(EE) SIGIO not blocked at xf86eqEnqueue

2008-01-02 Thread starsu
Dear all, I implemented an application with Python and Tkinter. To test it on XO, I installed tkinter, PIL, and PMW modules there. However, when running it on XO, the following error appeared after the application icon disappeared. (EE) SIGIO not blocked at xf86eqEnqueue (EE) SIGIO not

Re: T-Mobile Hotspot access?

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Blankinship
If we've recycled our shipping box already do we call brightstar or fedex or olpc or who to get our reference number? I can't seem to find it in any emails, but maybe I am not looking in the right place. -- Erik On 12/26/07, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah thank you. It the

Is joyride broken?

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
I see no new builds since Dec 29, and the last few builds were not even announced by bert's script. What happened? -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ ___ Devel mailing

Re: Is joyride broken?

2008-01-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Jan 2, 2008, at 13:37 , Bernardo Innocenti wrote: I see no new builds since Dec 29, and the last few builds were not even announced by bert's script. My script is fine I think. It just does not send an announcement for builds without changed packages or failed builds:

Re: Is joyride broken?

2008-01-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Jan 2, 2008, at 13:45 , Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Jan 2, 2008, at 13:37 , Bernardo Innocenti wrote: I see no new builds since Dec 29, and the last few builds were not even announced by bert's script. My script is fine I think. It just does not send an announcement for builds without

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Tom Sylla wrote: http://openbios.org/viewvc/cpu/x86/pc/olpc/lxmsrs.fth?view=markuprevision=739root=OpenFirmware has: msr: .1810 fdfff000.fd000111. \ Video (write through), fbsize which is setting the framebuffer as write-combining. (the write through comment is incorrect) This

Re: Is joyride broken?

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Bert Freudenberg wrote: Btw, pilgrim.laptop.org seems to be down ... Again? We had a short (0.5sec) power outage at 1CC a few days ago. Some machines which are not under UPS may have died. Someone please check pilgrim in the server room. -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti -

Re: New update.1 build 669

2008-01-02 Thread Jim Gettys
Yes, these are packages that had landed in joyride from upstream while no one was looking. We need to get the build announcer to give us insight into upstream package updates (on Dennis' shoulders). There are several of these that are worth further investigation: we need to check the diffs and

Re: OLPC - Fedora packages (Was: New update.1 build 669)

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
(cc fedora-devel) Jim Gettys wrote: Yes, these are packages that had landed in joyride from upstream while no one was looking. We need to get the build announcer to give us insight into upstream package updates (on Dennis' shoulders). There are several of these that are worth further

Re: Is joyride broken?

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Bert Freudenberg wrote: Btw, pilgrim.laptop.org seems to be down ... Again? We had a short (0.5sec) power outage at 1CC a few days ago. Some machines which are not under UPS may have died. Someone please check pilgrim in the server

Re: Sugar UI design and Tux Paint

2008-01-02 Thread Eben Eliason
Sugar entails a complete redesign of some basic UI concepts, so I thought a thread on how to rethink applications to take advantage would be appropriate. One thing I've noticed in Paint is that an Edit toolbar is far less useful than an Edit menu. You want to copy something - you go to the

Re: Updates API documentation for everything.

2008-01-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
First, thanks to everybody who replied to my requests on Python, Smalltalk, and FORTH documentation tools. I will put the links you have given me into the document outlines linked from the OLPC Publications page, and at some point we can start expanding the outlines into draft documents. Further

Re: Updates API documentation for everything.

2008-01-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Jan 1, 2008 3:14 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward Cherlin wrote: Does anybody know of a documentation tool for Open Firmware, or for FORTH more generally? Exploring using 'words' and 'see' Are you looking for automated documentation generation, or FORTH coding

Re: New update.1 build 669

2008-01-02 Thread Jean Piché
Hello, Any reason why approved inclusions from 2 weeks ago are not rolled into this build? http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5638 TamTam versions included here are buggy and have incompatible po file integration. Best wishes to all for 2008! jp (ethrop) _

Re: [sugar] Sugar UI design and Tux Paint

2008-01-02 Thread Eben Eliason
Journal integration is an interesting problem. Tux Paint keeps some extra per-image data in extra files. I'm thinking that an export-to-journal button might be most appropriate. There is an explicit keep button in the activity toolbar to allow kids to save an object in a particular state.

