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-               <title>Third beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to announce that finally we managed today to wrap up and
-publish the third beta version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
-on Squeeze.  If you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with
-out of the box PXE configuration for running diskless machines and
-installing new machines, check it out.  If you need a software
-solution for your school, check it out too.  The full announcement is
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
-on the project announcement list.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I am very happy to report these changes and improvements since
-beta2 (there are more, see announcement for full list):&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;It is now possible to change the pre-configured IP subnet from
-  10.0.0.0/8 to something else by using the subnet-change tool after
-  the installation.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Too full partitions are now automatically extended on the Main
-  Server, based on the rules specified in /etc/fsautoresizetab.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;The CUPS queues are now automatically flushed every night, and all
-  disabled queues are restarted every hour.  This should cut down on
-  the amount of manual administration needed for printers.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;The set of initial users have been changed.  Now a personal user
-  for the local system administrator is created during installation
-  instead of the previously created localadmin and super-admin users,
-  and this user is granted administrative privileges using group
-  membership.  This reduces the number of passwords one need to keep
-  up to date on the system.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The new main server seem to work so well that I am testing it as my
-private DNS/LDAP/Kerberos/PXE/LTSP server at home.  I will use it look
-for issues we could fix to polish Debian Edu even further before the
-final Squeeze release is published.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Next weekend the project organise a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;developer
-gathering&lt;/a&gt; in Oslo.  We will continue the work on the Squeeze
-version, and start initial planning for the Wheezy version.  Perhaps I
-will see you there?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>HTC One X - Your video?  What do you mean?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece&quot;&gt;an
+article today&lt;/a&gt; published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urke.com/eirik/&quot;&gt;Eirik Helland Urke&lt;/a&gt; reports
+that the video editor application included with
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs&quot;&gt;HTC One
+X&lt;/a&gt; have some quite surprising terms of use.  The article is mostly
+based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280&quot;&gt;Drøy
+brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv
+kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat&lt;/a&gt;&quot;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I quickly translated it to this English message:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&quot;Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos
+commercially.  Although I can ONLY use them privately.&quot;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but
+suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html&quot;&gt;discovered
+with my Canon IXUS 130&lt;/a&gt;.  The HTC One X specification specifies that
+the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for
+video.  AMR is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues&quot;&gt;Adaptive
+Multi-Rate audio codec&lt;/a&gt; with patents which according to the
+Wikipedia article require an license agreement with
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voiceage.com/&quot;&gt;VoiceAge&lt;/a&gt;.  MP4 is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing&quot;&gt;MPEG4 with
+H.264&lt;/a&gt;, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement
+with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/&quot;&gt;MPEG-LA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I know why I prefer
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition&quot;&gt;free and open
+standards&lt;/a&gt; also for video.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Handling non-free firmware in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Handling_non_free_firmware_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;With some computer hardware, one need non-free firmware blobs.
-This is the sad fact of todays computers.  In the next version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
-on Squeeze, we provide several scripts and modifications to make
-firmware blobs easier to handle.  The common use case I run into is a
-laptop with a wireless network card requiring non-free firmware to
-work, but there are other use cases as well.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, Debian Edu provide ISO images for DVD and CD
-with all firmware packages in the Debian sections main and non-free
-included, to ensure debian-installer find and can install all of them
-during installation.  This take care firmware for network devices used
-by the installer when installing from from local media.  But for
-example multimedia devices are not activated in the installer and are
-not taken care of by this.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For non-network devices, we provide the script
-&lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/auto-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; which
-search through the &lt;tt&gt;dmesg&lt;/tt&gt; output for drivers requesting extra
-firmware.  The firmware file name is looked up in the Contents-ARCH.gz
-file available in the package repository, and the packages providing
-the requested firmware file(s) is installed.  I have proposed to do
-something similar in debian-installer (BTS report
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655507&quot;&gt;#655507&lt;/a&gt;), to allow PXE
-installs of Debian to handle firmware installation better.  Run the
-script as root from the command line to fetch and install the needed
-firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Debian Edu provide PXE installation of Debian out of the box, and
-because some machines need firmware to get their network cards
-working, the installation initrd some times need extra firmware
-included to be able to install at all.  To fill the PXE installation
-initrd with extra firmware, the
-&lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/pxe-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; script is
-provided.  Again, just run it as root on the command line to fill the
-PXE initrd with firmware packages.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Last, some LTSP clients might also need firmware to get their
-network cards working.  For this,
-&lt;tt&gt;/usr/share/debian-edu-config/tools/ltsp-addfirmware&lt;/tt&gt; is
-provided to update the LTSP initrd with firmware blobs.  It is used
