[Freedombox-discuss] Self-Building VirtualBox Images

2013-06-12 Thread Nick M . Daly
I'm on the road right now, so I can't push a new image, but if you clone the latest FM repo from me [0], you'll be able to build a VirtualBox image that can build itself. Instructions for extracting the build image from the VM are on the wiki [1]. You'll need the virtualbox-fuse package. Nick 0

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] updated FreedomBox presentation slides

2013-06-09 Thread Nick M. Daly
Quiliro Ordóñez writes: > Looking for updated slides for FreedomBox presentation. Anyone have a link? Which presentation? There have been a couple different ones. -- If you need to get in touch with me, try any of these methods: https://www.betweennowhere.net/nick-daly.asc.txt pgpU4JfdhwP2p

[Freedombox-discuss] We have VRMS, but no VEM?

2013-06-09 Thread Nick M . Daly
This may be because I've been working since 1 AM, but I notice that, while we have a Virtual Richard Stallman (vrms), who advises you to avoid proprietary software, we don't have a Virtual Eben Moglen (vem), who, I imagine, would be slightly more optimistic overall. If any system needs a virtual E

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Anyone know this one?

2013-06-06 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jack Wilborn writes: > Hi, I've been running 'makes' for a while but the last couple of days this > error has shown up. I look back at my other Makefiles and they look > identical. Could I be invoking it incorrectly with "make DESTINATION=usb > weekly-image" the problem follows... Thanks > > M

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] [EPFSUG] Freedombox at Linuxtag

2013-06-06 Thread Nick M. Daly
Markus Sabadello writes: > erik.josefsson%europarl.europa...@epfsug.eu> wrote: >> Jonas is talking about a "nice little home server putting you in charge >> of your own data" at Linuxtag in Berlin today: > > Great, we're also doing a little FreedomBox workshop in Graz today: > https://cryptopart

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Allowing FM Images to Build themselves?

2013-05-30 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, two things: 1. I'll be in Seattle and available to do stuff the night of 6/7 and during the day on 6/8. If you're around the area, we should meet up. Fortune permitting, I'll be at the GSLUG meeting on 6/8 and happy to talk about FBX stuff. 2. How do we make VM images self-bu

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Exceeding mount, not able to log in...

2013-05-20 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jack Wilborn writes: > Hello all... > > I have been getting a 'normal' build, but it seems that when it loads > Linux, it complains about exceeding the available mounts... > >> EXT3-fs (sda2): warning: maximal mount count reached, running >> e2fsck is recommended > > Hoping someone sees something

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is there a current 'good' build somewhere?

2013-05-20 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jack Wilborn writes: > Anyway the last version that I can find is only 3XX MB in size, so it > really can't be a usable image, right? > > Is there one? There are two sitting on my laptop (0505, 0519) that I haven't published due to issues with my own DreamPlug (can't log in via SSH, haven't had t

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Force a complete rebuild?

2013-05-15 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jack Wilborn writes: > Does anyone know how to force a re-build of the Dreamplug's Debian system? > I've tried as I believe I have a fault in the password mechanism and would > like to rebuild the thing from the beginning. > > I would think if you modify the Makefile (as I touched it) would do tha

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Script needs access to my secret key phrase

2013-05-11 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jack Wilborn writes: > I have a problem with my building of the Dreamplug (DP) image. When it > runs, it creates a signature file so others can identify that it was > build by me and it an autorized build. When I run the script, it takes > a little while, but I come back and it's waiting on me

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] x86 Boxes and Debian Pure Blends

2013-05-06 Thread Nick M. Daly
Quiliro Ordóñez writes: > El 01/05/13 15:49, Sean Alexandre escribió: >> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:44:16PM -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: >>> Check thread "Freedombox software on i32" of December 2011 and April >>> 2013 on this mailing list. >> >> TL;DR Clone Nick's repo. Run a script to install t

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Unforgivable Hacks for AGPL Compliance

2013-04-29 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi Bradley, thanks for the reply. Bradley M. Kuhn writes: > Thanks for making efforts to automate AGPLv3 compliance. While I > don't think it can be fully automated (verifying CCS is almost surely > an undecidable problem in the computational complexity sense), I > believe that it is possible to

[Freedombox-discuss] Unforgivable Hacks for AGPL Compliance

2013-04-23 Thread Nick M . Daly
Thought you folks might like this one. I'm so sorry, Bdale :) AGPL3 compliance isn't simple, but we can make it better by making compliance easier. The trick seems to involve making it trivial to publish your changes: if it's any work at all, people won't do it. Therefore, publishing your change

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] what is a useful MOTD?

