Freedom to have full control of the content you want to pass to the WEB including access to your log files. This is exclusive of "free spying" that is prone to abuse. Not to mention free spying is a huge price and not really free at all.
I first heard this presented in a talk (video) Did you read the articles? I thought these ideas were in there. Then there is the cool factor of having your own servers running in hardware such as that, with better and better software that the community comes up with. What can I say? I have a vivid imagination, especially with future possibilities. Mel On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:15 -0600, Greg Saunders wrote: > Ok, I think I might possibly be flagging myself as a complete idiot > because I thought that I "got this" ... I really did. > > > But I'm sitting here asking myself, "freedom to do what that I can't > do already?" or "free from what that I'm not already free from?" > > > Is it a "free" (not cost) server infrastructure that we're looking > for? Really, help me out here. > > > Thanks > Greg > > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > Most of them have ethernet or wifi built in. There are a > number of USB based wifi and ethernet adaptors that work quite > well with Linux. > > Sent from my Android device. Please excuse my brevity. > > > > On Jul 5, 2011 12:30 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I forgot about the plug devices. That is a better idea. What > about network interface. USB is fast enough but do we have usb > to eth? > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:03:08AM -0600, Gustin Johnson > wrote: > >> There are already plug devices running Linux. Right now Arm > seems to be > >> architecture of choice, coupled with Debian the underlying > platform is > >> already here. What is needed is the client facing software. > >> > >> Sent from my Android device. Please excuse my brevity. > >> On Jul 4, 2011 10:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Yes it would work like that. They likely don't need much > power but they > >> will need to be able to output a "POTS" service if they are > to be used in > >> analogue homes. I've not looked into the digital > requirments but that would > >> make a great deal of sense to support. Companies like > Dilogic can supply the > >> telephony interface cards. > >> > > >> > The OS could be Linux or likely a flavour of *BSD. I > would prefer OpenBSD > >> but that is only because I happen to use it on my servers > and firewalls. > >> > > >> > Basically it needs an RJ45. Thus a little netbook would > do the job if we > >> can find USB telephone interface units and we can pick up > the netbooks for > >> like $169. > >> > > >> > With a wifi interface it could even support a smart > phone! In fact a smart > >> phone could do the job but IMHO they are pretty overpriced. > >> > > >> > If people want cheaper then any old PC from the PII days > on will work. > >> These machines have PCI bus interfaces which Dialogic makes > cards for. THing > >> is old computers like that actually are more expensive > because they draw a > >> lot more power than a netbook. With a netbook I would > expect we would be > >> throtling to the slowest cpu speed and I do not think we > would need other > >> than a solid state drive on it. > >> > > >> > Now if we get something like an ALIX which has multiple > NICs then I > >> suspect the box could provide firewall + telephone > services. > >> > > >> > Software would probably be Asterisk. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:47:20PM -0600, Joe S wrote: > >> >> These articles look interesting. I'm not that > knowledgeable on > >> >> how the Internet works. Would the boxes contain servers > that hook > >> >> up to each other like a private a private network? > >> >> > >> >> Thanks > >> >> > >> >> On Monday 04 July 2011 19:50:11 Mel Walters wrote: > >> >> > Sounds good. The more people (and ideas) involved the > better. > >> >> > I have some lectures and talks related to all this > that I hope > >> >> > will encourage us to even spearhead something good. > >> >> > > >> >> > Mel > >> >> > > >> >> > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 01:05 -0600, [email protected] > wrote: > >> >> > > I would like to work with you on this. > >> >> > > > >> >> > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:02:49AM -0600, Mel > Walters wrote: > >> >> > > > Proposed solution to freedom on the net: > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?_r > >> >> > > > > =2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1297865022-0JDUtCoG16GYaoGy9MDMyg > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/02/16/freedom-box-needs-a > >> >> > > > -good-user-interface/ > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > I am attempting to put together some strong > proposals that > >> >> > > > have been brought to light. Combined with wifi > mesh this > >> >> > > > could wnd up lending to a more scalable and robust > >> >> > > > network too. > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > Mel > >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> clug-talk mailing list > >> >> [email protected] > >> >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> >> Mailing List Guidelines > (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> >> **Please remove these lines when replying > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > clug-talk mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> > Mailing List Guidelines > (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> clug-talk mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