-the same way as the other firmware related tools.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;At the moment, we do not run any of these during installation.  We
-do not know if this is acceptable for the local administrator to use
-non-free software, and it is their choice.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 this weekend.  You might want to give it a
-try.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Holder de ord og NUUG lanserer testtjeneste med stortingsinformasjon</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_har_mine_representanter_stemt_i_Storinget_.html&quot;&gt;januar
+i fjor&lt;/a&gt; startet vi i NUUG arbeid med å gjøre informasjon om hvem
+som har stemt hva på &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stortinget.no/&quot;&gt;Stortinget&lt;/a&gt;
+enklere tilgjengelig.  I løpet av få måneder fant vi sammen med
+organisasjonen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holderdeord.no/&quot;&gt;Holder de ord&lt;/a&gt;
+som arbeidet mot et lignende mål.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Siden den gang har vi fått tak i maskinelt lesbart informasjon om
+hvem som stemte hva mellom 1990 og våren 2010, og tilgang til
+stortingets nye datatjeneste som har informasjon fra høsten 2011 til i
+dag.  Det gjenstår litt arbeid med det første datasettet, men
+datasettet fra høsten 2011 er klart til bruk.  Begge datasettene er
+tilgjengelig &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitorious.org/nuug/folketingparser&quot;&gt;via
+git&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;På
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goopen.no/holder-de-ord-datadrevet-oppfolging-av-politiske-lofter/&quot;&gt;Go Open&lt;/a&gt; i morgen lanserer
+NUUG sammen med Holder de ord &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.holderdeord.no/&quot;&gt;en
+test-tjeneste&lt;/a&gt; som viser hva som er og blir behandlet på Stortinget og
+hvem som har stemt hva siden oktober i fjor.  Du får herved mulighet
+til å ta en sniktitt.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Skjermbilder fra nordsamisk installasjon av Skolelinux/Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skjermbilder_fra_nordsamisk_installasjon_av_Skolelinux_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For morro skyld har jeg gjennomført en nordsamisk installasjon for
-neste utgave av &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
-(Squeeze) og knipset skjermbilder av resultatet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Som en kan se der er det noen oversettelser som mangler.  Det hadde
-vært hyggelig hvis alle tekstene som vises i Skolelinux-installasjonen
-ble oversatt til nordsamisk, men for å få det til må noen som forstår
-språket melde seg til dyst.  Det er mangel på nordsamiske oversettere
-av fri programvare.  Hvis noen starter raskt, så bør en rekke å
-fullføre Wheezy-utgaven før den gis ut. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Se &lt;a href=&quot;http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats/&quot;&gt;oversetterstatistikk for
-debian installer&lt;/a&gt; for detaljert status.  Jeg har tipset
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lister.ping.uio.no/mailman/listinfo/i18n-sme&quot;&gt;epostlisten for samiskoversettelser&lt;/a&gt;,
-men det har vært veldig liten aktivitet der de siste årene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/01-isomenu.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/02-sme-lang.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/03-sme-place.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/04-sme-keymap.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/05-sme-profile.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/06-sme-autopart.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/07-sme-popcon.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/08-sme-rootpw1.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/09-sme-rootpw2.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/10-sme-firstuser.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/11-sme-firstusername.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/12-sme-firstuserpw1.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/13-sme-firstuserpw2.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/14-sme-part.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/15-sme-debootstrap.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/16-sme-tasksel.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/17-sme-wordlist.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/18-sme-tasksel.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/19-sme-ltsp.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/20-sme-grub.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/21-sme-finish-install.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-26-skolelinux-sme/22-sme-finish-message.png&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Here in Norway, the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad.html?id=339&quot;&gt; Ministry of
+Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs&lt;/a&gt; is behind
+a &lt;a href=&quot;http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder&quot;&gt;directory of
+standards&lt;/a&gt; that are recommended or mandatory for use by the
+government.  When the directory was created, the people behind it made
+an effort to ensure that everyone would be able to implement the
+standards and compete on equal terms to supply software and solutions
+to the government.  Free software and non-free software could compete
+on the same level.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But recently, some standards with RAND
+(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing&quot;&gt;Reasonable
+And Non-Discriminatory&lt;/a&gt;) terms have made their way into the
+directory.  And while this might not sound too bad, the fact is that
+standard specifications with RAND terms often block free software from
+implementing them.  The reasonable part of RAND mean that the cost per
+user/unit is low,and the non-discriminatory part mean that everyone
+willing to pay will get a license.  Both sound great in theory.  In
+practice, to get such license one need to be able to count users, and
+be able to pay a small amount of money per unit or user.  By
+definition, users of free software do not need to register their use.
+So counting users or units is not possible for free software projects.
+And given that people will use the software without handing any money
+to the author, it is not really economically possible for a free
+software author to pay a small amount of money to license the rights
+to implement a standard when the income available is zero.  The result
+in these situations is that free software are locked out from
+implementing standards with RAND terms.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a
+standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is
+how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory.  Because free
+software developers are working in a global market, it does not really
+help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable
+in Norway.  The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here.
