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     <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_update_released.html">First Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze update released</a></div>
-      <div class="date"> 8th March 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Last Sunday, 2013-03-03,, Holger Levsen announced the first update
-of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a>
-based on Debian Squeeze.  This is the first update since
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">the
-initial release 2012-03-11</a>.  This is the
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2013/03/msg00000.html">release
-announcement email from Holger</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>Hi,</p>
-
-<p>it's my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Debian
-Edu 6.0.7+r1 ("Debian Edu Squeeze").</p>
-
-<p>Debian Edu 6.0.7+r1 is an incremental update to Debian Edu
-6.0.4+r0, containing all the changes between Debian 6.0.4 and 6.0.7 as
-well Debian Edu specific bugfixes and enhancements. See below (in this
-mail) for the full list of (edu) changes.  Please see
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311">http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311</a>
-for more information on "Debian Edu Squeeze".</p>
-
-<p>Images are available for download at
-<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/</a></p>
-
-<p>md5sums:
-<br>1fe79eb4f0f9ae1c58fc318e26cc1e2e  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-CD.iso
-<br>a6ddd924a8bd9a1b5ca122e8fe1c34ec  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-DVD.iso
-<br>ac6c72cd7925ccec51bfbf58e2a7c69c  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-source-DVD.iso</p>
-
-<p>sha1sums:
-<br>a4b58233b672a99c7df8dc24fb6de3327654a5c3  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-CD.iso
-<br>9b524915e0ff2aa793f13d93123e5bd2bab2dbaa  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-DVD.iso
-<br>43997614893fc5e9e59ad6ce066b05d07fd836fa  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-source-DVD.iso</p>
-
-<p>These images are suitable for amd64+i386.</p>
-
-<p>Changes for Debian Edu 6.0.7+r1 Codename "Squeeze", released
-2013-03-03:</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html">The Thinkpad is dead, long live the Thinkpad X230?</a></div>
+      <div class="date"> 5th July 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>Half a year ago, I reported that I had to find a
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html">replacement
+for my trusty old Thinkpad X41</a>.  Unfortunately I did not have much
+time to spend on it, and it took a while to find a model I believe
+will do the job, but two days ago the replacement finally arrived.  I
+ended up picking a
+<a href="http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_x230">Thinkpad X230</a>
+with SSD disk (NZDAJMN).  I first test installed Debian Edu Wheezy as
+a roaming workstation, and it seemed to work flawlessly.  But my
+second installation with encrypted disk was not as successful.  More
+on that below.</p>
+
+<p>I had a hard time trying to track down a good laptop, as my most
+important requirements (robust and with a good keyboard) are never
+listed in the feature list.  But I did get good help from the search
+feature at <a href="http://www.prisjakt.no/">Prisjakt</a>, which
+allowed me to limit the list of interesting laptops based on my other
+requirements.  A bit surprising that SSD disk are not disks according
+to that search interface, so I had to drop specifying the number of
+disks from my search parameters.  I also asked around among friends to
+get their impression on keyboards and robustness.</p>
+
+<p>So the new laptop arrived, and it is quite a lot wider than the
+X41.  I am not quite convinced about the keyboard, as it is
+significantly wider than my old keyboard, and I have to stretch my
+hand a lot more to reach the edges.  But the key response is fairly
+good and the individual key shape is fairly easy to handle, so I hope
+I will get used to it.  My old X40 was starting to fail, and I really
+needed a new laptop now. :)</p>
+
+<p>Turning off the touch pad was simple.  All it took was a quick
+visit to the BIOS during boot it disable it.</p>
+
+<p>But there is a fatal problem with the laptop.  The 180 GB SSD disk
+lock up during load.  And this happen when installing Debian Wheezy
+with encrypted disk, while the disk is being filled with random data.
+I also tested to install Ubuntu Raring, and it happen there too if I
+reenable the code to fill the disk with random data (it is disabled by
+default in Ubuntu).  And the bug with is already known.  It was
+reported to Debian as <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/691427">BTS
+report #691427 2012-10-25</a> (journal commit I/O error on brand-new
+Thinkpad T430s ext4 on lvm on SSD).  It is also reported to the Linux
+kernel developers as
+<a href="https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51861">Kernel bugzilla
+report #51861 2012-12-20</a> (Intel SSD 520 stops working under load
+(SSDSC2BW180A3L in Lenovo ThinkPad T430s)). It is also reported on the
+Lenovo forums, both for
+<a href="http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T430s-Intel-SSD-520-180GB-issue/m-p/1070549">T430
+2012-11-10</a> and for
+<a href="http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/x230-SATA-errors-with-180GB-Intel-520-SSD-under-heavy-write-load/m-p/1068147">X230
+03-20-2013</a>.  The problem do not only affect installation.  The
+reports state that the disk lock up during use if many writes are done
+on the disk, so it is much no use to work around the installation
+problem and end up with a computer that can lock up at any moment.
+There is even a
+<a href="https://git.efficios.com/?p=test-ssd.git">small C program
+available</a> that will lock up the hard drive after running a few
+minutes by writing to a file.</p>
+
+<p>I've contacted my supplier and asked how to handle this, and after
+contacting PCHELP Norway (request 01D1FDP) which handle support
+requests for Lenovo, his first suggestion was to upgrade the disk
+firmware.  Unfortunately there is no newer firmware available from
+Lenovo, as my disk already have the most recent one (version LF1i).  I
+hope to hear more from him today and hope the problem can be
+fixed. :)</p>
+</div>
+      <div class="tags">
+        
+        
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 
+        
+        
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="padding"></div>
+    
+    <div class="entry">
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
+      <div class="date"> 3rd July 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>The fourth wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released
+2013-07-03</strong></p>
+
+<p>These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux</a>, 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, DVD 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
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
+than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
+
+<p>This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.</li>
+  <li>Dropped menu-xdg from the KDE desktop option, to drop the Debian
+    submenu.  It was not included with Gnome, LXDE or Xfce, so this
+    brings KDE in line with the others.</li>
+  <li>Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as
+    they don't have a desktop menu entry and thus won't show up in the
+    menu now that menu-xdg was removed.</li>
+  <li>Removed the killer system to kill left behind processes on
+    multi-user machines, as it was no longer able to understand when a
+    X display was in use and killed the processes of the active users
+    too.</li>
+  <li>Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy
+    are too few to make the package useful.</li>
+</ul>
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
+  <li>Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.</li>
+  <li>Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed
+    up for some language options.</li>
+  <li>Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.</li>
+  <li>Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.</li>
+  <li>Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way
+    d-i is doing it.</li>
+  <li>Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the
+    debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.</li>
+  <li>Made Roaming Workstation dynamic setup more robust and added draft
+    script setup-ad-client to hook a Roaming Workstation up to a
+    Active Directory server instead of a Debian Edu Main Server.</li>
+  <li>Update system to install needed firmware packages during
+    installation, to work properly in Wheezy.</li>
+  <li>Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).</li>
+  <li>Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop
+    and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.</li>
+  <li>LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to
+    work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.</li>
+</ul>
+<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+<ul>
+  <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+    available yet (698840).</li>
+  <li>Artwork not enabled for all desktops.</li>
+</ul>
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 
+<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 <ul>
-  <li>sitesummary was updated from 0.1.3 to 0.1.8
-  <ul>
-        <li>Make Nagios configuration more robust and efficient</li>
-        <li>Comply with 3.X kernel</li>
-  </ul></li>
-  <li>debian-edu-doc from 1.4~20120310~6.0.4+r0 to 1.4~20130228~6.0.7+r1
-  <ul>
-        <li>Minor updates from the wiki</li>
-        <li>Danish translation now complete</li>
-  </ul></li>
-  <li>debian-edu-config from 1.453 to 1.455
-     <ul>
-        <li>Fix /etc/hosts for LTSP diskless workstations. Closes: #699880</li>
-        <li>Make ltsp_local_mount script work for multiple devices.</li>
-        <li>Correct Kerberos user policy: don't expire password after 2 days.
-                Closes: #664596</li>
-        <li>Handle '#' characters in the root or first users password.
-                Closes: #664976</li>
-        <li>Fixes for gosa-sync:
-           <ul>
-                <li>Don't fail if password contains "</li>
-                <li>Don't disclose new password string in syslog</li>
-           </ul></li>
-        <li>Fixes for gosa-create:
-           <ul>
-                <li>Invalidate libnss cache before applying changes</li>
-                <li>Multiple failures during mass user import into GOsa²</li>
-                <li>gosa-netgroups plugin: don't erase entries of attribute type
-                         "memberNisNetgroup". Closes: #687256</li>
-                <li>First user now uses the same Kerberos policy as all other users</li>
-           </ul></li>
-        <li>Add Danish web page</li>
-    </ul>
-  <li>debian-edu-install from 1.528 to 1.530
-    <ul>
-        <li>Improve preseeding support and documentation</li>
-    </ul></li>
+  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso</a></li>
+  <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c
+<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8</p>
+
+<p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
+<ul>
+  <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso</a></li>
+  <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .</li>
 </ul>
-        
-<p>End-user documentation in English is available at
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/</a>
-- translations to French, Italian, Danish and German are available in
-the debian-edu-doc package. (Other languages could use your help!)</p>
 
