<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_is_now_the_default_in_Debian_unstable.html">Parallellized boot is now the default in Debian/unstable</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-05-14 22:40</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oppdatert_kart_over_overv__kningskamera_i_Norge.html">Oppdatert kart over overvåkningskamera i Norge</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-09-22 20:50</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>Since this evening, parallel booting is the default in
-Debian/unstable for machines using dependency based boot sequencing.
-Apparently the testing of concurrent booting has been wider than
-expected, if I am to believe the
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00122.html">input
-on debian-devel@</a>, and I concluded a few days ago to move forward
-with the feature this weekend, to give us some time to detect any
-remaining problems before Squeeze is frozen. If serious problems are
-detected, it is simple to change the default back to sequential boot.
-The upload of the new sysvinit package also activate a new upstream
-version.</p>
-
-More information about
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot">dependency
-based boot sequencing</a> is available from the Debian wiki. It is
-currently possible to disable parallel booting when one run into
-problems caused by it, by adding this line to /etc/default/rcS:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-CONCURRENCY=none
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
-the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
-list of usertagged bugs related to this</a>.</p>
+<p>For ca. et og et halvt år siden
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kart_over_overv__kningskamera_i_Norge.html">startet
+jeg på et kart over overvåkningskamera i Norge</a>, i regi av
+<a href="http://www.personvern.no/">personvernforeningen</a>. Det har
+blitt oppdatert regelmessing, og jeg oppdaterte det nettopp. Fra den
+spede start med 22 kamera registrert er det nå registrert 54 kamera.
+Det er bare en brøkdel av de kamera som finnes i Norge, men det går
+sakte men sikkert i riktig retning.</p>
+
+<p>Informasjonen registreres fortsatt direkte inn i
+<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a>, og hentes
+automatisk over i
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.no/pere/surveillance-norway/"spesialkartet</a>
+når jeg kjører et script for å filtrere ut overvåkningskamera fra
+OSM-dumpen for Norge.</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/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
</div>
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_MAC_address_of_all_clients.html">Sitesummary tip: Listing MAC address of all clients</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-05-14 21:10</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Anonym_ferdsel_er_en_menneskerett.html">Anonym ferdsel er en menneskerett</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-09-15 12:15</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>In the recent Debian Edu versions, the
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary">sitesummary
-system</a> is used to keep track of the machines in the school
-network. Each machine will automatically report its status to the
-central server after boot and once per night. The network setup is
-also reported, and using this information it is possible to get the
-MAC address of all network interfaces in the machines. This is useful
-to update the DHCP configuration.</p>
-
-<p>To give some idea how to use sitesummary, here is a one-liner to
-ist all MAC addresses of all machines reporting to sitesummary. Run
-this on the collector host:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-perl -MSiteSummary -e 'for_all_hosts(sub { print join(" ", get_macaddresses(shift)), "\n"; });'
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>This will list all MAC addresses assosiated with all machine, one
-line per machine and with space between the MAC addresses.</p>
-
-<p>To allow system administrators easier job at adding static DHCP
-addresses for hosts, it would be possible to extend this to fetch
-machine information from sitesummary and update the DHCP and DNS
-tables in LDAP using this information. Such tool is unfortunately not
-written yet.</p>
+<p>Debatten rundt sporveiselskapet i Oslos (Ruter AS) ønske om
+<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3808135.ece">å
+radiomerke med RFID</a> alle sine kunder og
+<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/article3809746.ece">registerere
+hvor hver og en av oss beveger oss</a> pågår, og en ting som har
+kommet lite frem i debatten er at det faktisk er en menneskerett å
+kunne ferdes anonymt internt i ens eget land.</p>
+
+<p>Fant en grei kilde for dette i et
+<a href="http://www.datatilsynet.no/upload/Microsoft%20Word%20-%2009-01399-2%20H+%C2%A9ringsnotat%20-%20Samferdselsdepartementet%20-%20Utkas%C3%94%C3%87%C2%AA.pdf">skriv
+fra Datatilsynet</a> til Samferdselsdepartementet om tema:</p>
+
+<blockquote><p>Retten til å ferdes anonymt kan utledes av
+menneskerettskonvensjonen artikkel 8 og av EUs personverndirektiv.
