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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html">Oslo community mesh network - with NUUG and Hackeriet at Hausmania</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">11th October 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing
  26 networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large
  27 areas, depending on the radio technology used.  Normal wifi equipment
  28 can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several
  29 successful examples like
  30 <a href="http://www.freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a> and
  31 <a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network</a>
  32 (see
  33 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece">wikipedia
  34 for a large list</a>) around the globe.  To give you an idea how it
  35 work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which
  36 can be seen from their
  37 <a href="http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html">dynamically
  38 updated node graph and map</a>, where one can see how the mesh nodes
  39 automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing.
  40 There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway,
  41 and that is the main topic of this blog post.</p>
  42
  43 <p>I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped
  44 to do it as part of my involvement with the <a
  45 href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG member organisation</a> community, and
  46 my recent involvement in
  47 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the Freedombox project</a>
  48 finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a
  49 Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family
  50 when possible, given that most communication between people are
  51 between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook
  52 communication patterns).  It also allow people to communicate without
  53 any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the
  54 private communication of citizens, which have become more and more
  55 important over the years.</p>
  56
  57 <p>So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo
  58 working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space
  59 <a href="http://hackeriet.no/">Hackeriet</a> at Husmania.  They seem to
  60 have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called
  61 <a href="http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page">the Oslo
  62 Freifunk project</a>, but that effort is now dead and the people
  63 behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called
  64 <a href="http://meshfx.org/trac">meshfx</a>.  Unfortunately the wiki
  65 site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to
  66 reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to
  67 the new project.  A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
  68 from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks.  I
  69 came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
  70 speakers about this talk:</p>
  71
  72 <p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
  73
  74 <p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
  75 There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
  76 figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
  77 given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
  78 is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
  79 completely different setup, and thus this have decided to focus on
  80 batman-adv for now.  It sure help me to  know that the very cool
  81 <a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a>
  82 is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
  83 organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
  84 less industrialized communities.  Check out this cool video presenting
  85 that project:
  86
  87 <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
  88
  89 <p>According to the wikipedia page on
  90 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless
  91 mesh network</a> there are around 70 competing schemes for routing
  92 packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
  93 B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
  94 based community mesh networks.</p>
  95
  96 </p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
  97 (as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
  98 network.  One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
  99 vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
 100 computer.  The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
 101 least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up.  A
 102 <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good
 103 introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project.  These are
 104 the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p>
 105
 106 <table>
 107 <tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr>
 108 <tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr>
 109 <tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr>
 110 <td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr>
 111 <td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td>
 112 </table>
 113
 114 <p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
 115 in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers.  (See a nice post from
 116 VillageTelco about
 117 "<a href="http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information
 118 about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!</a>
 119 for details.)  When these settings are activated and you have some
 120 other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
 121 network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
 122 any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)</p>
 123
 124 <p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
 125 but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
 126 firmware supporting batman-adv.  If anyone know how to use that old
 127 wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.</p>
 128
 129 <p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
 130 us on IRC, either channel
 131 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace</a>
 132 or <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug</a> on
 133 irc.freenode.net.</p>
 134
 135 <p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
 136 research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
 137 and Innovation called
 138 <a href="http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The
 139 reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks</a> and elsewhere
 140 learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
 141 Grünerløkka in Oslo.  So mesh networks are also interesting for
 142 commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
 143 to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
 144 know have closed down the experiment.  Perhaps Telenor or others would
 145 be interested in a cooperation?</p>
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 150         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 158       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu 7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador</a></div>
 159       <div class="date"> 8th October 2013</div>
 160       <div class="body"><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
 161 Salvador had published a
 162 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
 163 Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
 164 Skolelinux profile.  This is the profile intended for use at home or
 165 on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
 166 services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
 167 in other word a single user machine).  The result is 11 minutes long,
 168 and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
 169 Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
 170 showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model
 171 of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
 172 other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
 173 advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
 174 Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
 175 computers without hard drives by installing one central
 176 <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p>
 177
 178 <p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p>
 179
 180 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 181
 182 <p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux?  Please let
 183 me know. :)</p>
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 188         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
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 196       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html">Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today!</a></div>
