+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sleep_until_morning___home_automation_for_the_kids.html">Sleep until morning - home automation for the kids</a></div>
+ <div class="date">10th February 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p><img align="left" style="margin-right:25px;" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-02-10-morning-light.jpeg"></p>
+
+<p>With kids in the house, one challenge is getting them to sleep
+during the night and wake up when it is morning. I mean, when I
+believe it is morning, and not two hours earlier. In our household we
+have decided that 07:00 is the turning point, but getting the kids to
+sleep until 07:00 is a small challenge every day. They have adapted
+quite well, and rarely wake up at 05:00 any more, but some times wake
+up at times like 05:50, 06:15, 06:30 or 06:45, and it is hard to put
+the awake one to bed again without disturbing and waking the rest.
+And I understand perfectly well that they fail to sleep until 07:00
+some times, as there is no way for them to know if it is before or
+after the magic moment without coming and asking us parents.</p>
+
+<p>But yesterday I came up with a method to solve this problem. It
+involve home automation. A few years ago I bought a
+<a href="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick">Tellstick</a> and RF
+switches at the local <a href="http://www.clasohlson.com/">Clas
+Ohlson</a> shop, allowing me to control lights and other electrical
+gadgets using my Linux server. When I moved from the old flat to a
+small house, I put away all this equipment as most of the lighting in
+the house was not using wall sockets and thus not easy to connect to
+the gadgets I had. But recently I bought a
+<a href="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick_net">Tellstick
+Net</a> to be able to read sensor input as well as control power
+sockets. I want to control ovens in the basement to avoid the pipes
+to freeze, and monitor the humidity to detect flooding. The default
+setup for Tellstick Net is to be controlled by the vendor web service,
+which to me is a security problem, but it is also possible to build
+ones own
+<a href="http://developer.telldus.com/blog/2012/03/02/help-us-develop-local-access-using-tellstick-net-build-your-own-firmware">firmware
+with local access</A> instead of being controlled by a Swedish
+company, thanks to the release of the GPL licensed firmware source
+code. I plan to get that running before I let it control anything
+important. But while working on this, one idea to make it easier for
+the kids came to me yesterday. We can set up a night light controlled
+by the computer, and turn it automatically on at 07:00. The kids can
+then check the light in the morning to know if they are supposed to
+get up or not. They joined me in setting everything up, and I
+repeated the concept several times before bed times to make sure they
+remembered to check the light before getting up in the morning.</p>
+
+<p>We tested it this morning, and all the kids stayed in bed until
+after 07:00, and every one of them commented on the fact that the
+"morning light" was turned on and signalled that the morning had
+arrived. So this look like a success, and I am excited to see how
+this develops the next few days. :) I really hope this can allow us
+all to sleep a bit longer in the morning.</p>
+
+<p>A nice advantage of this setup is that we can remote control when
+to tell the kids to get up. We do not have to wait until 07:00, and
+can also delay it if we want to.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <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/Hva_stemte_hver_stortingsrepresentant_i_voteringene_om_datalagringsdirektivet_.html">Hva stemte hver stortingsrepresentant i voteringene om datalagringsdirektivet?</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 9th February 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Nytt stortingsvalg er på trappene, og folket får igjen mulighet til
+å påvirke sammensetningen i vår lovgivende forsamling. Da er det
+relevant å vite hvilke representanter og partier som har støttet
+innføringen av brev- og besøkskontroll av hele den norske
+befolkningen, det vil si datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
+
+<p>Hvis du vil vite hva hver enkelt stortingsrepresentant har stemt i
+stortingsvoteringene om datalagringsdirektivet, så har nettstedet til
+<a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/">Holder De Ord</a> den (så vidt jeg
+vet) eneste komplette oversikten på sin temaside om
+<a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">innføringen
+av datalagringsdirektivet</a>. Den har detaljene fra de 11 relevante
+forslagene som har vært fremmet så lagt. De har vært votert over
+2011-04-04, 2011-04-11, 2012-06-11, 2012-10-05 og 2012-12-06.</p>
+
+<p>Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet,
+anbefaler jeg å lese <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">artiklene
+fra Jon Wessel-Aas</a> om temaet, samt informasjon fra foreningen
+<a href="http://www.digitaltpersonvern.no/">Digitalt
+Personvern</a>.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_kt_overv_kning_applauderes_igjen_av_Arbeiderpartiet__H_yre_og_Fremskrittspartiet.html">Økt overvåkning applauderes igjen av Arbeiderpartiet, Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 4th February 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Jeg ser med gru at Arbeiderpartiet, Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet
+<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Positive-til-mer-smuglerovervaking-7110348.html">applauderer
+tollvesenets forslag</a> om å øke overvåkningen i Norge nok et hakk.
