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+       <item>
+               <title>Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze is out!</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we finally published the first stable release of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; based
+on Debian/Squeeze.  The full announcement is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
+from the project announcement list.  Now is a good time to test if it
+you have not done so already.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I plan to present the new version at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/&quot;&gt;a NUUG
+meeting&lt;/a&gt; on tuesday.  I look forward to seeing you there if you are
+in Oslo, Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/&quot;&gt;the
+interview series&lt;/a&gt; conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian
+interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+community.  This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a
+more international audience.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
+Europe, there are users all around the globe.  One of those far away
+from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
+and contributor.  It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
+work out of the box in Japan.  I got him to answer a few questions,
+and am happy to share the response with you. :)
+
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
+and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
+Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
+teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
+Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
+I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
+primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
+so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
+also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
+to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
+appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
+server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
+samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
+Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn&#39;t really improve my setup. I
+did various desperate searches for things like &quot;school Linux server&quot;
+and ended up in a document called &quot;Drift&quot; something or other. Reading
+there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
+problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
+previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
+Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
+downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
+Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
+my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
+workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
+ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
+designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
+doesn&#39;t necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
+school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
+Japan.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
+have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
+make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
+who don&#39;t need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
+important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
+instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
+default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
+kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
+Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is.  A
+second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
+customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
+multiplies. For example, backup wasn&#39;t working properly in Lenny. It
+took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
+I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
+help.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
+studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
+(customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
+still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
+house, that&#39;s very useful for the family photos and music.  At school
+the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
+have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
+day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
+installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS.  We also
+have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
+and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
+and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
+popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
+to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
+file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago.  The Edu aspect is
+also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
+Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu?  But of course the main attraction is
+budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
+compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
+is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
+are not impressed when their USB drive doesn&#39;t work, or their browser
+doesn&#39;t play flash, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html --&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
+screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
+Debian Edu Squeeze.  The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
+also available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/37675399&quot;&gt;vimeo&lt;/a&gt; and
+download as a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg
+Theora&lt;/a&gt; file.  Check it out below.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;video id=&quot;gosa-mass-user-create-movie&quot; width=&quot;256&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; preload controls&gt;
+  &lt;source src=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot; type=&#39;video/ogg; codecs=&quot;theora, vorbis&quot;&#39; /&gt;
+    &lt;p&gt;Download video as
+      &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; 
+&lt;/video&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Hamar kommune imponerer i FiksGataMi-rapportert problem i dag</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hamar_kommune_imponerer_i_FiksGataMi_rapportert_problem_i_dag.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hamar_kommune_imponerer_i_FiksGataMi_rapportert_problem_i_dag.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Tok nettopp en titt på listen over løste problemer i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; (hentet via
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/open311&quot;&gt;Open311-søkegrensesnittet&lt;/a&gt;),
+og lot meg imponere over Hamar kommunes raske respons.  Sjekk
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/report/10791&quot;&gt;rapport #10791&lt;/a&gt;, der
+Hamar kommune kl. 10:19 i dag får beskjed om at det er dårlig
+brøyting, allerede 10:50 melder kommunen tilbake at de er på saken.
