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- <title>Mer innsyn i bakgrunnen for fjerning av ODF fra statens standardkatalog</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mer_innsyn_i_bakgrunnen_for_fjerning_av_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mer_innsyn_i_bakgrunnen_for_fjerning_av_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>For cirka en måned siden
-<ahref="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Regjeringen__Fornyingsdepartementet_og_DIFI_g_r_inn_for___fjerne_ODF_som_obligatorisk_standard_i_det_offentlige.html">ba
-jeg om begrunnelse på nektet innsyn i dokumenter</a> om
-standardkatalogen fra Fornyingsdepartementet. I dag fikk jeg svar fra
-Fornyingsdepartementet, og tilgang til dokumentene. Jeg fikk både
-innsyn i vedlegg sendt fra DIFI, og også innsyn i et notat brukt
-internt i Fornyingsdepartementet:</p>
-
+ <title>Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The fourth wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today. This is the release announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released
+2013-07-03</strong></p>
+
+<p>These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux</a>, 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
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
+than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
+
+<p>This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
<ul>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Fornyingsdepartementet/sak-2012-2168/Oppsummering%20av%20h%f8ringen%20om%20endringer%20i%20forskrift%20om%20IT-standarder.pdf">Epost fra DIFI til Fornyingsdepartementet, datert 2012-11-23</a></li>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Fornyingsdepartementet/sak-2012-2168/Oppsummering%20og%20anbefaling%20etter%20h%f8ring.pdf">vedlegg 1, Oppsummering og anbefalinger etter høring av endringer i forskrift om IT-standarer i offentlig forvaltning, datert 2012-11-23</a></li>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Fornyingsdepartementet/sak-2012-2168/Vedlegg%20Om%20h%f8ringe.docx%20(L)(898066).pdf">Notat fra avdeling for IKT og fornying til statsråd i Fornyingsdepartementet om høringen, datert 2013-01-03</a></li>
-
+ <li>Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.</li>
+ <li>Dropped menu-xdg from the KDE desktop option, to drop the Debian
+ submenu. It was not included with Gnome, LXDE or Xfce, so this
+ brings KDE in line with the others.</li>
+ <li>Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as
+ they don't have a desktop menu entry and thus won't show up in the
+ menu now that menu-xdg was removed.</li>
+ <li>Removed the killer system to kill left behind processes on
+ multi-user machines, as it was no longer able to understand when a
+ X display was in use and killed the processes of the active users
+ too.</li>
+ <li>Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy
+ are too few to make the package useful.</li>
</ul>
-
-<p>Det bør nevnes at da jeg ble nektet innsyn hos mottaker
-Fornyingsdepartementet på høringsoppsummeringen som DIFI hadde sendt
-ut, spurte jeg DIFI om innsyn i stedet. Det fikk jeg i løpet av et
-par dager. Moralen er at hvis ikke mottaker ikke vil gi innsyn, spør
-avsender i stedet. Kanskje de har forskjellig forståelse av hva som
-bør holdes skjult for folket. Her er de tilsvarende dokumentene jeg
-fikk innsyn i fra DIFI:</p>
-
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
+ <li>Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.</li>
+ <li>Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed
+ up for some language options.</li>
+ <li>Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.</li>
+ <li>Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.</li>
+ <li>Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way
+ d-i is doing it.</li>
+ <li>Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the
+ debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.</li>
+ <li>Made Roaming Workstation dynamic setup more robust and added draft
+ script setup-ad-client to hook a Roaming Workstation up to a
+ Active Directory server instead of a Debian Edu Main Server.</li>
+ <li>Update system to install needed firmware packages during
+ installation, to work properly in Wheezy.</li>
+ <li>Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).</li>
+ <li>Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop
+ and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.</li>
+ <li>LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to
+ work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.</li>
+</ul>
+<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
<ul>
+ <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+ available yet (698840).</li>
+ <li>Artwork not enabled for all desktops.</li>
+</ul>
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
-<li><a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-DIFI/Epostforsendelse.pdf">Epost fra DIFI til Fornyingsdepartementet, datert 2012-11-23</a></li>
+<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso</a></li>
+ <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .</li>
+</ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-DIFI/Vedlegg%201,%20Oppsummering%20av%20h%f8ring%20om%20endringer%20i%20forskrift%20om%20IT-standarder.pdf">vedlegg 1, Oppsummering og anbefalinger etter høring av endringer i forskrift om IT-standarer i offentlig forvaltning, datert 2012-11-23</a></li>
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c
+<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8</p>
-<li><a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-DIFI/Vedlegg%202,%20Forslag%20til%20endringsforskrift.pdf">Vedlegg 2, Forslag til endringsforskrift, udatert</a></li>
+<p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso</a></li>
+ <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .</li>
+</ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-DIFI/Vedlegg%203%20Forskrift%20om%20IT-standarder%20i%20offentlig%20forvaltning.pdf">Vedlegg 3, Forskrift om IT-standarder i offentlig forvaltning, udatert</a></li>
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac
+<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721</p>
-</ul>
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
-<p>Det jeg synes er mest interessant er endel av aktørene som
-protesterte på fjerningen (Kartverket, Drammen kommune), og hvordan
-høringsoppsummeringen ikke tar stilling til effekten av å fjerne ODF
-fra katalogen.</p>
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Sandy Island - øya som er synlig hver tirsdag og fredag?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sandy_Island____ya_som_er_synlig_hver_tirsdag_og_fredag_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sandy_Island____ya_som_er_synlig_hver_tirsdag_og_fredag_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 7 Apr 2013 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>For en stund tilbake gikk nyheten om
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Island,_New_Caledonia">Sandy
-Island</a>, en øy som var dukket opp på noen kart, men som ikke var
-synlig når en sjekket den på satellittbilder. Dagbladet meldte for
-eksempel at
-«<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/11/22/nyheter/google_maps/google/utenriks/internett/24496816/">denne
-øya finnes på kart, men ikke i virkeligheten</a>». Noe senere begynte
-jeg å lese
-<a href="http://www.gyldendal.no/Barn-og-ungdom/3-6-aar/Den-store-Ruffen-boken">historier
-om Ruffen</a> til mine barn. Dette er historier om sjøormen Ruffen
-skapt av Tor Åge Bringsværd, som starter med følgende beskrivelse:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-«Langt ute i havet ligger en mystisk øy. Den er bare synlig hver
-tirsdag og fredag. Derfor står den ikke på noe kart. På denne øya
-ligger et slott, og i slottet bor en gammel, fin sjøormfamilie.»
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Det virker åpenbart at Hr. Bringsværd tok feil når han trodde den
-ikke var på noe kart, og at noen tydeligvis har vært i nærheten en
-tirsdag eller en fredag og fått den med på et kart, mens
-satellittbildene er tatt på noen av de fem andre dagene i uka og
-dermed ikke ser øya. :)</p>
-
-<p>I følge
-<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/12/03/nyheter/sandy_island/forskning/utenriks/24662158/">en
-senere artikkel i Dagbladet</a> hevder Shaun Higgins, en forsker fra
-New Zealand, at et hvalfangstskip fra 1876 er opprinnelsen til at
-spøkelsesøya i det hele tatt havnet på kartet. Det fremgår ikke fra
-historien hvilken ukedag de var innom.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg har stor sans for Tor Åge Bringsværd. Og han viste nylig en
-svært fin side av seg selv da han sa ja til EFNs forespørsel om å gi
-ut novellen <a href="http://www.efn.no/kodemus/">Kodémus</a> med
-Creative Commons-lisens.</p>
+ <title>Automatically locate and install required firmware packages on Debian (Isenkram 0.4)</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>It annoys me when the computer fail to do automatically what it is
+perfectly capable of, and I have to do it manually to get things
+working. One such task is to find out what firmware packages are
+needed to get the hardware on my computer working. Most often this
+affect the wifi card, but some times it even affect the RAID
+controller or the ethernet card. Today I pushed version 0.4 of the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">Isenkram package</a>
+including a new script isenkram-autoinstall-firmware handling the
+process of asking all the loaded kernel modules what firmware files
+they want, find debian packages providing these files and install the
+debian packages. Here is a test run on my laptop:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
+info: kernel drivers requested extra firmware: ipw2200-bss.fw ipw2200-ibss.fw ipw2200-sniffer.fw
+info: fetching http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Contents-i386.gz
+info: locating packages with the requested firmware files
+info: Updating APT sources after adding non-free APT source
+info: trying to install firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+Preconfiguring packages ...
