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- <title>Welcome to the world, Isenkram!</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Welcome_to_the_world__Isenkram_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Welcome_to_the_world__Isenkram_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Yesterday, I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_prototype_ready_making_hardware_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">asked
-for testers</a> for my prototype for making Debian better at handling
-pluggable hardware devices, which I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">set
-out to create</a> earlier this month. Several valuable testers showed
-up, and caused me to really want to to open up the development to more
-people. But before I did this, I want to come up with a sensible name
-for this project. Today I finally decided on a new name, and I have
-renamed the project from hw-support-handler to this new name. In the
-process, I moved the source to git and made it available as a
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/isenkram.git">collab-maint</a>
-repository in Debian. The new name? It is <strong>Isenkram</strong>.
-To fetch and build the latest version of the source, use</p>
-
-<pre>
-git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/isenkram.git
-cd isenkram && git-buildpackage -us -uc
-</pre>
-
-<p>I have not yet adjusted all files to use the new name yet. If you
-want to hack on the source or improve the package, please go ahead.
-But please talk to me first on IRC or via email before you do major
-changes, to make sure we do not step on each others toes. :)</p>
-
-<p>If you wonder what 'isenkram' is, it is a Norwegian word for iron
-stuff, typically meaning tools, nails, screws, etc. Typical hardware
-stuff, in other words. I've been told it is the Norwegian variant of
-the German word eisenkram, for those that are familiar with that
-word.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-01-26</strong>: Added -us -us to build
-instructions, to avoid confusing people with an error from the signing
-process.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-01-27</strong>: Switch to HTTP URL for the git
-clone argument to avoid the need for authentication.</p>
+ <title>How can I install Linux on a Packard Bell Easynote LV preinstalled with Windows 8?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_can_I_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_can_I_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I've run into quite a problem the last few days. I bought three
+new laptops for my parents and a few others. I bought Packard Bell
+Easynote LV to run Kubuntu on and use as their home computer. But I
+am completely unable to figure out how to install Linux on it. The
+computer is preinstalled with Windows 8, and I suspect it uses UEFI
+instead of a BIOS to boot.</p>
+
+<p>The problem is that I am unable to get it to PXE boot, and unable
+to get it to boot the Linux installer from my USB stick. I have yet
+to try the DVD install, and still hope it will work. when I turn on
+the computer, there is no information on what buttons to press to get
+the normal boot menu. I expect to get some boot menu to select PXE or
+USB stick booting. When booting, it first ask for the language to
+use, then for some regional settings, and finally if I will accept the
+Windows 8 terms of use. As these terms are completely unacceptable to
+me, I have no other choice but to turn off the computer and try again
+to get it to boot the Linux installer.</p>
+
+<p>I have gathered my findings so far on a Linlap page about the
+<a href="http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv">Packard Bell
+EasyNote LV</a> model. If you have any idea how to get Linux
+installed on this machine, please get in touch or update that wiki
+page. If I can't find a way to install Linux, I will have to return
+the laptop to the seller and find another machine for my parents.</p>
+
+<p>I wonder, is this the way Linux will be forced out of the marked
+using UEFI and "secure boot" by making it impossible to install Linux
+on new Laptops?</p>
</description>
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- <title>First prototype ready making hardware easier to use in Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_prototype_ready_making_hardware_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_prototype_ready_making_hardware_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Early this month I set out to try to
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">improve
-the Debian support for pluggable hardware devices</a>. Now my
-prototype is working, and it is ready for a larger audience. To test
-it, fetch the
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">source
-from the Debian Edu subversion repository</a>, build and install the
-package. You might have to log out and in again activate the
-autostart script.</p>
-
-<p>The design is simple:</p>
+ <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Nirosan Thiyagalingam</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>En ting
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux-prosjektet</a> har
+hatt mye glede av er studentprosjekter. F.eks. er
+<a href="http://linuxstopmotion.org/">stillbildeanimasjonssystemet
+Stopmotion</a> resultat av et studentprosjekt i Skolelinux. De siste
+månedene har en ivrig student veiledet av Marius Kotsbak i
+<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">FRiSK</a> testet hva en
+kan få til med en datamaskin til NOK 400,- (antagelig 1700,- med
+skjerm, tastatur og mus) når det brukes i Skolelinux. Jeg spurte han
+om et intervju.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Jeg heter Nirosan Thiyagalingam. Jeg er 24 år og studerer
+dataingeniør studiet ved Høgskolen i Sør Trøndelag. Interessen for
+data har siden ung alder vært tilstede og jeg har i tillegg alltid
+vært glad i å lære nye ting. Med teknologi som endres svært hurtig er
+det alltid noe nytt å lære. Noe som igjen har gjort det svært
+interessant å følge med på utviklingen. Jeg valgte dataingeniør
+studiet grunnet ønske om å lære enda mer om programmering og utvikling
+av store systemer.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Skolelinux prosjektet hørte jeg først om i media. Men det var først
+når jeg skulle velge bacheloroppgave at jeg fattet mer interesse for
+prosjektet. Et enkelt søk på nettet førte meg til skolelinux sine
+hjemmesider. Informasjonen jeg fant der gjorde meg enda nysgjerrig og
+jeg valgte derfor en oppgave som gikk ut på å få en
+<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org">Raspberry PI</a>. Altså en
+ultra-billig datamaskin til å kjøre Debian Edu på lik linje med
+vanlige datamaskiner. I løpet av prosjektet ble det gjort mye
+forskning på nettet. Det var mye jeg måtte forstå rundt hvordan
+operativsystemet Linux fungerte før jeg kunne angripe
+problemet. Prøvde først å finne ut hvordan man kunne transformere en
+vanlig installasjon av Skolelinux til Raspberry PI, men dette var
+altfor vanskelig å jeg endte opp med mer spørsmål enn svar. Det ble
+videre opprettet kontakt med Skolelinux utviklere på IRC der jeg fikk
+diskutert hvilken retning jeg burde gå for å få til en fullverdig
+løsning. Det ble bestemt at jeg skulle gå for å først installere
+<a href="http://www.raspbian.org/">Raspian</a>. Dette er et
+operativsystem basert på Debian spesiallaget for Raspberry Pi sin
+maskinvare. Nå som Debian var installert på datamaskinen gjenstod det
+å installere de nødvendige Skolelinux pakkene for å få til et
+fullverdig system. Disse pakkene ble installert manuelt i første
+omgang, men ble senere installert automatisk via et script som Petter
+Reinholdtsen laget. Dette scriptet er så enkel å bruke at man er i
+gang med installasjonen i løpet av bare 5 minutter. Ikke nok med det,
+alt skjer helt automatisk. Alt i alt er jeg veldig fornøyd med
+resultatet av installasjonsprosessen. Raspberry Pi er en veldig svak
+maskin og det merkes godt når man har installert Skolelinux på
+den. Video og 3D-rendering fungerer utrolig dårlig, men nettsurfing og
+kontorprogrammer fungerer godt. Det kan derfor konkluderes med at
+datamaskinen er egnet for enkle oppgaver.