Last update of activities to pick up translations...

2008-01-02 Thread Jim Gettys
Per the http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap, today is the last day to update activities in joyride to pick up translations. You should not be making other changes (other than blocker bug fixes and fixes we've reviewed and approved) while doing these updates. When you have tested your activities in

Re: New update.1 build 669

2008-01-02 Thread Jean Piché
Sorry, the copied listing here is from 630, but the TamTam versions are the same in 669. On 2-Jan-08, at 11:21 AM, Jean Piché wrote: Hello, Any reason why approved inclusions from 2 weeks ago are not rolled into this build? http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5638 TamTam versions

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 23, Issue 2

2008-01-02 Thread Ian Daniher
Jaya and Sameer, That looks very similar to the peripheral I have been working on; for details, you can see reference the page: wiki.laptop.org/go/TeleHealth_Module. Our pricepoint is slightly lower, but the goal is the same. I am very curious to learn more about your experiences and contacts in

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread John Richard Moser
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Tom Sylla wrote: http://openbios.org/viewvc/cpu/x86/pc/olpc/lxmsrs.fth?view=markuprevision=739root=OpenFirmware has: msr: .1810 fdfff000.fd000111. \ Video (write through), fbsize which is setting the framebuffer as write-combining. (the write through

Re: New update1 build 630

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Monday 12 November 2007, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Btw, this diff is actually relative to build 625. - Bert - On Nov 12, 2007, at 6:57 , Build Announcer Script wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/update1/build630/ devel_jffs2/ For one this is not the right place for

Re: New update1 build 630

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Monday 12 November 2007, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Btw, this diff is actually relative to build 625. - Bert - On Nov 12, 2007, at 6:57 , Build Announcer Script wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/update1/build630/

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
John Richard Moser wrote: Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Tom Sylla wrote: http://openbios.org/viewvc/cpu/x86/pc/olpc/lxmsrs.fth?view=markuprevision=739root=OpenFirmware has: msr: .1810 fdfff000.fd000111. \ Video (write through), fbsize which is setting the framebuffer as

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread John Richard Moser
Mitch Bradley wrote: John Richard Moser wrote: Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Tom Sylla wrote: [...] The Geode GX has 64 TLB entries right? I don't know how many the Geode LX has, or if there's an L2 TLB. Obviously, though, this would be a major performance boon, what with there

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 02/01/08 08:01 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: John Richard Moser wrote: Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Tom Sylla wrote: http://openbios.org/viewvc/cpu/x86/pc/olpc/lxmsrs.fth?view=markuprevision=739root=OpenFirmware has: msr: .1810 fdfff000.fd000111. \ Video (write

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread Jordan Crouse
On 02/01/08 08:18 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Tom Sylla wrote: http://openbios.org/viewvc/cpu/x86/pc/olpc/lxmsrs.fth?view=markuprevision=739root=OpenFirmware has: msr: .1810 fdfff000.fd000111. \ Video (write through), fbsize which is setting the framebuffer as

New update.1 build 670

2008-01-02 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build670/ -Record-47.xo +Record-49.xo -TamTamEdit-44.xo +TamTamEdit-45.xo -TamTamJam-44.xo +TamTamJam-46.xo -TamTamMini-43.xo +TamTamMini-44.xo -TamTamSynthLab-44.xo +TamTamSynthLab-46.xo -TurtleArt-4.xo +TurtleArt-7.xo -Web-81.xo

Adding content to the XO

2008-01-02 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
I'm running with a stock laptop from the G1G1 program, the instructions on the library grid (in the wiki) don't seem to match what I see on my XO -- there is no /home/olpc/Library - let alone a /home/olpc/Library/makeindex.py Is there an update I have to do, or someplace where I can grab

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread John Richard Moser
Jordan Crouse wrote: On 02/01/08 08:18 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Tom Sylla wrote: http://openbios.org/viewvc/cpu/x86/pc/olpc/lxmsrs.fth?view=markuprevision=739root=OpenFirmware has: msr: .1810 fdfff000.fd000111. \ Video (write through), fbsize which is setting the

Re: Sugar UI design and Tux Paint

2008-01-02 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
There are various possible solutions. In order from smallest to largest changes: 1. Move the select tool onto the Edit toolbar, or put it in both places. 2. Automatically change to the select tool for as long as you're using the edit toolbar. 3. Move from an select - action (object

Re: T-Mobile Hotspot access?

