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-               <title>FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox&quot;&gt;Freedombox
-project&lt;/a&gt; is working on providing the software and hardware to make
-it easy for non-technical people to host their data and communication
-at home, and being able to communicate with their friends and family
-encrypted and away from prying eyes.  It is still going strong, and
-today a major mile stone was reached.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Today, the last of the packages currently used by the project to
-created the system images were accepted into Debian Unstable.  It was
-the freedombox-setup package, which is used to configure the images
-during build and on the first boot.  Now all one need to get going is
-the build code from the freedom-maker git repository and packages from
-Debian.  And once the freedombox-setup package enter testing, we can
-build everything directly from Debian. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Some key packages used by Freedombox are
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/freedombox-setup&quot;&gt;freedombox-setup&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/plinth&quot;&gt;plinth&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/pagekite&quot;&gt;pagekite&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/tor&quot;&gt;tor&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy&quot;&gt;privoxy&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/owncloud&quot;&gt;owncloud&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/dnsmasq&quot;&gt;dnsmasq&lt;/a&gt;.  There
-are plans to integrate more packages into the setup.  User
-documentation is maintained on the Debian wiki.  Please
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Jessie&quot;&gt;check out
-the manual&lt;/a&gt; and help us improve it.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To test for yourself and create boot images with the FreedomBox
-setup, run this on a Debian machine using a user with sudo rights to
-become root:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
-  mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
-  u-boot-tools
-git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
-  freedom-maker
-make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
-devices.  See the README in the freedom-maker git repo for more
-details on the build.  If you do not want all three images, trim the
-make line.  Note that the virtualbox-image target is not really
-virtualbox specific.  It create a x86 image usable in kvm, qemu,
-vmware and any other x86 virtual machine environment.  You might need
-the version of vmdebootstrap in Jessie to get the build working, as it
-include fixes for a race condition with kpartx.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you instead want to install using a Debian CD and the preseed
-method, boot a Debian Wheezy ISO and use this boot argument to load
-the preseed values:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-url=&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat&quot;&gt;http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have not tested it myself the last few weeks, so I do not know if
-it still work.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you wonder how to help, one task you could look at is using
-systemd as the boot system.  It will become the default for Linux in
-Jessie, so we need to make sure it is usable on the Freedombox.  I did
-a simple test a few weeks ago, and noticed dnsmasq failed to start
-during boot when using systemd.  I suspect there are other problems
-too. :) To detect problems, there is a test suite included, which can
-be run from the plinth web interface.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help
-us get the new release published. :) Please join us on
-&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox&quot;&gt;IRC (#freedombox on
-irc.debian.org)&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss&quot;&gt;the
-mailing list&lt;/a&gt; if you want to help make this vision come true.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Hvordan vurderer regjeringen H.264-patentutfordringen?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_vurderer_regjeringen_H_264_patentutfordringen_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_vurderer_regjeringen_H_264_patentutfordringen_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;For en stund tilbake spurte jeg Fornyingsdepartementet om hvilke
+juridiske vurderinger rundt patentproblemstillingen som var gjort da
+H.264 ble tatt inn i &lt;a href=&quot;http://standard.difi.no/&quot;&gt;statens
+referansekatalog over standarder&lt;/a&gt;.  Stig Hornnes i FAD tipset meg
+om følgende som står i oppsumeringen til høringen om
+referansekatalogen versjon 2.0, som jeg siden ved hjelp av en
+innsynsforespørsel fikk tak i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/200901-standardkatalog-v2?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=kongelig-resolusjon.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF-utgaven av&lt;/a&gt;
+datert 2009-06-03 (saksnummer 200803291, saksbehandler Henrik
+Linnestad).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Der står det følgende om problemstillingen:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;strong&gt;4.4 Patentproblematikk&lt;/strong&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;NUUG og Opera ser det som særlig viktig at forslagene knyttet til
+lyd og video baserer seg på de royalty-frie standardene Vorbis, Theora
+og FLAC.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Kommentarene relaterer seg til at enkelte standarder er åpne, men
+inneholder tekniske prosedyrer som det i USA (og noen andre land som
+Japan) er gitt patentrettigheter til. I vårt tilfelle berører dette
+spesielt standardene Mp3 og H.264, selv om Politidirektoratet peker på
+at det muligens kan være tilsvarende problematikk også for Theora og
+Vorbis.  Dette medfører at det i USA kan kreves royalties for bruk av
+tekniske løsninger knyttet til standardene, et krav som også
+håndheves. Patenter kan imidlertid bare hevdes i de landene hvor
+patentet er gitt, så amerikanske patenter gjelder ikke andre steder
+enn USA.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Spesielt for utvikling av fri programvare er patenter
+problematisk. GPL, en &quot;grunnleggende&quot; lisens for distribusjon av fri
+programvare, avviser at programvare kan distribueres under denne
+lisensen hvis det inneholder referanser til patenterte rutiner som
+utløser krav om royalties. Det er imidlertid uproblematisk å
+distribuere fri programvareløsninger under GPL som benytter de
+aktuelle standardene innen eller mellom land som ikke anerkjenner
+patentene. Derfor finner vi også flere implementeringer av Mp3 og
+H.264 som er fri programvare, lisensiert under GPL.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I Norge og EU er patentlovgivningen langt mer restriktiv enn i USA,
+men det er også her mulig å få patentert metoder for løsning av et
+problem som relaterer seg til databehandling. Det er AIF bekjent ikke
+relevante patenter i EU eller Norge hva gjelder H.264 og Mp3, men
+muligheten for at det finnes patenter uten at det er gjort krav om
+royalties eller at det senere vil gis slike patenter kan ikke helt
+avvises.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;AIF mener det er et behov for å gi offentlige virksomheter mulighet
+til å benytte antatt royaltyfrie åpne standarder som et likeverdig
+alternativ eller i tillegg til de markedsledende åpne standardene.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det ser dermed ikke ut til at de har vurdert patentspørsmålet i
+sammenheng med opphavsrettsvilkår slik de er formulert for f.eks.
+Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid og Sorenson-verktøyene,
+der det kreves brukstillatelse for patenter som ikke er gyldige i
+Norge for å bruke disse verktøyene til annet en personlig og ikke
+kommersiell aktivitet når det gjelder H.264-video.  Jeg må nok lete
+videre etter svar på det spørsmålet.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Språkkoder for POSIX locale i Norge</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Spr_kkoder_for_POSIX_locale_i_Norge.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For 12 år siden, skrev jeg et lite notat om
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://i18n.skolelinux.no/localekoder.txt&quot;&gt;bruk av språkkoder
-i Norge&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg ble nettopp minnet på dette da jeg fikk spørsmål om
-notatet fortsatt var aktuelt, og tenkte det var greit å repetere hva
-som fortsatt gjelder.  Det jeg skrev da er fortsatt like aktuelt.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Når en velger språk i programmer på unix, så velger en blant mange
-språkkoder.  For språk i Norge anbefales følgende språkkoder (anbefalt
-locale i parantes):&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;dl&gt;
-&lt;dt&gt;nb (nb_NO)&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Bokmål i Norge&lt;/dd&gt;
-&lt;dt&gt;nn (nn_NO)&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Nynorsk i Norge&lt;/dd&gt;
-&lt;dt&gt;se (se_NO)&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Nordsamisk i Norge&lt;/dd&gt;
-&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Alle programmer som bruker andre koder bør endres.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Språkkoden bør brukes når .po-filer navngis og installeres.  Dette
-er ikke det samme som locale-koden.  For Norsk Bokmål, så bør filene
-være navngitt nb.po, mens locale (LANG) bør være nb_NO.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hvis vi ikke får standardisert de kodene i alle programmene med
-norske oversettelser, så er det umulig å gi LANG-variablen ett innhold
-som fungerer for alle programmer.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Språkkodene er de offisielle kodene fra ISO 639, og bruken av dem i
-forbindelse med POSIX localer er standardisert i RFC 3066 og ISO
-15897.  Denne anbefalingen er i tråd med de angitte standardene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Følgende koder er eller har vært i bruk som locale-verdier for
-&quot;norske&quot; språk.  Disse bør unngås, og erstattes når de oppdages:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;table&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;norwegian&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-&gt; nb_NO&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;bokmål   &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-&gt; nb_NO&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;bokmal   &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-&gt; nb_NO&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;nynorsk  &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-&gt; nn_NO&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;no       &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-&gt; nb_NO&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;no_NO    &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-&gt; nb_NO&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;no_NY    &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-&gt; nn_NO&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;sme_NO   &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;-&gt; se_NO&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Merk at når det gjelder de samiske språkene, at se_NO i praksis
-henviser til nordsamisk i Norge, mens f.eks.  smj_NO henviser til
-lulesamisk.  Dette notatet er dog ikke ment å gi råd rundt samiske
-språkkoder, der gjør
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.divvun.no/&quot;&gt;Divvun-prosjektet&lt;/a&gt; en bedre
-jobb.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referanser:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>A Debian package for SMTP via Tor (aka SMTorP) using exim4</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Debian_package_for_SMTP_via_Tor__aka_SMTorP__using_exim4.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Debian_package_for_SMTP_via_Tor__aka_SMTorP__using_exim4.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The right to communicate with your friends and family in private,
+without anyone snooping, is a right every citicen have in a liberal
+democracy.  But this right is under serious attack these days.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A while back it occurred to me that one way to make the dragnet
+surveillance conducted by NSA, GCHQ, FRA and others (and confirmed by
+the whisleblower Snowden) more expensive for Internet email,
+is to deliver all email using SMTP via Tor.  Such SMTP option would be
+a nice addition to the FreedomBox project if we could send email
+between FreedomBox machines without leaking metadata about the emails
+to the people peeking on the wire.  I
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2014-October/006493.html&quot;&gt;proposed
+this on the FreedomBox project mailing list in October&lt;/a&gt; and got a
+lot of useful feedback and suggestions.  It also became obvious to me
+that this was not a novel idea, as the same idea was tested and
+documented by Johannes Berg as early as 2006, and both
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/wiki/SMTorP&quot;&gt;the
+Mailpile&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://dee.su/cables&quot;&gt;the Cables&lt;/a&gt; systems
+propose a similar method / protocol to pass emails between users.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To implement such system one need to set up a Tor hidden service
+providing the SMTP protocol on port 25, and use email addresses
+looking like username@hidden-service-name.onion.  With such addresses
+the connections to port 25 on hidden-service-name.onion using Tor will