+
+<p>Jeg syns det er viktig påpeke at dette kun er startfasen av en slik
+løsning. På markedet finnes det nå maskiner som har bedre hardware enn
+Raspberry Pi. Det er store muligheter for at man kan klare å
+installere Skolelinux på disse også, og da forsvinner nok mest
+sannsynlig ytelsesproblemene med Video og 3D rendering også.</p>
+
+<p>Det ble også prøvd med en løsning som gjorde at Raspberry Pi
+fungerte som en tynnklient. Denne løsningen hadde langt bedre ytelse
+med tanke på hastighet og brukeropplevelse. Men også her var video og
+3D rendering dårlig. Det ble brukt en liten Linux distribusjon kalt
+<a href="http://www.berryterminal.com/">BerryTerminal</a> for å få til
+dette.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Fordelen med Skolelinux er mange. At det er gratis er en stor
+fordel, men at det er så mange som er med på å utvikle det og
+vedlikeholde det er en enda større fordel. Allerede før jeg startet
+med prosjektet så jeg mange fordeler, og når jeg nærmet meg sluttfasen
+så jeg langt flere. At prosjektet skulle inneha en så høy kvalitet
+hadde jeg aldri trodd. En vanlig Skolelinux installasjon har de
+nødvendige programmene og funksjonen som både små og store skoler i
+tillegg til organisasjoner kan klare seg med. At prosjektet tilbyr en
+så komplett løsning er en kjempefordel. Installasjonen er knirkefri
+og det er svært enkelt å installere og komme i gang.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Ulempene jeg ser med prosjektet er ryddigheten av websidene. Selv
+om websidene er enkle og konsise er det allikevel ikke appellerende i
+like stor grad som for eksempel
+<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> sine sider. Deres side
+tilbyr, i tillegg til godt design og presentasjon, en nettbasert
+emulator av deres operativsystem. Dette er en stor fordel slik jeg ser
+det. Bortsett fra dette ser jeg absolutt ingen ulemper med
+Skolelinux-prosjektet.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Til daglig er jeg en flittig bruker av det åpne media
+sentersystemet <a href="http://xbmc.org/">XBMC</a>. Det enorme
+samfunnet rundt dette prosjektet har gjort dette til et program som
+dekker alles behov. Man kan tilpasse det akkurat slik man vil både med
+tanke på utseende og funksjoner ved installere plug-ins eller
+scripts.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
+skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Strategien som burde brukes sett fra mine øyne er
+markedsføring. Jeg er sikker på at om flere skoler fikk et lite innsyn
+i hvor bra Skolelinux er så ville de ikke nølt med å gå over fra noe
+annet som koster de store summer. At skolelinux til de grader tilbyr
+en så komplett løsning bure komme frem. Enten via reklamekampanjer
+eller ved å sende ut folk til skoler for så å la skolenettverk
+ansvarlige få teste ut hvordan Skolelinux fungerer i praksis. Om det
+i tillegg ble utviklet gode websider og en emulator for å la brukere
+prøve operativsystemet ville nok dette ha styrket inntrykket
+betraktelig.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>How to transform a Debian based system to a Debian Edu installation</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> is
+an operating system based on Debian intended for use in schools. It
+contain a turn-key solution for the computer network provided to
+pupils in the primary schools. It provide both the central server,
+network boot servers and desktop environments with heaps of
+educational software. The project was founded almost 12 years ago,
+2001-07-02. If you want to support the project, which is in need for
+cash to fund developer gatherings and other project related activity,
+<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">please
+donate some money</a>.
+
+<p>A topic that come up again and again on the Debian Edu mailing
+lists and elsewhere, is the question on how to transform a Debian or
+Ubuntu installation into a Debian Edu installation. It isn't very
+hard, and last week I wrote a script to replicate the steps done by
+the Debian Edu installer.</p>
+
+<p>The script,
+<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/branches/wheezy/debian-edu-config/share/debian-edu-config/tools/debian-edu-bless?view=markup">debian-edu-bless<a/>
+in the debian-edu-config package, will go through these six steps and
+transform an existing Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu (untested) installation
+into a Debian Edu Workstation:</p>
+
+<ol>
+
+<li>Add skolelinux related APT sources.</li>
+<li>Create /etc/debian-edu/config with the wanted configuration.</li>
+<li>Install debian-edu-install to load preseeding values and pull in
+ our configuration.</li>
+<li>Preseed debconf database with profile setup in
+ /etc/debian-edu/config, and run tasksel to install packages
+ according to the profile specified in the config above,
+ overriding some of the Debian automation machinery.</li>
+<li>Run debian-edu-cfengine-D installation to configure everything
+ that could not be done using preseeding.</li>
+<li>Ask for a reboot to enable all the configuration changes.</li>
+
+</ol>
+
+<p>There are some steps in the Debian Edu installation that can not be
+replicated like this. Disk partitioning and LVM setup, for example.
+So this script just assume there is enough disk space to install all
+the needed packages.</p>
+
+<p>The script was created to help a Debian Edu student working on
+setting up <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org">Raspberry Pi</a> as a
+Debian Edu client, and using it he can take the existing
+<a href="http://www.raspbian.org/FrontPage">Raspbian</a> installation and
+transform it into a fully functioning Debian Edu Workstation (or
+Roaming Workstation, or whatever :).</p>
+
+<p>The default setting in the script is to create a KDE Workstation.