+Her heter det at enkeltpersoners grunnleggende rettigheter og frihet
+må respekteres, særlig retten til privatlivets fred. I både
+personverndirektivet og i den norske personopplysningsloven er
+selvråderetten til hver enkelt et av grunnprinsippene, hovedsaklig
+uttrykt ved at en må gi et frivillig, informert og uttrykkelig
+samtykke til behandling av personopplysninger.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>For meg er det viktig at jeg kan ferdes anonymt, og det er litt av
+bakgrunnen til at jeg handler med kontanter, ikke har mobiltelefon og
+forventer å kunne reise med bil og kollektivtrafikk uten at det blir
+registrert hvor jeg har vært. Ruter angriper min rett til å ferdes
+uten radiopeiler med sin innføring av RFID-kort, og dokumenterer sitt
+ønske om å registrere hvor kundene befant seg ved å ønske å gebyrlegge
+oss som ikke registrerer oss hver gang vi beveger oss med
+kollektivtrafikken i Oslo. Jeg synes det er hårreisende.</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/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary</a>.
+ 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/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
</div>
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/systemd__an_interesting_alternative_to_upstart.html">systemd, an interesting alternative to upstart</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-05-13 22:20</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">Terms of use for video produced by a Canon IXUS 130 digital camera</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-09-09 23:55</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>The last few days a new boot system called
-<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd">systemd</a>
-has been
-<a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html">introduced</a>
-
-to the free software world. I have not yet had time to play around
-with it, but it seem to be a very interesting alternative to
-<a href="http://upstart.ubuntu.com/">upstart</a>, and might prove to be
-a good alternative for Debian when we are able to switch to an event
-based boot system. Tollef is
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/580814">in the process</a> of getting
-systemd into Debian, and I look forward to seeing how well it work. I
-like the fact that systemd handles init.d scripts with dependency
-information natively, allowing them to run in parallel where upstart
-at the moment do not.</p>
-
-<p>Unfortunately do systemd have the same problem as upstart regarding
-platform support. It only work on recent Linux kernels, and also need
-some new kernel features enabled to function properly. This means
-kFreeBSD and Hurd ports of Debian will need a port or a different boot
-system. Not sure how that will be handled if systemd proves to be the
-way forward.</p>
-
-<p>In the mean time, based on the
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00122.html">input
-on debian-devel@</a> regarding parallel booting in Debian, I have
-decided to enable full parallel booting as the default in Debian as
-soon as possible (probably this weekend or early next week), to see if
-there are any remaining serious bugs in the init.d dependencies. A
-new version of the sysvinit package implementing this change is
-already in experimental. If all go well, Squeeze will be released
-with parallel booting enabled by default.</p>
+<p>A few days ago I had the mixed pleasure of bying a new digital
+camera, a Canon IXUS 130. It was instructive and very disturbing to
+be able to verify that also this camera producer have the nerve to
+specify how I can or can not use the videos produced with the camera.
+Even thought I was aware of the issue, the options with new cameras
+are limited and I ended up bying the camera anyway. What is the
+problem, you might ask? It is software patents, MPEG-4, H.264 and the
+MPEG-LA that is the problem, and our right to record our experiences
+without asking for permissions that is at risk.