+go to the correct SMTP server.  To do this, one need to configure the
+Tor daemon to provide the hidden service and the mail server to accept
+emails for this .onion domain.  To learn more about Exim configuration
+in Debian and test the design provided by Johannes Berg in his FAQ, I
+set out yesterday to create a Debian package for making it trivial to
+set up such SMTP over Tor service based on Debian.  Getting it to work
+were fairly easy, and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/exim4-smtorp&quot;&gt;the
+source code for the Debian package&lt;/a&gt; is available from github.  I
+plan to move it into Debian if further testing prove this to be a
+useful approach.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to test this, set up a blank Debian machine without any
+mail system installed (or run &lt;tt&gt;apt-get purge exim4-config&lt;/tt&gt; to
+get rid of exim4).  Install tor, clone the git repository mentioned
+above, build the deb and install it on the machine.  Next, run
+&lt;tt&gt;/usr/lib/exim4-smtorp/setup-exim-hidden-service&lt;/tt&gt; and follow
+the instructions to get the service up and running.  Restart tor and
+exim when it is done, and test mail delivery using swaks like
+this:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rfc-base.org/rfc-3066.html&quot;&gt;RFC 3066 - Tags
-    for the Identification of Languages&lt;/a&gt; (Erstatter RFC 1766)&lt;/li&gt;
-   
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html&quot;&gt;ISO
-    639&lt;/a&gt; - Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n897-14652w25.pdf&quot;&gt;ISO
-    DTR 14652&lt;/a&gt; - locale-standard Specification method for cultural
-    conventions&lt;/li&gt;
- 
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n610.pdf&quot;&gt;ISO
-    15897: Registration procedures for cultural elements (cultural
-    registry)&lt;/a&gt;,
-    &lt;a href=&quot;http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n849-15897wd6.pdf&quot;&gt;(nytt
-    draft)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/&quot;&gt;ISO/IEC
-    JTC1/SC22/WG20&lt;/a&gt; - Gruppen for i18n-standardisering i ISO&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+torsocks swaks --server dutlqrrmjhtfa3vp.onion \
+  --to fbx@dutlqrrmjhtfa3vp.onion
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This will test the SMTP delivery using tor.  Replace the email
+address with your own address to test your server. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The setup procedure is still to complex, and I hope it can be made
+easier and more automatic.  Especially the tor setup need more work.
+Also, the package include a tor-smtp tool written in C, but its task
+should probably be rewritten in some script language to make the deb
+architecture independent.  It would probably also make the code easier
+to review.  The tor-smtp tool currently need to listen on a socket for
+exim to talk to it and is started using xinetd.  It would be better if
+no daemon and no socket is needed.  I suspect it is possible to get
+exim to run a command line tool for delivery instead of talking to a
+socket, and hope to figure out how in a future version of this
+system.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Until I wipe my test machine, I can be reached using the
+&lt;tt&gt;fbx@dutlqrrmjhtfa3vp.onion&lt;/tt&gt; mail address, deliverable over
+SMTorP. :)&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>S3QL, a locally mounted cloud file system - nice free software</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/S3QL__a_locally_mounted_cloud_file_system___nice_free_software.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For a while now, I have been looking for a sensible offsite backup
-solution for use at home.  My requirements are simple, it must be
-cheap and locally encrypted (in other words, I keep the encryption
-keys, the storage provider do not have access to my private files).
-One idea me and my friends had many years ago, before the cloud
-storage providers showed up, was to use Google mail as storage,
-writing a Linux block device storing blocks as emails in the mail
-service provided by Google, and thus get heaps of free space.  On top
-of this one can add encryption, RAID and volume management to have
-lots of (fairly slow, I admit that) cheap and encrypted storage.  But
-I never found time to implement such system.  But the last few weeks I
-have looked at a system called
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bitbucket.org/nikratio/s3ql/&quot;&gt;S3QL&lt;/a&gt;, a locally
-mounted network backed file system with the features I need.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;S3QL is a fuse file system with a local cache and cloud storage,
-handling several different storage providers, any with Amazon S3,
-Google Drive or OpenStack API.  There are heaps of such storage
-providers.  S3QL can also use a local directory as storage, which
-combined with sshfs allow for file storage on any ssh server.  S3QL
-include support for encryption, compression, de-duplication, snapshots
-and immutable file systems, allowing me to mount the remote storage as
-a local mount point, look at and use the files as if they were local,
-while the content is stored in the cloud as well.  This allow me to
-have a backup that should survive fire.  The file system can not be
-shared between several machines at the same time, as only one can
-mount it at the time, but any machine with the encryption key and
-access to the storage service can mount it if it is unmounted.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It is simple to use.  I&#39;m using it on Debian Wheezy, where the
-package is included already.  So to get started, run &lt;tt&gt;apt-get
-install s3ql&lt;/tt&gt;.  Next, pick a storage provider.  I ended up picking
-Greenqloud, after reading their nice recipe on
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://greenqloud.zendesk.com/entries/44611757-How-To-Use-S3QL-to-mount-a-StorageQloud-bucket-on-Debian-Wheezy&quot;&gt;how
-to use S3QL with their Amazon S3 service&lt;/a&gt;, because I trust the laws
-in Iceland more than those in USA when it come to keeping my personal
-data safe and private, and thus would rather spend money on a company
-in Iceland.  Another nice recipe is available from the article
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/Articles/HPC-Cloud-Storage&quot;&gt;S3QL
-Filesystem for HPC Storage&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff Layton in the HPC section of
-Admin magazine.  When the provider is picked, figure out how to get
-the API key needed to connect to the storage API.  With Greencloud,
-the key did not show up until I had added payment details to my
-account.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Armed with the API access details, it is time to create the file
-system.  First, create a new bucket in the cloud.  This bucket is the
-file system storage area.  I picked a bucket name reflecting the
-machine that was going to store data there, but any name will do.
-I&#39;ll refer to it as &lt;tt&gt;bucket-name&lt;/tt&gt; below.  In addition, one need
-the API login and password, and a locally created password.  Store it
-all in ~root/.s3ql/authinfo2 like this:
+               <title>First Jessie based Debian Edu released (alpha0)</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_released__alpha0_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_released__alpha0_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to report that I on behalf of the Debian Edu team just
+sent out
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2014/10/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;this
+announcement&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu
+Jessie 8.0+edu0~alpha0
+
+Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its
+various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations
+and laptops which will work together on the school network. With
+Debian Edu, the teachers themselves or their technical support can
+roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within
+hours or a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications
+pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from Debian.
+
+For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and
+installation instructions are available, including detailed
+instructions in the manual[1] explaining the first steps, such as
+setting up a network or adding users. Please note that the password
+for the user your prompted for during installation must have a length
+of at least 5 characters!
+
+ [1] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie&quot;&gt;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
+
+Would you like to give your school&#39;s computer a longer life? Are you
+tired of sneaker administration, running from computer to computer
+reinstalling the operating system? Would you like to administrate all
+the computers in your school using only a couple of hours every week?
+Check out Debian Edu Jessie!
+
+Skolelinux is used by at least two hundred schools all over the world,
+mostly in Germany and Norway.
+
+About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
+===============================
+
+Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux[2], is a Linux distribution based
+on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
+configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
+server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
+waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
+Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
+initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
+machines can be installed via the network.  The provided school server
+provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
+centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
+services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
+packages[3] and more are available from the Debian archive, and
+schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop
+environment.
+
+ [2] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.skolelinux.org/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
+ [3] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
+
+Full release notes and manual
+=============================
+
+Below the download URLs there is a list of some of the new features
+and bugfixes of Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie. The full
+list is part of the manual. (See the feature list in the manual[4] for
+the English version.) For some languages manual translations are
+available, see the manual translation overview[5].
+
+ [4] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features&quot;&gt;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
+ [5] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/&quot;&gt;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
+
+Where to get it
+---------------
+
+To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (624 MiB) you can use
+
+ * &lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;
+ * &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;
+ * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso .
+
+The SHA1SUM of this image is: 361188818e036ce67280a572f757de82ebfeb095
+
+New features for Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie released 2014-10-27
+===============================================================================
+
+
+Installation changes
+--------------------
+
+ * PXE installation now installs firmware automatically for the hardware present.
+
+Software updates
+----------------
+
+Everything which is new in Debian Jessie 8.0, eg:
+
+ * Linux kernel 3.16.x
+ * Desktop environments KDE &quot;Plasma&quot; 4.11.12, GNOME 3.14, Xfce 4.10,
+   LXDE 0.5.6 and MATE 1.8 (KDE &quot;Plasma&quot; is installed by default; to
+   choose one of the others see manual.)
+ * the browsers Iceweasel 31 ESR and Chromium 38 
+ * !LibreOffice 4.3.3
+ * GOsa 2.7.4
+ * LTSP 5.5.4
+ * CUPS print system 1.7.5
+ * new boot framework: systemd
+ * Educational toolbox GCompris 14.07 
+ * Music creator Rosegarden 14.02
+ * Image editor Gimp 2.8.14
+ * Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.13.0
+ * golearn 0.9
+ * tuxpaint 0.9.22
+ * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie.
+ * Debian Jessie includes about 42000 packages available for
+   installation.
+ * More information about Debian Jessie 8.0 is provided in the release
+   notes[6] and the installation manual[7].
+
+ [6] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
+ [7] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
+
+Fixed bugs
+----------
+
+ * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break
+   DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect
+   information is corrected (Debian bug #710362)
+ * and many others.
+
+Documentation and translation updates
+------------------------------------- 
+
+ * The Debian Edu Jessie Manual is fully translated to German, French,
+   Italian, Danish and Dutch. Partly translated versions exist for
+   Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.
+
+Other changes
+-------------
+
+ * Due to new Squid settings, powering off or rebooting the main
+   server takes more time.
+ * To manage printers localhost:631 has to be used, currently www:631
+   doesn&#39;t work.
+
+Regressions / known problems
+----------------------------
+
+ * Installing LTSP chroot fails with a bug related to eatmydata about
+   exim4-config failing to run its postinst (see Debian bug #765694
+   and Debian bug #762103).
+ * Munin collection is not properly configured on clients (Debian bug
+   #764594).  The fix is available in a newer version of munin-node.
+ * PXE setup for Main Server and Thin Client Server setup does not
+   work when installing on a machine without direct Internet access.
+   Will be fixed when Debian bug #766960 is fixed in Jessie.