+Selecting previously deselected package firmware-ipw2x00.
+(Reading database ... 259727 files and directories currently installed.)
+Unpacking firmware-ipw2x00 (from .../firmware-ipw2x00_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb) ...
+Setting up firmware-ipw2x00 (0.28+squeeze1) ...
+#
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>When all the requested firmware is present, a simple message is
+printed instead:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
+info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules. exiting
+#
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>It could use some polish, but it is already working well and saving
+me some time when setting up new machines. :)</p>
+
+<p>So, how does it work? It look at the set of currently loaded
+kernel modules, and look up each one of them using modinfo, to find
+the firmware files listed in the module meta-information. Next, it
+download the Contents file from a nearby APT mirror, and search for
+the firmware files in this file to locate the package with the
+requested firmware file. If the package is in the non-free section, a
+non-free APT source is added and the package is installed using
+<tt>apt-get install</tt>. The end result is a slightly better working
+machine.</p>
+
+<p>I hope someone find time to implement a more polished version of
+this script as part of the hw-detect debian-installer module, to
+finally fix <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/655507">BTS report
+#655507</a>. There really is no need to insert USB sticks with
+firmware during a PXE install when the packages already are available
+from the nearby Debian mirror.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Isenkram 0.2 finally in the Debian archive</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_0_2_finally_in_the_Debian_archive.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_0_2_finally_in_the_Debian_archive.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 3 Apr 2013 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Today the <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">Isenkram
-package</a> finally made it into the archive, after lingering in NEW
-for many months. I uploaded it to the Debian experimental suite
-2013-01-27, and today it was accepted into the archive.</p>
-
-<p>Isenkram is a system for suggesting to users what packages to
-install to work with a pluggable hardware device. The suggestion pop
-up when the device is plugged in. For example if a Lego Mindstorm NXT
-is inserted, it will suggest to install the program needed to program
-the NXT controller. Give it a go, and report bugs and suggestions to
-BTS. :)</p>
+ <title>The value of a good distro wide test suite...</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>In the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a> project, we include a post-installation test suite,
+which check that services are running, working, and return the
+expected results. It runs automatically just after the first boot on
+test installations (using test ISOs), but not on production
+installations (using non-test ISOs). It test that the LDAP service is
+operating, Kerberos is responding, DNS is replying, file systems are
+online resizable, etc, etc. And it check that the PXE service is
+configured, which is the topic of this post.</p>
+
+<p>The last week I've fixed the DVD and USB stick ISOs for our Debian
+Edu Wheezy release. These ISOs are supposed to be able to install a
+complete system without any Internet connection, but for that to
+happen all the needed packages need to be on them. Thanks to our test
+suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to
+cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
+When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
+using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require
+working packages to get it working. And ad the packages changed name
+from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
+debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
+packages during installation. Without our test suite, I suspect we
+would never have discovered this before release. Now it is fixed
+right after we got the ISOs operational.</p>
+
+<p>Another by-product of the test suite is that we can ask system
+administrators with problems getting Debian Edu to work, to run the
+test suite using <tt>/usr/sbin/debian-edu-test-install</tt> and see if
+any errors are detected. This usually pinpoint the subsystem causing
+the problem.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create,
+please join us on
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org</a> and the
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/">debian-edu@</a> mailing
+list.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>EFN nyutgir novellen Kodémus av Tor Åge Bringsværd</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EFN_nyutgir_novellen_Kod_mus_av_Tor__ge_Bringsv_rd.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EFN_nyutgir_novellen_Kod_mus_av_Tor__ge_Bringsv_rd.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>For noen dager siden nevnte jeg at vi jobbet med å typesette en
-novelle med <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">DocBook</a>. I dag ble
-utgivelsen annonsert med følgende pressemelding fra Elektronisk
-Forpost Norge), som jeg gjengir i sin helhet:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
-<p><strong>EFN nyutgir Kodémus:</strong></p>
-
-<p><strong>Tor Åge Bringsværd-novelle om IT og overvåkning fra
-informasjonsteknologiens spedbarndom får nytt liv</strong></p>
-
-<p>Elektronisk Forpost Norge (EFN) er veldig glad for anledningen til
-å nyutgi Tor Åge Bringsværds novelle Kodémus i digitalt format for nye
-(og gamle) generasjoner. Novellen ble skrevet så tidlig som vinteren
-1968, og første gang trykt i novellesamlingen Probok på Gyldendal
-samme år.</p>
-
-<p>Informasjonsteknologi spiller en sentral rolle i Kodémus, og det er
-spennende å sammenligne beskrivelsen av IT fra 1968 med dagens IT i
-2013. Forskjellene er mange -- men det er jammen likhetene også. Ikke
-minst det at idag går jo nesten alle rundt med lillebrødre på seg!</p>
-
-<p>"Riktignok er det ikke påbudt å ha mobil," sier Thomas Gramstad,
-leder i EFN. "Men vi holder på å lage et samfunn der det blir så
-upraktisk eller tungvint å ikke ha det, at man i praksis ikke slipper
-unna. Og disse lillebrødrene sladrer hele tiden til staten (og til
-mange andre) om hvor vi er, hva vi gjør, hva vi bryr oss om, hva vi
-liker..."</p>
-
-<p>Det at Kodémus åpenbart er skrevet i en annen tid med en annen type
-IT og likevel virker så relevant idag, er i seg selv et hardtslående
-tankekors.</p>
-
-<p>Tross sitt IT-tema fantes ikke Kodémus i elektronisk form, og
-frivillige i EFN har skannet inn, OCR-tolket og korrekturlest
-novellen, og deretter kodet den i en rekke digitale formater.</p>
-
-<p>Forfatteren har gitt tillatelse til publisering av Kodémus under ny
-lisens, og novellen utgis av EFN med en Creative Commons (CC)
-fribrukslisens (nærmere bestemt lisensen CC-BY-NC-ND). For leserne
-eller brukerne innebærer dette at de får en klar og standardisert
-beskjed om hvilke rettigheter de har til å dele novellen videre med
-andre. For forfatteren innebærer dette økt synlighet og
-tilgjengelighet for verket, slik at det ikke blir glemt, da
-søkemotorer og nettlesere inneholder egne søkevalg for CC-lisenser, og
-mange brukere søker etter verk som de vet de kan dele og bruke på
-lovlig vis.</p>
-
-<p>EFN oppfordrer andre forfattere om å gi ut sine gamle tekster med
-en fribrukslisens, slik at tekstene ikke blir glemt og for å stimulere
-lovlig deling på nettet. EFN kan være behjelpelig med digitalisering
-og utlegging på nett, i den grad det finnes kapasitet blant EFNs
-medlemmer til dette. Vi mener at nyutgivelser av tekster under frie
-lisenser kan øke interessen rundt forfatterskapet, og vil gjerne bidra
-til dette.</p>
-
-<p>EFN utgir og deler med dette en novelle fra den digitale
-informasjonsteknologiens tidligste barndom. En novelle som fortsatt er
-full av vitalitet og aktualitet, og som derfor kan bidra til, og gi
-ettertanke i dagens debatter om IT, personvern, overvåkning og
-individets frihet og integritet.</p>
-
-<p>Du finner novellen her:
-<br><a href="http://efn.no/kodemus/">http://efn.no/kodemus/</a></p>
-
-<p>i flere forskjellige formater, for ulike plattformer. Per idag
-finnes novellen i disse formatene: EPUB, MOBI, XML, HTML, PDF og
-txt. Det kan bli flere formater senere, og evt. frivillige
-bidragsytere til dette er velkommen.</p>
-
-<p>Kontaktperson for denne pressemeldingen,</p>
-
-<p>Thomas Gramstad
-<br>thomas@efn.no
-<br>4817 6875</p>
-
-<hr>
-
-<p>EFN arbeider for dine borgerrettigheter i IT-samfunnet, for
-nettverks- og delingskultur, personvern og frihet fra overvåkning,
-åpne standarder, brukerstyrt programvare, retten til å kopiere, og
-styrking av det digitale sivilsamfunnet m.m.