+18:26 samme dag melder så innsender at problemet er løst.  Hatten av
+for folkene i Hamar kommune!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Apropos bra respons.  En bruker sendte for noen dager inn følgende
+tilbakemelding til oss som står bak tjenesten.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Rapporterte inn slukte gatelys på Torsnesveien, og to
+uker etterpå er lysene tilbake. Flott service!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er veldig hyggelig å høre at FiksGataMi fungerer bra for
+innbyggerne.  Måtte alle landets innbyggere få samme gode erfaring med
+FiksGataMi og det offentlige.  I dag er det 52 kommuner som har lenke
+til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider, og dermed indikerer at de liker vår
+tjeneste.  Måtte de få følge av resten av landets kommuner snart. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       

        <item>
                <title>Third release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
        <item>
                <title>Third release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>


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-       <item>
-               <title>First release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;One week delayed due to DVD build problems, we managed today to
-wrap up and publish the first release candidate for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based
-on Squeeze.  The full announcement is
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/02/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
-on the project announcement list.  Check it out if you need a software
-solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Olav Dahlum</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Olav_Dahlum.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Olav_Dahlum.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I serien med intervjuer av folk i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet, får vi nå
-høre fra et nyvalgt medlem i foreningen
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;Fri programvare i
-Skolen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg heter Olav Dahlum, og er frilans oversetter, tester,
-prosjektleder og bruker av fri og åpen programvare som
-LibreOffice. Jeg er også et av styremedlemmene i FRISK.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg kom i kontakt med prosjektet i 2009, da jeg ble ansatt i
-stiftelsen Åpne kontorprogram på norsk for å oversette og teste den
-norske utgaven av OpenOffice.org. Arbeidet har hele tiden vært
-koordinert sammen med Skolelinux, og mange av de samme menneskene er
-involvert, så på den måten ble jeg en del av den utvidede
-familien.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Skolelinux handler i likhet med utdanningssektoren om å dele
-kunnskap med andre, og det er dette som er hovedstyrken til
-prosjektet.  Selv om Skolelinux hovedsaklig er involvert i utvikling
-av programvare, er det også et sted der man kan utfolde seg uavhengig
-av bakgrunn og ferdigheter.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Liten utbredelse og manglende støtte fra leverandører som leverer
-pedagogisk programvare til skolebruk.  Kunne kanskje hatt flere
-verktøy som letter administrasjonen ytterligere, slik at også mindre
-erfarne databrukere kan utføre lett vedlikehold og rutinejobber.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg er nesten forpliktet til å si at jeg bruker LibreOffice... Jeg
-bruker forøvrig frie og åpne operativsystemer basert på
-operativsystemkjernen Linux, for tiden openSUSE 12,1 med KDE4.  Men
-hvis jeg skal dra fram noen flere eksempler så er nok Mozilla Firefox
-og Thunderbird to av de jeg bruker mest. I tillegg er jeg en flittig
-bruker av OpenSSH, Irssi, Midnight Commander, Git, Subversion,
-Translation Toolkit og Super Maryo Chronicles (litt gøy skal man ha,
-og med to håndkontroller liggende er det ikke til å unngå).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi må få leverandører av pedagogisk programvare med på laget, men
-også utvikle vår egen tilpasset det norske markedet.  Det er også
-mulig å involvere utdanningssektoren direkte i arbeidet, for eksempel
-gjennom studentprosjekter der elevene selv er med å utforme
-programvare direkte eller indirekte gjennom aktive bidrag.  Dette gjør
-ikke bare samarbeidet tettere, men fokuset på standarder og friheten
-til å velge sin egen løsning vil kanskje stimulere interessen for
-framtidig deltakelse i bransjen.  Vi som driver med fri og åpen
-programvare ønsker oss ikke rene konsumenter, men tenkende og
-selvstendige individer som kan være med å skape sin egen fremtid.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>How to figure out which RAID disk to replace when it fail</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_figure_out_which_RAID_disk_to_replace_when_it_fail.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_figure_out_which_RAID_disk_to_replace_when_it_fail.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Once in a while my home server have disk problems.  Thanks to Linux
-Software RAID, I have not lost data yet (but
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/34532&quot;&gt;I was
-close&lt;/a&gt; this summer :).  But once a disk is starting to behave
-funny, a practical problem present itself.  How to get from the Linux
-device name (like /dev/sdd) to something that can be used to identify
-the disk when the computer is turned off?  In my case I have SATA
-disks with a unique ID printed on the label.  All I need is a way to
-figure out how to query the disk to get the ID out.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;After fumbling a bit, I
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-getting-scsi-ide-harddisk-information/&quot;&gt;found
-that hdparm -I&lt;/a&gt; will report the disk serial number, which is
-printed on the disk label.  The following (almost) one-liner can be