+
+<p>On page 27 of the Danish instruction manual, this section is
+written:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>This product is licensed under AT&T patents for the MPEG-4 standard
+and may be used for encoding MPEG-4 compliant video and/or decoding
+MPEG-4 compliant video that was encoded only (1) for a personal and
+non-commercial purpose or (2) by a video provider licensed under the
+AT&T patents to provide MPEG-4 compliant video.</p>
+
+<p>No license is granted or implied for any other use for MPEG-4
+standard.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>In short, the camera producer have chosen to use technology
+(MPEG-4/H.264) that is only provided if I used it for personal and
+non-commercial purposes, or ask for permission from the organisations
+holding the knowledge monopoly (patent) for technology used.</p>
+
+<p>This issue has been brewing for a while, and I recommend you to
+read
+"<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA">Why
+Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the
+MPEG-LA</a>" by Eugenia Loli-Queru and
+"<a href="http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/">H.264 Is Not
+The Sort Of Free That Matters</a>" by Simon Phipps to learn more about
+the issue. The solution is to support the
+<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and
+open standards</a> for video, like <a href="http://www.theora.org/">Ogg
+Theora</a>, and avoid MPEG-4 and H.264 if you can.</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/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
</div>
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellizing_the_boot_in_Debian_Squeeze___ready_for_wider_testing.html">Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-05-06 23:25</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Navteq_bruker_3_12_m__neder__OpenStreetmap_org_trenger_noen_dager.html">Navteq bruker 3-12 måneder, OpenStreetmap.org trenger noen dager</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-09-07 21:40</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>These days, the init.d script dependencies in Squeeze are quite
-complete, so complete that it is actually possible to run all the
-init.d scripts in parallell based on these dependencies. If you want
-to test your Squeeze system, make sure
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot">dependency
-based boot sequencing</a> is enabled, and add this line to
-/etc/default/rcS:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-CONCURRENCY=makefile
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>That is it. It will cause sysv-rc to use the startpar tool to run
-scripts in parallel using the dependency information stored in
-/etc/init.d/.depend.boot, /etc/init.d/.depend.start and
-/etc/init.d/.depend.stop to order the scripts. Startpar is configured
-to try to start the kdm and gdm scripts as early as possible, and will
-start the facilities required by kdm or gdm as early as possible to
-make this happen.</p>
-
-<p>Give it a try, and see if you like the result. If some services
-fail to start properly, it is most likely because they have incomplete
-init.d script dependencies in their startup script (or some of their
-dependent scripts have incomplete dependencies). Report bugs and get
-the package maintainers to fix it. :)</p>
-
-<p>Running scripts in parallel could be the default in Debian when we
-manage to get the init.d script dependencies complete and correct. I
-expect we will get there in Squeeze+1, if we get manage to test and
-fix the remaining issues.</p>
-
-<p>If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
-the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
-list of usertagged bugs related to this</a>.</p>
+<p>Jeg ble riktig fascinert av
+<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3800967.ece">en
+artikkel i Aftenposten</a> om hvor hardt Navteq jobber for å oppdatere
+kartene som brukes i navigasjons-GPSer, der det blant annet heter at
+"på grunn av teknikken tar det alt fra tre til tolv måneder før
+kartene er oppdatert". Når en kjenner hva slags oppdateringshastighet
+som er tilgjengelig på
+<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a> som
+oppdateres på dugnad, blir det litt trist å se hva noe av det beste en
+kan kjøpe for penger får til.</p>
+
+<p>Fra en endrer kartdataene i databasen til OpenStreetmap tar det
+ca. 15 minutter før endringen er synlig på kartet som alle kan se på
+web. Dernest overføres det daglig til en kartdump som lastes ned av
+personen som lager Garmin-kart for Norge ca. en gang i uken. Med
+OpenStreetmap.org og <a href="http://www.frikart.no/">Frikart.no</a>
+kan en altså ha korreksjonene på plass i sin Garmin-GPS i løpet av en
+uke. Det er også av tekniske årsaker at det tar så langt tid.
