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-               <title>Skolelinux er laget for sentraldrifting, naturligvis</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_er_laget_for_sentraldrifting__naturligvis.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>TED talks på norsk og NUUG-foredrag - frivillige trengs til teksting</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TED_talks_p___norsk_og_NUUG_foredrag___frivillige_trengs_til_teksting.html</link>
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+                <pubDate>Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>

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-&lt;p&gt;Det er merkelig hvordan myter om Skolelinux overlever.  En slik
-myte er at Skolelinux ikke kan sentraldriftes og ha sentralt plasserte
-tjenermaskiner.  I siste Computerworld Norge er
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article169432.ece&quot;&gt;IT-sjef
-Viggo Billdal i Steinkjer intervjuet&lt;/a&gt;, og forteller uten
-blygsel:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vi hadde Skolelinux, men det har vi sluttet med. Vi testet
-om det lønte seg med Microsoft eller en åpen plattform. Vi fant ut at
-Microsoft egentlig var totalt sett bedre egnet. Det var store
-driftskostnader med Skolelinux, blant annet på grunn av
-desentraliserte servere. Det var komplisert, så vi gikk vekk fra det
-og bruker nå bare Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;En &lt;a
-href=&quot;https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/bruker/2010-June/009101.html&quot;&gt;rask
-sjekk&lt;/a&gt; mot den norske brukerlista i Skolelinuxprosjektet forteller
-at Steinkjers forsøk foregikk fram til 2004/2005, og at Røysing skole
-i Steinkjer skal ha vært svært fornøyd med Skolelinux men at kommunen
-overkjørte skolen og krevde at de gikk over til Windows.  Et søk på
-nettet sendte meg til
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dn.no/multimedia/archive/00090/Dagens_it_nr__18_90826a.pdf&quot;&gt;Dagens
-IT nr. 18 2005&lt;/a&gt; hvor en kan lese på side 18:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inge Tømmerås ved Røysing skole i Steinkjer kjører ennå
-Microsoft, men forteller at kompetanseutfordringen med Skolelinux ikke
-var så stor.  ­ Jeg syntes Skolelinux var utrolig lett å drifte uten
-forkunnskaper. Men man må jo selvsagt ha tilgang på ekstern kompetanse
-til installasjoner og maskinvarefeil, sier Tømmerås.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Som systemarkitekten bak Skolelinux, kan jeg bare riste på hodet
-over påstanden om at Skolelinux krever desentraliserte tjenere.
-Skolelinux-arkitekturen er laget for sentralisert drift og plassering
-av tjenerne lokalt eller sentralt alt etter behov og nettkapasitet.
-Den er modellert på nettverks- og tjenerløsningen som brukes på
-Universitetet i Tromsø og Oslo, der jeg jobber med utvikling av
-driftstjenester.  Dette er det heldigvis noen som har fått med seg, og
-jeg er glad for å kunne sitere fra en kommentar på den overnevnte
-artikkelen.  Min venn og gamle kollega Sturle Sunde forteller der:
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;I Flora kommune køyrer vi Skulelinux på skular med alt frå 15 til
-meir enn 500 elevar. Dei store skulane har eigen tenar, for det er
-mest praktisk. Eg, som er driftsansvarleg for heile nettet, ser
-sjeldan dei tenarane fysisk, men at dei står der gjer skulane mindre
-avhengige av eksterne linjer som er trege eller dyre. Dei minste
-skulane har ikkje eigen tenar. Å bruke sentral tenar er heller ikkje
-noko problem. Småskulane klarar seg fint med 1 mbit-linje til ein
-sentral tenar eller tenaren på ein større skule.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det beste med Skulelinux er halvtjukke klientar. Dei treng ikkje
-harddisk og brukar minimalt med ressursar på tenaren fordi dei køyrer
-programma lokalt. Eit klasserom med 30 sju-åtte år gamle maskiner har
-mykje meir CPU og RAM totalt enn nokon moderne tenar til under
-millionen. Det trengst to kommandoar på den sentrale tenaren for å
-oppdatere alle klientane, både tynne og halvtjukke. Vi har ingen
-problem med diskar som ryk heller, som var eit problem før fordi
-elevane sat og sparka i maskinene. Og dei krev lite bandbreidde i
-nettet, so det er fullt mogleg å køyre slike på småskular med trege
-linjer mot tenaren på ein større skule.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Flora kommune har nesten 800 Linux-maskiner i sitt skulenett, og
-ein person som tek seg av drift av heile nettet, inkludert tenarar,
-klientar, operativsystem, programvare, heimekontorløysing og
-administrasjon av brukarar.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;No skal det seiast at vi ikkje køyrer rein Skulelinux ut av
-boksen. Vi har gjort ein del tilpassingar mot noko Novell-greier som
-var der frå før, og som har komplisert installasjonen vår. Etter at
-oppsettet var gjort har løysinga vore stabil og kravd minimalt med
-arbeid.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg vet at Narvik, Harstad og Oslo er kommuner der Skolelinux
-sentraldriftes med sentrale tjenere.  Det forteller meg at Steinkjers
-IT-sjef neppe bør skylde på Skolelinux-løsningen for sine 5 år gamle
-minner.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Frikanalen og NUUG jobber for å få &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ted.com&quot;&gt;TED
+talks&lt;/a&gt; kringkastet på
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;, for å gi et mer
+variert innhold på kanalen som i dag sendes på RiksTV, Lyse og
+Uninett.  Før innslagene kan sendes må det lages norske undertekster,
+og dette her trengs det frivillige.  Det er hundrevis av innslag, men
+mine favoritter er
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi.html&quot;&gt;James Randi&lt;/a&gt; og
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/michael_specter_the_danger_of_science_denial.html&quot;&gt;Michael
+Specter&lt;/a&gt;.  Hvis du har litt tid til overs, bli med på å oversette
+TED-foredragene til norsk og få på plass undertekster.  TED har
+allerede opplegg på plass for å håndtere oversettelser og
+undertekster.  Registrer deg på
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ted.com/translate/forted&quot;&gt;sidene til TED&lt;/a&gt; i
+dag!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;NUUG holder også på å få alle opptakene fra NUUG-presentasjonene
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/video/frikanalen/frontpage.cgi?organization=NUUG&quot;&gt;publisert
+på Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;.  Foredrag på engelsk må også her tekstes og
+oversettes.  Ta kontakt med video@nuug.no hvis du vil bidra med
+teksting og oversetting.  Arbeidet koordineres på epostlisten og på
+IRC (#nuug-video på irc.oftc.org), og &lt;a
+href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/video/frikanalen&quot;&gt;en wikiside&lt;/a&gt;
+brukes som notatblokk for arbeidet.  Mest lovende verktøy for dette
+ser i dag ut til å være
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://universalsubtitles.org/&quot;&gt;Universal Subtitles&lt;/a&gt;, som
+lar en bidra med teksting via en nettleser.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Upstart or sysvinit - as init.d scripts see it</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Upstart_or_sysvinit___as_init_d_scripts_see_it.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>Bilkollektivet vil ha retten til å se hvor jeg kjører...</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bilkollektivet_vil_ha_retten_til____se_hvor_jeg_kj__rer___.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bilkollektivet_vil_ha_retten_til____se_hvor_jeg_kj__rer___.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:55:00 +0200</pubDate>

