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61 kommuner lenker nå til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider
-
11th December 2012
-

For noen dager siden omfavnet nok en kommune NUUGs -FiksGataMi. Med 61 kommuner -som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er «markedsandelen» 14% -(av 429 kommuner). Siden -siste -oppdatering i november har kommunene Re og Vågsøy kommet til og -slår følge med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Balestrand, -Bærum, Eide, Farsund, Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel, -Halden, Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl, Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger, -Kongsberg, Kristiansund, Kvinesdal, Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes, -Luster, Lyngdal, Løten, Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal, -Nordreisa, Randaberg, Rindal, Sel, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland, -Spydeberg, Stange, Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne, Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil, -Tynset, Tysvær, Ullensvang Herad, Utsira, Vennesla, Verdal, Vågan, -Vågå, Våler og Åseral. Oppdatert liste er tilgjengelig fra -NUUGs -wiki. Kartet er dog ikke oppdatert med de siste kommunene.

- -

Kanskje du bør høre med din kommune om de vil bli mer aktive -brukere av FiksGataMi? Se -en -tidligere bloggpost med tips om hvordan det kan gjøres.

- -

I snitt rapporteres det nå via FiksGataMi ca. 60 meldinger fra -innbyggerne i uka om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.

+
Økt overvåkning applauderes igjen av Arbeiderpartiet, Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet
+
4th February 2013
+

Jeg ser med gru at Arbeiderpartiet, Høyre og Fremskrittspartiet +applauderer +tollvesenets forslag 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.

+ +

Datalagringsdirektivet +har vært oppe til votering i stortinget tre ganger så langt. Det ble +vedtatt første gang 2011-04-04 +og +andre +gang 2011-04-11 (lovendringer voteres to ganger), og forslag om å +stoppe loven ble +nedstemt +2012-12-06 (se også +oversikt fra Holder De +Ord).

+ +

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.

+ +

Hvis du lurer på hva som er problemet med datalagringsdirektivet, +anbefaler jeg å lese artiklene +fra Jon Wessel-Aas om temaet, samt informasjon fra foreningen +Digitalt +Personvern.

- Tags: fiksgatami, norsk. + Tags: norsk, personvern, surveillance.
@@ -59,53 +68,40 @@ innbyggerne i uka om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.

-
Scripting the Cerebrum/bofhd user administration system using XML-RPC
-
6th December 2012
-

Where I work at the University of -Oslo, we use the -Cerebrum user -administration system to maintain users, groups, DNS, DHCP, etc. -I've known since the system was written that the server is providing -an XML-RPC API, but -I have never spent time to try to figure out how to use it, as we -always use the bofh command line client at work. Until today. I want -to script the updating of DNS and DHCP to make it easier to set up -virtual machines. Here are a few notes on how to use it with -Python.

- -

I started by looking at the source of the Java -bofh -client, to figure out how it connected to the API server. I also -googled for python examples on how to use XML-RPC, and found -a -simple example in the XML-RPC howto.

- -

This simple example code show how to connect, get the list of -commands (as a JSON dump), and how to get the information about the -user currently logged in:

- -
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-import getpass
-import xmlrpclib
-server_url = 'https://cerebrum-uio.uio.no:8000';
-username = getpass.getuser()
-password = getpass.getpass()
-server = xmlrpclib.Server(server_url);
-#print server.get_commands(sessionid)
-sessionid = server.login(username, password)
-print server.run_command(sessionid, "user_info", username)
-result = server.logout(sessionid)
-print result
-
- -

Armed with this knowledge I can now move forward and script the DNS -and DHCP updates I wanted to do.

+
Bitcoin GUI now available from Debian/unstable (and Ubuntu/raring)
+
2nd February 2013
+

My +last +bitcoin related blog post mentioned that the new +bitcoin package for +Debian was waiting in NEW. It was accepted by the Debian ftp-masters +2013-01-19, and have been available in unstable since then. It was +automatically copied to Ubuntu, and is available in their Raring +version too.

+ +

But there is a strange problem with the build that block this new +version from being available on the i386 and kfreebsd-i386 +architectures. For some strange reason, the autobuilders in Debian +for these architectures fail to run the test suite on these +architectures (BTS #672524). +We are so far unable to reproduce it when building it manually, and +no-one have been able to propose a fix. If you got an idea what is +failing, please let us know via the BTS.

+ +

One feature that is annoying me with of the bitcoin client, because +I often run low on disk space, is the fact that the client will exit +if it run short on space (BTS +#696715). So make sure you have enough disk space when you run +it. :)

+ +

As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

- Tags: english, sysadmin. + Tags: bitcoin, debian, english.
@@ -113,52 +109,50 @@ and DHCP updates I wanted to do.

-
Lenker for 2012-11-28
-
28th November 2012
-

Mye interessant har skjedd de siste ukene. Her er noen dokumenter -jeg har hatt glede av å lese.

- -

+
Welcome to the world, Isenkram!
+
22nd January 2013
+

Yesterday, I +asked +for testers for my prototype for making Debian better at handling +pluggable hardware devices, which I +set +out to create earlier this month. Several valuable testers showed +up, and caused me to really want to to open up the development to more +people. But before I did this, I want to come up with a sensible name +for this project. Today I finally decided on a new name, and I have +renamed the project from hw-support-handler to this new name. In the +process, I moved the source to git and made it available as a +collab-maint +repository in Debian. The new name? It is Isenkram. +To fetch and build the latest version of the source, use

+ +
+git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/isenkram.git
+cd isenkram && git-buildpackage -us -uc
+
+ +

I have not yet adjusted all files to use the new name yet. If you +want to hack on the source or improve the package, please go ahead. +But please talk to me first on IRC or via email before you do major +changes, to make sure we do not step on each others toes. :)

+ +

If you wonder what 'isenkram' is, it is a Norwegian word for iron +stuff, typically meaning tools, nails, screws, etc. Typical hardware +stuff, in other words. I've been told it is the Norwegian variant of +the German word eisenkram, for those that are familiar with that +word.

