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- <title>Rob Weir: How to Crush Dissent</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Rob_Weir__How_to_Crush_Dissent.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Rob_Weir__How_to_Crush_Dissent.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Debian in 3D</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_in_3D.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_in_3D.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>I found the notes from Rob Weir on
-<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/robweir/antic-atom/~3/VGb23-kta8c/how-to-crush-dissent.html">how
-to crush dissent</a> matching my own thoughts on the matter quite
-well. Highly recommended for those wondering which road our society
-should go down. In my view we have been heading the wrong way for a
-long time.</p>
+<p><img src="http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/23/e0/c4/f9/2b/debswagtdose_preview_medium.jpg"></p>
+
+<p>3D printing is just great. I just came across this Debian logo in
+3D linked in from
+<a href="http://blog.thingiverse.com/2010/11/09/participatory-branding/">the
+thingiverse blog</a>.</p>
</description>
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- <title>No hardcoded config on Debian Edu clients</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/No_hardcoded_config_on_Debian_Edu_clients.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/No_hardcoded_config_on_Debian_Edu_clients.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Datatilsynet mangler verktøyet som trengs for å kontrollere kameraovervåkning</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datatilsynet_mangler_verkt__yet_som_trengs_for____kontrollere_kameraoverv__kning.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datatilsynet_mangler_verkt__yet_som_trengs_for____kontrollere_kameraoverv__kning.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>As reported earlier, the last few days I have looked at how Debian
-Edu clients are configured, and tried to get rid of all hardcoded
-configuration settings on the clients. I believe the work to be
-mostly done, and the clients seem to work just fine with dynamically
-generated configuration.</p>
-
-<p>What is the point, you might ask? The point is to allow a Debian
-Edu desktop to integrate into an existing network infrastructure
-without any manual configuration.</p>
-
-<p>This is what happens when installing a Debian Edu client here at
-the University of Oslo using PXE. With the PXE installation, I am
-asked for language (Norwegian Bokmål), locality (Norway) and keyboard
-layout (no-latin1), Debian Edu profile (Roaming Workstation), if I
-accept to reformat the hard drive (yes), if I want to submit info to
-popcon.debian.org (no) and root password (secret). After answering
-these questions, the installer goes ahead and does its thing, and
-after around 50 minutes it is done. I press enter to finish the
-installation, and the machine reboots into KDE. When the machine is
-ready and kdm asks for login information, I enter my university
-username and password, am told by kdm that a local home directory has
-been created and that I must log in again, and finally log in with the
-same username and password to the KDE 4.4 desktop. At no point during
-this process did it ask for university specific settings, and all the
-required configuration was dynamically detected using information
-fetched via DHCP and DNS. The roaming workstation is now ready for
-use.</p>
-
-<p>How was this done, you might wonder? First of all, here is the
-list of things that need to be configured on the client to get it
-working properly out of the box:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>IP address/netmask and DNS server.</li>
-<li>Web proxy URL.</li>
-<li>LDAP server for NSS directory information (user, group, etc).</li>
-<li>Kerberos server for PAM password checking.</li>
-<li>SMB mount point to access the network home directory. (*)</li>
-<li>Central syslog server to send syslog messages to. (*)</li>
-<li>Sitesummary collector URL to submit info to central server. (*)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>(Hm, did I forget anything? Let me knew if I did.)</p>
-
-<p>The points marked (*) are not required to be able to use the
-machine, but needed to provide central storage and allowing system
-administrators to track their machines. Since yesterday, everything
-but the sitesummary collector URL is dynamically discovered at boot
-and installation time in the svn version of Debian Edu.</p>
-
-<p>The IP and DNS setup is fetched during boot using DHCP as usual.
-When a DHCP update arrives, the proxy setup is updated by looking for
-http://wpat/wpad.dat and using the content of this WPAD file to
-configure the http and ftp proxy in /etc/environment and
-/etc/apt/apt.conf. I decided to update the proxy setup using a DHCP
-hook to ensure that the client stops using the Debian Edu proxy when
-it is moved outside the Debian Edu network, and instead uses any local
-proxy present on the new network when it moves around.</p>
-
-<p>The DNS names of the LDAP, Kerberos and syslog server and related
-configuration are generated using DNS information at boot. First the
-installer looks for a host named ldap in the current DNS domain. If
-not found, it looks for _ldap._tcp SRV records in DNS instead. If an
-LDAP server is found, its root DSE entry is requested and the
-attributes namingContexts and defaultNamingContext are used to
-determine which LDAP base to use for NSS. If there are several
-namingContexts attibutes and the defaultNamingContext is present, that
-LDAP subtree is used as the base. If defaultNamingContext is missing,
-the subtrees listed as namingContexts are searched in sequence for any
-object with class posixAccount or posixGroup, and the first one with
-such an object is used as the LDAP base. For Kerberos, a similar
-search is done by first looking for a host named kerberos, and then
-for the _kerberos._tcp SRV record. I've been unable to find a way to
-look up the Kerberos realm, so for this the upper case string of the
-current DNS domain is used.</p>
-
-<p>For the syslog server, the hosts syslog and loghost are searched
-for, and the _syslog._udp SRV record is consulted if no such host is
-found. This algorithm works for both Debian Edu and the University of
-Oslo. A similar strategy would work for locating the sitesummary
-server, but have not been implemented yet. I decided to fetch and
-save these settings during installation, to make sure moving to a
-different network does not change the set of users being allowed to
-log in nor the passwords required to log in. Usernames and passwords
-will be cached by sssd when the user logs in on the Debian Edu
-network, and will not change as the laptop move around. For a
-non-roaming machine, there is no caching, but given that it is
-supposed to stay in place it should not matter much. Perhaps we
-should switch those to use sssd too?</p>
-
-<p>The user's SMB mount point for the network home directory is
-located when the user logs in for the first time. The LDAP server is
-consulted to look for the user's LDAP object and the sambaHomePath
-attribute is used if found. If it isn't found, the home directory
-path fetched from NSS is used instead. Assuming the path is of the
-form /site/server/directory/username, the second part is looked up in
-DNS and used to generate a SMB URL of the form
-smb://server.domain/username. This algorithm works for both Debian
-edu and the University of Oslo. Perhaps there are better attributes
-to use or a better algorithm that works for more sites, but this will
-do for now. :)</p>
-
-<p>This work should make it easier to integrate the Debian Edu clients
-into any LDAP/Kerberos infrastructure, and make the current setup even
-more flexible than before. I suspect it will also work for thin
-client servers, allowing one to easily set up LTSP and hook it into a
-existing network infrastructure, but I have not had time to test this
-yet.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help out with implementing these things for Debian
-Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2010-08-09: Simon Farnsworth gave me a heads-up on how to
-detect Kerberos realm from DNS, by looking for _kerberos TXT entries
-before falling back to the upper case DNS domain name. Will have to
-implement it for Debian Edu. :)</p>
+<p>En stund tilbake ble jeg oppmerksom på at Datatilsynets verktøy for
+å holde rede på overvåkningskamera i Norge ikke var egnet til annet
+enn å lage statistikk, og ikke kunne brukes for å kontrollere om et
+overvåkningskamera i det offentlige rom er lovlig satt opp og
+registrert. For å teste hypotesen sendte jeg for noen dager siden
+følgende spørsmål til datatilsynet. Det omtalte kameraet står litt
+merkelig plassert i veigrøften ved gangstien langs Sandakerveien, og
+jeg lurer oppriktig på om det er lovlig plassert og registrert.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:08:20 +0100
+<br>From: Petter Reinholdtsen &lt;pere (at) hungry.com&gt;
+<br>To: postkasse (at) datatilsynet.no
+<br>Subject: Er overvåkningskameraet korrekt registrert?</p>
+
+<p>Hei.</p>
+
+<p>I Nydalen i Oslo er det mange overvåkningskamera, og et av dem er
+spesielt merkelig plassert like over et kumlokk. Jeg lurer på om
+dette kameraet er korrekt registrert og i henhold til lovverket.</p>
+
+<p>Finner ingen eierinformasjon på kameraet, og dermed heller ingenting å
+søke på i &lt;URL:
+<a href="http://hetti.datatilsynet.no/melding/report_search.pl">http://hetti.datatilsynet.no/melding/report_search.pl</a> &gt;.
