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-               <title>Modalias strings - a practical way to map &quot;stuff&quot; 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>&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/&quot;&gt;the
-Debian Edu subversion repository&lt;/a&gt;:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Modalias decoded&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This document try to explain what the different types of modalias
-values stands for.  It is in part based on information from
-&amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias&quot;&gt;https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;,
-&amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device&quot;&gt;http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;,
-&amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c&quot;&gt;http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt; and
-&amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&amp;view=markup&quot;&gt;http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&amp;view=markup&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;.
-
-&lt;p&gt;The modalias entries for a given Linux machine can be found using
-this shell script:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-cat $(find /sys -name modalias) | sort -u
-&lt;/pre&gt;
+               <title>Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The fourth wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released
+2013-07-03&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediately 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. The provided school server provides LDAP
+database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
+directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
+desktop contains
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
+than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped menu-xdg from the KDE desktop option, to drop the Debian
+    submenu.  It was not included with Gnome, LXDE or Xfce, so this
+    brings KDE in line with the others.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as
+    they don&#39;t have a desktop menu entry and thus won&#39;t show up in the
+    menu now that menu-xdg was removed.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Removed the killer system to kill left behind processes on
+    multi-user machines, as it was no longer able to understand when a
+    X display was in use and killed the processes of the active users
+    too.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy
+    are too few to make the package useful.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
+  &lt;li&gt;Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed
+    up for some language options.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way
+    d-i is doing it.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the
+    debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Made Roaming Workstation dynamic setup more robust and added draft
+    script setup-ad-client to hook a Roaming Workstation up to a
+    Active Directory server instead of a Debian Edu Main Server.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update system to install needed firmware packages during
+    installation, to work properly in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop
+    and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to
+    work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+    available yet (698840).&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Artwork not enabled for all desktops.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The supported modalias globs for a given kernel module can be found
-using modinfo:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;pre&gt;
-% /sbin/modinfo psmouse | grep alias:
-alias:          serio:ty05pr*id*ex*
-alias:          serio:ty01pr*id*ex*
-%
-&lt;/pre&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PCI subtype&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;A typical PCI entry can look like this.  This is an Intel Host
-Bridge memory controller:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-pci:v00008086d00002770sv00001028sd000001ADbc06sc00i00
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;This represent these values:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Automatically locate and install required firmware packages on Debian (Isenkram 0.4)</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It annoys me when the computer fail to do automatically what it is
+perfectly capable of, and I have to do it manually to get things
+working.  One such task is to find out what firmware packages are
+needed to get the hardware on my computer working.  Most often this
+affect the wifi card, but some times it even affect the RAID
+controller or the ethernet card.  Today I pushed version 0.4 of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;Isenkram package&lt;/a&gt;
+including a new script isenkram-autoinstall-firmware handling the
+process of asking all the loaded kernel modules what firmware files
+they want, find debian packages providing these files and install the
+debian packages.  Here is a test run on my laptop:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: kernel drivers requested extra firmware: ipw2200-bss.fw ipw2200-ibss.fw ipw2200-sniffer.fw
+info: fetching http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Contents-i386.gz
+info: locating packages with the requested firmware files
+info: Updating APT sources after adding non-free APT source
+info: trying to install firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+Preconfiguring packages ...
+Selecting previously deselected package firmware-ipw2x00.
+(Reading database ... 259727 files and directories currently installed.)
+Unpacking firmware-ipw2x00 (from .../firmware-ipw2x00_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb) ...
+Setting up firmware-ipw2x00 (0.28+squeeze1) ...
+# 
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When all the requested firmware is present, a simple message is
+printed instead:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules.  exiting
+# 
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It could use some polish, but it is already working well and saving
+me some time when setting up new machines. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;So, how does it work?  It look at the set of currently loaded
+kernel modules, and look up each one of them using modinfo, to find
+the firmware files listed in the module meta-information.  Next, it
+download the Contents file from a nearby APT mirror, and search for
+the firmware files in this file to locate the package with the
+requested firmware file.  If the package is in the non-free section, a
+non-free APT source is added and the package is installed using
+&lt;tt&gt;apt-get install&lt;/tt&gt;.  The end result is a slightly better working
+machine.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I hope someone find time to implement a more polished version of
+this script as part of the hw-detect debian-installer module, to
+finally fix &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655507&quot;&gt;BTS report
+#655507&lt;/a&gt;.  There really is no need to insert USB sticks with
+firmware during a PXE install when the packages already are available
+from the nearby Debian mirror.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>The value of a good distro wide test suite...</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; project, we include a post-installation test suite,
+which check that services are running, working, and return the
+expected results.  It runs automatically just after the first boot on
+test installations (using test ISOs), but not on production
+installations (using non-test ISOs).  It test that the LDAP service is
+operating, Kerberos is responding, DNS is replying, file systems are
+online resizable, etc, etc.  And it check that the PXE service is
+configured, which is the topic of this post.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The last week I&#39;ve fixed the DVD and USB stick ISOs for our Debian
+Edu Wheezy release.  These ISOs are supposed to be able to install a
+complete system without any Internet connection, but for that to
+happen all the needed packages need to be on them.  Thanks to our test
+suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to
+cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
+When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
+using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require
+working packages to get it working.  And ad the packages changed name
+from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
+debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
+packages during installation.  Without our test suite, I suspect we