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-&lt;p&gt;If Debian is to migrate to upstart on Linux, I expect some init.d
-scripts to migrate (some of) their operations to upstart job while
-keeping the init.d for hurd and kfreebsd.  The packages with such
-needs will need a way to get their init.d scripts to behave
-differently when used with sysvinit and with upstart.  Because of
-this, I had a look at the environment variables set when a init.d
-script is running under upstart, and when it is not.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;With upstart, I notice these environment variables are set when a
-script is started from rcS.d/ (ignoring some irrelevant ones like
-COLUMNS):&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL=2
-previous=N
-PREVLEVEL=
-RUNLEVEL=
-runlevel=S
-UPSTART_EVENTS=startup
-UPSTART_INSTANCE=
-UPSTART_JOB=rc-sysinit
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;With sysvinit, these environment variables are set for the same
-script.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88
-previous=N
-PREVLEVEL=N
-RUNLEVEL=S
-runlevel=S
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The RUNLEVEL and PREVLEVEL environment variables passed on from
-sysvinit are not set by upstart.  Not sure if it is intentional or not
-to not be compatible with sysvinit in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For scripts needing to behave differently when upstart is used,
-looking for the UPSTART_JOB environment variable seem to be a good
-choice.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg er med i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bilkollektivet.no/&quot;&gt;Bilkollektivet&lt;/a&gt; her i Oslo,
+og har inntil i dag vært fornøyd med opplegget.  I dag kom det brev
+fra bilkollektivet, der de forteller om nytt webopplegg og nye
+rutiner, og at de har tenkt å angripe min rett til å ferdes anonymt
+som bruker av Bilkollektivet.  Det gjorde meg virkelig trist å
+lese.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Brevet datert 2010-09-16 forteller at Bilkollektivet har tenkt å gå
+over til biler med &quot;bilcomputer&quot; og innebygget sporings-GPS som lar
+administrasjonen i bilkollektivet se hvor bilene er til en hver tid,
+noe som betyr at de også kan se hvor jeg kjører når jeg bruker
+Bilkollektivet.
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Anonym_ferdsel_er_en_menneskerett.html&quot;&gt;Retten
+til å ferdes anonymt&lt;/a&gt; er som tidligere nevnt viktig for meg, og jeg
+finner det uakseptabelt å måtte godta å bli radiomerket for å kunne
+bruke bil.  Har ikke satt meg inn i hva som er historien for denne
+endringen, så jeg vet ikke om det er godkjent av
+f.eks. andelseiermøtet.  Ser at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bilkollektivet.no/bilbruksregler.26256.no.html&quot;&gt;nye
+bilbruksregler&lt;/a&gt; med følgende klausul ble vedtatt av styret
+2010-08-26:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Andelseier er med dette gjort kjent med at bilene er
+utstyrt med sporingsutstyr, som kan benyttes av Bilkollektivet til å
+spore biler som brukes utenfor gyldig reservasjon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For meg er det prinsipielt uakseptabelt av Bilkollektivet å skaffe
+seg muligheten til å se hvor jeg befinner meg, og det er underordnet
+når informasjonen blir brukt og hvem som får tilgang til den.  Får se
+om jeg har energi til å forsøke å endre planene til Bilkollektivet
+eller bare ser meg om etter alternativer.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>A manual for standards wars...</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jun 2010 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>Oppdatert kart over overvåkningskamera i Norge</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oppdatert_kart_over_overv__kningskamera_i_Norge.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oppdatert_kart_over_overv__kningskamera_i_Norge.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:50:00 +0200</pubDate>