+Kartreferanse for kameraet er tilgjengelig fra
+&lt;URL:
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.no/pere/surveillance-norway/?zoom=17&lat=59.94918&lon=10.76962&layers=B0T">http://people.skolelinux.no/pere/surveillance-norway/?zoom=17&lat=59.94918&lon=10.76962&layers=B0T</a> &gt;.
+
+<p>Kan dere fortelle meg om dette kameraet er registrert hos
+Datatilsynet som det skal være i henhold til lovverket?</p>
+
+<p>Det hadde forresten vært fint om rådata fra kameraregisteret var
+tilgjengelig på web og regelmessig oppdatert, for å kunne søke på
+andre ting enn organisasjonsnavn og -nummer ved å laste det ned og
+gjøre egne søk.</p>
+
+<p>Vennlig hilsen,
+<br>--
+<br>Petter Reinholdtsen
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Her er svaret som kom dagen etter:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:44:09 +0100
+<br>From: "juridisk" &lt;juridisk (at) Datatilsynet.no&gt;
+<br>To: Petter Reinholdtsen
+<br>Subject: VS: Er overvåkningskameraet korrekt registrert?
+
+<p>Viser til e-post av 2. november.
+
+<p>Datatilsynet er det forvaltningsorganet som skal kontrollere at
+personopplysningsloven blir fulgt. Formålet med loven er å verne
+enkeltpersoner mot krenking av personvernet gjennom behandling av
+personopplysninger.</p>
+
+<p>Juridisk veiledningstjeneste hos Datatilsynet gir råd og veiledning
+omkring personopplysningslovens regler på generelt grunnlag.</p>
+
+<p>Datatilsynet har dessverre ikke en fullstendig oversikt over alle
+kameraer, den oversikten som finner er i vår meldingsdatabase som du
+finner her:
+<a href="http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/article____211.aspx">http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/article____211.aspx</a></p>
+
+<p>Denne databasen gir en oversikt over virksomheter som har meldt inn
+kameraovervåkning. Dersom man ikek vet hvilken virksomhet som er
+ansvarlig, er det heller ikke mulig for Datatilsynet å søke dette
+opp.</p>
+
+<p>Webkameraer som har så dårlig oppløsning at man ikke kan gjenkjenne
+enkeltpersoner er ikke meldepliktige, da dette ikke anses som
+kameraovervåkning i personopplysningslovens forstand. Dersom kameraet
+du sikter til er et slikt webkamera, vil det kanskje ikke finnes i
+meldingsdatabasen på grunn av dette. Også dersom et kamera med god
+oppløsning ikke filmer mennesker, faller det utenfor loven.</p>
+
+<p>Datatilsynet har laget en veileder som gjennomgår når det er lov å
+overvåke med kamera, se lenke:
+<a href="http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/article____401.aspx">http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/article____401.aspx</a></p>
+
+<p>Dersom det ikke er klart hvem som er ansvarlig for kameraet, er det
+vanskelig for Datatilsynet å ta kontakt med den ansvarlige for å få
+avklart om kameraet er satt opp i tråd med tilsynets regelverk. Dersom
+du mener at kameraet ikke er lovlig ut fra informasjonen ovenfor, kan
+kameraet anmeldes til politiet.</p>
+
+<p>Med vennlig hilsen</p>
+
+<p>Maria Bakke
+<br>Juridisk veiledningstjeneste
+<br>Datatilsynet</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Personlig synes jeg det bør være krav om å registrere hvert eneste
+overvåkningskamera i det offentlige rom hos Datatilsynet, med
+kartreferanse og begrunnelse om hvorfor det er satt opp, slik at
+enhver borger enkelt kan hente ut kart over områder vi er interessert
+i og sjekke om det er overvåkningskamera der som er satt opp uten å
+være registert. Slike registreringer skal jo i dag fornyes
+regelmessing, noe jeg mistenker ikke blir gjort. Dermed kan kamera
+som en gang var korrekt registrert nå være ulovlig satt opp. Det
+burde også være bøter for å ha kamera som ikke er korrekt registrert,
+slik at en ikke kan ignorere registrering uten at det får
+konsekvenser.</p>
+
+<p>En ide fra England som jeg har sans (lite annet jeg har sans for
+når det gjelder overvåkningskamera i England) for er at enhver borger
+kan be om å få kopi av det som er tatt opp med et overvåkningskamera i
+det offentlige rom, noe som gjør at det kan komme løpende utgifter ved
+å sette overvåkningskamera. Jeg tror alt som gjør det mindre
+attraktivt å ha overvåkningskamera i det offentlige rom er en god
+ting, så et slikt lovverk i Norge tror jeg hadde vært nyttig.</p>
</description>
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- <title>Testing if a file system can be used for home directories...</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 8 Aug 2010 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Making room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_room_on_the_Debian_Edu_Sqeeze_DVD.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>A few years ago, I was involved in a project planning to use
-Windows file servers as home directory servers for Debian
-Edu/Skolelinux machines. This was thought to be no problem, as the
-access would be through the SMB network file system protocol, and we
-knew other sites used SMB with unix and samba as the file server to
-mount home directories without any problems. But, after months of
-struggling, we had to conclude that our goal was impossible.</p>
-
-<p>The reason is simply that while SMB can be used for home
-directories when the file server is Samba running on Unix, this only
-work because of Samba have some extensions and the fact that the
-underlying file system is a unix file system. When using a Windows
-file server, the underlying file system do not have POSIX semantics,
-and several programs will fail if the users home directory where they
-want to store their configuration lack POSIX semantics.</p>
-
-<p>As part of this work, I wrote a small C program I want to share
-with you all, to replicate a few of the problematic applications (like
-OpenOffice.org and GCompris) and see if the file system was working as
-it should. If you find yourself in spooky file system land, it might
-help you find your way out again. This is the fs-test.c source:</p>
-
-<pre>
-/*
- * Some tests to check the file system sematics. Used to verify that
- * CIFS from a windows server do not work properly as a linux home
- * directory.
- * License: GPL v2 or later
- *
- * needs libsqlite3-dev and build-essential installed
- * compile with: gcc -Wall -lsqlite3 -DTEST_SQLITE fs-test.c -o fs-test
-*/
-
-#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
-#define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE 1
-#define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE 1
-
-#define _GNU_SOURCE /* for asprintf() */
-
-#include &lt;errno.h>
-#include &lt;fcntl.h>
-#include &lt;stdio.h>
-#include &lt;string.h>
-#include &lt;stdlib.h>
-#include &lt;sys/file.h>
-#include &lt;sys/stat.h>
-#include &lt;sys/types.h>
-#include &lt;unistd.h>
-
-#ifdef TEST_SQLITE
-/*
- * Test sqlite open, as done by gcompris require the libsqlite3-dev
- * package and linking with -lsqlite3. A more low level test is
- * below.
