Arbeidet med et nettsted som viser frem hva hver enkelt av våre +
Entries from July 2011.
+ +Arbeidet med et nettsted som viser frem hva hver enkelt av våre folkevalgte har stemt går sakte fremover. Det har gått to måneder siden -jeg +jeg skrev om prosjektet. Siden sist har vi fått kontakt med organisasjonen Holder De Ord som holder på med et lignende prosjekt, samt fått tilgang til endel @@ -65,28 +64,26 @@ irc.freenode.net) eller bli med på epostlisten Det trengs både manne-timer for skraping og finansiering av utviklingstimer for å en norsk portal på plass.
-I dag har det blitt bombet i regjeringskvartalet og skutt på AUFs +
I dag har det blitt bombet i regjeringskvartalet og skutt på AUFs sommerleir. Hvem kan stå bak? Hvem har fordeler av at dette har skjedd? Jeg håper de kriminelle som står bak blir funnet og straffet, og at dette blir gjort på et måte som gjør at demokrati, de mistenktes @@ -96,28 +93,26 @@ borgerrettigheter og det norske demokratiet blir skadelidende. Vi får se. Vi bør i passe oss for å gjøre det såkalte terrorister ønsker, dvs. å gjøre samfunnet vårt verre for innbyggerne.
-Det er vanskelig å få gjort noe fornuftig i dag, etter gårdagens +
Det er vanskelig å få gjort noe fornuftig i dag, etter gårdagens tragiske hendelse. Tankene går til de som har mistet sine nærmeste. Jeg kan ikke forstille meg hvor tungt de har det nå, og jeg håper alle jeg kjenner har klart seg.
@@ -145,28 +140,26 @@ kommunikasjonskontroll av hele befolkningen vil hindre ekstremister i åpenhet, mindre kontroll og mer tillit til hver enkelt innbygger, da jeg tror bidrar til å holde ekstreme holdninger i sjakk. -The Norwegian FiksGataMi +
The Norwegian FiksGataMi site is build on Debian/Squeeze, and this platform was chosen because I am most familiar with Debian (being a Debian Developer for around 10 years) because it is the latest stable Debian release which should get @@ -191,28 +184,26 @@ and 'dpkg -i' to install the resulting package. But this leave me with the responsibility of tracking security problems, which I really do not have time for.
-Neste mann ut i min serie med intervjuer av Skolelinux-relaterte +
Neste mann ut i min serie med intervjuer av Skolelinux-relaterte personer er en tidligere styreleder i FRISK som var med fra starten av @@ -328,25 +319,184 @@ produkter, selv om man skulle velge alternativer. Da er det økonomiske argumentet, som jeg nevnte tidligere, spilt ganske godt ut over sidelinjen.
-While at Debconf11, I have several times during discussions +mentioned the issues I believe should be improved in Debian for its +desktop to be useful for more people. The use case for this is my +parents, which are currently running Kubuntu which solve the +issues.
+ +I suspect these four missing features are not very hard to +implement. After all, they are present in Ubuntu, so if we wanted to +do this in Debian we would have a source.
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- Simple GUI based upgrade of packages. When there +are new packages available for upgrades, a icon in the KDE status bar +indicate this, and clicking on it will activate the simple upgrade +tool to handle it. I have no problem guiding both of my parents +through the process over the phone. If a kernel reboot is required, +this too is indicated by the status bars and the upgrade tool. Last +time I checked, nothing with the same features was working in KDE in +Debian. + +
- Simple handling of missing Firefox browser +plugins. When the browser encounter a MIME type it do not +currently have a handler for, it will ask the user if the system +should search for a package that would add support for this MIME type, +and if the user say yes, the APT sources will be searched for packages +advertising the MIME type in their control file (visible in the +Packages file in the APT archive). If one or more packages are found, +it is a simple click of the mouse to add support for the missing mime +type. If the package require the user to accept some non-free +license, this is explained to the user. The entire process make it +more clear to the user why something do not work in the browser, and +make the chances higher for the user to blame the web page authors and +not the browser for any missing features. + +
- Simple handling of missing multimedia codec/format +handlers. When the media players encounter a format or codec +it is not supporting, a dialog pop up asking the user if the system +should search for a package that would add support for it. This +happen with things like MP3, Windows Media or H.264. The selection +and installation procedure is very similar to the Firefox browser +plugin handling. This is as far as I know implemented using a +gstreamer hook. The end result is that the user easily get access to +the codecs that are present from the APT archives available, while +explaining more on why a given format is unsupported by Ubuntu. + +
- Better browser handling of some MIME types. When +displaying a text/plain file in my Debian browser, it will propose to +start emacs to show it. If I remember correctly, when doing the same +in Kunbutu it show the file as a text file in the browser. At least I +know Opera will show text files within the browser. I much prefer the +latter behaviour. + +
There are other nice features as well, like the simplified suite +upgrader, but given that I am the one mostly doing the dist-upgrade, +it do not matter much.
+ +I really hope we could get these features in place for the next +Debian release. It would require the coordinated effort of several +maintainers, but would make the end user experience a lot better.
+ +In the Debian boot system, several packages include scripts that +are started from /etc/rcS.d/. In fact, there is a bite more of them +than make sense, and this causes a few problems. What kind of +problems, you might ask. There are at least two problems. The first +is that it is not possible to recover a machine after switching to +runlevel 1. One need to actually reboot to get the machine back to +the expected state. The other is that single user boot will sometimes +run into problems because some of the subsystems are activated before +the root login is presented, causing problems when trying to recover a +machine from a problem in that subsystem. A minor additional point is +that moving more scripts out of rcS.d/ and into the other rc#.d/ +directories will increase the amount of scripts that can run in +parallel during boot, and thus decrease the boot time.
+ +So, which scripts should start from rcS.d/. In short, only the +scripts that _have_ to execute before the root login prompt is +presented during a single user boot should go there. Everything else +should go into the numeric runlevels. This means things like +lm-sensors, fuse and x11-common should not run from rcS.d, but from +the numeric runlevels. Today in Debian, there are around 115 init.d +scripts that are started from rcS.d/, and most of them should be moved +out. Do your package have one of them? Please help us make single +user and runlevel 1 better by moving it.
+ +Scripts setting up the screen, keyboard, system partitions +etc. should still be started from rcS.d/, but there is for example no +need to have the network enabled before the single user login prompt +is presented.
+ +As always, things are not so easy to fix as they sound. To keep +Debian systems working while scripts migrate and during upgrades, the +scripts need to be moved from rcS.d/ to rc2.d/ in reverse dependency +order, ie the scripts that nothing in rcS.d/ depend on can be moved, +and the next ones can only be moved when their dependencies have been +moved first. This migration must be done sequentially while we ensure +that the package system upgrade packages in the right order to keep +the system state correct. This will require some coordination when it +comes to network related packages, but most of the packages with +scripts that should migrate do not have anything in rcS.d/ depending +on them. Some packages have already been updated, like the sudo +package, while others are still left to do. I wish I had time to work +on this myself, but real live constrains make it unlikely that I will +find time to push this forward.
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