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-[s3c]
-storage-url: s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name
-backend-login: API-login
-backend-password: API-password
-fs-passphrase: local-password
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+See the status page[8] for the complete list.

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;I create my local passphrase using &lt;tt&gt;pwget 50&lt;/tt&gt; or similar,
-but any sensible way to create a fairly random password should do it.
-Armed with these details, it is now time to run mkfs, entering the API
-details and password to create it:&lt;/p&gt;
+ [8] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie&quot;&gt;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-# mkdir -m 700 /var/lib/s3ql-cache
-# mkfs.s3ql --cachedir /var/lib/s3ql-cache --authfile /root/.s3ql/authinfo2 \
-  --ssl s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name
-Enter backend login: 
-Enter backend password: 
-Before using S3QL, make sure to read the user&#39;s guide, especially
-the &#39;Important Rules to Avoid Loosing Data&#39; section.
-Enter encryption password: 
-Confirm encryption password: 
-Generating random encryption key...
-Creating metadata tables...
-Dumping metadata...
-..objects..
-..blocks..
-..inodes..
-..inode_blocks..
-..symlink_targets..
-..names..
-..contents..
-..ext_attributes..
-Compressing and uploading metadata...
-Wrote 0.00 MB of compressed metadata.
-# &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The next step is mounting the file system to make the storage available.
+How to report bugs
+------------------
+
+&amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-# mount.s3ql --cachedir /var/lib/s3ql-cache --authfile /root/.s3ql/authinfo2 \
-  --ssl --allow-root s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name /s3ql
-Using 4 upload threads.
-Downloading and decompressing metadata...
-Reading metadata...
-..objects..
-..blocks..
-..inodes..
-..inode_blocks..
-..symlink_targets..
-..names..
-..contents..
-..ext_attributes..
-Mounting filesystem...
-# df -h /s3ql
-Filesystem                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
-s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name  1.0T     0  1.0T   0% /s3ql
-#
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+About Debian
+============

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The file system is now ready for use.  I use rsync to store my
-backups in it, and as the metadata used by rsync is downloaded at
-mount time, no network traffic (and storage cost) is triggered by
-running rsync.  To unmount, one should not use the normal umount
-command, as this will not flush the cache to the cloud storage, but
-instead running the umount.s3ql command like this:
+The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
+free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
+the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
+volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
+maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a
+huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal
+operating system.

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-# umount.s3ql /s3ql
-# 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+Contact Information
+For further information, please visit the Debian web pages[9] or send
+mail to press@debian.org.

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;There is a fsck command available to check the file system and
-correct any problems detected.  This can be used if the local server
-crashes while the file system is mounted, to reset the &quot;already
-mounted&quot; flag.  This is what it look like when processing a working
-file system:&lt;/p&gt;
+ [9] &amp;lt;URL: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>I spent last weekend recording MakerCon Nordic</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_spent_last_weekend_recording_MakerCon_Nordic.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_spent_last_weekend_recording_MakerCon_Nordic.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I spent last weekend at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.makercon.no/&quot;&gt;Makercon
+Nordic&lt;/a&gt;, a great conference and workshop for makers in Norway and
+the surrounding countries.  I had volunteered on behalf of the
+Norwegian Unix Users Group (NUUG) to video record the talks, and we
+had a great and exhausting time recording the entire day, two days in
+a row.  There were only two of us, Hans-Petter and me, and we used the
+regular video equipment for NUUG, with a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/wiki/&quot;&gt;dvswitch&lt;/a&gt;, a
+camera and a VGA to DV convert box, and mixed video and slides
+live.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Hans-Petter did the post-processing, consisting of uploading the
+around 180 GiB of raw video to Youtube, and the result is
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/&quot;&gt;now becoming
+public&lt;/a&gt; on the MakerConNordic account.  The videos have the license
+NUUG always use on our recordings, which is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/&quot;&gt;Creative
+Commons Navngivelse-Del på samme vilkår 3.0 Norge&lt;/a&gt;.  Many great
+talks available.  Check it out! :)&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>listadmin, the quick way to moderate mailman lists - nice free software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/listadmin__the_quick_way_to_moderate_mailman_lists___nice_free_software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/listadmin__the_quick_way_to_moderate_mailman_lists___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;If you ever had to moderate a mailman list, like the ones on
+alioth.debian.org, you know the web interface is fairly slow to
+operate.  First you visit one web page, enter the moderation password
+and get a new page shown with a list of all the messages to moderate
+and various options for each email address.  This take a while for
+every list you moderate, and you need to do it regularly to do a good
+job as a list moderator.  But there is a quick alternative,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://heim.ifi.uio.no/kjetilho/hacks/#listadmin&quot;&gt;the
+listadmin program&lt;/a&gt;.  It allow you to check lists for new messages
+to moderate in a fraction of a second.  Here is a test run on two
+lists I recently took over:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

