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+               <title>Good causes: Debian Outreach Program for Women, EFF documenting the spying and Open access in Norway</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_causes__Debian_Outreach_Program_for_Women__EFF_documenting_the_spying_and_Open_access_in_Norway.html</link>
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+                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few days I came across a few good causes that should get
+wider attention.  I recommend signing and donating to each one of
+these. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/18/&quot;&gt;Debian
+Project News for 2013-10-14&lt;/a&gt; I came across the Outreach Program for
+Women program which is a Google Summer of Code like initiative to get
+more women involved in free software.  One debian sponsor has offered
+to match &lt;a href=&quot;http://debian.ch/opw2013&quot;&gt;any donation done to Debian
+earmarked&lt;/a&gt; for this initiative.  I donated a few minutes ago, and
+hope you will to. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;And the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced plans to
+create &lt;a href=&quot;https://supporters.eff.org/donate/nsa-videos&quot;&gt;video
+documentaries about the excessive spying&lt;/a&gt; on every Internet user that
+take place these days, and their need to fund the work.  I&#39;ve already
+donated.  Are you next?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og
+Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a
+statement under the heading
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://saih.no/Bloggers_United/&quot;&gt;Bloggers United for Open
+Access&lt;/a&gt; for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the
+Norwegian government.  So far 499 signatures.  I hope you will sign it
+too.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Oslo community mesh network - with NUUG and Hackeriet at Hausmania</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing
+networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large
+areas, depending on the radio technology used.  Normal wifi equipment
+can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several
+successful examples like
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freifunk.net/&quot;&gt;Freifunk&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.awmn.net/&quot;&gt;Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network&lt;/a&gt;
+(see
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece&quot;&gt;wikipedia
+for a large list&lt;/a&gt;) around the globe.  To give you an idea how it
+work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which
+can be seen from their
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html&quot;&gt;dynamically
+updated node graph and map&lt;/a&gt;, where one can see how the mesh nodes
+automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing.
+There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway,
+and that is the main topic of this blog post.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped
+to do it as part of my involvement with the &lt;a
+href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG member organisation&lt;/a&gt; community, and
+my recent involvement in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox&quot;&gt;the Freedombox project&lt;/a&gt;
+finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a
+Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family
+when possible, given that most communication between people are
+between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook
+communication patterns).  It also allow people to communicate without
+any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the
+private communication of citizens, which have become more and more
+important over the years.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo
+working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://hackeriet.no/&quot;&gt;Hackeriet&lt;/a&gt; at Husmania.  They seem to
+have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page&quot;&gt;the Oslo
+Freifunk project&lt;/a&gt;, but that effort is now dead and the people
+behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://meshfx.org/trac&quot;&gt;meshfx&lt;/a&gt;.  Unfortunately the wiki
+site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to
+reflect this fact, so the old project page can&#39;t be updated to point to
+the new project.  A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
+from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks.  I
+came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
+speakers about this talk (from
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY&quot;&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
+There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
+figure out which one would be &quot;best&quot; for some definitions of best, but
+given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
+is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
+completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on
+batman-adv for now.  It sure help me to  know that the very cool
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.servalproject.org/&quot;&gt;Serval project in Australia&lt;/a&gt;
+is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
+organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
+less industrialized communities.  Check out this cool video presenting
+that project (from
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA&quot;&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;According to the wikipedia page on
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network&quot;&gt;Wireless
+mesh network&lt;/a&gt; there are around 70 competing schemes for routing
+packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
+B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
+based community mesh networks.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
+(as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
+network.  One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
+vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
+computer.  The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
+least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up.  A
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide&quot;&gt;good
+introduction&lt;/a&gt; is available from the Open Mesh project.  These are
+the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;table&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Setting&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Value&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Protocol / kernel module&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;batman-adv&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;ESSID&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;meshfx@hackeriet&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;td&gt;Channel / Frequency&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;11 / 2462&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;td&gt;Cell ID&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;02:BA:00:00:00:01&lt;/td&gt;
+&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
+in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers.  (See a nice post from
+VillageTelco about
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html&quot;&gt;Information
+about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!&lt;/a&gt;
+for details.)  When these settings are activated and you have some
+other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
+network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
+any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
+but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
+firmware supporting batman-adv.  If anyone know how to use that old
+wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
+us on IRC, either channel
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace&quot;&gt;#oslohackerspace&lt;/a&gt;
+or &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug&quot;&gt;#nuug&lt;/a&gt; on
