X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/4fde353a18a0fefaf8246ef45c698fa956636002..7a03705842f103c1d225a44e4bfef5bc6fa59cd6:/blog/archive/2010/11/11.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/11/11.rss b/blog/archive/2010/11/11.rss index d5e209ab0e..672fc1d006 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2010/11/11.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2010/11/11.rss @@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ the upgrade, but hope those that do can have a look.</p> <a href="http://www.dataforeningen.no/hedret-med-rosingprisen.4849070-133913.html">hedrer overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen for kreativitet i år</a>. Jeg -er glad jeg nå er meldt ut av DND</p> +er glad jeg nå er meldt ut av DND.</p> <p>Å elektronisk overvåke sine barn er ikke å gjøre dem en tjeneste, men et overgrep mot individer i utvikling som bør læres opp til å ta @@ -1156,5 +1156,69 @@ lese alle de tre bøkene.</p> + + Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html + Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:30:00 +0100 + +<p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were +presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC. +Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try +to play a video file or stream. Only if VLC fail will I drag out +gmplayer to see if it can do better. The reason is mostly the failure +model and trust. When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message +reporting the problem. When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or +just hangs. The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.<p> + +<p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use +mplayer in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian +Edu/Skolelinux</a>. The reason is simple. We need a good browser +plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is +not very good. For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there +is no way for the user to pause the video. Also, when I +<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">last +tested the browser plugins</a> available in Debian, the VLC plugin +failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked. If +the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer +package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.</P> + +<p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly +annoying. The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of +keyboard shortcuts. When the player is in full screen mode, its +shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window. +For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode. I +wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in +window mode. Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart +the current video. It is very nice when playing short videos from the +web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at +what is going on.</p> + + + + + Debian Edu development gathering and General Assembly for FRiSK + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html + Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:40:00 +0100 + +<p>On friday, the first Debian Edu / Skolelinux +<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2010-12-03-05-Oslo">development +gathering</a> in a long time take place here in Oslo, Norway. I +really look forward to seeing all the good people working on the +Squeeze release. The gathering is open for everyone interested in +learning more about Debian Edu / Skolelinux.</p> + +<p>On Saturday, the Norwegian member organization taking care of +organizing these development gatherings, Fri Programvare i Skolen, +will hold its +<a href="http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Genfors/2010">General Assembly +for 2010</a>. Membership is open for all, and currently there are 388 +people registered as members. Last year 32 members cast their vote in +the memberdb based election system. I hope more people find time to +vote this year.</p> + + +