+I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more
+attention to these issues in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;You can find more on the issues with RAND, FRAND and RAND-Z terms
+from Simon Phipps
+(&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/11/rand-not-so-reasonable/&quot;&gt;RAND:
+Not So Reasonable?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Update 2012-04-21: Just came across a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/of-microsoft-netscape-patents-and-open-standards/index.htm&quot;&gt;blog
+post from Glyn Moody&lt;/a&gt; over at Computer World UK warning about the
+same issue, and urging people to speak out to the UK government.  I
+can only urge Norwegian users to do the same for
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.standard.difi.no/hoyring/hoyring-om-nye-anbefalte-it-standarder&quot;&gt;the
+hearing taking place at the moment&lt;/a&gt; (respond before 2012-04-27).
+It proposes to require video conferencing standards including
+specifications with RAND terms.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Setting_up_a_new_school_with_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The next version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
-/ Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; will include a new tool
-&lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp&lt;/tt&gt;, which can be used to quickly set up all
-the computers in a school without much manual labour.  Here is a short
-summary on how to use it to set up a new school.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;First, install a combined Main Server and Thin Client Server as the
-central server in the network.  Next, PXE boot all the client machines
-as thin clients and wait 5 minutes after the last client booted to
-allow the clients to report their existence to the central server.  When
-this is done, log on to the central server and run
-&lt;tt&gt;sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a&lt;/tt&gt; in the &lt;tt&gt;konsole&lt;/tt&gt; to use the
-collected information to generate system objects in LDAP.  The output
-will look similar to this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-% sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a
-info: Updating machine tjener.intern [10.0.2.2] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:05.
-info: Create GOsa machine for auto-mac-00-01-02-03-04-06 [10.0.16.20] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:06.
-
-Enter password if you want to activate these changes, and ^c to abort.
-
-Connecting to LDAP as cn=admin,ou=ldap-access,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
-enter password: *******
-% 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;After providing the LDAP administrative password (the same as the
-root password set during installation), the LDAP database will be
-populated with system objects for each PXE booted machine with
-automatically generated names.  The final step to set up the school is
-then to log into &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa&lt;/a&gt;,
-the web based user, group and system administration system to change
-system names, add systems to the correct host groups and finally
-enable DHCP and DNS for the systems.  All clients that should be used
-as diskless workstations should be added to the workstation-hosts
-group.  After this is done, all computers can be booted again via PXE
-and get their assigned names and group based configuration
-automatically.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We plan to release beta3 with the updated version of this feature
-enabled this weekend.  You might want to give it a try.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2012-01-28: When calling sitesummary2ldapdhcp to add new
-hosts, one need to add the option -a.  I forgot to mention this in my
-original text, and have added it to the text now.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Forskning: &quot;GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker&quot;</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309&quot;&gt;en
+hovedfagsoppgave&lt;/a&gt; ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
+av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer.  Jeg ble fascinert
+over det som presenteres der.  Her er sammendraget:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
+over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
+økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
+for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
+fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
+økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
+programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
+programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
+programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
+disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
+manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
+er:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
+modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
+kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
+frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
+dialog med informantene.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
+ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
+for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
+fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
+delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
+operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
+OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
+av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
+begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
+vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
+økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
+stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
+omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
+til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
+eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
+inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
+formater.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
+laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
+OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
+skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
+symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
+Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
+mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
+friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
+slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
+komplett oppgave tilgjengelig.  På tide å holde et øye med
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-søket&lt;/a&gt;
+til DUO...&lt;/p&gt;
+

