Re: ANN: rainbow-0.8.6 release.

2009-12-22 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 22.12.2009, at 06:06, Michael Stone wrote: Friends, I am pleased to announce the release of rainbow-0.8.6. Rainbow implements portions of the isolation shell described in the Bitfrost threat model and security architecture. The key differences between this release and its predecessor

Re: Testing OS64 on XO1.5

2009-12-22 Thread Ahmed MANSOUR
2009/12/20 James Cameron qu...@laptop.org: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 01:20:37PM -0500, milan zimmermann wrote: 1) After reboot, or after a brief period of inactivity, the system sometimes does not connect to network, [...] Deficiency of the B2 hardware, won't be fixed in B2, but will be (is)

Re: Testing OS64 on XO1.5

2009-12-22 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:05 +, Ahmed MANSOUR wrote: The network was working but after my upgrade to OS64, I can no longer get connected so it is more a software issue and not only releasted to B2 hardware. What type of network are you trying to connect to? What is the failure condition?

Fwd: Call for Proposals Now Open

2009-12-22 Thread Sameer Verma
Is anyone proposing sessions at OSCON 2010? Sameer -- Forwarded message -- From: O'Reilly Open Source Convention conferen...@post.oreilly.com Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:06 AM Subject: Call for Proposals Now Open To: sve...@sfsu.edu OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention

Re: powerd or ohm?

2009-12-22 Thread Steven M. Parrish
On Sunday 20 December 2009 10:28:53 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, I think f11 for the XO 1.5 uses ohmd but from a recent message from Paul I think the images for the XO-1 are configured to use powerd or at least doesn't start ohmd by default. Steve, is there any plan on this? Thanks,

XO-3 official

2009-12-22 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof, half the thickness of an iPhone and use less than a watt of power, despite an 8-gigaherz processor. The price: an unprecedented $75.

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-22 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
Hey guys, Is it cheating to change the screen depth? I change it to 24 bpp and now cheese and totem work. Changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: (in the Screen Section) DefaultDepth 24 (in the Display SubSection) Depth 24 Cheese doesn't show live video from the camera but I am able to take

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-22 Thread Raul Gutierrez Segales
Btw, Record in Sugar works with the same symptoms as Cheese in Gnome (that is, you can take pictures but you don't get a live feed). Hth, Raúl On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 21:42 -0300, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote: Hey guys, Is it cheating to change the screen depth? I change it to 24 bpp and

Re: possible progress on XO-1 camera issues

2009-12-22 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:42:54PM -0300, Raul Gutierrez Segales wrote: Is it cheating to change the screen depth? I change it to 24 bpp and now cheese and totem work. Changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: That's odd. We changed the screen depth quite a bit with XO-1.5 development, I wonder if those

Re: [Server-devel] Pushing Activities to XOs

2009-12-22 Thread Frederick Grose
Another possibility might be http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update#Cloning_the_Sender.27s_NAND . ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] Pushing Activities to XOs

2009-12-22 Thread Reuben K. Caron
Additional detail is that cloning requires security-disabled receivers. On Dec 22, 2009, at 1:49 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: Yep - with the small detail that it overwrites the nand storage. The other options under discussion preserve user data, etc... cheers, m On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at