<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle_stiller_p__Oslo_Maker_Faire_i_januar_2014.html">Dugnadsnett for alle stiller på Oslo Maker Faire i januar 2014</a></div>
- <div class="date">10th December 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Helga 18. og 19. januar 2014 arrangeres
-<a href="http://makerfaireoslo.no/no/program/dugnadsnett">Oslo Maker
-Faire</a>, og <a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">Dugnadsnett for
-alle</a> har fått plass! Planen er å ha et bord med en plakat der vi
-forteller om hva Dugnadsnett for alle er for noe, og et lite verksted
-der vi hjelper folk som er interessert i å få opp sin egen mesh-node.
-Jeg gleder meg til å se hvordan prosjektet blir mottatt der.</p>
-
-<p>Målet med dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo er å få på plass et datanett
-for kommunikasjon ved hjelp av radio-repeaterstasjoner (kalt
-mesh-noder) som gjør at en kan direkte kommunisere med slekt, venner
-og bekjente i Oslo via andre som deltar i dugnadsnettet, samt gjøre
-det mulig komme ut på internett via dugnadsnettet. Første delmål er å
-kunne sende SMS-meldinger vha. IP-telefoni løsningen
-<a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project</a> mellom
-deltagerne i Dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo. Formålet er å ta tilbake
-kontrollen over egen nett-infrastruktur og gjøre det dyrere å bedrive
-massiv innsamling av informasjon om borgernes bruk av datanett.</p>
-
-<p>Høres dette interessant ut? Bli med på prosjektet, fortell oss
-hvor du kunne tenke deg å sette opp en radio-repeater (slik at folk i
-nærheten kan finne hverandre ved hjelp av
-<a href="http://flynor.net/mesh/mesh.php">kartet over planlagte og
-eksisterende radio-repeatere</A>), bli med på epostlisten
-<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/dugnadsnett">dugnadsnett
-(at) nuug.no</a> og stikk innom
-<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#dugnadsnett.no">IRC-kanalen
-#dugnadsnett.no</a>. Så langt er det planlagt over 40
-radio-repeatere, med VPN-forbindelser via Internet for å la de delene
-av nettet som ikke når hverandre via radio kunne snakke med hverandre
-likevel.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_bye_subkeys_pgp_net__welcome_pool_sks_keyservers_net.html">Good bye subkeys.pgp.net, welcome pool.sks-keyservers.net</a></div>
+ <div class="date">10th September 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a talk with the
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> about
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20140909-sks-keyservers/">the
+OpenPGP keyserver pool sks-keyservers.net</a>, and was very happy to
+learn that there is a large set of publicly available key servers to
+use when looking for peoples public key. So far I have used
+subkeys.pgp.net, and some times wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net when the former
+were misbehaving, but those days are ended. The servers I have used
+up until yesterday have been slow and some times unavailable. I hope
+those problems are gone now.</p>
+
+<p>Behind the round robin DNS entry of the
+<a href="https://sks-keyservers.net/">sks-keyservers.net</a> service
+there is a pool of more than 100 keyservers which are checked every
+day to ensure they are well connected and up to date. It must be
+better than what I have used so far. :)</p>
+
+<p>Yesterdays speaker told me that the service is the default
+keyserver provided by the default configuration in GnuPG, but this do
+not seem to be used in Debian. Perhaps it should?</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, I've updated my ~/.gnupg/options file to now include this
+line:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>With GnuPG version 2 one can also locate the keyserver using SRV
+entries in DNS. Just for fun, I did just that at work, so now every
+user of GnuPG at the University of Oslo should find a OpenGPG
+keyserver automatically should their need it:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+% host -t srv _pgpkey-http._tcp.uio.no
+_pgpkey-http._tcp.uio.no has SRV record 0 100 11371 pool.sks-keyservers.net.
+%
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Now if only
+<a href="http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp/">the
+HKP lookup protocol</a> supported finding signature paths, I would be
+very happy. It can look up a given key or search for a user ID, but I
+normally do not want that, but to find a trust path from my key to
+another key. Given a user ID or key ID, I would like to find (and
+download) the keys representing a signature path from my key to the
+key in question, to be able to get a trust path between the two keys.
+This is as far as I can tell not possible today. Perhaps something
+for a future version of the protocol?</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html">Debian Edu interview: Klaus Knopper</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 6th December 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since I managed to publish the last interview,
-but the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
-Skolelinux</a> community is still going strong, and yesterday we even
-had a new school administrator show up on
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu">#debian-edu</a> to share
-his success story with installing Debian Edu at their school. This
-time I have been able to get some helpful comments from the creator of
-Knoppix, Klaus Knopper, who was involved in a Skolelinux project in
-Germany a few years ago.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I am Klaus Knopper. I have a master degree in electrical
-engineering, and is currently professor in information management at
-the university of applied sciences Kaiserslautern / Germany and
-freelance Open Source software developer and consultant.</p>
-
-<p>All of this is pretty much of the work I spend my days with. Apart
-from teaching, I'm also conducting some more or less experimental
-projects like the <a href="http://www.knoppix.org">Knoppix GNU/Linux live
-system</a> (Debian-based like Skolelinux),
-<a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html">ADRIANE</a>
-(a blind-friendly talking desktop system) and
-<a href="http://www.knopper.net/linbo/index-en.html">LINBO</a>
-(Linux-based network boot console, a fast remote install and repair
-system supporting various operating systems).</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>The credit for this have to go to Kurt Gramlich, who is the German
-coordinator for Skolelinux. We were looking for an all-in-one open
-source community-supported distribution for schools, and Kurt
-introduced us to Skolelinux for this purpose.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Quick installation,</li>
- <li>works (almost) out of the box,</li>
- <li>contains many useful software packages for teaching and learning,</li>
- <li>is a purely community-based distro and not controlled by a
- single company,</li>
- <li>has a large number of supporters and teachers who share their
- experience and problem solutions.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Skolelinux is - as we had to learn - not easily upgradable to
- the next version. Opposed to its genuine Debian base, upgrading to
- a new version means a full new installation from scratch to get it
- working again reliably.
-
- <li>Skolelinux is based on Debian/stable, and therefore always a
- little outdated in terms of program versions compared to Edubuntu or
- similar educational Linux distros, which rather use Debian/testing
- as their base.
-
- <li>Skolelinux has some very self-opinionated and stubborn default
- configuration which in my opinion adds unnecessary complexity and is
- not always suitable for a schools needs, the preset network
- configuration is actually a core definition feature of Skolelinux
- and not easy to change, so schools sometimes have to change their
- network configuration to make it "Skolelinux-compatible".
-
- <li>Some proposed extensions, which were made available as
- contribution, like secure examination mode and lecture material
- distribution and collection, were not accepted into the mainline
- Skolelinux development and are now not easy to maintain in the
- future because of Skolelinux somewhat undeterministic update
- schemes.</li>
-
- <li>Skolelinux has only a very tiny number of base developers
- compared to Debian.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>For these reasons and experience from our project, I would now
-rather consider using plain Debian for schools next time, until
-Skolelinux is more closely integrated into Debian and becomes
-upgradeable without reinstallation.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>GNU/Linux with LXDE desktop, bash for interactive dialog and
-programming, texlive for documentation and correspondence,
-occasionally LibreOffice for document format conversion. Various
-programming languages for teaching.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Strong arguments are</p>
-
-<ul>
-
- <li>Knowledge is free, and so should be methods and tools for
- teaching and learning.</li>
-
- <li>Students can learn with and use the same software at school, at
- home, and at their working place without running into license or
- conversion problems.</li>
-
- <li>Closed source or proprietary software hides knowledge rather
- than exposing it, and proprietary software vendors try to bind
- customers to certain products. But teachers need to teach
- science, not products.</li>
-
- <li>If you have everything you for daily work as open source, what
- would you need proprietary software for?</li>
-
-</ul>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Do_you_need_an_agreement_with_MPEG_LA_to_publish_and_broadcast_H_264_video_in_Norway_.html">Do you need an agreement with MPEG-LA to publish and broadcast H.264 video in Norway?</a></div>
+ <div class="date">25th August 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Two years later, I am still not sure if it is legal here in Norway
+to use or publish a video in H.264 or MPEG4 format edited by the
+commercially licensed video editors, without limiting the use to
+create "personal" or "non-commercial" videos or get a license
+agreement with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com">MPEG LA</a>. If one
+want to publish and broadcast video in a non-personal or commercial
+setting, it might be that those tools can not be used, or that video
+format can not be used, without breaking their copyright license. I
+am not sure.