-<p>If you want to contribute to Debian Edu, please join our
-mailinglist
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/">debian-edu@lists.debian.org</a>!
-</p></blockquote>
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac
+<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721</p>
 
-<p>I am very happy to see the fruits of a year of hard work. :)</p>
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
@@ -123,58 +216,70 @@ mailinglist
     <div class="padding"></div>
     
     <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen___Complete_TV_station_organised_using_the_web.html">Frikanalen - Complete TV station organised using the web</a></div>
-      <div class="date"> 3rd March 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>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
-<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and
-open standards</a>?  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
-<a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a> have been building a
-system to do just this.  The source code for the solution is licensed
-using the GNU LGPL, and
-<a href="http://github.com/Frikanalen">available from github</a>.</p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-
-<p>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
-<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/">beta.frikanalen.tv</a>.  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 <a href="http://www.casparcg.com/">CasparCG from SVT</a> and
-<a href="http://www.mltframework.org/">Media Lovin' Toolkit</a>.  Video
-signal distribution is handled using
-<a href="http://www.ob-encoder.com/">Open Broadcast Encoder</a>.  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.</p>
-
-<p>The development is coordinated on the
-<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23frikanalen">#frikanalen IRC
-channel</a> (irc.freenode.net), and discussed on
-<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/frikanalen">the
-frikanalen mailing list</a>. The lead developer is Benjamin Bruheim
-(phed on IRC).  Anyone is welcome to participate in the
-development.</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html">Automatically locate and install required firmware packages on Debian (Isenkram 0.4)</a></div>
+      <div class="date">25th June 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>It annoys me when the computer fail to do automatically what it is
+perfectly capable of, and I have to do it manually to get things
+working.  One such task is to find out what firmware packages are
+needed to get the hardware on my computer working.  Most often this
+affect the wifi card, but some times it even affect the RAID
+controller or the ethernet card.  Today I pushed version 0.4 of the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">Isenkram package</a>
+including a new script isenkram-autoinstall-firmware handling the
+process of asking all the loaded kernel modules what firmware files
+they want, find debian packages providing these files and install the
+debian packages.  Here is a test run on my laptop:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: kernel drivers requested extra firmware: ipw2200-bss.fw ipw2200-ibss.fw ipw2200-sniffer.fw
+info: fetching http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Contents-i386.gz
+info: locating packages with the requested firmware files
+info: Updating APT sources after adding non-free APT source
+info: trying to install firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+Preconfiguring packages ...
+Selecting previously deselected package firmware-ipw2x00.
+(Reading database ... 259727 files and directories currently installed.)
+Unpacking firmware-ipw2x00 (from .../firmware-ipw2x00_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb) ...
+Setting up firmware-ipw2x00 (0.28+squeeze1) ...
+# 
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>When all the requested firmware is present, a simple message is
+printed instead:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules.  exiting
+# 
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>It could use some polish, but it is already working well and saving
+me some time when setting up new machines. :)</p>
+
+<p>So, how does it work?  It look at the set of currently loaded
+kernel modules, and look up each one of them using modinfo, to find
+the firmware files listed in the module meta-information.  Next, it
+download the Contents file from a nearby APT mirror, and search for
+the firmware files in this file to locate the package with the
+requested firmware file.  If the package is in the non-free section, a
+non-free APT source is added and the package is installed using
+<tt>apt-get install</tt>.  The end result is a slightly better working
+machine.</p>
+
+<p>I hope someone find time to implement a more polished version of
+this script as part of the hw-detect debian-installer module, to
+finally fix <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/655507">BTS report
+#655507</a>.  There really is no need to insert USB sticks with
+firmware during a PXE install when the packages already are available
+from the nearby Debian mirror.</p>
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
         
