improve my USB knowledge

2009-05-25 Thread Rodrigo OSORIO (ros)
Hi fellow hackers, This weekend I try to increase my knowledge about USB devices - I start from 0 - playing with one of this funny low cost USB gadgets. I read few articles about writing USB drivers, specially the Linux USB development guide, and I want to know if there is others (BSD related)

Re: Small Change to chpass.c

2008-12-11 Thread Rodrigo OSORIO (ros)
On 10/12/08 18:00 -0800, Sheldon Givens wrote: > Hi guys, > > When I was doing some user management today I noticed that chpass, and all > the utilities that use chpass.c, only give one attempt to authenticate to > make the change. After I messed this up once or twice (and after doing 4-5 > minute

Problem with an rc script

2008-07-29 Thread Rodrigo OSORIO (ros)
Hi, I'm trying to deal with a rc script I'm writing to launch a deamon. I wrote it based on the hanbook rc script sample. It works pretty well but I have some (strange to me) warning message. Fisrt a short explanation about what i'm doing : The application is a python script deamon started by

Re: eeePC 900 with SSD && reducing writes

2008-06-24 Thread Rodrigo OSORIO (ros)
On 24/06/08 15:11 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I have installed FreeBSD 7.0R on that eeePC 900 and because of the > limited life time of the SSD (see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelling ) > I disabled some logging stuff which I don't need on that tiny laptop, > for exampl