+Jobbene som tegner kartene, henter ut kartdumpene og konverterer til
+Garmin-format tar minutter og timer å gjennomføre, slik at de ikke
+gjøres kontinuerlig men kun regelmessing.</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>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forcing_new_users_to_change_their_password_on_first_login.html">Forcing new users to change their password on first login</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-05-02 13:47</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html">Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-09-04 10:10</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>One interesting feature in Active Directory, is the ability to
-create a new user with an expired password, and thus force the user to
-change the password on the first login attempt.</p>
-
-<p>I'm not quite sure how to do that with the LDAP setup in Debian
-Edu, but did some initial testing with a local account. The account
-and password aging information is available in /etc/shadow, but
-unfortunately, it is not possible to specify an expiration time for
-passwords, only a maximum age for passwords.</p>
-
-<p>A freshly created account (using adduser test) will have these
-settings in /etc/shadow:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-root@tjener:~# chage -l test
-Last password change : May 02, 2010
-Password expires : never
-Password inactive : never
-Account expires : never
-Minimum number of days between password change : 0
-Maximum number of days between password change : 99999
-Number of days of warning before password expires : 7
-root@tjener:~#
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>The only way I could come up with to create a user with an expired
-account, is to change the date of the last password change to the
-lowest value possible (January 1th 1970), and the maximum password age
-to the difference in days between that date and today. To make it
-simple, I went for 30 years (30 * 365 = 10950) and January 2th (to
-avoid testing if 0 is a valid value).</p>
-
-<p>After using these commands to set it up, it seem to work as
-intended:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-root@tjener:~# chage -d 1 test; chage -M 10950 test
-root@tjener:~# chage -l test
-Last password change : Jan 02, 1970
-Password expires : never
-Password inactive : never
-Account expires : never
-Minimum number of days between password change : 0
-Maximum number of days between password change : 10950
-Number of days of warning before password expires : 7
-root@tjener:~#
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>So far I have tested this with ssh and console, and kdm (in
-Squeeze) login, and all ask for a new password before login in the
-user (with ssh, I was thrown out and had to log in again).</p>
-
-<p>Perhaps we should set up something similar for Debian Edu, to make
-sure only the user itself have the account password?</p>
-
-<p>If you want to comment on or help out with implementing this for
-Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2010-05-02 17:20: Paul Tötterman tells me on IRC that the
-shadow(8) page in Debian/testing now state that setting the date of
-last password change to zero (0) will force the password to be changed
-on the first login. This was not mentioned in the manual in Lenny, so
-I did not notice this in my initial testing. I have tested it on
-Squeeze, and '<tt>chage -d 0 username</tt>' do work there. I have not
-tested it on Lenny yet.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2010-05-02-19:05: Jim Paris tells me via email that an
-equivalent command to expire a password is '<tt>passwd -e
-username</tt>', which insert zero into the date of the last password
-change.</p>
+<p>In the <a href="http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote">Debian
+popularity-contest numbers</a>, the adobe-flashplugin package the
+second most popular used package that is missing in Debian. The sixth
+most popular is flashplayer-mozilla. This is a clear indication that
+working flash is important for Debian users. Around 10 percent of the
+users submitting data to popcon.debian.org have this package
+installed.</p>
+
+<p>In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008
+(«<a href="http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/Rapporter?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Skolelinux_i_bruk_rapport_1.0.pdf">Skolelinux
+i bruk – Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og
+stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs</a>»), one of the most important problems
+schools experienced with <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux</a> was the lack of working Flash. A lot of educational
+web sites require Flash to work, and lacking working Flash support in
+the web browser and the problems with installing it was perceived as a
+good reason to stay with Windows.</p>
+
+<p>I once saw a funny and sad comment in a web forum, where Linux was
+said to be the retarded cousin that did not really understand
+everything you told him but could work fairly well. This was a
+comment regarding the problems Linux have with proprietary formats and
+non-standard web pages, and is sad because it exposes a fairly common
+understanding of whose fault it is if web pages that only work in for
+example Internet Explorer 6 fail to work on Firefox, and funny because
+it explain very well how annoying it is for users when Linux
+distributions do not work with the documents they receive or the web
+pages they want to visit.</p>
+
+<p>This is part of the reason why I believe it is important for Debian
+and Debian Edu to have a well working Flash implementation in the
+distribution, to get at least popular sites as Youtube and Google
+Video to working out of the box. For Squeeze, Debian have the chance
+to include the latest version of Gnash that will make this happen, as
+the new release 0.8.8 was published a few weeks ago and is resting in
+unstable. The new version work with more sites that version 0.8.7.