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                <description>

-&lt;p&gt;Via the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/robweir/antic-atom/~3/QzU4RgoAGMg/weekly-links-10.html&quot;&gt;blog
-of Rob Weir&lt;/a&gt; I came across the very interesting essay named
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/wars.pdf&quot;&gt;The Art of
-Standards Wars&lt;/a&gt; (PDF 25 pages).  I recommend it for everyone
-following the standards wars of today.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;For ca. et og et halvt år siden
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kart_over_overv__kningskamera_i_Norge.html&quot;&gt;startet
+jeg på et kart over overvåkningskamera i Norge&lt;/a&gt;, i regi av
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.personvern.no/&quot;&gt;personvernforeningen&lt;/a&gt;.  Det har
+blitt oppdatert regelmessing, og jeg oppdaterte det nettopp.  Fra den
+spede start med 22 kamera registrert er det nå registrert 54 kamera.
+Det er bare en brøkdel av de kamera som finnes i Norge, men det går
+sakte men sikkert i riktig retning.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Informasjonen registreres fortsatt direkte inn i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt;, og hentes
+automatisk over i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.no/pere/surveillance-norway/&quot;&gt;spesialkartet&lt;/a&gt;
+når jeg kjører et script for å filtrere ut overvåkningskamera fra
+OSM-dumpen for Norge.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Sitesummary tip: Listing computer hardware models used at site</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>Anonym ferdsel er en menneskerett</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Anonym_ferdsel_er_en_menneskerett.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Anonym_ferdsel_er_en_menneskerett.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate>