- * See also &lt;URL: http://www.sqlite.org./faq.html#q5 >.
- */
-#include &lt;sqlite3.h>
-#define CREATE_TABLE_USERS \
- "CREATE TABLE users (user_id INT UNIQUE, login TEXT, lastname TEXT, firstname TEXT, birthdate TEXT, class_id INT ); "
-int test_sqlite_open(void) {
- char *zErrMsg;
- char *name = "testsqlite.db";
- sqlite3 *db=NULL;
- unlink(name);
- int rc = sqlite3_open(name, &db);
- if( rc ){
- printf("error: sqlite open of %s failed: %s\n", name, sqlite3_errmsg(db));
- sqlite3_close(db);
- return -1;
- }
-
- /* create tables */
- rc = sqlite3_exec(db,CREATE_TABLE_USERS, NULL, 0, &zErrMsg);
- if( rc != SQLITE_OK ){
- printf("error: sqlite table create failed: %s\n", zErrMsg);
- sqlite3_close(db);
- return -1;
- }
- printf("info: sqlite worked\n");
- sqlite3_close(db);
- return 0;
-}
-#endif /* TEST_SQLITE */
-
-/*
- * Demonstrate locking issue found in gcompris using sqlite3. This
- * work with ext3, but not with cifs server on Windows 2003. This is
- * done in the sqlite3 library.
- * See also
- * &lt;URL:http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00854.html> and the
- * POSIX specification
- * &lt;URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fcntl.html>.
- */
-int test_gcompris_locking(void) {
- struct flock fl;
- char *name = "testsqlite.db";
- unlink(name);
- int fd = open(name, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644);
- printf("info: testing fcntl locking\n");
-
- fl.l_whence = SEEK_SET;
- fl.l_pid = getpid();
- printf(" Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824");
- fl.l_start = 1073741824;
- fl.l_len = 1;
- fl.l_type = F_RDLCK;
- if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &fl) ) printf(" - error!\n"); else printf("\n");
-
- printf(" Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826");
- fl.l_start = 1073741826;
- fl.l_len = 510;
- fl.l_type = F_RDLCK;
- if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &fl) ) printf(" - error!\n"); else printf("\n");
-
- printf(" Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824");
- fl.l_start = 1073741824;
- fl.l_len = 1;
- fl.l_type = F_UNLCK;
- if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &fl) ) printf(" - error!\n"); else printf("\n");
-
- printf(" Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824");
- fl.l_start = 1073741824;
- fl.l_len = 1;
- fl.l_type = F_WRLCK;
- if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &fl) ) printf(" - error!\n"); else printf("\n");
-
- printf(" Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826");
- fl.l_start = 1073741826;
- fl.l_len = 510;
- if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &fl) ) printf(" - error!\n"); else printf("\n");
-
- printf(" Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824");
- fl.l_start = 1073741824;
- fl.l_len = 2;
- fl.l_type = F_UNLCK;
- if (0 != fcntl(fd, F_SETLK, &fl) ) printf(" - error!\n"); else printf("\n");
-
- close(fd);
- return 0;
-}
-
-/*
- * Test if permissions of freshly created directories allow entries
- * below them. This was a problem with OpenOffice.org and gcompris.
- * Mounting with option 'sync' seem to solve this problem while
- * slowing down file operations.
- */
-int test_subdirectory_creation(void) {
-#define LEVELS 5
- char *path = strdup("test");
- char *dirs[LEVELS];
- int level;
- printf("info: testing subdirectory creation\n");
- for (level = 0; level &lt; LEVELS; level++) {
- char *newpath = NULL;
- if (-1 == mkdir(path, 0777)) {
- printf(" error: Unable to create directory '%s': %s\n",
- path, strerror(errno));
- break;
- }
- asprintf(&newpath, "%s/%s", path, "test");
- free(path);
- path = newpath;
- }
- return 0;
-}
-
-/*
- * Test if symlinks can be created. This was a problem detected with
- * KDE.
- */
-int test_symlinks(void) {
- printf("info: testing symlink creation\n");
- unlink("symlink");
- if (-1 == symlink("file", "symlink"))
- printf(" error: Unable to create symlink\n");
- return 0;
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char **argv) {
- printf("Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system\n");
- test_symlinks();
- test_subdirectory_creation();
-#ifdef TEST_SQLITE
- test_sqlite_open();
-#endif /* TEST_SQLITE */
- test_gcompris_locking();
- return 0;
-}
-</pre>
-
-<p>When everything is working, it should print something like
-this:</p>
-
-<pre>
-Testing POSIX/Unix sematics on file system
-info: testing symlink creation
-info: testing subdirectory creation
-info: sqlite worked
-info: testing fcntl locking
- Read-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
- Read-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
- Unlocking 1 byte from 1073741824
- Write-locking 1 byte from 1073741824
- Write-locking 510 byte from 1073741826
- Unlocking 2 byte from 1073741824
-</pre>
-
-<p>I do not remember the exact details of the problems we saw, but one
-of them was with locking, where if I remember correctly, POSIX allow a
-read-only lock to be upgraded to a read-write lock without unlocking
-the read-only lock (while Windows do not). Another was a bug in the
-CIFS/SMB client implementation in the Linux kernel where directory
-meta information would be wrong for a fraction of a second, making
-OpenOffice.org fail to create its deep directory tree because it was
-not allowed to create files in its freshly created directory.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, here is a nice tool for your tool box, might you never need
-it. :)</p>
+<p>Prioritising packages for the Debian Edu /
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a> DVD, which is
+supposed provide a school with all the services and user applications
+needed on the pupils computer network has always been hard. Even
+schools without Internet connections should be able to get Debian Edu
+working using this DVD.</p>
+
+<p>The job became a lot harder when apt and aptitude started
+installing recommended packages by default. We want the same set of
+packages to be installed when using the DVD and the netinst CD, and
+that means all recommended packages need to be on the DVD. I created
+a patch for debian-cd in <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/601203">BTS
+report #601203</a> to do this, and since this change was applied to
+the Debian Edu DVD build, we have been seriously short on space.</p>
+
+<p>A few days ago we decided to drop blender, wxmaxima and kicad from
+the default installation to save space on the DVD, believing that
+those needing these applications are few and can get them from the
+Debian archive.</p>
+
+<p>Yesterday, I had a look what source packages to see which packages
+were using most space. A few large packages are well know;
+openoffice.org, openclipart and fluid-soundfont. But I also
+discovered that lilypond used 106 MiB and fglrx-driver used 53 MiB.
+The lilypond package is pulled in as a dependency for rosegarden, and
+when looking a bit closer I discovered that 99 MiB of the 106 MiB were
+the documentation package, which is recommended by the binary package.
+I decided to drop this documentation package from our DVD, as most of
+our users will use the GUI front-ends and do not need the lilypond
+documentation. Similarly, I dropped the non-free fglrx-driver package
+which might be installed by d-i when its hardware is detected, as the
+free X driver should work.</p>
+
+<p>With this change, we finally got space for the LXDE and Gnome
+desktop packages as well as the language specific packages making the
+DVD more useful again.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Autodetecting Client setup for roaming workstations in Debian Edu</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Autodetecting_Client_setup_for_roaming_workstations_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Autodetecting_Client_setup_for_roaming_workstations_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 7 Aug 2010 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Norgeskartet på mange vis - via OpenStreetmap.org</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norgeskartet_p___mange_vis___via_OpenStreetmap_org.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norgeskartet_p___mange_vis___via_OpenStreetmap_org.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>A few days ago, I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html">tried
-to install</a> a Roaming workation profile from Debian Edu/Squeeze
-while on the university network here at the University of Oslo, and
-noticed how much had to change to get it operational using the
-university infrastructure. It was fairly easy, but it occured to me
-that Debian Edu would improve a lot if I could get the client to
-connect without any changes at all, and thus let the client configure
-itself during installation and first boot to use the infrastructure
-around it. Now I am a huge step further along that road.</p>
-
-<p>With our current squeeze-test packages, I can select the roaming
-workstation profile and get a working laptop connecting to the
-university LDAP server for user and group and our active directory
-servers for Kerberos authentication. All this without any
-configuration at all during installation. My users home directory got
-a bookmark in the KDE menu to mount it via SMB, with the correct URL.