+would never have discovered this before release.  Now it is fixed
+right after we got the ISOs operational.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another by-product of the test suite is that we can ask system
+administrators with problems getting Debian Edu to work, to run the
+test suite using &lt;tt&gt;/usr/sbin/debian-edu-test-install&lt;/tt&gt; and see if
+any errors are detected.  This usually pinpoint the subsystem causing
+the problem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create,
+please join us on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt; and the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@&lt;/a&gt; mailing
+list.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Victor Nițu</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; distribution have users and contributors all around the
+globe.  And a while back, an enterprising young man showed up on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;our IRC channel
+#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt; and started asking questions about how Debian Edu
+worked.  We answered as good as we could, and even convinced him to
+help us with translations.  And today I managed to get an interview
+with him, to learn more about him.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 25 year old free software enthusiast, living in Romania,
+which is also my country of origin. Back in 2009, at a New Year&#39;s Eve
+party, I had a very nice &lt;strike&gt;beer&lt;/strike&gt; discussion with a
+friend, when we realized we have no organised Debian community in our
+country. A few days later, we put together the infrastructure for such
+community and even gathered a nice Debian-ish crowd. Since then, I
+began my quest as a free software hacker and activist and I am
+constantly trying to cover as much ground as possible on that
+field.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I founded a small web development company, which
+provided me the flexible schedule I needed so much for my
+activities. For the last 13 months, I have been the Technical Director
+of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ceata.org/&quot;&gt;Fundația Ceata&lt;/a&gt;, which is a free
+software activist organisation endorsed by the FSF and the FSFE, and
+the only one we have in our country.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The idea of participating in the Debian Edu project was a surprise
+even to me, since I never used it before I began getting involved in
+it. This year I had a great opportunity to deliver a talk on
+educational software, and I knew immediately where to look. It was a
+love at first sight, since I was previously involved with some of the
+technologies the project incorporates, and I rapidly found a lot of
+ways to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My first contributions consisted in translating the installer and
+configuration dialogs, then I found some bugs to squash (I still
+haven&#39;t fixed them yet though), and I even got my eyes on some other
+areas where I can prove myself helpful. Since the appetite for free
+software in my country is pretty low, I&#39;ll be happy to be the first
+one around here advocating for the project&#39;s adoption in educational
+environments, and maybe even get my hands dirty in creating a flavour
+for our own needs. I am not used to make very advanced plannings, so
+from now on, time will tell what I&#39;ll be doing next, but I think I
+have a pretty consistent starting point.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Not a long time ago, I was in the position of configuring and
+maintaining a LDAP server on some Debian derivative, and I must say it
+took me a while. A long time ago, I was maintaining a bigger
+Samba-powered infrastructure, and I must say I spent quite a lot of
+time on it. I have similar stories about many of the services included
+with Skolelinux, and the main advantage I see about it is the
+out-of-the box availability of them, making it quite competitive when
+it comes to managing a school&#39;s network, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is more to say about Skolelinux than the
+availability of the software included, its flexibility in various
+scenarios is something I can&#39;t wait to experiment &quot;into the wild&quot; (I
+only played with virtual machines so far). And I am sure there is a
+lot more I haven&#39;t discovered yet about it, being so new within the
+project.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, when it comes to Debian Blends, I see as the biggest
+disadvantage the lack of a numerous team dedicated to the
+project. Every day I see the same names in the changelogs, and I have
+a constantly fear of the bus factor in this story.  I&#39;d like to see
+Debian Edu advertised more as an entry point into the Debian
+ecosystem, especially amongst newcomers and students. IMHO there are a
+lot low-hanging fruits in terms of bug squashing, and enough
+opportunities to get the feeling of the Debian Project&#39;s dynamics. Not
+to mention it&#39;s a very fun blend to work on!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Derived from the previous statement, is the delay in catching up
+with the main Debian release and documentation. This is common though
+to all blends and derivatives, but it&#39;s an issue we can all work
+on.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I can hardly imagine myself spending a day without Vim, since my
+daily routine covers writing code and hacking configuration files. I
+am a fan of the Awesome window manager (but I also like the
+Enlightenment project a lot!),
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.claws-mail.org/‎&quot;&gt;Claws Mail&lt;/a&gt; due to its ease of
+use and very configurable behaviour. Recently I fell in love with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/redshift&quot;&gt;Redshift&lt;/a&gt;, which helps me
+get through the night without headaches. Of course, there is much more
+stuff in this bag, but I&#39;ll need a blog on my own for doing this!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Well, on this field, I cannot do much more than experiment right
+now. So, being far from having a recipe for success, I can only assume
+that:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;pre&gt;
- v   00008086  (vendor)
- d   00002770  (device)
- sv  00001028  (subvendor)
- sd  000001AD  (subdevice)
- bc  06        (bus class)
- sc  00        (bus subclass)
- i   00        (interface)
-&lt;/pre&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The vendor/device values are the same values outputted from &#39;lspci
--n&#39; 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).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;schools would like to get rid of proprietary software&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Not sure how to figure out the interface value, nor what it
-means.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;students will love the openness of the system, and will want to
+    experiment with it - maybe we need to harvest the native curiosity
+    of teenagers more?&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;USB subtype&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;there is no &quot;right one&quot; when it comes to strategies, but it would
+    be useful to have some success stories published somewhere, so
+    other can get some inspiration from them (I know I&#39;d promote
+    them!)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Some typical USB entries can look like this.  This is an internal
-USB hub in a laptop:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;more active promotion - talks, conferences, even small school
+    lectures can do magical things if they encounter at least one
+    person interested. Who knows who that person might be? ;-)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-usb:v1D6Bp0001d0206dc09dsc00dp00ic09isc00ip00
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Here is the values included in this alias:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I also see some problems in getting Skolelinux into schools; for
+example, in our country we have a great deal of corruption issues, so
+it might be hard(er) to fight against proprietary solutions. Also,
+people who relied on commercial software for all their lives, would be
+very hard to convert against their will.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Jonathan Carter</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;There is a certain cross-over between the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edubuntu.org/&quot;&gt;the Edubuntu
+project&lt;/a&gt;, and for example the LTSP packages in Debian are a joint
+effort between the projects.  One person with a foot in both camps is