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-&lt;p&gt;When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible
-to get a list of the machine types in use thanks to the DMI
-information extracted from each machine.  The script to do so is
-included in the sitesummary package, and here is example output from
-the Skolelinux build servers:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-maintainer:~# /usr/lib/sitesummary/hardware-model-summary
-  vendor                    count
-  Dell Computer Corporation     1
-    PowerEdge 1750              1
-  IBM                           1
-    eserver xSeries 345 -[8670M1X]-     1
-  Intel                         2
-  [no-dmi-info]                 3
-maintainer:~#
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The quality of the report depend on the quality of the DMI tables
-provided in each machine.  Here there are Intel machines without model
-information listed with Intel as vendor and mo model, and virtual Xen
-machines listed as [no-dmi-info].  One can add -l as a command line
-option to list the individual machines.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A larger list is
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://narvikskolen.no/sitesummary/&quot;&gt;available from the the
-city of Narvik&lt;/a&gt;, which uses Skolelinux on all their shools and also
-provide the basic sitesummary report publicly.  In their report there
-are ~1400 machines. I know they use both Ubuntu and Skolelinux on
-their machines, and as sitesummary is available in both distributions,
-it is trivial to get all of them to report to the same central
-collector.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Debatten rundt sporveiselskapet i Oslos (Ruter AS) ønske om
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3808135.ece&quot;&gt;å
+radiomerke med RFID&lt;/a&gt; alle sine kunder og
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/article3809746.ece&quot;&gt;registerere
+hvor hver og en av oss beveger oss&lt;/a&gt; pågår, og en ting som har
+kommet lite frem i debatten er at det faktisk er en menneskerett å
+kunne ferdes anonymt internt i ens eget land.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Fant en grei kilde for dette i et
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.datatilsynet.no/upload/Microsoft%20Word%20-%2009-01399-2%20H+%C2%A9ringsnotat%20-%20Samferdselsdepartementet%20-%20Utkas%C3%94%C3%87%C2%AA.pdf&quot;&gt;skriv
+fra Datatilsynet&lt;/a&gt; til Samferdselsdepartementet om tema:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Retten til å ferdes anonymt kan utledes av
+menneskerettskonvensjonen artikkel 8 og av EUs personverndirektiv.
+Her heter det at enkeltpersoners grunnleggende rettigheter og frihet
+må respekteres, særlig retten til privatlivets fred.  I både
+personverndirektivet og i den norske personopplysningsloven er
+selvråderetten til hver enkelt et av grunnprinsippene, hovedsaklig
+uttrykt ved at en må gi et frivillig, informert og uttrykkelig
+samtykke til behandling av personopplysninger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For meg er det viktig at jeg kan ferdes anonymt, og det er litt av
+bakgrunnen til at jeg handler med kontanter, ikke har mobiltelefon og
+forventer å kunne reise med bil og kollektivtrafikk uten at det blir
+registrert hvor jeg har vært.  Ruter angriper min rett til å ferdes
+uten radiopeiler med sin innføring av RFID-kort, og dokumenterer sitt
+ønske om å registrere hvor kundene befant seg ved å ønske å gebyrlegge
+oss som ikke registrerer oss hver gang vi beveger oss med
+kollektivtrafikken i Oslo.  Jeg synes det er hårreisende.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Togsatsing på norsk, mot sykkel</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Togsatsing_p___norsk__mot_sykkel.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Wed, 2 Jun 2010 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>Terms of use for video produced by a Canon IXUS 130 digital camera</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 9 Sep 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>

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-&lt;p&gt;Det står dårlig til med toget når en finner på å la det
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3677060.ece&quot;&gt;kappkjøre
-med sykkel&lt;/a&gt;...  Jeg tror det trengs strukturendringer for å få
-fikset på togproblemene i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I had the mixed pleasure of bying a new digital
+camera, a Canon IXUS 130.  It was instructive and very disturbing to
+be able to verify that also this camera producer have the nerve to
+specify how I can or can not use the videos produced with the camera.
+Even thought I was aware of the issue, the options with new cameras
+are limited and I ended up bying the camera anyway.  What is the
+problem, you might ask?  It is software patents, MPEG-4, H.264 and the
+MPEG-LA that is the problem, and our right to record our experiences
+without asking for permissions that is at risk.
+
+&lt;p&gt;On page 27 of the Danish instruction manual, this section is
+written:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This product is licensed under AT&amp;T patents for the MPEG-4 standard
+and may be used for encoding MPEG-4 compliant video and/or decoding
+MPEG-4 compliant video that was encoded only (1) for a personal and
+non-commercial purpose or (2) by a video provider licensed under the
+AT&amp;T patents to provide MPEG-4 compliant video.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;No license is granted or implied for any other use for MPEG-4
+standard.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Mon tro hva toglinje mellom Narvik og Tromsø ville hatt slags
-effekt på området der?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In short, the camera producer have chosen to use technology
+(MPEG-4/H.264) that is only provided if I used it for personal and
+non-commercial purposes, or ask for permission from the organisations
+holding the knowledge monopoly (patent) for technology used.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This issue has been brewing for a while, and I recommend you to
+read
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Video_Art_and_Culture_is_Threatened_by_the_MPEG-LA&quot;&gt;Why
+Our Civilization&#39;s Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the
+MPEG-LA&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Eugenia Loli-Queru and
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webmink.com/2010/09/03/h-264-and-foss/&quot;&gt;H.264 Is Not
+The Sort Of Free That Matters&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Simon Phipps to learn more about
+the issue.  The solution is to support the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition&quot;&gt;free and
+open standards&lt;/a&gt; for video, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theora.org/&quot;&gt;Ogg
+Theora&lt;/a&gt;, and avoid MPEG-4 and H.264 if you can.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>KDM fail at boot with NVidia cards - and no one try to fix it?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>Navteq bruker 3-12 måneder, OpenStreetmap.org trenger noen dager</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Navteq_bruker_3_12_m__neder__OpenStreetmap_org_trenger_noen_dager.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Navteq_bruker_3_12_m__neder__OpenStreetmap_org_trenger_noen_dager.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>