+If a LXDE based Roaming workstation is wanted instead, modify the
+PROFILE and DESKTOP values at the top to look like this instead:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+PROFILE="Roaming-Workstation"
+DESKTOP="lxde"
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>The script could even become useful to set up Debian Edu servers in
+the cloud, by starting with a virtual Debian installation at some
+virtual hosting service and setting up all the services on first
+boot.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Second alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project</a> is making great progress and made its second Wheezy based
+release today. This is the release announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released
+2013-05-14</strong></p>
+
+<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
+alpha1, based on <ahref="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> with
+codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
+on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
+configured school network. Immediatly after installation a school
+server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
+waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
+Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
+initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all
+other machines can be installed via the network.</p>
+
+<p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
+not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
+version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by
+ default.</li>
+ <li>Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.</li>
+ <li>Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.</li>
+ <li>Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on
+ ibus-anthy.</li>
+</ul>
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
<ul>
-<li>Add desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ causing a program
-hw-support-handlerd to start when the user log in.</li>
+ <li>Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and
+ reliability improvements.</li>
+ <li>Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because
+ of <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706434">706434</a>.</li>
+ <li>Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible
+ problems.</li>
+ <li>Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus
+ direct:// URL.</li>
+ <li>Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.</li>
+ <li>Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.</li>
+ <li>Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.</li>
+ <li>Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client
+ servers, to make room for all the software installed.</li>
+ <li>Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to
+ log in (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706753">706753</a>).</li>
+</ul>
-<li>This program listen for kernel events about new hardware (directly
-from the kernel like udev does), not using HAL dbus events as I
-initially did.</li>
+<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+<ul>
-<li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware modalias in
-the APT database, a database
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/modaliases?view=markup">available
-via HTTP</a> and a database available as part of the package.</li>
+ <li>IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address
+ (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/705900">705900</a>). Only install
+ libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations until it is fixed.</li>
+ <li>DVD images are not yet ready.</li>
+ <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+ available yet (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/698840">698840</a>).</li>
+ <li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).</li>
+ <li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.</li>
+ <li>LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password
+ (website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.</li>
+ <li>Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to
+ password submission problem
+ (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/700257">700257</a>).</li>
-<li>If a package is mapped to the hardware in question, the package
-isn't installed yet and this is the first time the hardware was
-plugged in, show a desktop notification suggesting to install the
-package or packages.</li>
+</ul>
-<li>If the user click on the 'install package now' button, ask
-aptdaemon via the PackageKit API to install the requrired package.</li>
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
-<li>aptdaemon ask for root password or sudo password, and install the
-package while showing progress information in a window.</li>
+<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
+<ul>
+
+ <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
+ <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</li>
</ul>
-<p>I still need to come up with a better name for the system. Here
-are some screen shots showing the prototype in action. First the
-notification, then the password request, and finally the request to
-approve all the dependencies. Sorry for the Norwegian Bokmål GUI.</p>
-
-<p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-1-notification.png">
-<br><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-2-password.png">
-<br><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-3-dependencies.png">
-<br><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-4-installing.png">
-<br><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-21-hw-support-5-installing-details.png" width="70%"></p>
-
-<p>The prototype still need to be improved with longer timeouts, but
-is already useful. The database of hardware to package mappings also
-need more work. It is currently compatible with the Ubuntu way of
-storing such information in the package control file, but could be
-changed to use other formats instead or in addition to the current
-method. I've dropped the use of discover for this mapping, as the
-modalias approach is more flexible and easier to use on Linux as long
-as the Linux kernel expose its modalias strings directly.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-01-21 16:50</strong>: Due to popular demand,
-here is the command required to check out and build the source: Use
-'<tt>svn checkout
-svn://svn.debian.org/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/; cd
-hw-support-handler; debuild</tt>'. If you lack debuild, install the
-devscripts package.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-01-23 12:00</strong>: The project is now
-renamed to Isenkram and the source moved from the Debian Edu
-subversion repository to a Debian collab-maint git repository. See
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Welcome_to_the_world__Isenkram_.html">build
-instructions</a> for details.</p>
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b</p>
+
+<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c</p>
+
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Thank you Thinkpad X41, for your long and trustworthy service</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>This Christmas my trusty old laptop died. It died quietly and
-suddenly in bed. With a quiet whimper, it went completely quiet and
-black. The power button was no longer able to turn it on. It was a
-IBM Thinkpad X41, and the best laptop I ever had. Better than both
-Thinkpads X30, X31, X40, X60, X61 and X61S. Far better than the
-Compaq I had before that. Now I need to find a replacement. To keep
-going during Christmas, I moved the one year old SSD disk to my old
-X40 where it fitted (only one I had left that could use it), but it is
-not a durable solution.
-
-<p>My laptop needs are fairly modest. This is my wishlist from when I
-got a new one more than 10 years ago. It still holds true.:)</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>Lightweight (around 1 kg) and small volume (preferably smaller
- than A4).</li>
-<li>Robust, it will be in my backpack every day.</li>
-<li>Three button mouse and a mouse pin instead of touch pad.</li>
-<li>Long battery life time. Preferable a week.</li>
-<li>Internal WIFI network card.</li>
-<li>Internal Twisted Pair network card.</li>
-<li>Some USB slots (2-3 is plenty)</li>
-<li>Good keyboard - similar to the Thinkpad.</li>
-<li>Video resolution at least 1024x768, with size around 12" (A4 paper
-size).</li>
-<li>Hardware supported by Debian Stable, ie the default kernel and
- X.org packages.</li>
-<li>Quiet, preferably fan free (or at least not using the fan most of
- the time).
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>You will notice that there are no RAM and CPU requirements in the
-list. The reason is simply that the specifications on laptops the
-last 10-15 years have been sufficient for my needs, and I have to look
-at other features to choose my laptop. But are there still made as
-robust laptops as my X41? The Thinkpad X60/X61 proved to be less
-robust, and Thinkpads seem to be heading in the wrong direction since
-Lenovo took over. But I've been told that X220 and X1 Carbon might
-still be useful.</p>
-
-<p>Perhaps I should rethink my needs, and look for a pad with an
-external keyboard? I'll have to check the
-<a href="http://www.linux-laptop.net/">Linux Laptops site</a> for
-well-supported laptops, or perhaps just buy one preinstalled from one
-of the vendors listed on the <a href="http://linuxpreloaded.com/">Linux
-Pre-loaded site</a>.</p>
+ <title>Debian, the Linux distribution of choice for LEGO designers?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian__the_Linux_distribution_of_choice_for_LEGO_designers_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian__the_Linux_distribution_of_choice_for_LEGO_designers_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><P>In January,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">I
+announced a</a> new <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">IRC
+channel #debian-lego</a>, for those of us in the Debian and Linux
+community interested in <a href="http://www.lego.com/">LEGO</a>, the
+marvellous construction system from Denmark. We also created
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">a wiki page</a> to have
+a place to take notes and write down our plans and hopes. And several
+people showed up to help. I was very happy to see the effect of my
+call. Since the small start, we have a debtags tag
+<a href="http://debtags.debian.net/search/bytag?wl=hardware::hobby:lego">hardware::hobby:lego</a>
+tag for LEGO related packages, and now count 10 packages related to
+LEGO and <a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/">Mindstorms</a>:</p>
+
+<p><table>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/brickos">brickos</a></td><td>alternative OS for LEGO Mindstorms RCX. Supports development in C/C++</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/leocad">leocad</a></td><td>virtual brick CAD software</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/libnxt">libnxt</a></td><td>utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NX</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/lnpd">lnpd</a></td><td>daemon for LNP communication with BrickOS</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nbc">nbc</a></td><td>compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nqc">nqc</a></td><td>Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt">python-nxt</a></td><td>python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt-filer">python-nxt-filer</a></td><td>simple GUI to manage files on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/scratch">scratch</a></td><td>easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t2n">t2n</a></td><td>simple command-line tool for Lego NXT</td></tr>
+</table></p>
+
+<p>Some of these are available in Wheezy, and all but one are
+currently available in Jessie/testing. leocad is so far only
+available in experimental.</p>
+
+<p>If you care about LEGO in Debian, please join us on IRC and help
+adding the rest of the great free software tools available on Linux
+for LEGO designers.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>How to find a browser plugin supporting a given MIME type</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_find_a_browser_plugin_supporting_a_given_MIME_type.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_find_a_browser_plugin_supporting_a_given_MIME_type.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Some times I try to figure out which Iceweasel browser plugin to
-install to get support for a given MIME type. Thanks to
-<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Plugins">specifications
-done by Ubuntu</a> and Mozilla, it is possible to do this in Debian.