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram</a>. 
         
         
       </div>
@@ -182,35 +287,50 @@ development.</p>
     <div class="padding"></div>
     
     <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dr__Richard_Stallman__founder_of_Free_Software_Foundation__give_a_talk_in_Oslo_March_1st_2013.html">Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation, give a talk in Oslo March 1st 2013</a></div>
-      <div class="date">27th February 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Dr. <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a>,
-founder of <a href="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>,
-is giving <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20130301-rms/">a
-talk in Oslo March 1st 2013 17:00 to 19:00</a>.  The event is public
-and organised by <a href="">Norwegian Unix Users Group (NUUG)</a>
-(where I am the chair of the board) and
-<a href="http://www.friprog.no/">The Norwegian Open Source Competence
-Center</a>.  The title of the talk is «The Free Software Movement and
-GNU», with this description:
-
-<p><blockquote>
-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.
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>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
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20130301-rms/">the event
-page</a> for the location details.</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html">The value of a good distro wide test suite...</a></div>
+      <div class="date">22nd June 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>In the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a> project, we include a post-installation test suite,
+which check that services are running, working, and return the
+expected results.  It runs automatically just after the first boot on
+test installations (using test ISOs), but not on production
+installations (using non-test ISOs).  It test that the LDAP service is
+operating, Kerberos is responding, DNS is replying, file systems are
+online resizable, etc, etc.  And it check that the PXE service is
+configured, which is the topic of this post.</p>
+
+<p>The last week I've fixed the DVD and USB stick ISOs for our Debian
+Edu Wheezy release.  These ISOs are supposed to be able to install a
+complete system without any Internet connection, but for that to
+happen all the needed packages need to be on them.  Thanks to our test
+suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to
+cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
+When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
+using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require
+working packages to get it working.  And ad the packages changed name
+from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
+debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
+packages during installation.  Without our test suite, I suspect we
+would never have discovered this before release.  Now it is fixed
+right after we got the ISOs operational.</p>
+
+<p>Another by-product of the test suite is that we can ask system
+administrators with problems getting Debian Edu to work, to run the
+test suite using <tt>/usr/sbin/debian-edu-test-install</tt> and see if
+any errors are detected.  This usually pinpoint the subsystem causing
+the problem.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create,
+please join us on
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org</a> and the
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/">debian-edu@</a> mailing
+list.</p>
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
         
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 
         
         
       </div>
@@ -218,91 +338,143 @@ page</a> for the location details.</p>
     <div class="padding"></div>
     