-In short, openldap and sssd is correctly configured. In addition to
-this, the client look for http://wpad/wpad.dat to configure a web
-proxy, and when it fail to find it no proxy settings are stored in
-/etc/environment and /etc/apt/apt.conf. Iceweasel and KDE is
-configured to look for the same wpad configuration and also do not use
-a proxy when at the university network. If the machine is moved to a
-network with such wpad setup, it would automatically use it when DHCP
-gave it a IP address.</p>
-
-<p>The LDAP server is located using DNS, by first looking for the DNS
-entry ldap.$domain. If this do not exist, it look for the
-_ldap._tcp.$domain SRV records and use the first one as the LDAP
-server. Next, it connects to the LDAP server and search all
-namingContexts entries for posixAccount or posixGroup objects, and
-pick the first one as the LDAP base. For Kerberos, a similar
-algorithm is used to locate the LDAP server, and the realm is the
-uppercase version of $domain.</p>
-
-<p>So, what is not working, you might ask. SMB mounting my home
-directory do not work. No idea why, but suspected the incorrect
-Kerberos settings in /etc/krb5.conf and /etc/samba/smb.conf might be
-the cause. These are not properly configured during installation, and
-had to be hand-edited to get the correct Kerberos realm and server,
-but SMB mounting still do not work. :(</p>
-
-<p>With this automatic configuration in place, I expect a Debian Edu
-roaming profile installation would be able to automatically detect and
-connect to any site using LDAP and Kerberos for NSS directory and PAM
-authentication. It should also work out of the box in a Active
-Directory environment providing posixAccount and posixGroup objects
-with UID and GID values.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help out with implementing these things for Debian
-Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
+<p>Har oppdaget at mange ikke er klar over at OpenStreetmap.org er
+tilgjengelig i en rekke forskjellige formater. Her er en liste med
+eksporter jeg kjenner til for Norge, for de som trenger et
+fribrukskart til sine tjenester:</p>
+
+<p><ul>
+
+<li>Cloudmade tilbyr OSM XML, Garmin Map Files, Osmosis country
+bounding polygon, Shapefile, Navit maps, GPX POI, TomTom POI og OSM
+XML feature extracts via
+<a href="http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/norway">sine
+nedlastingssider</a>.</li>
+
+<li>Geofabric tilbyr
+<a href="http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/norway.osm.bz2">OSM
+XML</a>,
+<a href="http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/norway.osm.pbf">OSM
+protobuf binærformat</a> og
+<a href="http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/norway.shp.zip">ESRI
+Shapefile (EPSG:4326)</a> fra sine nedlastingssider.</li>
+
+<li>Frikart.no tilbyr
+<a href="http://www.frikart.no/garmin/">Garmin-kart</a> i uike
+varianter for veibruk og turbruk sommer og vinter.</li>
+
+</ul></p>
+
+<p>Kartene oppdateres regelmessig, som oftest hver uke. Det skulle
+dermed være noe for enhver smak.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Debian Edu roaming workstation - at the university of Oslo</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_roaming_workstation___at_the_university_of_Oslo.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 3 Aug 2010 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Best å ikke fortelle noen at streaming er nedlasting...</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best____ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best____ikke_fortelle_noen_at_streaming_er_nedlasting___.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>The new roaming workstation profile in Debian Edu/Squeeze is fairly
-similar to the laptop setup am I working on using Ubuntu for the
-University of Oslo, and just for the heck of it, I tested today how
-hard it would be to integrate that profile into the university
-infrastructure. In this case, it is the university LDAP server,
-Active Directory Kerberos server and SMB mounting from the Netapp file
-servers.</p>
-
-<p>I was pleasantly surprised that the only three files needed to be
-changed (/etc/sssd/sssd.conf, /etc/ldap.conf and
-/etc/mklocaluser.d/20-debian-edu-config) and one file had to be added
-(/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Edu_Local.pm), to get the client working.
-Most of the changes were to get the client to use the university LDAP
-for NSS and Kerberos server for PAM, but one was to change a hard
-coded DNS domain name in the mklocaluser hook from .intern to
-.uio.no.</p>
-
-<p>This testing was so encouraging, that I went ahead and adjusted the
-Debian Edu scripts and setup in subversion to centralise the roaming
-workstation setup a bit more and avoid the hardcoded DNS domain name,
-so that when I test this tomorrow, I expect to get away with modifying
-only /etc/sssd/sssd.conf and /etc/ldap.conf to get it to use the
-university servers.</p>
-
-<p>My goal is to get the clients to have no hardcoded settings and
-fetch all their initial setup during installation and first boot, to
-allow them to be inserted also into environments where the default
-setup in Debian Edu has been changed or as with the university, where
-the environment is different but provides the protocols Debian Edu
-uses.</p>
+<p>I dag la jeg inn en kommentar på en sak hos NRKBeta
+<a href="http://nrkbeta.no/2010/10/27/bakom-blindpassasjer-del-1/">om
+hvordan TV-serien Blindpassasjer ble laget</a> i forbindelse med at
+filmene NRK la ut ikke var tilgjengelig i et
+<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">fritt og
+åpent format</a>. Dette var det jeg skrev publiserte der 07:39.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>"Vi fikk en kommentar rundt måten streamet innhold er beskyttet fra
+nedlasting. Mange av oss som kan mer enn gjennomsnittet om systemer
+som dette, vet at det stort sett er mulig å lure ut ting med den
+nødvendige forkunnskapen."</p>
+
+<p>Haha. Å streame innhold er det samme som å laste ned innhold, så å
+beskytte en stream mot nedlasting er ikke mulig. Å skrive noe slikt
+er å forlede leseren.</p>
+
+<p>Med den bakgrunn blir forklaringen om at noen rettighetshavere kun
+vil tillate streaming men ikke nedlasting meningsløs.</p>
+
+<p>Anbefaler forresten å lese
+<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/10/drm-is-toxic-to-culture/index.htm">http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/10/drm-is-toxic-to-culture/index.htm</a>
+om hva som ville være konsekvensen hvis digitale avspillingssperrer
+(DRM) fungerte. Det gjør de naturligvis ikke teknisk - det er jo
+derfor de må ha totalitære juridiske beskyttelsesmekanismer på plass,
+men det er skremmende hva samfunnet tillater og NRK er med på å bygge
+opp under.</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Ca. 20 minutter senere får jeg følgende epost fra Anders Hofseth i
+NRKBeta:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>From: Anders Hofseth &lt;XXX@gmail.com>
+<br>To: "pere@hungry.com" &lt;pere@hungry.com>
+<br>Cc: Eirik Solheim &lt;XXX@gmail.com>, Jon Ståle Carlsen &lt;XXX@gmail.com>, Henrik Lied &lt;XXX@gmail.com>
+<br>Subject: Re: [NRKbeta] Kommentar: "Bakom Blindpassasjer: del 1"
+<br>Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:58:44 +0200</p>
+
+<p>Hei Petter.