                <description>
                <description>

-&lt;p&gt;It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to
-start at boot when an NVidia video card is used is handled.  The
-problem seem to be that the nvidia X.org driver uses a long time to
-initialize, and this duration is longer than kdm is configured to
-wait.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I came across two bugs related to this issue,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/583312&quot;&gt;#583312&lt;/a&gt; initially filed
-against initscripts and passed on to nvidia-glx when it became obvious
-that the nvidia drivers were involved, and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/524751&quot;&gt;#524751&lt;/a&gt; initially filed against
-kdm and passed on to src:nvidia-graphics-drivers for unknown reasons.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To me, it seem that no-one is interested in actually solving the
-problem nvidia video card owners experience and make sure the Debian
-distribution work out of the box for these users.  The nvidia driver
-maintainers expect kdm to be set up to wait longer, while kdm expect
-the nvidia driver maintainers to fix the driver to start faster, and
-while they wait for each other I guess the users end up switching to a
-distribution that work for them.  I have no idea what the solution is,
-but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I wonder why we end up handling bugs this way.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble riktig fascinert av
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3800967.ece&quot;&gt;en
+artikkel i Aftenposten&lt;/a&gt; om hvor hardt Navteq jobber for å oppdatere
+kartene som brukes i navigasjons-GPSer, der det blant annet heter at
+&quot;på grunn av teknikken tar det alt fra tre til tolv måneder før
+kartene er oppdatert&quot;.  Når en kjenner hva slags oppdateringshastighet
+som er tilgjengelig på
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; som
+oppdateres på dugnad, blir det litt trist å se hva noe av det beste en
+kan kjøpe for penger får til.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Fra en endrer kartdataene i databasen til OpenStreetmap tar det
+ca. 15 minutter før endringen er synlig på kartet som alle kan se på
+web.  Dernest overføres det daglig til en kartdump som lastes ned av
+personen som lager Garmin-kart for Norge ca. en gang i uken.  Med
+OpenStreetmap.org og &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikart.no/&quot;&gt;Frikart.no&lt;/a&gt;
+kan en altså ha korreksjonene på plass i sin Garmin-GPS i løpet av en
+uke.  Det er også av tekniske årsaker at det tar så langt tid.
+Jobbene som tegner kartene, henter ut kartdumpene og konverterer til
+Garmin-format tar minutter og timer å gjennomføre, slik at de ikke
+gjøres kontinuerlig men kun regelmessing.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Parallellized boot seem to hold up well in Debian/testing</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>Some notes on Flash in Debian and Debian Edu</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_notes_on_Flash_in_Debian_and_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 4 Sep 2010 10:10:00 +0200</pubDate>