+Jonathan Carter, which I am now happy to present to you.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
+days vary quite a bit since I&#39;m involved in too many things. As I&#39;m
+getting older I&#39;m learning how to focus a bit more :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
+opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
+each other.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been somewhat familiar with the project before, but I think my
+first direct exposure to the project was when I met Petter
+[Reinholdtsen] and Knut [Yrvin] at the Edubuntu summit in 2005 in
+London. They provided great feedback that helped the bootstrapping of
+Edubuntu. Back then Edubuntu (and even Ubuntu) was still very new and
+it was great getting input from people who have been around longer. I
+was also still very excitable and said yes to everything and to this
+day I have a big todo list backlog that I&#39;m catching up with. I think
+over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
+been gradually improving, although I think there&#39;s a lot that we could
+still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I&#39;m sure
+we&#39;ll get there one day.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
+it for pages, but in essence I love that it&#39;s a very honest project
+that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
+very high quality work.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think the advantage of Debian Edu is that it makes many common
+set-up tasks simpler so that administrators can get up and running
+with a lot less effort and frustration. At the same time I think it
+helps to standardise installations in schools so that it&#39;s easier for
+community members and commercial suppliers to support.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I had to re-type this one a few times because I&#39;m trying to
+separate &quot;disadvantages&quot; from &quot;areas that need improvement&quot; (which is
+what I originally rambled on about)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The biggest disadvantage I can think of is lack of manpower. The
+project could do so much more if there were more good contributors. I
+think some of the problems are external too. Free software and free
+content in education is a no-brainer but it takes some time to catch
+on. When you&#39;ve been working with the same proprietary eco-system for
+years and have gotten used to it, it can be hard to adjust to some
+concepts in the free software world. It would be nice if there were
+more Debian Edu consultants across the world. I&#39;d love to be one
+myself but I&#39;m already so over-committed that it&#39;s just not possible
+currently.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think the best short-term solution to that large-scale problem is
+for schools to be pro-active and share their experiences and grow
+their skills in-house. I&#39;m often saddened to see how much money
+educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don&#39;t
+have access to after the service has ended and they could&#39;ve gotten so
+much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
+autonomous.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My main laptop dual-boots between Debian and Windows 7. I was
+Windows free for years but started dual-booting again last year for
+some games which help me focus and relax (Starcraft II in
+particular). Gaming support on Linux is improving in leaps and bounds
+so I suppose I&#39;ll soon be able to regain that disk space :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
+git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I&#39;ve been torn on
+which desktop environment I like and I&#39;m taking some refuge in Xfce
+while I figure that out. I like tools that keep things simple. I enjoy
+Python and shell scripting. I went to an Arduino workshop recently and
+it was awesome seeing how easy and simple the IDE software was to get
+up and running in Debian compared to the users running Windows and OS
+X.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
+using Norton Commander in the early 90&#39;s and it stuck (I think the
+people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don&#39;t know how to use
+it :p)
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
+many cases it&#39;s appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
+don&#39;t think that there&#39;s any particular moral or ethical problem with
+that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
+problems in educational institutions and it&#39;s just a shame not taking
+advantage of that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also think that some curricula need serious review. For example,
+some areas of the world rely heavily on very specific versions of MS
+Office, teaching students to parrot menu items instead of learning the
+general concepts. I think that&#39;s very unproductive because firstly, MS
+Office&#39;s interface changes drastically every few years and on top of
+that it also locks in a generation to a product that might not be the
+best solution for them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I believe that the right strategy is to
+educate and inform, giving someone the information they require to
+make a decision that would work for them.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Fixing the Linux black screen of death on machines with Intel HD video</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;When installing RedHat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu on some machines,
+the screen just turn black when Linux boot, either during installation
+or on first boot from the hard disk.  I&#39;ve seen it once in a while the
+last few years, but only recently understood the cause.  I&#39;ve seen it
+on HP laptops, and on my latest acquaintance the Packard Bell laptop.
+The reason seem to be in the wiring of some laptops.  The system to
+control the screen background light is inverted, so when Linux try to
+turn the brightness fully on, it end up turning it off instead.  I do
+not know which Linux drivers are affected, but this post is about the
+i915 driver used by the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv&quot;&gt;Packard Bell
+EasyNote LV&lt;/a&gt;, Thinkpad X40 and many other laptops.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The problem can be worked around two ways.  Either by adding
+i915.invert_brightness=1 as a kernel option, or by adding a file in
+/etc/modprobe.d/ to tell modprobe to add the invert_brightness=1
+option when it load the i915 kernel module.  On Debian and Ubuntu, it
+can be done by running these commands as root:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;pre&gt;

- 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)
+echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
+update-initramfs -u -k all

 &lt;/pre&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;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:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Since March 2012 there is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca20efb1a9c2efefc28ad2867e5d6c3f5e1955&quot;&gt;a
+mechanism in the Linux kernel&lt;/a&gt; to tell the i915 driver which
+hardware have this problem, and get the driver to invert the
+brightness setting automatically.  To use it, one need to add a row in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c&quot;&gt;the
+intel_quirks array&lt;/a&gt; in the driver source
+&lt;tt&gt;drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c&lt;/tt&gt; (look for &quot;&lt;tt&gt;static
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks&lt;/tt&gt;&quot;), specifying the PCI device
+number (vendor number 8086 is assumed) and subdevice vendor and device
+number.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My Packard Bell EasyNote LV got this output from &lt;tt&gt;lspci
+-vvnn&lt;/tt&gt; for the video card in question:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation \
+    3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] \
+    (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
+ Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0688]
+ Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- \
+    ParErr- Stepping- SE RR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast &gt;TAbort- \
+    &lt;TAbort- &lt;MAbort-&gt;SERR- &lt;PERR- INTx-
+ Latency: 0
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
+ Region 0: Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
+ Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
+ Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
+ Expansion ROM at &lt;unassigned&gt; [disabled]
+ Capabilities: &lt;access denied&gt;
+ Kernel driver in use: i915
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The resulting intel_quirks entry would then look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
+       ...