+Det er ikke så rart, da de som uttaler seg jo også har støttet
+innføringen av datalagringsdirektivet eller i hvert fall ikke veldig
+aktivt har motarbeidet det. Innføringen av datalagringsdirektivet er
+en lovendring som innebærer brev og besøkskontroll for hele
+befolkningen.</p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=48717">Datalagringsdirektivet</a>
+har vært oppe til votering i stortinget tre ganger så langt. Det ble
+<a href="http://svartelisten.org/">vedtatt første gang 2011-04-04</a>
+og
+<a href="https://github.com/holderdeord/hdo-folketingparser/blob/master/data/votering-2011-04-11.xml">andre
+gang 2011-04-11</a> (lovendringer voteres to ganger), og forslag om å
+stoppe loven ble
+<a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/Voteringsoversikt/?p=53844&dnid=1">nedstemt
+2012-12-06</a> (se også
+<a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">oversikt fra Holder De
+Ord</a>).</p>
+
+<p>Jan Bøhler i Arbeiderpartiet stemte for å innføre
+datalagringsdirektivet i lovverket i første votering, var ikke
+tilstede i andre votering og støttet loven i tredje votering. André
+Oktay Dahl i Høyre var ikke til stede i første og andre votering men
+støttet loven i tredje votering. Ulf Leirstein i Fremskrittspartiet
+stemte mot loven i første votering men var ikke til stede i andre og
+tredje votering.</p>
+
+<p>Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet,
+anbefaler jeg å lese <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">artiklene
+fra Jon Wessel-Aas</a> om temaet, samt informasjon fra foreningen
+<a href="http://www.digitaltpersonvern.no/">Digitalt
+Personvern</a>.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Oppdatering 2013-03-09</strong>: Endret lenke til Holder De
+Ord, som har byttet mange lenker i forbindelse med import av
+voteringsdata for 2010-2011.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_GUI_now_available_from_Debian_unstable__and_Ubuntu_raring_.html">Bitcoin GUI now available from Debian/unstable (and Ubuntu/raring)</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 2nd February 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>My
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html">last
+bitcoin related blog post</a> mentioned that the new
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">bitcoin package</a> for
+Debian was waiting in NEW. It was accepted by the Debian ftp-masters
+2013-01-19, and have been available in unstable since then. It was
+automatically copied to Ubuntu, and is available in their Raring
+version too.</p>
+
+<p>But there is a strange problem with the build that block this new
+version from being available on the i386 and kfreebsd-i386
+architectures. For some strange reason, the autobuilders in Debian
+for these architectures fail to run the test suite on these
+architectures (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/672524">BTS #672524</a>).