     <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Helge_Tore_H_yland.html">Skolelinux-intervju: Helge Tore Høyland</a></div>
-      <div class="date">22nd February 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Etter en lang pause og travle uker har jeg endelig klart å få
-samlet et nytt intervju med en av folkene i
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-miljøet.
-Denne gang er det Helge Tore Høyland, en mangeårig bidragsyter på
-epostlistene og ellers i prosjektet.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Eg er IT-konsulent/teknikker hjå eit firma i Steinkjer med navn
-<a href="http://unoit.no/">Uno IT</a>.  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
-<a href="http://www.bjorkly.no/">Bjørkly skule</a>, 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.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>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. PÃ¥ grunn av at
-Skolelinux er basert på Debian er det òg svært stabilt.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Til dagleg bruker eg svært mange forskjellige «fri programvare»
-program.  Firefox, Thunderbird, Freecommander, ImgBurn, Clonezilla,
-OCS inventory, Icinga, Skolelinux, SystemRescueCD og mykje meir.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html">Debian Edu interview: Victor Nițu</a></div>
+      <div class="date">17th June 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux</a> distribution have users and contributors all around the
+globe.  And a while back, an enterprising young man showed up on
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">our IRC channel
+#debian-edu</a> and started asking questions about how Debian Edu
+worked.  We answered as good as we could, and even convinced him to
+help us with translations.  And today I managed to get an interview
+with him, to learn more about him.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm a 25 year old free software enthusiast, living in Romania,
+which is also my country of origin. Back in 2009, at a New Year's Eve
+party, I had a very nice <strike>beer</strike> discussion with a
+friend, when we realized we have no organised Debian community in our
+country. A few days later, we put together the infrastructure for such
+community and even gathered a nice Debian-ish crowd. Since then, I
+began my quest as a free software hacker and activist and I am
+constantly trying to cover as much ground as possible on that
+field.</p>
+
+<p>A few years ago I founded a small web development company, which
+provided me the flexible schedule I needed so much for my
+activities. For the last 13 months, I have been the Technical Director
+of <a href="http://ceata.org/">Fundația Ceata</a>, which is a free
+software activist organisation endorsed by the FSF and the FSFE, and
+the only one we have in our country.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The idea of participating in the Debian Edu project was a surprise
+even to me, since I never used it before I began getting involved in
+it. This year I had a great opportunity to deliver a talk on
+educational software, and I knew immediately where to look. It was a
+love at first sight, since I was previously involved with some of the
+technologies the project incorporates, and I rapidly found a lot of
+ways to contribute.</p>
+
+<p>My first contributions consisted in translating the installer and
+configuration dialogs, then I found some bugs to squash (I still
+haven't fixed them yet though), and I even got my eyes on some other
+areas where I can prove myself helpful. Since the appetite for free
+software in my country is pretty low, I'll be happy to be the first
+one around here advocating for the project's adoption in educational
+environments, and maybe even get my hands dirty in creating a flavour
+for our own needs. I am not used to make very advanced plannings, so
+from now on, time will tell what I'll be doing next, but I think I
+have a pretty consistent starting point.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Not a long time ago, I was in the position of configuring and
+maintaining a LDAP server on some Debian derivative, and I must say it
+took me a while. A long time ago, I was maintaining a bigger
+Samba-powered infrastructure, and I must say I spent quite a lot of
+time on it. I have similar stories about many of the services included
+with Skolelinux, and the main advantage I see about it is the
+out-of-the box availability of them, making it quite competitive when
+it comes to managing a school's network, for example.</p>
+
+<p>Of course, there is more to say about Skolelinux than the
+availability of the software included, its flexibility in various
+scenarios is something I can't wait to experiment "into the wild" (I
+only played with virtual machines so far). And I am sure there is a
+lot more I haven't discovered yet about it, being so new within the
+project.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>As usual, when it comes to Debian Blends, I see as the biggest
+disadvantage the lack of a numerous team dedicated to the
+project. Every day I see the same names in the changelogs, and I have
+a constantly fear of the bus factor in this story.  I'd like to see
+Debian Edu advertised more as an entry point into the Debian
+ecosystem, especially amongst newcomers and students. IMHO there are a
+lot low-hanging fruits in terms of bug squashing, and enough
+opportunities to get the feeling of the Debian Project's dynamics. Not
+to mention it's a very fun blend to work on!</p>
+
+<p>Derived from the previous statement, is the delay in catching up
+with the main Debian release and documentation. This is common though
+to all blends and derivatives, but it's an issue we can all work
+on.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I can hardly imagine myself spending a day without Vim, since my
+daily routine covers writing code and hacking configuration files. I
+am a fan of the Awesome window manager (but I also like the
+Enlightenment project a lot!),
+<a href="http://www.claws-mail.org/‎">Claws Mail</a> due to its ease of
+use and very configurable behaviour. Recently I fell in love with
+<a href="https://launchpad.net/redshift">Redshift</a>, which helps me
+get through the night without headaches. Of course, there is much more
+stuff in this bag, but I'll need a blog on my own for doing this!</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Well, on this field, I cannot do much more than experiment right
+now. So, being far from having a recipe for success, I can only assume
+that:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>schools would like to get rid of proprietary software</li>
+
+<li>students will love the openness of the system, and will want to
+    experiment with it - maybe we need to harvest the native curiosity
+    of teenagers more?</li>
+
+<li>there is no "right one" when it comes to strategies, but it would
+    be useful to have some success stories published somewhere, so
+    other can get some inspiration from them (I know I'd promote
+    them!)</li>
+
+<li>more active promotion - talks, conferences, even small school
+    lectures can do magical things if they encounter at least one
+    person interested. Who knows who that person might be? ;-)</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>I also see some problems in getting Skolelinux into schools; for
+example, in our country we have a great deal of corruption issues, so
+it might be hard(er) to fight against proprietary solutions. Also,
+people who relied on commercial software for all their lives, would be
+very hard to convert against their will.</p>
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
         
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>. 
         
         
       </div>
@@ -310,27 +482,131 @@ men det er svært hjelpevillig og engasjert.</p>
     <div class="padding"></div>
     