+        /* Packard Bell EasyNote LV11HC needs invert brightness quirk */
+       { 0x0156, 0x1025, 0x0688, quirk_invert_brightness },
+       ...
+}
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;According to the kernel module instructions (as seen using
+&lt;tt&gt;modinfo i915&lt;/tt&gt;), information about hardware needing the
+invert_brightness flag should be sent to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel&quot;&gt;dri-devel
+(at) lists.freedesktop.org&lt;/a&gt; mailing list to reach the kernel
+developers.  But my email about the laptop sent 2013-06-03 have not
+yet shown up in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-June/thread.html&quot;&gt;the
+web archive for the mailing list&lt;/a&gt;, so I suspect they do not accept
+emails from non-subscribers.  Because of this, I sent my patch also to
+the Debian bug tracking system instead as
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/710938&quot;&gt;BTS report #710938&lt;/a&gt;, to make
+sure the patch is not lost.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it is not enough to fix the kernel to get Laptops
+with this problem working properly with Linux.  If you use Gnome, your
+worries should be over at this point.  But if you use KDE, there is
+something in KDE ignoring the invert_brightness setting and turning on
+the screen during login.  I&#39;ve reported it to Debian as
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/711237&quot;&gt;BTS report #711237&lt;/a&gt;, and
+have no idea yet how to figure out exactly what subsystem is doing
+this.  Perhaps you can help?  Perhaps you know what the Gnome
+developers did to handle this, and this can give a clue to the KDE
+developers?  Or you know where in KDE the screen brightness is changed
+during login?  If so, please update the BTS report (or get in touch if
+you do not know how to update BTS).&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
+2013-06-10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
+alpha2, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediately 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. The provided school server provides LDAP
+database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
+directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
+desktop contains
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
+than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc01ip00
-&lt;br&gt;usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc02ip00
-&lt;br&gt;usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00
-&lt;br&gt;usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc02ip00
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1) 
+&lt;li&gt;Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703). 
+&lt;li&gt;Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4. 
+&lt;li&gt;Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default. 
+&lt;li&gt;Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default. 

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ACPI subtype&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The ACPI type is used for several non-PCI/USB stuff.  This is an IR
-receiver in a Thinkpad X40:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The values between the colons are IDs.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used. 
+&lt;li&gt;Updated translation of the installation. 
+&lt;li&gt;New Romanian translation. 
+&lt;li&gt;Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat. 
+&lt;li&gt;Fix roaming workstation setup (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login).
+&lt;li&gt;Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments. 
+&lt;li&gt;New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile. 
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS. 
+&lt;li&gt;More testsuite tests. 
+&lt;li&gt;Make automatic proxy configuration more robust. 
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration. 

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DMI subtype&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
+LTSP in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;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:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
+them up with GOsa².&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1UETB6WW(1.66):bd06/15/2005:svnIBM:pn2371H4G:pvrThinkPadX40:rvnIBM:rn2371H4G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Update IMAP server setup. &lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The values present are&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
+slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
+entered password). &lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;pre&gt;
- 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)
-&lt;/pre&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The chassis type 10 is Notebook.  Other interesting values can be
-found in the dmidecode source:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;pre&gt;
-  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
-&lt;/pre&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SerIO subtype&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
+missing import feature).&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;This type is used for PS/2 mouse plugs.  One example is from my
-test machine:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). &lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-serio:ty01pr00id00ex00
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
+own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
+unfixed.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The values present are&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;pre&gt;
-  ty  01  (type)
-  pr  00  (prototype)
-  id  00  (id)
-  ex  00  (extra)
-&lt;/pre&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;This type is supported by the psmouse driver.  I am not sure what
-the valid values are.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other subtypes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Looking up kernel modules using modalias values&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;To check which kernel modules provide support for a given modalias,
-one can use the following shell script:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;pre&gt;
-  for id in $(cat $(find /sys -name modalias)|sort -u); do \
-    echo &quot;$id&quot; ; \
-    /sbin/modprobe --show-depends &quot;$id&quot;|sed &#39;s/^/  /&#39; ; \
-  done
-&lt;/pre&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The output can look like this (only the first few entries as the
-list is very long on my test machine):&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178 
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;pre&gt;
-  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 
-  [...]
-&lt;/pre&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel&quot;&gt;#debian-devel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;

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-               <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>&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile&quot;&gt;pymissile&lt;/a&gt; to make
-sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in.  I
-also added a &quot;Modaliases&quot; 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.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/&quot;&gt;Upstream&lt;/a&gt;
-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
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git&quot;&gt;gitweb
-view&lt;/a&gt; or use &quot;&lt;tt&gt;git clone
-git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git&lt;/tt&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Is there a PHP expert in the building?  Debian Edu need help!</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a call for help from the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project.
+We have two problems blocking the release of the Wheezy version we
+hope to get released soon.  The two problems require some with PHP
+skills, and we seem to lack anyone with both time and PHP skills in
+the project:
+
+&lt;ol&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;It is impossible to log into the slbackup web interface
+  (slbackup-php) using the root user and password.  This is
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/700257&quot;&gt;BTS report #700257&lt;/a&gt;.
+  This used to work, but stopped working some time since Squeeze.
+  Perhaps some obsolete PHP feature was used?&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;It is not possible to &quot;mass import&quot; user lists in Gosa, neither
+  using ldif nor using CSV files.  The feature was disabled after a
+  major rewrite of Gosa, and need to be ported to the new system.