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trenger_en_avtale_med_MPEG_LA_for___publisere_og_kringkaste_H_264_video_.html">Back
+then</a>, I found that the copyright license terms for Adobe Premiere
+and Apple Final Cut Pro both specified that one could not use the
+program to produce anything else without a patent license from MPEG
+LA. The issue is not limited to those two products, though. Other
+much used products like those from Avid and Sorenson Media have terms
+of use are similar to those from Adobe and Apple. The complicating
+factor making me unsure if those terms have effect in Norway or not is
+that the patents in question are not valid in Norway, but copyright
+licenses are.</p>
+
+<p>These are the terms for Avid Artist Suite, according to their
+<a href="http://www.avid.com/US/about-avid/legal-notices/legal-enduserlicense2">published
+end user</a>
+<a href="http://www.avid.com/static/resources/common/documents/corporate/LICENSE.pdf">license
+text</a> (converted to lower case text for easier reading):</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+<p>18.2. MPEG-4. MPEG-4 technology may be included with the
+software. MPEG LA, L.L.C. requires this notice: </p>
+
+<p>This product is licensed under the MPEG-4 visual patent portfolio
+license for the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer for (i)
+encoding video in compliance with the MPEG-4 visual standard (“MPEG-4
+video”) and/or (ii) decoding MPEG-4 video that was encoded by a
+consumer engaged in a personal and non-commercial activity and/or was
+obtained from a video provider licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4
+video. No license is granted or shall be implied for any other
+use. Additional information including that relating to promotional,
+internal and commercial uses and licensing may be obtained from MPEG
+LA, LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com. This product is licensed under
+the MPEG-4 systems patent portfolio license for encoding in compliance
+with the MPEG-4 systems standard, except that an additional license
+and payment of royalties are necessary for encoding in connection with
+(i) data stored or replicated in physical media which is paid for on a
+title by title basis and/or (ii) data which is paid for on a title by
+title basis and is transmitted to an end user for permanent storage
+and/or use, such additional license may be obtained from MPEG LA,
+LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com for additional details.</p>
+
+<p>18.3. H.264/AVC. H.264/AVC technology may be included with the
+software. MPEG LA, L.L.C. requires this notice:</p>
+
+<p>This product is licensed under the AVC patent portfolio license for
+the personal use of a consumer or other uses in which it does not
+receive remuneration to (i) encode video in compliance with the AVC
+standard (“AVC video”) and/or (ii) decode AVC video that was encoded
+by a consumer engaged in a personal activity and/or was obtained from
+a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. No license is granted
+or shall be implied for any other use. Additional information may be
+obtained from MPEG LA, L.L.C. See http://www.mpegla.com.</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Note the requirement that the videos created can only be used for
+personal or non-commercial purposes.</p>
+
+<p>The Sorenson Media software have
+<a href="http://www.sorensonmedia.com/terms/">similar terms</a>:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+
+<p>With respect to a license from Sorenson pertaining to MPEG-4 Video
+Decoders and/or Encoders: Any such product is licensed under the
+MPEG-4 visual patent portfolio license for the personal and
+non-commercial use of a consumer for (i) encoding video in compliance
+with the MPEG-4 visual standard (“MPEG-4 video”) and/or (ii) decoding
+MPEG-4 video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a personal and
+non-commercial activity and/or was obtained from a video provider
+licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4 video. No license is granted or
+shall be implied for any other use. Additional information including
+that relating to promotional, internal and commercial uses and
+licensing may be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See
+http://www.mpegla.com.</p>
+
+<p>With respect to a license from Sorenson pertaining to MPEG-4
+Consumer Recorded Data Encoder, MPEG-4 Systems Internet Data Encoder,
+MPEG-4 Mobile Data Encoder, and/or MPEG-4 Unique Use Encoder: Any such
+product is licensed under the MPEG-4 systems patent portfolio license
+for encoding in compliance with the MPEG-4 systems standard, except
+that an additional license and payment of royalties are necessary for
+encoding in connection with (i) data stored or replicated in physical
+media which is paid for on a title by title basis and/or (ii) data
+which is paid for on a title by title basis and is transmitted to an
+end user for permanent storage and/or use. Such additional license may
+be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com for
+additional details.</p>
+
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Some free software like
+<a href="https://handbrake.fr/">Handbrake</A> and
+<a href="http://ffmpeg.org/">FFMPEG</a> uses GPL/LGPL licenses and do
+not have any such terms included, so for those, there is no
+requirement to limit the use to personal and non-commercial.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle__a_wireless_community_network_in_Oslo__take_shape.html">Dugnadsnett for alle, a wireless community network in Oslo, take shape</a></div>
- <div class="date">30th November 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>If you want the ability to electronically communicate directly with
-your neighbors and friends using a network controlled by your peers in
-stead of centrally controlled by a few corporations, or would like to
-experiment with interesting network technology, the
-<a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">Dugnasnett for alle i Oslo</a>
-might be project for you. 39 mesh nodes are currently being planned,
-in the freshly started initiative from NUUG and Hackeriet to create a
-wireless community network. The work is inspired by
-<a href="http://freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a>,
-<a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan
-Network</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofnet">Roofnet</a>
-and other successful mesh networks around the globe. Two days ago we
-held a workshop to try to get people started on setting up their own
-mesh node, and there we decided to create a new mailing list
-<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/dugnadsnett">dugnadsnett
-(at) nuug.no</a> and IRC channel
-<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#dugnadsnett.no">#dugnadsnett.no</a> to
-coordinate the work. See also the NUUG blog post
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/E_postliste_og_IRC_kanal_for_Dugnadsnett_for_alle_i_Oslo.shtml">announcing
-the mailing list and IRC channel</a>.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2014_08_03.html">Lenker for 2014-08-03</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 3rd August 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Lenge siden jeg har hatt tid til å publisere lenker til skriverier
+jeg har hatt glede og nytte av av å lese. Her er en liten norsk
+lenkesamling.</p>
+
+<p><ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/sjoslag-om-fiskemilliardene-1.11576109">Sjøslag
+om fiskemilliardene</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-03-03) - litt om hvordan de
+norske felles matressurser røves fra felleskapet.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/Matkrisen-kan-komme-til-Norge-7522341.html">Matkrisen
+kan komme til Norge</a> (Aftenposten 2014-4-01) - hvordan miljøendringene vil gjøre matproduksjonen i Norge mer sårbar.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/norge-trenger-kornlager-1.11726744">Norge
+trenger kornlager</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-06-07) Chr. Anton Smedshaug
+forteller litt om Norges sårbare matsituasjon etter at Staten solgte
+Norges kornlager.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/norge/pst-vil-overvake-datatastaturer-1.11583286">PST
+vil overvåke datatastaturer</a> (NRK 2014-03-04) - PST ønsker retten
+til å bryte seg inn på private PC-er og legge inn spionprogrammer.