-Unfortunately, not very many packages provide the needed meta
-information, Anyway, here is a small script to look up all browser
-plugin packages announcing ther MIME support using this specification:</p>
-
-<pre>
-#!/usr/bin/python
-import sys
-import apt
-def pkgs_handling_mimetype(mimetype):
- cache = apt.Cache()
- cache.open(None)
- thepkgs = []
- for pkg in cache:
- version = pkg.candidate
- if version is None:
- version = pkg.installed
- if version is None:
- continue
- record = version.record
- if not record.has_key('Npp-MimeType'):
- continue
- mime_types = record['Npp-MimeType'].split(',')
- for t in mime_types:
- t = t.rstrip().strip()
- if t == mimetype:
- thepkgs.append(pkg.name)
- return thepkgs
-mimetype = "audio/ogg"
-if 1 < len(sys.argv):
- mimetype = sys.argv[1]
-print "Browser plugin packages supporting %s:" % mimetype
-for pkg in pkgs_handling_mimetype(mimetype):
- print " %s" %pkg
-</pre>
-
-<p>It can be used like this to look up a given MIME type:</p>
-
-<pre>
-% ./apt-find-browserplug-for-mimetype
-Browser plugin packages supporting audio/ogg:
- gecko-mediaplayer
-% ./apt-find-browserplug-for-mimetype application/x-shockwave-flash
-Browser plugin packages supporting application/x-shockwave-flash:
- browser-plugin-gnash
-%
-</pre>
-
-<p>In Ubuntu this mechanism is combined with support in the browser
-itself to query for plugins and propose to install the needed
-packages. It would be great if Debian supported such feature too. Is
-anyone working on adding it?</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-01-18 14:20</strong>: The Debian BTS
-request for icweasel support for this feature is
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/484010">#484010</a> from 2008 (and
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/698426">#698426</a> from today). Lack
-of manpower and wish for a different design is the reason thus feature
-is not yet in iceweasel from Debian.</p>
+ <title>Narvik sparer minst 9 millioner på å bruke Skolelinux</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I fjor sommer ble jeg
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html">gledelig
+overrasket</a> over et oppslag i avisen Fremover om Narvik kommunes
+bruk av <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>. Oppslaget
+var basert på et notat som besvarte spørsmål fra ordfører Tor Nysæter
+og rådgiver for skolesektoren, Petter Falkbu, om bruken av Skolelinux
+i Narvikskolene og konstnaden ved å gå over til Windows. For litt
+over en uke siden siden fikk jeg endelig bedt kommunen om å få innsyn
+i dette notatet, og det ble oversendt på epost tirsdag. Jeg fikk
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Narvik-kommune/2013-04-29-09:12-skolelinux-notat/PetterFalkbuogwindowsfornarvikskolen%20(L)351310.pdf">lagt
+ut notatet</a> samme dag, og fikk i dag sjekket postlista til Narvik,
+der jeg fant notatet som
+<a href="https://www.narvik.kommune.no/innsyn.aspx?response=arkivsak_detaljer&arkivsakid=2013001023&scripturi=/innsyn.aspx&skin=infolink&Mid1=301&">sak
+2013/1023</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Notatet forteller at Narvik ville måtte betalt minst 9 millioner
+for å gå over til Windows på skolene. I tillegg dokumenterer notatet
+at læreplanens krav oppfylles uten problemer ved bruk av Skolelinux.
+Jeg anbefaler alle å lese de 10 sidene med gode argumenter for å kutte
+unødige utgifter på IT i skoleverket. :)</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>What is the most supported MIME type in Debian?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_most_supported_MIME_type_in_Debian_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal">DEP-11
-proposal to add AppStream information to the Debian archive</a>, is a
-proposal to make it possible for a Desktop application to propose to
-the user some package to install to gain support for a given MIME
-type, font, library etc. that is currently missing. With such
-mechanism in place, it would be possible for the desktop to
-automatically propose and install leocad if some LDraw file is
-downloaded by the browser.</p>
-
-<p>To get some idea about the current content of the archive, I decided
-to write a simple program to extract all .desktop files from the
-Debian archive and look up the claimed MIME support there. The result
-can be found on the
-<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/AppStreamTest">Skolelinux FTP
-site</a>. Using the collected information, it become possible to
-answer the question in the title. Here are the 20 most supported MIME
-types in Debian stable (Squeeze), testing (Wheezy) and unstable (Sid).
-The complete list is available from the link above.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Debian Stable:</strong></p>
-
-<pre>
- count MIME type
- ----- -----------------------
- 32 text/plain
- 30 audio/mpeg
- 29 image/png
- 28 image/jpeg
- 27 application/ogg
- 26 audio/x-mp3
- 25 image/tiff
- 25 image/gif
- 22 image/bmp
- 22 audio/x-wav
- 20 audio/x-flac
- 19 audio/x-mpegurl
- 18 video/x-ms-asf
- 18 audio/x-musepack
- 18 audio/x-mpeg
- 18 application/x-ogg
- 17 video/mpeg
- 17 audio/x-scpls
- 17 audio/ogg
- 16 video/x-ms-wmv
-</pre>
-
-<p><strong>Debian Testing:</strong></p>
-
-<pre>
- count MIME type
- ----- -----------------------
- 33 text/plain
- 32 image/png
- 32 image/jpeg
- 29 audio/mpeg
- 27 image/gif
- 26 image/tiff
- 26 application/ogg
- 25 audio/x-mp3
- 22 image/bmp
- 21 audio/x-wav
- 19 audio/x-mpegurl
- 19 audio/x-mpeg
- 18 video/mpeg
- 18 audio/x-scpls
- 18 audio/x-flac
- 18 application/x-ogg
- 17 video/x-ms-asf
- 17 text/html
- 17 audio/x-musepack
- 16 image/x-xbitmap
-</pre>
-
-<p><strong>Debian Unstable:</strong></p>
-
-<pre>
- count MIME type
- ----- -----------------------
- 31 text/plain
- 31 image/png
- 31 image/jpeg
- 29 audio/mpeg
- 28 application/ogg
- 27 image/gif
- 26 image/tiff
- 26 audio/x-mp3
- 23 audio/x-wav
- 22 image/bmp
- 21 audio/x-flac
- 20 audio/x-mpegurl
- 19 audio/x-mpeg
- 18 video/x-ms-asf
- 18 video/mpeg
- 18 audio/x-scpls
- 18 application/x-ogg
- 17 audio/x-musepack
- 16 video/x-ms-wmv
- 16 video/x-msvideo
-</pre>
-
-<p>I am told that PackageKit can provide an API to access the kind of
-information mentioned in DEP-11. I have not yet had time to look at
-it, but hope the PackageKit people in Debian are on top of these
-issues.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-01-16 13:35</strong>: Updated numbers after
-discovering a typo in my script.</p>
+ <title>Debian Wheezy is out - and Debian Edu / Skolelinux should soon follow! #newinwheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 07:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>When I woke up this morning, I was very happy to see that the
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504">release announcement
+for Debian Wheezy</a> was waiting in my mail box. This is a great
+Debian release, and I expect to move my machines at home over to it fairly
+soon.</p>
+
+<p>The new debian release contain heaps of new stuff, and one program
+in particular make me very happy to see included. The
+<a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/">Scratch</a> program, made famous by
+the <a href="http://www.code.org/">Teach kids code</a> movement, is
+included for the first time. Alongside similar programs like
+<a href="http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/">kturtle</a> and
+<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art">turtleart</a>,
+it allow for visual programming where syntax errors can not happen,
+and a friendly programming environment for learning to control the
+computer. Scratch will also be included in the next release of Debian
+Edu.</a>
+
+<p>And now that Wheezy is wrapped up, we can wrap up the next Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux release too. The
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/04/msg00132.html">first
+alpha release</a> went out last week, and the next should soon
+follow.<p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Using modalias info to find packages handling my hardware</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_modalias_info_to_find_packages_handling_my_hardware.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_modalias_info_to_find_packages_handling_my_hardware.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Yesterday, I wrote about the
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html">modalias
-values provided by the Linux kernel</a> following my hope for
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">better
-dongle support in Debian</a>. Using this knowledge, I have tested how
-modalias values attached to package names can be used to map packages
-to hardware. This allow the system to look up and suggest relevant
-packages when I plug in some new hardware into my machine, and replace
-discover and discover-data as the database used to map hardware to
-packages.</p>
-
-<p>I create a modaliases file with entries like the following,
-containing package name, kernel module name (if relevant, otherwise
-the package name) and globs matching the relevant hardware
-modalias.</p>
+ <title>Vårt konkurransebidrag til #apps4norge bruker @opnedata</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/V_rt_konkurransebidrag_til__apps4norge_bruker__opnedata.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/V_rt_konkurransebidrag_til__apps4norge_bruker__opnedata.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 1 May 2013 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>For noen uker siden, innen fristen 2013-04-15, leverte jeg og
+Morten Kjelkenes vårt bidrag til
+<a href="http://www.apps4norge.no/">DIFIs apps4norge-konkurranse</a>
+under lagnavnet <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>s tannlegeteam.