+ +

Update 2013-01-26: Added -us -us to build +instructions, to avoid confusing people with an error from the signing +process.

+ +

Update 2013-01-27: Switch to HTTP URL for the git +clone argument to avoid the need for authentication.

- Tags: lenker, norsk, opphavsrett, personvern. + Tags: debian, english, isenkram.
@@ -166,66 +160,84 @@ selvforsynt koloni på Mars.
-
1.4 millioner potensielle journalistsamtaler i politiets hender
-
27th November 2012
-

I fjor meldte Dagbladet og andre medier at -politiet -hadde samlet inn informasjon om 1.4 millioner telefonsamtaler i -området rundt Akersgata, regjeringskvartalet og Utøya, i forbindelse -med etterforskningen rundt bombeattentatet og massemordet 22. juli -2011. Politiadvokat Pål-Fredrik Hjort Kraby fortalte i følge -artikkelen at

- -
-- «Dette er ikke kun samtaler som knyttes til Breivik. Dette er alle -samtaler som er registrert på basestasjoner i tilknytning til både -bomba i Regjeringskvartalet og aksjonen på Utøya. Vi må analysere tid, -lengde og fra hvilke basestasjoner de er registrert på. Vi prøver å -finne ut hvem som har ringt til en hver tid, også i dagene før.» -
- -

Det triste og merkelige er at ingen presseoppslag tok opp hva dette -egentlig betød for kildevernet. Et stenkast fra regjeringskvartalet -befinner redaksjonene til blant annet VG, Dagbladet og Aftenposten -seg. Det betyr at et betydelig antall av journalisters samtaler var -og er tilgjengelig for politiet. Og dette var ikke en unik hendelse. -Politiet henter rutinemessig ut informasjon om telefonsamtaler i -kriminaletterforskningen, og en kan gå ut ifra at det ofte vil være -noe kriminelt å undersøke nær en redaksjon da redaksjoner holder til i -sentrum og tettsteder, der det meste av annen aktivitet i et område -også foregår. F.eks. befinner Aftenposten seg like ved Oslo -Sentralstasjon, et ganske kriminelt belastet område, der jeg mistenker -politiet ofte hente ut samtaleinformasjon. Og avisen Aftenposten -annonserte jo for noen år siden at ansatte kun skulle ha mobiltelefon -(noe de kanskje angret på -da -mobilnettet brøt sammen), hvilket betyr at alle samtaler -journalistene gjennomfører går via nabolagets mobilbasestasjoner og -dermed blir med og analysert når politiet ber om informasjon om -mobilsamtaler i området. Det samme gjelder antagelig de fleste -mediehus nå for tiden.

- -

Konsekvensen er at en må gå ut i fra at politiet kan få tilgang til -informasjon om alle samtaler med journalister, hvilket bør få varslere -og andre som vil tipse journalister til å tenke seg to ganger før de -ringer en journalist. Det er for meg en svært uheldig situasjon.

- -

Anders Brenne tipset meg om dette tidligere i år, og har skrevet om -problemstillingen i sin bok -Digitalt -kildevern som ble lansert i år og -presentert -på et NONA-møte i april. Oppsummeringen fra møtet inneholder -flere detaljer og bakgrunnsinformasjon. Jeg synes det er besynderlig -at så få journalister tar opp denne problemstillingen, og ikke stiller -flere kritiske spørsmål til innføringen av datalagringsdirektivet og -den raderingen av personvernet som har foregått i Norge i løpet av -mange år nå.

+
First prototype ready making hardware easier to use in Debian
+
21st January 2013
+

Early this month I set out to try to +improve +the Debian support for pluggable hardware devices. Now my +prototype is working, and it is ready for a larger audience. To test +it, fetch the +source +from the Debian Edu subversion repository, build and install the +package. You might have to log out and in again activate the +autostart script.

+ +

The design is simple:

+ +
    + +
  • Add desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ causing a program +hw-support-handlerd to start when the user log in.
    • + +
  • This program listen for kernel events about new hardware (directly +from the kernel like udev does), not using HAL dbus events as I +initially did.
    • + +
  • When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware modalias in +the APT database, a database +available +via HTTP and a database available as part of the package.
    • + +
  • If a package is mapped to the hardware in question, the package +isn't installed yet and this is the first time the hardware was +plugged in, show a desktop notification suggesting to install the +package or packages.
    • + +
  • If the user click on the 'install package now' button, ask +aptdaemon via the PackageKit API to install the requrired package.
    • + +
  • aptdaemon ask for root password or sudo password, and install the +package while showing progress information in a window.
    • + +
+ +

I still need to come up with a better name for the system. Here +are some screen shots showing the prototype in action. First the +notification, then the password request, and finally the request to +approve all the dependencies. Sorry for the Norwegian Bokmål GUI.

+ +

+
+
+
+

+ +

The prototype still need to be improved with longer timeouts, but +is already useful. The database of hardware to package mappings also +need more work. It is currently compatible with the Ubuntu way of +storing such information in the package control file, but could be +changed to use other formats instead or in addition to the current +method. I've dropped the use of discover for this mapping, as the +modalias approach is more flexible and easier to use on Linux as long +as the Linux kernel expose its modalias strings directly.

+ +

Update 2013-01-21 16:50: Due to popular demand, +here is the command required to check out and build the source: Use +'svn checkout +svn://svn.debian.org/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/; cd +hw-support-handler; debuild'. If you lack debuild, install the +devscripts package.

