+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_lsdvd_release_version_0_17_is_ready.html">New lsdvd release version 0.17 is ready</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 4th October 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/">lsdvd project</a>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>I just wrapped up
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/mailman/message/32896061/">a
+new lsdvd release</a>, available in git or from
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/files/lsdvd/">the
+download page</a>. This is the changelog dated 2014-10-03 for version
+0.17.</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+ <li>Ignore 'phantom' audio, subtitle tracks</li>
+ <li>Check for garbage in the program chains, which indicate that a track is
+ non-existant, to work around additional copy protection</li>
+ <li>Fix displaying content type for audio tracks, subtitles</li>
+ <li>Fix pallete display of first entry</li>
+ <li>Fix include orders</li>
+ <li>Ignore read errors in titles that would not be displayed anyway</li>
+ <li>Fix the chapter count</li>
+ <li>Make sure the array size and the array limit used when initialising
+ the palette size is the same.</li>
+ <li>Fix array printing.</li>
+ <li>Correct subsecond calculations.</li>
+ <li>Add sector information to the output format.</li>
+ <li>Clean up code to be closer to ANSI C and compile without warnings
+ with more GCC compiler warnings.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>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. :)</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lsdvd">lsdvd</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_Debian_Edu_Jessie_despite_some_fatal_problems_with_the_installer.html">How to test Debian Edu Jessie despite some fatal problems with the installer</a></div>
+ <div class="date">26th September 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project</a> 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
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie">current
+status</a> 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.</p>
+
+<p>First, download the test ISO via
+<a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso">ftp</a>,
+<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso">http</a>
+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.</p>
+
+<p>When you get to the Debian Edu profile question, go to tty2
+(use Alt-Ctrl-F2), run</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+nano /usr/bin/edu-eatmydata-install
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>and add 'exit 0' 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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/702711">#702711</a>.
+The rest have proper fixes in unstable.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Suddenly_I_am_the_new_upstream_of_the_lsdvd_command_line_tool.html">Suddenly I am the new upstream of the lsdvd command line tool</a></div>
+ <div class="date">25th September 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>I use the <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/">lsdvd tool</a>
+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 <a href="https://packages.qa.debian.org/lsdvd">an updated version
+into Debian</a>. 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.</p>
+
+<p>I'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'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
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/git/ci/master/tree/">the git source</a> and join
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/mailman/">the project mailing
+list</a>. :)</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lsdvd">lsdvd</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_henger_under_skibrua_over_E16_p__Sollih_gda_.html">Hva henger under skibrua over E16 på Sollihøgda?</a></div>
<div class="date">21st September 2014</div>
fsync() having effect? Perhaps it should go into its own udeb, to
allow those of us wanting to enable it to do so without affecting
everyone.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2014-09-24: Since a few days ago, enabling this optimization
+will break installation of all programs using gnutls because of
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/702711">bug #702711. An updated
+eatmydata package in Debian will solve it.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html">From English wiki to translated PDF and epub via Docbook</a></div>
- <div class="date">17th June 2014</div>
- <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-project</a> provide an instruction manual for teachers, system
-administrators and other users that contain useful tips for setting up
-and maintaining a Debian Edu installation. This text is about how the
-text processing of this manual is handled in the project.</p>
-
-<p>One goal of the project is to provide information in the native
-language of its users, and for this we need to handle translations.