+We are so far unable to reproduce it when building it manually, and
+no-one have been able to propose a fix. If you got an idea what is
+failing, please let us know via the BTS.</p>
+
+<p>One feature that is annoying me with of the bitcoin client, because
+I often run low on disk space, is the fact that the client will exit
+if it run short on space (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/696715">BTS
+#696715</a>). So make sure you have enough disk space when you run
+it. :)</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</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/Welcome_to_the_world__Isenkram_.html">Welcome to the world, Isenkram!</a></div>
<div class="date">22nd January 2013</div>
To fetch and build the latest version of the source, use</p>
<pre>
-git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/isenkram.git
-cd isenkram && git-buildpackage
+git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/isenkram.git
+cd isenkram && git-buildpackage -us -uc
</pre>
<p>I have not yet adjusted all files to use the new name yet. If you
stuff, in other words. I've been told it is the Norwegian variant of
the German word eisenkram, for those that are familiar with that
word.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2013-01-26</strong>: Added -us -us to build
+instructions, to avoid confusing people with an error from the signing
+process.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2013-01-27</strong>: Switch to HTTP URL for the git
+clone argument to avoid the need for authentication.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
</div>
svn://svn.debian.org/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/; cd
hw-support-handler; debuild</tt>'. If you lack debuild, install the
devscripts package.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2013-01-23 12:00</strong>: The project is now
+renamed to Isenkram and the source moved from the Debian Edu
+subversion repository to a Debian collab-maint git repository. See
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Welcome_to_the_world__Isenkram_.html">build
+instructions</a> for details.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
</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>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html">Modalias strings - a practical way to map "stuff" to hardware</a></div>
- <div class="date">14th January 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>While looking into how to look up Debian packages based on hardware
-information, to find the packages that support a given piece of
-hardware, I refreshed my memory regarding modalias values, and decided
-to document the details. Here are my findings so far, also available
-in
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
-Debian Edu subversion repository</a>:
-
-<p><strong>Modalias decoded</strong></p>
-
-<p>This document try to explain what the different types of modalias
-values stands for. It is in part based on information from
-<URL: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias</a> >,
-<URL: <a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device</a> >,
-<URL: <a href="http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c">http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c</a> > and
-<URL: <a href="http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup">http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup</a> >.
-
-<p>The modalias entries for a given Linux machine can be found using
-this shell script:</p>
-
-<pre>
-find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat | sort -u
-</pre>
-
-<p>The supported modalias globs for a given kernel module can be found
-using modinfo:</p>
-
-<pre>
-% /sbin/modinfo psmouse | grep alias:
-alias: serio:ty05pr*id*ex*
-alias: serio:ty01pr*id*ex*
-%
-</pre>
-
-<p><strong>PCI subtype</strong></p>
-
-<p>A typical PCI entry can look like this. This is an Intel Host
-Bridge memory controller:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-pci:v00008086d00002770sv00001028sd000001ADbc06sc00i00
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>This represent these values:</p>
-
-<pre>
- v 00008086 (vendor)
- d 00002770 (device)
- sv 00001028 (subvendor)
- sd 000001AD (subdevice)
- bc 06 (bus class)
- sc 00 (bus subclass)
- i 00 (interface)
-</pre>
-
-<p>The vendor/device values are the same values outputted from 'lspci
--n' as 8086:2770. The bus class/subclass is also shown by lspci as
-0600. The 0600 class is a host bridge. Other useful bus values are
-0300 (VGA compatible card) and 0200 (Ethernet controller).</p>
-
-<p>Not sure how to figure out the interface value, nor what it
-means.</p>
-
-<p><strong>USB subtype</strong></p>
-
-<p>Some typical USB entries can look like this. This is an internal
-USB hub in a laptop:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-usb:v1D6Bp0001d0206dc09dsc00dp00ic09isc00ip00
