Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread I
Thanks!Concise and precise.If only there were more such explanations on this list. It used to mean the chip/circuitry sealed by a lump of black plastic which made it inaccessible to tinkering such as might be found in a musical chrismas card.Blob = proprietary binary package.  Packages where no

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread Jason Jung
Blob = proprietary binary package. Packages where no source code is available so you can't readily be 100% sure they do only what you expect them to do. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 7:35 PM, I wrote: > What the heck does blob free mean? > > Beaglebone Blacks are impossible to get for some reason. T

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread I
What the heck does blob free mean? Beaglebone Blacks are impossible to get for some reason. They seem good for the job with more stability for equal power consumption. Has anyone got Tor running on something similar in price? Robert > I don't know if someone else already tried that, but you

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread nb.linux
Nastase G. Eduard: > > I'm researching more on Raspberry and I see its way cheaper to run a relay > this way. Won't cost me more the 100ε for a relay that will be > self-sustaining. Considering there won't be any monthly expenses (except the > internet) the initial investment can be recovered,

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread Nastase G. Eduard
I'm researching more on Raspberry and I see its way cheaper to run a relay this way. Won't cost me more the 100ε for a relay that will be self-sustaining. Considering there won't be any monthly expenses (except the internet) the initial investment can be recovered, 24/7 relay and no electricity

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread Nastase G. Eduard
Well, this really convinced me on using Raspberry as a relay. Very nice guide. Due to the very low power consumption I'm thinking on setting relays that are battery and solar powered (I'll build some grapheme supercapacitators) and using an anonymous internet connection (3G/4G via a mobile route

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread Chris Whittleston
That sounds great Nastase, please share the results! Chris On 18 Apr 2014 23:14, "Nastase G. Eduard" wrote: > Well, this really convinced me on using Raspberry as a relay. Very nice > guide. Due to the very low power consumption I'm thinking on setting relays > that are battery and solar powered

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread Ferdi GULER
Hi Robert, I also suggest running Raspberry Pi as a Tor Relay. I got mine and works like a charm. Ferdi Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:03:43 -0400 From: rotorb...@gmail.com To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread Richard Budd
I would second the Raspberry Pi as a Tor relay/bridge. Very low power consumption and no noise too boot! On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Chris Whittleston wrote: > Hey Robert, > > Thanks for your interest in setting up a relay! I see you've already had > some replies to your questions but le

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread Chris Whittleston
Hey Robert, Thanks for your interest in setting up a relay! I see you've already had some replies to your questions but let me add a slightly different suggestion - buying a Raspberry Pi for ~£25 and running your relay from there. This has the advantage of being extremely low in power requirements

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread AJ B
>you need to update your debian once in a while. the update process is >fairly easy. you can even automate it if you wish. Just a quick elaboration on this, you can easily set up a cronjob to do this weekly. If you type in: crontab -e You can then select nano, which should be the second option a

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Please note that automatically updating has very little use if you don't also restart the services you updated. @Robert: please setup your ContactInfo in the torrc to something you can be reached on when there's something wrong with the configuration or you need to update certain software. Als

Re: [tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-18 Thread Nima Fatemi
Hi Robert, Replying in-line... Robert Smith: > Judging by the level of your > computer skills implied by the emails, those involved in > Tor have better things to do than help a guy like me. I think it is > important to the entire world that the internet links us together, and > Tor may be t

[tor-relays] A few questions about my setting up my first Tor relay.

2014-04-17 Thread Robert Smith
Judging by the level of your computer skills implied by the emails, those involved in Tor have better things to do than help a guy like me.  I think it is important to the entire world that the internet links us together, and Tor may be the most crucial part of that. I have 3 machines as possi