X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/6257f03b1224967ba5a00eef5c57d1a1a345d430..a6ecb18c55aa98c4ba4ada7ada514a737bf682a1:/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss b/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss index f1147e26dc..611417a8df 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss @@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:05:00 +0200 - -<p>It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to + <p>It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to start at boot when an NVidia video card is used is handled. The problem seem to be that the nvidia X.org driver uses a long time to initialize, and this duration is longer than kdm is configured to @@ -40,11 +39,10 @@ but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.</p> Togsatsing på norsk, mot sykkel - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Togsatsing_p___norsk__mot_sykkel.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Togsatsing_p___norsk__mot_sykkel.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Togsatsing_p__norsk__mot_sykkel.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Togsatsing_p__norsk__mot_sykkel.html Wed, 2 Jun 2010 23:45:00 +0200 - -<p>Det står dårlig til med toget når en finner på å la det + <p>Det står dårlig til med toget når en finner på å la det <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3677060.ece">kappkjøre med sykkel</a>... Jeg tror det trengs strukturendringer for å få fikset på togproblemene i Norge.</p> @@ -59,8 +57,7 @@ effekt på området der?</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:05:00 +0200 - -<p>When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible + <p>When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible to get a list of the machine types in use thanks to the DMI information extracted from each machine. The script to do so is included in the sitesummary package, and here is example output from @@ -80,7 +77,7 @@ maintainer:~# <p>The quality of the report depend on the quality of the DMI tables provided in each machine. Here there are Intel machines without model -information listed with Intel as vendor and mo model, and virtual Xen +information listed with Intel as vendor and no model, and virtual Xen machines listed as [no-dmi-info]. One can add -l as a command line option to list the individual machines.</p> @@ -100,8 +97,7 @@ collector.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html Sun, 6 Jun 2010 14:15:00 +0200 - -<p>Via the + <p>Via the <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/robweir/antic-atom/~3/QzU4RgoAGMg/weekly-links-10.html">blog of Rob Weir</a> I came across the very interesting essay named <a href="http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/wars.pdf">The Art of @@ -115,8 +111,7 @@ following the standards wars of today.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Upstart_or_sysvinit___as_init_d_scripts_see_it.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Upstart_or_sysvinit___as_init_d_scripts_see_it.html Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:55:00 +0200 - -<p>If Debian is to migrate to upstart on Linux, I expect some init.d + <p>If Debian is to migrate to upstart on Linux, I expect some init.d scripts to migrate (some of) their operations to upstart job while keeping the init.d for hurd and kfreebsd. The packages with such needs will need a way to get their init.d scripts to behave @@ -165,8 +160,7 @@ choice.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_er_laget_for_sentraldrifting__naturligvis.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_er_laget_for_sentraldrifting__naturligvis.html Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:30:00 +0200 - -<p>Det er merkelig hvordan myter om Skolelinux overlever. En slik + <p>Det er merkelig hvordan myter om Skolelinux overlever. En slik myte er at Skolelinux ikke kan sentraldriftes og ha sentralt plasserte tjenermaskiner. I siste Computerworld Norge er <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article169432.ece">IT-sjef @@ -251,8 +245,7 @@ minner.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:50:00 +0200 - -<p>The last few days I have done some upgrade testing in Debian, to + <p>The last few days I have done some upgrade testing in Debian, to see if the upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze will go smoothly. A few bugs have been discovered and reported in the process (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/585410">#585410</a> in nagios3-cgi, @@ -376,11 +369,10 @@ packages.</p> Åpne trådløsnett er et samfunnsgode - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/__pne_tr__dl__snett_er_et_samfunnsgode.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/__pne_tr__dl__snett_er_et_samfunnsgode.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pne_tr_dl_snett_er_et_samfunnsgode.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pne_tr_dl_snett_er_et_samfunnsgode.html Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:45:00 +0200 - -<p>Veldig glad for å oppdage via + <p>Veldig glad for å oppdage via <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/11/1841256/Finland-To-Legalize-Use-of-Unsecured-Wi-Fi">Slashdot</a> 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 @@ -395,7 +387,7 @@ 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 +forståelse for. En kan ikke la 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 @@ -408,8 +400,7 @@ anstrenge oss for å beholde.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__removals_by_apt_and_aptitude.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__removals_by_apt_and_aptitude.html Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:05:00 +0200 - -<p>My + <p>My <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html">testing of Debian upgrades</a> from Lenny to Squeeze continues, and I've finally made the upgrade logs available from @@ -585,8 +576,7 @@ continue.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Officeshots_taking_shape.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Officeshots_taking_shape.html Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:40:00 +0200 - -<p>For those of us caring about document exchange and + <p>For those of us caring about document exchange and interoperability, <a href="http://www.officeshots.org/">OfficeShots</a> is a great service. It is to ODF documents what <a href="http://browsershots.org/">BrowserShots</a> is for web @@ -613,11 +603,10 @@ Windows. This is great.</p> Vinmonopolet bryter loven åpenlyst - og flere planlegger å gjøre det samme - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vinmonopolet_bryter_loven___penlyst___og_flere_planlegger____gj__re_det_samme.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vinmonopolet_bryter_loven___penlyst___og_flere_planlegger____gj__re_det_samme.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vinmonopolet_bryter_loven__penlyst___og_flere_planlegger___gj_re_det_samme.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vinmonopolet_bryter_loven__penlyst___og_flere_planlegger___gj_re_det_samme.html Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:00:00 +0200 - -<p><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/06/16/nyheter/innenriks/streik/arbeidsliv/12157858/">Dagbladet + <p><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/06/16/nyheter/innenriks/streik/arbeidsliv/12157858/">Dagbladet melder</a> 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 @@ -659,8 +648,7 @@ håndheves strengt.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Calling_tasksel_like_the_installer__while_still_getting_useful_output.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Calling_tasksel_like_the_installer__while_still_getting_useful_output.html Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:55:00 +0200 - -<p>A few times I have had the need to simulate the way tasksel + <p>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 @@ -709,8 +697,7 @@ like this.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_a_change_to_LDAP_schemas_allowing_DNS_and_DHCP_info_to_be_combined_into_one_object.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Idea_for_a_change_to_LDAP_schemas_allowing_DNS_and_DHCP_info_to_be_combined_into_one_object.html Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:35:00 +0200 - -<p>A while back, I + <p>A while back, I <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_for_new__LDAP_schemas_replacing_RFC_2307_.html">complained about the fact</a> that it is not possible with the provided schemas for storing DNS and DHCP information in LDAP to combine the two sets @@ -760,8 +747,7 @@ please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.</p> http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LUMA__a_very_nice_LDAP_GUI.html Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:30:00 +0200 - -<p>The last few days I have been looking into the status of the LDAP + <p>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 @@ -785,6 +771,12 @@ not found a way to do that with LUMA yet. So in the mean time, I use <p>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.</p> + +<p>Update 2010-06-29: Ross Reedstrom tipped us about the +<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gq.html">gq</a> 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.</p>