- <div class="tags">
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-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fint_at_milit__ret_ikke_ble_aktivisert_22__juli.html">Fint at militæret ikke ble aktivisert 22. juli</a></div>
- <div class="date">2011-08-02 09:35</div>
- <div class="body">
-<p>I <a href="http://www.dagsavisen.no/innenriks/article518719.ece">gårdagens
-dagsavis</a> gjøres det et poeng av at Forsvarets spesialkommando ikke
-ble tatt i bruk da en rykket ut under aksjonene 22. juli. Personlig
-må jeg innrømme at jeg et glad for at militæret ikke ble tatt i bruk,
-og ser ikke det som et problem slik journalisten legger opp til.
-Politi er trent opp til å forholde seg til sivile regler, mens
-militæret er trent opp til å forholde seg til militære regler. For å
-si det litt flåsete, så skal politiet spørre først og skyte etterpå,
-mens militæret skal skyte først og spørre etterpå. Jeg vil helst kun
-ha den første gjengen i aktiv operasjon blant sivile i Norge.</p>
-
-<p>Ikke at jeg egentlig tror våre folk i militæret er mer skyteglade
-enn folk i politiet, men de er trent forskjellig og med forskjellig
-mål for treningen. Politiet er trent på å operere blant sin egen
-sivilbefolkning, mens militære er trent på å operere blant fiendtlige
-tropper. Jeg tror det er en vesentlig forskjell.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
-
- 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>.
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- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fin_minnemarkering_p___Stortinget_i_dag.html">Fin minnemarkering på Stortinget i dag</a></div>
- <div class="date">2011-08-01 16:40</div>
- <div class="body">
-<p>Jeg hadde anledning, så jeg deltok på
-<a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Hva-skjer-pa-Stortinget/Nyhetsarkiv/Forsidenyheter/2010-2011/Minnemote-mandag-1-august-kl-12/">minnemarkeringen
-på Stortinget</a> i dag. Det var en fin markering, og jeg likte talene.
-For meg er demokrati, åpenhet og humanitet fundert på frihet, som jeg
-håper vi alle vil bidra til å beskytte i tiden som kommer. Jeg
-registrerer at det i Danmark
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4189002.ece">diskuteres
-å redusere friheten</a>. Vi bør vite bedre her i Norge. Stoltenberg
-berørte retten til å feile, og den er nært knyttet til muligheten til
-å lykkes. Begge deler krever at en har friheten til å prøve, og den
-er viktig i et samfunn. Friheten til å prøve begrenses når kontroll
-innføres.</p>
-
-<p>Det at noen av stolene i stortingssalen var tomme ga en litt
-uventet ramme til markeringen. Jeg hadde regnet med at
-stortingsrepresentanter, regjeringsmedlemmer og kongehus til sammen
-ville fylle alle setene. Vet ikke hvem som skulle sittet der det var
-ledige plasser, men antar noen var opptatt andre steder. Kanskje i
-begravelser, eller rett og slett var blitt drept (har ikke hørt at
-noen i Stortinget ble drept, men kan ha gått glipp av noe). Det at
-noen manglet synes jeg illustrerte minnestundens poeng godt. Vi
-mangler noen som skulle ha vært blant oss. Det kan aldri gjøres om,
-og bør aldri glemmes.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
-
- 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>.
