Ros-general November 2005

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New Project Coordinator
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

The voting is closed and ReactOS now has a new project coordinator. Steven Edwards has been appointed as Jason Filby's successor. Congratulations, and good luck ;) Speech ! ! ! ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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Registered web users
by Ge van Geldorp 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Just a datapoint: we now have more than 2000 accounts registered on our website. For reference, there were 964 accounts when we switched to the new website end of September, so the number of accounts more than doubled in the last two months. Yes, I know that some people registered more than one account because of problems and yes, probably not all accounts are active, but I still see this as a sign that interest in ReactOS is rising. Gé van Geldorp.

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Re: Freeldr UI modifications
by mf 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

João Jerónimo Barata de Oliveira wrote: > Well, indeed there's a boot loader that works very much like this... > GRUB uses that sector to store some parts of the program... but I don't > know if it stores there the config and I think that would be essencial > (because, in my opinion, a boot loader needs to be independent from > operating systems so, for example, there could be configuration floppy > disks for changing its configuration)... > As Grub is very similar (or parhaps identic) to my description of the > ideal boot loader, I would like you to chose Grub as ReactOS boot loader > (either by modifying it's configuration or by installing it from > scratch, depending on the pré-install configuration)... That is, of > course, also making ReactOS multiboot-compilant if it isn't already (It > doesn't look like that)... Any ReactOS boot loader must be able to read the registry and detect hardware. It's the way NT works, because NTLDR does sort of the same thing as well. Freeldr isn't a generic boot loader, it's the ReactOS boot loader. It's been said time and again, if you like Grub, then set Freeldr timeout to 0 (it won't display any menu and will immediately boot ReactOS), and chainload Freeldr through Grub. I really don't at all see what this idea of yours might have to do with ReactOS. Not only that, but it's very OT to this ML discussion. mf

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Freeldr UI modifications
by mf 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi, I recall having heard several suggestions to make freeldr easier on the eyes (don't underestimate 60Hz VGA resolutions on a CRT) and/or make it look more familiar to ntldr. I have experimented with editing bootsup.c and the result implements both suggestions. The black background makes it less flickery on CRT displays and looks more in line with ntldr (the Windows boot loader). Please see the attached image and tell me your thoughts and observations. Best Regards, mf.

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0x3ED error in ReactOS explorer
by Karim Liman-Tinguiri 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hi, Here's a curious (and very easy to reproduce) error in ReactOS explorer. After downloading qemu preloaded with ReactOS and running it, going to ReactOS explorer shows two hard drive: C and D while qemu has only one mounted (I can see a c.img but no d.img in qemu's folder). Clicking on D produces a "*0x3ed unknown error*" (I have attached a screenshot). I guess this issue has two solutions: - Either, the problem comes from qemu reporting an nonexistant hard drive, in which case, the 0x3ED exception should be intercepted and be displayed instead as: "Unable to access D drive". - Or qemu's indeed not reporting the D drive in which case the bug comes from the ReactOS kernel or ReactOS explorer. I could have implemented the corrections in the sources myself and sent them here already, but I haven't done so since (1) I wasn't sure whether the issue came from qemu reporting nonexistent hard drives to the ReactOS kernel, from the kernel reporting nonexistent hard drives to ReactOS explorer or from the ReactOS explorer reporting an nonexistent hard drive to the user. (2) I didn't know where the error strings are located in the source files (it would be great if somebody pointed me to the string table for ReactOS explorer) and, even after a lookup on Internet, couldn't find the exact string corresponding to the 0x3ED error code. - Warz Cannon.

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Black Screen at Logoff
by Hanspeter Roth 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Hello, most of the time when I choose logoff I get into a blue screen saying I can turn the computer off. But sometimes I get into an empty black screen. What does it mean? Has the filesystem been flushed at this time? -Hanspeter

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BIOS
by jh 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

From dev mailing list archive >From bblaauw at home.nl Thu Nov 17 16:09:23 2005 >From: bblaauw at home.nl (Bernd Blaauw) >Date: Thu Nov 17 16:12:08 2005 >Subject: [ros-dev] 0.3 release plan - Again > >Would "USB working" also mean "boot from USB" ? Not even MS allows this. >Sadly no PC BIOS supports "boot from FireWire", like Apples do. Guess >we'd need LinuxBIOS for that, as current motherboard manufacturers don't >want to pay AMI/Phoenix/Award for including the "boot from firewire" >module. > >Bernd > Would these be of any interest. http://freebios.sourceforge.net/ http://www.openbios.info/ I am not subscribed to the dev mailing list, so does anyone want to pass this on. Regards, jh

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unimplemented things
by Sebastian Gąsiorek 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, What about hiding things that haven't been implemented? There are many places in Control Panel with such items. Showing things like accessibility which is tottaly unimplemented doesnt do anything good. Every normal user goes in each release and check if this is working. In near futere there will be probably many bug reports saying: something from Control Panel doesn't work. Actually things that work aren't visible. They are somewhere between unimplemented stuff. What about showing things that should work already? Sebastian ps. sorry for my poor english :]

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RE: [ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Campbell [mailto:eek2121@comcast.net] > Sent: 16 November 2005 22:28 > To: ReactOS General List > Subject: Re: [ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall > > > I'm sorry but the windows firewall is a joke. It can be > controlled from > the command line, i can even add my own rule without the user > ever knowing. Only if your administrator, which makes sense. What's the point in having a firewall if you can't configure it. In fact, you should be able to configure any firewall from the command line, and any firewall you can't, should be 'considered a joke' ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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RE: [ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall
by Murphy, Ged (Bolton) 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

> If you pick up an exploit via a web browser a firewall isn't going to > help you anyway. I never said that it did. Re-read my original email. > The process needs > only to hook into another process, or install a rootkit, or > in the case > of windows firewall, things can be added > to the firewall 'convincing' it to not say anything. All dependant on the privileges obtained by the exploit and any escalation obtainable. > A > firewall may be > needed for those who don't know what they > are doing, but to say that EVERYONE should run a firewall is > ludicrous. As I said, I've been involved in computer security for many many years and my network is totally locked down. > I've been running firewall free for many > years and i've NEVER gotten exploited. To say an unprotected windows > box can be owned in 10 minutes isn't > true. No it's not, it's a proven fact. > All new copies of windows xp run at least sp2, which isn't > subject to the exploits the original release was. No, but it has a whole host of other vunls. It's not just the operating system though, in fact in most cases it's not the operating system which is attacked, it's the software which runs on it. What good is SP2 then? You should consider writing an article for securityfocus.com on how to protect yourself with no security. It would be the first article on this topic and I'm sure it would be a hit. ************************************************************************ The information contained in this message or any of its attachments is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee. The information may also be legally privileged. The views expressed may not be company policy, but the personal views of the originator. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact postmaster(a)exideuk.co.uk <mailto:postmaster@exideuk.co.uk> and then delete this message. Exide Technologies is an industrial and transportation battery producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries. Further information can be found at www.exide.com

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