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+ Åpne trådløsnett er et samfunnsgode +
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+ 2010-06-12 12:45 +
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Veldig glad for å oppdage via +Slashdot +at folk i Finland har forstått at åpne trådløsnett er et samfunnsgode. +Jeg ser på åpne trådløsnett som et fellesgode på linje med retten til +ferdsel i utmark og retten til å bevege seg i strandsonen. Jeg har +glede av åpne trådløsnett når jeg finner dem, og deler gladelig nett +med andre så lenge de ikke forstyrrer min bruk av eget nett. +Nettkapasiteten er sjelden en begrensning ved normal browsing og enkel +SSH-innlogging (som er min vanligste nettbruk), og nett kan brukes til +så mye positivt og nyttig (som nyhetslesing, sjekke været, kontakte +slekt og venner, holde seg oppdatert om politiske saker, kontakte +organisasjoner og politikere, etc), at det for meg er helt urimelig å +blokkere dette for alle som ikke gjør en flue fortred. De som mener +at potensialet for misbruk er grunn nok til å hindre all den positive +og lovlydige bruken av et åpent trådløsnett har jeg dermed ingen +forståelse for. En kan ikke eksistensen av forbrytere styre hvordan +samfunnet skal organiseres. Da får en et kontrollsamfunn de færreste +ønsker å leve i, og det at vi har et samfunn i Norge der tilliten til +hverandre er høy gjør at samfunnet fungerer ganske godt. Det bør vi +anstrenge oss for å beholde.

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+ + + + Tags: fildeling, norsk, nuug, opphavsrett, personvern, sikkerhet. + +
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+ Lenny->Squeeze upgrades, removals by apt and aptitude +
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+ 2010-06-13 09:05 +
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+ +

My +testing +of Debian upgrades from Lenny to Squeeze continues, and I've +finally made the upgrade logs available from +http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-upgrade-testing/. +I am now testing dist-upgrade of Gnome and KDE in a chroot using both +apt and aptitude, and found their differences interesting. This time +I will only focus on their removal plans.

+ +

After installing a Gnome desktop and the laptop task, apt-get wants +to remove 72 packages when dist-upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze. The +surprising part is that it want to remove xorg and all +xserver-xorg-video* drivers. Clearly not a good choice, but I am not +sure why. When asking aptitude to do the same, it want to remove 129 +packages, but most of them are library packages I suspect are no +longer needed. Both of them want to remove bluetooth packages, which +I do not know. Perhaps these bluetooth packages are obsolete?

+ +

For KDE, apt-get want to remove 82 packages, among them kdebase +which seem like a bad idea and xorg the same way as with Gnome. Asking +aptitude for the same, it wants to remove 192 packages, none which are +too surprising.

+ +

I guess the removal of xorg during upgrades should be investigated +and avoided, and perhaps others as well. Here are the complete list +of planned removals. The complete logs is available from the URL +above. Note if you want to repeat these tests, that the upgrade test +for kde+apt-get hung in the tasksel setup because of dpkg asking +conffile questions. No idea why. I worked around it by using +'echo >> /proc/pidofdpkg/fd/0' to tell dpkg to +continue.

+ +

apt-get gnome 72 +
bluez-gnome cupsddk-drivers deskbar-applet gnome + gnome-desktop-environment gnome-network-admin gtkhtml3.14 + iceweasel-gnome-support libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libgdl-1-0 + libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libmetacity0 libslab0 libxcb-xlib0 + nautilus-cd-burner python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras + serpentine swfdec-mozilla update-manager xorg xserver-xorg + xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev + xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse + xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom + xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark + xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips + xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix + xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev + xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128 + xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt + xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 + xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic + xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv + xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 + xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd + xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 + xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage + xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis + xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx + xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident + xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l + xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga + xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9 + xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support