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Here is the values included in this alias:</p>
-
-<pre>
- v 1D6B (device vendor)
- p 0001 (device product)
- d 0206 (bcddevice)
- dc 09 (device class)
- dsc 00 (device subclass)
- dp 00 (device protocol)
- ic 09 (interface class)
- isc 00 (interface subclass)
- ip 00 (interface protocol)
-</pre>
-
-<p>The 0900 device class/subclass means hub. Some times the relevant
-class is in the interface class section. For a simple USB web camera,
-these alias entries show up:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc01ip00
-<br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc02ip00
-<br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00
-<br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc02ip00
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Interface class 0E01 is video control, 0E02 is video streaming (aka
-camera), 0101 is audio control device and 0102 is audio streaming (aka
-microphone). Thus this is a camera with microphone included.</p>
-
-<p><strong>ACPI subtype</strong></p>
-
-<p>The ACPI type is used for several non-PCI/USB stuff. This is an IR
-receiver in a Thinkpad X40:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The values between the colons are IDs.</p>
-
-<p><strong>DMI subtype</strong></p>
-
-<p>The DMI table contain lots of information about the computer case
-and model. This is an entry for a IBM Thinkpad X40, fetched from
-/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/modalias:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1UETB6WW(1.66):bd06/15/2005:svnIBM:pn2371H4G:pvrThinkPadX40:rvnIBM:rn2371H4G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The values present are</p>
-
-<pre>
- bvn IBM (BIOS vendor)
- bvr 1UETB6WW(1.66) (BIOS version)
- bd 06/15/2005 (BIOS date)
- svn IBM (system vendor)
- pn 2371H4G (product name)
- pvr ThinkPadX40 (product version)
- rvn IBM (board vendor)
- rn 2371H4G (board name)
- rvr NotAvailable (board version)
- cvn IBM (chassis vendor)
- ct 10 (chassis type)
- cvr NotAvailable (chassis version)
-</pre>
-
-<p>The chassis type 10 is Notebook. Other interesting values can be
-found in the dmidecode source:</p>
-
-<pre>
- 3 Desktop
- 4 Low Profile Desktop
- 5 Pizza Box
- 6 Mini Tower
- 7 Tower
- 8 Portable
- 9 Laptop
- 10 Notebook
- 11 Hand Held
- 12 Docking Station
- 13 All In One
- 14 Sub Notebook
- 15 Space-saving
- 16 Lunch Box
- 17 Main Server Chassis
- 18 Expansion Chassis
- 19 Sub Chassis
- 20 Bus Expansion Chassis
- 21 Peripheral Chassis
- 22 RAID Chassis
- 23 Rack Mount Chassis
- 24 Sealed-case PC
- 25 Multi-system
- 26 CompactPCI
- 27 AdvancedTCA
- 28 Blade
- 29 Blade Enclosing
-</pre>
-
-<p>The chassis type values are not always accurately set in the DMI
-table. For example my home server is a tower, but the DMI modalias
-claim it is a desktop.</p>
-
-<p><strong>SerIO subtype</strong></p>
-
-<p>This type is used for PS/2 mouse plugs. One example is from my
-test machine:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-serio:ty01pr00id00ex00
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The values present are</p>
-
-<pre>
- ty 01 (type)
- pr 00 (prototype)
- id 00 (id)
- ex 00 (extra)
-</pre>
-
-<p>This type is supported by the psmouse driver. I am not sure what
-the valid values are.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Other subtypes</strong></p>
-
-<p>There are heaps of other modalias subtypes according to
-file2alias.c. There is the rest of the list from that source: amba,
-ap, bcma, ccw, css, eisa, hid, i2c, ieee1394, input, ipack, isapnp,
-mdio, of, parisc, pcmcia, platform, scsi, sdio, spi, ssb, vio, virtio,
-vmbus, x86cpu and zorro. I did not spend time documenting all of
-these, as they do not seem relevant for my intended use with mapping
-hardware to packages when new stuff is inserted during run time.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Looking up kernel modules using modalias values</strong></p>
-
-<p>To check which kernel modules provide support for a given modalias,
-one can use the following shell script:</p>
-
-<pre>
- for id in $(find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat | sort -u); do \
- echo "$id" ; \
- /sbin/modprobe --show-depends "$id"|sed 's/^/ /' ; \
- done
-</pre>
-
-<p>The output can look like this (only the first few entries as the
-list is very long on my test machine):</p>
-
-<pre>
- acpi:ACPI0003:
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko
- acpi:device:
- FATAL: Module acpi:device: not found.
- acpi:IBM0068:
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/char/nvram.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/leds/led-class.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko
- acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/net/irda/irda.ko
- insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.ko
- [...]
