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Comment Re:Flash drive install? (Score 1) 620

by Diederik on Thursday April 23, 2009 @10:11PM (#27697195) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Released

there is a way. If you can use a iso, you can probably also get other files on the system. Thus just make a USB flash drive with a bootable Ubuntu live system on another system. Then copy the created directories from the usb to your disk in a working installation and get the information you need for grub from the "syslinux/text.cfg" file that is created. If all goes to plan, your system should boot as if from the USB flash drive: it should find the filesystem.squashfs file and mound it with a loop. Just recreate the directory structure on the usb stick on your existing root directory. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ubuntu-810-install-using-the-built-in-usb-installer/

Google NativeClient Security Contest 175

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 02, 2009 @08:10PM from the insert-favorite-salt-pun-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "You may remember Google's NativeClient project, discussed here last December. Don't be fooled into calling this ActiveX 2.0 — rather than a model of trust and authentication, NaCl is designed to make dangerous code impossible by enforcing a set of a rules at load time that guarantee hostile code simply cannot execute (PDF). NaCl is still in heavy development, but the developers want to encourage low-level security experts to take a look at their design and code. To this end Google has opened the NativeClient Security Contest, and will award prizes topping out at $2^13 to top bug submitters. If you're familiar with low level security, memory segmentation, accurate disassembly of hostile code, code alignment, and related topics, do take a look. Mac, Linux, and Windows are all supported."

Comment Re:Will it run Android? (Score 2, Informative) 247

by Diederik on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @07:21PM (#23942679) Attached to: Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market

No it will not unless Google will recompile most code, because Android requires a ARMv5 cpu and this release is ARMv4. It would have been nice if they designed it with a Android upgrade in mind and designed the Freerunner with a ARMv5 chip.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware
http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/21/android-neo1973

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