2013-04-17 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick Hardiman writes: > I want to execute a script so IF details are displayed. Where do you > want a call placed? Bashrc? Init.d/99hello? I completely misread this sentence the first time. I think calling out to it from .bashrc is a good plan. As details change over time, users have a chance o

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox software on i32

2013-04-15 Thread Nick M. Daly
Quiliro Ordóñez writes: > >> Bdale wrote: >> >>> I can't speak to the other two, but it would be fairly easy to add ia32 >>> support to freedom-maker. Doing that has been on my to-do list for a >>> while, but I'm not sure when I'll get to it. Patches always welcome! > > Is there i32 support now?.

[Freedombox-discuss] Explaining Different Types of Trust?

2013-04-15 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, Apologies for abusing the word "trust" some more, but I don't know what other word to use. Feedback would be lovely. Sorry for the cross-post. So, one of the goals folks worked out during FOSDEM was that each FreedomBox package should be able to explain to the user in a straightforwar

[Freedombox-discuss] New Wiki Page: FBX-Ready

2013-04-11 Thread Nick M . Daly
Please comment and edit "what the system expects of well behaved packages to allow integration into the system": wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Ready Nick pgpAYrAFbz8oL.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-disc

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2013.0405 Available

2013-04-11 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick Hardiman writes: > Looks a bit broken. There are three suspiciously small files. Let me know when you've mirrored them and I'll try to boot it off my DP. As I mentioned on IRC, never code while tired: I munged the repository into a weird state (pulling vmdebootstrap into the root instead

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2013.0405 Available

2013-04-08 Thread Nick M . Daly
FreedomBox Weekly Image Report == Hi folks, welcome to the 20th weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. These images are a way to test the current (incomplete) FreedomBox build. Table of Contents = 1 Int

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] startup 'Nebula' releases personal cloud device

2013-04-03 Thread Nick M. Daly
Melvin Carvalho writes: > On 2 April 2013 20:59, Nick Daly wrote: >> could each FreedomBox offer a small part (10%?) of its unused >> resources for other systems? It'd essentially make them a sort of a >> SETI@home distributed computing mesh, but for user freedom. >> >> Does anybody know of any p

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Version 1.0 TODO List Posted

2013-04-03 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, I just wanted to let you know that the 1.0 todo list has been posted to the wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/1.0Todos After FOSDEM, a few folks met up in NYC for two days to hammer out this list and identify the tasks blocking a 1.0 release. The list seems pretty complete,

[Freedombox-discuss] 1.0 TODOs Posted.

2013-04-02 Thread Nick M . Daly
I'll post more details later, but the 1.0 TODOs are posted. http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/1.0Todos Sorry, spent all my time tonight trying to build the image and another little something I'll post about tomorrow as well. Nick pgprpvqRi2chY.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] what is a useful MOTD?

2013-04-02 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick, I'm sorry I haven't replied to this sooner, I had certainly meant to. I like it. The only thing I'd add is maybe an expanded set of instructions (the actual end-user documentation, when we get some written up?). To read more about the system, type: less README To complete

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Natural market for Freedom Box, responsive interfaces

2013-03-24 Thread Nick M. Daly
Chris Hall writes: > Your right in noticing that these types of projects rarely mention > UI/UX in real detail -- it is hard, boring sometimes counterintuitive, > nitpicking work. Have you seen the UI ideas? http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/UserInterface#Ideas Full disclosure: I made the "

[Freedombox-discuss] su or sudo?

