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+ <title>Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Via
+<a href="https://twitter.com/pcwizz/status/313044373262716930">twitter</a>
+I just discovered that <a href="http://pcwizz.net/">Pcwizz</a> have
+done a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzTZ61Pcuc">video
+review</a> on Youtube of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/">Skolelinux
+/ Debian Edu</a> version 6. He installed the standalone profile and
+the video show a walk-through of of the menu content, demonstration of
+a few programs and his view of our distribution.</p>
+
+<p>There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might
+have heard wrong). While looking thought the Graphics menu:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+"Basically everything you ever need in a school environment."
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+"So, yeah, a bit bloated. It kept all the Debian stuff in there, just
+to keep it nice and GNU. So, I do not want to go on about it, but
+lets give it 7 out of 10. I am not going to use it. That is because
+I am not deploying a school network. There may be some mythical
+feature to help you deploy Skolelinux on a school network."
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>To bad he did not test the server profile, and discovered the PXE
+installation option. It make it possible to install only the main
+server from CD, and the rest of the machines via the net, and might be
+considered the mythical feature he talk about. :)</p>
+
+<p>While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment
+about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem:
+
+<blockquote>
+"[The K menu] have a special Debian section for software that no-one
+is going to look at, because it contain lots of junky stuff that you
+actually don't need in the education distribution, but have just been
+included because it isn't stripped out for some reason."
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and
+Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries">one
+consistent menu system</a> instead of two incomplete and partly
+inconsistent menu systems.</p>
+
+<p>The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe
+embedding:</p>
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wPzTZ61Pcuc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+</description>
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<title>Til frikanalens støttespillere - fra styret i Frikanalen</title>
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- <title>Sleep until morning - home automation for the kids</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sleep_until_morning___home_automation_for_the_kids.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p><img align="left" style="margin-right:25px;" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-02-10-morning-light.jpeg"></p>
-
-<p>With kids in the house, one challenge is getting them to sleep
-during the night and wake up when it is morning. I mean, when I
-believe it is morning, and not two hours earlier. In our household we
-have decided that 07:00 is the turning point, but getting the kids to
-sleep until 07:00 is a small challenge every day. They have adapted
-quite well, and rarely wake up at 05:00 any more, but some times wake
-up at times like 05:50, 06:15, 06:30 or 06:45, and it is hard to put
-the awake one to bed again without disturbing and waking the rest.
-And I understand perfectly well that they fail to sleep until 07:00
-some times, as there is no way for them to know if it is before or
-after the magic moment without coming and asking us parents.</p>
-
-<p>But yesterday I came up with a method to solve this problem. It
-involve home automation. A few years ago I bought a
-<a href="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick">Tellstick</a> and RF
-switches at the local <a href="http://www.clasohlson.com/">Clas
-Ohlson</a> shop, allowing me to control lights and other electrical
-gadgets using my Linux server. When I moved from the old flat to a
-small house, I put away all this equipment as most of the lighting in
-the house was not using wall sockets and thus not easy to connect to
-the gadgets I had. But recently I bought a
-<a href="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick_net">Tellstick
-Net</a> to be able to read sensor input as well as control power
-sockets. I want to control ovens in the basement to avoid the pipes
-to freeze, and monitor the humidity to detect flooding. The default
-setup for Tellstick Net is to be controlled by the vendor web service,
-which to me is a security problem, but it is also possible to build
-ones own
-<a href="http://developer.telldus.com/blog/2012/03/02/help-us-develop-local-access-using-tellstick-net-build-your-own-firmware">firmware
-with local access</A> instead of being controlled by a Swedish
-company, thanks to the release of the GPL licensed firmware source
-code. I plan to get that running before I let it control anything
-important. But while working on this, one idea to make it easier for
-the kids came to me yesterday. We can set up a night light controlled
-by the computer, and turn it automatically on at 07:00. The kids can
-then check the light in the morning to know if they are supposed to
-get up or not. They joined me in setting everything up, and I
-repeated the concept several times before bed times to make sure they
-remembered to check the light before getting up in the morning.</p>
-
-<p>We tested it this morning, and all the kids stayed in bed until
-after 07:00, and every one of them commented on the fact that the
-"morning light" was turned on and signalled that the morning had
-arrived. So this look like a success, and I am excited to see how
-this develops the next few days. :) I really hope this can allow us
-all to sleep a bit longer in the morning.</p>
-
-<p>A nice advantage of this setup is that we can remote control when
-to tell the kids to get up. We do not have to wait until 07:00, and
-can also delay it if we want to.</p>
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