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-               <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Paul_Reidar_L_snesl_kken.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, har jeg nå
-lyktes med å få tak i en skolemann som ikke er aktiv med utviklingen,
-men likevel har vært med nesten siden starten av prosjektet.  Jeg
-ønsker derfor velkommen til Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken, en mann med
-mange års erfaring i bruk av Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg driftet tidligere IKT løsningen for skolene i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nord-odal.kommune.no/&quot;&gt;Nord-Odal&lt;/a&gt;.  I dag er jeg
-IKT-konsulent for hele kommunen og samarbeider med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hedmarken-ikt.no/&quot;&gt;Hedmark-IKT&lt;/a&gt; for best mulig
-tjenester til kommunen. Jeg har bakgrunn som elektronikkreparatør og
-grunnskolelærer og har tatt en del fag innen IKT, i hovedsak
-driftsfag. IKT i Nord-Odal kommune blir i dag driftet av Hedmark IKT
-som er et samarbeid mellom Løten, Stange, Grue, Hamar, Kongsvinger og
-Nord-Odal. Jeg er fortsatt &quot;IKT-personen&quot; på skolene i kommunen og
-følger opp og gjør enkelte mindre endringer der.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Kommunen satset på Skolelinux i 2004.  Jeg var ikke med i
-beslutningsprosessen den gang, men ble likevel med fra starten når
-dette ble levert.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Fordelene med Skolelinux er rask oppstart, sentral drift av
-klientene, klienter som jobber raskt og effektivt, bedre
-funksjonalitet på eldre utstyr og en ganske god programpakke med fri
-programvare som følger med.  Løsningen med halvtykke klienter gjør at
-prosessering skjer lokalt med alltid ferske maskiner.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Skolelinux kan fungere godt på gammelt utstyr, men det er klart at
-utstyr også blir for gammelt selv for Skolelinux.  I forbindelese med
-at vi nylig fikk nye servere og ny installasjon kastet jeg ut ca 60
-klienter som fortsatt var i drift etter at de var kjøpt godt brukt i
-2004.  Noe var rundt 15 år gammelt, men var fortsatt i bruk. Noen
-klaget på at det nå gikk veldig tregt på en del pedagogiske nettsider
-med flash o.l. Det er fullt forståelig.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg fikk nylig et spørsmål fra ungdomsskolens rektor om jeg kunne
-legge inn &lt;a href=&quot;http://freemind.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;FreeMind&lt;/a&gt;, et
-tankekartprogram , på skolens elev-Windowsmaskiner. Lærerne hadde
-vært på kurs og ville ta dette i bruk. Skolen har ca halvparten av
-elevmaskinene på bærbare Windowsmaskiner. Da kunne jeg fortelle at
-dette programmet allerede lå inne på den nye Skolelinuxløsningen
-som nettopp var satt i drift, klart til bruk.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi har de bærbare maskinene på ungdomsskolen i domene med
-Skolelinux.  Dette fungerer også meget bra nå. Elevene får opp en
-midlertidig windowsprofil når de logger på.  Denne profilen slettes
-etter at de logger av, noe som medfører rene profiler hver gang de
-starter opp en maskin.  De må lagre i sin Skolelinprofil, noe som
-medfører at de får tak i sine filer uavhengig av om de starter en
-Windowsmaskin eller en Skolelinuxklient. Det er mye mindre trafikk i
-det trådløse nettet etter at ikke hele profiler blir lastet opp til de
-enkelte Windowsmaskinene og tilbake når man avslutter. Jeg vet ikke om
-dette er standardoppsett i Skolelinux, men slik er vårt oppsett
-nå.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi har i flere år satt opp vår løsning slik at skriverkøer slettes
-og skrivere startes hver natt.  Hyggelig å høre at dette nå skal bli
-en standard i Skolelinuxløsningen.  Dette har vært en god hjelp for
-oss.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Elevene er lite opptatt av om de jobber på en Skolelinux eller en
-Windowsmaskin bare de har de programmene de trenger og at det virker
-når det skal brukes. Vi kjører mest mulig de samme programmene på
-Windows som i Skolelinux, som f.eks Audacity og LibreOffice.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Lærere bruker hos oss Windows. Dette fordi de da selv har mer
-kontroll over sin maskin, kan bruke den overalt, og kan legge inn
-programmer selv når de trenger noe i forhold til kurs o.l de er
-på. Jeg tror lærernes selvstendighet her gjør dem tryggere på IKT-bruk
-generelt. Det at de av og til får opp advarsler og lignende gjør også
-at de må tenke igjennom og spørre om ting rundt datasikkerhet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er en del programmer vi bruker som ikke finnes for Linux.  Mest
-brukt er nok Photostory3 som brukes i mange sammenhenger, særlig på
-ungdomsskolen, bl.a. til å lage herbarier (plantesamling) .  Dette
-finnes gratis for Windows, men er ikke fri programvare.  Vi er opptatt
-av at programmer elevene bruker på skolen også kan brukes gratis
-hjemme. Det er også en del programmer som brukes til spesielle elever
-som bare går i Windows. Det er viktig med fokus på funksjoner og ikke
-på hvilket OS man bruker.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For oss er det kombinasjonen mellom Skolelinux og Windows som gir
-oss en god og hel løsning. Skolelinux er best der de er gode.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Selv er det LibreOffice jeg bruker til daglig.  Jeg bruker selv en
-Windowsmaskin. Jeg har benyttet en del fri programvare i forbindelse
-med sjekking av trafikk i nettverk, slik som Wireshark, men dette er
-jo ikke aktuelt for skolene. Jeg er generelt glad i programmer som
-fungerer på både Linux og Windows og gjerne MAC.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er viktig at det benyttes programmer som elevene også kan ta i
-bruk hjemme.  Det skal da være enkelt, lovlig og gratis for
-elevene. Da er jeg ikke lenger veldig opptatt av om det kalles &quot;fri
-programvare&quot;.  For skolene tror jeg &quot;gratis&quot; og &quot;funksjonelt&quot; er bedre
-begreper enn &quot;fri&quot; i forhold til programmer.  De fleste skiller nok
-ikke mellom &quot;fri&quot; og &quot;gratis&quot;. Det er nå svært mange elever som
-benytter OpenOffice eller LibreOffice som sin primære kontorpakke
-hjemme.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
+setting together all the pieces.  This time I present to you Andreas
+Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
+years.  He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
+up in the recently released
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
+Edu Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany.  After
+studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
+Quantum Optics.  After that I worked some years in an optics company.
+Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
+teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school.  I teach math, physics,
+information technology and science/technology.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
+project because of my interest in education and Debian.  Within the
+qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
+contributing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
+out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
+Debian Project!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
+downside, too.  In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
+setup, if you need or want that.  Further more, it is not easily
+possible to upgrade the system to a new release.  It takes much too
+long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
+because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
+rather small and often busy elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN&quot;&gt;Debian LAN&lt;/a&gt;
+project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
+on all my machines.  For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
+mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing.  At school I
+have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
+Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
+politicians, this works out great for the &quot;market-leader&quot;.  The school
+administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
+Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats.  Even
+free browsers do not work for the school administration.  Publishers
+of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To change this, political work is very important.  Parts of the
+political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
+However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to &#39;free&#39;
+the system.  There is currently some discussion about &quot;Open Data&quot; and
+&quot;Free/Open Standards&quot;.  I am not sure if all the involved parties have
+a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
+fraction takes them seriously.  However it might slowly make free
+software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Changing the default Iceweasel start page in Debian Edu/Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Changing_the_default_Iceweasel_start_page_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Changing_the_default_Iceweasel_start_page_in_Debian_Edu_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;In the Squeeze version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; soon
-to be released, users of the system will get their default browser
-start page set from LDAP, allowing the system administrator to point
-all users to the school web page by updating one setting in LDAP.  In
-addition to setting the default start page when a machine boots, users
-are shown the same page as a welcome page when they log in for the
-first time.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The LDAP object dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no have an attribute
-labeledURI with &quot;http://www/ LDAP for Debian Edu/Skolelinux&quot; as the
-default content.  By changing this value to another URL, all users get
-to see the page behind this new URL.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;An easy way to update it is by using the ldapvi tool.  It can be
-called as &quot;&lt;tt&gt;ldapvi -ZD &#39;(cn=admin)&#39;&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; to update LDAP with the
-new setting.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We have written the code to adjust the default start page and show
-the welcome page, and I wonder if there is an easier way to do this
-from within Iceweasel instead.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Jeg skal på konferansen Go Open 2012</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg har tenkt meg på konferansen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goopen.no/&quot;&gt;Go
+Open 2012&lt;/a&gt; i Oslo 23. april.
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Medlemsforeningen NUUG&lt;/a&gt; deler ut
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/prisen/&quot;&gt;prisen for fremme av fri
+programvare i Norge&lt;/a&gt; der i år.  Kommer du?&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Second beta version of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_version_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to announce that today we managed to wrap up and publish
-the second beta version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  If
-you want to test a LDAP backed Kerberos server with out of the box PXE
-configuration for running diskless machines and installing new
-machines, check it out.  If you need a software solution for your
-school, check it out too.  The full announcement is
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/01/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
-on the project announcement list.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
+like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;,
+and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
+contributor to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
+Edu Squeeze release manual&lt;/a&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
+occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
+reason my name&#39;s in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
+around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
+they&#39;d like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
+through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
+&quot;localisation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These questions are too hard for me - I don&#39;t use it!  In fact I
+had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I&#39;d got out of the
+education system.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
+as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
+everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
+money on the latest hardware.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
+software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
+words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Well, I don&#39;t know.  I suppose I&#39;d be inclined to try reasoning
+with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
+you would hardly need a strategy.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Fixing an hanging debian installer for Debian Edu</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_an_hanging_debian_installer_for_Debian_Edu.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_an_hanging_debian_installer_for_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;During christmas, I have been working getting the next version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; ready
-for release.  The initial problem I looked at was particularly
-interesting.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;P&gt;The installer would hang at the end when it was doing it
-post-installation configuration, and whatevery I did to try to find
-the cause and fix it always worked while I tested it, but never when I
-integrated it into the installer and ran the installation from
-scratch.  I would try to restart processes, close file descriptors,
-remove or create files, and the installer would always unblock and
-wrap up its tasks.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Eventually the cause was found.  The kernel was simply running out
-of entropy, causing the Kerberos setup to hang waiting for more.