2013-03-23 Thread Nick M . Daly
So, Freedom-Maker and its dependent projects disagree on whether su or sudo should be used in the built system. Any opinion? I don't care one way or another, but su's easier to configure. Nick pgpalfpJmI7YF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Freedomb

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2013.0319 Available

2013-03-19 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick Hardiman writes: > Ooh, USB. New target. > > freedombox-unstable_2013.0318_dreamplug-armel-usb.tar.bz2 No problem, but it's a boring old target. I just had folks asking for a pre-built USB image, recently. Hopefully I'll get back into the habit of putting these things out weekly. Nick p

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2013.0319 Available

2013-03-19 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the 19th weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. These images are a way to test the current (incomplete) FreedomBox build. Table of Contents = 1 Introduction 2 What Does it Do? 3 How do I try it out? 4 Verification 5 Changes 6 Outstanding TODOs 1

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] /etc/init.d/first-run

2013-03-07 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick Hardiman writes: > The script didn't wget the WIFI firmware. I had no network cables > plugged in the first time [1] and second time I had no MAC addresses > [2]. Presumably it ran flash-kernel [3] and it definitely deleted > itself. The wifi stuff should be moved into a Plinth module (tha

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Issue getting Images

2013-03-04 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nicholas Hardiman writes: > I added a new server along the lines of yours > > https://download.internetmachines.co.uk/tracker/freedombox-images/ > > File copy from > https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-images/ is not yet > automated. > > :) You, my socks, rocked. When the upstrea

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Issue getting Images

2013-03-03 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick writes: > On 01.03.2013 13:19, Nick M. Daly wrote: >> http://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-images/ > > I copied these to my server which should add to the bittorrent swarm. > It is being uploaded, so I guess I've done it right. Nick, can you offer some a

[Freedombox-discuss] Handling Projects Across Multiple Hosting Services

2013-03-02 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, what're your thoughts on managing issues and wikis across repositories, between source hosting services? For example, to encourage commits and to be system independent, FreedomBuddy is hosted on both Github [0] and Gitorious [1]. These two systems don't share wikis, much less issue trac

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Issue getting Images

2013-03-01 Thread Nick M. Daly
freedom writes: > I have been following this project since it started. In that time I have > been able to actually download two of the posted images. The very first > image was one and a while back I got another. I cant get the current > image at all. I got part of the one from jan. I have got ssl

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedom-maker build questions

2013-02-26 Thread Nick M. Daly
Dennis Worthem writes: > Sorry if I was not clear. I should have stated that this was my > mistake. In the README I read the part about setting uBoot to boot > from a USB stick which takes 'usb 2' but failed to read that after > copying the freedom box images then the command line needed 'usb 0'

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedom-maker build questions

2013-02-25 Thread Nick M. Daly
Hi folks, I have to admit, this last email has me really scratching my head. dww writes: > The boot problem was caused by the variables: > > x_bootcmd_kernel fatload usb 2 0x640 uImage > x_bootcmd_initrd fatload usb 2 0x690 uInitrd > > needed to be > > x_bootcmd_kernel f

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedom-maker build questions

2013-02-22 Thread Nick M. Daly
dww writes: > I tried the gpg calls before and again just a few minutes ago and they > did not work. Andreas Doerr also did a similar attempt on a Squeeze > system. > > It seems to have something to do with attempting to verify a wheezy > package on squeeze system. Could you post the updated err

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedom-maker build questions

2013-02-21 Thread Nick M. Daly
dww writes: > What did I need to do to not get the "signatures couldn't be verified" > error? I doubt setting noauth=true is the best thing to do... > > W: GPG error: http://http.debian.net wheezy Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not >

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2013.0219 Available

2013-02-20 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick M. Daly writes: > Hi folks, welcome to the 18th "weekly" FreedomBox test image and > progress report. These images are a way to test the current > (incomplete) FreedomBox build. Also, if the torrent isn't running, this week's images are availabl

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2013.0219 Available

2013-02-20 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, welcome to the 18th "weekly" FreedomBox test image and progress report. These images are a way to test the current (incomplete) FreedomBox build. Table of Contents = 1 Introduction 2 How do I try it out? 3 Verification 3.1 ~freedombox-unstable_2013.0219_dreamplug-arm

[Freedombox-discuss] Announcing FreedomBuddy v0.4: "Good Enough"

2013-02-18 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, after 8 months of development, FreedomBuddy version 0.4 has been released. Proudly, it's being released exactly a year after the initial design process began (President's Day 2012 to President's Day 2013). I'm happy to call this version "stable and useful enough for people other than me

