Re: [Freedombox-discuss] objectives

2011-06-09 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
For what it's worth, one target of the initial reference implementation will be the Dream Plug from Globalscale Technologies, for the simple reason that the foundation has ordered a number of these to use for development and to meet the commitments made to our Kickstarter donor group.

[Freedombox-discuss] Firewall + NAT article on freedomboxblog.nl

2011-06-09 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi, I have upgraded my FreedomBox with Shorewall and wrote an article about this on my blog. Link: http://freedomboxblog.nl/adding-a-firewall-and-nat-to-my-freedombox/ Rob van der Hoeven. http://freedomboxblog.nl/ ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] objectives

2011-06-09 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/08/2011 02:30 PM, Les Orchard wrote: easier if we already have something to address the first goal. There are other projects already working on anonymized, encrypted, mesh-based networking - and I suspect something like a freedombox could

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] objectives

2011-06-09 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/09/2011 01:40 AM, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: These are the ones which I think are easiest to implement _and_ have Debian packages right now: ... It might also be worth investigating Friendika (http://project.friendika.com/) as an option for

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] objectives

2011-06-09 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/09/2011 06:34 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I'd suggest ikiwiki instead of wordpress, because it generates static files, and is generally more lightweight. PivotX (http://pivotx.net/) also supports flat files for everything. I used that

[Freedombox-discuss] Ikiwiki (Was: objectives)

2011-06-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-06-09 at 11:09am, The Doctor wrote: On 06/09/2011 06:34 AM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: I'd suggest ikiwiki instead of wordpress, because it generates static files, and is generally more lightweight. PivotX (http://pivotx.net/) also supports flat files for everything. I used that

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Ikiwiki (Was: objectives)

2011-06-09 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/09/2011 11:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Seems to me that PivotX uses flat files as _backend_ but generates on-the-fly: It can use flat files on the back end, and yes, it generates pages dynamically using PHP. Both above quotes are from

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] objectives

2011-06-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:09:24 -0400, The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote: PivotX (http://pivotx.net/) also supports flat files for everything. I used that functionality of it for about two years, and found it very reliable (plus migrating to MySQL was largely painless). Thanks for the pointer

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Minimal spec for NAS?

2011-06-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
To continue my previous mail about Freedombox-NAS, and to keep everyone in the loop of what I'm doing, here's what I've settled on doing for the _first_ iteration: * I'll use vmdebootstrap to generate an i386 image * the image can be written on a smallish USB stick and a PC can be booted off

[Freedombox-discuss] Social Sync (was: Re: Is / Is Not)

2011-06-09 Thread Josef Spillner
Hello, :: Jonas Smedegaard Donnerstag 09 Juni 2011 I believe such scenarios are best solved using semweb technologies - i.e. FOAF, WebID and RDF. [...] No shiny user-ready applications on that front yet, however. Indeed, however several people are already aware of this issue and work on such

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Social Sync (was: Re: Is / Is Not)

2011-06-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-06-09 at 07:23pm, Josef Spillner wrote: Hello, :: Jonas Smedegaard Donnerstag 09 Juni 2011 I believe such scenarios are best solved using semweb technologies - i.e. FOAF, WebID and RDF. [...] No shiny user-ready applications on that front yet, however. Indeed, however several

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Minimal spec for NAS?

2011-06-09 Thread Tony Godshall
Hmmm... maybe you should build something called FreeNASbox and then FreedomBox can be built ontop of it. But calling it FreedomBox without the key privacy-protecting freedom-protecting features is false advertising. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: To continue

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] objectives

2011-06-09 Thread J David Eisenberg
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:08 AM, The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/09/2011 01:40 AM, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: These are the ones which I think are easiest to implement _and_ have Debian packages right now: ... It might also be worth

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] objectives

2011-06-09 Thread John Gilmore
We want to provide a way for people to share with others narrowly or broadly a set of thoughts and media objects hosted on infrastructure they own themselves and thus have ultimate control over, as an attractive alternative to such sharing via popular existing services that provide

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Objectives and Introduction

2011-06-09 Thread Isaac Wilder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, My name is Isaac Wilder, and I've been lurking on the list for some time now. Looking at this thread, I thought it might finally be time to introduce myself, and to tell you what I've been working on, with some others, over the past

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Social Sync (was: Re: Is / Is Not)

2011-06-09 Thread Philippe Clérié
On Thursday 09 June 2011 18:43:11 Josef Spillner wrote: Hello, :: Jonas Smedegaard Donnerstag 09 Juni 2011 Isn't Akonadi a KDE framework. I don't follow - do you suggest to run KDE on the FreedomBox?!? Akonadi is just an example which I'm slightly familiar with so I put it there

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Objectives and Introduction

2011-06-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:57:41 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: That said, I believe Bdale is aiming more broadly for now: Try read his mail with a fresh mind - without assumptions on specific designs like Debian Pure Blends or anything else. Actually, Jonas, I think the basic

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Crypto questions

2011-06-09 Thread Sandy Harris
Sandy Harris sandyinch...@gmail.com wrote: Almost all crypto needs random numbers, and much otherwise sound crypto is easily broken if it is used with a weak random source. ... Where the plug has a sound card equivalent, and it isn't used for sound, there is a good solution using circuit