-Pressing keys was adding entropy to the kernel, and thus all my tries
-to fix the problem worked not because what I was typing to fix it, but
-because I was typing.&lt;/P&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The fix I implemented was to add a background process looking at
-the level of entropy in the kernel (by checking
-/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail), and if it was too small, the
-installer will flush the kernel file buffers and do &#39;find /&#39; to
-generate some disk IO.  Disk IO generate entropy in the kernel, and is
-one of the few things that can be initated from within the system to
-generate entropy.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The fix is in
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/Installation&quot;&gt;beta1
-of the Debian Edu/Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version, and we
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu&quot;&gt;welcome more testers and
-developers&lt;/a&gt;.  We plan to release beta2 this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2012 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I have spent time with
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; on speeding
+up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the
+process I discovered something very surprising.  The reason the KDE
+menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly
+due to the way KDE find application icons.  I discovered that showing
+the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be
+passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server.  Most of these were
+
+NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response.  Because the
+ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20
+ms, the menus would be very slow.  Looking at the strace of kicker in
+Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that
+the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for
+non-existing files.  KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find
+one icon file.  In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required
+around 230 access(2) calls.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon
+directories, and the list of possible directories is large.  In
+(almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg
+and .xpm.  The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS
+mounted.  Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS
+requests.  I am not the first one to discover this.  I found a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416&quot;&gt;KDE bug report
+from 2009&lt;/a&gt; about this problem, and it is still unsolved.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package
+kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files
+used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths
+for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the
+icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/.  Finally, I add symlinks to
+these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look
+for them.  This cut down the number of file accesses required to find
+one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu
+almost instantaneous.  I&#39;m not quite sure where to make the package
+publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu
+and icon handling, but also the login process.  Not quite sure how to
+speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and
+that is not really an option at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
+(at) lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Peter Hansteen</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Peter_Hansteen.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Peter_Hansteen.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter en lang pause er det klart for neste mann ut i min serie med
-intervjuer av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-relaterte personer.
-
-Denne gangen har jeg besøk av et avtroppende styremedlem i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt;, og en mann
-som har vært aktiv i Linux-miljøet i Bergen siden 90-tallet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Peter Hansteen, og jobber til daglig som seniorkonsulent
-i EDB ErgoGroup i Bergen.  I praksis betyr det systemadministrasjon på
-Unix (primært Solaris, men en viss komponent av Linux).  Men Solaris
-er for meg et relativt nytt bekjentskap, hovedplattformen min har
-generelt vært OpenBSD og til dels FreeBSD.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg husker ikke helt alle detaljene mer ;) - men jeg tror det var
-gjennom news-gruppen no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse, efn-listen og
-etterhvert også BLUG-miljøet her i Bergen.  Vi hadde et par
-Skolelinux-sentrerte BLUG-møter for noen år siden, og det har vært et
-par Skolelinux-utviklersamlinger her.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg bruker dessverre ikke Skolelinux daglig. Men slik jeg kjenner
-prosjektet har det vært i stand til å ta opp i seg det beste av fri
-programvare i mange kategorier, så fra et sysadmin-perspektiv ser det
-ut som en svært behagelig sak.  For brukerne er det vel både en fordel
-og en ulempe at det ikke er Windows. Men vi håper at fordelene med et
-fritt system etterhvert vil bli åpenbare for både elever, lærekrefter
-og foreldre.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vel, ulempen er vel først og fremst at andre aktører med mer
-kapitalmuskel har klart å etablere seg som det både lærere og foreldre
-føler seg trygge på, selv om det etter mitt hode ikke er noen grunn
-til å være spesielt trygg på de kommersielle alternativene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Når jeg får bestemme helt selv, bruker jeg kun fri programvare. Da
-helst med vekt på ting som kjører greit på OpenBSD.  Hjemme er det
-OpenBSD, Ubuntu eller FreeBSD vi bruker.  På skrivebordet er det en
-avveining mellom Gnome, KDE eller hva-det-nå-heter som er
-standardvalget i Ubuntu, ellers er det de kjente tingene som
-LibreOffice, Emacs, mplayer.  På server er det selvfølgelig Apache,
-for overvåking både OpenNMS og Nagios (det bare ble sånn, og
-forskjellige siter).  Jeg skriver til tider om slikt jeg holder på med
-på
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bsdly.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;http://bsdly.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Men vi må nevne at selv vi har en Microsoft-ting som vi slår på når
-vi av en eller annen grunn må. Det betyr igjen vanligvis når en
-mobiltelefon eller en annen lukket elektronisk dings krever kontakt
-via en slik for å få oppdateringene sine.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hadde vi hatt det rette svaret på det spørsmålet, så hadde vi