+  This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/698840&quot;&gt;BTS report
+  #698840&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you can help us, please join us on IRC
+(&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;) and provide patches via the BTS.&lt;/p&gt;

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        <item>
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        </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>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Some years ago, I proposed to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg01206.html&quot;&gt;use
-the discover subsystem to implement this&lt;/a&gt;.  The idea is fairly
-simple:
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Cédric Boutillier</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last English
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+interview last November.  But the developers and translators are still
+pulling along to get the Wheezy based release out the door, and this
+time I managed to get an interview from one of the French translators
+in the project, Cédric Boutillier.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am 34 year old. I live near Paris, France. I am an assistant
+professor in probability theory. I spend my daytime teaching
+mathematics at the university and doing fundamental research in
+probability in connexion with combinatorics and statistical physics.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I have been involved in the Debian project for a couple of years
+and became Debian Developer a few months ago. I am working on Ruby
+packaging, publicity and translation.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I came to the Debian Edu project after a call for translation of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals&quot;&gt;the
+Debian Edu manual&lt;/a&gt; for the release of Debian Edu Squeeze. Since
+then, I have been working on updating the French translation of the
+manual.
+
+&lt;p&gt;I had the opportunity to make an installation of Debian Edu in a
+virtual machine when I was preparing localised version of some screen
+shots for the manual. I was amazed to see it worked out of the box and
+how comprehensive the list of software installed by default was.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What amazed me was the complete network infrastructure directly
+ready to use, which can and the nice administration interface provided
+by &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa²&lt;/a&gt;.  What pleased
+me also was the fact that among the software installed by default,
+there were many &quot;traditional&quot; educative software to learn languages,
+to count, to program... but also software to develop creativity and
+artistic skills with music (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ardour.org/&quot;&gt;Ardour&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Audacity&lt;/a&gt;) and
+movies/animation (I was especially thinking of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxstopmotion.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Stopmotion&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am following the development of Debian Edu and am hanging out on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt;.
+Unfortunately, I don&#39;t much time to get more involved in this
+beautiful project.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For me, the main advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu are its
+community of experts and its precise documentation, as well as the
+fact that it provides a solution ready to use.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;I would add also the fact that it is based on the rock solid Debian
+distribution, which ensures stability and provides a huge collection
+of educational free software.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Maybe the lack of manpower to do lobbying on the
+project. Sometimes, people who need to take decisions concerning IT do
+not have all the elements to evaluate properly free software
+solutions. The fact that support by a company may be difficult to find
+is probably a problem if the school does not have IT personnel.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;One can find support from a company by looking at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;the
+wiki dokumentation&lt;/a&gt;, where some countries already have a number of
+companies providing support for Debian Edu, like Germany or
+Norway. This list is easy to find readily from the manual. However,
+for other countries, like France, the list is empty. I guess that
+consultants proposing support for Debian would be able to provide some
+support for Debian Edu as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am using the KDE Plasma Desktop. But the pieces of software I use
+most runs in a terminal: Mutt and OfflineIMAP for emails, latex for
+scientific documents, mpd for music. VIM is my editor of choice.  I am
+also using the mathematical software
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scilab.org/en/scilab/about‎&quot;&gt;Scilab&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagemath.org/index.html‎&quot;&gt;Sage&lt;/a&gt; (built from
+source as not completely packaged for Debian, yet).
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have any suggestions for teachers interested in
+using the free software in Debian to teach mathematics and
+statistics?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I do not have any &quot;nice&quot; recommendations for statistics. At our
+university, we use both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/‎&quot;&gt;R&lt;/a&gt; and
+Scilab to teach statistics and probabilistic simulations. For
+geometry, there are nice programs:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;ul&gt;
 
 
 &lt;ul&gt;
 

-&lt;li&gt;Add a desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ pointing to a program
-  starting when a user log in.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drgeo.eu/&quot;&gt;drgeo&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kig‎&quot;&gt;kig&lt;/a&gt; to do
+constructions in planar geometry

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;Set this program up to listen for kernel events emitted when new
-  hardware is inserted into the computer.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware ID in a
-  database mapping to packages, and take note of any non-installed
-  packages.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
-  package, and make it easy to install it.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/download/kali.html&quot;&gt;kali&lt;/a&gt;
+to discover symmetry groups (the so-called wallpapers and frieze
+groups), although the interface looks a bit old.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;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
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.packagekit.org/&quot;&gt;PackageKit&lt;/a&gt; to install
-packages.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I found time to try to implement this idea, and the
-draft package is now checked into
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/&quot;&gt;the
-Debian Edu subversion repository&lt;/a&gt;.  In the process, I updated the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html&quot;&gt;discover-data&lt;/a&gt;
-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 
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover.html&quot;&gt;discover&lt;/a&gt;
-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&#39;t upload it to unstable
-because of the freeze).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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):&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
-install the proposed packages by pressing the &quot;Please install
-program(s)&quot; button should to be implemented.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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 &#39;discover-pkginstall -l&#39;
-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&#39;t.  Or, if you know of a better way to provide
-such mapping, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;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?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to help getting such feature implemented in Debian,
-please send me an email. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <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>&lt;p&gt;During Christmas, I have worked a bit on the Debian support for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;LEGO Mindstorm
-NXT&lt;/a&gt;.  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
-&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego&quot;&gt;#debian-lego&lt;/a&gt; (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. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2012-01-03: A
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners&quot;&gt;project page&lt;/a&gt;
-including links to Lego related packages is now available.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Lenker for 2013-01-01</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2013 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese den
-siste måneden.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;2012-12-07
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article262047.ece&quot;&gt;Myter og
-  FUD om fri programvare&lt;/a&gt; av min venn Christer Gundersen som
-  kommenterer noen av de påstandene som er spredt via Computerworld
-  Norge de siste månedene.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;BankID er et opplegg der utsteder (dvs. banken eller dens
-  leverandør) sitter på alt som trengs for å bruke BankID, men har
-  lovet å ikke bruke den unntatt på oppdrag fra deg.  Det er greit nok
-  for banktjenester, der banken allerede har full kontroll over
-  resultatet, men problematisk når det gjelder tilgang til
-  helseopplysninger og avtaleinngåelse med andre enn banken.  Jeg
-  håper protestene brer om seg.
