DevOnLinux

A little howto dedicated to install IPKG on Synology DS209+II, a great Nas which has installed a custom GPL Operating System based on GNU/Linux.
IPKG is a lightweight package management system, similar to Debian DPKG.

Step below are based on this wiki page of synology.

1. Open an ssh connection to your nas, i.e. ssh root@your.local.ip
2. Check the cpu type of the nas. cat /proc/cpuinfo. In my case it was Freescale Semiconductor MPC8544 DS but as reported here it’s an error and the correct CPU model is the 8533.
3. Now go to this page and search for your cpu type (ARM, PPC or ATOM)
4. The bootstrap script for mpc8533 it’s the same of mpc8543. You can download it here, but I prefer to download by wget as described in the next step.
5. Go to tmp directory, cd /volume1/@tmp, and download it: wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/syno-e500/cross/unstable/syno-e500-bootstrap_1.2-7_powerpc.xsh
6. give it execution authorization, chmod +x syno-e500-bootstrap_1.2-7_powerpc.xsh
7. Ok, execute it with sh syno-e500-bootstrap_1.2-7_powerpc.xsh and let script make its work. After a while and many lines below the scripts will echo a “Setup complete”.
8. IPKG is installed so it’s time to reboot nas machine
9. When the system is restarted, connect back with ssh.
10. First time it’s a good thing to update ipkg package list: ipkg update
11. We have finished, it’s time to have fun with ipkg and install any package we desire. In our case we have installed rsnapshot, a great utility for backup automatization in the company lan.

Great comparison between Nokia Maemo and Google Android from point of view of user rights: http://cool900.blogspot.com/2009/10/comparing-freedom-on-maemo-and-android.html.
I agree with writer of this post that the winner is without any doubt Maemo.
So, choose Nokia in your next mobile phone

E allo stesso modo in cui cent’anni fa la gente non si curava dell’inquinamento nella
corsa alla realizzazione dell’Era Industriale, oggi non ci curiamo delle informazioni nella
corsa alla realizzazione dell’Era dell’Informazione.

Bruce Schneier (cryptogram march 2009)

Spesso la difficoltà maggiore nello spiegare a persone poco “informatiche” quale sia il reale problema della privacy e dei nostri dati personali che quotidianamente diffondiamo online ed in ogni transazione mediata da un computer, riguarda proprio l’incapacità di saper comunicare con poche ed efficaci parole l’importanza di tali informazioni ed il perchè dovrebbero preoccuparsene.

O forse, come sempre, è semplicemente dovuto alla natura umana di fare le cose senza pensare ai possibili effetti collaterali. Solo dopo ci si accorge.

From Pirate Party:

The Pirate Party of Germany got a secret Document of the bavarian Ministry of Justice from a Whistleblower. In this Document, the Ministry discussed the Price of using a “trojan horse”-malware to wiretap Skype. It looks like the bavarian has already used such a Software, but that would be illegal.
The Price is interesting: 3500€ per month and use. Only mass use could produce such a low price.

And after this announcement the German police have searched the office of Pirate Party and now is searching the people who have liberated this information.
World is upset… Spy on private communication is anti-constitutional in Germany or not??

The Big Brother is here, and if you disagree they install you a trojan horse.
Good

For other info visit wikileaks or the register.

ps. If you want privacy (ah ah), don’t use skype or other proprietary closed software.
First rule is: no security through obscurity.
And before all, use GNU/Linux.