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-
Frikanalen - Complete TV station organised using the web
-
3rd March 2013
-

Do you want to set up your own TV station, schedule videos and -broadcast them on the air? Using free software? With video on demand -support using -free and -open standards? Included a web based video stream as well? And -administrate it all in your web browser from anywhere in the world? A -few years now the Norwegian public access TV-channel -Frikanalen have been building a -system to do just this. The source code for the solution is licensed -using the GNU LGPL, and -available from github.

- -

The idea is simple. You upload a video file over the web, and -attach meta information to the file. You select a time slot in the -program schedule, and when the time come it is played on the air and -in the web stream. It is also made available in a video on demand -solution for anyone to see it also outside its scheduled time. All -you need to run a TV station - using your web browser.

- -

There are several parts to this web based solution. I'll mention -the three most important ones. The first part is the database of -videos and the schedule. This is written in Django and include a REST -API. The current database is SQLite, but the plan is to migrate it to -PostgreSQL. At the moment this system can be tested on -beta.frikanalen.tv. The -second part is the video playout, taking the schedule information from -the database and providing a video stream to broadcast. This is done -using CasparCG from SVT and -Media Lovin' Toolkit. Video -signal distribution is handled using -Open Broadcast Encoder. The -third part is the converter, handling the transformation of uploaded -video files to a format useful for broadcasting, streaming and video -on demand. It is still very much work in progress, so it is not yet -decided what it will end up using. Note that the source of the latter -two parts are not yet pushed to github. The lead author want to clean -them up a bit more first.

- -

The development is coordinated on the -#frikanalen IRC -channel (irc.freenode.net), and discussed on -the -frikanalen mailing list. The lead developer is Benjamin Bruheim -(phed on IRC). Anyone is welcome to participate in the -development.

+ +
15th October 2013
+

The last few days I came across a few good causes that should get +wider attention. I recommend signing and donating to each one of +these. :)

+ +

Via Debian +Project News for 2013-10-14 I came across the Outreach Program for +Women program which is a Google Summer of Code like initiative to get +more women involved in free software. One debian sponsor has offered +to match any donation done to Debian +earmarked for this initiative. I donated a few minutes ago, and +hope you will to. :)

+ +

And the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced plans to +create video +documentaries about the excessive spying on every Internet user that +take place these days, and their need to fund the work. I've already +donated. Are you next?

+ +

For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og +Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a +statement under the heading +Bloggers United for Open +Access for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the +Norwegian government. So far 499 signatures. I hope you will sign it +too.

@@ -79,35 +59,142 @@ development.

- -
27th February 2013
-

Dr. Richard Stallman, -founder of Free Software Foundation, -is giving a -talk in Oslo March 1st 2013 17:00 to 19:00. The event is public -and organised by Norwegian Unix Users Group (NUUG) -(where I am the chair of the board) and -The Norwegian Open Source Competence -Center. The title of the talk is «The Free Software Movement and -GNU», with this description: - -

-The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom to -cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement -developed the GNU operating system, typically used together with the -kernel Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible. -

- -

The meeting is open for everyone. Due to space limitations, the -doors opens for NUUG members at 16:15, and everyone else at 16:45. I -am really curious how many will show up. See -the event -page for the location details.

+ +
11th October 2013
+

Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing +networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large +areas, depending on the radio technology used. Normal wifi equipment +can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several +successful examples like +Freifunk and +Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network +(see +wikipedia +for a large list) around the globe. To give you an idea how it +work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which +can be seen from their +dynamically +updated node graph and map, where one can see how the mesh nodes +automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing. +There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway, +and that is the main topic of this blog post.

+ +

I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped +to do it as part of my involvement with the NUUG member organisation community, and +my recent involvement in +the Freedombox project +finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a +Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family +when possible, given that most communication between people are +between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook +communication patterns). It also allow people to communicate without +any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the +private communication of citizens, which have become more and more +important over the years.

+ +

So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo +working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space +Hackeriet at Husmania. They seem to +have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called +the Oslo +Freifunk project, but that effort is now dead and the people +behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called +meshfx. Unfortunately the wiki +site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to +reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to +the new project. A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people +from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks. I +came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the +speakers about this talk (from +youtube):

+ +

+ +

I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols. +There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to +figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but +given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it +is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a +completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on +batman-adv for now. It sure help me to know that the very cool +Serval project in Australia +is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self +organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and +less industrialized communities. Check out this cool video presenting +that project (from +youtube):

+ +

+ +

According to the wikipedia page on +Wireless +mesh network there are around 70 competing schemes for routing +packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and +B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software +based community mesh networks.