+irc.freenode.net.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
+research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
+and Innovation called
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf&quot;&gt;The
+reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks&lt;/a&gt; and elsewhere
+learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
+Grünerløkka in Oslo.  So mesh networks are also interesting for
+commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
+to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
+know have closed down the experiment.  Perhaps Telenor or others would
+be interested in a cooperation?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2013-10-12&lt;/strong&gt;: I was just
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005900.html&quot;&gt;told
+by the Serval project developers&lt;/a&gt; that they no longer use
+batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based
+mesh system.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Skolelinux / Debian Edu 7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 8 Oct 2013 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
+Salvador had published a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc&quot;&gt;video on
+Youtube&lt;/a&gt; showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux profile.  This is the profile intended for use at home or
+on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
+services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
+in other word a single user machine).  The result is 11 minutes long,
+and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
+Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
+showing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zygotebody.com/&quot;&gt;Zygote Body 3D model
+of the human body&lt;/a&gt;, but I guess he did not know about those or find
+other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
+advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
+Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
+computers without hard drives by installing one central
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ltsp.org/&quot;&gt;LTSP server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;iframe width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux?  Please let
+me know. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today!</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
+Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team.  The
+complete announcement text can be found at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928&quot;&gt;the Debian News
+section&lt;/a&gt;, translated to several languages.  Please check it out.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon.  One
+can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
+partition is too small.  A workaround is to extend the partition (use
+lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Videos about the Freedombox project - for inspiration and learning</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/&quot;&gt;Freedombox
+project&lt;/a&gt; have been going on for a while, and have presented the
+vision, ideas and solution several places.  Here is a little
+collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA&quot;&gt;FreedomBox -
+2,5 minute marketing film&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE&quot;&gt;Eben Moglen
+discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g&quot;&gt;Eben Moglen -
+Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
+Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010&lt;/a&gt;
+(Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE&quot;&gt;Fosdem 2011
+Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s&quot;&gt;Presentation of
+the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s&quot;&gt; Freedombox -
+Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
+York City in 2012&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck&quot;&gt;Introduction
+to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012&lt;/a&gt;
+(Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ&quot;&gt;Freedom, Out
+of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube) &lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/&quot;&gt;Freedombox
+1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013&lt;/a&gt; (FOSDEM) &lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg&quot;&gt;What is the
+FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
+2013&lt;/a&gt; (Youtube)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A larger list is available from
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations&quot;&gt;the
+Freedombox Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
+Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
+Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
+a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
+The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
+pending in NEW.  The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
+metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload.  Join
+us on &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox&quot;&gt;IRC
+(#freedombox on irc.debian.org)&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss&quot;&gt;the
+mailing list&lt;/a&gt; if you want to help make this vision come true.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       

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-       <item>
-               <title>90 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last update.  Since last summer, I
-have worked on a Norwegian
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
-to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
-law.  Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
-number of strings to translate.  Due to real life constraints, I have
-not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
-I found time to work on it again.  Still lots of work left, but the
-first draft is nearing completion.  I created a graph to show the
-progress of the translation:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;80%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
-proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
-drawings need to be fixed.  There are probably also some index entries
-missing that need to be added.  This can be done by comparing the
-index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
-English docbook version with the paper version.  Last, the colophon
-page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
-done.  I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
-of the index pages.  All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
-docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
-Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;There is still need for translators and people with docbook
-knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
-with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
-translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
-redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
-around?  There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
-If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
-project files currently available from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
-the updated
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;
-and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
-are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
-github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
-saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>First beta release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The first wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
-today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b0 released
-2013-07-27&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-7.1+edu0~b0, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
-Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
-out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
-network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