+&lt;p&gt;I like also
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/cantor&quot;&gt;cantor&lt;/a&gt;, which
+provides a uniform interface to SciLab, Sage,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Octave‎&quot;&gt;Octave&lt;/a&gt;, etc...&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-  &lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;My suggestions would be to&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-  &lt;li&gt;2012-12-11 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/BankID-blottlegger-helseopplysninger-7067148.html&quot;&gt;BankID
-    blottlegger helseopplysninger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;2012-12-07 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.9695027&quot;&gt;-
-    Helseopplysningene ikke sikre med Bank-ID&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;2012-12-07
-    &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bankid.no/Presse-og-nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/2012/Papeker-alvorlige-men-kjente-utfordringer/&quot;&gt;Påpeker
-    alvorlige, men kjente utfordringer&lt;/a&gt; er den offisielle
-    holdningen til de som lager BankID.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;2012-12-08
-    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3419-ntnu-researcher-warns-against-security-of-bank-id-password&quot;&gt;NTNU
-      Researcher Warns against Security of Bank ID Password&lt;/a&gt;
-
-  &lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;2012-12-11 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Norske-elever-er-darligst-i-Europa-pa-algebra-7066752.html&quot;&gt;Norske elever er dårligst i Europa på algebra&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2012-12-11
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Realfagsdodaren-7067173.html&quot;&gt;Realfagsdødaren&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;advertise the reduction of costs when free software is used.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2012-12-21
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/112/--Forventningene-er-for-hoye-2816450.html&quot;&gt;-
-  Noen må bli skuffet&lt;/a&gt; - Politiet i Bergen forteller hvor lavt de
-  prioriterer hverdagskriminalitet.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;communicate about the quality of free software projects, using
+    well known examples like Firefox, ThunderBird and
+    OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2012-05-03
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://e24.no/jobb/kripos-ansatt-doemt-for-snoking-for-venn/20208585&quot;&gt;
-  Kripos-ansatt dømt for snoking for venn&lt;/A&gt; - viser hvor svak
-  reaksjonen blir når politiet misbruker innsamlet informasjon.  En
-  forvarsel på konsekvensene av nasjonal brev- og besøkskontroll -
-  ofte kalt Datalagringsdirektivet.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;advertise the living and strong community around the project.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2012-12-14
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/12/14/kultur/debatt/kronikk/jul/ensomhet/24838541/&quot;&gt;Å
-  smøre en forskjell&lt;/a&gt; - om ensomhet og jul.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;show that it is not more difficult to use than any other
+    system.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2012-12-18
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/n-krise-av-gangen_-takk-7072452.html&quot;&gt;Én
-  krise av gangen, takk!&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Åpent møte på onsdag om bruken av Microsoft Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg jobber til daglig ved &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;Universitetet
+i Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, en institusjon som lenge har vektlagt verdien av åpne
+standarder og fri programvare.  Men noe har endret seg, og for en
+liten stund tilbake annonserte USIT at dagens fungerende e-postsystemet
+basert på fri programvare skulle byttes ut med Microsoft Exchange og
+at Microsoft Outlook skulle bli den best fungerende men antagelig ikke
+eneste støttede e-postklienten.  Annonseringen har ført til flere
+protester og &lt;a href=&quot;http://folk.uio.no/dssantos/nooutlookatuio/&quot;&gt;en
+underskriftskampanje&lt;/a&gt;, initiert av Diana Santos, der så langt 253
+personer har signert.  Prosjektet
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike/&quot;&gt;NIKE (Ny integrert
+kalender/e-post)&lt;/a&gt; ble initiert for å se på mulige løsninger med
+utgangspunkt i at en kombinert epost/kalenderløsning var påkrevd, og
+prosjektet
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike-implementasjon/&quot;&gt;NIKE-implementasjon&lt;/a&gt;
+er igang med å rulle ut MS Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For kun kort tid siden ble det annonsert at det blir et åpent møte
+med ledelsen hos universitetet i Oslo med disse planene som tema:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Tid: &lt;strong&gt;Onsdag 2013-06-05 kl. 10:00&lt;/strong&gt;
+&lt;br&gt;Sted: &lt;strong&gt;9. etasje i Lucy Smiths hus (admin-bygget)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt; Det kan være en god plass å stille opp hvis en som meg ikke tror
+valget av Microsoft Exchange som sentral epostinfrastruktur er et
+heldig valg for Norges ledende forskningsuniversitet, men at en er mer
+tjent med å selv
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://nuug.no/dokumenter/kronikk-friprog-itsikkerhet.shtml&quot;&gt;beholde
+kontrollen over egen infrastruktur&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Saken har ført til endel presseoppslag så langt.  Her er de jeg har
+fått med meg:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2012-12-17
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/NAV-Et-mangehodet-monster--7072165.html&quot;&gt;NAV:
-  Et mangehodet monster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-29
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system&quot;&gt;Forsvarer
+  nytt IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2011-01-12
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/01/12/kultur/debatt/kronikk/personvern/15027203/&quot;&gt;Pasienter
-  uten vern&lt;/a&gt; - forteller litt om hvordan Norsk Pasientregister og
-  andre helseregister raderer bort pasienters privatsfære.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-23
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
+  innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;

 
 
 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2012-12-19
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Hvorfor-er-barnefamilier-fattige-7073951.html&quot;&gt;Hvorfor
-  er barnefamilier fattige?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-22
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system&quot;&gt;Protestgruppe
+  vil stanse IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2012-12-25
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/spaltister/Den-skjulte-minoriteten--konservative-kristne-i-Norge-7075518.html&quot;&gt;Den
-  skjulte minoriteten – konservative kristne i Norge&lt;/a&gt; - kronikk av
-  Bjørn Stærk fra aftenposten&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;2009-05-04
-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://deltemeninger.no/-/bulletin/show/303429_folkebiblioteket-2-0?ref=checkpoint&quot;&gt;Folkebiblioteket
-  2.0&lt;/a&gt; - Min venn Sturle om opphavsrett og Internett, i debatt med
-  Olav Torvund.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-15
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
+  må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;

 
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
 
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Og et godt nytt år til dere alle!&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I was happy to discover a few days ago that the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt;
-project also this year received a Christmas present from Another
-Agency in Trondheim.  NOK 1000,- showed up on our donation account
-December 24th.  I want to express our thanks for this very welcome
-present.  As the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is very short on
-funding these days, and thus lack the money to do regular developer
-gatherings, this donation was most welcome.  One developer gathering
-cost around NOK 15&amp;nbsp;000,-, so we need quite a lot more to keep the
-development pace we want.  Thus, I hope their example this year is
-followed by many others. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The public list of donors can be found on
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html&quot;&gt;the
-donation page&lt;/a&gt; for the project, which also contain instructions if
-you want to donate to the project.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 20:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Let me start by wishing you all marry Christmas and a happy new
-year!  I hope next year will prove to be a good year.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/&quot;&gt;Bitcoin&lt;/a&gt;, the digital
-decentralised &quot;currency&quot; that allow people to transfer bitcoins
-between each other with minimal overhead, is a very interesting
-experiment.  And as I wrote a few days ago, the bitcoin situation in
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; is about to improve a bit.