+ +

Update 2013-01-23 12:00: The project is now +renamed to Isenkram and the source moved from the Debian Edu +subversion repository to a Debian collab-maint git repository. See +build +instructions for details.

- Tags: norsk, personvern, sikkerhet, surveillance. + Tags: debian, english, isenkram.
@@ -233,99 +245,61 @@ mange år nå.

-
FAD tvinger igjennom BankID-tilgang til personsensitiv informasjon om meg
-
21st November 2012
-

I dag fikk jeg svar fra fornyingsdepartementet på min -forespørsel -om å reservere meg mot at BankID brukes til å få tilgang til -informasjon om meg via ID-porten. Like etter at svaret kom fikk jeg -beskjed om at min henvendelse har fått -saksnummer -12/3446 hos FAD, som dessverre ikke har dukket opp i Offentlig -Elektronisk Postjournal ennå. Her er svaret jeg fikk:

- -
-

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:18:52 +0000 -
From: Hornnes Stig <Stig.Hornnes (at) fad.dep.no> -
To: Petter Reinholdtsen -
Subject: Reservasjon mot BankID

- -

Hei Petter,

- -

Du har sendt oss forespørsel om at din bruker blir reservert mot bruk -av BankID i ID-porten. Det er ikke lagt opp til at enkeltpersoner kan -reservere seg på denne måten.

- -

Tanken bak ID-porten er at innbyggerne skal kunne velge hvilken eID de -ønsker å bruke for å logge på offentlige tjenester. For å sikre -valgfriheten har vi inngått avtaler med BankID, Buypass og -Commfides. I tillegg har vi den offentlige MinID, men hvor utstedelse -skjer til adresse registrert i folkeregisteret, og derfor ikke er -egnet til tjenestene med det høyeste sikkerhetsbehovet.

- -

Sikkerhet er et viktig tema for oss. Alle leverandørene som er i -ID-porten i dag, inkl. BankID, har oppfylt både kravene som fremgår av -Kravspek PKI (pluss noen tilleggskrav fra Difi i anskaffelsen) og er -selvdeklarerte hos Post og Teletilsynet (PT) som har tilsynsansvar for -denne typen virksomheter. For BankID sin del ble det gjennomført -revisjon av løsningen i 2009, på bestilling fra PT etter en del -negative oppslag knyttet til nettopp sikkerheten i løsningen. Det -fremkom ingen alvorlige sikkerhetsproblemer i revisjonen.

- -

Når dette er sagt; Ingen løsninger er 100 prosent sikre, verken -papirbaserte systemer eller elektroniske. Eksempelvis vil misbruk av -identitetsbevis for å urettmessig skaffe seg en e-ID, alltid være en -risiko. Men det er en generell risiko for alle nivå 4-e-id-er vi har i -Norge per i dag. Det er kriminelt, men det er umulig å være ett -hundre prosent sikker på at det ikke kan skje. Vi har imidlertid fokus -på å redusere risikoen så mye som mulig, og skal jobbe videre sammen -med blant annet Justisdepartementet med ulike tiltak som vil bidra til -bedre grunnidentifisering av innbyggere.

- -

Mvh -
Stig Hornnes -
RÃ¥dgiver - FAD

-
- -

Litt merkelig at de har glemt å legge opp til at enkeltpersoner kan -reservere seg på denne måten. FAD burde være klar over -problemstillingen med reservasjon, da jeg tok det opp med dem da de -presenterte MinID på en presentasjon de holdt på Gardermoen for noen -år siden. Det burde jo også være teknisk svært enkelt å få støtte for -slikt i en ID-portal. Her må det visst tyngre virkemidler til enn en -vennlig forespørsel om å reservere seg. Får tenke igjennom neste -steg.

- -

Du lurer kanskje på hva som er problemet med BankID? For å -forklare det, er det greit å gå et steg tilbake og beskrive offentlig -nøkkel-kryptering, eller -asymmetrisk -kryptografi som det også kalles. En fin beskrivelse -finnes på -matematikk.org:

- -
-Se for deg at person A har en hengelås og at han sender den til deg (i -åpen tilstand), men beholder nøkkelen. Du kan dermed låse inn en -hemmelighet ved hjelp av hengelåsen og sende den til A. Bare A kan -låse opp igjen, siden bare A har den riktige nøkkelen. -
- -

Signering med asymmetrisk kryptering gjør at en kan vite at kun de -som har tilgang til nøkkelen har signert et gitt dokument. Mitt -problem med BankID er det er utformet slik at banken beholder nøkkelen -til hengelåsen og kontraktsmessig har lovet å kun bruke den når jeg -ber om det. Det er ikke godt nok for meg. Jeg forventer et system -der kun jeg har nøkkelen hvis det skal kunne brukes til å inngå -avtaler på mine vegne eller få tilgang til min personsensitive -informasjon. Jeg forventer at det velges en teknisk løsning der det -er tvingende nødvendig at jeg er involvert når det skal signeres noe -på mine vegne. BankID er ikke en slik.