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FBX Server/Client Communication Model and Threat Modeling

2013-02-16 Thread Nick M. Daly
As before, please continue this discussion here or on the FBX wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ClientServerCommunication Melvin Carvalho writes: > Hi Nick, great topic. Which client/server interactions would you envisage > as being high on the priority list? e.g. ssh to box, login

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FBX Server/Client Communication Model and Threat Modeling

2013-02-16 Thread Nick M. Daly
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: > On 02/15/2013 10:25 PM, Nick M. Daly wrote: >>For example, is it acceptable if the client's secret key be exposed >>when the box is rooted by attackers? (Probably not, but that does >>let the host act as a trust proxy with

[Freedombox-discuss] FBX Server/Client Communication Model and Threat Modeling

2013-02-15 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, here's an active question that I'd appreciate your input on. What is an appropriate threat-model for the FreedomBox's client-server communications? Please discuss on list or feel free to add to the FBX wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ClientServerCommunication This

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedom-maker build questions

2013-02-15 Thread Nick M. Daly
Hi Dennis, > b) In ../freedombox/freedom-maker/multistrap-configs/fbx-armel.conf I > changed linux-image-3.2.0-3-kirkwood to linux-image-3.2.0-4-kirkwood When did you last update your repository? The 3 -> 4 bug was fixed months ago. > c) started "make weekly-image" and obtained the

[Freedombox-discuss] Help Needed TODOs!

2013-02-12 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, if you're wondering what you can do for the FBX on the coding side, here's a list of 9 pretty straightforward things to get your feet wet. Like all TODO lists, this one's already outdated. New Plinth changes will appear soon that might render some of these TODOs irrelevant (especially 6

[Freedombox-discuss] Freedom Maker Master Changes Pushed

2013-02-11 Thread Nick M . Daly
Lots of changes from Shiny were pushed into my Freedom Maker master branch. Nothing controversial, though. Pull away! Nick pgpkUipV5RmGd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org htt

[Freedombox-discuss] Happy Creepy February!

2013-02-10 Thread Nick M . Daly
Thanks to investigative work by the Guardian, we can tell just how many steps back online privacy's taken this year. It's unfortunate: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capab

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] status of lxc in debian wheezy (was: Re: jails in Debian?)

2013-02-08 Thread Nick M. Daly
Rob van der Hoeven writes: > On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 23:23 +, Wookey wrote: >> OK, the release team response was to raise this to 'important' and ask >> for a patch and an upload to testing-proposed-updates: >> > > Great news, lets fix this! > > [...] I'm not familiar with the patching process

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Key Splitting to Protect Client Data on Boxes

2013-02-08 Thread Nick M. Daly
Correction below. Nick Daly writes: > That would prevent the box from ratting out the client if it ever fell > into nefarious hands. That's a really bad and downright incorrect sentence. I'm making lots of unstated assumptions that I haven't explained well (at all?). I appreciate the skepticis

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Package Lists and Configuration

2013-02-07 Thread Nick M. Daly
Johan Henselmans writes: > Thanks Nick, I have just read up on the FreedomBuddy > project. (http://wiki.debian.org/Freedombox/FreedomBuddy). Huh. I didn't know that page existed. Thanks, planetlarg. It's outdated, but there is no updated documentation (until after this weekend, when the dust

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Package Lists and Configuration

2013-02-06 Thread Nick M. Daly
Johan Henselmans writes: > I mention this because it seemed that in the Syrian situation there > was a rumor that satellite phone locations were used for rocket > attacks. I believe that occurred, though I do not know the names involved. Can anyone verify? > The only solution I see is some ser

[Freedombox-discuss] New Administrator/Plinth UI Ideas

2013-02-06 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, I'd appreciate some feedback on my new administrator screens: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/UserInterface#Administrator_Screens They're part of the top-tabs theme UI proposal: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/UserInterface#Top_Tabs.2C_Vertical_Control_Panel Thanks! Nick pgpBT

[Freedombox-discuss] Key Splitting to Protect Client Data on Boxes

2013-02-06 Thread Nick M . Daly
So, it's pretty easy to split data using Shamir's Secret Sharing (package: gfshare). If we split a client's PGP key using a 2:3 split (2 of three pieces are required to reform the key), then we could meaningfully PGP encrypt the client's data on the box. That would prevent the box from ratting ou

[Freedombox-discuss] Package Lists and Configuration

2013-02-03 Thread Nick M . Daly
At FOSDEM today, Jonas asked for a list of potential packages and configurations. I realized that I put something similar together a while ago at: bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver You don't get to complain, anymore, Jonas :) pgpIY8j9Xq5MW.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBoxers at FOSDEM!