-But we also want to make sure each language contain the same
-information, so for this we need a good way to keep the translations
-in sync. And we want it to be easy for our users to improve the
-documentation, avoiding the need to learn special formats or tools to
-contribute, and the obvious way to do this is to make it possible to
-edit the documentation using a web browser. We also want it to be
-easy for translators to keep the translation up to date, and give them
-help in figuring out what need to be translated. Here is the list of
-tools and the process we have found trying to reach all these
-goals.</p>
-
-<p>We maintain the authoritative source of our manual in the
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/">Debian
-wiki</a>, as several wiki pages written in English. It consist of one
-front page with references to the different chapters, several pages
-for each chapter, and finally one "collection page" gluing all the
-chapters together into one large web page (aka
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/AllInOne">the
-AllInOne page</a>). The AllInOne page is the one used for further
-processing and translations. Thanks to the fact that the
-<a href="http://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a> installation on
-wiki.debian.org support exporting pages in
-<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">the Docbook format</a>, we can fetch
-the list of pages to export using the raw version of the AllInOne
-page, loop over each of them to generate a Docbook XML version of the
-manual. This process also download images and transform image
-references to use the locally downloaded images. The generated
-Docbook XML files are slightly broken, so some post-processing is done
-using the <tt>documentation/scripts/get_manual</tt> program, and the
-result is a nice Docbook XML file (debian-edu-wheezy-manual.xml) and
-a handfull of images. The XML file can now be used to generate PDF, HTML
-and epub versions of the English manual. This is the basic step of
-our process, making PDF (using dblatex), HTML (using xsltproc) and
-epub (using dbtoepub) version from Docbook XML, and the resulting files
-are placed in the debian-edu-doc-en binary package.</p>
-
-<p>But English documentation is not enough for us. We want translated
-documentation too, and we want to make it easy for translators to
-track the English original. For this we use the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/poxml.html">poxml</a> package,
-which allow us to transform the English Docbook XML file into a
-translation file (a .pot file), usable with the normal gettext based
-translation tools used by those translating free software. The pot
-file is used to create and maintain translation files (several .po
-files), which the translations update with the native language
-translations of all titles, paragraphs and blocks of text in the
-original. The next step is combining the original English Docbook XML
-and the translation file (say debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.po), to
-create a translated Docbook XML file (in this case
-debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.xml). This translated (or partly
-translated, if the translation is not complete) Docbook XML file can
-then be used like the original to create a PDF, HTML and epub version
-of the documentation.</p>
-
-<p>The translators use different tools to edit the .po files. We
-recommend using
-<a href="http://www.kde.org/applications/development/lokalize/">lokalize</a>,
-while some use emacs and vi, others can use web based editors like
-<a href="http://pootle.translatehouse.org/">Poodle</a> or
-<a href="https://www.transifex.com/">Transifex</a>. All we care about
-is where the .po file end up, in our git repository. Updated
-translations can either be committed directly to git, or submitted as
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/src:debian-edu-doc">bug reports
-against the debian-edu-doc package</a>.</p>
-
-<p>One challenge is images, which both might need to be translated (if
-they show translated user applications), and are needed in different
-formats when creating PDF and HTML versions (epub is a HTML version in
-this regard). For this we transform the original PNG images to the
-needed density and format during build, and have a way to provide
-translated images by storing translated versions in
-images/$LANGUAGECODE/. I am a bit unsure about the details here. The
-package maintainers know more.</p>
-
-<p>If you wonder what the result look like, we provide
-<a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/">the content
-of the documentation packages on the web</a>. See for example the
-<a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/it/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.pdf">Italian
-PDF version</a> or the
-<a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/de/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.html">German
-HTML version</a>. We do not yet build the epub version by default,
-but perhaps it will be done in the future.</p>
-
-<p>To learn more, check out
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-edu-doc.html">the
-debian-edu-doc package</a>,
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/">the
-manual on the wiki</a> and
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Translations">the