-# fsck.s3ql --force --ssl s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name
-Using cached metadata.
-File system seems clean, checking anyway.
-Checking DB integrity...
-Creating temporary extra indices...
-Checking lost+found...
-Checking cached objects...
-Checking names (refcounts)...
-Checking contents (names)...
-Checking contents (inodes)...
-Checking contents (parent inodes)...
-Checking objects (reference counts)...
-Checking objects (backend)...
-..processed 5000 objects so far..
-..processed 10000 objects so far..
-..processed 15000 objects so far..
-Checking objects (sizes)...
-Checking blocks (referenced objects)...
-Checking blocks (refcounts)...
-Checking inode-block mapping (blocks)...
-Checking inode-block mapping (inodes)...
-Checking inodes (refcounts)...
-Checking inodes (sizes)...
-Checking extended attributes (names)...
-Checking extended attributes (inodes)...
-Checking symlinks (inodes)...
-Checking directory reachability...
-Checking unix conventions...
-Checking referential integrity...
-Dropping temporary indices...
-Backing up old metadata...
-Dumping metadata...
-..objects..
-..blocks..
-..inodes..
-..inode_blocks..
-..symlink_targets..
-..names..
-..contents..
-..ext_attributes..
-Compressing and uploading metadata...
-Wrote 0.89 MB of compressed metadata.
-# 
+% time listadmin xiph
+fetching data for pkg-xiph-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org ... nothing in queue
+fetching data for pkg-xiph-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org ... nothing in queue
+
+real    0m1.709s
+user    0m0.232s
+sys     0m0.012s
+%

 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the cache, working on files that fit in the cache is very
-quick, about the same speed as local file access.  Uploading large
-amount of data is to me limited by the bandwidth out of and into my
-house.  Uploading 685 MiB with a 100 MiB cache gave me 305 kiB/s,
-which is very close to my upload speed, and downloading the same
-Debian installation ISO gave me 610 kiB/s, close to my download speed.
-Both were measured using &lt;tt&gt;dd&lt;/tt&gt;.  So for me, the bottleneck is my
-network, not the file system code.  I do not know what a good cache
-size would be, but suspect that the cache should e larger than your
-working set.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I mentioned that only one machine can mount the file system at the
-time.  If another machine try, it is told that the file system is
-busy:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In 1.7 seconds I had checked two mailing lists and confirmed that
+there are no message in the moderation queue.  Every morning I
+currently moderate 68 mailman lists, and it normally take around two
+minutes.  When I took over the two pkg-xiph lists above a few days
+ago, there were 400 emails waiting in the moderator queue.  It took me
+less than 15 minutes to process them all using the listadmin
+program.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you install
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/listadmin&quot;&gt;the listadmin
+package&lt;/a&gt; from Debian and create a file &lt;tt&gt;~/.listadmin.ini&lt;/tt&gt;
+with content like this, the moderation task is a breeze:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

-# mount.s3ql --cachedir /var/lib/s3ql-cache --authfile /root/.s3ql/authinfo2 \
-  --ssl --allow-root s3c://s.greenqloud.com:443/bucket-name /s3ql
-Using 8 upload threads.
-Backend reports that fs is still mounted elsewhere, aborting.
-#
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+username username@example.org
+spamlevel 23
+default discard
+discard_if_reason &quot;Posting restricted to members only. Remove us from your mail list.&quot;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The file content is uploaded when the cache is full, while the
-metadata is uploaded once every 24 hour by default.  To ensure the
-file system content is flushed to the cloud, one can either umount the
-file system, or ask S3QL to flush the cache and metadata using
-s3qlctrl:
+password secret
+adminurl https://{domain}/mailman/admindb/{list}
+mailman-list@lists.example.com

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-# s3qlctrl upload-meta /s3ql
-# s3qlctrl flushcache /s3ql
-# 
+password hidden
+other-list@otherserver.example.org

 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;If you are curious about how much space your data uses in the
-cloud, and how much compression and deduplication cut down on the
-storage usage, you can use s3qlstat on the mounted file system to get
-a report:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;There are other options to set as well.  Check the manual page to
+learn the details.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you are forced to moderate lists on a mailman installation where
+the SSL certificate is self signed or not properly signed by a
+generally accepted signing authority, you can set a environment
+variable when calling listadmin to disable SSL verification:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

-# s3qlstat /s3ql
-Directory entries:    9141
-Inodes:               9143
-Data blocks:          8851
-Total data size:      22049.38 MB
-After de-duplication: 21955.46 MB (99.57% of total)
-After compression:    21877.28 MB (99.22% of total, 99.64% of de-duplicated)
-Database size:        2.39 MB (uncompressed)
-(some values do not take into account not-yet-uploaded dirty blocks in cache)
-#
+PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 listadmin

 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;I mentioned earlier that there are several possible suppliers of
-storage.  I did not try to locate them all, but am aware of at least
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.greenqloud.com/&quot;&gt;Greenqloud&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://drive.google.com/&quot;&gt;Google Drive&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://aws.amazon.com/s3/&quot;&gt;Amazon S3 web serivces&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rackspace.com/&quot;&gt;Rackspace&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://crowncloud.net/&quot;&gt;Crowncloud&lt;/A&gt;.  The latter even
-accept payment in Bitcoin.  Pick one that suit your need.  Some of
-them provide several GiB of free storage, but the prize models are
-quite different and you will have to figure out what suits you
-best.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;While researching this blog post, I had a look at research papers
-and posters discussing the S3QL file system.  There are several, which
-told me that the file system is getting a critical check by the
-science community and increased my confidence in using it.  One nice
-poster is titled
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/adtsc/publications/science_highlights_2013/docs/pg68_69.pdf&quot;&gt;An
-Innovative Parallel Cloud Storage System using OpenStack’s SwiftObject
-Store and Transformative Parallel I/O Approach&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Hsing-Bung
-Chen, Benjamin McClelland, David Sherrill, Alfred Torrez, Parks Fields
-and Pamela Smith.  Please  have a look.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Given my problems with different file systems earlier, I decided to
-check out the mounted S3QL file system to see if it would be usable as
-a home directory (in other word, that it provided POSIX semantics when
-it come to locking and umask handling etc).  Running
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html&quot;&gt;my
-test code to check file system semantics&lt;/a&gt;, I was happy to discover that
-no error was found.  So the file system can be used for home
-directories, if one chooses to do so.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you do not want a locally file system, and want something that
-work without the Linux fuse file system, I would like to mention the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tarsnap.com/&quot;&gt;Tarsnap service&lt;/a&gt;, which also
-provide locally encrypted backup using a command line client.  It have
-a nicer access control system, where one can split out read and write
-access, allowing some systems to write to the backup and others to
-only read from it.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to moderate a subset of the lists you take care of, you
+can provide an argument to the listadmin script like I do in the
+initial screen dump (the xiph argument).  Using an argument, only
+lists matching the argument string will be processed.  This make it
+quick to accept messages if you notice the moderation request in your
+email.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Without the listadmin program, I would never be the moderator of 68
+mailing lists, as I simply do not have time to spend on that if the
+process was any slower. The listadmin program have saved me hours of
+time I could spend elsewhere over the years.  It truly is nice free
+software.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&amp;label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&amp;label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