-gjerne hatt Skolelinux som førstevalg på alle skoler ;)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Men jeg tror vi må legge vekt på flere forskjellige ting.  En helt
-sentral sak er å fokusere på fri programvare og åpne standarder som de
-demokratiske verdiene de faktisk er.  Det har kanskje kommet litt for
-mye i bakgrunnen i forhold til strevet etter å lage det mest mulig
-&#39;brukervennlige&#39; systemet.  Det er en tung vei å gå, så det er
-forståelig at freenix-aktivister heller velger å skrive kode og annet
-som er mer lystbetont. Mer praktisk tror jeg vi må gjøre i alle fall
-to ting: For det første sørge for å fortsette med å levere det best
-mulige frie produktet, slik at det er lett å både komme i gang og
-holde systemene i daglig drift, og for det andre 2) spore opp mulige
-aktivister der de finnes, via lokale brukergrupper, sosiale medier
-eller annet og sørge for at de fortsetter å være aktive.  Mer og
-mindre uformelle treff kan være nyttig i tillegg til de mer
-organiserte møtene med foredrag, konferanser og utviklersamlinger.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; by
+Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News.  The result was made public for
+non-subscribers today.  I am pleased to see liked our Linux solution
+for schools.  Check out his article
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A
+distribution for education&lt;/a&gt; if you want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Automatically upgrading server firmware on Dell PowerEdge</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_upgrading_server_firmware_on_Dell_PowerEdge.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_upgrading_server_firmware_on_Dell_PowerEdge.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;At work we have heaps of servers.  I believe the total count is
-around 1000 at the moment.  To be able to get help from the vendors
-when something go wrong, we want to keep the firmware on the servers
-up to date.  If the firmware isn&#39;t the latest and greatest, the
-vendors typically refuse to start debugging any problems until the
-firmware is upgraded.  So before every reboot, we want to upgrade the
-firmware, and we would really like everyone handling servers at the
-university to do this themselves when they plan to reboot a machine.
-For that to happen we at the unix server admin group need to provide
-the tools to do so.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To make firmware upgrading easier, I am working on a script to
-fetch and install the latest firmware for the servers we got.  Most of
-our hardware are from Dell and HP, so I have focused on these servers
-so far.  This blog post is about the Dell part.&lt;/P&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;On the Dell FTP site I was lucky enough to find
-&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/catalog/Catalog.xml.gz&quot;&gt;an XML file&lt;/a&gt;
-with firmware information for all 11th generation servers, listing
-which firmware should be used on a given model and where on the FTP
-site I can find it.  Using a simple perl XML parser I can then
-download the shell scripts Dell provides to do firmware upgrades from
-within Linux and reboot when all the firmware is primed and ready to
-be activated on the first reboot.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is the Dell related fragment of the perl code I am working on.
-Are there anyone working on similar tools for firmware upgrading all
-servers at a site?  Please get in touch and lets share resources.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-use File::Temp qw(tempdir);
-BEGIN {
-    # Install needed RHEL packages if missing
-    my %rhelmodules = (
-        &#39;XML::Simple&#39; =&gt; &#39;perl-XML-Simple&#39;,
-        );
-    for my $module (keys %rhelmodules) {
-        eval &quot;use $module;&quot;;
-        if ($@) {
-            my $pkg = $rhelmodules{$module};
-            system(&quot;yum install -y $pkg&quot;);
-            eval &quot;use $module;&quot;;
-        }
-    }
-}
-my $errorsto = &#39;pere@hungry.com&#39;;
-
-upgrade_dell();
-
-exit 0;
-
-sub run_firmware_script {
-    my ($opts, $script) = @_;
-    unless ($script) {
-        print STDERR &quot;fail: missing script name\n&quot;;
-        exit 1
-    }
-    print STDERR &quot;Running $script\n\n&quot;;
-
-    if (0 == system(&quot;sh $script $opts&quot;)) { # FIXME correct exit code handling
-        print STDERR &quot;success: firmware script ran succcessfully\n&quot;;
-    } else {
-        print STDERR &quot;fail: firmware script returned error\n&quot;;
-    }
-}
-
-sub run_firmware_scripts {
-    my ($opts, @dirs) = @_;
-    # Run firmware packages
-    for my $dir (@dirs) {
-        print STDERR &quot;info: Running scripts in $dir\n&quot;;
-        opendir(my $dh, $dir) or die &quot;Unable to open directory $dir: $!&quot;;
-        while (my $s = readdir $dh) {
-            next if $s =~ m/^\.\.?/;
-            run_firmware_script($opts, &quot;$dir/$s&quot;);
-        }
-        closedir $dh;
-    }
-}
-
-sub download {
-    my $url = shift;
-    print STDERR &quot;info: Downloading $url\n&quot;;
-    system(&quot;wget --quiet \&quot;$url\&quot;&quot;);
-}
-
-sub upgrade_dell {
-    my @dirs;
-    my $product = `dmidecode -s system-product-name`;
-    chomp $product;
-
-    if ($product =~ m/PowerEdge/) {
-
-        # on RHEL, these pacakges are needed by the firwmare upgrade scripts
-        system(&#39;yum install -y compat-libstdc++-33.i686 libstdc++.i686 libxml2.i686 procmail&#39;);
-
-        my $tmpdir = tempdir(
-            CLEANUP =&gt; 1
-            );
-        chdir($tmpdir);
-        fetch_dell_fw(&#39;catalog/Catalog.xml.gz&#39;);
-        system(&#39;gunzip Catalog.xml.gz&#39;);
-        my @paths = fetch_dell_fw_list(&#39;Catalog.xml&#39;);
-        # -q is quiet, disabling interactivity and reducing console output
-        my $fwopts = &quot;-q&quot;;
-        if (@paths) {
-            for my $url (@paths) {
-                fetch_dell_fw($url);
-            }
-            run_firmware_scripts($fwopts, $tmpdir);
-        } else {
-            print STDERR &quot;error: Unsupported Dell model &#39;$product&#39;.\n&quot;;
-            print STDERR &quot;error: Please report to $errorsto.\n&quot;;
-        }
-        chdir(&#39;/&#39;);
-    } else {
-        print STDERR &quot;error: Unsupported Dell model &#39;$product&#39;.\n&quot;;
-        print STDERR &quot;error: Please report to $errorsto.\n&quot;;
-    }
-}
-
-sub fetch_dell_fw {
-    my $path = shift;
-    my $url = &quot;ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/$path&quot;;
-    download($url);
-}
-
-# Using ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/catalog/Catalog.xml.gz, figure out which
-# firmware packages to download from Dell.  Only work for Linux
-# machines and 11th generation Dell servers.