 197       <div class="date">29th September 2013</div>
 198       <div class="body"><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
 199 Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team.  The
 200 complete announcement text can be found at
 201 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
 202 section</a>, translated to several languages.  Please check it out.</p>
 203
 204 <p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon.  One
 205 can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
 206 partition is too small.  A workaround is to extend the partition (use
 207 lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p>
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 212         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 220       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html">Videos about the Freedombox project - for inspiration and learning</a></div>
 221       <div class="date">27th September 2013</div>
 222       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
 223 project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
 224 vision, ideas and solution several places.  Here is a little
 225 collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p>
 226
 227 <ul>
 228
 229 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
 230 2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li>
 231
 232 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
 233 discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 234
 235 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
 236 Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
 237 Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a>
 238 (Youtube)</li>
 239
 240 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011
 241 Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li>
 242
 243 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
 244 the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 245
 246 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
 247 Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
 248 York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li>
 249
 250 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
 251 to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a>
 252 (Youtube)</li>
 253
 254 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
 255 of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li>
 256
 257 <li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
 258 1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li>
 259
 260 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
 261 FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
 262 2013</a> (Youtube)</li>
 263
 264 </ul>
 265
 266 <p>A larger list is available from
 267 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
 268 Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p>
 269
 270 <p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
 271 Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
 272 Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
 273 a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
 274 The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
 275 pending in NEW.  The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
 276 metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload.  Join
 277 us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
 278 (#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and
 279 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
 280 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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 285         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 293       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html">Third and probably last beta release of Debian Edu Wheezy</a></div>
 294       <div class="date">16th September 2013</div>
 295       <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 296 today.  This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:</p>
 297
 298 <blockquote>
 299 <p>Hi,</p>
 300
 301 <p>it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
 302 short) of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 303 Skolelinux</a> based on Debian Wheezy!</p>
 304
 305 <p>Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
 306 we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
 307 weekend.  We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
 308 if you find something, please notify us immediately!</p>
 309
 310 <p>(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
 311 another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)</p>
 312
 313 <p>Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
 314 compared to beta1:</p>
 315
 316 <ul>
 317
 318 <li>The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
 319 also gets Chromium to use this proxy.</li>
 320 <li>Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
 321 understand ical/dav sources.</li>
 322 <li>Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
 323 main server.</li>
 324 <li>A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.</li>
 325 <li>Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
 326 (6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
 327 (0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
 328 (3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).</li>
 329
 330 </ul>
 331
 332 <p>Where to get it:</p>
 333
 334 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 335
 336 <ul>
 337 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
 338 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
 339 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .</li>
 340 </ul>
 341
 342 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is:  3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f</p>
 343
 344 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
 345 <ul>
 346 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
 347 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
 348 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .</li>
 349 </ul>
 350
 351 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e</p>
 352
 353 <p>The Source DVD image has the filename
 354 debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
 355 089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
 356 as the other isos.</p>
 357
 358 <p>How to report bugs</p>
 359
 360 <p>For information how to report bugs please see
 361 <br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
 362
 363
 364 <p>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</p>
 365
 366 <p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
 367 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
 368 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
 369 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
 370 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
 371 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
 372 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
 373 machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
 374 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
 375 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
 376 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
 377 packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
 378 can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 379
 380 <p>This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
 381 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
 382 Squeeze release.</p>
 383
 384 <p>Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases</p>
 385
 386 <p>Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 387 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 388 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 389 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 390 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
 391 Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
 392 password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
 393 (backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
 394 to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
 395 directory.</p>
 396
 397
 398 <p>cheers,
 399 <br>        Holger</p>
 400 </blockquote>
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 405         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 413       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Recipe_to_test_the_Freedombox_project_on_amd64_or_Raspberry_Pi.html">Recipe to test the Freedombox project on amd64 or Raspberry Pi</a></div>
 414       <div class="date">10th September 2013</div>
 415       <div class="body"><p>I was introduced to the
 416 <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
 417 in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