     <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikart___Free_Garmin_maps_for_European_countries_based_on_OpenStreetmap.html">Frikart - Free Garmin maps for European countries based on OpenStreetmap</a></div>
-      <div class="date">15th February 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>If you, like me, want an updated a map for your Garmin GPS, there is
-now a great source of free maps available from
-<a href="http://www.frikart.no/garmin/index.html">Frikart</a>.  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).</p>
-
-<p>The maps are updated weekly, so if you find something wrong in the
-map you can just edit the
-<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a> map source
-(anyone can contribute) and fetch a fixed map a week later. :)</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html">Debian Edu interview: Jonathan Carter</a></div>
+      <div class="date">12th June 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>There is a certain cross-over between the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project</a> and <a href="http://www.edubuntu.org/">the Edubuntu
+project</a>, and for example the LTSP packages in Debian are a joint
+effort between the projects.  One person with a foot in both camps is
+Jonathan Carter, which I am now happy to present to you.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
+days vary quite a bit since I'm involved in too many things. As I'm
+getting older I'm learning how to focus a bit more :)</p>
+
+<p>I'm also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
+opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
+each other.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I've been somewhat familiar with the project before, but I think my
+first direct exposure to the project was when I met Petter
+[Reinholdtsen] and Knut [Yrvin] at the Edubuntu summit in 2005 in
+London. They provided great feedback that helped the bootstrapping of
+Edubuntu. Back then Edubuntu (and even Ubuntu) was still very new and
+it was great getting input from people who have been around longer. I
+was also still very excitable and said yes to everything and to this
+day I have a big todo list backlog that I'm catching up with. I think
+over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
+been gradually improving, although I think there's a lot that we could
+still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I'm sure
+we'll get there one day.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
+it for pages, but in essence I love that it's a very honest project
+that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
+very high quality work.</p>
+
+<p>I think the advantage of Debian Edu is that it makes many common
+set-up tasks simpler so that administrators can get up and running
+with a lot less effort and frustration. At the same time I think it
+helps to standardise installations in schools so that it's easier for
+community members and commercial suppliers to support.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I had to re-type this one a few times because I'm trying to
+separate "disadvantages" from "areas that need improvement" (which is
+what I originally rambled on about)</p>
+
+<p>The biggest disadvantage I can think of is lack of manpower. The
+project could do so much more if there were more good contributors. I
+think some of the problems are external too. Free software and free
+content in education is a no-brainer but it takes some time to catch
+on. When you've been working with the same proprietary eco-system for
+years and have gotten used to it, it can be hard to adjust to some
+concepts in the free software world. It would be nice if there were
+more Debian Edu consultants across the world. I'd love to be one
+myself but I'm already so over-committed that it's just not possible
+currently.</p>
+
+<p>I think the best short-term solution to that large-scale problem is
+for schools to be pro-active and share their experiences and grow
+their skills in-house. I'm often saddened to see how much money
+educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don't
+have access to after the service has ended and they could've gotten so
+much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
+autonomous.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>My main laptop dual-boots between Debian and Windows 7. I was
+Windows free for years but started dual-booting again last year for
+some games which help me focus and relax (Starcraft II in
+particular). Gaming support on Linux is improving in leaps and bounds
+so I suppose I'll soon be able to regain that disk space :)</p>
+
+<p>Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
+git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I've been torn on
+which desktop environment I like and I'm taking some refuge in Xfce
+while I figure that out. I like tools that keep things simple. I enjoy
+Python and shell scripting. I went to an Arduino workshop recently and
+it was awesome seeing how easy and simple the IDE software was to get
+up and running in Debian compared to the users running Windows and OS
+X.</p>
+
+<p>I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
+using Norton Commander in the early 90's and it stuck (I think the
+people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don't know how to use
+it :p)
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I think trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
+many cases it's appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
+don't think that there's any particular moral or ethical problem with
+that.</p>
+
+<p>I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
+problems in educational institutions and it's just a shame not taking
+advantage of that.</p>
+
+<p>I also think that some curricula need serious review. For example,
+some areas of the world rely heavily on very specific versions of MS
+Office, teaching students to parrot menu items instead of learning the
+general concepts. I think that's very unproductive because firstly, MS
+Office's interface changes drastically every few years and on top of
+that it also locks in a generation to a product that might not be the
+best solution for them.</p>
+
+<p>To answer your question, I believe that the right strategy is to
+educate and inform, giving someone the information they require to
+make a decision that would work for them.</p>
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
         
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>. 
         
         
       </div>
@@ -338,190 +614,108 @@ map you can just edit the
     <div class="padding"></div>
     
     <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Electronic__paper_invoices___using_vCard_in_a_QR_code.html">"Electronic" paper invoices - using vCard in a QR code</a></div>
-      <div class="date">12th February 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Here in Norway, electronic invoices are spreading, and the
-<a href="http://www.anskaffelser.no/e-handel/faktura">solution promoted
-by the Norwegian government</a> 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
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard">the vCard format</a>, as
-it too is supported by a lot of computer equipment these days.</p>
-
-<p>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
-<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">ask
-for donations to the Debian Edu project</a> and thus have bank account
-information publicly available) for NOK 1000.00 could have these extra
-fields:</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html">Fixing the Linux black screen of death on machines with Intel HD video</a></div>
+      <div class="date">11th June 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>When installing RedHat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu on some machines,
+the screen just turn black when Linux boot, either during installation
+or on first boot from the hard disk.  I've seen it once in a while the
+last few years, but only recently understood the cause.  I've seen it
+on HP laptops, and on my latest acquaintance the Packard Bell laptop.
+The reason seem to be in the wiring of some laptops.  The system to
+control the screen background light is inverted, so when Linux try to
+turn the brightness fully on, it end up turning it off instead.  I do
+not know which Linux drivers are affected, but this post is about the
+i915 driver used by the
+<a href="http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv">Packard Bell
+EasyNote LV</a>, Thinkpad X40 and many other laptops.</p>
+
+<p>The problem can be worked around two ways.  Either by adding
+i915.invert_brightness=1 as a kernel option, or by adding a file in
+/etc/modprobe.d/ to tell modprobe to add the invert_brightness=1
+option when it load the i915 kernel module.  On Debian and Ubuntu, it
+can be done by running these commands as root:</p>
+
+<pre>
+echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
+update-initramfs -u -k all
+</pre>
+
+<p>Since March 2012 there is
+<a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca20efb1a9c2efefc28ad2867e5d6c3f5e1955">a
+mechanism in the Linux kernel</a> to tell the i915 driver which
+hardware have this problem, and get the driver to invert the
+brightness setting automatically.  To use it, one need to add a row in
+<a href="http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c">the
+intel_quirks array</a> in the driver source
+<tt>drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c</tt> (look for "<tt>static
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks</tt>"), specifying the PCI device
+number (vendor number 8086 is assumed) and subdevice vendor and device
+number.</p>
+
+<p>My Packard Bell EasyNote LV got this output from <tt>lspci
+-vvnn</tt> for the video card in question:</p>
 