+<br>Det du forsøker dra igang er egentlig en interessant diskusjon,
+men om vi skal kjøre den i kommentarfeltet her, vil vi kunne bli bedt
+om å fjerne blindpassasjer fra nett- tv og det vil heller ikke bli
+særlig lett å klarere ut noe annet arkivmateriale på lang tid.</p>
+
+<p>Dette er en situasjon NRKbeta ikke ønsker, så kommentaren er
+fjernet og den delen av diskusjonen er avsluttet på nrkbeta, vi antar
+konsekvensene vi beskriver ikke er noe du ønsker heller...</p>
+
+<p>Med hilsen,
+<br>-anders</p>
+
+<p>Ring meg om noe er uklart: 95XXXXXXX</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Ble så fascinert over denne holdningen, at jeg forfattet og sendte
+over følgende svar. I og med at debatten er fjernet fra NRK Betas
+kommentarfelt, så velger jeg å publisere her på bloggen min i stedet.
+Har fjernet epostadresser og telefonnummer til de involverte, for å
+unngå at de tiltrekker seg uønskede direkte kontaktforsøk.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>From: Petter Reinholdtsen &lt;pere@hungry.com>
+<br>To: Anders Hofseth &lt;XXX@gmail.com>
+<br>Cc: Eirik Solheim &lt;XXX@gmail.com>,
+<br> Jon Ståle Carlsen &lt;XXX@gmail.com>,
+<br> Henrik Lied &lt;XXX@gmail.com>
+<br>Subject: Re: [NRKbeta] Kommentar: "Bakom Blindpassasjer: del 1"
+<br>Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:24:34 +0200</p>
+
+<p>[Anders Hofseth]
+<br>> Hei Petter.</p>
+
+<p>Hei.</p>
+
+<p>> Det du forsøker dra igang er egentlig en interessant diskusjon, men
+<br>> om vi skal kjøre den i kommentarfeltet her, vil vi kunne bli bedt om
+<br>> å fjerne blindpassasjer fra nett- tv og det vil heller ikke bli
+<br>> særlig lett å klarere ut noe annet arkivmateriale på lang tid.</p>
+
+<p>Godt å se at du er enig i at dette er en interessant diskusjon. Den
+vil nok fortsette en stund til. :)</p>
+
+<p>Må innrømme at jeg synes det er merkelig å lese at dere i NRK med
+vitende og vilje ønsker å forlede rettighetshaverne for å kunne
+fortsette å legge ut arkivmateriale.</p>
+
+<p>Kommentarer og diskusjoner i bloggene til NRK Beta påvirker jo ikke
+faktum, som er at streaming er det samme som nedlasting, og at innhold
+som er lagt ut på nett kan lagres lokalt for avspilling når en ønsker
+det.</p>
+
+<p>Det du sier er jo at klarering av arkivmateriale for publisering på
+web krever at en holder faktum skjult fra debattfeltet på NRKBeta.
+Det er ikke et argument som holder vann. :)</p>
+
+<p>> Dette er en situasjon NRKbeta ikke ønsker, så kommentaren er fjernet
+<br>> og den delen av diskusjonen er avsluttet på nrkbeta, vi antar
+<br>> konsekvensene vi beskriver ikke er noe du ønsker heller...</p>
+
+<p>Personlig ønsker jeg at NRK skal slutte å stikke hodet i sanden og
+heller være åpne på hvordan virkeligheten fungerer, samt ta opp kampen
+mot de som vil låse kulturen inne. Jeg synes det er en skam at NRK
+godtar å forlede publikum. Ville heller at NRK krever at innhold som
+skal sendes skal være uten bruksbegresninger og kan publiseres i
+formater som heller ikke har bruksbegresninger (bruksbegresningene til
+H.264 burde få varselbjellene i NRK til å ringe).</p>
+
+<p>At NRK er med på DRM-tåkeleggingen og at det kommer feilaktive
+påstander om at "streaming beskytter mot nedlasting" som bare er egnet
+til å bygge opp om en myte som er skadelig for samfunnet som helhet.</p>
+
+<p>Anbefaler &lt;URL:<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/">http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/</a>> og en
+titt på
+&lt;URL: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html</a> >.
+for å se hva slags bruksbegresninger H.264 innebærer.</p>
+
+<p>Hvis dette innebærer at NRK må være åpne med at arkivmaterialet ikke
+kan brukes før rettighetshaverene også innser at de er med på å skade
+samfunnets kultur og kollektive hukommelse, så får en i hvert fall
+synliggjort konsekvensene og antagelig mer flammer på en debatt som er
+langt på overtid.</p>
+
+<p>> Ring meg om noe er uklart: XXX</p>
+
+<p>Intet uklart, men ikke imponert over måten dere håndterer debatten på.
+Hadde du i stedet kommet med et tilsvar i kommentarfeltet der en
+gjorde det klart at blindpassasjer-blogpostingen ikke var riktig sted
+for videre diskusjon hadde dere i mine øyne kommet fra det med
+ryggraden på plass.</p>
+
+<p>PS: Interessant å se at NRK-ansatte ikke bruker NRK-epostadresser.</p>
+
+<p>Som en liten avslutning, her er noen litt morsomme innslag om temaet.
+&lt;URL: <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft">http://www.archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft</a> > og
+&lt;URL: <a href="http://patentabsurdity.com/">http://patentabsurdity.com/</a> > hadde vært noe å kringkaste på
+NRK1. :)</p>
+
+<p>Vennlig hilsen,
+<br>--
+<br>Petter Reinholdtsen</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Circular package dependencies harms apt recovery</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Circular_package_dependencies_harms_apt_recovery.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Circular_package_dependencies_harms_apt_recovery.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Software updates 2010-10-24</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Software_updates_2010_10_24.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>I discovered this while doing
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html">automated
-testing of upgrades from Debian Lenny to Squeeze</a>. A few packages
-in Debian still got circular dependencies, and it is often claimed
-that apt and aptitude should be able to handle this just fine, but
-some times these dependency loops causes apt to fail.</p>
-
-<p>An example is from todays
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing//test-20100727-lenny-squeeze-kde-aptitude.txt">upgrade
-of KDE using aptitude</a>. In it, a bug in kdebase-workspace-data
-causes perl-modules to fail to upgrade. The cause is simple. If a
-package fail to unpack, then only part of packages with the circular
-dependency might end up being unpacked when unpacking aborts, and the
-ones already unpacked will fail to configure in the recovery phase
-because its dependencies are unavailable.</p>
-
-<p>In this log, the problem manifest itself with this error:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-modules:
- perl-modules depends on perl (>= 5.10.1-1); however:
- Version of perl on system is 5.10.0-19lenny2.
-dpkg: error processing perl-modules (--configure):
- dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>The perl/perl-modules circular dependency is already
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/527917">reported as a bug</a>, and will
-hopefully be solved as soon as possible, but it is not the only one,
-and each one of these loops in the dependency tree can cause similar
-failures. Of course, they only occur when there are bugs in other
-packages causing the unpacking to fail, but it is rather nasty when
-the failure of one package causes the problem to become worse because
-of dependency loops.</p>
-
-<p>Thanks to
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/06/msg00116.html">the
-tireless effort by Bill Allombert</a>, the number of circular
-dependencies
-<a href="http://debian.semistable.com/debgraph.out.html">left in Debian
-is dropping</a>, and perhaps it will reach zero one day. :)</p>
-
-<p>Todays testing also exposed a bug in
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/590605">update-notifier</a> and
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/590604">different behaviour</a> between
-apt-get and aptitude, the latter possibly caused by some circular
-dependency. Reported both to BTS to try to get someone to look at
-it.</p>
+<p>Some updates.</p>
+
+<p>My <a href="http://pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2">gnash pledge</a> to
+raise money for the project is going well. The lower limit of 10
+signers was reached in 24 hours, and so far 13 people have signed it.
