Sorry the downtime lasted way longer than anticipated.
But now we should be able to run the servers in an even better environment.
We apologize again for the inconvenience!
Stay tuned for FroYo Alpha1 real soon now!
PS: Some notes from our server migration:
BEWARE of cgroups-bin on debian! It breaks lxc! Mount cgroups manually or through fstab! (The error message in this context was ‘lxc-start: No such file or directory – failed to rename cgroup /mnt/cgroups/cpu/20945->/mnt/cgroups/cpu/openaos’ – once we purged cgroups-bin it worked instantly)
For certain reasons the location where our servers are will be inaccessible for some time. We have arranged for a temporary housing location but the servers need to move physically and the network routing has to be switched to the new location.
We expect a downtime of 1-3h duration on Friday (2010-09-03) if everything goes according to plan. Will begin not later than 11:00 UTC.
If it doesn’t it may very well take until Monday, but let’s hope for the best..
This post will be updated with an more acurate time estimate if we receive further information.
None of the openpma.org or openaos.org services will be available during the time. Sorry, we don’t have the resources to arrange for uninterrupted service.
We apologize for the inconvenience!
update: We have feedback from the NOC. It looks good. Most likely moving physically will take longer than switching the routing. update2: Duration and beginning updated. For status updates (not only during the downtime ) please check our twitter feed
update: *fanfare* … and the grand prize for solving our little crypto-mystery goes to Neuromancien! Congratulations!
PS: This AES key let’s you unpack AOS update files. It however does not allow you to sign update files, for that there is an (already known) RSA key for which the private key is a well kept secret. But that is an solved problem, you just ignore it. How? Find out soon, same place, same station.
Where/when will this madness end? — right here, right now… ;p
This was my finalproof of concept attempt at a windows OS on the Archos 5.
I successfully managed to boot Windows 95 using dosbox, and an image file of win95.
Dosbox is a really hefty program on the A5imt (taking up over 70% cpu usage and over 40% ram), so this was a crawling process. Im sure it would work better with other emulators, but none have yet to be successfully compiled for the A5IMT. With that said, and keeping in spirit of the original hardware this was meant to run on — the load time is like watching paint dry.
Video: (8 minute long vid, so grab some coffee)
Process:
–Make directories “/dos/95″ on root of unit (mnt_data || rootfs_source)
–Copy image of win95 (in this case W95.IMG) to /dos/95
–Start up dosbox
Run the following commands in dosbox:
ver set 8.0 (must trick win95 into thinking ms-dos version is >=7.x.x)
mount c /rootfs_source/dos (setting up env.)
c:
imgmount e c:\95\W95.IMG -t hdd -fs fat (mounting boot image to fs – setting up parameters)
boot -l c (booting image off c:)
Then wait….
It will perform scandisk upon booting, let this run.
wait some more….
Ahh… Success!
Touchscreen is nerfed, and the start menu doesn’t show, so good luck with that. I haven’t tested out a mouse with it (nor will I) – only a keyboard, and that seems to have basic functionality (asides from the cursor keys not doing what they’re suppose to do), albeit extremely slow.
Have fun, and remember, this is for educational purposes only!! >=]
As a follow-up post to the Demo build of Enlightenment 17, I have made a new keyboard layout specifically designed for the Archos 5/7’s screen resolution. I have also addressed a few troubling issues in regards to the illume kbd itself.
List of improvements:
The dimensions are now 800×220 so there is more viewing area above the keyboard.
Decreased the size of the keys a touch (not a problem since the interpretive skills of illumes kbd are amazing), and increased the font size on the keys themselves
Moved the placement/size of the “popup” keys (when a key is initially pressed –the popup display that grows from the current key pressed) to compensate for the new container size.
Moved some bottom row buttons around to center the space-bar for easier use with both thumbs.
Removed the “Terminal” kbd layout, since it is no longer compatible with the new 800×220 container.
Added a keyboard icon to the top shelf (replacing the “qwerty” text).
Some Screenshots:
custom e17 kbd container (800×220)
e17 topshelf keyboard icon
Since I had to recode the illume bits to make changes to the top shelf and the letter sizing/placement, it is necessary to download the new beta version, as opposed to just releasing a .kbd file. Props go out to raster from #e for some advice on edje
**note: I’ll be updating the parent post with the new beta2 build as well.
Note::
[If you wish to run this along side your current build, rename image to "illume.img" and make the appropriate entry in "menu.lst"Otherwise just overwrite your "rootfs.img" and your good to go.]
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