+ +

The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2 +(as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same +network. One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based +vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your +computer. The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at +least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up. A +good +introduction is available from the Open Mesh project. These are +the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:

+ +

+ + + + + +
SettingValue
Protocol / kernel modulebatman-adv
ESSIDmeshfx@hackeriet
Channel / Frequency11 / 2462
Cell ID02:BA:00:00:00:01

+ +

The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs +in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers. (See a nice post from +VillageTelco about +"Information +about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges! +for details.) When these settings are activated and you have some +other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh +network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to +any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)

+ +

My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node, +but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a +firmware supporting batman-adv. If anyone know how to use that old +wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.

+ +

If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join +us on IRC, either channel +#oslohackerspace +or #nuug on +irc.freenode.net.

+ +

While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old +research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research +and Innovation called +The +reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks and elsewhere +learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at +Grünerløkka in Oslo. So mesh networks are also interesting for +commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard +to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I +know have closed down the experiment. Perhaps Telenor or others would +be interested in a cooperation?

+ +

Update 2013-10-12: I was just +told +by the Serval project developers that they no longer use +batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based +mesh system.

@@ -115,91 +202,37 @@ page for the location details.

- -
22nd February 2013
-

Etter en lang pause og travle uker har jeg endelig klart å få -samlet et nytt intervju med en av folkene i -Skolelinux-miljøet. -Denne gang er det Helge Tore Høyland, en mangeårig bidragsyter på -epostlistene og ellers i prosjektet.

- -

Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?

- -

Eg er IT-konsulent/teknikker hjå eit firma i Steinkjer med navn -Uno IT. Uno IT er eit lite firma som -drifter nettverk og maskiner for små og mellomstore firma -Steinkjer-området. Per dags dato er me 2 ansatte. Min faglege bakgrunn -er Fagbrev som it-teknikker, samt nokre fag innen nettverk- og -server-drift frå HiST og NTNU. Dagleg arbeid består i oppsett av nye -maskiner og hjelp til sluttbrukere, samt oppsett og vedlikehold av eit -vidt spekter av fagsystemer ute hjå kunder. Erfaring med Skolelinux -har eg hatt i forbindelse med drifting av -Bjørkly skule, ein privat -grunnskule i Namsos-området. I dag har skulen 65 elever, 15 lærere, 1 -hovedserver og ca 60 klienter som kjører halvtjukt. Eg har bygd og -driftet systemet sidan summaren 2006.

- -

Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?

- -

Eg kom i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet via ein artikkel i eit -fagblad, som eg ikkje lenger hugsar namnet på. I og med at eg allereie -hadde pusla med nettverk for ein annan skule, fatta eg straks -interesse for prosjektet.

- -

Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?

- -

Fordelane med Skolelinux er sentralisert administrasjon og svært -mange gode verktøy «ut av boksen». Veldig kjekt å kunne drifte 60 -klientar med berre å «bry» seg med ein server. Levetid for systemets -hardware er og ein veldig fin effekt. I tillegg kjem fordelar som økt -sikkerhet og mindre lisenskostnader. Etter min erfaring er det og -mykje mindre driftskostnader med eit slikt system enn konkurrerande -system, pga enkelhet med sentralisert administrasjon. På grunn av at -Skolelinux er basert på Debian er det òg svært stabilt.

- -

Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?

- -

Ulemper er mangel på vilje til å følge standarer ute i markedet, -som fører til mangel på støtte til nokre mykje brukte ting. Flash og -Java er typiske eksempel. Sidan Debian satsar på stabilitet framfor å -ha nyeste pakke av eit program, kan ein i nokre tilfeller kome borti -at program vert «for gamle». Det er spesielt nettlesaren som er -utsett. Mangel på vilje til å utvikle pedagogisk programvare, i Noreg, -for «alle» platformer fører òg til noko hovudbry.

- -

Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?

- -

Til dagleg bruker eg svært mange forskjellige «fri programvare» -program. Firefox, Thunderbird, Freecommander, ImgBurn, Clonezilla, -OCS inventory, Icinga, Skolelinux, SystemRescueCD og mykje meir.

- -

Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få -skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?