+
+&lt;p&gt;Update 2014-10-27: Added missing &#39;username&#39; statement in
+configuration example.  Also, I&#39;ve been told that the
+PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 setting do not work for everyone.  Not
+sure why.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>EU-domstolen bekreftet i dag at datalagringsdirektivet er ulovlig</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_bekreftet_i_dag_at_datalagringsdirektivet_er_ulovlig.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_bekreftet_i_dag_at_datalagringsdirektivet_er_ulovlig.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2014 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag kom endelig avgjørelsen fra EU-domstolen om
-datalagringsdirektivet, som ikke overraskende ble dømt ulovlig og i
-strid med borgernes grunnleggende rettigheter.  Hvis du lurer på hva
-datalagringsdirektivet er for noe, så er det
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://tv.nrk.no/program/koid75005313/tema-dine-digitale-spor-datalagringsdirektivet&quot;&gt;en
-flott dokumentar tilgjengelig hos NRK&lt;/a&gt; som jeg tidligere
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dokumentaren_om_Datalagringsdirektivet_sendes_endelig_p__NRK.html&quot;&gt;har
-anbefalt&lt;/a&gt; alle å se.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Her er et liten knippe nyhetsoppslag om saken, og jeg regner med at
-det kommer flere ut over dagen.  Flere kan finnes
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mylder.no/?drill=datalagringsdirektivet&amp;intern=1&quot;&gt;via
-mylder&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://e24.no/digital/eu-domstolen-datalagringsdirektivet-er-ugyldig/22879592&quot;&gt;EU-domstolen:
-Datalagringsdirektivet er ugyldig&lt;/a&gt; - e24.no 2014-04-08
+               <title>Debian Jessie, PXE and automatic firmware installation</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Jessie__PXE_and_automatic_firmware_installation.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Jessie__PXE_and_automatic_firmware_installation.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;When PXE installing laptops with Debian, I often run into the
+problem that the WiFi card require some firmware to work properly.
+And it has been a pain to fix this using preseeding in Debian.
+Normally something more is needed.  But thanks to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://packages.qa.debian.org/i/isenkram.html&quot;&gt;my isenkram
+package&lt;/a&gt; and its recent tasksel extension, it has now become easy
+to do this using simple preseeding.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The isenkram-cli package provide tasksel tasks which will install
+firmware for the hardware found in the machine (actually, requested by
+the kernel modules for the hardware).  (It can also install user space
+programs supporting the hardware detected, but that is not the focus
+of this story.)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To get this working in the default installation, two preeseding
+values are needed.  First, the isenkram-cli package must be installed
+into the target chroot (aka the hard drive) before tasksel is executed
+in the pkgsel step of the debian-installer system.  This is done by
+preseeding the base-installer/includes debconf value to include the
+isenkram-cli package.  The package name is next passed to debootstrap
+for installation.  With the isenkram-cli package in place, tasksel
+will automatically use the isenkram tasks to detect hardware specific
+packages for the machine being installed and install them, because
+isenkram-cli contain tasksel tasks.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Second, one need to enable the non-free APT repository, because
+most firmware unfortunately is non-free.  This is done by preseeding
+the apt-mirror-setup step.  This is unfortunate, but for a lot of
+hardware it is the only option in Debian.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The end result is two lines needed in your preseeding file to get
+firmware installed automatically by the installer:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/EU-domstolen-Datalagringsdirektivet-er-ulovlig-7529032.html&quot;&gt;EU-domstolen:
-Datalagringsdirektivet er ulovlig&lt;/a&gt; - aftenposten.no 2014-04-08
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+base-installer base-installer/includes string isenkram-cli
+apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/non-free boolean true
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/Krever-DLD-stopp-i-Norge-7530086.html&quot;&gt;Krever
-DLD-stopp i Norge&lt;/a&gt; - aftenposten.no 2014-04-08
+&lt;p&gt;The current version of isenkram-cli in testing/jessie will install
+both firmware and user space packages when using this method.  It also
+do not work well, so use version 0.15 or later.  Installing both
+firmware and user space packages might give you a bit more than you
+want, so I decided to split the tasksel task in two, one for firmware
+and one for user space programs.  The firmware task is enabled by
+default, while the one for user space programs is not.  This split is
+implemented in the package currently in unstable.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.p4.no/story.aspx?id=566431&quot;&gt;Apenes: - En
-gledens dag&lt;/a&gt; - p4.no 2014-04-08
+&lt;p&gt;If you decide to give this a go, please let me know (via email) how
+this recipe work for you. :)&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/norge/_-datalagringsdirektivet-er-ugyldig-1.11655929&quot;&gt;EU-domstolen:
-– Datalagringsdirektivet er ugyldig&lt;/a&gt; - nrk.no 2014-04-08&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;So, I bet you are wondering, how can this work.  First and
+foremost, it work because tasksel is modular, and driven by whatever
+files it find in /usr/lib/tasksel/ and /usr/share/tasksel/.  So the
+isenkram-cli package place two files for tasksel to find.  First there
+is the task description file (/usr/share/tasksel/descs/isenkram.desc):&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/data-og-nett/eu-domstolen-datalagringsdirektivet-er-ugyldig/a/10130280/&quot;&gt;EU-domstolen:
-Datalagringsdirektivet er ugyldig&lt;/a&gt; - vg.no 2014-04-08&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+Task: isenkram-packages
+Section: hardware
+Description: Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)
+ Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific packages are
+ proposed.
+Test-new-install: show show
+Relevance: 8
+Packages: for-current-hardware
+
+Task: isenkram-firmware
+Section: hardware
+Description: Hardware specific firmware packages (autodetected by isenkram)
+ Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific firmware
+ packages are proposed.
+Test-new-install: mark show
+Relevance: 8
+Packages: for-current-hardware-firmware
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/04/08/nyheter/innenriks/datalagringsdirektivet/personvern/32711646/&quot;&gt;-
-Vi bør skrote hele datalagringsdirektivet&lt;/a&gt; - dagbladet.no
-2014-04-08&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The key parts are Test-new-install which indicate how the task
+should be handled and the Packages line referencing to a script in
+/usr/lib/tasksel/packages/.  The scripts use other scripts to get a
+list of packages to install.  The for-current-hardware-firmware script
+look like this to list relevant firmware for the machine:

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/928137/eu-domstolen-dld-er-ugyldig&quot;&gt;EU-domstolen:
-DLD er ugyldig&lt;/a&gt; - digi.no 2014-04-08&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH
+export PATH
+isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/european-court-declares-data-retention-directive-invalid-1.1754150&quot;&gt;European
-court declares data retention directive invalid&lt;/a&gt; - irishtimes.com
-2014-04-08&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;With those two pieces in place, the firmware is installed by
+tasksel during the normal d-i run. :)&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/08/us-eu-data-ruling-idUSBREA370F020140408?feedType=RSS&quot;&gt;EU
-court rules against requirement to keep data of telecom users&lt;/a&gt; -
-reuters.com 2014-04-08&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to test what tasksel will install when isenkram-cli is
+installed, run &lt;tt&gt;DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical tasksel --test
+--new-install&lt;/tt&gt; to get the list of packages that tasksel would
+install.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;/ul&gt;
-&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg synes det er veldig fint at nok en stemme slår fast at
-totalitær overvåkning av befolkningen er uakseptabelt, men det er
-fortsatt like viktig å beskytte privatsfæren som før, da de
-teknologiske mulighetene fortsatt finnes og utnyttes, og jeg tror
-innsats i prosjekter som
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox&quot;&gt;Freedombox&lt;/a&gt; og
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dugnadsnett.no/&quot;&gt;Dugnadsnett&lt;/a&gt; er viktigere enn
-noen gang.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2014-04-08 12:10&lt;/strong&gt;: Kronerullingen for å
-stoppe datalagringsdirektivet i Norge gjøres hos foreningen
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitaltpersonvern.no/&quot;&gt;Digitalt Personvern&lt;/a&gt;,
-som har samlet inn 843 215,- så langt men trenger nok mye mer hvis
-
-ikke Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet bytter mening i saken.  Det var
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holderdeord.no/parliament-issues/48650&quot;&gt;kun
-partinene Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet&lt;/a&gt; som stemte for
-Datalagringsdirektivet, og en av dem må bytte mening for at det skal
-bli flertall mot i Stortinget.  Se mer om saken
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holderdeord.no/issues/69-innfore-datalagringsdirektivet&quot;&gt;Holder
-de ord&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>ReactOS Windows clone - nice free software</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ReactOS_Windows_clone___nice_free_software.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ReactOS_Windows_clone___nice_free_software.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft have announced that Windows XP reaches its end of life
-2014-04-08, in 7 days.  But there are heaps of machines still running
-Windows XP, and depending on Windows XP to run their applications, and
-upgrading will be expensive, both when it comes to money and when it
-comes to the amount of effort needed to migrate from Windows XP to a
-new operating system.  Some obvious options (buy new a Windows
-machine, buy a MacOSX machine, install Linux on the existing machine)
-are already well known and covered elsewhere.  Most of them involve
-leaving the user applications installed on Windows XP behind and
-trying out replacements or updated versions. In this blog post I want
-to mention one strange bird that allow people to keep the hardware and
-the existing Windows XP applications and run them on a free software
-operating system that is Windows XP compatible.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reactos.org/&quot;&gt;ReactOS&lt;/a&gt; is a free software
-operating system (GNU GPL licensed) working on providing a operating
-system that is binary compatible with Windows, able to run windows
-programs directly and to use Windows drivers for hardware directly.
-The project goal is for Windows user to keep their existing machines,
-drivers and software, and gain the advantages from user a operating
-system without usage limitations caused by non-free licensing.  It is
-a Windows clone running directly on the hardware, so quite different
-from the approach taken by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.winehq.org/&quot;&gt;the Wine
-project&lt;/a&gt;, which make it possible to run Windows binaries on
-Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The ReactOS project share code with the Wine project, so most
-shared libraries available on Windows are already implemented already.
-There is also a software manager like the one we are used to on Linux,
-allowing the user to install free software applications with a simple
-click directly from the Internet.  Check out the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reactos.org/screenshots&quot;&gt;screen shots on the
-project web site&lt;/a&gt; for an idea what it look like (it looks just like
-Windows before metro).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I do not use ReactOS myself, preferring Linux and Unix like
-operating systems.  I&#39;ve tested it, and it work fine in a virt-manager
-virtual machine.  The browser, minesweeper, notepad etc is working
-fine as far as I can tell.  Unfortunately, my main test application
-is the software included on a CD with the Lego Mindstorms NXT, which
-seem to install just fine from CD but fail to leave any binaries on
-the disk after the installation.  So no luck with that test software.
-No idea why, but hope someone else figure out and fix the problem.
-I&#39;ve tried the ReactOS Live ISO on a physical machine, and it seemed
-to work just fine.  If you like Windows and want to keep running your
-old Windows binaries, check it out by
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reactos.org/download&quot;&gt;downloading&lt;/a&gt; the
-installation CD, the live CD or the preinstalled virtual machine
-image.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; will be
+pilots in testing this feature, as isenkram is used there now to
+install firmware, replacing the earlier scripts.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Roger Marsal</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Roger_Marsal.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Roger_Marsal.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
-keep gaining new users.  Some weeks ago, a person showed up on IRC,
-&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt;, with a
-wish to contribute, and I managed to get a interview with this great
-contributor Roger Marsal to learn more about his background.&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 Roger Marsal, I&#39;m 27 years old (1986 generation) and I
-live in Barcelona, Spain. I&#39;ve got a strong business background and I
-work as a patrimony manager and as a real estate agent.  Additionally,
-I&#39;ve co-founded a British based tech company that is nowadays on the
-last development phase of a new social networking concept.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a Linux enthusiast that started its journey with Ubuntu four years
-ago and have recently switched to Debian seeking rock solid stability
-and as a necessary step to gain expertise.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell, I spend my days working and learning as much as I
-can to face both my job, entrepreneur project and feed my Linux
-hunger.&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 discovered the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ltsp.org/&quot;&gt;LTSP&lt;/a&gt; advantages
-with &quot;Ubuntu 12.04 alternate install&quot; and after a year of use I
-started looking for an alternative.  Even though I highly value and
-respect the Ubuntu project, I thought it was necessary for me to
-change to a more robust and stable alternative.  As far as I was using
-Debian on my personal laptop I thought it would be fine to install
-Debian and configure an LTSP server myself.  Surprised, I discovered
-that the Debian project also supported a kind of Edubuntu equivalent,
-and after having some pain I obtained a Debian Edu network up and
-running.  I just loved it.&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;I found a main advantage in that, once you know &quot;the tips and
-tricks&quot;, a new installation just works out of the box. It&#39;s the most
-complete alternative I&#39;ve found to create an LTSP network. All the
-other distributions seems to be made of plastic, Debian Edu seems to
-be made of steel.&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;I found two main disadvantages.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m not an expert but I&#39;ve got notions and I had to spent a considerable
-amount of time trying to bring up a standard network topology. I&#39;m quite
-stubborn and I just worked until I did but I&#39;m sure many people with few
-resources (not big schools, but academies for example) would have switched
-or dropped.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s amazing how such a complex system like Debian Edu has achieved
-this out-of-the-box state. Even though tweaking without breaking gets
-more difficult, as more factors have to be considered. This can
-discourage many people too.&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 use Debian, Firefox, Okular, Inkscape, LibreOffice and
-Virtualbox.&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;I don&#39;t think there is a need for a particular strategy. The free
-attribute in both &quot;freedom&quot; and &quot;no price&quot; meanings is what will
-really bring free software to schools. In my experience I can think of
-the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/&quot;&gt;&quot;R&quot; statistical language&lt;/a&gt;; a
-few years a ago was an extremely nerd tool for university people.
-Today it&#39;s being increasingly used to teach statistics at many
-different level of studies.  I believe free and open software will
-increasingly gain popularity, but I&#39;m sure schools will be one of the
-first scenarios where this will happen.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Ubuntu used to show the bread prizes at ICA Storo</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ubuntu_used_to_show_the_bread_prizes_at_ICA_Storo.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ubuntu_used_to_show_the_bread_prizes_at_ICA_Storo.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today I came across an unexpected Ubuntu boot screen.  Above the
+bread shelf on the ICA shop at Storo in Oslo, the grub menu of Ubuntu
+with Linux kernel 3.2.0-23 (ie probably version 12.04 LTS) was stuck
+on a screen normally showing the bread types and prizes:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2014-10-04-ubuntu-ica-storo-crop.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If it had booted as it was supposed to, I would never had known
+about this hidden Linux installation.  It is interesting what