2013-02-03 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Nick M. Daly (2013-02-03 00:30:10) > Not sure we've ever met irl: I wear a light-blue trousers (not jeans) > and purple shirt (not t-shirt). Clothing. Good point. I'm in a blue polo shirt with jeans. I'll try to make the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] How to create the proper boot partition on a USB or SD card?

2013-02-02 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick Hardiman writes: > * I use Nick's latest FreedomBox image > (https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.tar.bz2) > to create a pre-loaded SD card. Keep in mind that's a VirtualBox image this week. My mistake. Unfortunately, I'm about 3000 miles too far away to fix it. Look

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBoxers at FOSDEM!

2013-02-02 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, if you're at FOSDEM this weekend, we should all meet up and have lunch or something tomorrow (Sunday). Maybe around noon, by the coffee bar in Jansen? The FBX 1.0 talk starts an hour later. :) Nick pgpJPnI0NnZfY.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Creating image on SD card

2013-02-02 Thread Nick M. Daly
dww writes: >>> "Has the version of u-boot on DP changed in the last year whereby >>> formerly it booted from a fat partition but now an ext2 partition?" >> >> "Yes, that is correct. However, this is adjustable by using the Jtag >> module to change the u-boot environment..." > > So why would it be

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2013.0130 Available

2013-01-31 Thread Nick M. Daly
Nick Hardiman writes: > I want to install bittorrent on my squeeze server, to help serve up > FreedomBox images (Virtualbox and SD card images). > > Is this a good place to start? > > How to setup a transmission bittorrent server under a debian based system > http://felix-paetow.de/?p=139 Very g

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2013.0130 Available

2013-01-31 Thread Nick M . Daly
FreedomBox Weekly Image Report == Author: Nick Daly Date: 2012-11-11 Sun Hi folks, welcome to the 17th weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. This week, there isn't an SD card image and there is only a VirtualBox imag

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Schematic?

2013-01-27 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jack Wilborn writes: > Anyone know of the location of the schematic of the Dreamplug? I have > searched for it and I can't find it! Any information would be great! I don't know of any schematics of the inside of a DreamPlug, but the outside's schematics are under the "Diagram" section on:

[Freedombox-discuss] FBuddy: CLI Client Connections :)

2013-01-25 Thread Nick M . Daly
This'll be short, because I'm writing it in midair, but the FBuddy command line client now successfully exchanges data with the server. Next: - Pull out the HTTP client, so that it uses the CLI client, instead of trying connecting directly to the server (if I ever meet another person who thin

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox-discuss Digest, Vol 30, Issue 18

2013-01-21 Thread Nick M. Daly
Peter Rock writes: > Thanks for your replies and sorry if my questions were not meant for > this forum. It appears as though this page would be appropriate for my > situation: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DreamPlugTesting This mailing list certainly isn't functionally inappropriate for your questio

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Hello & A Beginner's Question

2013-01-20 Thread Nick M. Daly
Peter Rock writes: > Hi, I'm new here and my name is Peter. I received a box from the > Kickstarter effort and I'm trying to figure out how to get started... > Following the Aug 2012 user guide, I got up to part E. Basic > Procedures for Debugging. Peter, where did you get the August 2012 user gu

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Installable media for a pentium III

2013-01-09 Thread Nick M. Daly
Quiliro Ordóñez writes: > Thank you for the info, Nick. And sorry for previously not sending my > mail to the list. No worries. My only request is that if you find something useful, you forward that to the list. They love answers. pgp0akQwsbdc9.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Freedombox-discuss] Network Node Virtualization?

