http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1998
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:58 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/23/08, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've posted the agenda for this week's country meetings, and slides
from most talks, at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Presentations/May_2008_Country_Workshop
This
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1998
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The OLPC Goldenstate grassroots group has developed an alternative heart
rate monitor to add to the ECG Prototype.
A simple Plethysmograph circuit was implemented leveraging the built-in ADC
and a modified version of Arjun's Measure code. A Plethysmograph is an
infrared photoelectric sensor used
2008/5/29 Giannis Galanis [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
these is a list some bugs discovered tonight on 706
5848: The mesh circle in the main view was disappered
7121: Chat would not load
7119: Usb stick was too slow to mount(1min)
7118: Letters in all sugar activities became tiny!
**5848 probably
Actually, the goals are more limited. Say you have dual-boot; OS 1 has
bitfrost, OS 2 does not. Things OS 2 should not do:
1. Read private files from OS 1.
1a. Read encryption key from OS 1, thus subverting all security which that
key gives. This, in particular, should be avoided.
1a(i). By
Yanni,
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Giannis Galanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
these is a list some bugs discovered tonight on 706
5848: The mesh circle in the main view was disappered
I have a theory on that. Please check the ticket.
Cheers!
Ricardo
Build Announcer v2 wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1998
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At Mon, 26 May 2008 14:58:06 -0400,
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I've now encoded and uploaded video from all of last Tuesday's talks;
links at the url above. Hopefully I will be able to get a copy of the
Thank you!
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jameson Chema Quinn writes:
Actually, the goals are more limited. Say you have dual-boot;
OS 1 has bitfrost, OS 2 does not. Things OS 2 should not do:
1. Read private files from OS 1.
...
2. By writing to OS 1's file
I just had an IRC conversation with Benjamin Schwarz in which we talked
about:
He said that 3,4, and 5 have been considered more serious than 1 and 2;
since they are impossible, there is little point doing 1 and 2. I disagreed.
There is no way with current hardware to write-protect the NAND
2008/5/29 Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As to the ppt conversions, it seemed to me that some of the slides had
layers overlaid on other layers in the wrong order, obscuring what was
written underneath. Perhaps you could just post the ppt files as well as
the pdf you converted it to? Did
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
I just had an IRC conversation with Benjamin Schwarz in which we talked
about:
He said that 3,4, and 5 have been considered more serious than 1 and 2;
since they are impossible, there is little point doing 1 and 2. I disagreed.
There is no way
2008/5/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
I just had an IRC conversation with Benjamin Schwarz in which we talked
about:
He said that 3,4, and 5 have been considered more serious than 1 and 2;
since they are impossible, there is little point doing 1 and
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
2008/5/29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
I just had an IRC conversation with Benjamin Schwarz in which we talked
about:
He said that 3,4, and 5 have been considered more serious than 1 and 2;
since they
If you are in the Boston area on a Saturday from 2-6 please come to
our Open Jam, which is a public weekly meet up for people who are
interested in getting involved in the program. Also feel free to
forward this on to anyone else who might be interested. Try to send
me an email to RSVP
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jameson Chema Quinn writes:
Actually, the goals are more limited. Say you have dual-boot;
OS 1 has bitfrost, OS 2 does not. Things OS 2 should not do:
1. Read private files from OS 1.
...
2. By writing to OS 1's file
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
if you run everything as user olpc and user olpc can become root without a
password, getting olpc is as good as getting root.
An arbitrary process running as user olpc should not be able to get root. My
impression is that it cannot,
Am Donnerstag 29 Mai 2008 23:07:23 schrieb Edward Cherlin:
The question was, how to protect Linux from Windows, in particular
from malware allowed in by Windows. (Or possibly from malware designed
into Windows, a marketing practice not unknown in the past.)
Protecting Windows-only machines is
Please let me know the exact URL you had trouble viewing, and
double-check the sizes against the index listing on
http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080520-country-wkshp/Video/2008-05-20/
to ensure you have the whole file. There are multiple versions of
each talk, and it's possible
Hello everyone,
Sorry for the cross posting, but can anyone tell me what the character
on the key to the immediate lower left of the Enter key (as shown in
http://wiki.laptop.org/images/8/8f/Ethiopic-B3.png) is ? The non
Amharic characters on that are | and \, but I cannot figure out
whether the
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
if you run everything as user olpc and user olpc can become root without a
password, getting olpc is as good as getting root.
An arbitrary process running as user olpc should not be able to get root. My
impression is that
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:25:05PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
Am Donnerstag 29 Mai 2008 23:07:23 schrieb Edward Cherlin:
The question was, how to protect Linux from Windows, in particular
Why protect GNU/Linux from Windows?
If people install Windows on their XOs, then it's their
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:53:49PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
In recent builds, any process running as user OLPC can execute code as
uid 0 via the setuid-0 user-olpc-executable /usr/bin/sudo.
A small correction: in recent
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:53:49PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
In recent builds, any process running as user OLPC can execute code as
uid 0 via the
Am Donnerstag 29 Mai 2008 23:58:04 schrieben Sie:
Yes, you did (where have you been hiding =) ). Windows will come
preinstalled on XO's at the client's request. And in developing countries
the paying clients (ministries of eductaion, etc.) receive technical advice
and counsel mostly from
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:53:49PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
In recent
Thanks for your work, Scott. I should have said that I don't think
anything I complained about was your doing.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:02 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At Mon, 26 May 2008 14:58:06
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Am Donnerstag 29 Mai 2008 23:07:23 schrieb Edward Cherlin:
The question was, how to protect Linux from Windows, in particular
from malware allowed in by Windows. (Or possibly from malware designed
into Windows, a
Am Freitag 30 Mai 2008 01:44:29 schrieb Edward Cherlin:
I don't often write here, but at the moment I don't see why BitFrost
should be used in the first case (except, because we _can_).
Because of governments that will not buy unprotected laptops for
schoolchildren.
But they buy them with
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Am Freitag 30 Mai 2008 01:44:29 schrieb Edward Cherlin:
I don't often write here, but at the moment I don't see why BitFrost
should be used in the first case (except, because we _can_).
Because of governments
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Denver Gingerich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do believe that, practically speaking, all of this is moot.
Windows uses both SD card storage and the NAND flash storage.
(NAND storage being
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Windows runs from an SD card, but there is not much space left on
that SD card to store user files. User files are stored in NAND at
the
Microsoft either will or won't use the NAND for its own purposes. However a
third option beyond the dual boot or engulf and devour choices so far
described, for a deployment that is more school-centric and less oriented
toward laptop autonomy than the OLPC vision, would be to use network file
On Thu, 29 May 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:53:49PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
In recent builds, any process running as
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