+
Thank you Thinkpad X41, for your long and trustworthy service
+
19th January 2013
+

This Christmas my trusty old laptop died. It died quietly and +suddenly in bed. With a quiet whimper, it went completely quiet and +black. The power button was no longer able to turn it on. It was a +IBM Thinkpad X41, and the best laptop I ever had. Better than both +Thinkpads X30, X31, X40, X60, X61 and X61S. Far better than the +Compaq I had before that. Now I need to find a replacement. To keep +going during Christmas, I moved the one year old SSD disk to my old +X40 where it fitted (only one I had left that could use it), but it is +not a durable solution. + +

My laptop needs are fairly modest. This is my wishlist from when I +got a new one more than 10 years ago. It still holds true.:)

+ +
    + +
  • Lightweight (around 1 kg) and small volume (preferably smaller + than A4).
    • +
  • Robust, it will be in my backpack every day.
    • +
  • Three button mouse and a mouse pin instead of touch pad.
    • +
  • Long battery life time. Preferable a week.
    • +
  • Internal WIFI network card.
    • +
  • Internal Twisted Pair network card.
    • +
  • Some USB slots (2-3 is plenty)
    • +
  • Good keyboard - similar to the Thinkpad.
    • +
  • Video resolution at least 1024x768, with size around 12" (A4 paper +size).
    • +
  • Hardware supported by Debian Stable, ie the default kernel and + X.org packages.
    • +
  • Quiet, preferably fan free (or at least not using the fan most of + the time). + +
+ +

You will notice that there are no RAM and CPU requirements in the +list. The reason is simply that the specifications on laptops the +last 10-15 years have been sufficient for my needs, and I have to look +at other features to choose my laptop. But are there still made as +robust laptops as my X41? The Thinkpad X60/X61 proved to be less +robust, and Thinkpads seem to be heading in the wrong direction since +Lenovo took over. But I've been told that X220 and X1 Carbon might +still be useful.

+ +

Perhaps I should rethink my needs, and look for a pad with an +external keyboard? I'll have to check the +Linux Laptops site for +well-supported laptops, or perhaps just buy one preinstalled from one +of the vendors listed on the Linux +Pre-loaded site.

- Tags: bankid, norsk, personvern, sikkerhet. + Tags: debian, english.
@@ -333,75 +307,75 @@ på mine vegne. BankID er ikke en slik.

-
Why isn't the value of copyright taxed?
-
17th November 2012
-

While working on a -Norwegian -translation of the Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig (76% done), -which cover the problems with todays copyright law and how it stifles -creativity, one idea occurred to me. The idea is to get the tax -office to help make more works enter the public domain and also help -make it easier to clear rights for using copyrighted works.

- -

I mentioned this idea briefly during Yesterdays -presentation -by John Perry Barlow, and concluded that it was best to put it -in writing for a wider audience. The idea is not really based on the -argument that copyrighted works are "intellectual property", as the -core requirement is that copyrighted work have value for the copyright -holder and the tax office like to collect their share from any value -controlled by the citizens in a country. I'm sharing the idea here to -let others consider it and perhaps shoot it down with a fresh set of -arguments.

- -

Most valuables are taxed by the government. At least here in -Norway, the amount of money you have, the value of our land property, -the value of your house, the value of your car, the value of our -stocks and other valuables are all added together. If the tax value -of these values exceed your debt, you have to pay the tax office some -taxes for these values. And copyrighted work have value. It have -value for the rights holder, who can earn money selling access to the -work. But it is not included in the tax calculations? Why not?

- -

If the government want to tax copyrighted works, it would want to -maintain a database of all the copyrighted works and who are the -rights holders for a given works, to be able to associate the works -value to the right citizen or company for tax purposes. If such -database exist, it will become a lot easier to find out who to talk to -for clearing permissions to use a copyrighted work, which is a very -hard operation with todays copyright law. To ensure that copyright -holders keep the database up-to-date, it would have to become a -requirement to be able to collect money for granting access to -copyrighted works that the work is listed in the database with the -correct right holder.

- -

If copyright causes copyright holders to have to pay more taxes, -they will have a small incentive to "disown" their copyright, and let -the work enter the public domain. For works with several right holders -one of the right holders could state (and get it registered in the -database) that she do not need to be consulted when clearing rights to -use the work in question and thus will not get any income from that -work. Stating this would have to be impossible to revert and stop the -tax office from adding the value of that work to the given citizens -tax calculation. I assume the copyright law would stay the same, -allowing creators to pick a license of their choosing, and also -allowing them to put their work directly in the public domain. The -existence of such database will make it even easier to clear rights, -and if the right holders listed in the database is taxed, this system -would increase the amount of works that enter the public domain.

- -

The effect would be that the tax office help to make it easier to -get rights to use the works that have not yet entered the public -domain and help to get more work into the public domain and .

- -

Why have such taxing not happened yet? I am sure the tax office -would like to tax copyrighted work values if they could.

+
How to find a browser plugin supporting a given MIME type
+
18th January 2013
+

Some times I try to figure out which Iceweasel browser plugin to +install to get support for a given MIME type. Thanks to +specifications +done by Ubuntu and Mozilla, it is possible to do this in Debian. +Unfortunately, not very many packages provide the needed meta +information, Anyway, here is a small script to look up all browser +plugin packages announcing ther MIME support using this specification:

+ +
+#!/usr/bin/python
+import sys
+import apt
+def pkgs_handling_mimetype(mimetype):
+    cache = apt.Cache()
+    cache.open(None)
+    thepkgs = []
+    for pkg in cache:
+        version = pkg.candidate
+        if version is None:
+            version = pkg.installed
+        if version is None:
+            continue
+        record = version.record
+        if not record.has_key('Npp-MimeType'):
+            continue
+        mime_types = record['Npp-MimeType'].split(',')
+        for t in mime_types:
+            t = t.rstrip().strip()
+            if t == mimetype:
+                thepkgs.append(pkg.name)
+    return thepkgs
+mimetype = "audio/ogg"
+if 1 < len(sys.argv):
+    mimetype = sys.argv[1]
+print "Browser plugin packages supporting %s:" % mimetype
+for pkg in pkgs_handling_mimetype(mimetype):
+    print "  %s" %pkg
+
+ +

It can be used like this to look up a given MIME type:

+ +
+% ./apt-find-browserplug-for-mimetype 
+Browser plugin packages supporting audio/ogg:
+  gecko-mediaplayer
+% ./apt-find-browserplug-for-mimetype application/x-shockwave-flash
+Browser plugin packages supporting application/x-shockwave-flash:
+  browser-plugin-gnash
+%
+
+ +

In Ubuntu this mechanism is combined with support in the browser +itself to query for plugins and propose to install the needed +packages. It would be great if Debian supported such feature too. Is +anyone working on adding it?