-<br><a href="http://efn.no/">www.efn.no</a></p>
-
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Jeg håper flere forfattere ser verdien av å gjøre kulturen
-tilgjengelig for flere, og slår følge med Hr. Bringsværd i å gi ut
-sine verker med bruksvilkår med færre bruksbegrensinger enn
-opphavsretten legger opp til. Selv om jeg gjerne skulle sett at han
-hadde brukt en Creative Commons-lisens som tillot avledede verker og
-kommersiell bruk.</p>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Victor Nițu</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux</a> distribution have users and contributors all around the
+globe. And a while back, an enterprising young man showed up on
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">our IRC channel
+#debian-edu</a> and started asking questions about how Debian Edu
+worked. We answered as good as we could, and even convinced him to
+help us with translations. And today I managed to get an interview
+with him, to learn more about him.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm a 25 year old free software enthusiast, living in Romania,
+which is also my country of origin. Back in 2009, at a New Year's Eve
+party, I had a very nice <strike>beer</strike> discussion with a
+friend, when we realized we have no organised Debian community in our
+country. A few days later, we put together the infrastructure for such
+community and even gathered a nice Debian-ish crowd. Since then, I
+began my quest as a free software hacker and activist and I am
+constantly trying to cover as much ground as possible on that
+field.</p>
+
+<p>A few years ago I founded a small web development company, which
+provided me the flexible schedule I needed so much for my
+activities. For the last 13 months, I have been the Technical Director
+of <a href="http://ceata.org/">Fundația Ceata</a>, which is a free
+software activist organisation endorsed by the FSF and the FSFE, and
+the only one we have in our country.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The idea of participating in the Debian Edu project was a surprise
+even to me, since I never used it before I began getting involved in
+it. This year I had a great opportunity to deliver a talk on
+educational software, and I knew immediately where to look. It was a
+love at first sight, since I was previously involved with some of the
+technologies the project incorporates, and I rapidly found a lot of
+ways to contribute.</p>
+
+<p>My first contributions consisted in translating the installer and
+configuration dialogs, then I found some bugs to squash (I still
+haven't fixed them yet though), and I even got my eyes on some other
+areas where I can prove myself helpful. Since the appetite for free
+software in my country is pretty low, I'll be happy to be the first
+one around here advocating for the project's adoption in educational
+environments, and maybe even get my hands dirty in creating a flavour
+for our own needs. I am not used to make very advanced plannings, so
+from now on, time will tell what I'll be doing next, but I think I
+have a pretty consistent starting point.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Not a long time ago, I was in the position of configuring and
+maintaining a LDAP server on some Debian derivative, and I must say it
+took me a while. A long time ago, I was maintaining a bigger
+Samba-powered infrastructure, and I must say I spent quite a lot of
+time on it. I have similar stories about many of the services included
+with Skolelinux, and the main advantage I see about it is the
+out-of-the box availability of them, making it quite competitive when
+it comes to managing a school's network, for example.</p>
+
+<p>Of course, there is more to say about Skolelinux than the
+availability of the software included, its flexibility in various
+scenarios is something I can't wait to experiment "into the wild" (I
+only played with virtual machines so far). And I am sure there is a
+lot more I haven't discovered yet about it, being so new within the
+project.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>As usual, when it comes to Debian Blends, I see as the biggest
+disadvantage the lack of a numerous team dedicated to the
+project. Every day I see the same names in the changelogs, and I have
+a constantly fear of the bus factor in this story. I'd like to see
+Debian Edu advertised more as an entry point into the Debian
+ecosystem, especially amongst newcomers and students. IMHO there are a
+lot low-hanging fruits in terms of bug squashing, and enough
+opportunities to get the feeling of the Debian Project's dynamics. Not
+to mention it's a very fun blend to work on!</p>
+
+<p>Derived from the previous statement, is the delay in catching up
+with the main Debian release and documentation. This is common though
+to all blends and derivatives, but it's an issue we can all work
+on.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I can hardly imagine myself spending a day without Vim, since my
+daily routine covers writing code and hacking configuration files. I
+am a fan of the Awesome window manager (but I also like the
+Enlightenment project a lot!),
+<a href="http://www.claws-mail.org/">Claws Mail</a> due to its ease of
+use and very configurable behaviour. Recently I fell in love with
+<a href="https://launchpad.net/redshift">Redshift</a>, which helps me
+get through the night without headaches. Of course, there is much more
+stuff in this bag, but I'll need a blog on my own for doing this!</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Well, on this field, I cannot do much more than experiment right
+now. So, being far from having a recipe for success, I can only assume
+that:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>schools would like to get rid of proprietary software</li>
+
+<li>students will love the openness of the system, and will want to
+ experiment with it - maybe we need to harvest the native curiosity
+ of teenagers more?</li>
+
+<li>there is no "right one" when it comes to strategies, but it would
+ be useful to have some success stories published somewhere, so
+ other can get some inspiration from them (I know I'd promote
+ them!)</li>
+
+<li>more active promotion - talks, conferences, even small school
+ lectures can do magical things if they encounter at least one
+ person interested. Who knows who that person might be? ;-)</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>I also see some problems in getting Skolelinux into schools; for
+example, in our country we have a great deal of corruption issues, so
+it might be hard(er) to fight against proprietary solutions. Also,
+people who relied on commercial software for all their lives, would be
+very hard to convert against their will.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Change the font, save the world (and save some money in the process)</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Change_the_font__save_the_world__and_save_some_money_in_the_process_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Change_the_font__save_the_world__and_save_some_money_in_the_process_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Would you like to help the environment and save money at the same
-time, without much sacrifice? A small step could be to change the
-font you use when printing.</p>
-
-<p>Three years ago,
-<a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/04/last-year-printer-comparison-website/">Ars
-Technica</a> reported how the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
-changed their default front from
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial">Arial</a> to
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Gothic">Century
-Gothic</a> to save money. The Century Gothic font uses 30% less toner
-than Arial to print the same text. In other word, you could cut your
-toner costs by 30% (or actually, increase your toner supply life time
-by more than 30%), by simply changing the default font used in your
-prints.</p>
-
-<p>But it is not quite obvious how much one will save by switching.