+More signers and more funding is most welcome, and I am really curious
+how far we can get before the time limit of December 24 is reached.
+:)</p>
+
+<p>On the #gnash IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, I was just tipped
+about what appear to be a great code coverage tool capable of
+generating code coverage stats without any changes to the source code.
+It is called
+<a href="http://simonkagstrom.github.com/kcov/index.html">kcov</a>,
+and can be used using <tt>kcov &lt;directory&gt; &lt;binary&gt;</tt>.
+It is missing in Debian, but the git source built just fine in Squeeze
+after I installed libelf-dev, libdwarf-dev, pkg-config and
+libglib2.0-dev. Failed to build in Lenny, but suspect that is
+solvable. I hope kcov make it into Debian soon.</p>
+
+<p>Finally found time to wrap up the release notes for <a
+href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2010/10/msg00002.html">a
+new alpha release of Debian Edu</a>, and just published the second
+alpha test release of the Squeeze based Debian Edu /
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>
+release. Give it a try if you need a complete linux solution for your
+school, including central infrastructure server, workstations, thin
+client servers and diskless workstations. A nice touch added
+yesterday is RDP support on the thin client servers, for windows
+clients to get a Linux desktop on request.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>First Debian Edu test release (alpha0) based on Squeeze is released</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu_test_release__alpha0__based_on_Squeeze_is_released.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu_test_release__alpha0__based_on_Squeeze_is_released.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Pledge for funding to the Gnash project to get AVM2 support</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pledge_for_funding_to_the_Gnash_project_to_get_AVM2_support.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pledge_for_funding_to_the_Gnash_project_to_get_AVM2_support.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>I just posted this announcement culminating several months of work
-with the next Debian Edu release. Not nearly done, but one major step
-completed.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>This is the first test release based on Squeeze. The focus of this
-release is to test the user application selection. To have a look,
-install the standalone profile and let the developers know if the set
-of installed packages i.e. applications should be modified. If some
-user application is missing, or if there are some applications that no
-longer make sense to be included in Debian Edu, please let us know.
-Also, if a useful application is missing the translation for your
-language of choice, please let us know too.</p>
-
-<p>In addition, feedback and help to polish the desktop (menus,
-artwork, starters, etc.) is appreciated. We would like to ship a nice
-and handy KDE4 desktop targeted for schools out of the box.</p>
-
-<p>The other profiles should be installable, but there is a lot more
-work left to be done before they are ready, so do not expect to
-much.</p>
-
-<p>Changes compared to the lenny based version</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Everything from Debian Squeeze
-<ul>
- <li>Desktop environment KDE 4.4 => the new KDE desktop in
- combination with some new artwork
- <li>Web browser Iceweasel 3.5
- <li>OpenOffice.org 3.2
- <li>Educational toolbox GCompris 9.3
- <li>Music creator Rosegarden 10.04.2
- <li>Image editor Gimp 2.6.10
- <li>Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.0
- <li>Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.10.4
- <li>3D modeler Blender 2.49.2 (new application)
- <li>Video editor Kdenlive 0.7.7 (new application)
-</ul></li>
-<li>Now using Kerberos for password checking (migration not finished).
- Enabled for:
-<ul>
- <li>PAM
- <li>LDAP
- <li>IMAP
- <li>SMTP (sender verification)
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>New experimental roaming workstation profile for laptops.</li>
-<li>Show welcome page to users when they first log in. The URL is
- fetched from LDAP.</li>
-<li>New LXDE desktop option, in addition to KDE (default) and Gnome.</li>
-<li>General cleanup (not finished)</li>
-</ul>
-<p>The following features are not working as they should</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>No web based administration tool for creating users and groups. The
- scripts ldap-createuser-krb and ldap-add-user-to-group can be used
- for testing.</li>
-<li>DVD installs are missing debian-installer images for the PXE boot,
- and do not set up the PXE menu on eth0 because of this. LTSP
- clients should still boot from eth1 on thin client servers.</li>
-<li>The restructured KDE menu is not implemented.</li>
-<li>The LDAP server setup need to be reviewed for security.</li>
-<li>The LDAP directory structure need to be reworked.</li>
-<li>Different sets of packages are installed when using the DVD and the
- netinst CD. More packages are installed using the netinst CD.</li>
-<li>The jackd package fail to install. This is believed to be caused by
- some ongoing transition, and hopefully should be solved soon. The
- jackd1 package can be installed manually for those that need it.</li>
-<li>Some packages lack translations. See
- http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Squeeze for updated status,
- and help out with translations.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>To download this multiarch netinstall release you can use</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso</a></li>
-<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso</li>
-</ul>
-<p>To download this multiarch dvd release you can use</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso</a></li>
-<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/squeeze-alpha/debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>There is no source DVD available yet. It will be prepared when we
-get closer to the final release.</p>
-
-<p>The MD5SUM of these images are</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>3dbf45d59f42a53518b6e3c9ec3b5eb6 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso</li>
-<li>22f2cbfce281d1c6e478be452638675d debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>The SHA1SUM of these images are</p>
-<ul>
-<li>c53d1b69b40cf37cd27aefaf33f6f6a3821bedf0 debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-CD.iso</li>
-<li>2ec29d7db676d59d32197b05c277ffe16348376c debian-edu-6.0.0+edua0-DVD.iso</li>
-</ul>
-<p>How to report bugs:
-http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugsInBugzilla</p>
-
-<p>Please direct replies to debian-edu@lists.debian.org</p>
-</blockquote>
+<p><a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">The Gnash project</a> is the
+most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation. It
+has done great so far, but there is still far to go, and recently its
+funding has dried up. I believe AVM2 support in Gnash is vital to the
+continued progress of the project, as more and more sites show up with
+AVM2 flash files.</p>
+
+<p>To try to get funding for developing such support, I have started
+<a href="http://www.pledgebank.com/gnash-avm2">a pledge</a> with the
+following text:</P>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+
+ <p>"I will pay 100$ to the Gnash project to develop AVM2 support but
+ only if 10 other people will do the same."</p>
+
+ <p>- Petter Reinholdtsen, free software developer</p>
+
+ <p>Deadline to sign up by: 24th December 2010</p>
+
+ <p>The Gnash project need to get support for the new Flash file
+ format AVM2 to work with a lot of sites using Flash on the
+ web. Gnash already work with a lot of Flash sites using the old AVM1
+ format, but more and more sites are using the AVM2 format these
+ days. The project web page is available from
+ http://www.getgnash.org/ . Gnash is a free software implementation
+ of Adobe Flash, allowing those of us that do not accept the terms of
+ the Adobe Flash license to get access to Flash sites.</p>
+
+ <p>The project need funding to get developers to put aside enough
+ time to develop the AVM2 support, and this pledge is my way to try
+ to get this to happen.</p>
+
+ <p>The project accept donations via the OpenMediaNow foundation,
+ <a href="http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32">http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/32</a> .</p>
+
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>I hope you will support this effort too. I hope more than 10
+people will participate to make this happen. The more money the
+project gets, the more features it can develop using these funds.