-services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
-and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
-environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
-the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
-installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
-database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
-directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
-desktop contains
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
-than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
-the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
-and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is the fifth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
-this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
-Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
-versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
-release.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Switched roaming workstation profiles from wicd to network-manager
-   for network configuration, as wicd didn&#39;t work any more.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Changed version numbers of patched gosa and libpam-mklocaluser
-   packages to make sure our locally patched versions will be replaced
-   by the official packages when they are released from Debian. Those
-   installing alpha version need to reinstall or manually downgrade gosa
-   and libpam-mklocaluser.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Added bluetooth tools to the default desktop (bluedevil, blueman).&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Added tools for sharing the desktop on KDE (krdc, krfb).&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Added valgrind to the default installation for easier debugging of
-   crash bugs.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Fixed artwork package to work with gnome, no longer break
-   desktop=gnome installations.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Adjusted installer to now work when forced to use a proxy with the
-   netinst CD.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Fixed code detecting and setting/loading hardware specific
-   setup/firmware to work more robust out of the box.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Adjusted Kerberos setup to detect realm and server settings at
-   install time instead of dynamically at run time. This avoid a crash
-   with krb5-auth-dialog on diskless workstations without a DNS name.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Worked around misfeature in network-manager not calling the dhclient
-   exit hooks, causing automatic proxy configuration and automatic host
-   name setting at run time to work again.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Fixed feature setting the default Iceweasel start page from URL
-   fetched from LDAP, to allow schools to set the global default by
-   updating the dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no LDAP object.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Changed default host name on all networked machines to be unique
-   (generated from MAC or reverse DNS) after boot.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Adjusted partition sizes to make sure they are big enough.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Grub is missing the new artwork.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;KDE fail to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
-    not use the http proxy as it should.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Chromium also fail to use the proxy.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 55d5de9765b6dccd5d9ec33cf1a07109
-&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 996a1d9517740e4d627d100de2d12b23dd545a3f&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: d8f0818c51a78d357de794066f289f69
-&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 49185ca354e8d0543240423746924f76a6cee733&lt;/p&gt;
-
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>How to fix a Thinkpad X230 with a broken 180 GB SSD disk</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today I switched to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html&quot;&gt;my
-new laptop&lt;/a&gt;.  I&#39;ve previously written about the problems I had with
-my new Thinkpad X230, which was delivered with an
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_SSD_520_Series_180_GB_with_Lenovo_firmware_still_lock_up_from_sustained_writes.html&quot;&gt;180
-GB Intel SSD disk with Lenovo firmware&lt;/a&gt; that did not handle
-sustained writes.  My hardware supplier have been very forthcoming in
-trying to find a solution, and after first trying with another
-identical 180 GB disks they decided to send me a 256 GB Samsung SSD
-disk instead to fix it once and for all.  The Samsung disk survived
-the installation of Debian with encrypted disks (filling the disk with
-random data during installation killed the first two), and I thus
-decided to trust it with my data.  I have installed it as a Debian Edu
-Wheezy roaming workstation hooked up with my Debian Edu Squeeze main
-server at home using Kerberos and LDAP, and will use it as my work
-station from now on.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;As this is a solid state disk with no moving parts, I believe the
-Debian Wheezy default installation need to be tuned a bit to increase
-performance and increase life time of the disk.  The Linux kernel and
-user space applications do not yet adjust automatically to such
-environment.  To make it easier for my self, I created a draft Debian
-package &lt;tt&gt;ssd-setup&lt;/tt&gt; to handle this tuning.  The
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ssd-setup.git&quot;&gt;source
-for the ssd-setup package&lt;/a&gt; is available from collab-maint, and it
-is set up to adjust the setup of the machine by just installing the
-package.  If there is any non-SSD disk in the machine, the package
-will refuse to install, as I did not try to write any logic to sort
-file systems in SSD and non-SSD file systems.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I consider the package a draft, as I am a bit unsure how to best
-set up Debian Wheezy with an SSD.  It is adjusted to my use case,
-where I set up the machine with one large encrypted partition (in
-addition to /boot), put LVM on top of this and set up partitions on
-top of this again.  See the README file in the package source for the
-references I used to pick the settings.  At the moment these
-parameters are tuned:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Set up cryptsetup to pass TRIM commands to the physical disk
-    (adding discard to /etc/crypttab)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Set up LVM to pass on TRIM commands to the underlying device (in
-    this case a cryptsetup partition) by changing issue_discards from
-    0 to 1 in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Set relatime as a file system option for ext3 and ext4 file
-    systems.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Tell swap to use TRIM commands by adding &#39;discard&#39; to
-    /etc/fstab.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Change I/O scheduler from cfq to deadline using a udev rule.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Run fstrim on every ext3 and ext4 file system every night (from
-    cron.daily).&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Adjust sysctl values vm.swappiness to 1 and vm.vfs_cache_pressure
-    to 50 to reduce the kernel eagerness to swap out processes.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;During installation, I cancelled the part where the installer fill
-the disk with random data, as this would kill the SSD performance for
-little gain.  My goal with the encrypted file system is to ensure
-those stealing my laptop end up with a brick and not a working
-computer.  I have no hope in keeping the really resourceful people
-from getting the data on the disk (see
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/538/&quot;&gt;XKCD #538&lt;/a&gt; for an explanation why).