-The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay said it used $100,000 per year
-on ink and toner cartridges, according to
-<a href="http://www.twincities.com/ci_14833097">a report from
-TwinCities.com</a>, and expected to save between $5,000 and $10,000
-per year by asking staff and students to use a different font. Not
-all PDFs and documents are created internally, and those from external
-sources will most likely still use a different font. Also, the
-Century Gothic font is slightly wider than Arial, and thus might use
-more sheets of paper to print the same text, so the total saving
-depend on the documents printed.</p>
-
-<p>But it is definitely something to consider, if you want to reduce
-the amount of trash, decrease the amount of toner used in the world,
-and save some money in the process.</p>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Jonathan Carter</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>There is a certain cross-over between the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project</a> and <a href="http://www.edubuntu.org/">the Edubuntu
+project</a>, and for example the LTSP packages in Debian are a joint
+effort between the projects. One person with a foot in both camps is
+Jonathan Carter, which I am now happy to present to you.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
+days vary quite a bit since I'm involved in too many things. As I'm
+getting older I'm learning how to focus a bit more :)</p>
+
+<p>I'm also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
+opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
+each other.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I've been somewhat familiar with the project before, but I think my
+first direct exposure to the project was when I met Petter
+[Reinholdtsen] and Knut [Yrvin] at the Edubuntu summit in 2005 in
+London. They provided great feedback that helped the bootstrapping of
+Edubuntu. Back then Edubuntu (and even Ubuntu) was still very new and
+it was great getting input from people who have been around longer. I
+was also still very excitable and said yes to everything and to this
+day I have a big todo list backlog that I'm catching up with. I think
+over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
+been gradually improving, although I think there's a lot that we could
+still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I'm sure
+we'll get there one day.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
+it for pages, but in essence I love that it's a very honest project
+that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
+very high quality work.</p>
+
+<p>I think the advantage of Debian Edu is that it makes many common
+set-up tasks simpler so that administrators can get up and running
+with a lot less effort and frustration. At the same time I think it
+helps to standardise installations in schools so that it's easier for
+community members and commercial suppliers to support.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I had to re-type this one a few times because I'm trying to
+separate "disadvantages" from "areas that need improvement" (which is
+what I originally rambled on about)</p>
+
+<p>The biggest disadvantage I can think of is lack of manpower. The
+project could do so much more if there were more good contributors. I
+think some of the problems are external too. Free software and free
+content in education is a no-brainer but it takes some time to catch
+on. When you've been working with the same proprietary eco-system for
+years and have gotten used to it, it can be hard to adjust to some
+concepts in the free software world. It would be nice if there were
+more Debian Edu consultants across the world. I'd love to be one
+myself but I'm already so over-committed that it's just not possible
+currently.</p>
+
+<p>I think the best short-term solution to that large-scale problem is
+for schools to be pro-active and share their experiences and grow
+their skills in-house. I'm often saddened to see how much money
+educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don't
+have access to after the service has ended and they could've gotten so
+much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
+autonomous.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>My main laptop dual-boots between Debian and Windows 7. I was
+Windows free for years but started dual-booting again last year for
+some games which help me focus and relax (Starcraft II in
+particular). Gaming support on Linux is improving in leaps and bounds
+so I suppose I'll soon be able to regain that disk space :)</p>
+
+<p>Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
+git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I've been torn on
+which desktop environment I like and I'm taking some refuge in Xfce
+while I figure that out. I like tools that keep things simple. I enjoy
+Python and shell scripting. I went to an Arduino workshop recently and
+it was awesome seeing how easy and simple the IDE software was to get
+up and running in Debian compared to the users running Windows and OS
+X.</p>
+
+<p>I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
+using Norton Commander in the early 90's and it stuck (I think the
+people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don't know how to use
+it :p)
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I think trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
+many cases it's appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
+don't think that there's any particular moral or ethical problem with
+that.</p>
+
+<p>I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
+problems in educational institutions and it's just a shame not taking
+advantage of that.</p>
+
+<p>I also think that some curricula need serious review. For example,
+some areas of the world rely heavily on very specific versions of MS
+Office, teaching students to parrot menu items instead of learning the
+general concepts. I think that's very unproductive because firstly, MS
+Office's interface changes drastically every few years and on top of
+that it also locks in a generation to a product that might not be the
+best solution for them.</p>
+
+<p>To answer your question, I believe that the right strategy is to
+educate and inform, giving someone the information they require to
+make a decision that would work for them.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Typesetting a short story using docbook for PDF, HTML and EPUB</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>A few days ago, during a discussion in
-<a href="http://www.efn.no/">EFN</a> about interesting books to read
-about copyright and the data retention directive, a suggestion to read
-the 1968 short story Kodémus by
-<a href="http://web2.gyldendal.no/toraage/">Tore Åge Bringsværd</a>
-came up. The text was only available in old paper books, and thus not
-easily available for current and future generations. Some of the
-people participating in the discussion contacted the author, and
-reported back 2013-03-19 that the author was OK with releasing the
-short story using a <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org/">Creative
-Commons</a> license. The text was quickly scanned and OCR-ed, and we
-were ready to start on the editing and typesetting.</p>
-
-<p>As I already had some experience formatting text in my project to
-provide a Norwegian version of the Free Culture book by Lawrence
-Lessig, I chipped in and set up a
-<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">DocBook</a> processing framework to
-generate PDF, HTML and EPUB version of the short story. The tools to
-transform DocBook to different formats are already in my Linux
-distribution of choice, <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>, so
-all I had to do was to use the
-<a href="http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex</a>,
-<a href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README">dbtoepub</a>
-and <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto/">xmlto</a> tools to do the
-conversion. After a few days, we decided to replace dblatex with
-xsltproc/fop (aka
-<a href="http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets">docbook-xsl</a>),
-to get the copyright information to show up in the PDF and to get a
-nicer &lt;variablelist&gt; typesetting, but that is just a minor
-technical detail.</p>
-
-<p>There were a few challenges, of course. We want to typeset the
-short story to look like the original, and that require fairly good
-control over the layout. The original short story have three
-parts/scenes separated by a single horizontally centred star (*), and
-the paragraphs do not contain only flowing text, but dialogs and text
-that started on a new line in the middle of the paragraph.</p>
-
-<p>I initially solved the first challenge by using a paragraph with a
-single star in it, ie &lt;para&gt;*&lt;/para&gt;, but it made sure a
-placeholder indicated where the scene shifted. This did not look too
-good without the centring. The next approach was to create a new
-preprocessor directive &lt;?newscene?&gt;, mapping to "&lt;hr/&gt;"
-for HTML and "&lt;fo:block text-align="center"&gt;&lt;fo:leader
-leader-pattern="rule" rule-thickness="0.5pt"/&gt;&lt;/fo:block&gt;"
-for FO/PDF output (did not try to implement this in dblatex, as we had
-switched at this time). The HTML XSL file looked like this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;
-&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'&gt;
- &lt;xsl:template match="processing-instruction('newscene')"&gt;
- &lt;hr/&gt;
- &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
-&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;
-&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'&gt;
- &lt;xsl:template match="processing-instruction('newscene')"&gt;
- &lt;fo:block text-align="center"&gt;
- &lt;fo:leader leader-pattern="rule" rule-thickness="0.5pt"/&gt;
- &lt;/fo:block&gt;
- &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
-&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Finally, I came across the &lt;bridgehead&gt; tag, which seem to be
-a good fit for the task at hand, and I replaced &lt;?newscene?&gt;
-with &lt;bridgehead&gt;*&lt;/bridgehead&gt;. It isn't centred, but we
-can fix it with some XSL rule if the current visual layout isn't
-enough.</p>
-
-<p>I did not find a good DocBook compliant way to solve the
-linebreak/paragraph challenge, so I ended up creating a new processor
-directive &lt;?linebreak?&gt;, mapping to &lt;br/&gt; in HTML, and
-&lt;fo:block/&gt; in FO/PDF. I suspect there are better ways to do
-this, and welcome ideas and patches on github. The HTML XSL file now
-look like this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;
-&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'&gt;
- &lt;xsl:template match="processing-instruction('linebreak)"&gt;
- &lt;br/&gt;
- &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
-&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt;
-&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'
- xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"&gt;
- &lt;xsl:template match="processing-instruction('linebreak)"&gt;
- &lt;fo:block/&gt;
- &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
-&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>One unsolved challenge is our wish to expose different ISBN numbers
-per publication format, while keeping all of them in some conditional
-structure in the DocBook source. No idea how to do this, so we ended
-up listing all the ISBN numbers next to their format in the colophon
-page.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to check out the finished result, check out the
-<a href="https://github.com/sickel/kodemus">source repository at
-github</a>
-(<a href="https://github.com/EFN/kodemus">future/new/official
-repository</a>). We expect it to be ready and announced in a few
-days.</p>
+ <title>Fixing the Linux black screen of death on machines with Intel HD video</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>When installing RedHat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu on some machines,
+the screen just turn black when Linux boot, either during installation
+or on first boot from the hard disk. I've seen it once in a while the
+last few years, but only recently understood the cause. I've seen it
+on HP laptops, and on my latest acquaintance the Packard Bell laptop.
