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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Alive?

« on: September 29, 2016, 12:02:31 pm »

I am not so sure it is okay to close the trouble ticket at ibiblio.  I have tried, without success, to add my two cents to that trouble ticket.  As offroadgeek mentioned in his 2010 post about oesf coming back online back then, zaurususergroup.org and elsix.org are part of the package.  I have not checked ZUG, but can say for sure that we are still denied access to elsix.org, and that is an essential part of oesf...how else do we find out about software, all in one place?

The ticket on ibiblio was opened only for a single reason: to ask them to get a new account access, or at least to get a copy of the forum's database. It was a last-ditch effort in order to try to put this forum back online, since no one has managed to get in touch with offroadgeek. Now that the forum is back online, I believe that offroad might be available to discuss about the future of the remaining OESF services, and/or about the administration of OESF. I hope that he'll post some info here sooner or later about all this.

Regarding elsix, dz was in charge to maintain it, see: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25991
IMHO, before we start talking about putting it back online, we'd have to first find someone willing to fix both the PHP code and the data (links etc.). This person should first get in touch with dz, then eventually talk with ibiblio _if_ there's any issue from their side.

About zaurususergroup.org, I'm not sure if it would be useful to keep it, given that there are now so few of us. I don't know what was offroad thinking to do with it, I guess that oesf.org was meant to replace zaurususergroup.org, but the domain name is still being kept...

And the wiki issue still needs to be worked on, although that is an independent topic, and I will add to the subforum here about that.  It is just as essential as elsix.org, but we need someone who is willing to restore it - if not as an active wiki, at least as a static image of it's last state, because where else can we find how-to's about embedded linux?  Those pages are classic...

I agree about the wiki, it should be kept, but again this seems to be a software issue: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=34382

Varthall

1157

OpenBSD / Openbsd For Zaurus Discontinued

« on: September 29, 2016, 09:49:04 am »

It has been announced that the support for Zaurus has been discontinued, for the reason that "it hasn't made the EABI jump and will be permanently broken shortly when we use the hardware thread register in userland".

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&...=20160904101952

So, the last version of OpenBSD for Zaurus will be the recently released 6.0: https://www.openbsd.org/60.html

I wonder how much effort it would have taken to do the switch from OABI to EABI...

Varthall

1158

General Discussion / The Verge's Review Of The Zaurus Mi-c1

« on: September 29, 2016, 09:35:16 am »

The Verge has published, in the Tokyo Thrift column, a review of the Zaurus MI-C1. Tokyo Thrift, as described in the page, "is a column on The Verge where Sam Byford, news editor for Asia, trawls the second-hand market to explore the history, design, and culture of Japanese gadgets. It runs on the last Sunday of each month." It's a nice reading and a nice trip down memory lane:

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/201...aurus-pda-mi-c1

Thanks to Tomoe for the link!

Varthall

1159

Zaurus - Arch Linux ARM support / Welcome To Arch Linux Arm On Zaurus Forum

« on: September 29, 2016, 05:47:48 am »

Seems you are on a posting spree today  

Varthall

1160

General Discussion / Oesf Is Back & Alive Once Again!

« on: September 29, 2016, 05:29:48 am »

I must admit I have never used ELSI... Did any of you (except sdjf of course) use it, and would like to see it back?

Varthall

1161

Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / [solved] Forum Infected With Malware

« on: September 29, 2016, 05:11:14 am »

Hi,

the main page redirection malware has been thankfully removed, but there are still at least two present, you can see them by searching oesf.org with Google:

- one adds the following text to each found page on Google, and it seems there's a link hidden there redirecting to a phishing site: "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3" and "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is my most anticipated title of the year. Developer Treyarch and publisher Activision recently let players across the globe beta test some..."

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww....-8&oe=utf-8


- it seems that www.oesf.org/images/diag contains lots of harmful php scripts (e.g. sitemap51.php, sitemap92.php, art-924073.php...), with text in cyrillic (in russian?):

https://www.google.it/search?q=%22Call+of+D...te:www.oesf.org


Varti

1162

Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / [solved] Forum Infected With Malware

« on: September 29, 2016, 04:57:00 am »

I wonder if the malware had anything to do with triggering the last 6 months or so of outage?

No idea. The malware was anyway here since at least a couple of years, I believe it might have been some server update on the host which might have required to fix the configuration files of the forum. I'm anyway glad that the malware has been removed, there's no redirection anymore when opening www.oesf.org, just a blank page is opened. IMHO it would be better that it would link to the main OESF page, or redirect to www.oesf.org/forum.

Looking at his profile, it looks like InSearchOf has not been here (at this point) since July 2015.  Several moderators have privatized the dates of their last visits, so it is hard to say if there are any active moderators at all!

I guess that the moderators' list requires a cleanup and new moderators should be found, among the users who are more active lately here.

Varti

1163

General Discussion / Do People Still Use Pda's?

« on: September 29, 2016, 04:39:26 am »

In case some of you thought OESF had disappeared, well, as you can see, it's back again!