+ +

Update 2013-01-18 14:20: The Debian BTS +request for icweasel support for this feature is +#484010 from 2008 (and +#698426 from today). Lack +of manpower and wish for a different design is the reason thus feature +is not yet in iceweasel from Debian.

- Tags: english, freeculture, opphavsrett. + Tags: debian, english.
@@ -409,100 +383,120 @@ would like to tax copyrighted work values if they could.

-
BankID skal ikke gi tilgang til min personsensitive informasjon
-
16th November 2012
-

Onsdag i denne uka annonserte -Fornyingsdepartementet at de har -inngÃ¥tt kontrakt med BankID Norge om bruk av BankID for Ã¥ la borgerne -logge inn pÃ¥ offentlige nettsider der en kan fÃ¥ tilgang til -personsensitiv informasjon. Jeg skrev i 2009 litt om -hvorfor -jeg ikke vil ha BankID — jeg stoler ikke nok pÃ¥ en bank til -Ã¥ gi dem mulighet til Ã¥ inngÃ¥ avtaler pÃ¥ mine vegne. Jeg forlanger at -jeg skal være involvert nÃ¥r det skal inngÃ¥s avtaler pÃ¥ mine vegne.

- -

Jeg har derfor valgt å bruke -Skandiabanken (det er flere -banker som ikke krever BankID, se -Wikipedia for en -liste) på grunn av at de ikke tvinger sine kunder til å bruke -BankID. I motsetning til Postbanken, som løy til meg i 2009 da -kundestøtten der sa at det var blitt et krav fra Kreditttilsynet og -BBS om at norske banker måtte innføre BankID, har ikke Skandiabanken -forsøkt å tvinge meg til å ta i bruk BankID. Jeg fikk nylig endelig -spurt Finanstilsynet (de har byttet navn siden 2009), og fikk beskjed -fra Frank Robert Berg hos Finanstilsynet i epost 2012-09-17 at -Finanstilsynet ikke har fremsatt slike krav. Med andre ord snakket -ikke Postbankens kundestøtte sant i 2009.

- -

Når en i tillegg fra -oppslag -i Aftenposten vet at de som jobber i alle bankene som bruker -BankID i dag, det være seg utro tjenere, eller de som lar seg lure av -falsk legitimasjon, kan lage og dele ut en BankID som gir tilgang til -mine kontoer og rett til å inngå avtaler på mine vegne, blir det -viktigere enn noen gang å få reservert seg mot BankID. Det holder -ikke å la være å bruke det selv. Jeg sendte derfor følgende -epost-brev til Fornyingsdepartementet i går:

- -

-

Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:08:31 +0100 -
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere (at) hungry.com> -
To: postmottak (at) fad.dep.no -
Subject: Forespørsel om reservasjon mot bruk av BankID i ID-porten

- -

Jeg viser til nyheten om at staten har tildelt kontrakt for å -levere elektronisk ID for offentlige digitale tjenester til BankID -Norge, referert til blant annet i Digi[1] og i FADs -pressemelding[2].

- -

1) <URL: http://www.digi.no/906093/staten-gaar-for-bankid > -
2) <URL: http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad/pressesenter/pressemeldinger/2012/staten-inngar-avtale-med-bankid.html >

- -

Gitt BankIDs utforming, der BankID-utsteder har både privat og -offentlig del av kundens nøkkel hos seg, er jeg ikke villig til å gi -tilgang til informasjon som hører til min min privatsfære ved hjelp av -innlogging med BankID.

- -

Jeg ber derfor herved om at løsningen settes opp slik at ingen kan -logge inn som meg på offentlige digitale tjenester ved hjelp av -BankID, det vil si at jeg reserverer meg mot enhver bruk av BankID for -å logge meg inn på slike tjenester som kan inneholde personsensitiv -informasjon om meg.

- -

Jeg har ikke BankID i dag, men som en kan se i oppslag i Aftenposten -2012-09-13[3] er det ikke til hindrer for at andre kan bruke BankID på -mine vegne for å få tilgang. Det sikkerhetsproblemet kommer i tillegg -til utformingsproblemet omtalt over, og forsterker bare mitt syn på at -BankID ikke er aktuelt for meg til noe annet enn å logge inn i en -nettbank der banken i større grad bærer risikoen ved misbruk.

- -

3) <URL: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Tyver-kan-tappe-kontoen-din---selv-uten-passord-og-pinkode--6989793.html >

- -

Jeg ber om rask tilbakemelding med saksnummer for min henvendelse. -Jeg ber videre om bekreftelse på at BankID-innlogging er blokkert når -det gjelder tilgang til "min" informasjon hos det offentlige, i -forkant av BankID-integrasjon mot ID-porten som i følge -pressemeldingen skal komme på plass i løpet av et par uker.

- -

-- -
Vennlig hilsen -
Petter Reinholdtsen

-
- -

Jeg venter spent på svaret. Jeg mistenker jeg må sende tilsvarende -beskjed til mine bankforbindelser for å sikre mine bankkontoer.

- -

Hvis det skal brukes offentlig nøkkel-teknologi til å inngå avtaler -på mine vegne og skaffe seg personsensitiv informasjon om meg, så er -mitt krav at det kun er jeg som har tilgang på min private nøkkel. -Alt annet blir å gi for mye tillit til andre. Med BankID sitter andre -på både "min" offentlige og private nøkkel.

+
What is the most supported MIME type in Debian?
+
16th January 2013
+

The DEP-11 +proposal to add AppStream information to the Debian archive, is a +proposal to make it possible for a Desktop application to propose to +the user some package to install to gain support for a given MIME +type, font, library etc. that is currently missing. With such +mechanism in place, it would be possible for the desktop to +automatically propose and install leocad if some LDraw file is +downloaded by the browser.

