Re: PackageKit policy: background and plans

2009-11-23 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
this equivalency. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: PackageKit policy: background and plans

2009-11-23 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
password (and/or installing system software), it should be done in a secure manner, preferably not from within user X session (unless the risk = the fact of user = root equivalency is explicitly and specifically understood and accepted). -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora

Re: Local users get to play root?

2009-11-19 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
(because e.g. network services are off by default), then how on Earth can we say at the same time it's ok and by design that installing a single non-network service program opens a huge door for attacks? Just admit this was a bug or maybe backdoor and fix critical security problem ASAP. -- Krzysztof

Re: Installing F12-Beta

2009-11-02 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
of Inexpensive Crystal Balls :-) Then it's clear the error is actually Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! and it's most probably a kernel or hardware problem. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13

2009-10-01 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com writes: Is ARM big endian? It can be either. Intel's IXP4xx networking chips are usually running BE since their internal network engines are BE-only and it's thus more efficient. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: PPC/PPC64 disabled in Koji for dist-f13

2009-10-01 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
offers the advantage that an unaligned fetch from memory gives results that are usable after quick fixup. An unaligned fetch in big-endian mode essentially gives junk. Both BE and LE obviously have advantages and disadvantages. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

2009-06-22 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com writes: I mean is 1% improvement (for cpu intensive workload) really worth changing anything? No, especially if it screws somebody (not me though). -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12 (#2)

2009-06-17 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
. However, this default can be changed via bit 1 in the FCR MSR. - Maybe Samuel 2 and Ezra are non-cmov and Eden is cmov-able? I don't say if those CPUs have to be supported by Fedora, I'm just posting this for completeness. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list

Re: Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

2009-06-15 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
netbooks SSE2-capable? -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-14 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
an additional opportunity for a compromise. As a systems administrator I applaud this idea, as it stops people from shooting themselves in the foot That may be true. The same can probably be said about alias rm='rm -i' and so on. This is not security, however. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-14 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
create normal accounts (nor asked). -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: What I HATE about F11

2009-06-14 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
compromises your non-root account, and if you use sudo or whatever to switch to root then root as compromised as well, password or no password. You have to use a secure terminal and a secure path to the root session to be really secure. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora

F11 discontinued so fast? :-)

2009-06-04 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
/ on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: F11 discontinued so fast? :-)

2009-06-04 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
/ - Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list