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://revealingerrors.com/&quot;&gt;errors can reveal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Dokumentaren om Datalagringsdirektivet sendes endelig på NRK</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dokumentaren_om_Datalagringsdirektivet_sendes_endelig_p__NRK.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dokumentaren_om_Datalagringsdirektivet_sendes_endelig_p__NRK.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Foreningen NUUG&lt;/a&gt; melder i natt at
-NRK nå har bestemt seg for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/NRK_viser_filmen_om_Datalagringsdirektivet_f_rste_gang_2014_03_31.shtml&quot;&gt;når
-den norske dokumentarfilmen om datalagringsdirektivet skal
-sendes&lt;/a&gt; (se &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2832844/&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;
-for detaljer om filmen) . Første visning blir på NRK2 mandag
-2014-03-31 kl. 19:50, og deretter visninger onsdag 2014-04-02
-kl. 12:30, fredag 2014-04-04 kl. 19:40 og søndag 2014-04-06 kl. 15:10.
-Jeg har sett dokumentaren, og jeg anbefaler enhver å se den selv.  Som
-oppvarming mens vi venter anbefaler jeg Bjørn Stærks kronikk i
-Aftenposten fra i går,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Autoritar-gjokunge-7514915.html&quot;&gt;Autoritær
-gjøkunge&lt;/a&gt;, der han gir en grei skisse av hvor ille det står til med
-retten til privatliv og beskyttelsen av demokrati i Norge og resten
-verden, og helt riktig slår fast at det er vi i databransjen som
-sitter med nøkkelen til å gjøre noe med dette.  Jeg har involvert meg
-i prosjektene &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dugnadsnett.no/&quot;&gt;dugnadsnett.no&lt;/a&gt;
-og &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox&quot;&gt;FreedomBox&lt;/a&gt; for å
-forsøke å gjøre litt selv for å bedre situasjonen, men det er mye
-hardt arbeid fra mange flere enn meg som gjenstår før vi kan sies å ha
-gjenopprettet balansen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg regner med at nettutgaven dukker opp på
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://tv.nrk.no/program/koid75005313/tema-dine-digitale-spor-datalagringsdirektivet&quot;&gt;NRKs
-side om filmen om datalagringsdirektivet&lt;/a&gt; om fem dager.  Hold et
-øye med siden, og tips venner og slekt om at de også bør se den.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>New lsdvd release version 0.17 is ready</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_lsdvd_release_version_0_17_is_ready.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_lsdvd_release_version_0_17_is_ready.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 4 Oct 2014 08:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/&quot;&gt;lsdvd project&lt;/a&gt;
+got a new set of developers a few weeks ago, after the original
+developer decided to step down and pass the project to fresh blood.
+This project is now maintained by Petter Reinholdtsen and Steve
+Dibb.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I just wrapped up
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/mailman/message/32896061/&quot;&gt;a
+new lsdvd release&lt;/a&gt;, available in git or from
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/files/lsdvd/&quot;&gt;the
+download page&lt;/a&gt;.  This is the changelog dated 2014-10-03 for version
+0.17.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+ &lt;li&gt;Ignore &#39;phantom&#39; audio, subtitle tracks&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Check for garbage in the program chains, which indicate that a track is
+   non-existant, to work around additional copy protection&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Fix displaying content type for audio tracks, subtitles&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Fix pallete display of first entry&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Fix include orders&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Ignore read errors in titles that would not be displayed anyway&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Fix the chapter count&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Make sure the array size and the array limit used when initialising
+   the palette size is the same.&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Fix array printing.&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Correct subsecond calculations.&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Add sector information to the output format.&lt;/li&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Clean up code to be closer to ANSI C and compile without warnings
+   with more GCC compiler warnings.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This change bring together patches for lsdvd in use in various
+Linux and Unix distributions, as well as patches submitted to the
+project the last nine years.  Please check it out. :)&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Public Trusted Timestamping services for everyone</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Public_Trusted_Timestamping_services_for_everyone.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Public_Trusted_Timestamping_services_for_everyone.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Did you ever need to store logs or other files in a way that would
-allow it to be used as evidence in court, and needed a way to
-demonstrate without reasonable doubt that the file had not been
-changed since it was created?  Or, did you ever need to document that
-a given document was received at some point in time, like some
-archived document or the answer to an exam, and not changed after it
-was received?  The problem in these settings is to remove the need to
-trust yourself and your computers, while still being able to prove
-that a file is the same as it was at some given time in the past.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A solution to these problems is to have a trusted third party
-&quot;stamp&quot; the document and verify that at some given time the document
-looked a given way.  Such
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notarius&quot;&gt;notarius&lt;/a&gt; service
-have been around for thousands of years, and its digital equivalent is
-called a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping&quot;&gt;trusted
-timestamping service&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ietf.org/&quot;&gt;The Internet
-Engineering Task Force&lt;/a&gt; standardised how such service could work a
-few years ago as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3161&quot;&gt;RFC
-3161&lt;/a&gt;.  The mechanism is simple.  Create a hash of the file in
-question, send it to a trusted third party which add a time stamp to
-the hash and sign the result with its private key, and send back the
-signed hash + timestamp.  Both email, FTP and HTTP can be used to
-request such signature, depending on what is provided by the service
-used. Anyone with the document and the signature can then verify that
-the document matches the signature by creating their own hash and
-checking the signature using the trusted third party public key.
-There are several commercial services around providing such
-timestamping.  A quick search for
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rfc+3161+service&quot;&gt;rfc 3161
-service&lt;/a&gt;&quot; pointed me to at least
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.digistamp.com/technical/how-a-digital-time-stamp-works/&quot;&gt;DigiStamp&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quovadisglobal.co.uk/CertificateServices/SigningServices/TimeStamp.aspx&quot;&gt;Quo
-Vadis&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.globalsign.com/timestamp-service/&quot;&gt;Global Sign&lt;/a&gt;
-and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.globaltrustfinder.com/TSADefault.aspx&quot;&gt;Global
-Trust Finder&lt;/a&gt;.  The system work as long as the private key of the
-trusted third party is not compromised.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But as far as I can tell, there are very few public trusted
-timestamp services available for everyone.  I&#39;ve been looking for one
-for a while now. But yesterday I found one over at
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pki.dfn.de/zeitstempeldienst/&quot;&gt;Deutches
-Forschungsnetz&lt;/a&gt; mentioned in
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.d-mueller.de/blog/dealing-with-trusted-timestamps-in-php-rfc-3161/&quot;&gt;a
-blog by David Müller&lt;/a&gt;.  I then found
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rz.uni-greifswald.de/support/dfn-pki-zertifikate/zeitstempeldienst.html&quot;&gt;a
-good recipe on how to use the service&lt;/a&gt; over at the University of
-Greifswald.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openssl.org/&quot;&gt;The OpenSSL library&lt;/a&gt; contain
-both server and tools to use and set up your own signing service.  See
-the ts(1SSL), tsget(1SSL) manual pages for more details.  The
-following shell script demonstrate how to extract a signed timestamp
-for any file on the disk in a Debian environment:&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>How to test Debian Edu Jessie despite some fatal problems with the installer</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_Debian_Edu_Jessie_despite_some_fatal_problems_with_the_installer.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_Debian_Edu_Jessie_despite_some_fatal_problems_with_the_installer.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project&lt;/a&gt; provide a Linux solution for schools, including a
+powerful desktop with education software, a central server providing
+web pages, user database, user home directories, central login and PXE
+boot of both  clients without disk and the installation to install Debian
+Edu on machines with disk (and a few other services perhaps to small
+to mention here).  We in the Debian Edu team are currently working on
+the Jessie based version, trying to get everything in shape before the
+freeze, to avoid having to maintain our own package repository in the
+future.  The
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie&quot;&gt;current
+status&lt;/a&gt; can be seen on the Debian wiki, and there is still heaps of
+work left.  Some fatal problems block testing, breaking the installer,
+but it is possible to work around these to get anyway.  Here is a
+recipe on how to get the installation limping along.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;First, download the test ISO via
+&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso&quot;&gt;ftp&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso&quot;&gt;http&lt;/a&gt;
+or rsync (use
+ftp.skolelinux.org::cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso).
+The ISO build was broken on Tuesday, so we do not get a new ISO every
+12 hours or so, but thankfully the ISO we already got we are able to
+install with some tweaking.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When you get to the Debian Edu profile question, go to tty2
+(use Alt-Ctrl-F2), run&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;