+ +

To get some idea about the current content of the archive, I decided +to write a simple program to extract all .desktop files from the +Debian archive and look up the claimed MIME support there. The result +can be found on the +Skolelinux FTP +site. Using the collected information, it become possible to +answer the question in the title. Here are the 20 most supported MIME +types in Debian stable (Squeeze), testing (Wheezy) and unstable (Sid). +The complete list is available from the link above.

+ +

Debian Stable:

+ +
+  count MIME type
+  ----- -----------------------
+     32 text/plain
+     30 audio/mpeg
+     29 image/png
+     28 image/jpeg
+     27 application/ogg
+     26 audio/x-mp3
+     25 image/tiff
+     25 image/gif
+     22 image/bmp
+     22 audio/x-wav
+     20 audio/x-flac
+     19 audio/x-mpegurl
+     18 video/x-ms-asf
+     18 audio/x-musepack
+     18 audio/x-mpeg
+     18 application/x-ogg
+     17 video/mpeg
+     17 audio/x-scpls
+     17 audio/ogg
+     16 video/x-ms-wmv
+
+ +

Debian Testing:

+ +
+  count MIME type
+  ----- -----------------------
+     33 text/plain
+     32 image/png
+     32 image/jpeg
+     29 audio/mpeg
+     27 image/gif
+     26 image/tiff
+     26 application/ogg
+     25 audio/x-mp3
+     22 image/bmp
+     21 audio/x-wav
+     19 audio/x-mpegurl
+     19 audio/x-mpeg
+     18 video/mpeg
+     18 audio/x-scpls
+     18 audio/x-flac
+     18 application/x-ogg
+     17 video/x-ms-asf
+     17 text/html
+     17 audio/x-musepack
+     16 image/x-xbitmap
+
+ +

Debian Unstable:

+ +
+  count MIME type
+  ----- -----------------------
+     31 text/plain
+     31 image/png
+     31 image/jpeg
+     29 audio/mpeg
+     28 application/ogg
+     27 image/gif
+     26 image/tiff
+     26 audio/x-mp3
+     23 audio/x-wav
+     22 image/bmp
+     21 audio/x-flac
+     20 audio/x-mpegurl
+     19 audio/x-mpeg
+     18 video/x-ms-asf
+     18 video/mpeg
+     18 audio/x-scpls
+     18 application/x-ogg
+     17 audio/x-musepack
+     16 video/x-ms-wmv
+     16 video/x-msvideo
+
+ +

I am told that PackageKit can provide an API to access the kind of +information mentioned in DEP-11. I have not yet had time to look at +it, but hope the PackageKit people in Debian are on top of these +issues.

+ +

Update 2013-01-16 13:35: Updated numbers after +discovering a typo in my script.

- Tags: bankid, norsk, personvern, sikkerhet. + Tags: debian, english.
@@ -510,148 +504,119 @@ på både "min" offentlige og private nøkkel.

-
Debian Edu interview: Angela Fuß
-
14th November 2012
-

Here is another interview with one of the people in the Debian Edu and Skolelinux -community. I am running short on people willing to be interviewed, so -if you know about someone I should interview, Please send me an email. -After asking for many months, I finally managed to lure another one of -the people behind the German -"IT-Zukunft Schule" -project out from maternity leave to conduct an interview. Give a warm -welcome to Angela Fuß. :)

- -

Who are you, and how do you spend your days?

- -

I am a 39-year-old woman living in the very north of Germany near -Denmark. I live in a patchwork family with "my man" Mike Gabriel, my -two daughters, Mikes daughter and Mikes and my rather newborn son. - -

At the moment - because of our little baby - I am spending most of -the day by being a caring and organising mom for all the kids. -Besides that I am really involved into and occupied with several inner -growth processes: New born souls always bring the whole familiar -system into movement and that needs time and focus ;-). We are also -in the middle of buying a house and moving to it.

- -

In 2013 I will work again in my job in a German foundation for -nature conservation. I am doing public relation work there. Besides -that - and that is the connection to Skolelinux / Debian Edu - I am -working in our own school project "IT-Zukunft Schule" in North -Germany. I am responsible for the quality assurance, the customer -relationship management and the communication processes in the -project.

- -

Since 2001 I constantly have been training myself in communication -and leadership. Besides that I am a forester, a landscaping gardener -and a yoga teacher.

- -

How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu -project?

- -

I fell in love with Mike ;-).

- -

Very soon after getting to know him I was completely enrolled into -Free Software. At this time Mike did IT-services for one newly -founded school in Kiel. Other schools in Kiel needed concepts for -their IT environment. Often when Mike came home from working at the -newly founded school I found myself listening to his complaints about -several points where the communication with the schools head or the -teachers did not work. So we were clear that he would not work for -one more school if we did not set up a structure for communication -between him, the schools head, the teachers, the students and the -parents.

- -

Together with our friend and hardware supplier Andreas Buchholz we -started to get an overview of free software solutions suitable for -schools. One day before Christmas 2010 Mike and I had a date with Kurt -Gramlich in Gütersloh. As Kurt and I are really interested in building -networks of people and in being in communication we dived into -Skolelinux and brought it to the first grammar schools in Northern -Germany.

- -

For information about our school project you can read -the -interview with Mike Gabriel.

- -

What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian -Edu?

- -

First I have to say: I cannot answer this question technically. My -answer comes rather from a social point of view.

- -

The biggest advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu I see is the large -and strong international community of Debian Developers in the -background which is very alive and connected over mailinglists, blogs -and meetings. My constant feeling for the Debian Community is: If -something does not work they will somehow fix it. All is well -;-). This is of course a user experience. What I also get as a big -advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu is that everybody who uses it and -works with it can also contribute to it - that includes students, -teachers, parents...