2008-01-02 Thread Charles Durrett
You should (?) have received an email subj: Thank You and Welcome to the OLPC Community! Near the end they refer to the T-Mobile HotSpot offer and mention your order reference number. Something like 7x . Chuck On Jan 2, 2008 4:38 AM, Erik Blankinship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If

B2s

2008-01-02 Thread Ricardo Carrano
I am trying to put some B2-1s in good use. I read that 406.15 is the recommended os version but I can't find it anywhere. Any idea of where can I get it? Thanks a lot! -- Ricardo Carrano ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: [sugar] Sugar UI design and Tux Paint

2008-01-02 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Jan 2, 2008 11:25 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Journal integration is an interesting problem. Tux Paint keeps some extra per-image data in extra files. I'm thinking that an export-to-journal button might be most appropriate. There is an explicit keep button in the activity

Re: B2s

2008-01-02 Thread John Watlington
http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/development/build406.15/ There was a 406.16 build in testing that included latest wireless firmware. Bernie, where did you put it ? In the meantime, you can patch 406.15 pretty simply: wget http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/

Re: B2s

2008-01-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 16:48 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: I am trying to put some B2-1s in good use. I read that 406.15 is the recommended os version but I can't find it anywhere. Any idea of where can I get it? Thanks a lot! In my opinion, the current software should be able to run on the

Re: B2s

2008-01-02 Thread Walter Bender
http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/development/build406.15/ -walter On Jan 2, 2008 2:48 PM, Ricardo Carrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to put some B2-1s in good use. I read that 406.15 is the recommended os version but I can't find it anywhere. Any idea of where can I get

Re: B2s

2008-01-02 Thread Walter Bender
The problems go a bit beyond cpu and memory usage: some drivers have changed: the camera for one. Maybe after Update.1 is out the door... -walter On Jan 2, 2008 2:58 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 16:48 -0300, Ricardo Carrano wrote: I am trying to put some

Re: B2s

2008-01-02 Thread Ian Daniher
Has there been any thought to putting B2s up for 'adoption,' giving them to people whose projects require the same wireless chipset or audio hardware, rather than those projects that are more software-oriented? --Ian On Jan 2, 2008 2:58 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

API Change Notification: Moving Rainbow's Spool - #5033

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Stone
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

Re: B2s

2008-01-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Yes, what I meant was that if we got, for update.2, sugar's cpu and mem usage where we want it, perhaps that would be enough to run on b2s. Volunteers could then do images combining a base system from 406 and the latest sugar components. I don't see how the sugar team could divert efforts into

Re: Sugar UI design and Tux Paint

2008-01-02 Thread Eben Eliason
All of these are valid suggestions. The drawback to all is that they make assumptions about the types of selections that can be made (More specifically, they don't allow for compound boolean selections). Perhaps that's not something many (any?) kids will want or need, but we have to

Circumventing kernel signing

2008-01-02 Thread John Richard Moser
So far I have come up with two untested, theoretical ways to circumvent the kernel signing mechanism and boot an unsigned kernel. These are both dead simple so I'll keep the explanation short. Both require an activation key, neither require a developer's key; in other words, if you can boot

New ship.2 build 656

2008-01-02 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/ship.2/build656/ -kernel.i586 0:2.6.22-20071228.bernie15.olpc.af3dd +kernel.i586 0:2.6.22-20071231.2.olpc.83e0631da83a269 -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/ship.2-pkgs.html

Printing and the XO

2008-01-02 Thread Peter Krenesky
Hi all, While not a primary concern of the project, printing is something that teachers are asking for. OSL HP are exploring how all the pieces will fit together. Much of this was discussed in a recent call with Walter Bender, Jim Gettys, Jim Rowson (HP), North Krimsly (OSL), Carlos Jensen

Re: B2s

2008-01-02 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:57:56PM -0500, John Watlington wrote: There was a 406.16 build in testing that included latest wireless firmware. Bernie, where did you put it ? http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/build406.16/ is where I put the build that I did. The changes are new wireless firmware,

Invitiation to OLPC to exhibit at SoCal Linux Expo 6x

2008-01-02 Thread Gareth J. Greenaway
Greetings, I would like to formally invite the OLPC project to participate in the 6th annual Southern California Linux Expo. The show will be taking place February 8th through the 10th, 2008 in Los Angeles, California at the Westin LAX hotel conveniently located near the LAX International

