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Agreed. That's basically what I wanted to see. Something to fully kill-switch the baseband processor since it could potentially report an IMEI independent of Linux oversight and, if feasible, some sort of option to make toggling the microphone contingent on root authentication to mitigate...

The GPS and cellular are part of the same chip so I seriously doubt there's any feasible way to effectively kill-switch them separately. My main concern is that, if I go for the option to include a baseband processor for GPS support, I don't want to be opening additional avenues of attack when...

Hmm. Obviously, anything that could be used to explicitly switch the battery line would waste power when it's running, so the question is whether I trust that the module is designed so that it's impossible, whether through incompetence or malice, for it to ignore the GPIO disable line and allow...

Well, having it as a USB device with a TTY interface definitely makes it a difficult target for exploits. (Well-tested transport-level driver (uhci/ohci/ehci), simple and well-understood higher-level API (tty+AT), no DMA, bus slave, etc.) Am I correct in understanding that the USB 5V line is the...

What are the current plans for hooking up the optional baseband processor? I'd really like to have GPS as an option in my Pyra and the ability to borrow someone's SIM card and get mobile data on occasion would also be nice (I'm Canadian. You have to mortgage your firstborn child for mobile data...

Here's a more solid reference for why I think having 3G support (or anything else that necessitates a cellphone baseband processor) would be an automatic deal-breaker: The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone TL;DR: Baseband processors are full CPUs (typically ARMv5) and run...

Given that this message is flat-out wrong for people not using bash (eg. zsh is my login and terminal emulator shell and bash exists on my system only to execute shell scripts), it'd probably be a good idea to do some kind of quick check that $SHELL ends with /bash and, if not, respond...

Have you tried Gambas3? BASIC isn't my language of choice, but I'd be curious to see how the two compare. (Gambas is an open-source, object-oriented BASIC runtime with SDL and OpenGL bindings that's got a PND available.)

That sounds sensible. Unfortunately, I forgot to mention it but, on the weekend, I tried again and found that the newest firmware update must have fixed whatever was wrong, so I now no longer have a way of reproducing the problem for testing.

I did a little experimentation with visual re-balancing on the Xfce and Slim themes but I ran out of time before I figured out how to keep Xfce from shrinking its splash slightly. Here's what I ended up with in case anyone wants to play around with them. openpandora2.tar.gz

It's still on my NAND. (Autobooting my OS off the left-hand SD makes backups and reinstalls easier and gives me the option of recovering from worn-out flash memory) It's SuperZaxxon Beta 1.1. I don't remember specifically what I used to do to get it to request an IP without dropping to...

In other words, it's a regression. I know that, with the SuperZaxxon beta that came with my unit, I didn't have to switch from the touchpad to the keyboard to get the link up. Thanks.

OK, I finally found time to get my Pandora reinstalled (and my folding Bluetooth Keyboard works with the March 28th firmware release. Yay!) and setting the host-side MAC address does seem to be working. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to set the device-side MAC address yet because, even with...

On my desktop PC, "Eject" means "Unmount, remove the filesystem from /dev, and, if the hardware supports it, physically eject the disk". Hence why PCManFM (the LXDE file manager) has both "Unmount" and "Eject". If you want to reformat or repartition an SD card on a system that auto-mounts...

Which video and how was it recorded?

Quote++ Something like: Your pandora is currently set up to open <mimetype> with <pnd1name>, but has recently found some other application(s) that can handle <mimetype>. Please choose which application you would like to open <mimetype> files with by default. If this application later becomes...

Not a stupid question. I can imagine three types of things that could happen: The records could get merged somehow. Whichever gets processed later could override whichever gets processed first. The mime database updater could fail to gracefully deal with receiving two definitions and bug out.

I'm not sure, but I think these two forms of pseudo-mimetypes might be treated specially. Association editors which generate them don't need root privileges and every attempt I've made to grep for some kind of mimetype database overlay in my homedir which contains definitions for them has...

Thanks. I've removed the warning.