+The Gnash maintainers have asked for a freeze exception, but the
+release team have not had time to reply to it yet. I hope they agree
+with me that Flash is important for the Debian desktop users, and thus
+accept the new package into Squeeze.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <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/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thoughts_on_roaming_laptop_setup_for_Debian_Edu.html">Thoughts on roaming laptop setup for Debian Edu</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-04-28 20:40</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html">My first perl GUI application - controlling a Spykee robot</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-09-01 21:00</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>For some years now, I have wondered how we should handle laptops in
-Debian Edu. The Debian Edu infrastructure is mostly designed to
-handle stationary computers, and less suited for computers that come
-and go.</p>
-
-<p>Now I finally believe I have an sensible idea on how to adjust
-Debian Edu for laptops, by introducing a new profile for them, for
-example called Roaming Workstations. Here are my thought on this.
-The setup would consist of the following:</p>
-
-<ul>
-
- <li>During installation, the user name of the owner / primary user of
- the laptop is requested and a local home directory is set up for
- the user, with uid and gid information fetched from the LDAP
- server. This allow the user to work also when offline. The
- central home directory can be available in a subdirectory on
- request, for example mounted via CIFS. It could be mounted
- automatically when a user log in while on the Debian Edu network,
- and unmounted when the machine is taken away (network down,
- hibernate, etc), it can be set up to do automatic mounting on
- request (using autofs), or perhaps some GUI button on the desktop
- can be used to access it when needed. Perhaps it is enough to use
- the fish protocol in KDE?</li>
-
- <li>Password checking is set up to use LDAP or Kerberos
- authentication when the machine is on the Debian Edu network, and
- to cache the password for offline checking when the machine unable
- to reach the LDAP or Kerberos server. This can be done using
- <a href="http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ccreds.html">libpam-ccreds</a>
- or the Fedora developed
- <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SSSD">System
- Security Services Daemon</a> packages.</li>
-
- <li>File synchronisation with the central home directory is set up
- using a shared directory in both the local and the central home
- directory, using unison.</li>
-
- <li>Printing should be set up to print to all printers broadcasting
- their existence on the local network, and should then work out of
- the box with CUPS. For sites needing accurate printer quotas, some
- system with Kerberos authentication or printing via ssh could be
- implemented.</li>
-
- <li>For users that should have local root access to their laptop,
- sudo should be used to allow this to the local user.</li>
-
- <li>It would be nice if user and group information from LDAP is
- cached on the client, but given that there are entries for the
- local user and primary group in /etc/, it should not be needed.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>I believe all the pieces to implement this are in Debian/testing at
-the moment. If we work quickly, we should be able to get this ready
-in time for the Squeeze release to freeze. Some of the pieces need
-tweaking, like libpam-ccreds should get support for pam-auth-update
-(<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/566718">#566718</a>) and nslcd (or
-perhaps debian-edu-config) should get some integration code to stop
-its daemon when the LDAP server is unavailable to avoid long timeouts
-when disconnected from the net. If we get Kerberos enabled, we need
-to make sure we avoid long timeouts there too.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
-please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p>
+<p>This evening I made my first Perl GUI application. The last few
+days I have worked on a Perl module for controlling my recently
+aquired Spykee robots, and the module is now getting complete enought
+that it is possible to use it to control the robot driving at least.