+:)</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>One step closer to single signon in Debian Edu</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_step_closer_to_single_signon_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_step_closer_to_single_signon_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Standardkrav inn i anbudstekster?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Standardkrav_inn_i_anbudstekster_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Standardkrav_inn_i_anbudstekster_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>The last few months me and the other Debian Edu developers have
-been working hard to get the Debian/Squeeze based version of Debian
-Edu/Skolelinux into shape. This future version will use Kerberos for
-authentication, and services are slowly migrated to single signon,
-getting rid of password questions one at the time.</p>
-
-<p>It will also feature a roaming workstation profile with local home
-directory, for laptops that are only some times on the Skolelinux
-network, and for this profile a shortcut is created in Gnome and KDE
-to gain access to the users home directory on the file server. This
-shortcut uses SMB at the moment, and yesterday I had time to test if
-SMB mounting had started working in KDE after we added the cifs-utils
-package. I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked.</p>
-
-<p>Thanks to the recent changes to our samba configuration to get it
-to use Kerberos for authentication, there were no question about user
-password when mounting the SMB volume. A simple click on the shortcut
-in the KDE menu, and a window with the home directory popped
-up. :)</p>
-
-<p>One step closer to a single signon solution out of the box in
-Debian Edu. We already had PAM, LDAP, IMAP and SMTP in place, and now
-also Samba. Next step is Cups and hopefully also NFS.</p>
-
-<p>We had planned a alpha0 release of Debian Edu for today, but thanks
-to the autobuilder administrators for some architectures being slow to
-sign packages, we are still missing the fixed LTSP package we need for
-the release. It was uploaded three days ago with urgency=high, and if
-it had entered testing yesterday we would have been able to test it in
-time for a alpha0 release today. As the binaries for ia64 and powerpc
-still not uploaded to the Debian archive, we need to delay the alpha
-release another day.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help out with implementing Kerberos for Debian Edu,
-please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
+<p>Hvis det å følge standarder skal ha noen effekt overfor
+leverandører, så må slike krav og ønsker komme inn i anbudstekster når
+systemer kjøpes inn. Har ikke sett noen slike formuleringer i anbud
+så langt, men har tenkt litt på hva som bør inn. Her er noen ideer og
+forslag. Min drøm er at en kan sette krav til slik støtte i
+anbudstekster, men så langt er det nok mer sannsynlig at en må nøye
+seg med å skrive at det er en fordel om slik støtte er tilstede i
+leveranser.</p>
+
+<p>Som systemadministrator på Universitetet er det typisk to områder
+som er problematiske for meg. Det ene er admin-grensesnittene på
+tjenermaskiner, som vi ønsker å bruke via ssh. Det andre er nettsider
+som vi ønsker å bruke via en nettleser. For begge deler er det viktig
+at protokollene og formatene som brukes følger standarder våre verktøy
+støtter.</p>
+
+<p>De fleste har nå støtte for SSH som overføringsprotkoll for
+admin-grensesnittet, men det er ikke tilstrekkelig for å kunne stille
+inn f.eks BIOS og RAID-kontroller via ssh-forbindelsen. Det er flere
+aktuelle protokoller for fremvisning av BIOS-oppsett og
+oppstartmeldinger, og min anbefaling ville være å kreve
+VT100-kompatibel protokoll, for å sikre at flest mulig
+terminalemulatorer kan forstå hva som kommer fra admin-grensesnittet
+via ssh. Andre aktuelle alternativer er ANSI-terminalemulering og
+VT220. Kanskje en formulering ala dette i anbudsutlysninger vil
+fungere:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+BIOS og oppstartmeldinger i administrasjonsgrensesnittet til maskinen
+bør/skal være tilgjengelig via SSH-protokollen som definert av IETF
+(RFC 4251 mfl.) og følge terminalfremvisningprotokollen VT100 (ref?)
+når en kobler seg til oppstart via ssh.
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Har ikke lykkes med å finne en god referanse for
+VT100-spesifikasjonen.</p>
+
+<p>Når det gjelder nettsider, så er det det HTML, CSS og
+JavaScript-spesifikasjonen til W3C som gjelder.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+Alle systemets nettider bør/skal være i henhold til statens
+standardkatalogs krav om nettsider og følge HTML-standarden som
+definert av W3C, og validere uten feil hos W3Cs HTML-validator
+(http://validator.w3.org). Hvis det brukes CSS så bør/skal denne
+validere uten feil hos W3Cs CSS-validator
+(http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/). Eventuelle JavaScript skal
+være i henhold til EcmaScript-standarden. I tillegg til å følge de
+overnevnte standardene skal websidene fungere i nettleserne (fyll inn
+relevant liste for organisasjonen) Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 8,
+Opera 9, etc.
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Vil et slikt avsnitt være konkret nok til å få leverandørene til å
+lage nettsider som følger standardene og fungerer i flere
+nettlesere?</p>
+
+<p>Tar svært gjerne imot innspill på dette temaet til aktive (at)
+nuug.no, og er spesielt interessert i hva andre skriver i sine anbud
+for å oppmuntre leverandører til å følge standardene. Kanskje NUUG
+burde lage et dokument med forslag til standardformuleringer å ta med
+i anbudsutlysninger?</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Digitale restriksjonsmekanismer fikk meg til å slutte å kjøpe musikk</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer_fikk_meg_til____slutte____kj__pe_musikk.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer_fikk_meg_til____slutte____kj__pe_musikk.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Datatilsynet svarer om Bilkollektivets ønske om GPS-sporing</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datatilsynet_svarer_om_Bilkollektivets___nske_om_GPS_sporing.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datatilsynet_svarer_om_Bilkollektivets___nske_om_GPS_sporing.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>For mange år siden slutte jeg å kjøpe musikk-CDer. Årsaken var at
-musikkbransjen var godt i gang med å selge platene sine med DRM som
-gjorde at jeg ikke fikk spilt av musikken jeg kjøpte på utstyret jeg
-hadde tilgjengelig, dvs. min datamaskin. Det var umulig å se på en
-plate om den var ødelagt eller ikke, og jeg hadde jo allerede en
-anseelig samling med plater, så jeg bestemme meg for å slutte å gi
-penger til en bransje som åpenbart ikke respekterte meg.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg har mange titalls dager med musikk på CD i dag. Det meste er
-lagt i et stort arkiv som kan spilles av fra husets datamaskiner (har
-ikke rukket rippe alt). Jeg ser dermed ikke behovet for å skaffe mer
-musikk. De fleste av mine favoritter er i hus, og jeg er dermed godt
-fornøyd.</p>
-
-<p>Hvis musikkbransjen ønsker mine penger, så må de demonstrere at de
-setter pris på meg som kunde, og ikke skremme meg bort med DRM og
-antydninger om at kundene er kriminelle.</p>
-
-<p>Filmbransjen er like ille, men mens musikk gjerne varer lenge, er
-filmer mer ferskvare. Har dermed ikke helt sluttet å kjøpe filmer, men
-holder meg til DVD-filmer som kan spilles av på mine Linuxbokser.
-Kommer neppe til å ta i bruk Blueray, og ei heller de nye DRM-greiene
-«Ultraviolet» som be annonsert her om dagen.</p>
+<p>I forbindelse med Bilkollektivets plan om å skaffe seg mulighet til
+å GPS-spore sine medlemmers bevegelser
+(<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bilkollektivet_vil_ha_retten_til____se_hvor_jeg_kj__rer___.html">omtalt
+tidligere</a>), sendte jeg avgårde et spørsmål til <a
+href="http://www.datatilsynet.no/">Datatilsynet</a> for å gjøre dem
+oppmerksom på saken og høre hva de hadde å si. Her er korrespondansen
+så langt.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:38:55 +0200
+<br>From: Petter Reinholdtsen
+<br>To: postkasse@datatilsynet.no
+<br>Subject: GPS-sporing av privatpersoners bruk av bil?