- -

Strategisk må ein fokusere på at sluttbruker eigentleg ikkje er så -fokusert på at det er fri programvare men at det skal «berre fungere». -Gjer det enkelt å bruker og ikkje minst å administrere. For Skolelinux -sin del må ein få eit betre fokus på overganger. Utbytting av servere -må gå meir automatisk, import og eksport av brukerbase og maskinbase -med meir må kunne gå enkelt og oppgradering til neste versjon må bli -mykje meir automatisk og gjennomtesta. Ein må unngå at ein må sette -opp frå start når ein byter ut ein server eller oppgraderer til neste -versjon. For å få Skolelinux til å bli eit betre alternativ for skular -må ein ha fokus på nettlesaren. Denne må bli «up to date» og støtte -dei protokollar og tillegg som vert brukt av forlag med meir. Etter -kvart som meir og meir blir flytta ut i «skya» vert dette viktigare og -viktigare. Ein kunne ynskje og jobbe for at forlag med fleire tar i -bruk opne standarer, men inntil det skjer, må systemet kunne brukast -mot desse fagsystema.

- -

For meg har prosjektet med Skolelinux vore ein svært artig og -lærerik prosess. Miljøet rundt er ikkje enormt stort, dog stort nok, -men det er svært hjelpevillig og engasjert.

+ +
8th October 2013
+

The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo +Salvador had published a +video on +Youtube showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu / +Skolelinux profile. This is the profile intended for use at home or +on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network +services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc, +in other word a single user machine). The result is 11 minutes long, +and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked). +Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium +showing the Zygote Body 3D model +of the human body, but I guess he did not know about those or find +other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the +advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian +Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of +computers without hard drives by installing one central +LTSP server.

+ +

Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:

+ + + +

Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux? Please let +me know. :)

@@ -207,27 +240,23 @@ men det er svært hjelpevillig og engasjert.

- -
15th February 2013
-

If you, like me, want an updated a map for your Garmin GPS, there is -now a great source of free maps available from -Frikart. To -download a map, just click on the country you are interested in, and -download the map type you want. There are 8 different maps available, -using different colours and data selection. Pick one of Roadmap, Topo -Summer, Topo Winter, Roadmap II, Topo Summer II, Topo Winter II, -"Trails - overlay map" and "Cross country - overlay map" (see the web -page for descriptions).

- -

The maps are updated weekly, so if you find something wrong in the -map you can just edit the -OpenStreetmap map source -(anyone can contribute) and fetch a fixed map a week later. :)

+ +
29th September 2013
+

A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of +Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team. The +complete announcement text can be found at +the Debian News +section, translated to several languages. Please check it out.

+ +

There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon. One +can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/ +partition is too small. A workaround is to extend the partition (use +lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).

- Tags: english, kart. + Tags: debian edu, english.
@@ -235,90 +264,72 @@ map you can just edit the
- -
12th February 2013
-

Here in Norway, electronic invoices are spreading, and the -solution promoted -by the Norwegian government require that invoices are sent through -one of the approved facilitators, and it is not possible to send -electronic invoices without an agreement with one of these -facilitators. This seem like a needless limitation to be able to -transfer invoice information between buyers and sellers. My preferred -solution would be to just transfer the invoice information directly -between seller and buyer, for example using SMTP, or some HTTP based -protocol like REST or SOAP. But this might also be overkill, as the -"electronic" information can be transferred using paper invoices too, -using a simple bar code. My bar code encoding of choice would be QR -codes, as this encoding can be read by any smart phone out there. The -content of the code could be anything, but I would go with -the vCard format, as -it too is supported by a lot of computer equipment these days.

- -

The vCard format support extentions, and the invoice specific -information can be included using such extentions. For example an -invoice from SLX Debian Labs (picked because we -ask -for donations to the Debian Edu project and thus have bank account -information publicly available) for NOK 1000.00 could have these extra -fields:

- -

-X-INVOICE-NUMBER:1
-X-INVOICE-AMOUNT:NOK1000.00
-X-INVOICE-KID:123412341234
-X-INVOICE-MSG:Donation to Debian Edu
-X-BANK-ACCOUNT-NUMBER:16040884339
-X-BANK-IBAN-NUMBER:NO8516040884339
-X-BANK-SWIFT-NUMBER:DNBANOKKXXX
-

- -

The X-BANK-ACCOUNT-NUMBER field was proposed in a stackoverflow -answer regarding -how -to put bank account information into a vCard. For payments in -Norway, either X-INVOICE-KID (payment ID) or X-INVOICE-MSG could be -used to pass on information to the seller when paying the invoice.