-</pre>
-
-<p>If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what
-packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
-machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel">#debian-devel</a>.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-01-15:</strong> Rewrite "cat $(find ...)" to
-"find ... -print0 | xargs -0 cat" to make sure it handle directories
-in /sys/ with space in them.</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>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Moved_the_pymissile_Debian_packaging_to_collab_maint.html">Moved the pymissile Debian packaging to collab-maint</a></div>
- <div class="date">10th January 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian
-for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket
-Launcher and updated the Debian package
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">pymissile</a> to make
-sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in. I
-also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and
-hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user
-plug in his rocket launcher. In the process I moved the source to a
-git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to
-contribute. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/">Upstream</a>
-is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five
-years of relative silence. The new git repository is not listed in
-the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a
-bit more before I upload the new version. If you want to check out
-the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git">gitweb
-view</a> or use "<tt>git clone
-git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git</tt>".</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/robot">robot</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">Lets make hardware dongles easier to use in Debian</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 9th January 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
-general, is that there is a great package management system with the
-ability to automatically install software packages by downloading them
-from the distribution mirrors, but no way to get it to automatically
-install the packages I need to use the hardware I plug into my
-machine. Even if the package to use it is easily available from the
-Linux distribution. When I plug in a LEGO Mindstorms NXT, it could
-suggest to automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages
-I need to talk to it. When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
-yubikey-personalization package. The information required to do this
-is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.</p>
-
-<p>Some years ago, I proposed to
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg01206.html">use
-the discover subsystem to implement this</a>. The idea is fairly
-simple:
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>Add a desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ pointing to a program
- starting when a user log in.</li>
-
-<li>Set this program up to listen for kernel events emitted when new
- hardware is inserted into the computer.</li>
-
-<li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware ID in a
- database mapping to packages, and take note of any non-installed
- packages.</li>
-
-<li>Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
- package, and make it easy to install it.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my
-initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the
-discover database to find packages and
-<a href="http://www.packagekit.org/">PackageKit</a> to install
-packages.</p>
-
-<p>Yesterday, I found time to try to implement this idea, and the
-draft package is now checked into
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
-Debian Edu subversion repository</a>. In the process, I updated the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html">discover-data</a>
-package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to
-the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version
-2.2013.01.09 to unstable. I also discovered that the current
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover.html">discover</a>
-package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because
-/proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present. I ported it to use
-libusb as a fall back option to get it working. The fixed package
-version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental (didn't upload it to unstable
-because of the freeze).</p>
-
-<p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
-desktop notification to show up (only once, the first time it is
-inserted):</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png"></p>
-
-<p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
-install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install
-program(s)" button should to be implemented.</p>
-
-<p>If this idea seem useful to you, and you want to help make it
-happen, please help me update the discover-data database with mappings
-from hardware to Debian packages. Check if 'discover-pkginstall -l'
-list the package you would like to have installed when a given
-hardware device is inserted into your computer, and report bugs using
-reportbug if it isn't. Or, if you know of a better way to provide
-such mapping, please let me know.</p>
-
-<p>This prototype need more work, and there are several questions that
-should be considered before it is ready for production use. Is dbus
-the correct way to detect new hardware? At the moment I look for HAL
-dbus events on the system bus, because that is the events I could see
-on my Debian Squeeze KDE desktop. Are there better events to use?
-How should the user be notified? Is the desktop notification
-mechanism the best option, or should the background daemon raise a
-popup instead? How should packages be installed? When should they
-not be installed?</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help getting such feature implemented in Debian,
-please send me an email. :)</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>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="padding"></div>
-
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">New IRC channel for LEGO designers using Debian</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 2nd January 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>During Christmas, I have worked a bit on the Debian support for
-<a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx">LEGO Mindstorm
-NXT</a>. My son and I have played a bit with my NXT set, and I
-discovered I had to build all the tools myself because none were
-already in Debian Squeeze. If Debian support for LEGO is something
-you care about, please join me on the IRC channel
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">#debian-lego</a> (server
-irc.debian.org). There is a lot that could be done to improve the
-Debian support for LEGO designers. For example both CAD software
-and Mindstorm compilers are missing. :)</p>
-
-<p>Update 2012-01-03: A
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">project page</a>
-including links to Lego related packages is now available.</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/robot">robot</a>.
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