+The reason seem to be in the wiring of some laptops. The system to
+control the screen background light is inverted, so when Linux try to
+turn the brightness fully on, it end up turning it off instead. I do
+not know which Linux drivers are affected, but this post is about the
+i915 driver used by the
+<a href="http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv">Packard Bell
+EasyNote LV</a>, Thinkpad X40 and many other laptops.</p>
+
+<p>The problem can be worked around two ways. Either by adding
+i915.invert_brightness=1 as a kernel option, or by adding a file in
+/etc/modprobe.d/ to tell modprobe to add the invert_brightness=1
+option when it load the i915 kernel module. On Debian and Ubuntu, it
+can be done by running these commands as root:</p>
+
+<pre>
+echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
+update-initramfs -u -k all
+</pre>
+
+<p>Since March 2012 there is
+<a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca20efb1a9c2efefc28ad2867e5d6c3f5e1955">a
+mechanism in the Linux kernel</a> to tell the i915 driver which
+hardware have this problem, and get the driver to invert the
+brightness setting automatically. To use it, one need to add a row in
+<a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c">the
+intel_quirks array</a> in the driver source
+<tt>drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c</tt> (look for "<tt>static
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks</tt>"), specifying the PCI device
+number (vendor number 8086 is assumed) and subdevice vendor and device
+number.</p>
+
+<p>My Packard Bell EasyNote LV got this output from <tt>lspci
+-vvnn</tt> for the video card in question:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation \
+ 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] \
+ (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
+ Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0688]
+ Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- \
+ ParErr- Stepping- SE RR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- \
+ <TAbort- <MAbort->SERR- <PERR- INTx-
+ Latency: 0
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
+ Region 0: Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
+ Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
+ Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
+ Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
+ Capabilities: <access denied>
+ Kernel driver in use: i915
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>The resulting intel_quirks entry would then look like this:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
+ ...
+ /* Packard Bell EasyNote LV11HC needs invert brightness quirk */
+ { 0x0156, 0x1025, 0x0688, quirk_invert_brightness },
+ ...
+}
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>According to the kernel module instructions (as seen using
+<tt>modinfo i915</tt>), information about hardware needing the
+invert_brightness flag should be sent to the
+<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel">dri-devel
+(at) lists.freedesktop.org</a> mailing list to reach the kernel
+developers. But my email about the laptop sent 2013-06-03 have not
+yet shown up in
+<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-June/thread.html">the
+web archive for the mailing list</a>, so I suspect they do not accept
+emails from non-subscribers. Because of this, I sent my patch also to
+the Debian bug tracking system instead as
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/710938">BTS report #710938</a>, to make
+sure the patch is not lost.</p>
+
+<p>Unfortunately, it is not enough to fix the kernel to get Laptops
+with this problem working properly with Linux. If you use Gnome, your
+worries should be over at this point. But if you use KDE, there is
+something in KDE ignoring the invert_brightness setting and turning on
+the screen during login. I've reported it to Debian as
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/711237">BTS report #711237</a>, and
+have no idea yet how to figure out exactly what subsystem is doing
+this. Perhaps you can help? Perhaps you know what the Gnome
+developers did to handle this, and this can give a clue to the KDE
+developers? Or you know where in KDE the screen brightness is changed
+during login? If so, please update the BTS report (or get in touch if
+you do not know how to update BTS).</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Regjeringen, FAD og DIFI går inn for å fjerne ODF som obligatorisk standard i det offentlige</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Regjeringen__FAD_og_DIFI_g_r_inn_for___fjerne_ODF_som_obligatorisk_standard_i_det_offentlige.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Regjeringen__FAD_og_DIFI_g_r_inn_for___fjerne_ODF_som_obligatorisk_standard_i_det_offentlige.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I
-<a href="http://standard.difi.no/hoyring/forslag-om-endring-av-forskrift-om-it-standarder-i-offentlig-forvaltning">siste
-høring</a> om
-<a href="http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder">referansekatalogen
-for IT-standarder i offentlig sektor</a>, med høringsfrist 2012-09-30
-(DIFI-sak 2012/498), ble det foreslått å fjerne ODF som obligatorisk
-standard når en publiserte dokumenter som skulle kunne redigeres
-videre av mottaker. NUUG og andre protesterte på forslaget, som er et
-langt steg tilbake når det gjelder å sikre like rettigheter for alle
-når en kommuniserer med det offentlige. For noen dager siden ble jeg
-oppmerksom på at Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT (DIFI) og
-Fornyings-,administrasjons- og kirkedepartementet (FAD) har
-konkludert, og oversendt forslag til regjeringen i saken. FADs
-dokument
-<a href="http://www.oep.no/search/result.html?period=none&descType=both&caseNumber=2012%2F2168&senderType=both&documentType=all&list2=94&searchType=advanced&Search=S%C3%B8k+i+journaler">2012/2168</a>-8,
-«Utkast til endring av standardiseringsforskriften» datert 2013-02-06
-har følgende triste oppsummering fra høringen i saken:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-Det kom noen innvendinger på forslaget om å fjerne ODF som
-obligatorisk standard for redigerbare dokumenter. Innvendingene har
-ikke blitt ilagt avgjørende vekt.
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Ved å fjerne ODF som obligatorisk format ved publisering av
-redigerbare dokumenter setter en Norge tiår tilbake. Det som vil skje
-er at offentlige etater går tilbake til kun å publisere dokumenter på
-et av de mange formatene til Microsoft Office, og alle som ikke
-aksepterer bruksvilkårene til Microsoft eller ikke har råd til å bruke
-penger på å få tilgang til Microsoft Office må igjen basere seg på
-verktøy fra utviklerne som er avhengig av å reversutvikle disse
-formatene. I og med at ISO-spesifikasjonen for OOXML ikke komplett og
-korrekt spesifiserer formatene til MS Office (men er nyttige å titte i
-når en reversutvikler), er en tilbake til en situasjon der en ikke har
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fri_og__pen_standard__slik_Digistan_ser_det.html">en
-fri og åpen standard</a> å forholde seg til, men i stedet må springe
-etter Microsoft. Alle andre leverandører enn Microsoft vil dermed ha
-en seriøs ulempe. Det er som å fjerne krav om bruk av meter som
-måleenhet, og heretter aksepterer alle måleenheter som like gyldige,
-når en vet at den mest brukte enheten vil være armlengden til Steve
-Ballmer slik Microsoft måler den.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg er ikke sikker på om forslaget er vedtatt av regjeringen ennå.
-Kristian Bergem hos DIFI nevnte på et møte forrige tirsdag at han
-trodde det var vedtatt i statsråd 8. mars, men jeg har ikke klart å
-finne en skriftlig kilde på regjeringen.no som bekrefter dette.