+Hvilket nok vil gjøre Linux mer populært, men gjør at en i enda mindre
+grad enn i dag kan stole på datamaskiner - neppe en god ide for
+samfunnet totalt sett.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.osloby.no/nyheter/Ruter-fremstar-som-et-pobelvelde-7490624.html">«Ruter
+fremstår som et pøbelvelde»</a> (OsloBy 2014-03-05) - et eksempel på
+hvordan kollektivtransportselskapet i Oslo håndterer sine kunder.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/05/nyheter/dbtv/reklame/clear_channel/32123808/">Clear
+Channel nektet å vise Greenpeace-reklame i Oslo</a> (Dagbladet
+2014-03-05) - forteller litt om hvordan hvilke budskap som når ut i
+det offentlige rom kontrolleres i Norge.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/06/kultur/meninger/debattinnlegg/kronikk/22_juli/32175854/">Svarte
+ikke på kritikken</a> (Dagbladet 2014-03-06) - innlegg fra Norsk
+presseforbund der de nok en gang tar opp det forkastelige i at
+politiet nå har full tilgang til å bedrive telefonkontroll av
+advokater.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Putin-spiller-poker_-ikke-sjakk-I-sjakk-har-man-regler-7495368.html">«Putin
+spiller poker, ikke sjakk. I sjakk har man regler.»</a> (Aftenposten
+2014-03-08) - sjakklegenden Kasparov forklarer litt om hvordan han ser
+at Russlands politikk fungerer, blant annet i lys av started av
+Ukraina-krisen.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/I-seng-med-fienden-7492605.html">I
+seng med fienden</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-10) - kronikk fra Eirik
+H. Vinje om hvordan menn og kvinner settes opp mot hverandre i det
+offentlige ordskiftet, kanskje på sviktende grunnlag.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/Hvor-er-elevene-7501690.html">Fritt
+frem for skulk</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-14) - skildring av hvordan
+norske elever i dag ikke lenger har rimelig krav om oppmøte på
+skolen.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/digital/Datalagringsdirektiv-avslorte-abort_-sykdom-og-vapenkjop--7503014.html">«Datalagringsdirektiv»
+avslørte abort, sykdom og våpenkjøp</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-14) - om
+hvordan forskere har dokumentert hvordan innsamling av metadata om
+telefoni og Internett-bruk kan være svært avslørende.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/14/kultur/meninger/ideer/lordagskommentaren/agnes_ravatn/32302856/">Konsentrasjonssvikt
+på pensum</a> (Dagbladet 2014-03-14) - Kommentar om hvordan (feil)
+bruk IKT i skolen kan ødelegge mer enn det bidrar til læring.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://doremusnor.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/reservasjonsrettsstaten/">Reservasjonsrettsstaten</a>
+(blogg fra Doremus 2014-02-09) - morsom beskrivelse om hvordan
+regjeringens forslag til reservasjonsrett for leger kan utvides til å
+gjelde alles samvittighet.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Autoritar-gjokunge-7514915.html">Autoritær
+gjøkunge</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-25) - Kronikk av Bjørn Stærk om
+snurpenots-overvåkningen som varsleren Snowden dokumenterte.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://blogg.friprog.no/2014/03/leveransekrise-i-offentlig-sektor-mener-mike-bracken-executive-director-of-digital-in-the-cabinet-office/">Leveransekrise
+i Offentlig sektor – mener Mike Bracken, Executive Director of Digital
+in the Cabinet Office</a> (blogg fra Friprog-senteret 2014-03-26).</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/26/kultur/meninger/kronikk/etiopia/avlytting/32499687/">Norge
+må stanse avlyttingen</a> (Dagbladet 2014-03-26) - leserinnlegg fra
+Felix Horne der han ber om at Norge gjør en innsats for å få slutt på
+overvåkning av innbyggerne som gjøres i Norge av Etiopiske
+myndigheter.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Demokrati-er-ingen-naturlig-styreform-7521957.html">Demokrati
+er ingen naturlig styreform</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-01) - kronikk av
+Stein Ringen om hvordan demokrati som styreform går tapt når
+innbyggerne tar det for gitt.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/ytringsansvar-ere-enhver-tilladte_-1.11618934">Ytringsansvar
+ere Enhver tilladte!</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-04-01) - innspill fra Trygve
+Svensson og Helge Svare om at hver enkelt av oss har et ansvar for å
+ytre oss i den offentlige debatten.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/Jeg-er-ingen-god-samfunnsborger-7527128.html">Jeg
+er ingen god samfunnsborger</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-16), kronikk av
+Simen Tveitereid om alternative måter å motiveres i samfunnet, uten å
+hige etter mer penger og flere ting.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Avgjorelsen-far-umiddelbar-virkning-7531811.html">DLD-dommen:
+Avgjørelsen får umiddelbar virkning</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-10) -
+kronikk av Høyres Michael Tetzschner, en partiutbryter i DLD-saken som
+stemte nei til DLD i Stortinget i 2011.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=1466">Datalagringsdirektivets
+endelikt</a> (blogg fra John Wessel-Aas 2014-04-11) - oppsummering
+av hvordan direktivet ble funnet ugyldig i EU-domstolen.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/kronikk-kapitulasjonspresidenten/a/10147713/">Kronikk:
+Kapitulasjonspresidenten</a> (VG 2014-04-22) - kronikk av Einar
+Kr. Steffenak om hvordan Stortingspresidenten og regjeringen viser sin
+prinsippløshet i møte med Kina.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Innerst-inne-er-alle-nordmenn-7542617.html">Innerst
+inne er alle nordmenn</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-27) - kronikk fra Bjørn
+Stærk om hvordan vi i Vesten i stor grad baserer oss på en fantasi om
+at alle i verden bærer på en drøm om å bli som oss.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/uviten/Det-italienske-senatet-gav-seg-selv-134-milliarder-euro-i-sluttpakke--7575312.html">Det
+italienske senatet gav seg selv 134 milliarder euro i sluttpakke</a>
+(Aftenposten 2014-06-19) - forsker Simen Gaure forteller hvordan
+løgner og fantasi fra nettkilder i stor grad blir akseptert som
+sannhet - antagelig også av deg og meg.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/05/30/kultur/meninger/kronikk/skole/33576392/">Et
+forsvar for bråkmakerne</a> (Dagbladet 2014-05-30) - kronikk av Dag
+Øystein Nome som beskriver hvordan dagens skole ikke fungerer så godt
+for mange elever.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.osloby.no/nyheter/Betalte-med-slitt-seddel---havnet-i-arresten-7617208.html">Betalte
+med slitt seddel - havnet i arresten</a> (Osloby 2014-06-25)) -
+dokumentasjon av Oslopolitiets angrep på vår alles rett til å ferdes
+uten elektronisk sporing. Jeg bruker kontanter i så stor grad som
+mulig da banken ikke har noe med hvor jeg er og hva jeg kjøper. Vi
+som gjør dette risikerer som beskrevet overgrep som frihetsberøvelse
+og registrering og lagring av fingeravtrykk og bilde i politiets
+database over mistenkte.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/leder/Fredsprisen-til-Snowden-7620422.html">Fredsprisen
+til Snowden</a> (Aftenposten 2014-06-28) - leder som forklarer hvorfor
+varsleren Snowden bør få fredsprisen.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/08/01/kultur/meninger/dbmener/leder1/34598010/">Strategi
+for politistaten</a> (Dagbladet 2014-08-01) - leder som advarer om
+sterke krefter som bruker terrortrusselen til å lirke Norge nærmere å
+bli en politistat.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/vi-ma-tenke-nytt-om-narkotika-1.11859322">Vi
+må tenke nytt om narkotika</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-08-03) - Mark Lewis
+forklarer hvorfor legalisering og offentlig kontroll av
+narkotikamarkedet er mye bedre enn å overlate det til kriminelle.</li>
+
+
+</ul></p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvor_godt_fungerer_Linux_klienter_mot_MS_Exchange_.html">Hvor godt fungerer Linux-klienter mot MS Exchange?</a></div>
- <div class="date">26th November 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Jeg
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html">skrev
-i juni om protestene</a> på planene til min arbeidsplass,
-<a href="http://www.uio.no/">Universitetet i Oslo</a>, om å gå bort fra
-fri programvare- og åpne standardløsninger for å håndtere epost,
-vekk fra IETF-standarden SIEVE for filtrering av epost og over til
-godseide spesifikasjoner og epostsystemet Microsoft Exchange.