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- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_should_start_from__etc_rcS_d__in_Debian____almost_nothing.html">What should start from /etc/rcS.d/ in Debian? - almost nothing</a></div>
- <div class="date">2011-07-30 14:00</div>
- <div class="body">
-<p>In the Debian boot system, several packages include scripts that
-are started from /etc/rcS.d/. In fact, there is a bite more of them
-than make sense, and this causes a few problems. What kind of
-problems, you might ask. There are at least two problems. The first
-is that it is not possible to recover a machine after switching to
-runlevel 1. One need to actually reboot to get the machine back to
-the expected state. The other is that single user boot will sometimes
-run into problems because some of the subsystems are activated before
-the root login is presented, causing problems when trying to recover a
-machine from a problem in that subsystem. A minor additional point is
-that moving more scripts out of rcS.d/ and into the other rc#.d/
-directories will increase the amount of scripts that can run in
-parallel during boot, and thus decrease the boot time.</p>
-
-<p>So, which scripts should start from rcS.d/. In short, only the
-scripts that _have_ to execute before the root login prompt is
-presented during a single user boot should go there. Everything else
-should go into the numeric runlevels. This means things like
-lm-sensors, fuse and x11-common should not run from rcS.d, but from
-the numeric runlevels. Today in Debian, there are around 115 init.d
-scripts that are started from rcS.d/, and most of them should be moved
-out. Do your package have one of them? Please help us make single
-user and runlevel 1 better by moving it.</p>
-
-<p>Scripts setting up the screen, keyboard, system partitions
-etc. should still be started from rcS.d/, but there is for example no
-need to have the network enabled before the single user login prompt
-is presented.</p>
-
-<p>As always, things are not so easy to fix as they sound. To keep
-Debian systems working while scripts migrate and during upgrades, the
-scripts need to be moved from rcS.d/ to rc2.d/ in reverse dependency
-order, ie the scripts that nothing in rcS.d/ depend on can be moved,
-and the next ones can only be moved when their dependencies have been
-moved first. This migration must be done sequentially while we ensure
-that the package system upgrade packages in the right order to keep
-the system state correct. This will require some coordination when it
-comes to network related packages, but most of the packages with
-scripts that should migrate do not have anything in rcS.d/ depending
-on them. Some packages have already been updated, like the sudo
-package, while others are still left to do. I wish I had time to work
-on this myself, but real live constrains make it unlikely that I will
-find time to push this forward.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_missing_in_the_Debian_desktop__or_why_my_parents_use_Kubuntu.html">What is missing in the Debian desktop, or why my parents use Kubuntu</a></div>
- <div class="date">2011-07-29 08:10</div>
- <div class="body">
-<p>While at Debconf11, I have several times during discussions
-mentioned the issues I believe should be improved in Debian for its
-desktop to be useful for more people. The use case for this is my
-parents, which are currently running Kubuntu which solve the
-issues.</p>
-
-<p>I suspect these four missing features are not very hard to
-implement. After all, they are present in Ubuntu, so if we wanted to
-do this in Debian we would have a source.</p>
-
-<ol>
-
-<li><strong>Simple GUI based upgrade of packages.</strong> When there
-are new packages available for upgrades, a icon in the KDE status bar
-indicate this, and clicking on it will activate the simple upgrade
-tool to handle it. I have no problem guiding both of my parents
-through the process over the phone. If a kernel reboot is required,
-this too is indicated by the status bars and the upgrade tool. Last
-time I checked, nothing with the same features was working in KDE in
-Debian.</li>
-
-<li><strong>Simple handling of missing Firefox browser
-plugins.</strong> When the browser encounter a MIME type it do not
-currently have a handler for, it will ask the user if the system
-should search for a package that would add support for this MIME type,
-and if the user say yes, the APT sources will be searched for packages
-advertising the MIME type in their control file (visible in the
-Packages file in the APT archive). If one or more packages are found,
-it is a simple click of the mouse to add support for the missing mime
-type. If the package require the user to accept some non-free
-license, this is explained to the user. The entire process make it
-more clear to the user why something do not work in the browser, and
-make the chances higher for the user to blame the web page authors and
-not the browser for any missing features.</li>
-
-<li><strong>Simple handling of missing multimedia codec/format
-handlers.</strong> When the media players encounter a format or codec
-it is not supporting, a dialog pop up asking the user if the system
-should search for a package that would add support for it. This
-happen with things like MP3, Windows Media or H.264. The selection
-and installation procedure is very similar to the Firefox browser
-plugin handling. This is as far as I know implemented using a
-gstreamer hook. The end result is that the user easily get access to
-the codecs that are present from the APT archives available, while
-explaining more on why a given format is unsupported by Ubuntu.</li>
-
-<li><strong>Better browser handling of some MIME types.</strong> When
-displaying a text/plain file in my Debian browser, it will propose to
-start emacs to show it. If I remember correctly, when doing the same
-in Kunbutu it show the file as a text file in the browser. At least I
-know Opera will show text files within the browser. I much prefer the
-latter behaviour.</li>
-
-</ol>
-
-<p>There are other nice features as well, like the simplified suite
-upgrader, but given that I am the one mostly doing the dist-upgrade,
-it do not matter much.</p>
-
-<p>I really hope we could get these features in place for the next
-Debian release. It would require the coordinated effort of several
-maintainers, but would make the end user experience a lot better.</p>