-The &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin&quot;&gt;new debian source
-package&lt;/a&gt; (version 0.7.2-2) was uploaded yesterday, and is waiting
-in &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html&quot;&gt;the NEW queue&lt;/A&gt;
-for one of the ftpmasters to approve the new bitcoin-qt package
-name.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And thanks to the great work of Jonas and the rest of the bitcoin
-team in Debian, you can easily test the package in Debian Squeeze
-using the following steps to get a set of working packages:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
-cd bitcoin
-DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp fakeroot debian/rules clean
-DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;You might have to install some build dependencies as well.  The
-list of commands should give you two packages, bitcoind and
-bitcoin-qt, ready for use in a Squeeze environment.  Note that the
-client will download the complete set of bitcoin &quot;blocks&quot;, which need
-around 5.6 GiB of data on my machine at the moment.  Make sure your
-~/.bitcoin/ directory have lots of spare room if you want to download
-all the blocks.  The client will warn if the disk is getting full, so
-there is not really a problem if you got too little room, but you will
-not be able to get all the features out of the client.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&amp;label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>A word on bitcoin support in Debian</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since I wrote about
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoin.org/&quot;&gt;bitcoin&lt;/a&gt;, the decentralised
-peer-to-peer based crypto-currency, and the reason is simply that I
-have been busy elsewhere.  But two days ago, I started looking at the
-state of &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin&quot;&gt;bitcoin in
-Debian&lt;/a&gt; again to try to recover my old bitcoin wallet.  The package
-is now maintained by a
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-bitcoin/&quot;&gt;team of
-people&lt;/a&gt;, and the grunt work had already been done by this team.  We
-owe a huge thank you to all these team members. :)
-But I was sad to discover that the bitcoin client is missing in
-Wheezy.  It is only available in Sid (and an outdated client from
-backports).  The client had several RC bugs registered in BTS blocking
-it from entering testing.  To try to help the team and improve the
-situation, I spent some time providing patches and triaging the bug
-reports.  I also had a look at the bitcoin package available from Matt
-Corallo in a
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin&quot;&gt;PPA for
-Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, and moved the useful pieces from that version into the
-Debian package.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;After checking with the main package maintainer Jonas Smedegaard on
-IRC, I pushed several patches into the collab-maint git repository to
-improve the package.  It now contains fixes for the RC issues (not from
-me, but fixed by Scott Howard), build rules for a Qt GUI client
-package, konqueror support for the bitcoin: URI and bash completion
-setup.  As I work on Debian Squeeze, I also created
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bitcoin-devel/Week-of-Mon-20121217/000041.html&quot;&gt;a
-patch to backport&lt;/a&gt; the latest version.  Jonas is going to look at
-it and try to integrate it into the git repository before uploading a
-new version to unstable.
-
-&lt;p&gt;I would very much like bitcoin to succeed, to get rid of the
-centralized control currently exercised in the monetary system.  I
-find it completely unacceptable that the USA government is collecting
-transaction data for almost all international money transfers (most are done in USD and transaction logs shipped to the spooks), and
-that the major credit card companies can block legal money
-transactions to Wikileaks.  But for bitcoin to succeed, more people
-need to use bitcoins, and more people need to accept bitcoins when
-they sell products and services.  Improving the bitcoin support in
-Debian is a small step in the right direction, but not enough.
-Unfortunately the user experience when browsing the web and wanting to
-pay with bitcoin is still not very good.  The bitcoin: URI is a step
-in the right direction, but need to work in most or every browser in
-use.  Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire up to do a
-quick transaction.  I believe there are other clients available, but
-have not tested them.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;My
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html&quot;&gt;experiment
-with bitcoins&lt;/a&gt; showed that at least some of my readers use bitcoin.
-I received 20.15 BTC so far on the address I provided in my blog two
-years ago, as can be
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;seen
-on the blockexplorer service&lt;/a&gt;.  Thank you everyone for your
-donation.  The blockexplorer service demonstrates quite well that
-bitcoin is not quite anonymous and untracked. :) I wonder if the
-number of users have gone up since then.  If you use bitcoin and want
-to show your support of my activity, please send Bitcoin donations to
-the same address as last time,
-&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&amp;label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Piratpartiet på opphavs-retrett?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Piratpartiet_p__opphavs_retrett_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Piratpartiet_p__opphavs_retrett_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble overrasket over å se at Piratpartiet i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Piratpartiet-stiller-til-Stortingsvalget-7073298.html&quot;&gt;Aftenposten&lt;/a&gt;
-er referert på følgende:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-Når det gjelder retten til opphavsrett for kulturproduktene, mener
-Piratpartiet av levetid + 14 år er tilfredsstillende.