+It was now time to figure out how to use it to create some GUI to
+allow me to drive the robot around. I picked PerlQt as I have had
+positive experiences with the Qt API before, and spent a few minutes
+browsing the web for examples. Using Qt Designer seemed like a short
+cut, so I ended up writing the perl GUI using Qt Designer and
+compiling it into a perl program using the puic program from
+libqt-perl. Nothing fancy yet, but it got buttons to connect and
+drive around.</p>
+
+<p>The perl module I have written provide a object oriented API for
+controlling the robot. Here is an small example on how to use it:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+use Spykee;
+Spykee::discover(sub {$robot{$_[0]} = $_[1]});
+my $host = (keys %robot)[0];
+my $spykee = Spykee->new();
+$spykee->contact($host, "admin", "admin");
+$spykee->left();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee->right();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee->forward();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee->back();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee->stop();
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>Thanks to the release of the source of the robot firmware, I could
+peek into the implementation at the other end to figure out how to
+implement the protocol used by the robot. I've implemented several of
+the commands the robot understand, but is still missing the camera
+support to make it possible to control the robot from remote. First I
+want to implement support for uploading new firmware and configuring
+the wireless network, to make it possible to bootstrap a Spykee robot
+without the producers Windows and MacOSX software (I only have Linux,
+so I had to ask a friend to come over to get the robot testing
+going. :).</p>
+
+<p>Will release the source to the public soon, but need to figure out
+where to make it available first. I will add a link to
+<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/robot/">the NUUG wiki</a> for
+those that want to check back later to find it.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Great_book___Content__Selected_Essays_on_Technology__Creativity__Copyright__and_the_Future_of_the_Future_.html">Great book: "Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future"</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-04-19 17:10</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forslag_i_stortinget_om____stoppe_elektronisk_stemmegiving_i_Norge.html">Forslag i stortinget om å stoppe elektronisk stemmegiving i Norge</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-08-31 21:00</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>The last few weeks i have had the pleasure of reading a
-thought-provoking collection of essays by Cory Doctorow, on topics
-touching copyright, virtual worlds, the future of man when the
-conscience mind can be duplicated into a computer and many more. The
-book titled "Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity,
-Copyright, and the Future of the Future" is available with few
-restrictions on the web, for example from
-<a href="http://craphound.com/content/">his own site</a>. I read the
-epub-version from
-<a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2883">feedbooks</a> using
-<a href="http://www.fbreader.org/">fbreader</a> and my N810. I
-strongly recommend this book.</p>
+<p>Ble tipset i dag om at et forslag om å stoppe forsøkene med
+elektronisk stemmegiving utenfor valglokaler er
+<a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=46616">til
+behandling</a> i Stortinget.
+<a href="http://www.stortinget.no/Global/pdf/Representantforslag/2009-2010/dok8-200910-128.pdf">Forslaget</a>
+er fremmet av Erna Solberg, Michael Tetzschner og Trond Helleland.</p>
+
+<p>Håper det får flertall.</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/fildeling">fildeling</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+ 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/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html">Kerberos for Debian Edu/Squeeze?</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-04-14 17:20</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_hard_link_handling_with_sshfs.html">Broken hard link handling with sshfs</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-08-30 19:30</div>
<div class="body">
-<p><a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20100413-kerberos/">Yesterdays
-NUUG presentation</a> about Kerberos was inspiring, and reminded me
-about the need to start using Kerberos in Skolelinux. Setting up a
-Kerberos server seem to be straight forward, and if we get this in
-place a long time before the Squeeze version of Debian freezes, we
-have a chance to migrate Skolelinux away from NFSv3 for the home
-directories, and over to an architecture where the infrastructure do