- -

What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian -Edu?

- -

I will answer this question relating to the internal structure of -Skolelinux / Debian Edu.

- -

What I see as a major disadvantage is that there is a gap between -the group of developers for Debian Edu and the people who make the -marketing, that means the people that bring Skolelinux to the -schools. There is a lack of communication between these two groups and -I think that does not really work for Skolelinux / Debian Edu.

- -

Further I appreciate that Skolelinux / Debian Edu is known as a -do-ocracy. Nevertheless I keep asking myself if at some points a -democracy or some kind of hierarchical project structure would be good -and helpful. I am also missing some kind of contact between the -Skolelinux / Debian Edu communities in Europe or on an international -level. I think it would be good if there was more sharing between the -different countries using Skolelinux / Debian Edu.

- -

Which free software do you use daily?

- -

On my laptop I am still using an Ubuntu 10.04 with a Gnome Desktop -on. As applications I use Openoffice.org, Gedit, Firefox, Pidgin, -LaTeX and GnuCash. For mails I am using Horde. And I am really fond of -my N900 running with Maemo.

- -

Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to -get schools to use free software?

- -

I am really convinced that in our school project "IT-Zukunft -Schule" we have developed (and keep developing) a great way to get -schools to use Free Software. We have written a detailed concept for -that so I cannot explain the whole thing here. But in a nutshell the -strategy has three crucial pillars:

+
Using modalias info to find packages handling my hardware
+
15th January 2013
+

Yesterday, I wrote about the +modalias +values provided by the Linux kernel following my hope for +better +dongle support in Debian. Using this knowledge, I have tested how +modalias values attached to package names can be used to map packages +to hardware. This allow the system to look up and suggest relevant +packages when I plug in some new hardware into my machine, and replace +discover and discover-data as the database used to map hardware to +packages.

+ +

I create a modaliases file with entries like the following, +containing package name, kernel module name (if relevant, otherwise +the package name) and globs matching the relevant hardware +modalias.

-
    +

    +Package: package-name +
    Modaliases: module(modaliasglob, modaliasglob, modaliasglob)

    +

    + +

    It is fairly trivial to write code to find the relevant packages +for a given modalias value using this file.

    -
  • We really take time to get what sort of stories, questions and -concerns the schools head and the teachers have about using different -kinds of IT and we take time to enrol them into Free Software.
    • +

    An entry like this would suggest the video and picture application +cheese for many USB web cameras (interface bus class 0E01):

    -
  • Our solution for schools is never just technical. In the centre -are always the people who are going to use the software. From the very -beginning of the planning for a school, we tell the schools head that -they are paying us not only for a technical solution for their school, -they also pay us for leading all the communication processes -needed. If they do not want that, we are not working with them because -we cannot give a guarantee for the quality of our work then.
    • +

    +Package: cheese +
    Modaliases: cheese(usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip*)

    +

    -
  • Another focus lies in the training of teachers and students in -co-administrating the IT-System at their school. They start getting in -contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu community and they get the -offer to become more and more independent from us.
    • +

    An entry like this would suggest the pcmciautils package when a +CardBus bridge (bus class 0607) PCI device is present:

    -
+

+Package: pcmciautils +
Modaliases: pcmciautils(pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc06sc07i*) +

+ +

An entry like this would suggest the package colorhug-client when +plugging in a ColorHug with USB IDs 04D8:F8DA:

+ +

+Package: colorhug-client +
Modaliases: colorhug-client(usb:v04D8pF8DAd*)

+

+ +

I believe the format is compatible with the format of the Packages +file in the Debian archive. Ubuntu already uses their Packages file +to store their mappings from packages to hardware.

+ +

By adding a XB-Modaliases: header in debian/control, any .deb can +announce the hardware it support in a way my prototype understand. +This allow those publishing packages in an APT source outside the +Debian archive as well as those backporting packages to make sure the +hardware mapping are included in the package meta information. I've +tested such header in the pymissile package, and its modalias mapping +is working as it should with my prototype. It even made it to Ubuntu +Raring.

+ +

To test if it was possible to look up supported hardware using only +the shell tools available in the Debian installer, I wrote a shell +implementation of the lookup code. The idea is to create files for +each modalias and let the shell do the matching. Please check out and +try the +hw-support-lookup +shell script. It run without any extra dependencies and fetch the +hardware mappings from the Debian archive and the subversion +repository where I currently work on my prototype.

+ +

When I use it on a machine with a yubikey inserted, it suggest to +install yubikey-personalization:

+ +

+% ./hw-support-lookup +
yubikey-personalization +
% +

+ +

When I run it on my Thinkpad X40 with a PCMCIA/CardBus slot, it +propose to install the pcmciautils package:

+ +

+% ./hw-support-lookup +
pcmciautils +
% +

+ +

If you know of any hardware-package mapping that should be added to +my +database, please tell me about it.

+ +

It could be possible to generate several of the mappings between +packages and hardware. One source would be to look at packages with +kernel modules, ie packages with *.ko files in /lib/modules/, and +extract their modalias information. Another would be to look at +packages with udev rules, ie packages with files in +/lib/udev/rules.d/, and extract their vendor/model information to +generate a modalias matching rule. I have not tested any of these to +see if it work.

+ +

If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what +packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian +machine, please send me an email or talk to me on +#debian-devel.