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det betyr en vernetid langt ut over det kommersielle livet til de
-aller fleste opphavsrettsbeskyttede verker, og er i strid med slik i
-hvert fall jeg har tolket punkt 5 i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/kjerneprogram.html&quot;&gt;kjerneprogrammet
-til Piratpartiet&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5: Åndsverk og patenter: tilbake til start&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;forslag:&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;14 års opphavsrett og ingen
-programvarepatenter&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;grunn:&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;Den første loven om opphavsrett spesifiserte 14
-års vernetid. Senere har mediabransjens lobbyister stadig presset
-loven mot lengre vern, nå er det 70 år etter forfatters død. Dette
-gjør at mange verk glemmes og går tapt, noe som er skadelig for norsk
-språk og kultur. Vi til tilbake til start: 14 års
-vernetid. Patentloven sier klart at dataprogrammer ikke kan
-patenteres. Likevel klarer patentadvokater å lure gjennom
-programvarepatenter. Slike patenter gjør dingsene våre dyrere og kan i
-enkelte tilfelle stoppe dem helt.&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;/table&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Den opprinnelige opphavsretten var på 14 år totalt, ikke 14 år
-etter opphavspersonens død.  Jeg tenkte først dette kanskje var
-feilsitering fra Aftenposten, men jeg finner samme påstand i en &lt;a
-href=&quot;http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/&quot;&gt;bloggpost
-fra Geir Aaslid&lt;/a&gt; på Piratpartietes offisielle nettsider.  Der
-skriver han følgende:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
-mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
-det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett på levetid + 14 år er
-fullt ut tilfredstillende for musikk, film, litteratur og spill.
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det virker dermed på meg som om Piratpartiet allerede har gjort
-retrett fra sin beundringsverdige holdning om at det holdt med 14 års
-total vernetid, til sin nye som tar utgangspunkt i levetiden til
-opphavspersonen.  Jeg håper det baserer seg på en misforståelse hos
-piratlederen som blir korrigert tilbake til 14 års total vernetid før
-partiet stiller til valg.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hvis du lurer på hvilke problemer lang vernetid bringer med seg,
-anbefaler jeg å lese boken &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free
-Culture&lt;/a&gt; av Lawrence Lessig.  Jeg og en liten gruppe andre er igang
-med å
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;oversette
-boken til bokmål&lt;/a&gt; og tar gjerne imot hjelp med oversettelse og
-korrekturlesing.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oppdatering 2012-12-20&lt;/strong&gt;: Oppdaget at
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/&quot;&gt;bloggposten
-til Geir Aaslid&lt;/a&gt; er endret siden i går, og nå inneholder følgende
-avsnitt i stedet for det jeg siterte over:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
-mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
-det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett lik levetiden, evt + 14 år
-er fullt ut tilfredstillende for mange skapere av musikk, film,
-litteratur og spill. Det er for det meste de store forlagene som er
-imot enhver reform.
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I tillegg har det dukket opp en setning nederst &quot;Dette dokumentet
-er et utkast til svar på et angrep på Piratpartiet fra Gramo. Det
-endrer seg derfor over tid og den endelige versjonen er det som blir
-publisert på Hardware.no&quot;, som tyder på at originalformuleringen ikke
-var veloverveid og sitatet i Aftenposten kanskje var basert på en
-misforståelse.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
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-               <title>Ledger - double-entry accounting using text based storage format</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I came across
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/&quot;&gt;a blog post from Joey
-Hess&lt;/a&gt; describing &lt;a href=&quot;http://ledger-cli.org/&quot;&gt;ledger&lt;/a&gt; and
-hledger, a text based system for double-entry accounting.  I found it
-interesting, as I am involved with several organizations where
-accounting is an issue, and I have not really become too friendly with
-the different web based systems we use.  I find it hard to find what I
-look for in the menus and even harder try to get sensible data out of
-the systems.  Ledger seem different.  The accounting data is kept in
-text files that can be stored in a version control system, and there
-
-are at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Ports&quot;&gt;five
-different implementations&lt;/a&gt; able to read the format.  An example
-entry look like this, and is simple enough that it will be trivial to
-generate entries based on CVS files fetched from the bank:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-2004-05-27 Book Store
-      Expenses:Books                 $20.00
-      Liabilities:Visa
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The concept seemed interesting enough for me to check it out and
-look for others using it.  I found blog posts from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.spang.cc/posts/hledger_rocks_my_world/&quot;&gt;Christine
-Spang&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugsplat.info/2010-05-23-keeping-finances-with-ledger.html&quot;&gt;Pete
-Keen&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2010/11/06/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/&quot;&gt;Andrew
-Cantino&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/11/29/command-line-double-entry-accounting/&quot;&gt;Ronald
-Ip&lt;/a&gt; describing how they use it, as well as a post from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ledger-cli/r0oWjwbQ9Bo&quot;&gt;Bradley
-M. Kuhn&lt;/a&gt; at the Software Freedom Conservancy.  All seemed like good
-recommendations fitting my need.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/ledger.html&quot;&gt;ledger&lt;/a&gt;
-package is available in Debian Squeeze, while the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-hledger.html&quot;&gt;hledger&lt;/a&gt;
-package only is available in Debian Sid.  As I use Squeeze, ledger
-seemed the best choice to get started.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To get some real data to test on, I wrote a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/tools/lodo2ledger&quot;&gt;web scraper&lt;/a&gt; for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lodo.no/&quot;&gt;LODO&lt;/a&gt;, the accounting system used by
-the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; association, and started to
-play with the data set.  I&#39;m not really deeply into accounting, but I
-am able to get a simple balance and accounting status for example
-using the &quot;&lt;tt&gt;ledger balance&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; command.  But I will have to
-gather more experience before I know if the ledger way is a good fit
-for the organisations I am involved in.&lt;/p&gt;
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