Re: Would like to form a pool of Linux copyright holders for faster GPL enforcement against Anthrax Kernels

2013-05-20 Thread Ian Stirling
On 19.05.2013 11:57, luke.leighton wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Ian Stirling wrote: On 18.05.2013 19:27, luke.leighton wrote: question: what is the procedure for having that licensing explicitly added to the linux kernel sources? Fork the kernel, and put it up on a repo

A new, cheap low-power motherboard - how to pick?

2006-12-26 Thread Ian Stirling
with low power ones, and energy saving versions, as they need replaced. My bills are too high. My first choice - the K7S41GX - diddn't actually work out in that athcool doesn't work at all (trying to raise the energy to look in the chipset datasheet if I can find it) Many thanks. Ian S

Re: loop device corruption in 2.4.6

2001-07-05 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Mark Swanson wrote: > > I get repeatable errors with 2.4.6 patched with the international encryption > > patch patch-int-2.4.3.1.bz2 when building loop device filesystems on top of > > Reiserfs. > > And the block size thing is not the only thing wrong with international > crypto patch. The

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-07-01 Thread Ian Stirling
> > > Is this (printing out versions. etc) really a big deal so we should add stuff > like "/proc/xxx", KERN_ to make things more complicated? It sounds to me > like to make the kernel "smaller" we'd actually end up with adding more code > and complexity to it. And quite frankly, if peo

Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-28 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Things like version strings etc sound useful, but the fact is that the > > only _real_ problem it has ever solved for anybody is when somebody thinks > > they install a new kernel, and forgets to run "lilo" or something. But > > even that information you really get f

Re: Where is check for superuser in TCP port bind.

2001-06-25 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Obviously (to me) this check is in tcp_v4_get_port(). > But, I can't find it, or perhaps it's better hidden than I thought. > Or maybe I'm just very confused. > Any help would be most welcome. The above poster was of course deeply stupid, and could have done with more sleep :) It's in net/ip

Where is check for superuser in TCP port bind.

2001-06-24 Thread Ian Stirling
Obviously (to me) this check is in tcp_v4_get_port(). But, I can't find it, or perhaps it's better hidden than I thought. Or maybe I'm just very confused. Any help would be most welcome. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL P

Loopback crypt.

2001-05-28 Thread Ian Stirling
Is there any way to delete the key of an existing loopback encrypted device, and have it block, until a key is reloaded? Of course any cached pages would need deleted, and dirty ones flushed first. To enable things like deleting keys from memory, before suspend-to-disk, or forcing users of devic

Re: Lid support.

2001-04-29 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Hi! > > > I assume there is no generic APM support for lid-close? > > My BIOS (P100 DEC CTS5100 Hinote VP) has no way to do anything other > > than beep, when the lid is closed, so I'm using a hack that polls the > > ct65548 video chips registers to find when the BIOS turns the LCD off, > >

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-26 Thread Ian Stirling
> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ian Stirling wrote: > > > Also, there is another reason. > > If you'r logged in as root, then any exploitable bug in large programs, > > be it netscape, realplayer, wine, vmware, ... means that the > > cracker owns your machine.

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-26 Thread Ian Stirling
> > > On Thursday, April 26, 2001, at 07:03 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > he owns the computer, he may do anything he wants. > Any OS worth its weight in silicon will make a distinction between > blessed and unblessed users. It can be phrased in different ways -- > root vs. non-root, ad

Lid support.

2001-04-25 Thread Ian Stirling
I assume there is no generic APM support for lid-close? My BIOS (P100 DEC CTS5100 Hinote VP) has no way to do anything other than beep, when the lid is closed, so I'm using a hack that polls the ct65548 video chips registers to find when the BIOS turns the LCD off, so I can do whatever. Or is the

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Hello, ftp://www.kerneli.org/pub/linux/kerneli/ For idea encryption, you just use losetup -e idea /dev/loop0 /filesystem Password: whatever mke2fs /dev/loop0 mount /dev/loop0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: IP Acounting Idea for 2.5

2001-04-16 Thread Ian Stirling
> > Manfred Bartz responded to > > Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who writes: > > You just illustrated my point. While there is a reset capability > > people will use it and accounting/logging programs will get wrong > > data. Resetable counters might be a minor convenience when debugging >

Dumping memory of a running process?

