Re: IDEA: make N800 emulate a USB CD-ROM, possible? yes/no?

2009-09-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Wayne Fiori wrote: > Wouldn't this: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ be an easier solution? > -- > =Wayne No it won´t. I have several old systems that do not recognize pen drives but do boot from USB CD-ROMs... FC ___

Re: IDEA: make N800 emulate a USB CD-ROM, possible? yes/no?

2009-09-14 Thread Wayne Fiori
Wouldn't this: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ be an easier solution? -- =Wayne On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Hi there, > > Once upon a while, I have a crazy idea and this time I think this > one is good... > > Here´s it: create some software that would make

Re: IDEA: make N800 emulate a USB CD-ROM, possible? yes/no?

2009-09-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Gary wrote: > Fernando Cassia wrote: >> I really really really hate having to burn CDs and DVD-Rs to test new >> linux versions. If I could just download the ISO images to from my >> N800 and then enable some software > Assuming the maemo kernel includes support fo

Re: IDEA: make N800 emulate a USB CD-ROM, possible? yes/no?

2009-09-14 Thread Gary
Fernando Cassia wrote: > I really really really hate having to burn CDs and DVD-Rs to test new > linux versions. If I could just download the ISO images to from my > N800 and then enable some software Assuming the maemo kernel includes support for ISO9660 and loopback devices, one could just 'mount

IDEA: make N800 emulate a USB CD-ROM, possible? yes/no?

2009-09-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi there, Once upon a while, I have a crazy idea and this time I think this one is good... Here´s it: create some software that would make the N800 impersonate a USB CD-ROM. I really really really hate having to burn CDs and DVD-Rs to test new linux versions. If I could just download the ISO

Re: Proxies

2009-09-14 Thread Gary
Attila Csipa wrote: > There are such proxies - for example SOCKS proxies are pretty protocol > agnostic as they work on the socket level. True, SOCKS works at the session layer (5) of the OSI model. But apps have to be written to allow it usage. OS X has an option in the network preferences where