-not have to trust IP addresses and machines, and instead can trust
-users and cryptographic keys instead.</p>
-
-<p>A challenge will be integration and administration. Is there a
-Kerberos implementation for Debian where one can control the
-administration access in Kerberos using LDAP groups? With it, the
-school administration will have to maintain access control using flat
-files on the main server, which give a huge potential for errors.</p>
-
-<p>A related question I would like to know is how well Kerberos and
-pam-ccreds (offline password check) work together. Anyone know?</p>
-
-<p>Next step will be to use Kerberos for access control in Lwat and
-Nagios. I have no idea how much work that will be to implement. We
-would also need to document how to integrate with Windows AD, as such
-shared network will require two Kerberos realms that need to cooperate
-to work properly.</p>
-
-<p>I believe a good start would be to start using Kerberos on the
-skolelinux.no machines, and this way get ourselves experience with
-configuration and integration. A natural starting point would be
-setting up ldap.skolelinux.no as the Kerberos server, and migrate the
-rest of the machines from PAM via LDAP to PAM via Kerberos one at the
-time.</p>
-
-<p>If you would like to contribute to get this working in Skolelinux,
-I recommend you to see the video recording from yesterdays NUUG
-presentation, and start using Kerberos at home. The video show show
-up in a few days.</p>
+<p>Just got an email from Tobias Gruetzmacher as a followup on my
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html">previous
+post about sshfs</a>. He reported another problem with sshfs. It
+fail to handle hard links properly. A simple way to spot this is to
+look at the . and .. entries in the directory tree. These should have
+a link count >1, but on sshfs the count is 1. I just tested to see
+what happen when trying to hardlink, and this fail as well:</p>
+
+<pre>
+% ln foo bar
+ln: creating hard link `bar' => `foo': Function not implemented
+%
+</pre>
+
+<p>I have not yet found time to implement a test for this in my file
+system test code, but believe having working hard links is useful to
+avoid surprised unix programs. Not as useful as working file locking
+and symlinks, which are required to get a working desktop, but useful
+nevertheless. :)</p>
+
+<p>The latest version of the file system test code is available via
+git from
+<a href="http://github.com/gebi/fs-test">http://github.com/gebi/fs-test</a></p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/P___vegne_av_vanvitting_mange__Aftenposten_.html">På vegne av vanvitting mange, Aftenposten!</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-03-06 21:15</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sikkerhetsteateret_p___flyplassene_fortsetter.html">Sikkerhetsteateret på flyplassene fortsetter</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-08-28 10:40</div>
<div class="body">
-<p><a href="http://fotball.aftenposten.no/incoming/article163000.ece">Aftenposten
-melder</a> på forsiden av webavisen sin at de tror Erling Fossen
-provoserer nordlendinger med sine uttalelser på
-fotballtinget. Jeg er utflyttet nordlending, og må innrømme at jeg
-ikke kjennet så mye som et snev av provokasjon fra denne litt morsomme
-uttalelsen til Hr. Fossen. Lurer på om Aftenposten har noen kilder
-utenom redaksjonen for sin påstand om at nordledinger er provosert av
-Hr. Fossen. Må innrømme at jeg tviler på det.</p>
-
-<p>Det hele bringer tankene tilbake til Sture Hansen i Hallo i Uken.</p>
+<p>Jeg skrev for et halvt år siden hvordan
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sikkerhet__teater__og_hvordan_gj__re_verden_sikrere.html">samfunnet
+kaster bort ressurser på sikkerhetstiltak som ikke fungerer</a>. Kom
+nettopp over en
+<a href="http://www.askthepilot.com/essays-and-stories/terrorism-tweezers-and-terminal-madness-an-essay-on-security/">historie
+fra en pilot fra USA</a> som kommenterer det samme. Jeg mistenker det
+kun er uvitenhet og autoritetstro som gjør at så få protesterer. Har
+veldig sans for piloten omtalt i <a
+href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article2057501.ece">Aftenposten</a> 2007-10-23,
+og skulle ønske flere rettet oppmerksomhet mot problemet. Det gir
+ikke meg trygghetsfølelse på flyplassene når jeg ser at
+flyplassadministrasjonen kaster bort folk, penger og tid på tull i
+stedet for ting som bidrar til reell økning av sikkerheten. Det
+forteller meg jo at vurderingsevnen til de som burde bidra til økt
+sikkerhet er svært sviktende, noe som ikke taler godt for de andre
+tiltakene.</p>
+
+<p>Mon tro hva som skjer hvis det fantes en enkel brosjyre å skrive ut
+fra Internet som forklarte hva som er galt med sikkerhetsopplegget på
