<div class="entry">
<div class="title">
- <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_add_extra_storage_servers_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html">How to add extra storage servers in Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Video_DVD_reader_library___python_dvdvideo___nice_free_software.html">Video DVD reader library / python-dvdvideo - nice free software</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 21st March 2014
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>Keeping your DVD collection safe from scratches and curious
+children fingers while still having it available when you want to see a
+movie is not straight forward. My preferred method at the moment is
+to store a full copy of the ISO on a hard drive, and use VLC, Popcorn
+Hour or other useful players to view the resulting file. This way the
+subtitles and bonus material are still available and using the ISO is
+just like inserting the original DVD record in the DVD player.</p>
+
+<p>Earlier I used dd for taking security copies, but it do not handle
+DVDs giving read errors (which are quite a few of them). I've also
+tried using
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ripping_problematic_DVDs_using_dvdbackup_and_genisoimage.html">dvdbackup
+and genisoimage</a>, but these days I use the marvellous python library
+and program
+<a href="http://bblank.thinkmo.de/blog/new-software-python-dvdvideo">python-dvdvideo</a>
+written by Bastian Blank. It is
+<a href"http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-dvdvideo.html">in Debian
+already</a> and the binary package name is python3-dvdvideo. Instead
+of trying to read every block from the DVD, it parses the file
+structure and figure out which block on the DVD is actually in used,
+and only read those blocks from the DVD. This work surprisingly well,
+and I have been able to almost backup my entire DVD collection using
+this method.</p> So far, python-dvdvideo have failed on between 10 and
+20 DVDs, which is a small fraction of my collection. The most common
+problem is
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720831">DVDs
+using UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 characters</a>, which according to
+Bastian is against the DVD specification (and seem to cause some
+players to fail too). A rarer problem is what seem to be inconsistent
+DVD structures, as the python library
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723079">claim
+there is a overlap between objects</a>. An equally rare problem claim
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741878">some
+value is out of range</a>. No idea what is going on there. I wish I
+knew enough about the DVD format to fix these, to ensure my movie
+collection will stay with me in the future.</p>
+
+<p>So, if you need to keep your DVDs safe, back them up using
+python-dvdvideo. :)</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow_p__trappene.html">Norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow på trappene</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 16th March 2014
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>Det offentlige Norge har mye kunnskap og informasjon. Men hvordan
+kan en få tilgang til den på en enkel måte? Takket være et lite
+knippe lover og tilhørende forskrifter, blant annet
+<a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2006-05-19-16">offentlighetsloven</a>,
+<a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-05-09-31">miljøinformasjonsloven</a>
+og
+<a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1967-02-10/">forvaltningsloven</a>
+har en rett til å spørre det offentlige og få svar. Men det finnes
+intet offentlig arkiv over hva andre har spurt om, og dermed risikerer en
+å måtte forstyrre myndighetene gang på gang for å få tak i samme
+informasjonen på nytt. <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/">Britiske
+mySociety</a> har laget tjenesten
+<a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/">WhatDoTheyKnow</a> som gjør
+noe med dette. I Storbritannia blir WhatdoTheyKnow brukt i
+<a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2011/07/01/whatdotheyknows-share-of-central-government-foi-requests-q2-2011/">ca
+15% av alle innsynsforespørsler mot sentraladministrasjonen</a>.
+Prosjektet heter <a href="http://www.alaveteli.org/">Alaveteli</A>, og
+er takk i bruk en rekke steder etter at løsningen ble generalisert og
+gjort mulig å oversette. Den hjelper borgerne med å be om innsyn,
+rådgir ved purringer og klager og lar alle se hvilke henvendelser som
+er sendt til det offentlige og hvilke svar som er kommet inn, i et
+søkpart arkiv. Her i Norge holder vi i foreningen NUUG på å få opp en
+norsk utgave av Alaveteli, og her trenger vi din hjelp med
+oversettelsen.</p>
+
+<p>Så langt er 76 % av Alaveteli oversatt til norsk bokmål, men vi
+skulle gjerne vært oppe i 100 % før lansering. Oversettelsen gjøres
+på <a href="https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/alaveteli/">Transifex,
+der enhver som registrerer seg</a> og ber om tilgang til
+bokmålsoversettelsen får bidra. Vi har satt opp en test av tjenesten
+(som ikke sender epost til det offentlige, kun til oss som holder på å
+sette opp tjenesten) på maskinen
+<a href="http://alaveteli-dev.nuug.no/">alaveteli-dev.nuug.no</a>, der
+en kan se hvordan de oversatte meldingen blir seende ut på nettsiden.
