network boot

Some of my fellows here are working on the Web Of Things. Currently they are planing to setup a playground in the office of our group. For the gateways Dominique decided to use MicroClient Sr. machines, which are tiny VIA based ultra low power PCs.

I suggested to boot and run them completely from the network. This saves money as no local storage devices have to be bought. And it eases administration as there is only one centralized image one has to maintain. I promised to explain him how it works, so here it goes.

posix file access control lists

Finally I have found a good article about POSIX file access control lists. I have been trying to understand their usage by just reading the manual pages of setfacl and getfacl but I have always been missing the big picture. Now I got it.

Infrastruktur des CCC Ulm

Infrastruktur des CCC Ulm (german)
Ulrich Dangel, Alexander Bernauer
CCC Ulm

Pimp my Dontpanic

Pimp my Dontpanic (german)
Ulrich Dangel, Alexander Bernauer, Tobias Rehfeld
CCC Ulm

Backups

Backups (german)
alex, uli
/dev/radio

Hard Disk Encryption

Festplattenverschlüsselung (german)
alex, uli
/dev/radio