2013-01-09 Thread Nick M . Daly
Does anybody know of any good network node virtualization tools? I haven't figured out how to run multiple instances of the same VM in Squeeze's VirtualBox and think there must be an easier way to go about it. Nick pgpVgXlOdafZd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Software as Data, Transformation as a Service

2013-01-08 Thread Nick M. Daly
Spinning up a way-overdue discussion again. Sorry for the gravedigging, but this is good stuff. Melvin Carvalho writes: > On 1 November 2012 18:44, Nick M. Daly wrote: > >> Melvin Carvalho writes: >> >>> I think in the case of freedombox it would be desireable

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Fwd: Are you there ?

2013-01-07 Thread Nick M. Daly
lupa writes: > (again without attachments) > > Hi all... I'm trying to install and test freedombox, but couldn't ... > > ** so I click on "Nick Daly's website" and again: Temporarily Unavailable Thanks to help from Bdale [0], my site is back up again. Download the latest (2012.1021 [1, 2]) imag

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Hitting a wall with freedom-maker

2013-01-04 Thread Nick M. Daly
Andreas Doerr writes: > Hi, > > I just got my Dreamplug and wanted to build an FBX image using > 'freedom-maker'. Unfortunately, I did run into a problem I do need > help with. > > My understanding is that while preparing the rootfs 'apt-get' will try > to authenticate the packages that will be in

[Freedombox-discuss] Requesting a FreedomBox Quick Start Guide

2013-01-03 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, the following forwarded message is from Josh, who got in touch with me after my FBX presentation in Seattle. He asked for a quick start guide that would explain how to start using the existing FBX system. Would anyone be up for adding such details to the wiki? I've elaborated below, bu

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Creating Box Identity Keys

2012-12-09 Thread Nick M. Daly
Charles N Wyble writes: > Why not just generate high amounts of entropy on a constant basis? > Create the keys when the user account gets created? That's the > approach we (Free Network Foundation) are taking with the AutoTunnel > system. That's the goal, but I'm lost as how to constantly genera

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] What do you use your FBX for?

2012-12-09 Thread Nick M. Daly
Melvin Carvalho writes: > Im just wondering if people are actually running freedomboxes for > useful things right now? - Blog - Code/Project Hosting - File Hosting - BitTorrent Tracker - Wiki It's just a web server running over PageKite with the Bittorrent-Tracker [0] and Publish [1] projects.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] T-shirts

2012-12-06 Thread Nick M. Daly
Ted Smith writes: > On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 01:01 +0100, Alexander Berntsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First-time poster here. Nice to meet you all! >> >> Seemingly "all" foundations of every kind make money off of various >> merchandise. I'm sorry if this is corny or just really ridiculous in >> the pre

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Thoughts on MAC Addresses

2012-12-04 Thread Nick M. Daly
John Gilmore writes: > It is worthwhile considering the privacy implications of MAC > addresses. Here's some info. John, would you mind if I moved this information onto the FreedomBox wiki? This should be more readily available over the long term than list posts generally seem to be. Thank you

[Freedombox-discuss] Thoughts on MAC Addresses

2012-12-02 Thread Nick M . Daly
Just something kicking around my head when I should be sleeping :) *If* preventing people from being identified by MAC addresses should be a goal, how do we accomplish that? The MAC address can, but shouldn't be set in the firmware, we can't change it or set it, from the running system, there. T

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Keep or Remove the "Anonymous Contribution" Page?

2012-12-02 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Nick M. Daly (2012-11-29 06:16:25) >> Jack Wilborn writes: >> >> > IMHO, I say that if they want to keep copyright to their code, then >> > we probably don't want it in the FB. My understanding is that we >> > w

[Freedombox-discuss] SheevaPlug and GuruPlug Testing?