2001-03-13 Thread Ian Stirling
Is there a way to dump the memory of any process without stopping, or modifying it? Obviously normally stopping it would be the right thing to do, but is it possible, and if so, is there a handy tool? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mes

Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

2001-03-08 Thread Ian Stirling
> Not a chance. First your company must have at least 1500 licences and > you can't modify any code... which implies that you can't rebuild either... You can modify your compiler, so that it accepts patches (with no context) and completely rewrite anything that needs modified. The modified s

Re: PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard conflict and lockup

2001-02-08 Thread Ian Stirling
> > > I'm not sure whether this is related to the ominous ps/2 mouse bug > > you have been chasing, but this problem is 100% reproducible and > > very annoying. I'm also seeing a ps/2 mouse bug, with 2.4.0-pre5 (I think) on a CS433 (486/33 laptop) Freezes after some time in X, killing keyboar

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-26 Thread Ian Stirling
> > On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Felix von Leitner wrote: > > Thus spake Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > One more detail: top says the CPU is 50% system when reading from either > > > > one of the disk or raid devices. That seems awfully high considering > > > > that the Promise controller cla

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-25 Thread Ian Stirling
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Wright) wrote on 24.12.00 in ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:36:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > There was a similar thread to this recently. The issue is that if you > > choose the wrong processor type, you may not even be able to comp

Laptop system clock slow after suspend to disk. (2.4.0-test9/hinote VP)

2000-12-20 Thread Ian Stirling
I've not noticed this on earlier kernel versions, is there something silly I'm missing that's making my DEC hinote VP (p100 laptop)s system clock slow by a factor of five or so after resume? Not the CPU or cmos clock, only the system clock. Thoughts welcome. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: User based routing?

2000-12-19 Thread Ian Stirling
> > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:46:51PM +0000, Ian Stirling wrote: > > Are there any patches floating around? > > Basically to allow for example a server to dial out to ISP's on behalf > > of users, and give them full control over that interface. > > I know a

User based routing?

2000-12-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Are there any patches floating around? Basically to allow for example a server to dial out to ISP's on behalf of users, and give them full control over that interface. I know about UML, and it's not quite suited. I've not found anything searching archives, but maybe it's out there. Thanks. - To un

Booting on the wrong processor.

2000-12-06 Thread Ian Stirling
I have just had a frustrating experience, solely blameable on my own stupidity. Basically, I'd been assuming that stopping after "booting kernel" was due to some corruption, rather than the obvious, of checking that I had indeed selected the right processor when compiling. What about "booting the

PCMCIA-USB (non-cardbus). Any support pending?

2000-10-31 Thread Ian Stirling
Along with many others, I have an older laptop. I also notice the large number of USB things released, some of which I'd like to connect to it. Is there hardware around? Is anyone working on drivers? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [BUG REPORT] Conflict between Tulip driver w/ LinkSys 100LNE and EEPro

2000-10-19 Thread Ian Stirling
> The problem: I can't have the Tulip and EEPro drivers loaded at the same > time. If I have the Tulip driver loaded, and I load the EEPro driver, the > self check fails with 0x and complains that I don't have the card in > a bus master slot. If I have the EEPro driver loaded and the eth

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-17 Thread Ian Stirling
> > > > I take it then that you never use a hard drive in any of your systems on > > the grounds that it contains non-open source firmware which may affect > > the security of your system? ;) Tell me, what do you use to store all > > those Linux applications on? > > Your ATA drive can't tell y

Re: A patch to loop.c for better cryption support

2000-10-12 Thread Ian Stirling
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:19:49AM +, Ingo Rohloff wrote: > 2.4 has already broken backwards compatibility to 2.2 (IV changed > from disk absolute to relative). When you change it now (before 2.4.0) > it is relatively painless. I think the change is a good idea. I've been away from th