X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/39299b7b3899ac51d732054c96e409b5a8b04be2..186743f2e77ac0222745f9277b41e5dc26b49fb4:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 09b3529b9d..978b1a7665 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,65 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html + Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:30:00 +0100 + <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.no/">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> + + + Til frikanalens støttespillere - fra styret i Frikanalen http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Til_frikanalens_st_ttespillere___fra_styret_i_Frikanalen.html @@ -673,65 +732,5 @@ lenken for oppdaterte tall.</p> - - Sleep until morning - home automation for the kids - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sleep_until_morning___home_automation_for_the_kids.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sleep_until_morning___home_automation_for_the_kids.html - Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:50:00 +0100 - <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> - - -