-Thus I concluded that adding the discard option to crypttab is the
-right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I considered using the noop I/O scheduler, as several recommended
-it for SSD, but others recommended deadline and a benchmark I found
-indicated that deadline might be better for interactive use.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I also considered using the &#39;discard&#39; file system option for ext3
-and ext4, but read that it would give a performance hit ever time a
-file is removed, and thought it best to that that slowdown once a day
-instead of during my work.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;My package do not set up tmpfs on /var/run, /var/lock and /tmp, as
-this is already done by Debian Edu.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have not yet started on the user space tuning.  I expect
-iceweasel need some tuning, and perhaps other applications too, but
-have not yet had time to investigate those parts.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The package should work on Ubuntu too, but I have not yet tested it
-there.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;As for the answer to the question in the title of this blog post,
-as far as I know, the only solution I know about is to replace the
-disk.  It might be possible to flash it with Intel firmware instead of
-the Lenovo firmware.  But I have not tried and did not want to do so
-without approval from Lenovo as I wanted to keep the warranty on the
-disk until a solution was found and they wanted the broken disks
-back.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB with Lenovo firmware still lock up from sustained writes</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_SSD_520_Series_180_GB_with_Lenovo_firmware_still_lock_up_from_sustained_writes.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_SSD_520_Series_180_GB_with_Lenovo_firmware_still_lock_up_from_sustained_writes.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I wrote about
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html&quot;&gt;the
-problems I experienced with my new X230 and its SSD disk&lt;/a&gt;, which
-was dying during installation because it is unable to cope with
-sustained write.  My supplier is in contact with
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lenovo.com/&quot;&gt;Lenovo&lt;/a&gt;, and they wanted to send a
-replacement disk to try to fix the problem.  They decided to send an
-identical model, so my hopes for a permanent fix was slim.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Anyway, today I got the replacement disk and tried to install
-Debian Edu Wheezy with encrypted disk on it.  The new disk have the
-same firmware version as the original.  This time my hope raised
-slightly as the installation progressed, as the original disk used to
-die after 4-7% of the disk was written to, while this time it kept
-going past 10%, 20%, 40% and even past 50%.  But around 60%, the disk
-died again and I was back on square one.  I still do not have a new
-laptop with a disk I can trust.  I can not live with a disk that might
-lock up when I download a new
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; ISO or
-other large files.  I look forward to hearing from my supplier with
-the next proposal from Lenovo.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The original disk is marked Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB,
-11S0C38722Z1ZNME35X1TR, ISN: CVCV321407HB180EGN, SA: G57560302, FW:
-LF1i, 29MAY2013, PBA: G39779-300, LBA 351,651,888, LI P/N: 0C38722,
-Pb-free 2LI, LC P/N: 16-200366, WWN: 55CD2E40002756C4, Model:
-SSDSC2BW180A3L 2.5&quot; 6Gb/s SATA SSD 180G 5V 1A, ASM P/N 0C38732, FRU
-P/N 45N8295, P0C38732.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The replacement disk is marked Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB,
-11S0C38722Z1ZNDE34N0L0, ISN: CVCV315306RK180EGN, SA: G57560-302, FW:
-LF1i, 22APR2013, PBA: G39779-300, LBA 351,651,888, LI P/N: 0C38722,
-Pb-free 2LI, LC P/N: 16-200366, WWN: 55CD2E40000AB69E, Model:
-SSDSC2BW180A3L 2.5&quot; 6Gb/s SATA SSD 180G 5V 1A, ASM P/N 0C38732, FRU
-P/N 45N8295, P0C38732.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The only difference is in the first number (serial number?), ISN,
-SA, date and WNPP values.  Mentioning all the details here in case
-someone is able to use the information to find a way to identify the
-failing disk among working ones (if any such working disk actually
-exist).&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>July 13th: Debian/Ubuntu BSP and Skolelinux/Debian Edu developer gathering in Oslo</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/July_13th__Debian_Ubuntu_BSP_and_Skolelinux_Debian_Edu_developer_gathering_in_Oslo.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/July_13th__Debian_Ubuntu_BSP_and_Skolelinux_Debian_Edu_developer_gathering_in_Oslo.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The upcoming Saturday, 2013-07-13, we are organising a combined
-Debian Edu developer gathering and Debian and Ubuntu bug squashing
-party in Oslo.  It is organised by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the
-member assosiation NUUG&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-project&lt;/a&gt; together with &lt;a href=&quot;http://bitraf.no/&quot;&gt;the hack space
-Bitraf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It starts 10:00 and continue until late evening.  Everyone is
-welcome, and there is no fee to participate.  There is on the other
-hand limited space, and only room for 30 people.  Please put your name
-on &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2013/07/13/no/Oslo&quot;&gt;the event
-wiki page&lt;/a&gt; if you plan to join us.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
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