-Kanskje det ennå ikke er for sent...</p>
-
-<p>Jeg ba i forrige uke om innsyn i dokument 6, 7 og 8 i FAD-saken, og
-har i dag fått innsyn i dokument 7 og 8. Ble nektet innsyn i
-dokumentet med tittelen «Oppsummering av høring om endringer i
-forskrift om IT-standarder i offentlig forvaltning» med hjemmel i
-off. lovens §15.1, så det er vanskelig å vite hvordan argumentene fra
-høringen ble mottatt og forstått av saksbehandleren hos DIFI. Lurer
-på hvordan jeg kan klage på at jeg ikke fikk se oppsummeringen. Fikk
-tre PDFer tilsendt fra FAD,
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-FAD/20130115%20Notat%20FAD%20-%20EHF.pdf%20(L)(889185).pdf">Endring av underversjon i EHF</a>,
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-FAD/Bakgrunnsnotat%20knyttet%20til%20versjon%20av%20EHF%20standarden%20i%20Forskrift%20om%20IT-standarder%20i%20offentlig%20sektor.pdf">Bakgrunnsnotat knyttet til versjon av EHF standarden i Forskrift om IT-standarder i offentlig sektor</a> og
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-FAD/Utkast%20Kongelig%20resolusjon.docx%20(L)(898064).pdf">Utkast til endring av standardiseringsforskriften</a>, hvis du vil ta en titt.</p>
+ <title>Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today. This is the release announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
+2013-06-10</strong></p>
+
+<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
+alpha2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux</a>, 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
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
+than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
+
+<p>This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1)
+<li>Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703).
+<li>Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4.
+<li>Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default.
+<li>Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default.
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used.
+<li>Updated translation of the installation.
+<li>New Romanian translation.
+<li>Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat.
+<li>Fix roaming workstation setup (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login).
+<li>Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments.
+<li>New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile.
+<li>Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS.
+<li>More testsuite tests.
+<li>Make automatic proxy configuration more robust.
+<li>Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration.
+
+<li>Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
+LTSP in Wheezy.</li>
+
+<li>Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
+them up with GOsa².</li>
+
+<li>Update IMAP server setup. </li>
+
+<li>Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
+slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
+entered password). </li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.</li>
+
+<li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
+missing import feature).</li>
+
+<li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). </li>
+
+<li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
+own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
+unfixed.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+
+<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
+
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178
+<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419</p>
+
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Via
-<a href="https://twitter.com/pcwizz/status/313044373262716930">twitter</a>
-I just discovered that <a href="http://pcwizz.net/">Pcwizz</a> have
-done a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzTZ61Pcuc">video
-review</a> on Youtube of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux
-/ Debian Edu</a> version 6. He installed the standalone profile and
-the video show a walk-through of of the menu content, demonstration of
-a few programs and his view of our distribution.</p>
-
-<p>There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might
-have heard wrong). While looking thought the Graphics menu:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-"Basically everything you ever need in a school environment."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-"So, yeah, a bit bloated. It kept all the Debian stuff in there, just
-to keep it nice and GNU. So, I do not want to go on about it, but
-lets give it 7 out of 10. I am not going to use it. That is because
-I am not deploying a school network. There may be some mythical
-feature to help you deploy Skolelinux on a school network."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>To bad he did not test the server profile, and discovered the PXE
-installation option. It make it possible to install only the main
-server from CD, and the rest of the machines via the net, and might be
-considered the mythical feature he talk about. :)</p>
-
-<p>While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment
-about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem:
-
-<blockquote>
-"[The K menu] have a special Debian section for software that no-one
-is going to look at, because it contain lots of junky stuff that you
-actually don't need in the education distribution, but have just been
-included because it isn't stripped out for some reason."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and
-Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries">one
-consistent menu system</a> instead of two incomplete and partly
-inconsistent menu systems.</p>
-
-<p>The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe
-embedding:</p>
-
-<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wPzTZ61Pcuc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+ <title>Is there a PHP expert in the building? Debian Edu need help!</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Here is a call for help from the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project.
+We have two problems blocking the release of the Wheezy version we
+hope to get released soon. The two problems require some with PHP
+skills, and we seem to lack anyone with both time and PHP skills in
+the project:
+
+<ol>
+
+<li>It is impossible to log into the slbackup web interface
+ (slbackup-php) using the root user and password. This is
+ <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/700257">BTS report #700257</a>.
+ This used to work, but stopped working some time since Squeeze.
+ Perhaps some obsolete PHP feature was used?</li>
+
+<li>It is not possible to "mass import" user lists in Gosa, neither
+ using ldif nor using CSV files. The feature was disabled after a
+ major rewrite of Gosa, and need to be ported to the new system.
+ This is <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/698840">BTS report
+ #698840</a>.</li>
+
+</ol>
+
+<p>If you can help us, please join us on IRC
+(<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org</a>) and provide patches via the BTS.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Til frikanalens støttespillere - fra styret i Frikanalen</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Til_frikanalens_st_ttespillere___fra_styret_i_Frikanalen.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Til_frikanalens_st_ttespillere___fra_styret_i_Frikanalen.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Min venn Erik Vold har på vegne av styret i
-<a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a> sendt ut
-<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/frikanalen/2013-March/000054.html">følgende
-epost</a> til alle kanalens medlemmer og støttespillere, i et forsøk
-på å redde kanalen etter at kulturdepartementet kuttet all
-finansiering i fjor høst. Jeg fikk meldingen som
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>-styremedlem, og mener den
-trenger et større publikum. Jeg gjengir den derfor i sin helhet,
-inkludert lenken til budsjett og regnskapsutkast, etter
-<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/frikanalen/2013-March/000061.html">avtale
-med Erik</a>.</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-<p>Til Frikanalens støttespillere</p>
-
-<p>Frivillighetens TV kanal har med minimal støtte avviklet daglige
-sendinger siden 2009 og til tross for at statsstøtten uteble i år, er
-vi nå i full gang med å utvikle et nytt TV system som foreningen selv
-vil eie. Departementet fikk dessverre ikke med seg at nettet vil
-berike TV sendingen fremfor å gjøre den overflødig. De har nå overlatt
-finansieringen av videre drift til frivilligheten og vi håper derfor
-på deres hjelp til å søke om midler. På kjøpet får dere langt flere
-muligheter til å nå ut med deres budskap og med utbyggingen av Hybrid
-TV (nett på TV) kan vi sammen motbevise departementets påstand.</p>
-
