[Discuss] Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LIII reminder - today, Saturday September 13, 2014

2014-09-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
Boston Linux Installfest LII When: Saturday September 13, 2014, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061 2 Amherst St, Cambridge Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51. http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm

Re: [Discuss] SysVinit vs. systemd

2014-09-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mike Small systemd handles a lot of annoying infrastructure for you; for example, you do not have to arrange to daemonize programs you run. I don't understand this at all.

Re: [Discuss] Dan Geer's Blackhat talk, iGuardian enterprise-grade home router

2014-09-13 Thread Eric Chadbourne
Will definitely read this. Thanks. Eric Chadbourne On 09/12/2014 10:29 PM, d...@geer.org wrote: Dan Geer, an occasional poster here, apparently gave a talk at Blackhat see Cybersecurity as Realpolitik, 6 August 2014 http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt --dan

Re: [Discuss] iGuardian enterprise-grade home router

2014-09-13 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: How do you go about updating the OS? With an embedded OS you back up your settings, restart the device in a special run mode, write out an image to local storage, restart in the normal run mode, and restore your settings. Some update mechanisms perform the settings

Re: [Discuss] iGuardian enterprise-grade home router

2014-09-13 Thread Richard Pieri
On 9/13/2014 4:46 PM, Tom Metro wrote: OpenWRT supports optware package management, for example. You should be able to update packages on the fly, without a device reboot. (I've installed packages this way on my routers running Tomato USB.) Try doing that with the kernel. Last I looked,