Re: Sugar UI design and Tux Paint

2008-01-02 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
On Jan 2, 2008 2:17 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: selections: verb-object or object-verb ... discussion running on... the next step is example code... not gonna do it next. global preferences Quite true. I think we'll probably introduce a form of fullscreen modal dialog for

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
John Richard Moser wrote: YES. You can mix and match your page sizes, have some pages 4MiB and some 4KiB. If a block of i.e. the heap is 4MiB long, the kernel can technically relocate all 1024 involved pages so they're physically contiguous and aligned to a 4MiB boundary, and then remap

New joyride build 1491

2008-01-02 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1491/ -Chat-32.xo +Chat-34.xo -Measure-14.xo +Measure-15.xo -Read-37.xo +Read-38.xo -initscripts.i386 0:8.54.1-13.olpc2 +initscripts.i386 0:8.54.1-15.olpc2 -iputils.i386 0:20070202-3.fc7 -kernel.i586

New update.1 build 671

2008-01-02 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build671/ -Etoys-71.xo +Etoys-73.xo -bootfw.i386 0:q2d06-0 +bootfw.i386 0:q2d07-0 -etoys.noarch 0:2.2.1796-1 +etoys.noarch 0:2.3.1864-1 -libertas-usb8388-firmware.noarch 2:5.110.20.p47-2.fc7 +libertas-usb8388-firmware.noarch

Re: Sugar UI design and Tux Paint

2008-01-02 Thread Eben Eliason
Quite true. I think we'll probably introduce a form of fullscreen modal dialog for such a thing. That is, you press an account settings button and get a fullscreen overlay containing all of the necessary settings, hiding the rest of the interface, including the toolbar itself, to focus

Construct Rainbow's spool dir if it doesn't exist - #5033

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Stone
--- 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

Re: B2s

2008-01-02 Thread Albert Cahalan
Ian Daniher writes: Has there been any thought to putting B2s up for 'adoption,' giving them to people whose projects require the same wireless chipset or audio hardware, rather than those projects that are more software-oriented? I was just about to start asking along these lines. There is

Re: Build size change in announcer script

2008-01-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:08 , Bernardo Innocenti wrote: Hello, how about adding the size delta to the build report? So we see how much bloat we're taking incrementally. I do not see this info in the build logs ... - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Cerebro: Scalable presence information

2008-01-02 Thread Erik Blankinship
eXcellent name choice! On 12/31/07, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Announcing Cerebro - http://cerebro.mit.edu Cerebro is a scalable, light-weight protocol that allows 802.11b/g devices to form a mesh network. Cerebro has the following advantages: - It provides

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread Albert Cahalan
[various people] BSD process accounting and auditd support though? BSD process accounting can be very useful for debugging. It is particularly valuable when you have programs being started from weird places, being debugged already, or crossing through stuff like setuid. It doesn't cost much. I

Re: How can the XO be made accessible to blind

2008-01-02 Thread Sameer Verma
Mitch Bradley wrote: David W Hogg wrote: On a somewhat related note, is there any way to attach an external monitor to the XO? I would love to give my astronomy research seminars in the spring from my G1G1 XO; but this would also be useful for those with impaired sight (some of my

root password

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
I think we should re-enable the empty root password for Update.1. The reason why is that we have plenty of documentation in the wiki and elsewhere suggesting people to login as root or to su as root. There should be at least a transition period so the support people don't get flooded with

Re: root password

2008-01-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: I think we should re-enable the empty root password for Update.1. The reason why is that we have plenty of documentation in the wiki and elsewhere suggesting people to login as root or to su as root. There should be at least a transition period

Re: Kernel configuration options

2008-01-02 Thread John Richard Moser
Albert Cahalan wrote: [various people] BSD process accounting and auditd support though? BSD process accounting can be very useful for debugging. It is particularly valuable when you have programs being started from weird places, being debugged already, or crossing through stuff like

open firmware question

2008-01-02 Thread Ricardo Carrano
How do I do the opposite of copy-nand - copy the OS image _from_ the nand into a USB key? -- Ricardo Carrano ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: open firmware question

2008-01-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
Ricardo Carrano wrote: How do I do the opposite of copy-nand - copy the OS image _from_ the nand into a USB key? ok save-nand u:\foo.img -- Ricardo Carrano ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