-Protestene har fått litt ny omtale i media de siste dagene, i tillegg
-til de oppslagene som kom i mai.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Bernd_Zeitzen.html">Debian Edu interview: Bernd Zeitzen</a></div>
+ <div class="date">31st July 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The complete and free “out of the box” software solution for
+schools, <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a>, is used quite a lot in Germany, and one of the people
+involved is Bernd Zeitzen, who show up on the project mailing lists
+from time to time with interesting questions and tips on how to adjust
+the setup. I managed to interview him this summer.</p>
-<ul>
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-<li>2013-11-26 <a href="http://www.version2.dk/artikel/gigantisk-outlook-konvertering-moeder-protester-paa-universitet-55147">Gigantisk Outlook-konvertering møder protester på universitet</a> - versjon2.dk</li>
+<p>My name is Bernd Zeitzen and I'm married with Hedda, a self
+employed physiotherapist. My former profession is tool maker, but I
+haven't worked for 30 years in this job. 30 years ago I started to
+support my wife and become her officeworker and a few years later the
+administrator for a small computer network, today based on Ubuntu
+Server (Samba, OpenVPN). For her daily work she has to use Windows
+Desktops because the software she needs to organize her business only
+works with Windows . :-(</p>
+
+<p>In 1988 we started with one PC and DOS, then I learned to use
+Windows 98, 2000, XP, …, 8, Ubuntu, MacOSX. Today we are running a
+Linux server with 6 Windows clients and 10 persons (teacher of
+children with special needs, speech therapist, occupational therapist,
+psychologist and officeworkers) using our Samba shares via OpenVPN to
+work with the documentations of our patients.</p>
-<li>2013-11-25
- <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article279407.ece">Microsoft-protest
- på Universitetet</a> - Computerworld</li>
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
-<li>2013-11-25
- <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/11/uio-bor-bruke-apen-programvare.html">Kjemper
- mot innføring av Microsoft Exchange på UiO</a> - Uniforum</li>
+<p>Two years ago a friend of mine asked me, if I want to get a job in
+his school (<a href="http://www.gymnasium-harsewinkel.de/">Gymnasium
+Harsewinkel</a>). They started with Skolelinux / Debian Edu and they
+were looking for people to give support to the teachers using the
+software and the network and teaching the pupils increasing their
+computer skills in optional lessons. I'm spending 4-6 hours a week
+with this job.</p>
-<li>2013-11-25
- <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/11/uio-utsetter-innforing-av-nytt-e-postsystem.html">Utsetter
- innføring av nytt e-postsystem</a> - Uniforum</li>
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
-<li>2013-05-29
- <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system">Forsvarer
- nytt IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
+<p>The independence.</p>
-<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>
+<p>First: Every person is allowed to use, share and develop the
+software. Even if you are poor, you are allowed to use the software
+included in Skolelinux/Debian Edu and all the other Free Software.</p>
-<li>2013-05-22
- <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system">Protestgruppe
- vil stanse IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
+<p>Second: The software runs on old machines and this gives us the
+possibility to recycle computers, weeded out from offices. The
+servers and desktops are running for more than two years and they are
+working reliable. </p>
-<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>
+<p>We have two servers (one tjener and one terminal server), 45
+workstations in three classrooms and seven laptops as a mobile
+solution for all classrooms. These machines are all booting from the
+terminal server. In the moment we are installing 30 laptops as mobile
+workstations. Then the pupils have the possibility to work with these
+machines in their classrooms. Internet access is realized by a WLAN
+router, connected to the schools network. This is all done without a
+dedicated system administrator or a computer science teacher.</p>
-</ul>
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Teachers and pupils are Windows users. <Irony on> And Linux
+isn't cool. It's software for freaks using the command line. <Irony
+off> They don't realize the stability of the system. </p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Samba,
+Apache, MySQL, Joomla!, … and Skolelinux / Debian Edu)</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-<p>Prosjektledelsen har fortalt at dette skal fungere like godt for
-Linux-brukere som for brukere av Microsoft Windows og Apple MacOSX,
-men jeg lurer på hva slags erfaringer Linux-brukere i eksisterende
-miljøer som bruker MS Exchange har gjort. Hvis du har slik erfaring
-hadet det vært veldig fint om du kan send et leserbrev til
-<a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/">Uniforum</a> og fortelle om hvor
-greit det er å bruke Exchange i kryss-platform-miljøer? De jeg har
-snakket med sier en greit får lest e-posten sin hvis Exchange har
-slått på IMAP-funksjonalitet, men at kalender og møtebooking ikke
-fungerer godt for Linux-klienter. Jeg har ingen personlig erfaring å
-komme med, så jeg er nysgjerrig på hva andre kan dele av erfaringer
-med universitetet.</p>
-
-<p>Mitt ankerpunkt mot å bytte ut fri programvare som fungerer godt
-med godseid programvare er at en mister kontroll over egen
-infrastruktur, låser seg inn i en løsning det vil bli dyrt å komme ut
-av, uten at en får funksjonalitet en ikke kunne skaffet seg med fri
-programvare, eventuelt videreutviklet med de pengene som brukes på
-overgangen til MS Exchange. Personlig planlegger jeg å fortsette å
-laste ned all eposten min til lokal maskin for indeksering og lesing
-med <a href=="http://notmuchmail.org">notmuch</a>, så jeg håper jeg
-ikke blir veldig skadelidende av overgangen.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://dinis.linguateca.pt/Diana/ImotMSUiO.html">Underskriftslista
-for oss som er mot endringen</a>, som omtales i artiklene, er fortsatt
-åpen for de som vil signere på oppropet. Akkurat nå er det 298
-personer som har signert.</p>
+<p>In Germany we have the situation: every school is free to decide
+which software they want to use. This decision is influenced by
+teachers who learned to use Windows and MS Office. They buy a PC with
+Windows preinstalled and an additional testing version of MS
+Office. They don't know about the possibility to use Free Software
+instead. Another problem are the publisher of school books. They
+develop their software, added to the school books, for Windows.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_15.html">New chrpath release 0.15</a></div>
- <div class="date">24th November 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>After many years break from the package and a vain hope that
-development would be continued by someone else, I finally pulled my
-acts together this morning and wrapped up a new release of chrpath,
-the command line tool to modify the rpath and runpath of already
-compiled ELF programs. The update was triggered by the persistence of
-Isha Vishnoi at IBM, which needed a new config.guess file to get
-support for the ppc64le architecture (powerpc 64-bit Little Endian) he
-is working on. I checked the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/chrpath">Debian</a>,
-<a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chrpath">Ubuntu</a> and
-<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/chrpath">Fedora</a>
-packages for interesting patches (failed to find the source from
-OpenSUSE and Mandriva packages), and found quite a few nice fixes.