-#!/bin/sh
-set -e
-url=&quot;http://zeitstempel.dfn.de&quot;
-caurl=&quot;https://pki.pca.dfn.de/global-services-ca/pub/cacert/chain.txt&quot;
-reqfile=$(mktemp -t tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.tsq)
-resfile=$(mktemp -t tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.tsr)
-cafile=chain.txt
-if [ ! -f $cafile ] ; then
-    wget -O $cafile &quot;$caurl&quot;
-fi
-openssl ts -query -data &quot;$1&quot; -cert | tee &quot;$reqfile&quot; \
-    | /usr/lib/ssl/misc/tsget -h &quot;$url&quot; -o &quot;$resfile&quot;
-openssl ts -reply -in &quot;$resfile&quot; -text 1&gt;&amp;2
-openssl ts -verify -data &quot;$1&quot; -in &quot;$resfile&quot; -CAfile &quot;$cafile&quot; 1&gt;&amp;2
-base64 &lt; &quot;$resfile&quot;
-rm &quot;$reqfile&quot; &quot;$resfile&quot;
+nano /usr/bin/edu-eatmydata-install

 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;The argument to the script is the file to timestamp, and the output
-is a base64 encoded version of the signature to STDOUT and details
-about the signature to STDERR.  Note that due to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742553&quot;&gt;a bug
-in the tsget script&lt;/a&gt;, you might need to modify the included script
-and remove the last line.  Or just write your own HTTP uploader using
-curl. :) Now you too can prove and verify that files have not been
-changed.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But the Internet need more public trusted timestamp services.
-Perhaps something for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uninett.no/&quot;&gt;Uninett&lt;/a&gt; or
-my work place the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;University of Oslo&lt;/a&gt;
-to set up?&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Video DVD reader library / python-dvdvideo - nice free software</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Video_DVD_reader_library___python_dvdvideo___nice_free_software.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Video_DVD_reader_library___python_dvdvideo___nice_free_software.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Keeping your DVD collection safe from scratches and curious
-children fingers while still having it available when you want to see a
-movie is not straight forward.  My preferred method at the moment is
-to store a full copy of the ISO on a hard drive, and use VLC, Popcorn
-Hour or other useful players to view the resulting file.  This way the
-subtitles and bonus material are still available and using the ISO is
-just like inserting the original DVD record in the DVD player.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Earlier I used dd for taking security copies, but it do not handle
-DVDs giving read errors (which are quite a few of them).  I&#39;ve also
-tried using
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ripping_problematic_DVDs_using_dvdbackup_and_genisoimage.html&quot;&gt;dvdbackup
-and genisoimage&lt;/a&gt;, but these days I use the marvellous python library
-and program
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bblank.thinkmo.de/blog/new-software-python-dvdvideo&quot;&gt;python-dvdvideo&lt;/a&gt;
-written by Bastian Blank.  It is
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-dvdvideo.html&quot;&gt;in Debian
-already&lt;/a&gt; and the binary package name is python3-dvdvideo. Instead
-of trying to read every block from the DVD, it parses the file
-structure and figure out which block on the DVD is actually in used,
-and only read those blocks from the DVD.  This work surprisingly well,
-and I have been able to almost backup my entire DVD collection using
-this method.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;So far, python-dvdvideo have failed on between 10 and
-20 DVDs, which is a small fraction of my collection.  The most common
-problem is
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720831&quot;&gt;DVDs
-using UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 characters&lt;/a&gt;, which according to
-Bastian is against the DVD specification (and seem to cause some
-players to fail too).  A rarer problem is what seem to be inconsistent
-DVD structures, as the python library
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723079&quot;&gt;claim
-there is a overlap between objects&lt;/a&gt;.  An equally rare problem claim
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741878&quot;&gt;some
-value is out of range&lt;/a&gt;.  No idea what is going on there.  I wish I
-knew enough about the DVD format to fix these, to ensure my movie
-collection will stay with me in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;So, if you need to keep your DVDs safe, back them up using
-python-dvdvideo. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;and add &#39;exit 0&#39; as the second line, disabling the eatmydata
+optimization.  Return to the installation, select the profile you want
+and continue.  Without this change, exim4-config will fail to install
+due to a known bug in eatmydata.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When you get the grub question at the end, answer /dev/sda (or if
+this do not work, figure out what your correct value would be.  All my
+test machines need /dev/sda, so I have no advice if it do not fit
+your need.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you installed a profile including a graphical desktop, log in as
+root after the initial boot from hard drive, and install the
+education-desktop-XXX metapackage.  XXX can be kde, gnome, lxde, xfce
+or mate.  If you want several desktop options, install more than one
+metapackage.  Once this is done, reboot and you should have a working
+graphical login screen.  This workaround should no longer be needed
+once the education-tasks package version 1.801 enter testing in two
+days.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I believe the ISO build will start working on two days when the new
+tasksel package enter testing and Steve McIntyre get a chance to
+update the debian-cd git repository.  The eatmydata, grub and desktop
+issues are already fixed in unstable and testing, and should show up
+on the ISO as soon as the ISO build start working again.  Well the
+eatmydata optimization is really just disabled.  The proper fix
+require an upload by the eatmydata maintainer applying the patch
+provided in bug &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/702711&quot;&gt;#702711&lt;/a&gt;.
+The rest have proper fixes in unstable.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I hope this get you going with the installation testing, as we are
+quickly running out of time trying to get our Jessie based
+installation ready before the distribution freeze in a month.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow på trappene</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow_p__trappene.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow_p__trappene.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Det offentlige Norge har mye kunnskap og informasjon.  Men hvordan
-kan en få tilgang til den på en enkel måte?  Takket være et lite
-knippe lover og tilhørende forskrifter, blant annet
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2006-05-19-16&quot;&gt;offentlighetsloven&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-05-09-31&quot;&gt;miljøinformasjonsloven&lt;/a&gt;
-og
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1967-02-10/&quot;&gt;forvaltningsloven&lt;/a&gt;
-har en rett til å spørre det offentlige og få svar.  Men det finnes
-intet offentlig arkiv over hva andre har spurt om, og dermed risikerer en
-å måtte forstyrre myndighetene gang på gang for å få tak i samme
-informasjonen på nytt.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/&quot;&gt;Britiske
-mySociety&lt;/a&gt; har laget tjenesten
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/&quot;&gt;WhatDoTheyKnow&lt;/a&gt; som gjør
-noe med dette.  I Storbritannia blir WhatdoTheyKnow brukt i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/2011/07/01/whatdotheyknows-share-of-central-government-foi-requests-q2-2011/&quot;&gt;ca
-15% av alle innsynsforespørsler mot sentraladministrasjonen&lt;/a&gt;.
-Prosjektet heter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alaveteli.org/&quot;&gt;Alaveteli&lt;/A&gt;, og
-er takk i bruk en rekke steder etter at løsningen ble generalisert og
-gjort mulig å oversette.  Den hjelper borgerne med å be om innsyn,
-rådgir ved purringer og klager og lar alle se hvilke henvendelser som
-er sendt til det offentlige og hvilke svar som er kommet inn, i et
-søkpart arkiv.  Her i Norge holder vi i foreningen NUUG på å få opp en
-norsk utgave av Alaveteli, og her trenger vi din hjelp med
-oversettelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Så langt er 76 % av Alaveteli oversatt til norsk bokmål, men vi
-skulle gjerne vært oppe i 100 % før lansering.  Oversettelsen gjøres
-på &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/alaveteli/&quot;&gt;Transifex,
-der enhver som registrerer seg&lt;/a&gt; og ber om tilgang til
-bokmålsoversettelsen får bidra.  Vi har satt opp en test av tjenesten
-(som ikke sender epost til det offentlige, kun til oss som holder på å
-sette opp tjenesten) på maskinen
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://alaveteli-dev.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;alaveteli-dev.nuug.no&lt;/a&gt;, der
-en kan se hvordan de oversatte meldingen blir seende ut på nettsiden.
-Når tjenesten lanseres vil den hete
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mimesbrønn.no/&quot;&gt;Mimes brønn&lt;/a&gt;, etter
-visdomskilden som Odin måtte gi øyet sitt for å få drikke i.  Den
-nettsiden er er ennå ikke klar til bruk.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hvis noen vil oversette til nynorsk også, så skal vi finne ut
-hvordan vi lager en flerspråklig tjeneste.  Men i første omgang er
-fokus på bokmålsoversettelsen, der vi selv har nok peiling til å ha
-fått oversatt 76%, men trenger hjelp for å komme helt i mål. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Suddenly I am the new upstream of the lsdvd command line tool</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Suddenly_I_am_the_new_upstream_of_the_lsdvd_command_line_tool.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Suddenly_I_am_the_new_upstream_of_the_lsdvd_command_line_tool.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/&quot;&gt;lsdvd tool&lt;/a&gt;
+to handle my fairly large DVD collection.  It is a nice command line
+tool to get details about a DVD, like title, tracks, track length,
+etc, in XML, Perl or human readable format.  But lsdvd have not seen
+any new development since 2006 and had a few irritating bugs affecting
+its use with some DVDs.  Upstream seemed to be dead, and in January I
+sent a small probe asking for a version control repository for the
+project, without any reply.  But I use it regularly and would like to
+get &lt;a href=&quot;https://packages.qa.debian.org/lsdvd&quot;&gt;an updated version
+into Debian&lt;/a&gt;.  So two weeks ago I tried harder to get in touch with
+the project admin, and after getting a reply from him explaining that
+he was no longer interested in the project, I asked if I could take
+over.  And yesterday, I became project admin.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been in touch with a Gentoo developer and the Debian
+maintainer interested in joining forces to maintain the upstream
+project, and I hope we can get a new release out fairly quickly,
+collecting the patches spread around on the internet into on place.
+I&#39;ve added the relevant Debian patches to the freshly created git
+repository, and expect the Gentoo patches to make it too.  If you got
+a DVD collection and care about command line tools, check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/git/ci/master/tree/&quot;&gt;the git source&lt;/a&gt; and join
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/mailman/&quot;&gt;the project mailing
+list&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;

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