+Når tjenesten lanseres vil den hete
+<a href="https://www.mimesbrønn.no/">Mimes brønn</a>, etter
+visdomskilden som Odin måtte gi øyet sitt for å få drikke i. Den
+nettsiden er er ennå ikke klar til bruk.</p>
+
+<p>Hvis noen vil oversette til nynorsk også, så skal vi finne ut
+hvordan vi lager en flerspråklig tjeneste. Men i første omgang er
+fokus på bokmålsoversettelsen, der vi selv har nok peiling til å ha
+fått oversatt 76%, men trenger hjelp for å komme helt i mål. :)</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Freedombox_on_Dreamplug__Raspberry_Pi_and_virtual_x86_machine.html">Freedombox on Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and virtual x86 machine</a>
</div>
<div class="date">
14th March 2014
</div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox
+project</a> is working on providing the software and hardware for
+making it easy for non-technical people to host their data and
+communication at home, and being able to communicate with their
+friends and family encrypted and away from prying eyes. It has been
+going on for a while, and is slowly progressing towards a new test
+release (0.2).</p>
+
+<p>And what day could be better than the Pi day to announce that the
+new version will provide "hard drive" / SD card / USB stick images for
+Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and VirtualBox (or any other virtualization
+system), and can also be installed using a Debian installer preseed
+file. The Debian based Freedombox is now based on Debian Jessie,
+where most of the needed packages used are already present. Only one,
+the freedombox-setup package, is missing. To try to build your own
+boot image to test the current status, fetch the freedom-maker scripts
+and build using
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/vmdebootstrap">vmdebootstrap</a>
+with a user with sudo access to become root:
+
+<pre>
+git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
+ freedom-maker
+sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
+ mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
+ u-boot-tools
+make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
+</pre>
+
+<p>Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
+devices. See the README for more details on the build. If you do not
+want all three images, trim the make line. But note that thanks to <a
+href="https://bugs.debian.org/741407">a race condition in
+vmdebootstrap</a>, the build might fail without the patch to the
+kpartx call.</p>
+
+<p>If you instead want to install using a Debian CD and the preseed
+method, boot a Debian Wheezy ISO and use this boot argument to load
+the preseed values:</p>
+
+<pre>
+url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat</a>
+</pre>
+
+<p>But note that due to <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/740673">a
+recently introduced bug in apt in Jessie</a>, the installer will
+currently hang while setting up APT sources. Killing the
+'<tt>apt-cdrom ident</tt>' process when it hang a few times during the
+installation will get the installation going. This affect all
+installations in Jessie, and I expect it will be fixed soon.</p>
+
+Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help
+us get the new release published. :) Please join us on
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC (#freedombox on
+irc.debian.org)</a> and
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
+mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_add_extra_storage_servers_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html">How to add extra storage servers in Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 12th March 2014
+ </div>
<div class="body">
<p>On larger sites, it is useful to use a dedicated storage server for
storing user home directories and data. The design for handling this
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/02/">February (3)</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/03/">March (2)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/03/">March (5)</a></li>
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (94)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (95)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (145)</a></li>
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (237)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (239)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (21)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (12)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox (5)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox (6)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (11)</a></li>
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (25)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (26)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (241)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (242)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (161)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (162)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (10)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (11)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (45)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (46)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (69)</a></li>
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (34)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (35)</a></li>
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (21)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (22)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (1)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (8)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (39)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (40)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (4)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (28)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (29)</a></li>
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