+ +

aptitude gnome 129 + +
bluez-gnome bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers dhcdbd + djvulibre-desktop finger gnome-app-install gnome-mount + gnome-network-admin gnome-spell gnome-vfs-obexftp + gnome-volume-manager gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gtkhtml3.14 libao2 + libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2 + libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7 libcucul0 libcupsys2 libcurl3 libdatrie0 + libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdvdread3 libedataserver1.2-9 libeel2-2.20 + libeel2-data libepc-1.0-1 libepc-ui-1.0-1 libfaad0 libgail-common + libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libgdl-1-0 libgdl-1-common + libggz2 libggzcore9 libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0 + libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libgnomeprint2.2-0 + libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common + libgnomevfs2-bin libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtkhtml2-0 + libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6 + libhesiod0 libicu38 libiw29 libkpathsea4 libltdl3 libmagick++10 + libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmetacity0 libmtp7 libmysqlclient15off + libnautilus-burn4 libneon27 libnm-glib0 libnm-util0 libopal-2.2 + libosp5 libparted1.8-10 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3 libpt-1.10.10 + libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libraw1394-8 + libsensors3 libslab0 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8 libssh2-1 + libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1 libtotem-plparser10 + libtrackerclient0 libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0 + libxerces2-java libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12 libxtrap6 + libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3 mysql-common nautilus-cd-burner + openoffice.org-writer2latex openssl-blacklist p7zip + python-4suite-xml python-eggtrayicon python-gnome2-desktop + python-gnome2-extras python-gtkhtml2 python-gtkmozembed + python-numeric python-sexy serpentine svgalibg1 swfdec-gnome + swfdec-mozilla totem-gstreamer update-manager wodim + xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt + xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga + zip

+ +

apt-get kde 82 + +
cupsddk-drivers karm kaudiocreator kcoloredit kcontrol kde kde-core + kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-bin-kde3 + kdebase-kio-plugins kdesktop kdeutils khelpcenter kicker + kicker-applets knewsticker kolourpaint konq-plugins konqueror korn + kpersonalizer kscreensaver ksplash libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libkiten1 + libxcb-xlib0 quanta superkaramba texlive-base-bin xorg xserver-xorg + xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev + xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse + xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom + xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark + xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips + xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix + xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev + xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128 + xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt + xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 + xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic + xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv + xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 + xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd + xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 + xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage + xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis + xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx + xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident + xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l + xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga + xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9

+ +

aptitude kde 192 +
bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers cvs dcoprss dhcdbd + djvulibre-desktop dosfstools eyesapplet fifteenapplet finger gettext + ghostscript-x imlib-base imlib11 indi kandy karm kasteroids + kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbstate kcoloredit kcontrol kcron kdat + kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-window + kdebase-bin-kde3 kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu-data + kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelirc kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data + kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins + kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdeprint kdesktop kdessh + kdict kdnssd kdvi kedit keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfouleggs + kghostview khelpcenter khexedit kiconedit kitchensync klatin + klickety kmailcvt kmenuedit kmid kmilo kmoon kmrml kodo kolourpaint + kooka korn kpager kpdf kpercentage kpf kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler + krec kregexpeditor ksayit ksim ksirc ksirtet ksmiletris ksmserver + ksnake ksokoban ksplash ksvg ksysv ktip ktnef kuickshow kverbos + kview kviewshell kvoctrain kwifimanager kwin kwin4 kworldclock + kxsldbg libakode2 libao2 libarts1-akode libarts1-audiofile + libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 + libavahi-core5 libavc1394-0 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2 + libboost-python1.34.1 libcucul0 libcurl3 libcvsservice0 libdatrie0 + libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdvdread3 libfaad0 libfreebob0 + libgail-common libgd2-noxpm libgraphviz4 libgsmme1c2a libgtkhtml2-0 + libicu38 libiec61883-0 libindex0 libiw29 libk3b3 libkcal2b libkcddb1 + libkdeedu3 libkdepim1a libkgantt0 libkiten1 libkleopatra1 libkmime2 + libkpathsea4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1 + libksieve0 libktnef1 liblockdev1 libltdl3 libmagick10 libmimelib1c2a + libmozjs1d libmpcdec3 libneon27 libnm-util0 libopensync0 libpisock9 + libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler3 libraw1394-8 libsmbios2 + libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libtalloc1 libtiff-tools + libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0 libxerces2-java + libxerces2-java-gcj libxtrap6 mpeglib networkstatus + openoffice.org-writer2latex pmount poster psutils quanta quanta-data + superkaramba svgalibg1 tex-common texlive-base texlive-base-bin + texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended + xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt + xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga + xulrunner-1.9

+ + +
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+ + + + Tags: debian, debian edu, english. + +
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+
+ Officeshots taking shape +
+
+ 2010-06-13 11:40 +
+ +
+ +

For those of us caring about document exchange and +interoperability, OfficeShots +is a great service. It is to ODF documents what +BrowserShots is for web +pages.

