, Carol Lerche wrote:
Is this the reason that Bryan Berry in Nepal found that Tux
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:11:55AM -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:
The SystemBus is used for communication between processes that belong to
different users. By default, /etc/dbus-1/system.conf says ...Deny
everything then punch holes Why do we forbid the default user
(olpc) by
cjb, cscott, and I just chatted about build names. We have absolutely no
problem announcing official-703 (when candidate-703 becomes official)
under whatever name seems good but we have no consensus about what that
name should be. cscott proposes '8.1' on the basis that it will be our
first 2008
Tomeu,
Thanks very much for stepping up with such good questions. I'm sorry
that I haven't got more in the way of answers, but here's what I've
got:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:18:33PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
What is the process we are going to use to decide what should people
be working
Several days ago, Jameson, Chris Ball, Robert McQueen, and I chatted for
two hours about the UI problems posed by our current bundle format.
This email is a simple notification that I have posted a (mildly) edited
transcript of that discussion [1] for feedback and merging with the
existing
Dear devel@,
While I'm still rather far away from done, I may have imposed enough
structure on my present fragmented reflections on our goals to be worth
your review [1].
[1]: http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/planning/r1
As always, questions comments are greatly appreciated. In this
Come and share your bugs.
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:20:12PM -0700, Steve Lewis wrote:
Is there any way do build a disk image of a physical OLPC for backup and
development under an emulator
One method is to mount the NAND over sshfs and to copy the files you
want. Another method is to save a NAND image to a USB key or
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:13:16PM -0700, Steve Lewis wrote:
title says is all Crtl-Alt has a special meaning in an emulator and
Crtl-Alt-Backspace does not work in either windows or linux. On linux
it does some very funky things to the host XWindows
QEMU has a 'sendkey' command that can be
Available at a wiki near you:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Plan_of_Record-2008/Draft_2
The important changes since the last version are:
* a new foreword, with a rich analogy describing our present situation,
* a new (tentative) commentary/criticism of our release process to
date,
* a
Ashish comments on #6869: Firmware release - 5.110.22.p9 as follows:
Currently firmware 5.110.22.p8/9 does not support more than 8 multicast
mac addresses. Is there a possibility that any given point of time there
are more than 8 multicast address required?
Is this going to be a problem for
The P_DOCUMENT/P_DOCUMENT_RO protections are unimplemented at present.
This means that there are no access checks at all in the datastore. For
the time being, you can read and write any entries you like. :(
Someday, we will add access checks to the datastore and we will teach
Rainbow to keep
Presently, you should be on either the master or stable branches
from git://dev.laptop.org/git/olpc-2.6. stable is what's in 703.
Then run make olpc_defconfig. This will give you the default OLPC
configuration.
Michael
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:30:32PM -0400, Build Announcer v2 wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1889
Changes in build 1889 from build: 1870
Size delta: 17.43M
+kernel-PAE 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
-python-jinja 1.2-2.fc7
+python-jinja 1.2-1.fc7
-kernel
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:54:13PM -0500, Joe Barr wrote:
It really sucks to see OLPC shriveling up and dying.
Joe,
It's good for people who have been unable to reconcile their differences
with one another to separate themselves, to recuperate, and eventually,
to re-engage one another with
Martin,
Based on feedback from Peru, Mexico, and Nepal, the restoration from
disaster-recovery backups XO/XS coordination feature has been steadily
rising in priority. I also notice that Backups is your first line-item
on the XS-0.3 roadmap.
My large question is: what changes need to be made to
Bryan,
not very elegant. Would like a better solution but time is short.
I've already suggested three more elegant mechanisms:
* tarball - edit - mkfs.jffs2,
* bootUSB - edit - savenand, and
* puritan.
We don't expect the kids to run olpc-update do we? Running OLPC-Update
on 170
Dear devel,
Our builds are nothing more than specially-formatted Unix filesystems.
Q: What useful purpose is served by regenerating these filesystems
from scratch every time we want to change them?
A: We maintain an explanation of where the filesystem came from
encoded in the
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:19:33PM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
here is what i have I tried this afternoon
bunzip xo-1tar.bz2
mkdir os703
tar xvf xo-1..tar -C os703/
then
mkfs.jffs2 -n -e128KiB -r os703 -o testpre.img
sumtool -n -p -e 128KiB -i testpre.img -o testpost.img
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:44:43AM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
The big problem is that most people see this as a Linux+Sugar vs.
Windows decision.
Presently, I'm not very concerned by the role that Windows plays in
OLPC's aims -- there's plenty of stuff to learn from and through
Dear everyone,
We'll be having our weekly status meeting tomorrow at 2:00 PM EST in
#olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org.
See you there!
Michael
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:14:21PM +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote:
But it did happen, so now people want to be reassured that their *very
precious spare time* will not be wasted.
Please do not let present doubt stop you from using your power to
advance our mutual cause. If you doubt, seek the
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:37:08PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
I certainly don't know enough about Windows to be able to answer your
question from the technical perspective.
As a former Windows developer (using both proprietary APIs and Free
APIs), I'm very confident that the collaborative
Friends,
Pursuant to issues raised in #6797, I'm trying to figure out whether the
module-preloading hack can be chivvied into a releasable state. Having
written several tentative patches to this effect, I've decided that I
might as well christen the code-review [1,2,3] list that Ivan set in his
Over the last few weeks, I've spent a fair bit of time producing several
essay drafts and transcriptions of IRC conversations. Something you may
not have known is that I did so on top of olpcfs [1,2]. Yesterday, 1cc
experienced a power failure which briefly took down my working machine.
Today,
Rob, Daf, others,
This email is just to let you know that I haven't forgotten about you
and that I'm still working on collecting the actual feedback necessary
to authoritatively respond to your proposed work statement [1].
[1]: http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/collabora.txt (temporarily
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:33:13AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
Well, I guess I need to know a bit more about the technical details
that will be in play in this circumstance. Since we don't have unique
usernames or passwords, the only identifier for the individual and her
data is her key,
Dear world,
In lieu of having an IRC meeting tomorrow to discuss software issues,
please reply to this thread with a status update on your work since last
week and with any issues that you feel need to be (re)triaged.
Thanks,
Michael
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Based on feedback from Carla, Bryan, and Kim, I recently undertook a
general review of touchpad, glide-sensor, and pen-tablet related
tickets. My grim results are listed in some detail in my post-script.
Here are some general observations:
1) The four major touchpad bug owners are jg, bernie,
I forgot to highlight an excellent suggestion made by Mitchell Charity
on #2804:
Consider using the grab-key+dpad or grab-key+arrows as mouse input.
Could someone please provide a cost-benefit evaluation of this
suggestion?
Thanks,
Michael
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