- -

The complete vCard could look like this:

- -

-BEGIN:VCARD
-VERSION:2.1
-ORG:SLX Debian Labs Foundation
-ADR;WORK:;;Gunnar Schjelderups vei 29D;OSLO;;0485;Norway
-URL;WORK:http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/
-EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:sdl-styret@rt.nuug.no
-REV:20130212T095000Z
-X-INVOICE-NUMBER:1
-X-INVOICE-AMOUNT:NOK1000.00
-X-INVOICE-MSG:Donation to Debian Edu
-X-BANK-ACCOUNT-NUMBER:16040884339
-X-BANK-IBAN-NUMBER:NO8516040884339
-X-BANK-SWIFT-NUMBER:DNBANOKKXXX
-END:VCARD
-

- -

The resulting QR code created using -qrencode would look -like this, and should be readable (and thus checkable) by any smart -phone, or for example the zbar -bar code reader and feed right into the approval and accounting -system.

- -

- -

The extension fields will most likely not show up in any normal -vCard reader, so those parts would have to go directly into a system -handling invoices. I am a bit unsure how vCards without name parts -are handled, but a simple test indicate that this work just fine.

- -

Update 2013-02-12 11:30: Added KID to the proposal -based on feedback from Sturle Sunde.

+ +
27th September 2013
+

The Freedombox +project have been going on for a while, and have presented the +vision, ideas and solution several places. Here is a little +collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.

+ + + +

A larger list is available from +the +Freedombox Wiki.

+ +

On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian +Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using +Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In +a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian. +The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is +pending in NEW. The third and vital part of that puzzle is the +metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload. Join +us on IRC +(#freedombox on irc.debian.org) and +the +mailing list if you want to help make this vision come true.

@@ -326,99 +337,119 @@ based on feedback from Sturle Sunde.

- -
11th February 2013
-

For et halvt år siden -satte -jeg opp et system for å lage en database med informasjon om -offentlige anbud fra Doffin ved -hjelp av -Scraperwiki. Nå er databasen så vidt jeg kan se komplett, med -data helt tilbake til 2008. Her er litt statistikk over -antall -anbud publisert hver måned:

- -

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Publiseringsmåned Antall
2013-01 1015
2012-12 756
2012-11 979
2012-10 1093
2012-09 1023
2012-08 951
2012-07 1103
2012-06 1334
2012-05 1435
2012-04 1169
2012-03 1573
2012-02 1335
2012-01 1147
2011-12 1045
2011-11 1114
2011-10 1230
2011-09 1165
2011-08 966
2011-07 1148
2011-06 1410
2011-05 1536
2011-04 1350
2011-03 1574
2011-02 1370
2011-01 1049
2010-12 992
2010-11 1089
2010-10 1110
2010-09 1132
2010-08 883
2010-07 1126
2010-06 1440
2010-05 1236
2010-04 1249
2010-03 1556
2010-02 1256
2010-01 1140
2009-12 1013
2009-11 1220
2009-10 1320
2009-09 1294
2009-08 953
2009-07 1162
2009-06 1605
2009-05 1568
2009-04 1522
2009-03 1599
2009-02 1376
2009-01 1080
2008-12 1028
2008-11 949
2008-10 1047
2008-09 965
2008-08 725
2008-07 1015
2008-06 1304
2008-05 323

+ +
16th September 2013
+

The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up +today. This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:

-

Her er tilsvarende -tall -per år, som viser en liten nedgang i antall anbud:

- - - - - - - - -
Publiseringsår Antall
2012 13898
2011 14957
2010 14209
2009 15712
2008 7356

+
+

Hi,

+ +

it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for +short) of Debian Edu / +Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy!

+ +

Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found +we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming +weekend. We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2, +if you find something, please notify us immediately!

+ +

(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in +another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)

+ +

Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2 +compared to beta1:

+ +
    + +
  • The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This +also gets Chromium to use this proxy.
  • +
  • Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer +understand ical/dav sources.
  • +
  • Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the +main server.
  • +
  • A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.
  • +
  • Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick +(6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug +(0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image +(3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).
  • + +
+ +

Where to get it:

+ +

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

+ + -

Jeg droppet den ufullstendige måneden og året fra tabellen. Se -lenken for oppdaterte tall.