-sub fetch_dell_fw_list {
-    my $filename = shift;
-
-    my $product = `dmidecode -s system-product-name`;
-    chomp $product;
-    my ($mybrand, $mymodel) = split(/\s+/, $product);
-
-    print STDERR &quot;Finding firmware bundles for $mybrand $mymodel\n&quot;;
-
-    my $xml = XMLin($filename);
-    my @paths;
-    for my $bundle (@{$xml-&gt;{SoftwareBundle}}) {
-        my $brand = $bundle-&gt;{TargetSystems}-&gt;{Brand}-&gt;{Display}-&gt;{content};
-        my $model = $bundle-&gt;{TargetSystems}-&gt;{Brand}-&gt;{Model}-&gt;{Display}-&gt;{content};
-        my $oscode;
-        if (&quot;ARRAY&quot; eq ref $bundle-&gt;{TargetOSes}-&gt;{OperatingSystem}) {
-            $oscode = $bundle-&gt;{TargetOSes}-&gt;{OperatingSystem}[0]-&gt;{osCode};
-        } else {
-            $oscode = $bundle-&gt;{TargetOSes}-&gt;{OperatingSystem}-&gt;{osCode};
-        }
-        if ($mybrand eq $brand &amp;&amp; $mymodel eq $model &amp;&amp; &quot;LIN&quot; eq $oscode)
-        {
-            @paths = map { $_-&gt;{path} } @{$bundle-&gt;{Contents}-&gt;{Package}};
-        }
-    }
-    for my $component (@{$xml-&gt;{SoftwareComponent}}) {
-        my $componenttype = $component-&gt;{ComponentType}-&gt;{value};
-
-        # Drop application packages, only firmware and BIOS
-        next if &#39;APAC&#39; eq $componenttype;
-
-        my $cpath = $component-&gt;{path};
-        for my $path (@paths) {
-            if ($cpath =~ m%/$path$%) {
-                push(@paths, $cpath);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    return @paths;
-}
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The code is only tested on RedHat Enterprise Linux, but I suspect
-it could work on other platforms with some tweaking.  Anyone know a
-index like Catalog.xml is available from HP for HP servers?  At the
-moment I maintain a similar list manually and it is quickly getting
-outdated.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Germany is a core area for the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
+Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve studied Mathematics at the university &#39;Ruhr-Universität&#39; in
+Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I&#39;m working as a teacher at the school
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/&quot;&gt;Westfalen-Kolleg
+Dortmund&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
+the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
+examination &#39;Abitur&#39;, which will allow to study at a university. This
+second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
+or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
+blended learning project called &#39;abitur-online.nrw&#39; and in some other
+information technology related projects. For about ten years I&#39;ve been
+teacher and coordinator for the &#39;abitur-online&#39; project at my
+school. Being now in my early sixties, I&#39;ve decided to leave school at
+the end of April this year.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
+attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
+Project).  At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
+using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
+2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
+clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
+reach. At home I&#39;m using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
+Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
+two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
+known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
+Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
+better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
+clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
+was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
+and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
+the admin teachers.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it&#39;s
+Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
+So it was a perfect choice.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Being open source, there are no license problems and so it&#39;s
+possible to point teachers and students to programs like
+OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It&#39;s of
+high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
+a school and to choose where to get support for this.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Nothing yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
+Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
+Annotator).  At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
+LibreOffice.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
+that doesn&#39;t seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
+interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.&lt;/p&gt;

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