Come by and visit!

Mark

 

Varthall

1164

C1000/3x00 Hardware / Alive?

« on: September 29, 2016, 04:37:55 am »

Hi,

A quick post to let you know that after being down for several months, OESF is back again!!

Mark

Thanks sdjf and ArchiMark for the heads up on archlinuxarm.org! (Note: me and a couple of other users had an ongoing discussion about oesf in a private thread on archlinuxarm.org)... I have checked and I have received no message from anyone about the forum being again online: neither from offroadgeek, dangerz (Roy) nor for the ticket on ibiblio.org. I believe it was offroad though, he's apparently the only admin to have the account's password on ibiblio, and I don't think that the ibiblio guys would fix themselves the forum, they only provide help regarding any hosting issue. If so, and you are reading these lines, thank you offroad! Well, it's such a relief that everything is back online now! I'll now ask to close the ticket on ibiblio, and notify dangerz.

Tonight I'll try to make a complete mirror of the forum with httrack, including all the attachments, so that we have a backup, just in case. So far we only have speculatrix' mirror from 2007, which doesn't include attachments, and it is also only available via archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20071023031052/...flinerecent.rar

BTW: check the forum's main page in the next days, offroad might post an update there: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?act=home You can access to it by clicking on the "OESF Portal" link at the top left corner.

Varthall

1165

General Discussion / Foxconn Buys Sharp For $3.5 Billion

« on: April 04, 2016, 10:15:48 am »

"Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, will pay about $3.5 billion for a two-thirds stake, cutting its initial offer by nearly $900 million following the emergence of previously undisclosed liabilities at Sharp."

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/foxconn-overh...2--finance.html

"Gou pointed to Sharp's proprietary know-how to mass-produce the advanced IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) display technology as a standout, calling it superior to the popular OLED (organic light-emitting diode) technology. IGZO technology is used in products such as Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPad."

I hope that Sharp, after the last years' losses, will manage to become profitable again...

Varthall

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / [solved] Forum Infected With Malware

« on: March 21, 2016, 09:17:42 am »

I have now sent a PM to InSearchOf, he seems to still come here from time to time. I wonder if he's the only remaining admin here or if there are others who are still active...

Varti

1167

Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / [solved] Forum Infected With Malware

« on: February 24, 2016, 11:33:31 am »

Hi,

this is a long standing issue here, but so far no-one has ever fixed it.  

Every time I try to access the forum, the first time it always redirects to a malicious website (url123.info). When I reload the page, it correctly redirects me to the forum.

This seems to be the issue (thanks Tomoe for the hint):

https://revisium.com/en/kbe/infected_ipb_and_vbulletin.html

I hope that the DB (with the usernames/passwords) hasn't been compromised too

Varti

1168

GPD Win - hardware / New Gpd Clamshell W/ Keyboard In The Works

« on: February 04, 2016, 07:59:24 am »

3D print size comparisons show the device size in similarity to GPD XD. Sounds a neat device!

Good find! So:

SL-C xx00: 124 x 87 x 25mm
GDP Win:   155 x 94 x 24mm

The GDP handheld will be then quite wider (+31 mm) and a bit deeper (+ 7 mm) than the SL-C. I would have preferred it to be smaller, but at least it should still fit into a (larger) pocket.

Varthall

1169

GPD Win - hardware / New Gpd Clamshell W/ Keyboard In The Works

« on: February 04, 2016, 05:52:42 am »

For those of you still searching for a Z replacement: a new clamshell console with a built-in keyboard has been announced:

http://liliputing.com/2016/01/gpd-plans-to...-trail-cpu.html

GDP has in the past already released some clamshell consoles (albeit without a keyboard), like the GPD XD, with some very positive reviews (like this: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/11/h...digital_gpd_xd), so this looks like an interesting project. The measurements haven't been released yet, but since it has a 5.5" display I guess it will be more or less big as an SL-C. It will ship with Windows 10 and eventually Android unfortunately; Linux support might be problematic as explained here:

http://boards.dingoonity.org/gpd-devices/p...7781/#msg137781

I hope that the designers will eventually shed some light on this. The designers are open to any comment and request on the Dingoonity forum thread posted above.
Thanks to Tomoe on #zaurus for the URL!

Varthall

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Announcing Zgrom 0.1

« on: January 19, 2016, 08:47:20 pm »

I have met Ant on #kexecboot, and he told me about the current situation of kexecboot (see also my post here: https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?s=&...t&p=282292). He told me that, unfortunately, the 3.2 prebuilt images are lost.
This image had anyway problems on some models (poodle and especially collie).

The reason why the 2.6.xx images (and the later ones, including the 3.2 one) fail to boot zgrom is because they use the old boot.img syntax, so a newer image is required. My guess is that, when zgrom was released, a kexecboot based on a kernel newer than 3.2 was available, and that might have been required for zgrom.

Arch Linux' kexecboot is based on 3.5, so zgrom should work with it.

Varthall