                <description>
                <description>

-&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, parallel booting was enabled in Debian/testing.
-The feature seem to hold up pretty well, but three fairly serious
-issues are known and should be solved:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;The wicd package seen to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/508289&quot;&gt;break NFS mounting&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/581586&quot;&gt;network setup&lt;/a&gt; when
-parallel booting is enabled.  No idea why, but the wicd maintainer
-seem to be on the case.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;The nvidia X driver seem to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/583312&quot;&gt;have a race condition&lt;/a&gt;
-triggered more easily when parallel booting is in effect.  The
-maintainer is on the case.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;The sysv-rc package fail to properly enable dependency based boot
-sequencing (the shutdown is broken) when old file-rc users
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/575080&quot;&gt;try to switch back&lt;/a&gt; to
-sysv-rc.  One way to solve it would be for file-rc to create
-/etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering, and another is to try to make
-sysv-rc more robust.  Will investigate some more and probably upload a
-workaround in sysv-rc to help those trying to move from file-rc to
-sysv-rc get a working shutdown.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;All in all not many surprising issues, and all of them seem
-solvable before Squeeze is released.  In addition to these there are
-some packages with bugs in their dependencies and run level settings,
-which I expect will be fixed in a reasonable time span.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
-the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;the
-list of usertagged bugs related to this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update: Correct bug number to file-rc issue.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote&quot;&gt;Debian
+popularity-contest numbers&lt;/a&gt;, the adobe-flashplugin package the
+second most popular used package that is missing in Debian.  The sixth
+most popular is flashplayer-mozilla.  This is a clear indication that
+working flash is important for Debian users.  Around 10 percent of the
+users submitting data to popcon.debian.org have this package
+installed.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In the report written by Lars Risan in August 2008
+(«&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/Rapporter?action=AttachFile&amp;do=view&amp;target=Skolelinux_i_bruk_rapport_1.0.pdf&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
+i bruk – Rapport for Hurum kommune, Universitetet i Agder og
+stiftelsen SLX Debian Labs&lt;/a&gt;»), one of the most important problems
+schools experienced with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; was the lack of working Flash.  A lot of educational
+web sites require Flash to work, and lacking working Flash support in
+the web browser and the problems with installing it was perceived as a
+good reason to stay with Windows.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I once saw a funny and sad comment in a web forum, where Linux was
+said to be the retarded cousin that did not really understand
+everything you told him but could work fairly well.  This was a
+comment regarding the problems Linux have with proprietary formats and
+non-standard web pages, and is sad because it exposes a fairly common
+understanding of whose fault it is if web pages that only work in for
+example Internet Explorer 6 fail to work on Firefox, and funny because
+it explain very well how annoying it is for users when Linux
+distributions do not work with the documents they receive or the web
+pages they want to visit.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is part of the reason why I believe it is important for Debian
+and Debian Edu to have a well working Flash implementation in the
+distribution, to get at least popular sites as Youtube and Google
+Video to working out of the box.  For Squeeze, Debian have the chance
+to include the latest version of Gnash that will make this happen, as
+the new release 0.8.8 was published a few weeks ago and is resting in
+unstable.  The new version work with more sites that version 0.8.7.
+The Gnash maintainers have asked for a freeze exception, but the
+release team have not had time to reply to it yet.  I hope they agree
+with me that Flash is important for the Debian desktop users, and thus
+accept the new package into Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>More flexible firmware handling in debian-installer</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/More_flexible_firmware_handling_in_debian_installer.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/More_flexible_firmware_handling_in_debian_installer.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>My first perl GUI application - controlling a Spykee robot</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>

