Posted by planetbeing on under iphe, realiti, comex, obama, oses, worst case, sdk, voodoo, kernel, presidency, sectors, samsung, linux, map | 
So the big news yesterday (other than Obama winning the presidency!) is that we have enough of a low-level NAND driver now that we're able to read from NAND! It was epic win. There turns out to be not as much hardware voodoo as, say, Merlot, so that's pretty good news. It seems to work (albeit slowly) and I even wrote the ECC routines today (and those seem to work as well).
Unfortunately, in the course of this, we discovered several unfortunate things. First, I can't seem to find anything that might write to NAND. It's probably not much more complicated and probably reuses a lot of the stuff we've been doing, but it means that we might have to look in the kernel for that code, which sort of bites (a lot of the kernel is in C++ and not as friendly to reverse).
The second thing is the realization that all of Samsung's proprietary FTL code is in this thing. Without being able to understand it, we can't actually map sectors to data and we can't make sense of the NAND data or write new data to it in a useful way. Unfortunately, this code is liable to be ridiculously complex, since it's basically their SDK they ship to everyone. Without it, we can still proceed, but the iPhone can't read Linux's data and Linux can't read iPhone's data. In the worst case, we can't even have both OSes on the NAND at once.
Still, being able to dump NAND through USB is a substantial accomplishment, and we're well on our way.
Tagi: iphe, realiti, comex, obama, oses, worst case, sdk, voodoo, kernel, presidency, sectors, samsung, linux, map
Posted by on under ali larijani, bbc news, parliament speaker, tv iran, yearender, foxnews, ashura, cnn, los angeles times, ahmadinejad, obama, xinhua, protestors, tehran, protests, presidency, parliament, bbc, news articles, telegraph |
Tagi: ali larijani, bbc news, parliament speaker, tv iran, yearender, foxnews, ashura, cnn, los angeles times, ahmadinejad, obama, xinhua, protestors, tehran, protests, presidency, parliament, bbc, news articles, telegraph
Posted by on under 21st century world, obama, soer, cheerleaders, foreign policy, presidency, credibility, doom, failure, health |
President Obama had no sooner secured his healthcare programme than implications were drawn for his foreign policy. The self-same doom-watchers who had predicted the failure of his young presidency as it stumbled on health, were transformed overnight into cheerleaders, projecting this legislative milestone on to his credibility abroad.
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Posted by on under authoritative sources, document sharing, facebook, youtube, slashdot, google, feedburner, ip addresses, presidency, real time, turkey |
oxide7 and a number of other readers sent word (from mostly non-authoritative sources as yet) that Turkey had imposed an indefinite ban on some Google properties. "Turkey's Telecommunications Presidency said it has banned access to many of Google IP addresses without assigning clear reasons. The statement did not confirm if the ban is temporary or permanent. Google's translation and document sharing sites have also been banned indefinitely along with YouTube and Facebook in the country. Other services such as AppEngine, FeedBurner, Analytics, etc., have also been reportedly banned." Some real-time commentary (much of it in Turkish) can be found at Twitter hashtag #TurkeyCensoringGoogle. We have noted in past years the censorious ways of Turkish courts.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Posted by on under alternative reality, crises, presidency, presidents |
How Presidents consider the alternative reality in order to keep bad things from getting worse
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