-<p>Kostnaden med denne utviklingen er svært lav ettersom de fleste
-programmererne jobber gratis og alt er basert på åpen kildekode der
-man deler hverandres bidrag til kringkastingsorienterte systemer. I
-samarbeid med flere europeiske kanaler i EBU (SVT, BBC, NRK, ZDF, ARD,
-France Televisions etc) ønsker vi å bygge opp et nettverk for delt
-support og åpen kildekode der Frikanalen er den eneste sandkassen hvor
-ny teknologi kan testes på luft. Riks TV åpner for annonsering av
-nettinnhold relatert til det du ser på TV (streamevents i HbbTV)
-allerede i sommer. Med støtte fra Media Netwerk som drifter Frikanalen
-samt Sofia Digital som stiller med Hybrid TV server er vi & NRK sikret
-en sentral rolle i utprøvingen. Det vil da bli mulig og streame
-direkte til Riks TV sine nye mottakere (og nye IDTV'er) i HD samt at
-TV'n kan annonsere en link til deres organisasjonssider, med
-oppdaterte nyheter (RSS feeds), relaterte videoer etc., under
-avviklingen av deres innslag.</p>
-
-<p>Vi tror sendingene på den nye nettstyrte TV-kanalen vil bli rikere enn
-på den kommersielle plattformen vi har vært på så langt. Brukerne vil
-nå få en tettere integrasjon med sosiale medier samt at innholdet
-etterhvert kommer ut på Hybrid TV og mobile enheter. Teknisk ansvarlig
-i Frikanalen, Erik Vold, er sentral i utviklingen av streamingdelen
-for tv.nrk.no (årets produkt i PC World) og erfaringen NRK har gjort
-på mobile enheter kan videreføres til oss. Det er heller ingen tvil om
-at Hybrid TV vil bli en suksess også i Norge. Erik sitter i Nordig som
-har vedtatt en felles standard for de nordiske kringkasterne basert på
-HbbTV. Denne standarden bruker web-protokoller som gjør det like
-enkelt og billig å utvikle tjenester for Hybrid TV som å lage en
-nettside. Samtlige nye TV apparater solgt i Norden vil ha støtte for
-HbbTV og med det tror vi oppslutningen vil bli like stor som ellers i
-Europa (Tyskland og Frankrike tredoblet antall HbbTV-brukere i
-fjor). Vi forventer også mye d rahjelp fra disse foregangslandene. Vår
-utvikler Tore Sinding Bekkedal er i skriv ende stund på en HbbTV
-workshop med EBU-medlemmer hos IRT i München der han på vegne av NRK
-tester og utvikler ny stremingteknologi (MPEG- DASH) for
-mobile enheter og hybrid TV.</p>
-
-<p>Frikanalen har forøvrig flyttet inn i nye kostnadsfrie lokaler på
-Chateau Neuf. Med massiv hjelp fra frivillige får vi der en
-flerkameraregi i egnede lokaler. Dette åpner for debatter, konserter,
-events og mye spennende innhold i samarbeid med Student TV'ene.</p>
-
-<p>Med hjelp fra NUUG har også streamingdelen av systemet fått plass på
-Uninett (Forskningsparken) og dermed er vi på Norges beste
-internettlinjer. Vi åpner med dette for live mottak fra samtlige
-medlemmer og på sikt kan vi tilby HD på hybrid TV og PC / MAC / mobil.</p>
-
-<p>Avvikling på luft skjer allerede med egenutviklede løsninger i åpen
-kildekode (playout og live-koding). Det er også mulig å se første
-byggetrinn med programoversikt og videoer på nett, men foreløpig kun
-for nettleserne Opera, Chrome og Firefox:
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/guide/">http://beta.frikanalen.tv/guide/</a>
-og
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/">http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/</a>. Kom
-gjerne med ønsker og tilbakemeldinger til vår hovedutvikler Benjamin
-Bruheim: grolgh (at) gmail.com</p>
-
-<p>Med en tettere tilknytning til Akademia og NRK, er det god grunn til å
-tro at utviklingen vil skyte fart og at vi raskere kommer ut med
-dagsaktuelt innhold.</p>
-
-<p>Vi sender i dag på Riks TV og Altibox, men ikke lenger på TV8. Det er
-viktig for våre brukere igjen å komme ut på Get og Canal Digital,
-dermed er det svært heldig at vi nå har formidlingsplikt på kabel. Til
-tross for at det tar noe tid å få nye avtaler på plass, med frivillig
-juridisk bistand, vil vi sannsynligvis komme bedre ut i andre enden
-også her. Formidlingsplikten gjelder samtlige kabeldistribusjoner i
-Norge, ikke bare de regionene TV8 hadde avtale med.</p>
-
-<p>Om alt dette skal se dagens lys er vi avhengig av en
-grunnfinansiering. Deres medlemsavgifter er i så måte et svært viktig
-bidrag som vi er veldig takknemlige for. Vi ser oss likevel nødt til
-å be dere om å delta i arbeidet med å dekke de resterende
-driftskostnader. Frikanalen sin arbeidskapasitet er betydelig redusert
-etter at foreningen ikke lenger kunne finansiere en daglig leder, men
-allmøtet kan åpne for at flere bidrar til inntjening (Ekstraordinær
-generalforsamling foreslo å tillate sponsorplakater på sendeflaten og
-deler av disse inntektene kan tilfalle kanalen). Håper alle
-medlemmene kan hjelpe oss med å skrive søknader og skaffe sponsorer,
-eller i det minste komme med gode forslag til inntjening. Det er ikke
-mye som skal til for å klare videre drift, kun 0,5 mill. pr år.</p>
-
-<p>Med en støtte som tilsvarer en norsk kortfilm vil vi kunne redde
-sendearkivet for flere tusen videoer bygget opp av frivilligheten
-gjennom 5 år og vi dobler kapasiteten for å ta imot nye (De som
-leverer HD vil for øvrig kunne få HD på nett, mobil og hybrid TV).</p>
-
-<p>Vi vil også kunne videreføre konsesjonen på Riks TV og realisere en
-formidlingsplikt på kabel som har en årlig verdi på ca. 5 millioner
-kroner (når over 2/3 av Norges befolkning).</p>
-
-<p>Uten støtte står verdens eneste nasjonale nettstyrte åpne TV kanal i
-fare for å forsvinne. En konkursbegjæring vil gjøre at utstyrsparken
-går til advokatsalærer i behandling av boet og kreditorene vil ikke
-kunne få dekket sine krav. Det mener vi ikke bare er urett ovenfor
-långiverne, men det er urett mot alle de som har bidratt med å bygge
-opp frivillighetens eneste sendearkiv og ikke minst alle de som i dag
-jobber frivillig med å videreutvikle TV-systemet.</p>
-
-<p>Håper dere i likhet med styret ser verdien i videre drift og kan melde
-tilbake innen årsmøtet (Kontaktinformasjon til styret og frivillige
-utviklere er i kopifeltet).</p>
-
-<p>Vennligst fyll ut det blå feltet i regnearket under med det dere tror
-er mulig å få inn. Det dere skriver her er ikke bindende, men gir
-styret en indikasjon på om videre drift er mulig. Det blir tatt
-stilling til av generalforsamlingen medio mars. Setter derfor pris på
-om alle kan bidra med forslag til støtte eller antatte verdier fra
-søknad/spons innen det.</p>
-
-<p>Forhåpentligvis når vi også ønsket budsjett på 1 mill. pr år. Med det
-kan vi nedbetale gjelden raskere og sørge for en bedre
-tilgjengelighet, samt raskere utvikling:</p>
-
-<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AouVL_e9_H1QdDgyX01kbElvcWI0UjFQbVNGbFIyUmc&usp=sharing#gid=0">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AouVL_e9_H1QdDgyX01kbElvcWI0UjFQbVNGbFIyUmc&usp=sharing#gid=0</a></p>
-
-<p>Med vennlig hilsen
-<br>Styret i Frikanalen</p>
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Jeg håper noen av mine lesere med dette ser verdien av Frikanalen
-og melder seg inn for å sende sine videoer ut på TV til RiksTV og
-Altibox-seerne. Det haster. Årsmøtet i foreningen Frikanalen skal
-straks avholdes, og innen den tid må en redningsplan være på plass.
-NUUG bidrar allerede litt ved å organisere utviklersamlinger og
-finansiere litt mat og drikke til de frivillige som stiller opp på
-dugnadsbasis for å utvikle den tekniske løsningen. Det er ikke nok
-til å redde kanalen, men gir et lite steg i riktig retning.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-03-13 13:00</strong>: Epostlistelenkene
-fungerer ikke lenger, da epostarkivet nå ikke lenger er tilgjengelig
-for ikke-abonnenter. Korrigerte teksten fra styret litt etter
-oppfordring fra Frikanalen-styret.</p>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Cédric Boutillier</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>It has been a while since my last English
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+interview last November. But the developers and translators are still
+pulling along to get the Wheezy based release out the door, and this
+time I managed to get an interview from one of the French translators
+in the project, Cédric Boutillier.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I am 34 year old. I live near Paris, France. I am an assistant
+professor in probability theory. I spend my daytime teaching
+mathematics at the university and doing fundamental research in
+probability in connexion with combinatorics and statistical physics.</p>
+
+<p>I have been involved in the Debian project for a couple of years
+and became Debian Developer a few months ago. I am working on Ruby
+packaging, publicity and translation.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I came to the Debian Edu project after a call for translation of
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals">the
+Debian Edu manual</a> for the release of Debian Edu Squeeze. Since
+then, I have been working on updating the French translation of the
+manual.