 418 of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
 419 within the legal protection of their own homes.  The idea is to give
 420 people back the power over their network and machines, and return
 421 Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.  Instead of
 422 depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
 423 control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
 424
 425 <p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
 426 taken priority.  But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
 427 and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
 428 communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
 429 actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
 430
 431 <p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
 432 Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
 433 create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
 434 up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
 435 communication.  The initial deployment platform have been the
 436 <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
 437 which is a piece of hardware I do not own.  So to be able to test what
 438 the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install
 439 it on some hardware I do have access to.  I have rewritten the
 440 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
 441 image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
 442 setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
 443 set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
 444 the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
 445 missing in Debian).</p>
 446
 447 <p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
 448 scripts
 449 (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
 450 and a administrative web interface
 451 (<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
 452 withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
 453 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
 454 (freedombox-privoxy).  There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
 455 client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
 456 trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
 457 (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>).  The
 458 web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
 459 services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc.  Not much of
 460 this is really working yet, see
 461 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
 462 project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories.  Most of the code is
 463 on github at the moment.  The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
 464 box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
 465 users.  I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
 466 know there are several branches spread around github and other places
 467 with lots of half baked features.</p>
 468
 469 <p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
 470 following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
 471 at.</p>
 472
 473 <p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
 474
 475 <ol>
 476
 477 <li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
 478 <li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
 479 <li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
 480 to the Debian installer:<p>
 481 <pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
 482
 483 <li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
 484 install on.</li>
 485
 486 <li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
 487 few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
 488
 489 </ol>
 490
 491 <p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
 492
 493 <ol>
 494
 495 <li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
 496 <li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
 497 <li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
 498 <pre>
 499 deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
 500 </pre></li>
 501 <li><p>Run this as root:</p>
 502 <pre>
 503 wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
 504    apt-key add -
 505 apt-get update
 506 apt-get install freedombox-setup
 507 /usr/lib/freedombox/setup
 508 </pre></li>
 509 <li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
 510
 511 </ol>
 512
 513 <p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
 514 freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
 515 the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
 516 in my APT repository.  But do not let this stop you.  It is only a
 517 short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
 518
 519 <p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
 520 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
 521 off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
 522 disable</tt>" as root.</p>
 523
 524 <p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
 525 problems.  We gather on the IRC channel
 526 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
 527 irc.debian.org and the
 528 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
 529 mailing list</a>.</p>
 530
 531 <p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
 532 <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
 533 welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
 534 get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
 535 to look at the rest of plinth.  The default user is 'admin' and the
 536 default password is 'secret'.</p>
 537 </div>
 538       <div class="tags">
 539
 540
 541         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 542
 543
 544       </div>
 545     </div>
 546     <div class="padding"></div>
 547
 548     <div class="entry">
 549       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_gj_r_at_Oslo_H_yre_og_Arbeiderparti_ikke_f_r_min_stemme_i__r.html">Datalagringsdirektivet gjør at Oslo Høyre og Arbeiderparti ikke får min stemme i år</a></div>
 550       <div class="date"> 8th September 2013</div>
 551       <div class="body"><p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og
 552 Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske
 553 folk.  Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt
 554 år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de
 555 snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen.  Det skal også
 556 registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost
 557 til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte.  Saken er kjent som
 558 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet
 559 (DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges
 560 grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt.  Det ble i praksis innført brev og
 561 besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen.  Rapporter fra de landene som
 562 allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes
 563 kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i
 564 kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.  Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre
 565 millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets
 566 arbeide.  Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt
 567 på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.
 568 Se mer på
 569 <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a>
 570 og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p>
 571
 572 <p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje?  Et åpenbart problem er at
 573 medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut.  Den innsamlede
 574 informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med
 575 journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten
 576 av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon.  Et annet er at
 577 advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem
 578 som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat.
 579 Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke
 580 nettsteder en har besøkt.  Har en besøkt hivnorge.no,
 581 swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede
 582 interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være
 583 tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
 584
 585 <p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for.  Høyre og
 586 Arbeiderpartiet.  Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har
 587 DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre
 588 fylkene).  Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse
 589 partiene.  Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med
 590 informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget,
 591 basert på informasjon fra mine venner i
 592 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de
 593 Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>.