+flyplassene, og folk skrev ut og la en bunke på flyplassene når de
+passerte. Kanskje det ville fått flere til å få øynene opp for
+problemet.</p>
+
+<p>Personlig synes jeg flyopplevelsen er blitt så avskyelig at jeg
+forsøker å klare meg med tog, bil og båt for å slippe ubehaget. Det
+er dog noe vanskelig i det langstrakte Norge og for å kunne besøke de
+delene av verden jeg ønsker å nå. Mistenker at flere har det slik, og
+at dette går ut over inntjeningen til flyselskapene. Det er antagelig
+en god ting sett fra et miljøperspektiv, men det er en annen sak.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
+ 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/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
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<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html">After 6 years of waiting, the Xreset.d feature is implemented</a></div>
- <div class="date">2010-03-06 18:15</div>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_i_Osloskolen.html">Skolelinux i Osloskolen</a></div>
+ <div class="date">2010-08-26 22:25</div>
<div class="body">
-<p>6 years ago, as part of the Debian Edu development I am involved
-in, I asked for a hook in the kdm and gdm setup to run scripts as root
-when the user log out. A bug was submitted against the xfree86-common
-package in 2004 (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/230422">#230422</a>),
-and revisited every time Debian Edu was working on a new release.
-Today, this finally paid off.</p>
-
-<p>The framework for this feature was today commited to the git
-repositry for the xorg package, and the git repository for xdm has
-been updated to use this framework. Next on my agenda is to make sure
-kdm and gdm also add code to use this framework.</p>
-
-<p>In Debian Edu, we want to ability to run commands as root when the
-user log out, to get rid of runaway processes and do general cleanup
-after a user. With this framework in place, we finally can do that in
-a generic way that work with all display managers using this
-framework. My goal is to get all display managers in Debian use it,
-similar to how they use the Xsession.d framework today.<p>
+<p>Denne høsten skal endelig alle Osloskolene få mulighet til å bruke
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>. Ny IT-løsning
+har vært rullet ut i noen måneder nå, og så vidt jeg fikk vite før
+sommeren skulle alle skoler ha nytt opplegg på plass før oppstart nå i
+høst. På alle skolene skal en kunne velge ved installasjon om en skal
+ha Windows eller Skolelinux på maskinene, og en kan i tillegg
+PXE-boote maskinene over nett som tynne klienter eller diskløse
+arbeidsstasjoner. Jeg er spent på hvor mange skoler som velger å ta i
+bruk Skolelinux, og gleder meg til å se hvordan dette utvikler seg.
+Løsningen leveres av
+<a href="http://www.logica.no/">Logica</a> med
+<a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a> som
+underleverandør, og jeg har vært involvert i utviklingen av løsningen
+via Skolelinux Drift AS siden prosjektet starter. Jeg synes det er
+fantastisk at Skolelinux er kommet så langt siden vi startet i 2001 at
+alle elevene i Osloskolene nå skal få mulighet til å bruke
+løsningen. Jeg håper de vil sette pris på alle de
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.no/linux-signpost/">fantastiske
+brukerprogrammene</a> som er tilgjengelig i Skolelinux.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
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+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
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+
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (36)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (44)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (61)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (9)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (4)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ldap">ldap (8)</a></li>
+
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker (2)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (7)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (64)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (80)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (72)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (104)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (12)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (15)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (11)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (19)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (10)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (3)</a></li>
+
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (15)</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (1)</a></li>
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