+
+<p>I had the opportunity to make an installation of Debian Edu in a
+virtual machine when I was preparing localised version of some screen
+shots for the manual. I was amazed to see it worked out of the box and
+how comprehensive the list of software installed by default was.</p>
+
+<p>What amazed me was the complete network infrastructure directly
+ready to use, which can and the nice administration interface provided
+by <a href="https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/">GOsa²</a>. What pleased
+me also was the fact that among the software installed by default,
+there were many "traditional" educative software to learn languages,
+to count, to program... but also software to develop creativity and
+artistic skills with music (<a href="http://ardour.org/">Ardour</a>,
+<a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a>) and
+movies/animation (I was especially thinking of
+<a href="http://linuxstopmotion.sourceforge.net/">Stopmotion</a>).</p>
+
+<p>I am following the development of Debian Edu and am hanging out on
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu</a>.
+Unfortunately, I don't much time to get more involved in this
+beautiful project.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>For me, the main advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu are its
+community of experts and its precise documentation, as well as the
+fact that it provides a solution ready to use.</p>
+
+<p>I would add also the fact that it is based on the rock solid Debian
+distribution, which ensures stability and provides a huge collection
+of educational free software.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Maybe the lack of manpower to do lobbying on the
+project. Sometimes, people who need to take decisions concerning IT do
+not have all the elements to evaluate properly free software
+solutions. The fact that support by a company may be difficult to find
+is probably a problem if the school does not have IT personnel.</p>
+
+<p>One can find support from a company by looking at
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp">the
+wiki dokumentation</a>, where some countries already have a number of
+companies providing support for Debian Edu, like Germany or
+Norway. This list is easy to find readily from the manual. However,
+for other countries, like France, the list is empty. I guess that
+consultants proposing support for Debian would be able to provide some
+support for Debian Edu as well.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I am using the KDE Plasma Desktop. But the pieces of software I use
+most runs in a terminal: Mutt and OfflineIMAP for emails, latex for
+scientific documents, mpd for music. VIM is my editor of choice. I am
+also using the mathematical software
+<a href="http://www.scilab.org/en/scilab/about">Scilab</a> and
+<a href="http://www.sagemath.org/index.html">Sage</a> (built from
+source as not completely packaged for Debian, yet).
+
+<p><strong>Do you have any suggestions for teachers interested in
+using the free software in Debian to teach mathematics and
+statistics?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I do not have any "nice" recommendations for statistics. At our
+university, we use both <a href="http://www.r-project.org/">R</a> and
+Scilab to teach statistics and probabilistic simulations. For
+geometry, there are nice programs:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.drgeo.eu/">drgeo</a> and
+<a href="http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kig">kig</a> to do
+constructions in planar geometry
+
+<li><a href="http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/download/kali.html">kali</a>
+to discover symmetry groups (the so-called wallpapers and frieze
+groups), although the interface looks a bit old.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>I like also
+<a href="http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/cantor">cantor</a>, which
+provides a uniform interface to SciLab, Sage,
+<a href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Octave">Octave</a>, etc...</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>My suggestions would be to</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>advertise the reduction of costs when free software is used.</li>
+
+<li>communicate about the quality of free software projects, using
+ well known examples like Firefox, ThunderBird and
+ OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.</li>
+
+<li>advertise the living and strong community around the project.</li>
+
+<li>show that it is not more difficult to use than any other
+ system.</li>
+
+</ul>
</description>
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- <title>Osloskolen bryter loven når de sender politihunder inn i klasserom med elever</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Osloskolen_bryter_loven_n_r_de_sender_politihunder_inn_i_klasserom_med_elever.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Osloskolen_bryter_loven_n_r_de_sender_politihunder_inn_i_klasserom_med_elever.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Om noen år skal mine barn antagelig begynne på skolen i Oslo. Der
-skal de blant annet lære seg å verdsette og håndheve sine egne grenser
-og beskytte sin personlige integritet og privatsfære. Det blir ikke
-enkelt når ledelsen i Osloskolen med vitende og vilje legger opp til å
-krenke elevenes privatsfære ved å la politiet ransake elevene med
-narkohund i klasserommet. Jon Wessel-Aas har publisert noen
-interessante kommentarer om hvorfor dette er ulovlig.
+ <title>Åpent møte på onsdag om bruken av Microsoft Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg jobber til daglig ved <a href="http://www.uio.no/">Universitetet
+i Oslo</a>, en institusjon som lenge har vektlagt verdien av åpne
+standarder og fri programvare. Men noe har endret seg, og for en
+liten stund tilbake annonserte USIT at dagens fungerende e-postsystemet
+basert på fri programvare skulle byttes ut med Microsoft Exchange og
+at Microsoft Outlook skulle bli den best fungerende men antagelig ikke
+eneste støttede e-postklienten. Annonseringen har ført til flere
+protester og <a href="http://folk.uio.no/dssantos/nooutlookatuio/">en
+underskriftskampanje</a>, initiert av Diana Santos, der så langt 253
+personer har signert. Prosjektet
+<a href="http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike/">NIKE (Ny integrert
+kalender/e-post)</a> ble initiert for å se på mulige løsninger med
+utgangspunkt i at en kombinert epost/kalenderløsning var påkrevd, og
+prosjektet
+<a href="http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike-implementasjon/">NIKE-implementasjon</a>
+er igang med å rulle ut MS Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo.</p>
+
+<p>For kun kort tid siden ble det annonsert at det blir et åpent møte
+med ledelsen hos universitetet i Oslo med disse planene som tema:</p>
+
+<p>Tid: <strong>Onsdag 2013-06-05 kl. 10:00</strong>
+<br>Sted: <strong>9. etasje i Lucy Smiths hus (admin-bygget)</strong></p>
+
+<p> Det kan være en god plass å stille opp hvis en som meg ikke tror
+valget av Microsoft Exchange som sentral epostinfrastruktur er et
+heldig valg for Norges ledende forskningsuniversitet, men at en er mer
+tjent med å selv
+<a href="http://nuug.no/dokumenter/kronikk-friprog-itsikkerhet.shtml">beholde
+kontrollen over egen infrastruktur</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Saken har ført til endel presseoppslag så langt. Her er de jeg har
+fått med meg:</p>
<ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=1293">Bruk av narkohund i
- klasserom – fra vondt til verre</a> (2013-03-09)</li>
+<li>2013-05-29
+ <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system">Forsvarer
+ nytt IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=1018">Ulovlig og
- menneskerettsstridig bruk av narkohund i klasserom</a>
- (2012-03-12)</li>
+<li>2013-05-23
+ <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html">UiO
+ innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy</a> - Uniforum</li>
+
+
+<li>2013-05-22
+ <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system">Protestgruppe
+ vil stanse IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
+
+
+<li>2013-05-15
+ <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html">UiO
+ må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem</a> - Uniforum</li>
</ul>
-<p>Jeg er veldig glad for at han bidrar med argumenter og forklaringer
-vi foreldre kan ta med oss når vi skal protestere på og få en slutt på
-denne forkastelige praksisen. Narkotikaproblemet må adresseres på
-andre måter som ikke krenker barn og ungdoms integritet. Jeg ønsker
-ikke at mine barn skal læres opp til å akseptere radering av
-privatlivets fred, men heller at de skal læres opp til å sloss imot
-den innføringen av stadig mer totalitær overvåkning som har pågått
-over mange år i Norge. </p>
+
</description>
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