+ +

A while back, I was contacted by Knut Yrvin at the part of Nokia +that used to be Trolltech, who wanted to help the OfficeShots project +and wondered if the University of Oslo where I work would be +interested in supporting the project. I helped him to navigate his +request to the right people at work, and his request was answered with +a spot in the machine room with power and network connected, and Knut +arranged funding for a machine to fill the spot. The machine is +administrated by the OfficeShots people, so I do not have daily +contact with its progress, and thus from time to time check back to +see how the project is doing.

+ +

Today I had a look, and was happy to see that the Dell box in our +machine room now is the host for several virtual machines running as +OfficeShots factories, and the project is able to render ODF documents +in 17 different document processing implementation on Linux and +Windows. This is great.

+ +
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+ + + + Tags: english, standard. + +
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+ +
+
+ Vinmonopolet bryter loven åpenlyst - og flere planlegger å gjøre det samme +
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+ 2010-06-16 11:00 +
+ +
+ +

Dagbladet +melder at Vinmonopolet med bakgrunn i vekterstreiken som pågår i +Norge for tiden, har bestemt seg for med vitende og vilje å bryte +sentralbanklovens paragraf 14 ved å nekte folk å betale med +kontanter, og at flere butikker planlegger å følge deres eksempel. +Jeg synes det er hårreisende hvis de slipper unna med et slikt +soleklart lovbrudd, og lurer på hva slags muligheter jeg vil ha hvis +jeg blir nektet å handle med kontanter. Jeg handler i hovedsak med +kontanter selv, da jeg anser det som en borgerrett å kunne handle +anonymt uten at det blir registrert. For meg er det et angrep på mitt +personvern å nekte å ta imot kontant betaling.

+ +

Paragrafen +i sentralbankloven lyder:

+ +
+

§ 14. Tvungent betalingsmiddel

+ +

Bankens sedler og mynter er tvungent betalingsmiddel i Norge. Ingen +er pliktig til i én betaling å ta imot mer enn femogtyve mynter av +hver enhet.

+ +

Sterkt skadde sedler og mynter er ikke tvungent +betalingsmiddel. Banken gir nærmere forskrifter om erstatning for +bortkomne, brente eller skadde sedler og mynter.

+ +

Selv om en avtale inneholder klausul om betaling av en +pengeforpliktelse i gullverdi, kan skyldneren frigjøre seg med tvungne +betalingsmidler uten hensyn til denne klausul.

+
+ +

Det er med bakgrunn i denne lovet ikke tillatt å nekte å ta imot +kontakt betaling. Det er en lov jeg har sans for, og som jeg mener må +håndheves strengt.

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+ + + + Tags: norsk, personvern. + +
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+ +
+
+ Calling tasksel like the installer, while still getting useful output +
+
+ 2010-06-16 14:55 +
+ +
+ +

A few times I have had the need to simulate the way tasksel +installs packages during the normal debian-installer run. Until now, +I have ended up letting tasksel do the work, with the annoying problem +of not getting any feedback at all when something fails (like a +conffile question from dpkg or a download that fails), using code like +this: + +

+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+tasksel --new-install
+
+ +This would invoke tasksel, let its automatic task selection pick the +tasks to install, and continue to install the requested tasks without +any output what so ever. + +Recently I revisited this problem while working on the automatic +package upgrade testing, because tasksel would some times hang without +any useful feedback, and I want to see what is going on when it +happen. Then it occured to me, I can parse the output from tasksel +when asked to run in test mode, and use that aptitude command line +printed by tasksel then to simulate the tasksel run. I ended up using +code like this: + +
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+cmd="$(in_target tasksel -t --new-install | sed 's/debconf-apt-progress -- //')"
+$cmd
+
+ +

The content of $cmd is typically something like "aptitude -q +--without-recommends -o APT::Install-Recommends=no -y install +~t^desktop$ ~t^gnome-desktop$ ~t^laptop$ ~pstandard ~prequired +~pimportant", which will install the gnome desktop task, the +laptop task and all packages with priority standard , required and +important, just like tasksel would have done it during +installation.