+
+<p>Hei. Jeg er med i Bilkollektivet[1] her i Oslo, og ble i dag
+orientert om at de har tenkt å innføre GPS-sporing av bilene og krever
+at en for fremtidig bruk skal godkjenne følgende klausul i
+bruksvilkårene[2]:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+ Andelseier er med dette gjort kjent med at bilene er utstyrt med
+ sporingsutstyr, som kan benyttes av Bilkollektivet til å spore biler
+ som brukes utenfor gyldig reservasjon.
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Er slik sporing meldepliktig til datatilsynet? Har Bilkollektivet
+meldt dette til Datatilsynet? Forsøkte å søke på orgnr. 874 538 892
+på søkesiden for meldinger[3], men fant intet der.</p>
+
+<p>Hva er datatilsynets syn på slik sporing av privatpersoners bruk av
+bil?</p>
+
+<p>Jeg må innrømme at jeg forventer å kunne ferdes anonymt og uten
+radiomerking i Norge, og synes GPS-sporing av bilen jeg ønsker å bruke
+i så måte er et overgrep mot privatlivets fred. For meg er det et
+prinsipielt spørsmål og det er underordnet hvem og med hvilket formål
+som i første omgang sies å skulle ha tilgang til
+sporingsinformasjonen. Jeg vil ikke ha mulighet til å sjekke eller
+kontrollere når bruksområdene utvides, og erfaring viser jo at
+bruksområder utvides når informasjon først er samlet inn.<p>
+
+<p>1 &lt;URL: http://www.bilkollektivet.no/ >
+<br>2 &lt;URL: http://www.bilkollektivet.no/bilbruksregler.26256.no.html >
+<br>3 &lt;URL: http://hetti.datatilsynet.no/melding/report_search.pl >
+
+<p>Vennlig hilsen,
+<br>--
+<br>Petter Reinholdtsen
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Svaret fra Datatilsynet kom dagen etter:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:24:17 +0200
+<br>From: Henok Tesfazghi
+<br>To: Petter Reinholdtsen
+<br>Subject: VS: GPS-sporing av privatpersoners bruk av bil?
+
+<p>Viser til e-post av 23. september 2010.</p>
+
+<p>Datatilsynet er det forvaltningsorganet som skal kontrollere at
+personopplysningsloven blir fulgt. Formålet med loven er å verne
+enkeltpersoner mot krenking av personvernet gjennom behandling av
+personopplysninger. Vi gjør oppmerksom på at vår e-post svartjeneste
+er ment å være en kortfattet rådgivningstjeneste, slik at vi av den
+grunn ikke kan konkludere i din sak, men gi deg innledende råd og
+veiledning. Vårt syn er basert på din fremstilling av saksforholdet,
+andre opplysninger vi eventuelt ikke kjenner til og som kan være
+relevante, vil kunne medføre et annet resultat.</p>
+
+<p>Det er uklart for Datatilsynet hva slags GPS-sporing Bilkollektivet
+her legger opp til. Dette skyldes blant annet manglende informasjon i
+forhold til hvilket formål GPS-sporingen har, hvordan det er ment å
+fungere, hvilket behandlingsgrunnlag som ligger til grunn, samt om
+opplysningene skal lagres eller ikke.</p>
+
+<p>Behandlingen vil i utgangspunket være meldepliktig etter
+personopplysningslovens § 31. Det finnes en rekke unntak fra
+meldeplikten som er hjemlet i personopplysningsforskriftens kapittel
+7. Da dette er et andelslag, og andelseiere i en utstrekning også kan
+karakteriseres som kunder, vil unntak etter
+personopplysningsforskriftens § 7-7 kunne komme til anvendelse, se
+lenke: <a href="http://lovdata.no/for/sf/fa/ta-20001215-1265-009.html#7-7">http://lovdata.no/for/sf/fa/ta-20001215-1265-009.html#7-7</a></p>
+
+<p>Datatilsynet har til orientering en rekke artikler som omhandler
+henholdsvis sporing og lokalisering, samt trafikanter og passasjerer,
+se lenke:
+<br><a href="http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/article____1730.aspx">http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/article____1730.aspx</a> og
+<br><a href="http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/article____1098.aspx">http://www.datatilsynet.no/templates/article____1098.aspx</a></p>
+
+
+<p>Vennlig hilsen
+<br>Henok Tesfazghi
+<br>Rådgiver, Datatilsynet
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Vet ennå ikke om jeg har overskudd til å ta opp kampen i
+Bilkollektivet, mellom barnepass og alt det andre som spiser opp
+dagene, eller om jeg bare finner et annet alternativ.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>OpenStreetmap one step closer to having routing on its front page</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenStreetmap_one_step_closer_to_having_routing_on_its_front_page.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenStreetmap_one_step_closer_to_having_routing_on_its_front_page.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <title>Links for 2010-10-14</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Links_for_2010_10_14.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Links_for_2010_10_14.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description>
-<p>Thanks to
-<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Opengeodata/~3/wUTCzDZk3lc/project-of-the-week-which-way-home">todays
-opengeodata blog entry</a>, I just discovered that the
-OpenStreetmap.org site have gotten
-<a href="http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/index.html?layers=B000FTFTT">support
-for calculating routes</a>. The support is still experimental and
-only available from the development server, until more experience is
-gathered on the user interface and any scalability issues.</p>
-
-<p>Earlier, the routing I knew about using the OpenStreetmap.org data
-was provided by <a href="http://maps.cloudmade.com/">Cloudmade</a>,
-but having it on the main page is required to make everyone aware of
-the issue. I've had people reject Openstreetmap.org as a viable
-alternative for them because the front page lacked routing support,
-and I hope their needs will be catered for when routing show up on the
-www.openstreetmap.org front page.</p>
+<p>Personvernet et under kontinuerlig og kraftig angrep. Her er noen
+stemmer i debatten.</p>
+
+<p><ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://efn.no/hemmelig-retthaversk.txt">Hemmelig
+ "Retthaversk" notat vil amputere person- og rettsvernet</a> -
+ pressemelding fra EFN etter at de ble kjent med hårreisende
+ lovforslag fra "Dele, ikke stjele"-kampanjen.
+
+<li><a href="http://borud2.borud.no/2010/10/verdidebatt.html">Verdidebatt</a>
+ av Bjørn Borud. Klargjørende omramming av debatten med bakgrunn i
+ oppdagelsen fra EFN.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/10/14/kultur/data_og_teknologi/tekno/personvern/opphavsrett/13804298/">Må
+ personvernet vike for opphavsretten?</a> av Jan Omdahl i
+ Dagbladet</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheft">Copying
+ Is Not Theft</a> - fin jingle om opphavsrett vs. eiendom</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://cleanternet.org/">Cleanternet</a> - satire om
+forslag for et rent og sikkert Internet.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dubistterrorist.de/en/">You are a
+ terrorist!</a> - innspill om den massive overvåkningen som er
+ gjennomført i Tysland og resten av den vestlige verden de siste
+ årene.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/10/12/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/13787554/">Farlig
+ hemmelighold</a> - debattinnlegg i Dagbladet fra Thomas Gramstad og
+ Bjørn Remseth i EFN</li>
+
+</ul></p>
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