 <p><pre>
-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
+00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation \
+    3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] \
+    (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
+ Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0688]
+ Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- \
+    ParErr- Stepping- SE RR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- \
+    <TAbort- <MAbort->SERR- <PERR- INTx-
+ Latency: 0
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
+ Region 0: Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
+ Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
+ Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
+ Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
+ Capabilities: <access denied>
+ Kernel driver in use: i915
 </pre></p>
 
-<p>The X-BANK-ACCOUNT-NUMBER field was proposed in a stackoverflow
-answer regarding
-<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10045664/storing-bank-account-in-vcard-file">how
-to put bank account information into a vCard</a>.  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.</p>
-
-<p>The complete vCard could look like this:</p>
+<p>The resulting intel_quirks entry would then look like this:</p>
 
 <p><pre>
-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
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
+       ...
+        /* Packard Bell EasyNote LV11HC needs invert brightness quirk */
+	{ 0x0156, 0x1025, 0x0688, quirk_invert_brightness },
+       ...
+}
 </pre></p>
 
-<p>The resulting QR code created using
-<a href="http://fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/">qrencode</a> would look
-like this, and should be readable (and thus checkable) by any smart
-phone, or for example the <a href="http://zbar.sourceforge.net/">zbar
-bar code reader</a> and feed right into the approval and accounting
-system.</p>
-
-<p><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-02-12-qr-invoice.png"></p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2013-02-12 11:30</strong>: Added KID to the proposal
-based on feedback from Sturle Sunde.</p>
-</div>
-      <div class="tags">
-        
-        
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>. 
-        
-        
-      </div>
-    </div>
-    <div class="padding"></div>
-    
-    <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Litt_statistikk_over_offentlige_anbud_annonsert_via_Doffin_siden_2008.html">Litt statistikk over offentlige anbud annonsert via Doffin siden 2008</a></div>
-      <div class="date">11th February 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>For et halvt år siden
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html">satte
-jeg opp et system for å lage en database</a> med informasjon om
-offentlige anbud fra <a href="http://www.doffin.no/">Doffin</a> ved
-<a href="https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/norwegian-doffin/">hjelp av
-Scraperwiki</a>.  Nå er databasen så vidt jeg kan se komplett, med
-data helt tilbake til 2008.  Her er litt statistikk over
-<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=htmltable&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20strftime(%22%25Y-%25m%22%2C%20publishdate)%20as%20publishmonth%2C%20count(*)%20from%20%60swdata%60%20group%20by%20publishmonth%20order%20by%20publishmonth%20desc">antall
-anbud publisert hver måned</a>:</p>
-
-<p><table border="1">
-<tr> <th>Publiseringsmåned</th> <th>Antall</th> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2013-01</td> <td>1015</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-12</td> <td>756</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-11</td> <td>979</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-10</td> <td>1093</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-09</td> <td>1023</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-08</td> <td>951</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-07</td> <td>1103</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-06</td> <td>1334</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-05</td> <td>1435</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-04</td> <td>1169</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-03</td> <td>1573</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-02</td> <td>1335</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012-01</td> <td>1147</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-12</td> <td>1045</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-11</td> <td>1114</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-10</td> <td>1230</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-09</td> <td>1165</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-08</td> <td>966</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-07</td> <td>1148</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-06</td> <td>1410</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-05</td> <td>1536</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-04</td> <td>1350</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-03</td> <td>1574</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-02</td> <td>1370</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011-01</td> <td>1049</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-12</td> <td>992</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-11</td> <td>1089</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-10</td> <td>1110</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-09</td> <td>1132</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-08</td> <td>883</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-07</td> <td>1126</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-06</td> <td>1440</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-05</td> <td>1236</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-04</td> <td>1249</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-03</td> <td>1556</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-02</td> <td>1256</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010-01</td> <td>1140</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-12</td> <td>1013</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-11</td> <td>1220</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-10</td> <td>1320</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-09</td> <td>1294</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-08</td> <td>953</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-07</td> <td>1162</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-06</td> <td>1605</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-05</td> <td>1568</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-04</td> <td>1522</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-03</td> <td>1599</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-02</td> <td>1376</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009-01</td> <td>1080</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2008-12</td> <td>1028</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2008-11</td> <td>949</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2008-10</td> <td>1047</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2008-09</td> <td>965</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2008-08</td> <td>725</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2008-07</td> <td>1015</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2008-06</td> <td>1304</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2008-05</td> <td>323</td> </tr>
-</table></p>
-
-<p>Her er tilsvarende
-<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=htmltable&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20strftime(%22%25Y%22%2C%20publishdate)%20as%20publishyear%2C%20count(*)%20from%20%60swdata%60%20group%20by%20publishyear%20order%20by%20publishyear%20desc">tall
-per år</a>, som viser en liten nedgang i antall anbud:</p>
-
-<table border="1">
-<tr> <th>Publiseringsår</th> <th>Antall</th> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2012</td> <td>13898</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2011</td> <td>14957</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2010</td> <td>14209</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2009</td> <td>15712</td> </tr>
-<tr> <td>2008</td> <td>7356</td> </tr>
-</table></p>
-
-<p>Jeg droppet den ufullstendige måneden og året fra tabellen.  Se
-lenken for oppdaterte tall.</p>
+<p>According to the kernel module instructions (as seen using
+<tt>modinfo i915</tt>), information about hardware needing the
+invert_brightness flag should be sent to the
+<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel">dri-devel
+(at) lists.freedesktop.org</a> mailing list to reach the kernel
+developers.  But my email about the laptop sent 2013-06-03 have not
+yet shown up in
+<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-June/thread.html">the
+web archive for the mailing list</a>, so I suspect they do not accept
+emails from non-subscribers.  Because of this, I sent my patch also to
+the Debian bug tracking system instead as
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/710938">BTS report #710938</a>, to make
+sure the patch is not lost.</p>
+
+<p>Unfortunately, it is not enough to fix the kernel to get Laptops
+with this problem working properly with Linux.  If you use Gnome, your
+worries should be over at this point.  But if you use KDE, there is
+something in KDE ignoring the invert_brightness setting and turning on
+the screen during login.  I've reported it to Debian as
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/711237">BTS report #711237</a>, and
+have no idea yet how to figure out exactly what subsystem is doing
+this.  Perhaps you can help?  Perhaps you know what the Gnome
+developers did to handle this, and this can give a clue to the KDE
+developers?  Or you know where in KDE the screen brightness is changed
+during login?  If so, please update the BTS report (or get in touch if
+you do not know how to update BTS).</p>
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
         
