[ale] Happy to subscribe

[Charles Shapiro]

Awesome!  I'll announce here when I am ready..

-- CHS


On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 10:10 PM, Abraham Moller via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Thanks for all the replies. Charles - I would be happy to help with RPi
> intro class in the fall. Let me know when the class will happen and what
> you need to set up for it. Looking forward to hearing more as it gets
> closer.
>
> Jon
>
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
>
>> But unsupported doesn't necessarily mean full of security holes. If you
>> know what are you doing.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 9:17 AM Charles Shapiro via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah,  I wouldn't recommend this for most uses.
>>>
>>> -- CHS
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 06:44 DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> For clarity, most people shouldn't be using unsupported dd-wrt/openwrt
>>>> builds that aren't maintained and current.  Yes?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 06/30/2018 10:23 PM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>>>> > The latter.  This router is bridging into a network containing nothing
>>>> > but student Raspberry Pi s which will be active for a matter of hours.
>>>> > It is not connected to the wider internet.  I wouldn't use it on a
>>>> > production network.
>>>> >
>>>> > My real problem is that I can't trust Windows to work with a USB to
>>>> RJ45
>>>> > adapter.  When I tried an adapter on a random Windows laptop at
>>>> Decatur
>>>> > Makers, it failed to recognize the device without a driver.  I am
>>>> > reluctant to spend much time on Windows technical support in a
>>>> Raspberry
>>>> > Pi class. I figure that if they can't connect to WiFi, I can
>>>> > legitimately throw up my hands and say "Get a Real Computer".
>>>> >
>>>> > --CHS
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 13:13 DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org
>>>> > <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >     Charles, are you really using wifi router firmware from 2011
>>>> still?
>>>> >     The last version of openwrt that works on that hardware is
>>>> 10.03.1 ...
>>>> >     https://archive.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1/brcm-2.4/
>>>> >
>>>> >     Or do you compile your own that includes all the remote exploit
>>>> fixes
>>>> >     found sense then?
>>>> >
>>>> >     On 06/30/2018 08:42 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>>>> >     > Hmm.  I just recently updated my WRT54GL from CoovaAP to
>>>> OpenWRT.
>>>> >     That
>>>> >     > went pretty ok simple.   I dunno about using it as a portable
>>>> linux
>>>> >     > device. Seems like the RPi might be more suited to that.  At
>>>> least one
>>>> >     > of my friends is using one that way now.
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     > I have a go-ahead for a Raspberry Pi intro class at Decatur
>>>> Makers for
>>>> >     > the fall.  DM has a cardboard box with about 70 Raspberry Pi 2
>>>> Bs
>>>> >     in it
>>>> >     > (the one with 2 USB ports and an HDMI port). They lack SD cards
>>>> >     and wall
>>>> >     > warts, but will run the latest 'n' greatest raspbian no
>>>> problem.
>>>> >     I've
>>>> >     > got the hardware and software developed, and I'm in process of
>>>> taking
>>>> >     > pictures and making a slide deck.  The current plan is to cover
>>>> three
>>>> >     > different ways to light an LED from the web:  CGI, CGI talking
>>>> to a
>>>> >     > daemon, and CherryPy (as an example of a web framework).  I'll
>>>> >     probably
>>>> >     > be looking for teaching assistants for this when the time gets
>>>> closer.
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     > -- CHS
>>>> >     >
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