-translation instructions</a> in the manual.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">Hvordan enkelt laste ned filmer fra NRK med den "nye" løsningen</a></div>
- <div class="date">16th June 2014</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Jeg har fortsatt behov for å kunne laste ned innslag fra NRKs
-nettsted av og til for å se senere når jeg ikke er på nett, men
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">min
-oppskrift fra 2011</a> sluttet å fungere da NRK byttet
-avspillermetode. I dag fikk jeg endelig lett etter oppdatert løsning,
-og jeg er veldig glad for å fortelle at den enkleste måten å laste ned
-innslag er å bruke siste versjon 2014.06.07 av
-<a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a>. Støtten i
-youtube-dl <a href="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2980">kom
-inn for 23 dager siden</a> og
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/y/youtube-dl.html">versjonen i
-Debian</a> fungerer fint også som backport til Debian Wheezy. Det er
-et lite problem, det håndterer kun URLer med små bokstaver, men hvis
-en har en URL med store bokstaver kan en bare gjøre alle store om til
-små bokstaver for å få youtube-dl til å laste ned. Rapporterte
-nettopp
-<a href="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2980">problemet til
-utviklerne</a>, og antar de får fikset det snart.</p>
-
-<p>Dermed er alt klart til å laste ned dokumentarene om
-<a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID23005014/usas-hemmelige-avlytting">USAs
-hemmelige avlytting</a> og
-<a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID23005114/selskapene-bak-usas-avlytting">Selskapene
-bak USAs avlytting</a>, i tillegg til
-<a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID20005814/et-moete-med-edward-snowden">intervjuet
-med Edward Snowden gjort av den tyske tv-kanalen ARD</a>. Anbefaler
-alle å se disse, sammen med
-<a href="http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5713_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201312301130_-_to_protect_and_infect_part_2_-_jacob.html">foredraget
-til Jacob Appelbaum på siste CCC-konferanse</a>, for å forstå mer om
-hvordan overvåkningen av borgerne brer om seg.</p>
-
-<p>Takk til gode venner på foreningen NUUGs IRC-kanal
-<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug">#nuug på irc.freenode.net</a>
-for tipsene som fikk meg i mål</a>.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Oppdatering 2014-06-17</strong>: Etter at jeg publiserte
-denne, ble jeg tipset om bloggposten
-"<a href="http://ingvar.blog.redpill-linpro.com/2012/05/31/downloading-hd-content-from-tv-nrk-no/">Downloading
-HD content from tv.nrk.no</a>" av Ingvar Hagelund, som har alternativ
-implementasjon og tips for å lage mkv-fil med undertekstene inkludert.
-Kanskje den passer bedre for deg? I tillegg ble feilen i youtube-dl
-ble fikset litt senere ut på dagen i går, samt at youtube-dl fikk
-støtte for å laste ned undertitler. Takk til Anders Einar Hilden for
-god innsats og youtube-dl-utviklerne for rask respons.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_car_computer_solution_.html">Free software car computer solution?</a></div>
- <div class="date">29th May 2014</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Dear lazyweb. I'm planning to set up a small Raspberry Pi computer
-in my car, connected to
-<a href="http://www.dx.com/p/400a-4-0-tft-lcd-digital-monitor-for-vehicle-parking-reverse-camera-1440x272-12v-dc-57776">a
-small screen</a> next to the rear mirror. I plan to hook it up with a
-GPS and a USB wifi card too. The idea is to get my own
-"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carputer">Carputer</a>". But I
-wonder if someone already created a good free software solution for
-such car computer.</p>
-
-<p>This is my current wish list for such system:</p>
-
-<ul>
-
- <li>Work on Raspberry Pi.</li>
-
- <li>Show current speed limit based on location, and warn if going too
- fast (for example using color codes yellow and red on the screen,
- or make a sound). This could be done either using either data from
- <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">Openstreetmap</a> or OCR
- info gathered from a dashboard camera.</li>
-
- <li>Track automatic toll road passes and their cost, show total spent
- and make it possible to calculate toll costs for planned
- route.</li>
-
- <li>Collect GPX tracks for use with OpenStreetMap.</li>
-
- <li>Automatically detect and use any wireless connection to connect
- to home server. Try IP over DNS
- (<a href="http://dev.kryo.se/iodine/">iodine</a>) or ICMP
- (<a href="http://code.gerade.org/hans/">Hans</a>) if direct
- connection do not work.</li>
-
- <li>Set up mesh network to talk to other cars with the same system,
- or some standard car mesh protocol.</li>
-
- <li>Warn when approaching speed cameras and speed camera ranges
- (speed calculated between two cameras).</li>
-
- <li>Suport dashboard/front facing camera to discover speed limits and
- run OCR to track registration number of passing cars.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>If you know of any free software car computer system supporting
-some or all of these features, please let me know.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
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