Since a few years now I'm a happy Archlinux user. I like their philosophy which was one of the major points why I made the switch back in the days.

I'm not only using it on my laptop, but do have some devices running at home which are configured with it. From a thin client which I use as a docker node through some raspberry pies running ArchlinuxARM.

Since Arch is a rolling update distro there are several updates available throughout the day. To keep on top of them I had to log in on all those devices at least …

Recently we installed a Lacie Network Space 2 at home. Easy to share documents on the LAN network, having a central place for common media etc. After playing around with it I wanted to see if it's possible to gain access to the underlying operating system of it. On that way I could for example use this access to wake up a pc with wake on LAN.

And guess what, it can be done and thanks to a script of a guy Andreus it's even very easy! I found a forum post about his work and tested it successfully with …