+

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f

+ +

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use +

+ +

The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e

+ +

The Source DVD image has the filename +debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM +089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way +as the other isos.

+ +

How to report bugs

+ +

For information how to report bugs please see +
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs

+ + +

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

+ +

Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based +on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely +configured school network. Immediately after installation a school +server running all services needed for a school network is set up just +waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable +Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after +initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other +machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server +provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, +centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other +services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software +packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools +can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.

+ +

This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically +this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the +Squeeze release.

+ +

Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases

+ +

Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the +versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta +release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or +deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep +gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2) +Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin +password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one +(backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password +to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home +directory.

+ + +

cheers, +
Holger

+
@@ -426,65 +457,135 @@ lenken for oppdaterte tall.

- -
10th February 2013
-

- -

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.

- -

But yesterday I came up with a method to solve this problem. It -involve home automation. A few years ago I bought a -Tellstick and RF -switches at the local Clas -Ohlson 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 -Tellstick -Net 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 -firmware -with local access 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.

- -

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.

- -

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.

+ +
10th September 2013
+

I was introduced to the +Freedombox project +in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need +of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and +within the legal protection of their own homes. The idea is to give +people back the power over their network and machines, and return +Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture. Instead of +depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone +control over their own basic infrastructure.

+ +

I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have +taken priority. But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust +and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering +communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I +actually started working on the project a while back.

+ +

The initial +Debian initiative based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to +create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook +up in their home and get access to secure and private services and +communication. The initial deployment platform have been the +Dreamplug, +which is a piece of hardware I do not own. So to be able to test what +the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install +it on some hardware I do have access to. I have rewritten the +freedom-maker +image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying +setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to +set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using +the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages +missing in Debian).

+ +

The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping +scripts +(freedombox-setup), +and a administrative web interface +(plinth + exmachina + +withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on +privoxy +(freedombox-privoxy). There is also a web/javascript based XMPP +client (jwchat) +trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server +(ejabberd). The +web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID +services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc. Not much of +this is really working yet, see +the +project TODO for links to GIT repositories. Most of the code is +on github at the moment. The HTTP proxy is operational out of the +box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth +users. I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but +know there are several branches spread around github and other places +with lots of half baked features.

+ +

Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the +following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke +at.

+ +

Debian Wheezy amd64

+ +
    + +
  1. Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.
  2. +
  3. Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.
  4. +
  5. Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument +to the Debian installer:

    +

    url=http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat
  6. + +
  7. Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to +install on.
  8. + +
  9. When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a +few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.
  10. + +
+ +

Raspberry Pi Raspbian

+ +
    + +
  1. Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.
  2. +
  3. Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.
  4. +
  5. Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:

    +
    +deb http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox wheezy main
    +
  6. +
  7. Run this as root:

    +
    +wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
    +   apt-key add -
    +apt-get update
    +apt-get install freedombox-setup
    +/usr/lib/freedombox/setup
    +
  8. +
  9. Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.
  10. + +
+ +

You can test it on other architectures too, but because the +freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on +the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it +in my APT repository. But do not let this stop you. It is only a +short "apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy" away. :)

+ +

Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the +192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn +off the DHCP server by running "update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server +disable" as root.

+ +

Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any +problems. We gather on the IRC channel +#freedombox on +irc.debian.org and the +project +mailing list.

+ +

Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit +http://your-host-name:8001/ to see the state of the plint +welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to +get past it), and next visit http://your-host-name:8001/help/ +to look at the rest of plinth. The default user is 'admin' and the +default password is 'secret'.

@@ -492,33 +593,283 @@ can also delay it if we want to.

- -
9th February 2013
-

Nytt stortingsvalg er på trappene, og folket får igjen mulighet til -å påvirke sammensetningen i vår lovgivende forsamling. Da er det -relevant å vite hvilke representanter og partier som har støttet -innføringen av brev- og besøkskontroll av hele den norske -befolkningen, det vil si datalagringsdirektivet.

- -

Hvis du vil vite hva hver enkelt stortingsrepresentant har stemt i -stortingsvoteringene om datalagringsdirektivet, så har nettstedet til -Holder De Ord den (så vidt jeg -vet) eneste komplette oversikten på sin temaside om -innføringen -av datalagringsdirektivet. Den har detaljene fra de 11 relevante -forslagene som har vært fremmet så lagt. De har vært votert over -2011-04-04, 2011-04-11, 2012-06-11, 2012-10-05 og 2012-12-06.

