Author archives: Mike

Dave of Linux Caffe has finally carried through on his threat to open until 11pm 6 days a week (all save Sunday). That means that we can gather at Linux Caffe and hack (while purchasing coffee) after work.

Of course, I actually work at Linux Caffe most days, so for me it just means I ...

I've got the server/workstation back up to limping shape. GRUB is corrupted in some weird way (doesn't show the menu, just a garble of text, but it chooses the first option in the list, so I actually get booted) and the HAL daemon hangs the whole machine if I let it run... other than that ...

The main server gave up the ghost this morning. Refused to boot due to the boot drive partition table being borked. Since we've known we had to replace it for ages decided to spend the day doing that.

Spent 4 or 5 hours researching motherboards, GPUs, CPUs, power supplies, cases, etceteras. Decided to go for ...

Amber Mac of CityTV came in and shot lots of footage of the laptop this afternoon. Spent the morning talking with a chap who wants the OLPC to roll out in Canada/US (first). This evening/late afternoon I've been continuing work to get my development environment sugar-jhbuilt (as well as updated via portage to latest stable ...

Seems that posts to the security list neither got distributed nor showed up in the mailing list archives (last mail there was in March). So, below the jump is the text of my message sent to the security list this morning.

One of the specs for the laptop that's mentioned in BitFrost is that we're planning on using a unioned (Copy-on-Write (COW)) file system (likely AUFS) to produce a number of security effects (e.g. the core system software is on a r/o plane, with any changes happening only in a r/w plane above that software (and ...

Quiet day today, when I haven't been sleeping I've been either plowing through the thousands of backed up emails or working on little bits and pieces for OLPC (e.g. following up on some contacts at U of T). I'm updating the laptop to the newest stable build. Probably also see about putting a few non-standard ...

Spending the day on PyOpenGL today. First up was integrating various small fixes and changes from people. Since then have been trying to get the reference manual updated. It's a rather involved distutils script at the moment (integrated into PyOpenGL2).

I'm trying to remove some of that pointless complexity, the setup to get the distutils ...

We're planning on doing a meetup at 7pm this Thursday at Linux Caffe (corner of Grace and Harbord). This will be a general information meeting, not a sprint (we found that trying to hold a sprint with 10 people just didn't work well, whereas having one with 4 of us the next day to work ...

We piled up a number of tickets while we were away (and while I was at the conference). I'm basically over my jet-lag and it's about time to sit down and really pound on the company stuff. We have a birthday party to attend tomorrow evening, but I want to get a full 8 hours ...