+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html">Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz</a></div>
+ <div class="date">17th March 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Via
+<a href="https://twitter.com/pcwizz/status/313044373262716930">twitter</a>
+I just discovered that <a href="http://pcwizz.net/">Pcwizz</a> have
+done a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzTZ61Pcuc">video
+review</a> on Youtube of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux
+/ Debian Edu</a> version 6. He installed the standalone profile and
+the video show a walk-through of of the menu content, demonstration of
+a few programs and his view of our distribution.</p>
+
+<p>There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might
+have heard wrong). While looking thought the Graphics menu:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+"Basically everything you ever need in a school environment."
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+"So, yeah, a bit bloated. It kept all the Debian stuff in there, just
+to keep it nice and GNU. So, I do not want to go on about it, but
+lets give it 7 out of 10. I am not going to use it. That is because
+I am not deploying a school network. There may be some mythical
+feature to help you deploy Skolelinux on a school network."
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>To bad he did not test the server profile, and discovered the PXE
+installation option. It make it possible to install only the main
+server from CD, and the rest of the machines via the net, and might be
+considered the mythical feature he talk about. :)</p>
+
+<p>While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment
+about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem:
+
+<blockquote>
+"[The K menu] have a special Debian section for software that no-one
+is going to look at, because it contain lots of junky stuff that you
+actually don't need in the education distribution, but have just been
+included because it isn't stripped out for some reason."
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and
+Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries">one
+consistent menu system</a> instead of two incomplete and partly
+inconsistent menu systems.</p>
+
+<p>The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe
+embedding:</p>
+
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wPzTZ61Pcuc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+</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/video">video</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Til_frikanalens_st_ttespillere___fra_styret_i_Frikanalen.html">Til frikanalens støttespillere - fra styret i Frikanalen</a></div>
<div class="date">13th March 2013</div>
fjor). Vi forventer også mye d rahjelp fra disse foregangslandene. Vår
utvikler Tore Sinding Bekkedal er i skriv ende stund på en HbbTV
workshop med EBU-medlemmer hos IRT i München der han på vegne av NRK
-og Frikanalen tester og utvikler ny stremingteknologi (MPEG- DASH) for
+tester og utvikler ny stremingteknologi (MPEG- DASH) for
mobile enheter og hybrid TV.</p>
<p>Frikanalen har forøvrig flyttet inn i nye kostnadsfrie lokaler på
-Chateau Neuf. Med massiv hjelp fra frivillige og utstyr fra NRK får
-vi der en flerkameraregi i egnede lokaler. Dette åpner for debatter,
-konserter, events og mye spennende innhold i samarbeid med Student
-TV'ene.</p>
+Chateau Neuf. Med massiv hjelp fra frivillige får vi der en
+flerkameraregi i egnede lokaler. Dette åpner for debatter, konserter,
+events og mye spennende innhold i samarbeid med Student TV'ene.</p>
<p>Med hjelp fra NUUG har også streamingdelen av systemet fått plass på
Uninett (Forskningsparken) og dermed er vi på Norges beste
finansiere litt mat og drikke til de frivillige som stiller opp på
dugnadsbasis for å utvikle den tekniske løsningen. Det er ikke nok
til å redde kanalen, men gir et lite steg i riktig retning.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2013-03-13 13:00</strong>: Epostlistelenkene
+fungerer ikke lenger, da epostarkivet nå ikke lenger er tilgjengelig
+for ikke-abonnenter. Korrigerte teksten fra styret litt etter
+oppfordring fra Frikanalen-styret.</p>
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- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sleep_until_morning___home_automation_for_the_kids.html">Sleep until morning - home automation for the kids</a></div>
- <div class="date">10th February 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p><img align="left" style="margin-right:25px;" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-02-10-morning-light.jpeg"></p>
-
-<p>With kids in the house, one challenge is getting them to sleep
-during the night and wake up when it is morning. I mean, when I
-believe it is morning, and not two hours earlier. In our household we
-have decided that 07:00 is the turning point, but getting the kids to
-sleep until 07:00 is a small challenge every day. They have adapted
-quite well, and rarely wake up at 05:00 any more, but some times wake
-up at times like 05:50, 06:15, 06:30 or 06:45, and it is hard to put
-the awake one to bed again without disturbing and waking the rest.
-And I understand perfectly well that they fail to sleep until 07:00
-some times, as there is no way for them to know if it is before or
-after the magic moment without coming and asking us parents.</p>
-
-<p>But yesterday I came up with a method to solve this problem. It
-involve home automation. A few years ago I bought a
-<a href="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick">Tellstick</a> and RF
-switches at the local <a href="http://www.clasohlson.com/">Clas
-Ohlson</a> shop, allowing me to control lights and other electrical
-gadgets using my Linux server. When I moved from the old flat to a
-small house, I put away all this equipment as most of the lighting in
-the house was not using wall sockets and thus not easy to connect to
-the gadgets I had. But recently I bought a
-<a href="http://www.telldus.se/products/tellstick_net">Tellstick
-Net</a> to be able to read sensor input as well as control power
-sockets. I want to control ovens in the basement to avoid the pipes
-to freeze, and monitor the humidity to detect flooding. The default
-setup for Tellstick Net is to be controlled by the vendor web service,
-which to me is a security problem, but it is also possible to build
-ones own
-<a href="http://developer.telldus.com/blog/2012/03/02/help-us-develop-local-access-using-tellstick-net-build-your-own-firmware">firmware
-with local access</A> instead of being controlled by a Swedish
-company, thanks to the release of the GPL licensed firmware source
-code. I plan to get that running before I let it control anything
-important. But while working on this, one idea to make it easier for
-the kids came to me yesterday. We can set up a night light controlled
-by the computer, and turn it automatically on at 07:00. The kids can
-then check the light in the morning to know if they are supposed to
-get up or not. They joined me in setting everything up, and I
-repeated the concept several times before bed times to make sure they
-remembered to check the light before getting up in the morning.</p>
-
-<p>We tested it this morning, and all the kids stayed in bed until
-after 07:00, and every one of them commented on the fact that the
-"morning light" was turned on and signalled that the morning had
-arrived. So this look like a success, and I am excited to see how
-this develops the next few days. :) I really hope this can allow us
-all to sleep a bit longer in the morning.</p>
-
-<p>A nice advantage of this setup is that we can remote control when
-to tell the kids to get up. We do not have to wait until 07:00, and
-can also delay it if we want to.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
-
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