 594 Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p>
 595
 596 <style type="text/css">
 597 .for    {background-color:#F5A9A9;}
 598 .mot    {background-color:#A9F5BC;}
 599 .ukjent { }
 600 </style>
 601
 602 <table>
 603 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 604
 605 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 606 <td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td>
 607 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 608
 609 <tr class="mot"><td>2.</td>
 610 <td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td>
 611 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr>
 612
 613 <tr class="mot"><td>3.</td>
 614 <td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td>
 615 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td>
 616
 617 <tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td>
 618 <td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td>
 619 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 620
 621 <tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td>
 622 <td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td>
 623 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 624
 625 <tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td>
 626 <td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td>
 627 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 628
 629 <tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td>
 630 <td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td>
 631 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 632
 633 <tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td>
 634 <td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td>
 635 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 636
 637 <tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td>
 638 <td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td>
 639 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 640
 641 <tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td>
 642 <td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td>
 643 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 644
 645 <tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td>
 646 <td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td>
 647 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 648
 649 <tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td>
 650 <td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td>
 651 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 652
 653 <tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td>
 654 <td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td>
 655 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 656
 657 <tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td>
 658 <td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td>
 659 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 660
 661 <tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td>
 662 <td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td>
 663 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 664
 665 <tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td>
 666 <td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td>
 667 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 668
 669 <tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td>
 670 <td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td>
 671 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 672
 673 <tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td>
 674 <td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td>
 675 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 676
 677 <tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td>
 678 <td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td>
 679 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 680
 681 <tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td>
 682 <td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td>
 683 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 684
 685 <tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td>
 686 <td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td>
 687 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 688
 689 <tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td>
 690 <td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td>
 691 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 692
 693 <tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td>
 694 <td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td>
 695 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 696
 697 <tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td>
 698 <td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td>
 699 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 700
 701 <tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td>
 702 <td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td>
 703 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 704
 705 </table>
 706
 707 <p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p>
 708
 709 <table>
 710
 711 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 712
 713 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 714 <td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td>
 715 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 716
 717 <tr class="for"><td>2.</td>
 718 <td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td>
 719 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 720
 721 <tr class="for"><td> 3.</td>
 722 <td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td>
 723 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 724
 725 <tr class="for"><td> 4.</td>
 726 <td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td>
 727 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 728
 729 <tr class="for"><td> 5.</td>
 730 <td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td>
 731 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 732
 733 <tr class="for"><td> 6.</td>
 734 <td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td>
 735 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 736
 737 <tr class="for"><td> 7.</td>
 738 <td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td>
 739 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 740
 741 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td>
 742 <td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td>
 743 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 744
 745 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td>
 746 <td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td>
 747 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 748
 749 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td>
 750 <td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td>
 751 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 752
 753 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td>
 754 <td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td>
 755 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 756
 757 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td>
 758 <td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td>
 759 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 760
 761 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td>
 762 <td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td>
 763 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 764
 765 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td>
 766 <td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td>
 767 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 768
 769 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td>
 770 <td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td>
 771 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 772
 773 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td>
 774 <td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td>
 775 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 776
 777 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td>
 778 <td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td>
 779 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 780
 781 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td>
 782 <td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td>
 783 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 784
 785 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td>
 786 <td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td>
 787 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 788
 789 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td>
 790 <td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td>
 791 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 792
 793 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td>
 794 <td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td>
 795 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 796
 797 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td>
 798 <td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td>
 799 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 800
 801 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td>
 802 <td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td>
 803 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 804
 805 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td>
 806 <td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td>
 807 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 808
 809 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td>
 810 <td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td>
 811 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 812
 813 </table>
 814
 815 <p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år.  Jeg tror det blir
 816 <a href="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>.  Hvis de kan bidra
 817 til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får
 818 kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har
 819 hatt så langt.</p>
 820
 821 </div>
 822       <div class="tags">
 823
 824
 825         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg</a>.
 826
 827
 828       </div>
 829     </div>
 830     <div class="padding"></div>
 831
 832     <div class="entry">
 833       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">Second beta release (beta 1) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
 834       <div class="date">22nd August 2013</div>
 835       <div class="body"><p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 836 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
 837 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:</p>
 838
 839 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
 840
 841 <p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 842 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 843
 844 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 845
 846 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 847 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 848 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 849 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 850 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 851 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 852 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 853 the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be
 854 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 855 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 856 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 857 desktop contains
 858 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 859 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 860 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 861 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 862
 863 <p>This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
 864 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
 865 release.</p>
 866
 867 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 868 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 869 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 870 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 871 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
 872 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
 873 the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
 874 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