-These are the release notes:</p>
-
-<p>New in 0.15 released 2013-11-24:</p>
-
-<ul>
-
- <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project to work
- with newer architectures. Thanks to isha vishnoi for the heads
- up.</li>
-
- <li>Updated README with current URLs.</li>
-
- <li>Added byteswap fix found in Ubuntu, credited Jeremy Kerr and
- Matthias Klose.</li>
-
- <li>Added missing help for -k|--keepgoing option, using patch by
- Petr Machata found in Fedora.</li>
-
- <li>Rewrite removal of RPATH/RUNPATH to make sure the entry in
- .dynamic is a NULL terminated string. Based on patch found in
- Fedora credited Axel Thimm and Christian Krause.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>You can
-<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the
-new version 0.15 from alioth</a>. Please let us know via the Alioth
-project if something is wrong with the new release. The test suite
-did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also
-include a testsuite check.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/98_6_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html">98.6 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</a></div>
+ <div class="date">23rd July 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>This summer I finally had time to continue working on the Norwegian
+<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book
+<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig,
+to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with todays copyright
+law. Yesterday, I finally completed translated the book text. There
+are still some foot/end notes left to translate, the colophon page
+need to be rewritten, and a few words and phrases still need to be
+translated, but the Norwegian text is ready for the first proof
+reading. :) More spell checking is needed, and several illustrations
+need to be cleaned up. The work stopped up because I had to give
+priority to other projects the last year, and the progress graph of
+the translation show this very well:</p>
+
+<p><img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"></p>
+
+<p>If you want to read the result, check out the
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>
+project pages and the
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>,
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
+and HTML version available in the
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive">archive
+directory</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
+you find any.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RSS_kilde_for_friteksts_k_i_offentlige_anbud_hos_Doffin.html">RSS-kilde for fritekstsøk i offentlige anbud hos Doffin</a></div>
- <div class="date">22nd November 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I fjor sommer lagde jeg en
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html">offentlig
-tilgjengelig SQL-database over offentlig anbud</a> basert på skraping
-av HTML-data fra Doffin. Den har stått og gått siden da, og har nå
-ca. 28000 oppføringer. Jeg oppdaget da jeg tittet innom at noen
-oppføringer var ikke blitt med, antagelig på grunn av at de fikk
-tildelt sekvensnummer i Doffin en godt stund før de ble publisert,
-slik at min nettsideskraper som fortsatte skrapingen der den slapp
-sist ikke fikk dem med seg. Jeg har fikset litt slik at skraperen nå
-ser litt tilbake i tid for å se om den har gått glipp av noen
-oppføringer, og har skrapet på nytt fra midten av september 2013 og
-fremover. Det bør dermed bli en mer komplett database for kommende
-måneder. Hvis jeg får tid skal jeg forsøke å skrape "glemte" data fra
-før midten av september 2013, men tør ikke garantere at det blir
-prioritert med det første. </p>
-
-<p>Men målet med denne bloggposten er å vise hvordan denne
-Doffin-databasen kan brukes og integreres med en RSS-leser, slik at en
-kan la datamaskinen holde et øye med Doffin-annonseringer etter
-nøkkelord. En kan lage sitt eget søk ved å besøke
-<ahref="https://classic.scraperwiki.com/docs/api?name=norwegian-doffin#sqlite">API-et
-hos Scraperwiki</a>, velge format rss2 og så legge inn noe ala dette i
-"query in SQL":</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-select title, scrapedurl as link, abstract as description,
- publishdate as pubDate from 'swdata'
- where abstract like '%linux%' or title like '%linux%'
- order by seq desc limit 20
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>Dette vil søke opp alle anbud med ordet linux i oppsummering eller
-tittel. En kan lage mer avanserte søk hvis en ønsker det. URL-en som
-dukker opp nederst på siden kan en så gi til sin RSS-leser (jeg bruker
-akregator selv), og så automatisk få beskjed hvis det dukker opp anbud
-med det aktuelle nøkkelordet i teksten. Merk at kapasiteten og
-ytelsen hos Scraperwiki er begrenset, så ikke be RSS-leseren hente ned
-oftere enn en gang hver dag.</p>
-
-<p>Du lurer kanskje på hva slags informasjon en kan få ut fra denne
-databasen. Her er to RSS-kilder, med søkeordet
-"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25linux%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25linux%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">linux</a>",
-søkeordet
-"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">fri
-programvare</a>"
-og søkeordet
-"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25odf%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25odf%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">odf</a>".
-Det er bare å søke på det en er interessert i. Kopier gjerne
-datasettet og sett opp din egen tjeneste hvis du vil gjøre mer
-avanserte søk. SQLite-filen med Doffin-oppføringer kan lastes med fra
-Scraperwiki for de som vil grave dypere.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html">From English wiki to translated PDF and epub via Docbook</a></div>
+ <div class="date">17th June 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project</a> provide an instruction manual for teachers, system
+administrators and other users that contain useful tips for setting up
+and maintaining a Debian Edu installation. This text is about how the
+text processing of this manual is handled in the project.</p>
+
+<p>One goal of the project is to provide information in the native
+language of its users, and for this we need to handle translations.
+But we also want to make sure each language contain the same
+information, so for this we need a good way to keep the translations
+in sync. And we want it to be easy for our users to improve the
+documentation, avoiding the need to learn special formats or tools to
+contribute, and the obvious way to do this is to make it possible to
+edit the documentation using a web browser. We also want it to be
+easy for translators to keep the translation up to date, and give them
+help in figuring out what need to be translated. Here is the list of
+tools and the process we have found trying to reach all these
+goals.</p>
+
+<p>We maintain the authoritative source of our manual in the
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/">Debian
+wiki</a>, as several wiki pages written in English. It consist of one
+front page with references to the different chapters, several pages
+for each chapter, and finally one "collection page" gluing all the
+chapters together into one large web page (aka
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/AllInOne">the
+AllInOne page</a>). The AllInOne page is the one used for further
+processing and translations. Thanks to the fact that the
+<a href="http://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a> installation on
+wiki.debian.org support exporting pages in
+<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">the Docbook format</a>, we can fetch
+the list of pages to export using the raw version of the AllInOne
+page, loop over each of them to generate a Docbook XML version of the
+manual. This process also download images and transform image
+references to use the locally downloaded images. The generated
+Docbook XML files are slightly broken, so some post-processing is done
+using the <tt>documentation/scripts/get_manual</tt> program, and the
+result is a nice Docbook XML file (debian-edu-wheezy-manual.xml) and
+a handfull of images. The XML file can now be used to generate PDF, HTML
+and epub versions of the English manual. This is the basic step of
+our process, making PDF (using dblatex), HTML (using xsltproc) and
+epub (using dbtoepub) version from Docbook XML, and the resulting files
+are placed in the debian-edu-doc-en binary package.</p>
+
+<p>But English documentation is not enough for us. We want translated