+ +

A better approach is probably to extend tasksel to be able to +install packages without using debconf-apt-progress, for use cases +like this.

+ +
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+ + + + Tags: debian, english, nuug. + +
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+
+ Idea for a change to LDAP schemas allowing DNS and DHCP info to be combined into one object +
+
+ 2010-06-24 00:35 +
+ +
+ +

A while back, I +complained +about the fact that it is not possible with the provided schemas +for storing DNS and DHCP information in LDAP to combine the two sets +of information into one LDAP object representing a computer.

+ +

In the mean time, I discovered that a simple fix would be to make +the dhcpHost object class auxiliary, to allow it to be combined with +the dNSDomain object class, and thus forming one object for one +computer when storing both DHCP and DNS information in LDAP.

+ +

If I understand this correctly, it is not safe to do this change +without also changing the assigned number for the object class, and I +do not know enough about LDAP schema design to do that properly for +Debian Edu.

+ +

Anyway, for future reference, this is how I believe we could change +the +DHCP +schema to solve at least part of the problem with the LDAP schemas +available today from IETF.

+ +
+--- dhcp.schema    (revision 65192)
++++ dhcp.schema    (working copy)
+@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
+ objectclass ( 2.16.840.1.113719.1.203.6.6
+        NAME 'dhcpHost'
+        DESC 'This represents information about a particular client'
+-       SUP top
++       SUP top AUXILIARY
+        MUST cn
+        MAY  (dhcpLeaseDN $ dhcpHWAddress $ dhcpOptionsDN $ dhcpStatements $ dhcpComments $ dhcpOption)
+        X-NDS_CONTAINMENT ('dhcpService' 'dhcpSubnet' 'dhcpGroup') )
+
+ +

I very much welcome clues on how to do this properly for Debian +Edu/Squeeze. We provide the DHCP schema in our debian-edu-config +package, and should thus be free to rewrite it as we see fit.

+ +

If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu, +please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.

+ +
+
+ + + + Tags: debian, debian edu, english, ldap, nuug. + +
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+ +
+
+ LUMA, a very nice LDAP GUI +
+
+ 2010-06-28 00:30 +
+ +
+ +

The last few days I have been looking into the status of the LDAP +directory in Debian Edu, and in the process I started to miss a GUI +tool to browse the LDAP tree. The only one I was able to find in +Debian/Squeeze and Lenny is +LUMA, which has proved to +be a great tool to get a overview of the current LDAP directory +populated by default in Skolelinux. Thanks to it, I have been able to +find empty and obsolete subtrees, misplaced objects and duplicate +objects. It will be installed by default in Debian/Squeeze. If you +are working with LDAP, give it a go. :)

+ +

I did notice one problem with it I have not had time to report to +the BTS yet. There is no .desktop file in the package, so the tool do +not show up in the Gnome and KDE menus, but only deep down in in the +Debian submenu in KDE. I hope that can be fixed before Squeeze is +released.

+ +

I have not yet been able to get it to modify the tree yet. I would +like to move objects and remove subtrees directly in the GUI, but have +not found a way to do that with LUMA yet. So in the mean time, I use +ldapvi for that.

+ +

If you have tips on other GUI tools for LDAP that might be useful +in Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.

+ +

Update 2010-06-29: Ross Reedstrom tipped us about the +gq package as a +useful GUI alternative. It seem like a good tool, but is unmaintained +in Debian and got a RC bug keeping it out of Squeeze. Unless that +changes, it will not be an option for Debian Edu based on Squeeze.

+ +
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+ + + + Tags: debian, debian edu, english, ldap, nuug. + +
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