 875 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
 876 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
 877 CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
 878
 879 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 880
 881 <ul>
 882
 883 <li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
 884     work also without a attached tty.</li>
 885 <li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
 886     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
 887     tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
 888     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
 889     required).</li>
 890
 891 </ul>
 892
 893 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 894
 895 <ul>
 896
 897 <li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
 898 needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
 899 <li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
 900 stick ISO image.</li>
 901 <li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
 902 <li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
 903 <li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
 904     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
 905     cope with this.</li>
 906 <li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
 907 <li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
 908     empty password hashes.</li>
 909 <li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
 910     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
 911     from joining the Samba domain.</li>
 912
 913 </ul>
 914
 915 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 916
 917 <ul>
 918
 919 <li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
 920     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
 921 <li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
 922     (using the KDE configuration).</li>
 923
 924 </ul>
 925
 926 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 927
 928 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 929
 930 <ul>
 931
 932 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
 933
 934 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
 935
 936 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
 937
 938 </ul>
 939
 940 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
 941 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
 942
 943 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 944
 945 <ul>
 946
 947 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
 948 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
 949 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
 950
 951 </ul>
 952
 953 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
 954 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</p>
 955
 956
 957 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 958
 959 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
 960 </div>
 961       <div class="tags">
 962
 963
 964         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 965
 966
 967       </div>
 968     </div>
 969     <div class="padding"></div>
 970
 971     <div class="entry">
 972       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_180_SSD_disk_with_Lenovo_firmware_can_not_use_Intel_firmware.html">Intel 180 SSD disk with Lenovo firmware can not use Intel firmware</a></div>
 973       <div class="date">18th August 2013</div>
 974       <div class="body"><p>Earlier, I reported about
 975 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">my
 976 problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk</a>.  Friday I was
 977 told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away.  And as
 978 there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided
 979 today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware
 980 currently on the disk.</p>
 981
 982 <p>I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found
 983 <a href="https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3472&DwnldID=18363&ProductFamily=Solid-State+Drives+and+Caching&ProductLine=Intel%c2%ae+High+Performance+Solid-State+Drive&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+SSD+520+Series+(180GB%2c+2.5in+SATA+6Gb%2fs%2c+25nm%2c+MLC)&lang=eng">issdfut_2.0.4.iso</a>
 984 (aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which
 985 according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD
 986 disks.  I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and
 987 booted the ISO from a USB stick.  The disk was recognized, but the
 988 program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused
 989 to insert any Intel firmware.  So no change, and the disk is still
 990 unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them
 991 working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware.  No idea how likely
 992 that is.  Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness.  I
 993 got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on
 994 the broken disks.</p>
 995 </div>
 996       <div class="tags">
 997
 998
 999         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
1000
1001
1002       </div>
1003     </div>
1004     <div class="padding"></div>
1005
1006     <div class="entry">
1007       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html">90 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</a></div>
1008       <div class="date"> 2nd August 2013</div>
1009       <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since my last update.  Since last summer, I
1010 have worked on a Norwegian
1011 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book
1012 <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig,
1013 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
1014 law.  Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
1015 number of strings to translate.  Due to real life constraints, I have
1016 not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
1017 I found time to work on it again.  Still lots of work left, but the
1018 first draft is nearing completion.  I created a graph to show the
1019 progress of the translation:</p>
1020
1021 <p><img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"></p>
1022
1023 <p>When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
1024 proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
1025 drawings need to be fixed.  There are probably also some index entries
1026 missing that need to be added.  This can be done by comparing the
1027 index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
1028 English docbook version with the paper version.  Last, the colophon
1029 page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
1030 done.  I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
1031 of the index pages.  All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
1032 docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
1033 Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.</p>
1034
1035 <p>There is still need for translators and people with docbook
1036 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
1037 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
1038 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
1039 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
1040 around?  There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
1041 If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
1042 project files currently available from
1043 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
1044
1045 <p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
1046 the updated
1047 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
1048 and
1049 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
1050 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
1051 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
1052 saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
1053 </div>
1054       <div class="tags">
1055
1056
1057         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.
1058
1059
1060       </div>
1061     </div>
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1069 <h2>Archive</h2>
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1071
1072 <li>2013
1073 <ul>
1074
1075 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
1076
1077 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
1078
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1080
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1082
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1086
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1090
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1092
1093 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1094
1095 </ul></li>
1096
1097 <li>2012
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1099
1100 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1101
1102 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
1103
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1105
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1115
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1119
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1121
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1123
1124 </ul></li>
1125
1126 <li>2011
1127 <ul>
1128
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1130
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1134
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1136
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1138
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1140
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1142
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1144
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1146
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1148
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1150
1151 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1152
1153 </ul></li>
1154
1155 <li>2010
1156 <ul>
1157
1158 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1159
1160 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1161
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1165
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1169
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1171
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1173
1174 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
1175
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1177
1178 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1179
1180 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1181
1182 </ul></li>
1183
1184 <li>2009
1185 <ul>
1186
1187 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1188
1189 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
1190
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1192
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1196
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1198
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1200
1201 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1202
1203 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1204
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1206
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1208
1209 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1210
1211 </ul></li>
1212
1213 <li>2008
1214 <ul>
1215
1216 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1217
1218 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1219
1220 </ul></li>
1221
1222 </ul>
1223
1224
1225
1226 <h2>Tags</h2>
1227 <ul>
1228
1229  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
1230
1231  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/amiga">amiga (1)</a></li>
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1234
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1244
1245  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (142)</a></li>
1246
1247  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (10)</a></li>
1248
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1250
1251  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
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1253  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (219)</a></li>
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1255  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (21)</a></li>
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1260
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1309  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
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