+documentation too, and we want to make it easy for translators to
+track the English original. For this we use the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/poxml.html">poxml</a> package,
+which allow us to transform the English Docbook XML file into a
+translation file (a .pot file), usable with the normal gettext based
+translation tools used by those translating free software. The pot
+file is used to create and maintain translation files (several .po
+files), which the translations update with the native language
+translations of all titles, paragraphs and blocks of text in the
+original. The next step is combining the original English Docbook XML
+and the translation file (say debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.po), to
+create a translated Docbook XML file (in this case
+debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.xml). This translated (or partly
+translated, if the translation is not complete) Docbook XML file can
+then be used like the original to create a PDF, HTML and epub version
+of the documentation.</p>
+
+<p>The translators use different tools to edit the .po files. We
+recommend using
+<a href="http://www.kde.org/applications/development/lokalize/">lokalize</a>,
+while some use emacs and vi, others can use web based editors like
+<a href="http://pootle.translatehouse.org/">Poodle</a> or
+<a href="https://www.transifex.com/">Transifex</a>. All we care about
+is where the .po file end up, in our git repository. Updated
+translations can either be committed directly to git, or submitted as
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/src:debian-edu-doc">bug reports
+against the debian-edu-doc package</a>.</p>
+
+<p>One challenge is images, which both might need to be translated (if
+they show translated user applications), and are needed in different
+formats when creating PDF and HTML versions (epub is a HTML version in
+this regard). For this we transform the original PNG images to the
+needed density and format during build, and have a way to provide
+translated images by storing translated versions in
+images/$LANGUAGECODE/. I am a bit unsure about the details here. The
+package maintainers know more.</p>
+
+<p>If you wonder what the result look like, we provide
+<a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/">the content
+of the documentation packages on the web</a>. See for example the
+<a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/it/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.pdf">Italian
+PDF version</a> or the
+<a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/de/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.html">German
+HTML version</a>. We do not yet build the epub version by default,
+but perhaps it will be done in the future.</p>
+
+<p>To learn more, check out
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-edu-doc.html">the
+debian-edu-doc package</a>,
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/">the
+manual on the wiki</a> and
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Translations">the
+translation instructions</a> in the manual.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/All_drones_should_be_radio_marked_with_what_they_do_and_who_they_belong_to.html">All drones should be radio marked with what they do and who they belong to</a></div>
- <div class="date">21st November 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Drones, flying robots, are getting more and more popular. The most
-know ones are the killer drones used by some government to murder
-people they do not like without giving them the chance of a fair
-trial, but the technology have many good uses too, from mapping and
-forest maintenance to photography and search and rescue. I am sure it
-is just a question of time before "bad drones" are in the hands of
-private enterprises and not only state criminals but petty criminals
-too. The drone technology is very useful and very dangerous. To have
-some control over the use of drones, I agree with Daniel Suarez in his
-TED talk
-"<a href="https://archive.org/details/DanielSuarez_2013G">The kill
-decision shouldn't belong to a robot</a>", where he suggested this
-little gem to keep the good while limiting the bad use of drones:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-<p>Each robot and drone should have a cryptographically signed
-I.D. burned in at the factory that can be used to track its movement
-through public spaces. We have license plates on cars, tail numbers on
-aircraft. This is no different. And every citizen should be able to
-download an app that shows the population of drones and autonomous
-vehicles moving through public spaces around them, both right now and
-historically. And civic leaders should deploy sensors and civic drones
-to detect rogue drones, and instead of sending killer drones of their
-own up to shoot them down, they should notify humans to their
-presence. And in certain very high-security areas, perhaps civic
-drones would snare them and drag them off to a bomb disposal facility.</p>
-
-<p>But notice, this is more an immune system than a weapons system. It
-would allow us to avail ourselves of the use of autonomous vehicles
-and drones while still preserving our open, civil society.</p>
-
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The key is that <em>every citizen</em> should be able to read the
-radio beacons sent from the drones in the area, to be able to check
-both the government and others use of drones. For such control to be
-effective, everyone must be able to do it. What should such beacon
-contain? At least formal owner, purpose, contact information and GPS
-location. Probably also the origin and target position of the current
-flight. And perhaps some registration number to be able to look up
-the drone in a central database tracking their movement. Robots
-should not have privacy. It is people who need privacy.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">Hvordan enkelt laste ned filmer fra NRK med den "nye" løsningen</a></div>
+ <div class="date">16th June 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Jeg har fortsatt behov for å kunne laste ned innslag fra NRKs
+nettsted av og til for å se senere når jeg ikke er på nett, men
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">min
+oppskrift fra 2011</a> sluttet å fungere da NRK byttet
+avspillermetode. I dag fikk jeg endelig lett etter oppdatert løsning,
+og jeg er veldig glad for å fortelle at den enkleste måten å laste ned
+innslag er å bruke siste versjon 2014.06.07 av
+<a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a>. Støtten i
+youtube-dl <a href="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2980">kom
+inn for 23 dager siden</a> og
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/y/youtube-dl.html">versjonen i
+Debian</a> fungerer fint også som backport til Debian Wheezy. Det er
+et lite problem, det håndterer kun URLer med små bokstaver, men hvis
+en har en URL med store bokstaver kan en bare gjøre alle store om til
+små bokstaver for å få youtube-dl til å laste ned. Rapporterte
+nettopp
+<a href="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2980">problemet til
+utviklerne</a>, og antar de får fikset det snart.</p>
+
+<p>Dermed er alt klart til å laste ned dokumentarene om
+<a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID23005014/usas-hemmelige-avlytting">USAs
+hemmelige avlytting</a> og
+<a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID23005114/selskapene-bak-usas-avlytting">Selskapene
+bak USAs avlytting</a>, i tillegg til
+<a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID20005814/et-moete-med-edward-snowden">intervjuet
+med Edward Snowden gjort av den tyske tv-kanalen ARD</a>. Anbefaler
+alle å se disse, sammen med
+<a href="http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5713_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201312301130_-_to_protect_and_infect_part_2_-_jacob.html">foredraget
+til Jacob Appelbaum på siste CCC-konferanse</a>, for å forstå mer om
+hvordan overvåkningen av borgerne brer om seg.</p>
+
+<p>Takk til gode venner på foreningen NUUGs IRC-kanal
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug">#nuug på irc.freenode.net</a>
+for tipsene som fikk meg i mål</a>.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Oppdatering 2014-06-17</strong>: Etter at jeg publiserte
+denne, ble jeg tipset om bloggposten
+"<a href="http://ingvar.blog.redpill-linpro.com/2012/05/31/downloading-hd-content-from-tv-nrk-no/">Downloading
+HD content from tv.nrk.no</a>" av Ingvar Hagelund, som har alternativ
+implementasjon og tips for å lage mkv-fil med undertekstene inkludert.