New joyride build 1492

2008-01-02 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1492/ -libcdio.i386 0:0.78.2-2.fc7 +libcdio.i386 0:0.78.2-4.fc7 -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/joyride-pkgs.html ___ Devel mailing

Re: Sugar UI design and Tux Paint

2008-01-02 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
On Jan 2, 2008 5:35 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite true. I think we'll probably introduce a form of fullscreen modal dialog for such a thing. That is, you press an account settings button and get a fullscreen overlay containing all of the necessary settings, hiding

Re: API Change Notification: Moving Rainbow's Spool - #5033

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Stone
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

New update.1 build 672

2008-01-02 Thread Build Announcer Script
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build672/ +AcousticMeasure-11.xo -AcousticMeasure-7.xo --- AcousticMeasure-11 --- * Fix socket placement to work under Rainbow. -- This email was automatically generated Aggregated logs at http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update.1-pkgs.html

Re: Adding content to the XO

2008-01-02 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Eric Van Hensbergen date=Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:25:48PM -0600 I'm running with a stock laptop from the G1G1 program, the instructions on the library grid (in the wiki) don't seem to match what I see on my XO -- there is no /home/olpc/Library Strange. It should exist or should be

Re: root password

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Albert Cahalan wrote: I got it to work with a different pam module, and placed that info into trac. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5537 #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_rootok.so auth requiredpam_succeed_if.so use_uid user ingroup wheel auth include system-auth account

Re: Circumventing kernel signing

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
John Richard Moser wrote: VECTOR 1: kexec() [...] VECTOR 2: unsigned module [...] Unless we disable things such as /dev/mem, I also see a much wider attack vector, where one can inject arbitrary code in the kernel and recreate the conditions of these. And there are many alternative

Re: Printing and the XO

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Peter Krenesky wrote: While not a primary concern of the project, printing is something that teachers are asking for. [...] Is this nice documentation already in the wiki? If not, please be bold and create a new page! -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\

Re: Construct Rainbow's spool dir if it doesn't exist - #5033

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Applied, thanks. -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Circumventing kernel signing

2008-01-02 Thread John Richard Moser
Bernardo Innocenti wrote: John Richard Moser wrote: VECTOR 1: kexec() [...] VECTOR 2: unsigned module [...] Unless we disable things such as /dev/mem, I also see a much wider attack vector, where one can inject arbitrary code in the kernel and recreate the conditions of these. And

Re: NAND FLASH wear-out

2008-01-02 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mitch Bradley wrote: The part is rated for 100,000 *erase* cycles per block. There are 64 independently-writable 2K pages per block. Writing doesn't count in the wear calculation - just erasing. What does rated mean? Specifically, I imagine

Re: New update.1 build 672

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Build Announcer Script wrote: http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build672/ +AcousticMeasure-11.xo -AcousticMeasure-7.xo --- AcousticMeasure-11 --- * Fix socket placement to work under Rainbow. The diff script only got the latest changelog entry and missed those for

setolpckeys

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
I was wondering what this program is useful for. It does not seem to be referenced anywhere, so maybe now we could drop it? -- \___/ |___| Bernardo Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://www.laptop.org/ ___

Re: Circumventing kernel signing

2008-01-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, John Richard Moser wrote: I did not address the mass of other crap you could do to the system with root. I was only addressing evading the OFW security implementation for only booting signed OSes. Here's another vector: 1. On a laptop that comes from the factory with the

Re: Circumventing kernel signing

2008-01-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
At some point, when these fairly obvious loopholes that we have known about since forever are closed, we plan to change the key so new machines will only run the more secure OS versions. Old machines will continue to be vulnerable until they are upgraded to new firmware with the new key, and

Re: root password

2008-01-02 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Jan 3, 2008 12:15 AM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Cahalan wrote: auth requiredpam_succeed_if.so use_uid user ingroup wheel ... This seems really equivalent to using pam_wheel.so. I thought so to, but testing seems to show that pam_wheel.so will only protect

Re: Clock?

2008-01-02 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Dec 23, 2007 4:55 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Van Baren wrote: Hmmm, odd. After setting the hwclock with --utc, my /etc/adjtime has UTC but, when I cycled power, my system clock was off by my timezone. Ahh, my /etc/adjtime has 0 instead