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 
         
         
       </div>
@@ -529,65 +723,125 @@ lenken for oppdaterte tall.</p>
     <div class="padding"></div>
     
     <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sleep_until_morning___home_automation_for_the_kids.html">Sleep until morning - home automation for the kids</a></div>
-      <div class="date">10th February 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><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>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
+      <div class="date">10th June 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
+2013-06-10</strong></p>
+
+<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
+alpha2, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux</a>, 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, DVD 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
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
+than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
+
+<p>This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1) 
+<li>Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703). 
+<li>Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4. 
+<li>Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default. 
+<li>Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default. 
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used. 
+<li>Updated translation of the installation. 
+<li>New Romanian translation. 
+<li>Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat. 
+<li>Fix roaming workstation setup (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login).
+<li>Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments. 
+<li>New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile. 
+<li>Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS. 
+<li>More testsuite tests. 
+<li>Make automatic proxy configuration more robust. 
+<li>Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration. 
+
+<li>Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
+LTSP in Wheezy.</li>
+
+<li>Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
+them up with GOsa².</li>
+
+<li>Update IMAP server setup. </li>
+
+<li>Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
+slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
+entered password). </li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.</li>
+
+<li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
+missing import feature).</li>
+
+<li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). </li>
+
+<li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
+own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
+unfixed.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+
+<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso</a></li>
+
+<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178 
+<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419</p>
+
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
         
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 
         
         
       </div>
@@ -595,33 +849,38 @@ can also delay it if we want to.</p>
     <div class="padding"></div>
     
     <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_stemte_hver_stortingsrepresentant_i_voteringene_om_datalagringsdirektivet_.html">Hva stemte hver stortingsrepresentant i voteringene om datalagringsdirektivet?</a></div>
-      <div class="date"> 9th February 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>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.</p>
-
-<p>Hvis du vil vite hva hver enkelt stortingsrepresentant har stemt i
-stortingsvoteringene om datalagringsdirektivet, så har nettstedet til
-<a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/">Holder De Ord</a> den (så vidt jeg
-vet) eneste komplette oversikten på sin temaside om
-<a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">innføringen
-av datalagringsdirektivet</a>.  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.</p>
-
-<p>Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet,
-anbefaler jeg å lese <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">artiklene
-fra Jon Wessel-Aas</a> om temaet, samt informasjon fra foreningen
-<a href="http://www.digitaltpersonvern.no/">Digitalt
-Personvern</a>.</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html">Is there a PHP expert in the building?  Debian Edu need help!</a></div>
+      <div class="date"> 5th June 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>Here is a call for help from the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project.
+We have two problems blocking the release of the Wheezy version we
+hope to get released soon.  The two problems require some with PHP
+skills, and we seem to lack anyone with both time and PHP skills in
+the project:
+
+<ol>
+
+<li>It is impossible to log into the slbackup web interface
+  (slbackup-php) using the root user and password.  This is
+  <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/700257">BTS report #700257</a>.
+  This used to work, but stopped working some time since Squeeze.
+  Perhaps some obsolete PHP feature was used?</li>
+
+<li>It is not possible to "mass import" user lists in Gosa, neither
+  using ldif nor using CSV files.  The feature was disabled after a
+  major rewrite of Gosa, and need to be ported to the new system.
+  This is <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/698840">BTS report
+  #698840</a>.</li>
+
+</ol>
+
+<p>If you can help us, please join us on IRC
+(<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org</a>) and provide patches via the BTS.</p>
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
         
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 
         
         
       </div>
@@ -629,51 +888,145 @@ Personvern</a>.</p>
     <div class="padding"></div>
     