+Vi leverte følgende i idé-kategorien:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p><strong>Tittel: Stikk innom tannlegen</strong><p>
+
+<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-05-01-tannlegeportal.jpeg"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-05-01-tannlegeportal.jpeg"></a></p>
+
+<p><strong>Beskrivelse:</strong><p>
+
+<p><em>Idéen</em>
+
+<p>Gjøre det enklere å finne en tannlege som er praktisk for deg, der
+pris og reisetid med kollektivt, til fots eller med bil er tatt med i
+beregningen, ved å oppgi hvor en bor og jobber, og få forslag til
+tannleger både i nærheten og på veien mellom disse stedene.</p>
+
+<p>Brukeren oppgir hjemmeadresse og jobbadresse, og kanskje også
+barnehage. Så kan en også oppgi egen timelønn (for å beregne taps
+arbeidsfortjeneste) og om en reiser med kollektivt, til fots eller
+kjører bil. Så trykker en søk, og får opp en todelt side med kart og
+tekstliste. I kartdelen vises aktuelle tannleger (for eksempel maks
+7), og i tekstdelen er de samme tannlegene listet opp, med pris og
+reisetid for kollektivtransport, og pris pluss reisekostnad hvis en
+reiser med bil. En kan endre sorteringsrekkefølge for listen ved å
+trykke på aktuell kolonne, og velge om en skal sortere på pris,
+reisetid eller totalkostnad. Kun tannleger som tar imot nye kunder tas
+i utganspunktet med i listen. Når brukeren trykker med musa en
+tannlegemarkør på kartet kommer det en popup med detaljer om
+tannlegen, den samme informasjonen som finnes i listen under kartet,
+og lenke til mer informasjon om tannlegen.</p>
+
+<p>For hvert enkelt tannlegekontor er det tilgjengelig en
+informasjonsside med adresse, hjemmesideurl, telefonnummer, lenke til
+side for å finne reisebeskrivelse, åpningstider, etc.</p>
+
+<p><em>Nytteverdi for brukeren</em></p>
-<p><blockquote>
-Package: package-name
-<br>Modaliases: module(modaliasglob, modaliasglob, modaliasglob)</p>
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>It is fairly trivial to write code to find the relevant packages
-for a given modalias value using this file.</p>
-
-<p>An entry like this would suggest the video and picture application
-cheese for many USB web cameras (interface bus class 0E01):</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-Package: cheese
-<br>Modaliases: cheese(usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip*)</p>
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>An entry like this would suggest the pcmciautils package when a
-CardBus bridge (bus class 0607) PCI device is present:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-Package: pcmciautils
-<br>Modaliases: pcmciautils(pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc06sc07i*)
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>An entry like this would suggest the package colorhug-client when
-plugging in a ColorHug with USB IDs 04D8:F8DA:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>sparer tid på tannlegebesøk</li>
+<li>kan utnytte normal reisevei mellom hjem/jobb/barnehage</li>
+<li>kan finne aktuell tannlege basert på flere kriterier</li>
+<li>sile bort tannleger som ikke tar imot flere kunder</li>
+<li>får kart som viser tannleger i nærheten, på tvers av kommunegrenser</li>
+</ul>
-<p><blockquote>
-Package: colorhug-client
-<br>Modaliases: colorhug-client(usb:v04D8pF8DAd*)</p>
-</blockquote></p>
+<p><em>Grad av innovasjon, nytenkning og kreativitet</em></p>
-<p>I believe the format is compatible with the format of the Packages
-file in the Debian archive. Ubuntu already uses their Packages file
-to store their mappings from packages to hardware.</p>
-
-<p>By adding a XB-Modaliases: header in debian/control, any .deb can
-announce the hardware it support in a way my prototype understand.
-This allow those publishing packages in an APT source outside the
-Debian archive as well as those backporting packages to make sure the
-hardware mapping are included in the package meta information. I've
-tested such header in the pymissile package, and its modalias mapping
-is working as it should with my prototype. It even made it to Ubuntu
-Raring.</p>
-
-<p>To test if it was possible to look up supported hardware using only
-the shell tools available in the Debian installer, I wrote a shell
-implementation of the lookup code. The idea is to create files for
-each modalias and let the shell do the matching. Please check out and
-try the
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/hw-support-lookup?view=co">hw-support-lookup</a>
-shell script. It run without any extra dependencies and fetch the
-hardware mappings from the Debian archive and the subversion
-repository where I currently work on my prototype.</p>
-
-<p>When I use it on a machine with a yubikey inserted, it suggest to
-install yubikey-personalization:</p>
+<p>Enkel tjeneste som fokuserer på det vi selv mener er relevant ved valg
+av tannlege.</p>
-<p><blockquote>
-% ./hw-support-lookup
-<br>yubikey-personalization
-<br>%
-</blockquote></p>
+<p>Tjenestekonseptet kan også brukes til andre næringer, f.eks. lege,
+butikk, leiebiler, hvis en har aktuell datakilde å koble med.</p>
-<p>When I run it on my Thinkpad X40 with a PCMCIA/CardBus slot, it
-propose to install the pcmciautils package:</p>
+<p>Skulle gjerne hatt med vurdering av tannlegene tilgjengelig, slik
+at en kunne finne "flinke" tannleger basert på et eller annet
+kriterium.</p>
-<p><blockquote>
-% ./hw-support-lookup
-<br>pcmciautils
-<br>%
-</blockquote></p>
+<p><em>Markedspotensiale - potensiale for å slå gjennom hos mange
+brukere</em></p>
-<p>If you know of any hardware-package mapping that should be added to
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/modaliases?view=co">my
-database</a>, please tell me about it.</p>
-
-<p>It could be possible to generate several of the mappings between
-packages and hardware. One source would be to look at packages with
-kernel modules, ie packages with *.ko files in /lib/modules/, and
-extract their modalias information. Another would be to look at
-packages with udev rules, ie packages with files in
-/lib/udev/rules.d/, and extract their vendor/model information to
-generate a modalias matching rule. I have not tested any of these to
-see if it work.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what
-packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
-machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel">#debian-devel</a>.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Modalias strings - a practical way to map "stuff" to hardware</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>While looking into how to look up Debian packages based on hardware
-information, to find the packages that support a given piece of
-hardware, I refreshed my memory regarding modalias values, and decided
-to document the details. Here are my findings so far, also available
-in
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
-Debian Edu subversion repository</a>:
-
-<p><strong>Modalias decoded</strong></p>
-
-<p>This document try to explain what the different types of modalias
-values stands for. It is in part based on information from
-&lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias</a> &gt;,
-&lt;URL: <a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device</a> &gt;,
-&lt;URL: <a href="http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c">http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c</a> &gt; and
-&lt;URL: <a href="http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup">http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup</a> &gt;.