- -

Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet, -anbefaler jeg å lese artiklene -fra Jon Wessel-Aas om temaet, samt informasjon fra foreningen -Digitalt -Personvern.

+ +
8th September 2013
+

I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og +Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske +folk. Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt +år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de +snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen. Det skal også +registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost +til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte. Saken er kjent som +Datalagringsdirektivet +(DLD), og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges +grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt. Det ble i praksis innført brev og +besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen. Rapporter fra de landene som +allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes +kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i +kriminalitetsbekjempelsen. Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre +millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets +arbeide. Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt +på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen. +Se mer på +Wikipedia +og Jon Wessel-Aas.

+ +

Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje? Et åpenbart problem er at +medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut. Den innsamlede +informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med +journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten +av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon. Et annet er at +advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem +som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat. +Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke +nettsteder en har besøkt. Har en besøkt hivnorge.no, +swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede +interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være +tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.

+ +

De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for. Høyre og +Arbeiderpartiet. Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har +DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre +fylkene). Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse +partiene. Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med +informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget, +basert på informasjon fra mine venner i +Holder de +Ord samt data.stortinget.no. +Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
#Navn, fødselsår og valgkretsStemme/kommentar
1.Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle OsloStemte for DLD
2.Nikolai Astrup (1978), FrognerStemte mot DLD
3.Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre AkerStemte mot DLD
4.Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre AkerIkke til stede
5.Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), NordstrandIkke til stede
6.Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), GrünerløkkaIkke til stede
7.Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), GrünerløkkaIkke til stede
8.Frode Helgerud (1950), FrognerIkke til stede
9.Afshan Rafiq (1975), StovnerIkke til stede
10.Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), FrognerIkke til stede
11.Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.HanshaugenIkke til stede
12.John Christian Elden (1967), UllernIkke til stede
13.Berit Solli (1972), AlnaIkke til stede
14.Ola Kvisgaard (1963), FrognerIkke til stede
15.James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre AkerIkke til stede
16.Gülsüm Koc (1987), StovnerIkke til stede
17.Jon Ole Whist (1976), GrünerløkkaIkke til stede
18.Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre AkerIkke til stede
19.Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre NordstrandIkke til stede
20.Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), SageneIkke til stede
21.Saida R. Begum (1987), GrünerløkkaIkke til stede
22.Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre AkerIkke til stede
23.Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre AkerIkke til stede
24.Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), UllernIkke til stede
25.Fabian Stang (1955), FrognerIkke til stede
+ +

Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
#Navn, fødselsår og valgkretsStemme/kommentar
1.Jens Stoltenberg (1959), FrognerIkke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget
2.Hadia Tajik (1983), GrünerløkkaStemte for DLD
3.Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre AkerIkke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget
4.Marianne Marthinsen (1980), GrünerløkkaStemte for DLD
5.Jan Bøhler (1952), AlnaStemte for DLD
6.Marit Nybakk (1947), FrognerStemte for DLD
7.Truls Wickholm (1978), SageneStemte for DLD
8.Prableen Kaur (1993), GrorudIkke til stede
9.Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.HanshaugenIkke til stede
10.Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), GrorudIkke til stede
11.Ivar Leveraas (1939), AlnaIkke til stede
12.Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle OsloIkke til stede
13.Olav Tønsberg (1948), AlnaIkke til stede
14.Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), GrorudIkke til stede
15.Fredrik Mellem (1969), SageneIkke til stede
16.Brit Axelsen (1945), StovnerIkke til stede
17.Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), UllernIkke til stede
18.Kristin Sandaker (1963), ØsteinsjøIkke til stede
19.Bashe Musse (1965), GrünerløkkaIkke til stede
20.Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. HanshaugenIkke til stede
21.Steinar Andersen (1947), NordstrandIkke til stede
22.Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), SageneIkke til stede
23.Khalid Mahmood (1959), ØstensjøIkke til stede
24.Munir Jaber (1990), AlnaIkke til stede
25.Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), FrognerIkke til stede
+ +

Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år. Jeg tror det blir +Piratpartiet. Hvis de kan bidra +til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får +kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har +hatt så langt.

+
@@ -526,51 +877,138 @@ Personvern.