-used to look up the ID of all the failed disks:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-for d in $(cat /proc/mdstat |grep &#39;(F)&#39;|tr &#39; &#39; &quot;\n&quot;|grep &#39;(F)&#39;|cut -d\[ -f1|sort -u);
-do
-    printf &quot;Failed disk $d: &quot;
-    hdparm -I /dev/$d |grep &#39;Serial Num&#39;
-done
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Putting it here to make sure I do not have to search for it the
-next time, and in case other find it useful.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;At the moment I have two failing disk. :(&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-Failed disk sdd1:       Serial Number:      WD-WCASJ1860823
-Failed disk sdd2:       Serial Number:      WD-WCASJ1860823
-Failed disk sde2:       Serial Number:      WD-WCASJ1840589
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The last time I had failing disks, I added the serial number on
-labels I printed and stuck on the short sides of each disk, to be able
-to figure out which disk to take out of the box without having to
-remove each disk to look at the physical vendor label.  The vendor
-label is at the top of the disk, which is hidden when the disks are
-mounted inside my box.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I really wish the check_linux_raid Nagios plugin for checking Linux
-Software RAID in the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nagios-plugins.html&quot;&gt;nagios-plugins-standard&lt;/a&gt;
-debian package would look up this value automatically, as it would
-make the plugin a lot more useful when my disks fail.  At the moment
-it only report a failure when there are no more spares left (it really
-should warn as soon as a disk is failing), and it do not tell me which
-disk(s) is failing when the RAID is running short on disks.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Automatic proxy configuration with Debian Edu / Skolelinux</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_proxy_configuration_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_proxy_configuration_with_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;New in the Squeeze version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; is the
-ability for clients to automatically configure their proxy settings
-based on their environment.  We want all systems on the client to use
-the WPAD based proxy definition fetched from &lt;tt&gt;http://wpad/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt;, to
-allow sites to control the proxy setting from a central place and make
-sure clients do not have hard coded proxy settings.  The schools can
-change the global proxy setting by editing
-&lt;tt&gt;tjener:/etc/debian-edu/www/wpad.dat&lt;/tt&gt; and the change propagate
-to all Debian Edu clients in the network.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The problem is that some systems do not understand the WPAD system.
-In other words, how do one get from a WPAD file like this (this is a
-simple one, they can run arbitrary code):&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
-{
-   if (!isResolvable(host) ||
-       isPlainHostName(host) ||
-       dnsDomainIs(host, &quot;.intern&quot;))
-      return &quot;DIRECT&quot;;
-   else
-      return &quot;PROXY webcache:3128; DIRECT&quot;;
-}
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;to a proxy setting in the process environment looking like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-http_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
-ftp_proxy=http://webcache:3128/
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To do this conversion I developed a perl script that will execute
-the javascript fragment in the WPAD file and return the proxy that
-would be used for
-&lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;,
-and insert this extracted proxy URL in &lt;tt&gt;/etc/environment&lt;/tt&gt; and
-&lt;tt&gt;/etc/apt/apt.conf&lt;/tt&gt;.  The perl script wpad-extract work just
-fine in Squeeze, but in Wheezy the library it need to run the
-javascript code is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/631045&quot;&gt;no longer
-able to build&lt;/a&gt; because the C library it depended on is now a C++
-library.  I hope someone find a solution to that problem before Wheezy
-is frozen.  An alternative would be for us to rewrite wpad-extract to
-use some other javascript library currently working in Wheezy, but no
-known alternative is known at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This automatic proxy system allow the roaming workstation (aka
-laptop) setup in Debian Edu/Squeeze to use the proxy when the laptop
-is connected to the backbone network in a Debian Edu setup, and to
-automatically use any proxy present and announced using the WPAD
-feature when it is connected to other networks.  And if no proxy is
-announced, direct connections will be used instead.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Silently using a proxy announced on the network might be a privacy
-or security problem.  But those controlling DHCP and DNS on a network
-could just as easily set up a transparent proxy, and force all HTTP
-and FTP connections to use a proxy anyway, so I consider that
-distinction to be academic.  If you are afraid of using the wrong
-proxy, you should avoid connecting to the network in question in the
-first place.  In Debian Edu, the proxy setup is updated using dhcp and
-ifupdown hooks, to make sure the configuration is updated every time
-the network setup changes.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The WPAD system is documented in a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-wrec-wpad-01&quot;&gt;IETF
-draft&lt;/a&gt; and a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol&quot;&gt;Wikipedia
-page&lt;/a&gt; for those that want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;
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