-
-<p>The modalias entries for a given Linux machine can be found using
-this shell script:</p>
-
-<pre>
-find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat | sort -u
-</pre>
-
-<p>The supported modalias globs for a given kernel module can be found
-using modinfo:</p>
-
-<pre>
-% /sbin/modinfo psmouse | grep alias:
-alias: serio:ty05pr*id*ex*
-alias: serio:ty01pr*id*ex*
-%
-</pre>
-
-<p><strong>PCI subtype</strong></p>
-
-<p>A typical PCI entry can look like this. This is an Intel Host
-Bridge memory controller:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Alle som ønsker eller vurderer å skaffe seg ny tannlege, f.eks. nyinnflyttede og studenter</li>
+<li>Familier med en travel hverdag</li>
+</ul>
-<p><blockquote>
-pci:v00008086d00002770sv00001028sd000001ADbc06sc00i00
-</blockquote></p>
+<p>Felles er at den gjør tannlegen lettere tilgjengelig for de som vil spare tid eller penger.</p>
-<p>This represent these values:</p>
+<p><em>Samfunnsøkonomisk nytte - bidrar til å løse
+samfunnsutfordringer</em></p>
-<pre>
- v 00008086 (vendor)
- d 00002770 (device)
- sv 00001028 (subvendor)
- sd 000001AD (subdevice)
- bc 06 (bus class)
- sc 00 (bus subclass)
- i 00 (interface)
-</pre>
+<p>Kutter tid brukt på tannlegebesøk, og penger frigjøres som kan brukes på andre områder. Oppfordrer til bedre bruk av kollektivtransport ved å gi tips om tannleger i nærheten av allerede brukt reisevei mellom hjemme og jobb når en reiser kollektivt.</p>
-<p>The vendor/device values are the same values outputted from 'lspci
--n' as 8086:2770. The bus class/subclass is also shown by lspci as
-0600. The 0600 class is a host bridge. Other useful bus values are
-0300 (VGA compatible card) and 0200 (Ethernet controller).</p>
+<p><em>X-faktor - “Det lille ekstra...”</em></p>
-<p>Not sure how to figure out the interface value, nor what it
-means.</p>
+<p>Denne tjenesten gir det lille ekstra ved at den ikke slår opp
+avstand til tannlege fra et enkelt punkt men avstand fra en reisevei,
+slik at en får flere tannleger å velge imellom og kanskje kan spare
+enda mer tid og penger enn en ville gjort ved å sjekke kun de nærmest
+hjemme eller jobb.</p>
-<p><strong>USB subtype</strong></p>
+<p>Tjenesten gir informasjonen både som kart og som tekstlig oversikt, for å sikre at blinde og svaksynte kan få tilgang til informasjonen selv om de ikke får brukt kartvisningen.</p>
-<p>Some typical USB entries can look like this. This is an internal
-USB hub in a laptop:</p>
+<p><em>Datasett brukt</em></p>
-<p><blockquote>
-usb:v1D6Bp0001d0206dc09dsc00dp00ic09isc00ip00
-</blockquote></p>
+<ul>
-<p>Here is the values included in this alias:</p>
+<li><a href="http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/">http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/</a>
+(Ikke-publisert JSON-API), se f.eks. JSON-output fra
+<a href="http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/services/klinikker/oslo/undersokelse-med-2-rontgenbilder">http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/services/klinikker/oslo/undersokelse-med-2-rontgenbilder</a></li>
-<pre>
- v 1D6B (device vendor)
- p 0001 (device product)
- d 0206 (bcddevice)
- dc 09 (device class)
- dsc 00 (device subclass)
- dp 00 (device protocol)
- ic 09 (interface class)
- isc 00 (interface subclass)
- ip 00 (interface protocol)
-</pre>
+<li>Kartdata,
+<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">http://www.openstreetmap.org/</a>
+<a href="http://mapit.nuug.no/">http://mapit.nuug.no/</a> (nabokommuner, postnummer)</li>
-<p>The 0900 device class/subclass means hub. Some times the relevant
-class is in the interface class section. For a simple USB web camera,
-these alias entries show up:</p>
+<li><a href="http://labs.trafikanten.no/how-to-use-the-api.aspx">http://labs.trafikanten.no/how-to-use-the-api.aspx</a>
+(reisetid med kollektivtrafikk på Østlandet),
+<a href="http://data.norge.no/data/ruter-kollektivtrafikkdata">http://data.norge.no/data/ruter-kollektivtrafikkdata</a></li>
-<p><blockquote>
-usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc01ip00
-<br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc02ip00
-<br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00
-<br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc02ip00
-</blockquote></p>
+<li><a href="http://reiseregningen.no">http://reiseregningen.no</a>
+(data om statens satser for biltransport)</li>
-<p>Interface class 0E01 is video control, 0E02 is video streaming (aka
-camera), 0101 is audio control device and 0102 is audio streaming (aka
-microphone). Thus this is a camera with microphone included.</p>
+<li>Kollektivtrafikkkart,
+<a href="http://öpnvkarte.de/?zoom=17&lat=59.91056&lon=10.75641&layers=BT">http://öpnvkarte.de/?zoom=17&lat=59.91056&lon=10.75641&layers=BT</a></li>
-<p><strong>ACPI subtype</strong></p>
+<li>Routing med OpenStreetmap-data,
+<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/OnlineRouters">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/OnlineRouters</a></li>
-<p>The ACPI type is used for several non-PCI/USB stuff. This is an IR
-receiver in a Thinkpad X40:</p>
+<li>Bilveiruting med OpenStreetmap-data, <a href="http://map.project-osrm.org/">http://map.project-osrm.org/</a></li>
+<li>Kollektivtrafikkruting for Norge med uviss datakilde, <a href="http://dit.no/">http://dit.no/</a></li>
+</ul>
-<p><blockquote>
-acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
-</blockquote></p>
+<p><strong>Åpne offentlige datasett brukt i applikasjonen:</strong></p>
-<p>The values between the colons are IDs.</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Reisetid med kollektivtrafikk på Østlandet</li>
+</ul>
-<p><strong>DMI subtype</strong></p>
+<p><strong>Øvrige datasett brukt i appen/tjenesten:</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>Fakta om tannleger, priser etc (upublisert JSON-API)</li>
+<li>Data om statens satser for biltransport</li>
+<li>Kartbilder, kartdata</li>
+<li>Kommunegrenser, nabokommuner, postnummer</li>
+<li>Bilveiruting med OpenStreetmap-data</li>
+<li>Kollektivtrafikkkart</li>
+<li>Routing med OpenStreetmap-data</li>
+<li>Kollektivtrafikkruting for Norge med uviss dataopphav</li>
+</ul>
-<p>The DMI table contain lots of information about the computer case
-and model. This is an entry for a IBM Thinkpad X40, fetched from
-/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/modalias:</p>
+<p><strong>Kategori: </strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>Arbeid og velferd</li>
+<li>Forbruker</li>
+<li>Økonomi</li>
+</ul>
-<p><blockquote>
-dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1UETB6WW(1.66):bd06/15/2005:svnIBM:pn2371H4G:pvrThinkPadX40:rvnIBM:rn2371H4G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
-</blockquote></p>
+<p><strong>Geografi (dekningsområde for app): </strong></p>
-<p>The values present are</p>
-
-<pre>
- bvn IBM (BIOS vendor)
- bvr 1UETB6WW(1.66) (BIOS version)
- bd 06/15/2005 (BIOS date)
- svn IBM (system vendor)
- pn 2371H4G (product name)
- pvr ThinkPadX40 (product version)
- rvn IBM (board vendor)
- rn 2371H4G (board name)
- rvr NotAvailable (board version)
- cvn IBM (chassis vendor)
- ct 10 (chassis type)
- cvr NotAvailable (chassis version)
-</pre>
-
-<p>The chassis type 10 is Notebook. Other interesting values can be
-found in the dmidecode source:</p>
-
-<pre>
- 3 Desktop
- 4 Low Profile Desktop
- 5 Pizza Box
- 6 Mini Tower
- 7 Tower
- 8 Portable
- 9 Laptop
- 10 Notebook
- 11 Hand Held
- 12 Docking Station
- 13 All In One
- 14 Sub Notebook
- 15 Space-saving
- 16 Lunch Box
- 17 Main Server Chassis
- 18 Expansion Chassis
- 19 Sub Chassis
- 20 Bus Expansion Chassis
- 21 Peripheral Chassis
- 22 RAID Chassis
- 23 Rack Mount Chassis
- 24 Sealed-case PC
- 25 Multi-system
- 26 CompactPCI
- 27 AdvancedTCA
- 28 Blade
- 29 Blade Enclosing
-</pre>
-
-<p>The chassis type values are not always accurately set in the DMI
-table. For example my home server is a tower, but the DMI modalias
-claim it is a desktop.</p>
-
-<p><strong>SerIO subtype</strong></p>
-