- -
4th February 2013
-

Jeg ser med gru at Arbeiderpartiet, Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet -applauderer -tollvesenets forslag om å øke overvåkningen i Norge nok et hakk. -Det er ikke så rart, da de som uttaler seg jo også har støttet -innføringen av datalagringsdirektivet eller i hvert fall ikke veldig -aktivt har motarbeidet det. Innføringen av datalagringsdirektivet er -en lovendring som innebærer brev og besøkskontroll for hele -befolkningen.

- -

Datalagringsdirektivet -har vært oppe til votering i stortinget tre ganger så langt. Det ble -vedtatt første gang 2011-04-04 -og -andre -gang 2011-04-11 (lovendringer voteres to ganger), og forslag om å -stoppe loven ble -nedstemt -2012-12-06 (se også -oversikt fra Holder De -Ord).

- -

Jan Bøhler i Arbeiderpartiet stemte for å innføre -datalagringsdirektivet i lovverket i første votering, var ikke -tilstede i andre votering og støttet loven i tredje votering. André -Oktay Dahl i Høyre var ikke til stede i første og andre votering men -støttet loven i tredje votering. Ulf Leirstein i Fremskrittspartiet -stemte mot loven i første votering men var ikke til stede i andre og -tredje votering.

- -

Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet, -anbefaler jeg å lese artiklene -fra Jon Wessel-Aas om temaet, samt informasjon fra foreningen -Digitalt -Personvern.

- -

Oppdatering 2013-03-09: Endret lenke til Holder De -Ord, som har byttet mange lenker i forbindelse med import av -voteringsdata for 2010-2011.

+ +
22nd August 2013
+

The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up +today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows +integration fixes . This is the release announcement:

+ +

New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22

+ +

These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux +7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".

+ +

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

+ +

Debian Edu, also known as +Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an +out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school +network. Immediately after installation a school server running all +services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users +and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting +environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of +the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be +installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP +database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home +directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The +desktop contains +more +than 60 educational software packages and more are available from +the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE +and Xfce desktop environment.

+ +

This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this +is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze +release.

+ +

ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the +versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta +release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or +deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep +gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined +on +the mailing list. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and +replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password +hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user +need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for +CIFS access to their home directory.

+ +

Software updates

+ +
    + +
  • Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh + work also without a attached tty.
  • +
  • Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to + make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line + tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found' + has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access + required).
  • + +
+ +

Other changes

+ +
    + +
  • Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool +needed for desktop=xfce installations.
  • +
  • Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB +stick ISO image.
  • +
  • Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).
  • +
  • Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.
  • +
  • Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens + during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to + cope with this.
  • +
  • Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².
  • +
  • Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid + empty password hashes.
  • +
  • Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the + smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines + from joining the Samba domain.
  • + +
+ +

Known issues

+ +
    + +
  • KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to + not use the http proxy as it should.
  • +
  • Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop + (using the KDE configuration).
  • + +
+ +

Where to get it

+ +

To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use

+ + + +

The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b +
The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2

+ +

To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use

+ + + +

The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b +
The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119

+ + +

How to report bugs

+ +

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs

@@ -578,40 +1016,34 @@ voteringsdata for 2010-2011.

- -
2nd February 2013
-

My -last -bitcoin related blog post mentioned that the new -bitcoin package for -Debian was waiting in NEW. It was accepted by the Debian ftp-masters -2013-01-19, and have been available in unstable since then. It was -automatically copied to Ubuntu, and is available in their Raring -version too.

- -

But there is a strange problem with the build that block this new -version from being available on the i386 and kfreebsd-i386 -architectures. For some strange reason, the autobuilders in Debian -for these architectures fail to run the test suite on these -architectures (BTS #672524). -We are so far unable to reproduce it when building it manually, and -no-one have been able to propose a fix. If you got an idea what is -failing, please let us know via the BTS.

- -

One feature that is annoying me with of the bitcoin client, because -I often run low on disk space, is the fact that the client will exit -if it run short on space (BTS -#696715). So make sure you have enough disk space when you run -it. :)

- -

As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my -activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address -15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

+ +
18th August 2013
+

Earlier, I reported about +my +problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk. Friday I was +told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away. And as +there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided +today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware +currently on the disk.

+ +

I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found +issdfut_2.0.4.iso +(aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which +according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD +disks. I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and +booted the ISO from a USB stick. The disk was recognized, but the +program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused +to insert any Intel firmware. So no change, and the disk is still +unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them +working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware. No idea how likely +that is. Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness. I +got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on +the broken disks.

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