+Kanskje den passer bedre for deg? I tillegg ble feilen i youtube-dl
+ble fikset litt senere ut på dagen i går, samt at youtube-dl fikk
+støtte for å laste ned undertitler. Takk til Anders Einar Hilden for
+god innsats og youtube-dl-utviklerne for rask respons.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_wireless_community_network_in_Oslo_.html">Lets make a wireless community network in Oslo!</a></div>
- <div class="date">13th November 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Today NUUG and Hackeriet announced
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Bli_med___bygge_dugnadsnett_for_alle_i_Oslo.shtml">our
-plans to join forces and create a wireless community network in
-Oslo</a>. The workshop to help people get started will take place
-Thursday 2013-11-28, but we already are collecting the geolocation of
-people joining forces to make this happen. We have
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/meshfx-node/blob/master/oslo-nodes.geojson">9
-locations plotted on the map</a>, but we will need more before we have
-a connected mesh spread across Oslo. If this sound interesting to
-you, please join us at the workshop. If you are too impatient to wait
-15 days, please join us on the IRC channel
-<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug">#nuug on irc.freenode.net</a>
-right away. :)</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_car_computer_solution_.html">Free software car computer solution?</a></div>
+ <div class="date">29th May 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Dear lazyweb. I'm planning to set up a small Raspberry Pi computer
+in my car, connected to
+<a href="http://www.dx.com/p/400a-4-0-tft-lcd-digital-monitor-for-vehicle-parking-reverse-camera-1440x272-12v-dc-57776">a
+small screen</a> next to the rear mirror. I plan to hook it up with a
+GPS and a USB wifi card too. The idea is to get my own
+"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carputer">Carputer</a>". But I
+wonder if someone already created a good free software solution for
+such car computer.</p>
+
+<p>This is my current wish list for such system:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+ <li>Work on Raspberry Pi.</li>
+
+ <li>Show current speed limit based on location, and warn if going too
+ fast (for example using color codes yellow and red on the screen,
+ or make a sound). This could be done either using either data from
+ <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">Openstreetmap</a> or OCR
+ info gathered from a dashboard camera.</li>
+
+ <li>Track automatic toll road passes and their cost, show total spent
+ and make it possible to calculate toll costs for planned
+ route.</li>
+
+ <li>Collect GPX tracks for use with OpenStreetMap.</li>
+
+ <li>Automatically detect and use any wireless connection to connect
+ to home server. Try IP over DNS
+ (<a href="http://dev.kryo.se/iodine/">iodine</a>) or ICMP
+ (<a href="http://code.gerade.org/hans/">Hans</a>) if direct
+ connection do not work.</li>
+
+ <li>Set up mesh network to talk to other cars with the same system,
+ or some standard car mesh protocol.</li>
+
+ <li>Warn when approaching speed cameras and speed camera ranges
+ (speed calculated between two cameras).</li>
+
+ <li>Suport dashboard/front facing camera to discover speed limits and
+ run OCR to track registration number of passing cars.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>If you know of any free software car computer system supporting
+some or all of these features, please let me know.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Running_TP_Link_MR3040_as_a_batman_adv_mesh_node_using_openwrt.html">Running TP-Link MR3040 as a batman-adv mesh node using openwrt</a></div>
- <div class="date">10th November 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Continuing my research into mesh networking, I was recommended to
-use TP-Link 3040 and 3600 access points as mesh nodes, and the pair I
-bought arrived on Friday. Here are my notes on how to set up the
-MR3040 as a mesh node using
-<a href="http://www.openwrt.org/">OpenWrt</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I started by following the instructions on the OpenWRT wiki for
-<a href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3040">TL-MR3040</a>,
-and downloaded
-<a href="http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3040-v2-squashfs-factory.bin">the
-recommended firmware image</a>
-(openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3040-v2-squashfs-factory.bin) and
-uploaded it into the original web interface. The flashing went fine,
-and the machine was available via telnet on the ethernet port. After
-logging in and setting the root password, ssh was available and I
-could start to set it up as a batman-adv mesh node.</p>
-
-<p>I started off by reading the instructions from
-<a href="http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php?title=Antoine's_Research">Wireless
-Africa</a>, which had quite a lot of useful information, but
-eventually I followed the recipe from the Open Mesh wiki for
-<a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Batman-adv-openwrt-config">using
-batman-adv on OpenWrt</a>. A small snag was the fact that the
-<tt>opkg install kmod-batman-adv</tt> command did not work as it
-should. The batman-adv kernel module would fail to load because its
-dependency crc16 was not already loaded. I
-<a href="https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/14452">reported the bug</a> to
-the openwrt project and hope it will be fixed soon. But the problem
-only seem to affect initial testing of batman-adv, as configuration
-seem to work when booting from scratch.</p>
-
-<p>The setup is done using files in /etc/config/. I did not bridge
-the Ethernet and mesh interfaces this time, to be able to hook up the
-box on my local network and log into it for configuration updates.
-The following files were changed and look like this after modifying
-them:</p>
-
-<p><tt>/etc/config/network</tt></p>
-
-<pre>
-
-config interface 'loopback'
- option ifname 'lo'
- option proto 'static'
- option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
- option netmask '255.0.0.0'
-
-config globals 'globals'
- option ula_prefix 'fdbf:4c12:3fed::/48'
-
-config interface 'lan'
- option ifname 'eth0'
- option type 'bridge'
- option proto 'dhcp'
- option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
- option netmask '255.255.255.0'
- option hostname 'tl-mr3040'
- option ip6assign '60'
-
-config interface 'mesh'
- option ifname 'adhoc0'
- option mtu '1528'
- option proto 'batadv'
- option mesh 'bat0'
-</pre>
-
-<p><tt>/etc/config/wireless</tt></p>
-<pre>
-
-config wifi-device 'radio0'
- option type 'mac80211'
- option channel '11'
- option hwmode '11ng'
- option path 'platform/ar933x_wmac'
- option htmode 'HT20'
- list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-20'
- list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-40'
- list ht_capab 'RX-STBC1'
- list ht_capab 'DSSS_CCK-40'
- option disabled '0'
-
-config wifi-iface 'wmesh'
- option device 'radio0'
- option ifname 'adhoc0'
- option network 'mesh'
- option encryption 'none'
- option mode 'adhoc'
- option bssid '02:BA:00:00:00:01'
- option ssid 'meshfx@hackeriet'
-</pre>
-<p><tt>/etc/config/batman-adv</tt></p>
-<pre>
-
-config 'mesh' 'bat0'
- option interfaces 'adhoc0'
- option 'aggregated_ogms'
- option 'ap_isolation'
- option 'bonding'
- option 'fragmentation'
- option 'gw_bandwidth'
- option 'gw_mode'
- option 'gw_sel_class'
- option 'log_level'
- option 'orig_interval'
- option 'vis_mode'
- option 'bridge_loop_avoidance'
- option 'distributed_arp_table'
- option 'network_coding'
- option 'hop_penalty'
-
-# yet another batX instance
-# config 'mesh' 'bat5'
-# option 'interfaces' 'second_mesh'
-</pre>
-
-<p>The mesh node is now operational. I have yet to test its range,
-but I hope it is good. I have not yet tested the TP-Link 3600 box
-still wrapped up in plastic.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_the_Coverity_issues_in_Gnash_fixed_in_the_next_release.html">Half the Coverity issues in Gnash fixed in the next release</a></div>
+ <div class="date">29th April 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>I've been following <a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">the Gnash
+project</a> for quite a while now. It is a free software
+implementation of Adobe Flash, both a standalone player and a browser
+plugin. Gnash implement support for the AVM1 format (and not the
+newer AVM2 format - see
+<a href="http://lightspark.github.io/">Lightspark</a> for that one),
+allowing several flash based sites to work. Thanks to the friendly
+developers at Youtube, it also work with Youtube videos, because the
+Javascript code at Youtube detect Gnash and serve a AVM1 player to
+those users. :) Would be great if someone found time to implement AVM2
+support, but it has not happened yet. If you install both Lightspark
+and Gnash, Lightspark will invoke Gnash if it find a AVM1 flash file,
+so you can get both handled as free software. Unfortunately,
+Lightspark so far only implement a small subset of AVM2, and many
+sites do not work yet.</p>
+
+<p>A few months ago, I started looking at
+<a href="http://scan.coverity.com/">Coverity</a>, the static source
+checker used to find heaps and heaps of bugs in free software (thanks
+to the donation of a scanning service to free software projects by the
+company developing this non-free code checker), and Gnash was one of
+the projects I decided to check out. Coverity is able to find lock
+errors, memory errors, dead code and more. A few days ago they even
+extended it to also be able to find the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL.