                <description>
                <description>

-&lt;p&gt;After a long break from debian-installer development, I finally
-found time today to return to the project.  Having to spend less time
-working dependency based boot in debian, as it is almost complete now,
-definitely helped freeing some time.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A while back, I ran into a problem while working on Debian Edu.  We
-include some firmware packages on the Debian Edu CDs, those needed to
-get disk and network controllers working.  Without having these
-firmware packages available during installation, it is impossible to
-install Debian Edu on the given machine, and because our target group
-are non-technical people, asking them to provide firmware packages on
-an external medium is a support pain.  Initially, I expected it to be
-enough to include the firmware packages on the CD to get
-debian-installer to find and use them.  This proved to be wrong.
-Next, I hoped it was enough to symlink the relevant firmware packages
-to some useful location on the CD (tried /cdrom/ and
-/cdrom/firmware/).  This also proved to not work, and at this point I
-found time to look at the debian-installer code to figure out what was
-going to work.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The firmware loading code is in the hw-detect package, and a closer
-look revealed that it would only look for firmware packages outside
-the installation media, so the CD was never checked for firmware
-packages.  It would only check USB sticks, floppies and other
-&quot;external&quot; media devices.  Today I changed it to also look in the
-/cdrom/firmware/ directory on the mounted CD or DVD, which should
-solve the problem I ran into with Debian edu.  I also changed it to
-look in /firmware/, to make sure the installer also find firmware
-provided in the initrd when booting the installer via PXE, to allow us
-to provide the same feature in the PXE setup included in Debian
-Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To make sure firmware deb packages with a license questions are not
-activated without asking if the license is accepted, I extended
-hw-detect to look for preinst scripts in the firmware packages, and
-run these before activating the firmware during installation.  The
-license question is asked using debconf in the preinst, so this should
-solve the issue for the firmware packages I have looked at so far.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to discuss the details of these features, please
-contact us on debian-boot@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This evening I made my first Perl GUI application.  The last few
+days I have worked on a Perl module for controlling my recently
+aquired Spykee robots, and the module is now getting complete enought
+that it is possible to use it to control the robot driving at least.
+It was now time to figure out how to use it to create some GUI to
+allow me to drive the robot around.  I picked PerlQt as I have had
+positive experiences with the Qt API before, and spent a few minutes
+browsing the web for examples.  Using Qt Designer seemed like a short
+cut, so I ended up writing the perl GUI using Qt Designer and
+compiling it into a perl program using the puic program from
+libqt-perl.  Nothing fancy yet, but it got buttons to connect and
+drive around.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The perl module I have written provide a object oriented API for
+controlling the robot.  Here is an small example on how to use it:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+use Spykee;
+Spykee::discover(sub {$robot{$_[0]} = $_[1]});
+my $host = (keys %robot)[0];
+my $spykee = Spykee-&gt;new();
+$spykee-&gt;contact($host, &quot;admin&quot;, &quot;admin&quot;);
+$spykee-&gt;left();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee-&gt;right();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee-&gt;forward();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee-&gt;back();
+sleep 2;
+$spykee-&gt;stop();
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the release of the source of the robot firmware, I could
+peek into the implementation at the other end to figure out how to
+implement the protocol used by the robot.  I&#39;ve implemented several of
+the commands the robot understand, but is still missing the camera
+support to make it possible to control the robot from remote.  First I
+want to implement support for uploading new firmware and configuring
+the wireless network, to make it possible to bootstrap a Spykee robot
+without the producers Windows and MacOSX software (I only have Linux,
+so I had to ask a friend to come over to get the robot testing
+going. :).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Will release the source to the public soon, but need to figure out
+where to make it available first.  I will add a link to 
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/robot/&quot;&gt;the NUUG wiki&lt;/a&gt; for
+those that want to check back later to find it.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Magnetstripeinnhold i billetter fra Flytoget og Hurtigruten</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Magnetstripeinnhold_i_billetter_fra_Flytoget_og_Hurtigruten.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Magnetstripeinnhold_i_billetter_fra_Flytoget_og_Hurtigruten.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>Forslag i stortinget om å stoppe elektronisk stemmegiving i Norge</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forslag_i_stortinget_om____stoppe_elektronisk_stemmegiving_i_Norge.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forslag_i_stortinget_om____stoppe_elektronisk_stemmegiving_i_Norge.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>

                <description>
                <description>

-&lt;p&gt;For en stund tilbake kjøpte jeg en magnetkortleser for å kunne
-titte på hva som er skrevet inn på magnetstripene til ulike kort.  Har
-ikke hatt tid til å analysere mange kort så langt, men tenkte jeg
-skulle dele innholdet på to kort med mine lesere.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For noen dager siden tok jeg flyet til Harstad og Hurtigruten til
-Bergen.  Flytoget fra Oslo S til flyplassen ga meg en billett med
-magnetstripe.  Påtrykket finner jeg følgende informasjon:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-Flytoget Airport Express Train
-
-Fra - Til        : Oslo Sentralstasjon
-Kategori         : Voksen
-Pris             : Nok 170,00
-Herav mva. 8,00% : NOK 12,59
-Betaling         : Kontant
-Til - Fra        : Oslo Lufthavn
-Utstedt:         : 08.05.10
-Gyldig Fra-Til   : 08.05.10-07.11.10
-Billetttype      : Enkeltbillett
-
-102-1015-100508-48382-01-08
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;På selve magnetstripen er innholdet
-&lt;tt&gt;;E?+900120011=23250996541068112619257138248441708433322932704083389389062603279671261502492655?&lt;/tt&gt;.
-Aner ikke hva innholdet representerer, og det er lite overlapp mellom
-det jeg ser trykket på billetten og det jeg ser av tegn i
-magnetstripen.  Håper det betyr at de bruker kryptografiske metoder
-for å gjøre det vanskelig å forfalske billetter.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Den andre billetten er fra Hurtigruten, der jeg mistenker at
-strekkoden på fronten er mer brukt enn magnetstripen (det var i hvert
-fall den biten vi stakk inn i dørlåsen).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Påtrykket forsiden er følgende:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-Romnummer 727
-Hurtigruten
-Midnatsol
-Reinholdtsen
-Petter
-Bookingno: SAX69   0742193
-Harstad-Bergen
-Dep: 09.05.2010 Arr: 12.05.2010
-Lugar fra Risøyhamn
-Kost: FRO=4
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;På selve magnetstripen er innholdet
-&lt;tt&gt;;1316010007421930=00000000000000000000?+E?&lt;/tt&gt;.  Heller ikke her
-ser jeg mye korrespondanse mellom påtrykk og magnetstripe.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Ble tipset i dag om at et forslag om å stoppe forsøkene med
+elektronisk stemmegiving utenfor valglokaler er
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=46616&quot;&gt;til
+behandling&lt;/a&gt; i Stortinget.
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stortinget.no/Global/pdf/Representantforslag/2009-2010/dok8-200910-128.pdf&quot;&gt;Forslaget&lt;/a&gt;
+er fremmet av Erna Solberg, Michael Tetzschner og Trond Helleland.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Håper det får flertall.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Pieces of the roaming laptop puzzle in Debian</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pieces_of_the_roaming_laptop_puzzle_in_Debian.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pieces_of_the_roaming_laptop_puzzle_in_Debian.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <title>Broken hard link handling with sshfs</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_hard_link_handling_with_sshfs.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_hard_link_handling_with_sshfs.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>

