For a laptop, centralized user directories and password checking is +
Entries from July 2010.
+ +For a laptop, centralized user directories and password checking is a bit troubling. Laptops are typically used also when not connected to the network, and it is vital for a user to be able to log in or unlock the screen saver also when a central server is unavailable. @@ -229,28 +228,26 @@ modify it manually.
If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.
-Here is a short update on my + +
Here is a short update on my my Debian Lenny->Squeeze upgrade testing. Here is a summary of the difference for Gnome when it is upgraded by apt-get and aptitude. I'm @@ -343,28 +340,26 @@ in git today to try to get apt-get to not remove xorg completely. No idea when it hits Squeeze, but when it does I hope it will reduce the difference somewhat. -
De siste dagene har Aftenposten +
Since my last post about available LDAP tools in Debian, I was told about a LDAP GUI that is even better than luma. The java application @@ -421,28 +414,26 @@ have with it is how it handle errors. If something go wrong, its non-intuitive behaviour require me to go through some query work list and remove the failing query. Nothing big, but very annoying.
-Vagrant mentioned on IRC today that ltsp_config now support +
Vagrant mentioned on IRC today that ltsp_config now support sourcing files from /usr/share/ltsp/ltsp_config.d/ on the thin clients, and that this can be used to fetch configuration from LDAP if Debian Edu choose to store configuration there.
@@ -517,28 +508,26 @@ Xperience, Inc., 2000. I found its files on a personal home page over at redhat.com. -For a while now, I have wanted to find a way to change the DNS and +
For a while now, I have wanted to find a way to change the DNS and DHCP services in Debian Edu to use the same LDAP objects for a given computer, to avoid the possibility of having a inconsistent state for a computer in LDAP (as in DHCP but no DNS entry or the other way @@ -596,28 +585,26 @@ might be a good place to put it.
If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.
-This is a +
Thanks to +
Thanks to todays opengeodata blog entry, I just discovered that the OpenStreetmap.org site have gotten @@ -967,28 +952,26 @@ alternative for them because the front page lacked routing support, and I hope their needs will be catered for when routing show up on the www.openstreetmap.org front page.
-For mange år siden slutte jeg å kjøpe musikk-CDer. à rsaken var at +
For mange år siden slutte jeg å kjøpe musikk-CDer. à rsaken var at musikkbransjen var godt i gang med å selge platene sine med DRM som gjorde at jeg ikke fikk spilt av musikken jeg kjøpte på utstyret jeg hadde tilgjengelig, dvs. min datamaskin. Det var umulig å se på en @@ -1012,28 +995,26 @@ holder meg til DVD-filmer som kan spilles av på mine Linuxbokser. Kommer neppe til å ta i bruk Blueray, og ei heller de nye DRM-greiene «Ultraviolet» som be annonsert her om dagen.
-The last few months me and the other Debian Edu developers have +
The last few months me and the other Debian Edu developers have been working hard to get the Debian/Squeeze based version of Debian Edu/Skolelinux into shape. This future version will use Kerberos for authentication, and services are slowly migrated to single signon, @@ -1069,28 +1050,26 @@ release another day.
If you want to help out with implementing Kerberos for Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.
-I just posted this announcement culminating several months of work +
I just posted this announcement culminating several months of work with the next Debian Edu release. Not nearly done, but one major step completed.
@@ -1202,28 +1181,26 @@ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugsInBugzillaPlease direct replies to debian-edu@lists.debian.org
-I discovered this while doing +
I discovered this while doing automated testing of upgrades from Debian Lenny to Squeeze. A few packages in Debian still got circular dependencies, and it is often claimed @@ -1272,22 +1249,21 @@ apt-get and aptitude, the latter possibly caused by some circular dependency. Reported both to BTS to try to get someone to look at it.
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