-<p>This type is used for PS/2 mouse plugs. One example is from my
-test machine:</p>
+<p>Hele landet</p>
-<p><blockquote>
-serio:ty01pr00id00ex00
-</blockquote></p>
+</blockquote>
-<p>The values present are</p>
-
-<pre>
- ty 01 (type)
- pr 00 (prototype)
- id 00 (id)
- ex 00 (extra)
-</pre>
-
-<p>This type is supported by the psmouse driver. I am not sure what
-the valid values are.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Other subtypes</strong></p>
-
-<p>There are heaps of other modalias subtypes according to
-file2alias.c. There is the rest of the list from that source: amba,
-ap, bcma, ccw, css, eisa, hid, i2c, ieee1394, input, ipack, isapnp,
-mdio, of, parisc, pcmcia, platform, scsi, sdio, spi, ssb, vio, virtio,
-vmbus, x86cpu and zorro. I did not spend time documenting all of
-these, as they do not seem relevant for my intended use with mapping
-hardware to packages when new stuff is inserted during run time.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Looking up kernel modules using modalias values</strong></p>
-
-<p>To check which kernel modules provide support for a given modalias,
-one can use the following shell script:</p>
-
-<pre>
- for id in $(find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat | sort -u); do \
- echo "$id" ; \
- /sbin/modprobe --show-depends "$id"|sed 's/^/ /' ; \
- done
-</pre>
-
-<p>The output can look like this (only the first few entries as the
-list is very long on my test machine):</p>
-
-<pre>
- acpi:ACPI0003:
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko
- acpi:device:
- FATAL: Module acpi:device: not found.
- acpi:IBM0068:
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/char/nvram.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/leds/led-class.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko
- acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/net/irda/irda.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.ko
- [...]
-</pre>
-
-<p>If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what
-packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
-machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel">#debian-devel</a>.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-01-15:</strong> Rewrite "cat $(find ...)" to
-"find ... -print0 | xargs -0 cat" to make sure it handle directories
-in /sys/ with space in them.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Moved the pymissile Debian packaging to collab-maint</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Moved_the_pymissile_Debian_packaging_to_collab_maint.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Moved_the_pymissile_Debian_packaging_to_collab_maint.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian
-for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket
-Launcher and updated the Debian package
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">pymissile</a> to make
-sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in. I
-also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and
-hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user
-plug in his rocket launcher. In the process I moved the source to a
-git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to
-contribute. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/">Upstream</a>
-is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five
-years of relative silence. The new git repository is not listed in
-the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a
-bit more before I upload the new version. If you want to check out
-the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git">gitweb
-view</a> or use "<tt>git clone
-git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git</tt>".</p>
+<p>Vinneren annonseres 2013-05-08 ved
+<a href="http://www.apps4norge.no/arrangement/2013-05-08-invitasjon-til-prisutdeling-apps4norge-8mai-2013">prisutdelingen
+hos DIFI 09:00 til 12:00</a>. Konkurransen blir hard. Det meldes at
+38 apper og 50 ideer er registrert som kandidater. Jeg frykter at jeg
+ikke rekker innom selv, på grunn av jobb og forpliktelser på
+hjemmebanen.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Lets make hardware dongles easier to use in Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
-general, is that there is a great package management system with the
-ability to automatically install software packages by downloading them
-from the distribution mirrors, but no way to get it to automatically
-install the packages I need to use the hardware I plug into my
-machine. Even if the package to use it is easily available from the
-Linux distribution. When I plug in a LEGO Mindstorms NXT, it could
-suggest to automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages
-I need to talk to it. When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
-yubikey-personalization package. The information required to do this
-is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.</p>
-
-<p>Some years ago, I proposed to
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg01206.html">use
-the discover subsystem to implement this</a>. The idea is fairly
-simple:
+ <title>First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
+its first Wheezy based release today. This is the release
+announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
+2013-04-26</strong></p>
+
+<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
+edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediatly after installation a school server running all
+services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
+and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
+environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
+the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
+installed via the network.</p>
+
+<p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
+not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
+version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
<ul>
+<li>Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Linux kernel 3.2.x</li>
+ <li>Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 4
+ (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see
+ manual.)</li>
+ <li>Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR</li>
+ <li>LibreOffice 3.5.4</li>
+ <li>LTSP 5.4.2</li>
+ <li>GOsa 2.7.4</li>
+ <li>CUPS print system 1.5.3</li>
+ <li>Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01</li>
+ <li>Music creator Rosegarden 12.04</li>
+ <li>Image editor Gimp 2.8.2</li>
+ <li>Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1</li>
+ <li>Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3</li>
+ <li>Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6</li>
+ <li>New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation
+ manual</a> for more details.</li>
+ <li>Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
+ installation.</li>
+ <li>More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
+ <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes">release notes</a> and the <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual">installation manual</a>.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+</ul>
-<li>Add a desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ pointing to a program
- starting when a user log in.</li>
-
-<li>Set this program up to listen for kernel events emitted when new
- hardware is inserted into the computer.</li>
-
-<li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware ID in a
- database mapping to packages, and take note of any non-installed
- packages.</li>
-
-<li>Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
- package, and make it easy to install it.</li>
+<p><strong>Documentation</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>The (<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy">English</a>) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to
+ German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
+ for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><Strong>LDAP related changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to
+ choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type
+ server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be
+ configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an
+ entry in lts.conf or LDAP.<li>
+<li>GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non
+ functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are
+ completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Regressions</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
+ yet.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>No updated artwork</strong></p>
+<ul>
+<li>Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login
+ screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we
+ had for our Squeeze based release.</li>
</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
-<p>I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my
-initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the
-discover database to find packages and
-<a href="http://www.packagekit.org/">PackageKit</a> to install
-packages.</p>
-
-<p>Yesterday, I found time to try to implement this idea, and the
-draft package is now checked into
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
-Debian Edu subversion repository</a>. In the process, I updated the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html">discover-data</a>
-package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to
-the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version
-2.2013.01.09 to unstable. I also discovered that the current
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover.html">discover</a>
-package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because
-/proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present. I ported it to use
-libusb as a fall back option to get it working. The fixed package
-version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental (didn't upload it to unstable
-because of the freeze).</p>
-
-<p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
-desktop notification to show up (only once, the first time it is
-inserted):</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png"></p>
-
-<p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
-install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install
-program(s)" button should to be implemented.</p>
-
-<p>If this idea seem useful to you, and you want to help make it
-happen, please help me update the discover-data database with mappings
-from hardware to Debian packages. Check if 'discover-pkginstall -l'
-list the package you would like to have installed when a given
-hardware device is inserted into your computer, and report bugs using
-reportbug if it isn't. Or, if you know of a better way to provide
-such mapping, please let me know.</p>
-
-<p>This prototype need more work, and there are several questions that
-should be considered before it is ready for production use. Is dbus
-the correct way to detect new hardware? At the moment I look for HAL
-dbus events on the system bus, because that is the events I could see
-on my Debian Squeeze KDE desktop. Are there better events to use?
-How should the user be notified? Is the desktop notification
-mechanism the best option, or should the background daemon raise a
-popup instead? How should packages be installed? When should they
-not be installed?</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help getting such feature implemented in Debian,
-please send me an email. :)</p>
+To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
+<ul>
+<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</a></li>
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c</p>
+
+<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2</p>
+
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
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- <title>New IRC channel for LEGO designers using Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>During Christmas, I have worked a bit on the Debian support for
-<a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx">LEGO Mindstorm
-NXT</a>. My son and I have played a bit with my NXT set, and I
-discovered I had to build all the tools myself because none were
-already in Debian Squeeze. If Debian support for LEGO is something
-you care about, please join me on the IRC channel
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">#debian-lego</a> (server
-irc.debian.org). There is a lot that could be done to improve the
-Debian support for LEGO designers. For example both CAD software
-and Mindstorm compilers are missing. :)</p>
-
-<p>Update 2012-01-03: A
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">project page</a>
-including links to Lego related packages is now available.</p>
+ <title>Bitcoin er ikke anonymt - føres Stortinget bak lyset av finansministeren?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_er_ikke_anonymt___f_res_Stortinget_bak_lyset_av_finansministeren_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_er_ikke_anonymt___f_res_Stortinget_bak_lyset_av_finansministeren_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="http://bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a> er mye i mediene for
+tiden. Jeg følger med via Mylder for å finne
+<a href="http://mylder.no/?drill=bitcoin">artikler som omtaler
+temaet</a>, og takket være dette oppdaget jeg at stortingsrepresentant
+Ketil Solvik-Olsen fra FrP nylig har spurt finansminister Sigbjørn
+Johnsen om hans syn på Bitcoin, og
+<a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Sporsmal/Skriftlige-sporsmal-og-svar/Skriftlig-sporsmal/?qid=57052">fått
+svar for noen dager siden</a>. Jeg bet meg spesielt merke til
+følgende formulering fra finansministeren:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+«Det er også utfordringer ved at handel med Bitcoins er uregulert og
+at transaksjonene er anonyme.»
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>At Bitcoin er anonymt er en myte som spres av både journalister og
+andre, så det er ikke veldig overraskende at også finansministeren har
+gått på limpinnen. Det er dog litt rart, da jeg håper at
+finansdepartementet ikke baserer seg på rykter og myter når de
+besvarer Stortinget. Men du trenger ikke bare tro på meg som kilde
+til påstanden om at Bitcoin ikke er anonymt. Sondre Rønjom har
+<a href="http://blogg.nsm.stat.no/archives/3241">via Sikkerhetsbloggen
+hos Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet</a> uttalt følgende:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+«At [bitcoin] i utgangspunktet
+<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524"><em>ikke</em> er anonymt</a>,
+kommer kanskje som en overraskelse på mange.»
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Enhver bevegelse av Bitcoin er offentlig tilgjengelig for alle på
+Internet, og en må legge svært mye innsats inn hvis en skal hindre at
+nettverksanalyse av transaksjonsloggene kan brukes til å identifisere
+brukerne. F.eks. kan en enkelt se hva jeg har mottatt til min
+offentliggjorte mottaksadresse ved å besøke blockexplorer og slå opp
+adressen
+<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a>.
+Det virker dermed på meg ganske klart at å påstå at
+Bitcoin-transaksjoner er anonyme strengt tatt er å føre Stortinget bak
+lyset.</p>
+
+<p>Finansministeren er ikke den eneste som har latt seg forlede av
+medieomtalen. I spørsmålet fra Hr. Solvik-Olsen skriver han at «For
+noen dager siden kom den første bitcoin-minibanken på Kypros», hvilket
+så vidt jeg har klart å finne ut ikke er riktig. Det er annonsert
+planer om en slik minibank (fra
+<a href="http://www.bitcoinatm.com/">BitcoinATM</a>), men jeg finner
+intet tegn til at en slik minibank er utplassert noe sted.</p>
+
+<p>Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
+mine aktiviteter, så setter jeg pris på Bitcoin-donasjoner til min
+adresse
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
</description>
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