                <description>
                <description>

-&lt;p&gt;Today, the last piece of the puzzle for roaming laptops in Debian
-Edu finally entered the Debian archive.  Today, the new
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-mklocaluser.html&quot;&gt;libpam-mklocaluser&lt;/a&gt;
-package was accepted.  Two days ago, two other pieces was accepted
-into unstable.  The
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pam-python.html&quot;&gt;pam-python&lt;/a&gt;
-package needed by libpam-mklocaluser, and the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sssd.html&quot;&gt;sssd&lt;/a&gt; package
-passed NEW on Monday.  In addition, the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-ccreds.html&quot;&gt;libpam-ccreds&lt;/a&gt;
-package we need is in experimental (version 10-4) since Saturday, and
-hopefully will be moved to unstable soon.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This collection of packages allow for two different setups for
-roaming laptops.  The traditional setup would be using libpam-ccreds,
-nscd and libpam-mklocaluser with LDAP or Kerberos authentication,
-which should work out of the box if the configuration changes proposed
-for nscd in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/485282&quot;&gt;BTS report
-#485282&lt;/a&gt; is implemented.  The alternative setup is to use sssd with
-libpam-mklocaluser to connect to LDAP or Kerberos and let sssd take
-care of the caching of passwords and group information.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Just got an email from Tobias Gruetzmacher as a followup on my
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Broken_umask_handling_with_sshfs.html&quot;&gt;previous
+post about sshfs&lt;/a&gt;.  He reported another problem with sshfs.  It
+fail to handle hard links properly.  A simple way to spot this is to
+look at the . and .. entries in the directory tree.  These should have
+a link count &gt;1, but on sshfs the count is 1.  I just tested to see
+what happen when trying to hardlink, and this fail as well:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;I have so far been unable to get sssd to work with the LDAP server
-at the University, but suspect the issue is some SSL/GnuTLS related
-problem with the server certificate.  I plan to update the Debian
-package to version 1.2, which is scheduled for next week, and hope to
-find time to make sure the next release will include both the
-Debian/Ubuntu specific patches.  Upstream is friendly and responsive,
-and I am sure we will find a good solution.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The idea is to set up the roaming laptops to authenticate using
-LDAP or Kerberos and create a local user with home directory in /home/
-when a usre in LDAP logs in via KDM or GDM for the first time, and
-cache the password for offline checking, as well as caching group
-memberhips and other relevant LDAP information.  The
-libpam-mklocaluser package was created to make sure the local home
-directory is in /home/, instead of /site/server/directory/ which would
-be the home directory if pam_mkhomedir was used.  To avoid confusion
-with support requests and configuration, we do not want local laptops
-to have users in a path that is used for the same users home directory
-on the home directory servers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;pre&gt;
+% ln foo bar
+ln: creating hard link `bar&#39; =&gt; `foo&#39;: Function not implemented
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;One annoying problem with gdm is that it do not show the PAM
-message passed to the user from libpam-mklocaluser when the local user
-is created.  Instead gdm simply reject the login with some generic
-message.  The message is shown in kdm, ssh and login, so I guess it is
-a bug in gdm.  Have not investigated if there is some other message
-type that can be used instead to get gdm to also show the message.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have not yet found time to implement a test for this in my file
+system test code, but believe having working hard links is useful to
+avoid surprised unix programs.  Not as useful as working file locking
+and symlinks, which are required to get a working desktop, but useful
+nevertheless. :)&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu,
-please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The latest version of the file system test code is available via
+git from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&quot;&gt;http://github.com/gebi/fs-test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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