2012-12-02 Thread Nick M . Daly
A few months ago, we had success with booting the pre-0.1 FreedomBox images with Guru Plugs. The image could be successfully booted from a USB drive when compiled by: make MACHINE=guruplug DESTINATION=usb plugserver-image I was wondering whether anyone had tested the 0.1 (or post-0.1) image

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Availability Until End of Year

2012-12-02 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Nick M. Daly (2012-11-29 06:29:10) > >> It makes me sad that we probably won't hit the beta-release goals >> before EOY, but I knew the goals were set on a pretty optimistic >> schedule. > > Oh - are those beta-release go

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Investigating Weekly-Image Boot Format Errors

2012-11-29 Thread Nick M. Daly
"Nick M. Daly" writes: > Keith Fernie writes: > >> Besides source/install.sh 3.2.0-3-kirkwood is hardcoded in >> multistrap-configs/fbx-armel.conf > > Wow, I completely missed the occurrences in install.sh (that's what I > get for grepping without mak

[Freedombox-discuss] Availability Until End of Year

2012-11-28 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, I'm sorry but, due to both substantially increased dayjob commitments and the holidays, I won't have too much time for FBX-related work until after the end of the year. I realize that I have a lot of emails outstanding right now, so if you have sent me something that you haven't seen a r

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.1111 Available

2012-11-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
Johan Henselmans writes: > Nick, got a could not load kernel image with the latest... > > : USB EHCI 1.00 > : scanning bus for devices... 6 USB Device(s) found > :scanning bus for storage devices... Device NOT ready > :Request Sense returned 02 3A 00 > : 2 Storage Device(s) found > :

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Keep or Remove the "Anonymous Contribution" Page?

2012-11-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jack Wilborn writes: > IMHO, I say that if they want to keep copyright to their code, then we > probably don't want it in the FB. My understanding is that we wanted > a copyright free box, has this changed or have I misunderstood? I think you missed something big there. As far as I know [0], th

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Investigating Weekly-Image Boot Format Errors

2012-11-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
Keith Fernie writes: > Besides source/install.sh 3.2.0-3-kirkwood is hardcoded in > multistrap-configs/fbx-armel.conf > The /etc/fstab symlink of fstab -> source/etc/fstab-card looks wrong to me. Wow, I completely missed the occurrences in install.sh (that's what I get for grepping without make

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Investigating Weekly-Image Boot Format Errors

2012-11-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
Markus Sabadello writes: > In the "shiny" branch, fbx-armel.conf is already fixed for 3.2.0-4. > > I did a pull request a while ago that also fixes the install.sh: > https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker/pull/12 Merged, thanks! I need to fix my spam filters so I actually see Github's emails.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] corrupt FS inside image ? - Was: Re: FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.1021 Available

2012-11-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
Markus Sabadello writes: > My Dreamplug S/N is DS2-1221-xx, and my original U-Boot version > was U-Boot 2011.06 (Oct 15 2011 - 02:02:08). > My current version is U-Boot 2012.04.01 (Jun 01 2012 - 02:17:08). > > I just added the above information to the wiki: > http://wiki.debian.org/DreamPlugTe

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] NYC Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays

2012-11-28 Thread Nick M. Daly
Hi Sandra, thanks for passing this along! Sandra Ordonez writes: > We would like to invite Freedom Box peeps to join OpenITP kick-off its > first Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays on December 17. > > The event is designed to connect hacktivists and techno-activists in the > New York area who are intere

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Investigating Weekly-Image Boot Format Errors

2012-11-20 Thread Nick M. Daly
The thing that messes with my head the most here is that there's been only one change to Freedom Maker's functional bits between the last successful build and now: : diff --git a/multistrap-configs/fbx-armel.conf b/multistrap-configs/fbx-armel.conf : index aeb64a7..45feddb 100644 : @@ -5,7 +5,7 @

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Investigating Weekly-Image Boot Format Errors

2012-11-18 Thread Nick M. Daly
Jonathan Wilkes writes: > I thought there was a freeze awhile back: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/06/msg6.html Yeah, that doesn't necessarily keep updates out of Wheezy, though. Necessary updates will be pushed. pgpWk631wm6rG.pgp Description: PGP signature __

[Freedombox-discuss] Investigating Weekly-Image Boot Format Errors

2012-11-18 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, I've been so far unable to solve the image booting issues (for DreamPlugs with Wheezy's updated uboot) that first appeared last week. I'm plowing through the code to try to figure out what might've changed WRT the uImage, but I'd appreciate if anybody else could try to rebuild either the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics

2012-11-16 Thread Nick M. Daly
Michael Rogers writes: > On 16/11/12 07:35, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> Most attempted delivery from dynamic user space will bounce, and >> requiring smarthosts clashes both with the zero administration >> requirement and adds an additional point of attack. > > I think this is way too pessimistic. Yes,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Trouble getting freedom box running, u-boot_2012.04.01-2_armel.deb, freedombox-unstable_2012.1021/ dreamplug 1001

2012-11-15 Thread Nick M. Daly
Johan Henselmans writes: > I had one remaining problem: Apparently the ethernet addresses are derived > from the uboot environment, which apparently are flushed > when I updated to the latest uboot firmware, ifconfig gave: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 > > by set

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.1111 Available

2012-11-15 Thread Nick M . Daly
FreedomBox Weekly Image Report == Author: Nick Daly Date: 2012-11-11 Sun Hi folks, welcome to the 17th weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. Apologies this is two weeks and five days late, but life has been rougher t

[Freedombox-discuss] Keep or Remove the "Anonymous Contribution" Page?

2012-11-14 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, wondering your thoughts on this. A week or two ago, I wrote up a basics-of-contributing-anonymously wiki page, which tries to ask people to meet in person whenever possible, and also tries to educate people about risks they should be aware of if they want to contribute over the Internet.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Trouble getting freedom box running, u-boot_2012.04.01-2_armel.deb, freedombox-unstable_2012.1021/ dreamplug 1001

2012-11-14 Thread Nick M. Daly
Johan, as you can see in the message included below, the errors X was receiving while booting its DreamPlug are precisely the same errors you had while booting your DreamPlug. This is the last conversation I had with X was after it updated its boot environment per the instructions in the Freedom-M

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Home

2012-11-11 Thread Nick M. Daly
Rob van der Hoeven writes: > On freedomboxblog.nl links to the foundation and the Wiki are present > from the start of the site in April 2011. At the moment there is only > one link from the Wiki to my site (on the hardware page). Will see if i > can add more links. Thanks for your help, Rob! p

[Freedombox-discuss] Weekly Image: Tomorrow

2012-11-11 Thread Nick M . Daly
Hi folks, the weekly image should be up tomorrow. It's currently building, and I need to sleep rather than waiting the several hours required to publish the bugger. I hope to have that time tomorrow. Nick pgpOJJQjgIvsy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] corrupt FS inside image ? - Was: Re: FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.1021 Available

2012-11-10 Thread Nick M. Daly
Olivier Berger writes: > I've added these details to > http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/DreamPlug/Images this time. > > ... together with a bunch of wiki "gardening", which I hope won't break > too many links, and will make the content more logical. Thanks for your work Olivier, I haven't had a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Virtualbox stuff

2012-11-10 Thread Nick M. Daly
Lee Fisher writes: > On 11/1/12 11:49 AM, Paige Thompson wrote: > > Hey yall, > > > > We recently had a meetup here in Seattle and I had a few resources > > to reccomend that may make virtualbox life a little easier, > > particularly for development but also in general: [...] > > I am under t

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Trouble getting freedom box running, u-boot_2012.04.01-2_armel.deb, freedombox-unstable_2012.1021/ dreamplug 1001

2012-11-10 Thread Nick M. Daly
Johan Henselmans writes: > Hello, > > I am having trouble getting a freedom box image running. > > I have per instructions on > https://freedomboxfoundation.org/ubootUpgradeInstructions/index.en.html > downloaded the latest version of uboot, which happened to be > u-boot_2012.04.01-2_armel.deb,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FBX in BXL :-)

2012-11-10 Thread Nick M. Daly
JOSEFSSON Erik writes: > Hello, > > We've just talked about FreedomBox in the European Parliament Free > Software User Group (http://epfsug.eu/content/free-tools-ep). > > You find the videos here: http://media.biks.dk/fb/epfsug2/ > > A special thanks to EPFSUG Patron and MEP Nils Torvalds a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Home

2012-11-10 Thread Nick M. Daly
Markus Sabadello writes: > We have a site for our Austrian FreedomBox community, and we have weekly > meetups: > > http://freedombox.at/, redirects to http://freedombox.elevate.at/ > > On the front page it has a link to the Debian Wiki, and I just added a link > from the wiki to our site. *Applau

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