Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:07:00PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: A practical example of how this can be used: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/346 netcfg.sh blindly sources xonet.cfg without any filtering. Very brave, very powerful. An rm rf / planted by a child in the borrowed drive will

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 10 February 2011 14:45, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:07:00PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: A practical example of how this can be used: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/346 netcfg.sh blindly sources xonet.cfg without any filtering.  Very brave, very

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:59:18PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 10 February 2011 14:45, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:07:00PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: A practical example of how this can be used: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/346

Re: [OLPC-AU] magic update usbkey

2011-02-09 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:09:19PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: We're also using a olpc.fth file to make some other things easier for teachers. Since our XOs are developer unlocked, there's nothing stopping someone from editing it to brick the XO! Just a bit worse than Windows autorun :(

Re: [OLPC-AU] Integrity checking of firmware

2011-02-08 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:19:18PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Following on from my question about OS images, does the XO check the integrity of a firmware file before writing it? bootfw.zip files can be checked against the CRC, but what about the .rom files? bootfw.zip files contain a

Re: RE: [OLPC-AU] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-01-31 Thread forster
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Re: RE: [OLPC-AU] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-01-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
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Re: [OLPC-AU] hwclock accuracy

2011-01-27 Thread Martin Langhoff
Very interesting. Strange. Unexpected. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:30 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Until these problems are fixed, please change your build; Could this be added to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_Builder#Recipes ? cheers, m --  martin.langh...@gmail.com  

Re: [OLPC-AU] hwclock accuracy

2011-01-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 09:01 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: Very interesting. Strange. Unexpected. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:30 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Until these problems are fixed, please change your build; Could this be added to

Re: [OLPC-AU] hwclock accuracy

2011-01-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:30 +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 06:09:02PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: That actually makes things worse, try installing ntpdate and run it with the stock /etc/adjtime file, now the real time clock is set to localtime as that is the first time

Re: [OLPC-AU] hwclock accuracy

2011-01-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:40 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: We've actually disabled the /sbin/hwclock --systohc in our latest build (probably to be released tomorrow). If you are spinning your own build, ensure

Re: [OLPC-AU] hwclock accuracy

2011-01-26 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 06:09:02PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: That actually makes things worse, try installing ntpdate and run it with the stock /etc/adjtime file, now the real time clock is set to localtime as that is the first time hwclock is run.

Re: [OLPC-AU] hwclock accuracy

2011-01-26 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:30 +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 06:09:02PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: That actually makes things worse, try installing ntpdate and run it with the stock /etc/adjtime file, now the real time clock is set to localtime as that is the first time

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