MacroSystem DVC1000

Daniel Meyer eagle at cyberdelia.de
Mon Aug 17 08:01:24 CEST 2009


Daniel Meyer wrote:
> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Meyer wrote:
>>> It's using grub and vmlinuz-2.6.28.5,
>> Could you determine the kernel configuration, or which modules are
>> shipped?
> 
> There is a config-file which can be found on /dev/sda3 (thats the /boot
> partition of the system). I've put it on my webspace:
> 
> http://www.scriptkiddies.de/stuff/config-2.6.28.5
> 
>>> and there are two ext3 filesystems in the firmware. One of them seems
>>> to contain a Debian/Lenny system.
>> Please determine which programs/packages are in there.
> 
> Here is the output of "dpkg --get-selections":
> 
> http://www.scriptkiddies.de/stuff/packagelist.txt
> 
> Someone (not me) has published the update/recovery DVD:
> http://www.macrosystem-download.eu.tf/
> 
> One can download it, unpack the partimange-files and mount the partition
> to verify my findings.
> 
>> I'd guess the manual is identical to the PDF, which says:
>> | GLIBC und andere Zusatzprogramme fallen unter die 
>> | Lizenzbedingungen der Free Software Foundation. Detailinformationen
>> | hierzu finden sich auf der MacroSystem Web-Seite.
> 
>> Well ... nice try.
> Especially the term "andere Zusatzprogramme" (for the
> non-german-speaking-people: The statement roughly translates to "GLIBC
> and other additional programs are subject to license agreements of the
> free software foundation. Detailed information can be found on the
> MacroSystem website").
> 
>>> On their website they have a copyright-page wich is rather outdated
>>> (last modification in 2002):
>>> http://www.macrosystem.de/d/imprint_copyright.html
>> According to the HTTP headers, that page was last modified on Tuesday
>> (2009-08-04).
> Ah, I just looked at the last modified on statement at the bottom of the
> page.
> 
> Danny

Just FYI: No reply yet from MacroSystem. Looks like they are either very
busy or trying to sit it out...

Danny
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