     <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_kt_overv_kning_applauderes_igjen_av_Arbeiderpartiet__H_yre_og_Fremskrittspartiet.html">Økt overvåkning applauderes igjen av Arbeiderpartiet, Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet</a></div>
-      <div class="date"> 4th February 2013</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Jeg ser med gru at Arbeiderpartiet, Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Positive-til-mer-smuglerovervaking-7110348.html">applauderer
-tollvesenets forslag</a> 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.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/?p=48717">Datalagringsdirektivet</a>
-har vært oppe til votering i stortinget tre ganger så langt.  Det ble
-<a href="http://svartelisten.org/">vedtatt første gang 2011-04-04</a>
-og
-<a href="https://github.com/holderdeord/hdo-folketingparser/blob/master/data/votering-2011-04-11.xml">andre
-gang 2011-04-11</a> (lovendringer voteres to ganger), og forslag om å
-stoppe loven ble
-<a href="http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Saker/Sak/Voteringsoversikt/?p=53844&dnid=1">nedstemt
-2012-12-06</a> (se også
-<a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">oversikt fra Holder De
-Ord</a>).</p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-
-<p>Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet,
-anbefaler jeg å lese <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">artiklene
-fra Jon Wessel-Aas</a> om temaet, samt informasjon fra foreningen
-<a href="http://www.digitaltpersonvern.no/">Digitalt
-Personvern</a>.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Oppdatering 2013-03-09</strong>: Endret lenke til Holder De
-Ord, som har byttet mange lenker i forbindelse med import av
-voteringsdata for 2010-2011.</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html">Debian Edu interview: Cédric Boutillier</a></div>
+      <div class="date"> 4th June 2013</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since my last English
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+interview last November.  But the developers and translators are still
+pulling along to get the Wheezy based release out the door, and this
+time I managed to get an interview from one of the French translators
+in the project, Cédric Boutillier.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I am 34 year old. I live near Paris, France. I am an assistant
+professor in probability theory. I spend my daytime teaching
+mathematics at the university and doing fundamental research in
+probability in connexion with combinatorics and statistical physics.</p>
+
+<p>I have been involved in the Debian project for a couple of years
+and became Debian Developer a few months ago. I am working on Ruby
+packaging, publicity and translation.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I came to the Debian Edu project after a call for translation of
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals">the
+Debian Edu manual</a> for the release of Debian Edu Squeeze. Since
+then, I have been working on updating the French translation of the
+manual.
+
+<p>I had the opportunity to make an installation of Debian Edu in a
+virtual machine when I was preparing localised version of some screen
+shots for the manual. I was amazed to see it worked out of the box and
+how comprehensive the list of software installed by default was.</p>
+
+<p>What amazed me was the complete network infrastructure directly
+ready to use, which can and the nice administration interface provided
+by <a href="https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/">GOsa²</a>.  What pleased
+me also was the fact that among the software installed by default,
+there were many "traditional" educative software to learn languages,
+to count, to program... but also software to develop creativity and
+artistic skills with music (<a href="http://ardour.org/">Ardour</a>,
+<a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a>) and
+movies/animation (I was especially thinking of
+<a href="http://linuxstopmotion.sourceforge.net/">Stopmotion</a>).</p>
+
+<p>I am following the development of Debian Edu and am hanging out on
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">#debian-edu</a>.
+Unfortunately, I don't much time to get more involved in this
+beautiful project.</p>
+  
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>For me, the main advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu are its
+community of experts and its precise documentation, as well as the
+fact that it provides a solution ready to use.</p>
+  
+<p>I would add also the fact that it is based on the rock solid Debian
+distribution, which ensures stability and provides a huge collection
+of educational free software.</p>
+  
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Maybe the lack of manpower to do lobbying on the
+project. Sometimes, people who need to take decisions concerning IT do
+not have all the elements to evaluate properly free software
+solutions. The fact that support by a company may be difficult to find
+is probably a problem if the school does not have IT personnel.</p>
+
+<p>One can find support from a company by looking at
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp">the
+wiki dokumentation</a>, where some countries already have a number of
+companies providing support for Debian Edu, like Germany or
+Norway. This list is easy to find readily from the manual. However,
+for other countries, like France, the list is empty. I guess that
+consultants proposing support for Debian would be able to provide some
+support for Debian Edu as well.</p>
+  
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I am using the KDE Plasma Desktop. But the pieces of software I use
+most runs in a terminal: Mutt and OfflineIMAP for emails, latex for
+scientific documents, mpd for music. VIM is my editor of choice.  I am
+also using the mathematical software
+<a href="http://www.scilab.org/en/scilab/about‎">Scilab</a> and
+<a href="http://www.sagemath.org/index.html‎">Sage</a> (built from
+source as not completely packaged for Debian, yet).
+
+<p><strong>Do you have any suggestions for teachers interested in
+using the free software in Debian to teach mathematics and
+statistics?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I do not have any "nice" recommendations for statistics. At our
+university, we use both <a href="http://www.r-project.org/‎">R</a> and
+Scilab to teach statistics and probabilistic simulations. For
+geometry, there are nice programs:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.drgeo.eu/">drgeo</a> and
+<a href="http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kig‎">kig</a> to do
+constructions in planar geometry
+
+<li><a href="http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/download/kali.html">kali</a>
+to discover symmetry groups (the so-called wallpapers and frieze
+groups), although the interface looks a bit old.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>I like also
+<a href="http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/cantor">cantor</a>, which
+provides a uniform interface to SciLab, Sage,
+<a href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Octave‎">Octave</a>, etc...</p>
+  
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>My suggestions would be to</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>advertise the reduction of costs when free software is used.</li>
+
+<li>communicate about the quality of free software projects, using
+    well known examples like Firefox, ThunderBird and
+    OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.</li>
+
+<li>advertise the living and strong community around the project.</li>
+
+<li>show that it is not more difficult to use than any other
+    system.</li>
+
+</ul>
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
         
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>. 
         
         
       </div>
@@ -695,7 +1048,15 @@ voteringsdata for 2010-2011.</p>
 
 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
 
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (2)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/06/">June (10)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/07/">July (2)</a></li>
 
 </ul></li>
 
@@ -839,35 +1200,35 @@ voteringsdata for 2010-2011.</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bankid">bankid (4)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin (6)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin (7)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem (12)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bsa">bsa (2)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (70)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (79)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (120)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (136)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (9)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (10)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (9)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (182)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (205)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (21)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (12)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (10)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (11)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (10)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (11)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (33)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (37)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram (5)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram (7)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (18)</a></li>
 
@@ -879,17 +1240,17 @@ voteringsdata for 2010-2011.</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (25)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (223)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (234)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (150)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (152)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (8)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (42)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (44)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (64)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (65)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
 
@@ -897,7 +1258,7 @@ voteringsdata for 2010-2011.</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (2)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (6)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (7)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
 
@@ -911,11 +1272,11 @@ voteringsdata for 2010-2011.</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (40)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (43)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (3)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (6)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (7)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (15)</a></li>
 
@@ -923,7 +1284,7 @@ voteringsdata for 2010-2011.</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (7)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (36)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (38)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (4)</a></li>