+There are heaps of checks being done on the instrumented code, and the
+amount of bogus warnings is quite low compared to the other static
+code checkers I have tested over the years.</p>
+
+<p>Since a few weeks ago, I've been working with the other Gnash
+developers squashing bugs discovered by Coverity. I was quite happy
+today when I checked the current status and saw that of the 777 issues
+detected so far, 374 are marked as fixed. This make me confident that
+the next Gnash release will be more stable and more dependable than
+the previous one. Most of the reported issues were and are in the
+test suite, but it also found a few in the rest of the code.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to help out, you find us on
+<a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev">the
+gnash-dev mailing list</a> and on
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#gnash">the #gnash channel on
+irc.freenode.net IRC server</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_init_d_boot_script_example_for_rsyslog.html">Debian init.d boot script example for rsyslog</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 2nd November 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>If one of the points of switching to a new init system in Debian is
-<a href="http://thomas.goirand.fr/blog/?p=147">to get rid of huge
-init.d scripts</a>, I doubt we need to switch away from sysvinit and
-init.d scripts at all. Here is an example init.d script, ie a rewrite
-of /etc/init.d/rsyslog:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-#!/lib/init/init-d-script
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides: rsyslog
-# Required-Start: $remote_fs $time
-# Required-Stop: umountnfs $time
-# X-Stop-After: sendsigs
-# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
-# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
-# Short-Description: enhanced syslogd
-# Description: Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd.
-# It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be
-# used as a drop-in replacement.
-### END INIT INFO
-DESC="enhanced syslogd"
-DAEMON=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>Pretty minimalistic to me... For the record, the original sysv-rc
-script was 137 lines, and the above is just 15 lines, most of it meta
-info/comments.</p>
-
-<p>How to do this, you ask? Well, one create a new script
-/lib/init/init-d-script looking something like this:
-
-<p><pre>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html">Install hardware dependent packages using tasksel (Isenkram 0.7)</a></div>
+ <div class="date">23rd April 2014</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>It would be nice if it was easier in Debian to get all the hardware
+related packages relevant for the computer installed automatically.
+So I implemented one, using
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">my Isenkram
+package</a>. To use it, install the tasksel and isenkram packages and
+run tasksel as user root. You should be presented with a new option,
+"Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)". When you
+select it, tasksel will install the packages isenkram claim is fit for
+the current hardware, hot pluggable or not.<p>
+
+<p>The implementation is in two files, one is the tasksel menu entry
+description, and the other is the script used to extract the list of
+packages to install. The first part is in
+<tt>/usr/share/tasksel/descs/isenkram.desc</tt> and look like
+this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
+Task: isenkram
+Section: hardware
+Description: Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)
+ Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific packages are
+ proposed.
+Test-new-install: mark show
+Relevance: 8
+Packages: for-current-hardware
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>The second part is in
+<tt>/usr/lib/tasksel/packages/for-current-hardware</tt> and look like
+this:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote><pre>
#!/bin/sh
-
-# Define LSB log_* functions.
-# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) to ensure that this file is present
-# and status_of_proc is working.
-. /lib/lsb/init-functions
-
-#
-# Function that starts the daemon/service
-
-#
-do_start()
-{
- # Return
- # 0 if daemon has been started
- # 1 if daemon was already running
- # 2 if daemon could not be started
- start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \
- || return 1
- start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \
- $DAEMON_ARGS \
- || return 2
- # Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready
- # to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend
- # on this one. As a last resort, sleep for some time.
-}
-
-#
-# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
-do_stop()
-{
- # Return
- # 0 if daemon has been stopped
- # 1 if daemon was already stopped
- # 2 if daemon could not be stopped
- # other if a failure occurred
- start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
- RETVAL="$?"
- [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
- # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
- # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
- # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
- # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
- # needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to
- # sleep for some time.
- start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
- [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
- # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
- rm -f $PIDFILE
- return "$RETVAL"
-}
-
-#
-# Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service
-#
-do_reload() {
- #
- # If the daemon can reload its configuration without
- # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),
- # then implement that here.
- #
- start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
- return 0
-}
-
-SCRIPTNAME=$1
-scriptbasename="$(basename $1)"
-echo "SN: $scriptbasename"
-if [ "$scriptbasename" != "init-d-library" ] ; then
- script="$1"
- shift
- . $script
-else
- exit 0
-fi
-
-NAME=$(basename $DAEMON)
-PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
-
-# Exit if the package is not installed
-#[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0
-
-# Read configuration variable file if it is present
-[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME
-
-# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
-. /lib/init/vars.sh
-
-case "$1" in
- start)
- [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
- do_start
- case "$?" in
- 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
- 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
- esac
- ;;
- stop)
- [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
- do_stop
- case "$?" in
- 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
- 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
- esac
- ;;
- status)
- status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
- ;;
- #reload|force-reload)
- #
- # If do_reload() is not implemented then leave this commented out
- # and leave 'force-reload' as an alias for 'restart'.
- #
- #log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
- #do_reload
- #log_end_msg $?
- #;;
- restart|force-reload)
- #
- # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
- # 'force-reload' alias
- #
- log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
- do_stop
- case "$?" in
- 0|1)
- do_start
- case "$?" in
- 0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
- 1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
- *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
- esac
- ;;
- *)
- # Failed to stop
- log_end_msg 1
- ;;
- esac
- ;;
- *)
- echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
- exit 3
- ;;
-esac
-
-:
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>It is based on /etc/init.d/skeleton, and could be improved quite a
-lot. I did not really polish the approach, so it might not always
-work out of the box, but you get the idea. I did not try very hard to
-optimize it nor make it more robust either.</p>
-
-<p>A better argument for switching init system in Debian than reducing
-the size of init scripts (which is a good thing to do anyway), is to
-get boot system that is able to handle the kernel events sensibly and
-robustly, and do not depend on the boot to run sequentially. The boot
-and the kernel have not behaved sequentially in years.</p>
+(
+ isenkram-lookup
+ isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
+) | sort -u
+</pre></blockquote></p>
+
+<p>All in all, a very short and simple implementation making it
+trivial to install the hardware dependent package we all may want to
+have installed on our machines. I've not been able to find a way to
+get tasksel to tell you exactly which packages it plan to install
+before doing the installation. So if you are curious or careful,
+check the output from the isenkram-* command line tools first.</p>
+
+<p>The information about which packages are handling which hardware is
+fetched either from the isenkram package itself in
+/usr/share/isenkram/, from git.debian.org or from the APT package
+database (using the Modaliases header). The APT package database
+parsing have caused a nasty resource leak in the isenkram daemon (bugs
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/719837">#719837</a> and
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/730704">#730704</a>). The cause is in
+the python-apt code (bug
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/745487">#745487</a>), but using a
+workaround I was able to get rid of the file descriptor leak and
+reduce the memory leak from ~30 MiB per hardware detection down to
+around 2 MiB per hardware detection. It should make the desktop
+daemon a lot more useful. The fix is in version 0.7 uploaded to
+unstable today.</p>
+
+<p>I believe the current way of mapping hardware to packages in
+Isenkram is is a good draft, but in the future I expect isenkram to
+use the AppStream data source for this. A proposal for getting proper
+AppStream support into Debian is floating around as
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11">DEP-11</a>, and
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects#SummerOfCode2014.2FProjects.2FAppStreamDEP11Implementation.AppStream.2FDEP-11_for_the_Debian_Archive">GSoC
+project</a> will take place this summer to improve the situation. I
+look forward to seeing the result, and welcome patches for isenkram to
+start using the information when it is ready.</p>
+
+<p>If you want your package to map to some specific hardware, either
+add a "Xb-Modaliases" header to your control file like I did in
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">the pymissile
+package</a> or submit a bug report with the details to the isenkram
+package. See also
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/">all my
+blog posts tagged isenkram</a> for details on the notation. I expect
+the information will be migrated to AppStream eventually, but for the
+moment I got no better place to store it.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>.
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram (9)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network (8)</a></li>
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+
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (45)</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (25)</a></li>
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