- Tags: debian edu, english, intervju. + Tags: debian, english, isenkram.
@@ -659,50 +624,260 @@ offer to become more and more independent from us.
-
RFID-pass deler bilder av fingeravtrykkene dine ved enhver grensepassering
-
11th November 2012
-

Leste nettopp -Digiartikkel om -Idex, som stolt fortalte at de hadde fått en stor ny kunde av -fingeravtrykksløsningen de lager: - -

-Kunden skal utvikle sikkerhetslåser til bruk på kofferter som skal -produseres av markedsledende produsenter. Idexs fingeravtrykksensor og -tilhørende programvare vil bli en del av den elektroniske låsen, som -erstatning for nøkkel eller kode. Brukeren «innrullerer» fingeravtrykk -direkte på låsen og mekanismen vil låses opp bare dersom brukeren -sveiper en innrullert finger over sensoren. -
- -

Det fascinerer meg at noen i Norge tror fingeravtrykk kan brukes -til å sikre noe som helst, gitt at elektroniske pass har bilder av -fingeravtrykkene elektronisk lesbart via RFID, og en må anta bildene -blir lest og arkivert ved enhver grensepassering en foretar seg. I -tillegg kan RFID-pass leses på betydelig avstand (10-20 meter sier de -som har testet, f.eks. -Chris -Paget), slik at en ikke lenger trenger å invitere noen på et glass -eller en kaffe for å kunne få tak i vedkommendes fingeravtrykk. Det -holder å ta med seg en RFID-leser til utenfor huset til vedkommende -eller kontrollere en passkontroll. F.eks. skryter -De forente -Arabiske Emirater av at -de -har verdens største biometriske database, der databasen inneholder -103 millioner digitale fingeravtrykk. Med en befolkning i følge -Wikipedia estimert i 2010 til 8.3 millioner har jeg vanskelig for å -tro at det kun er landets innbyggere de har fingeravtrykkene til. -Innbyggerne har neppe mer enn 10 fingre hver...

- -

RFID-pass med fingeravtrykk betyr at bilder av ens fingeravtrykk er -på vidvanke, og en kan dermed ikke i god tro anta at fingeravtrykk kun -befinner seg hos fingerens eier. Jeg vil ikke ha et slikt pass.

+
Modalias strings - a practical way to map "stuff" to hardware
+
14th January 2013
+

While looking into how to look up Debian packages based on hardware +information, to find the packages that support a given piece of +hardware, I refreshed my memory regarding modalias values, and decided +to document the details. Here are my findings so far, also available +in +the +Debian Edu subversion repository: + +

Modalias decoded

+ +

This document try to explain what the different types of modalias +values stands for. It is in part based on information from +<URL: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias >, +<URL: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device >, +<URL: http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c > and +<URL: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup >. + +

The modalias entries for a given Linux machine can be found using +this shell script:

+ +
+find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat | sort -u
+
+ +

The supported modalias globs for a given kernel module can be found +using modinfo:

+ +
+% /sbin/modinfo psmouse | grep alias:
+alias:          serio:ty05pr*id*ex*
+alias:          serio:ty01pr*id*ex*
+%
+
+ +

PCI subtype

+ +

A typical PCI entry can look like this. This is an Intel Host +Bridge memory controller:

+ +

+pci:v00008086d00002770sv00001028sd000001ADbc06sc00i00 +

+ +

This represent these values:

+ +
+ v   00008086  (vendor)
+ d   00002770  (device)
+ sv  00001028  (subvendor)
+ sd  000001AD  (subdevice)
+ bc  06        (bus class)
+ sc  00        (bus subclass)
+ i   00        (interface)
+
+ +

The vendor/device values are the same values outputted from 'lspci +-n' as 8086:2770. The bus class/subclass is also shown by lspci as +0600. The 0600 class is a host bridge. Other useful bus values are +0300 (VGA compatible card) and 0200 (Ethernet controller).

+ +

Not sure how to figure out the interface value, nor what it +means.

+ +

USB subtype

+ +

Some typical USB entries can look like this. This is an internal +USB hub in a laptop:

+ +

+usb:v1D6Bp0001d0206dc09dsc00dp00ic09isc00ip00 +

+ +

Here is the values included in this alias:

+ +
+ v    1D6B  (device vendor)
+ p    0001  (device product)
+ d    0206  (bcddevice)
+ dc     09  (device class)
+ dsc    00  (device subclass)
+ dp     00  (device protocol)
+ ic     09  (interface class)
+ isc    00  (interface subclass)
+ ip     00  (interface protocol)
+
+ +

The 0900 device class/subclass means hub. Some times the relevant +class is in the interface class section. For a simple USB web camera, +these alias entries show up:

+ +

+usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc01ip00 +
usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc02ip00 +
usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00 +
usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc02ip00 +

+ +

Interface class 0E01 is video control, 0E02 is video streaming (aka +camera), 0101 is audio control device and 0102 is audio streaming (aka +microphone). Thus this is a camera with microphone included.

+ +

ACPI subtype

+ +

The ACPI type is used for several non-PCI/USB stuff. This is an IR +receiver in a Thinkpad X40:

+ +

+acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511: +

+ +

The values between the colons are IDs.

+ +

DMI subtype

+ +

The DMI table contain lots of information about the computer case +and model. This is an entry for a IBM Thinkpad X40, fetched from +/sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/modalias:

+ +

+dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1UETB6WW(1.66):bd06/15/2005:svnIBM:pn2371H4G:pvrThinkPadX40:rvnIBM:rn2371H4G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: +

+ +

The values present are

+ +
+ bvn  IBM            (BIOS vendor)
+ bvr  1UETB6WW(1.66) (BIOS version)
+ bd   06/15/2005     (BIOS date)
+ svn  IBM            (system vendor)
+ pn   2371H4G        (product name)
+ pvr  ThinkPadX40    (product version)
+ rvn  IBM            (board vendor)
+ rn   2371H4G        (board name)
+ rvr  NotAvailable   (board version)
+ cvn  IBM            (chassis vendor)
+ ct   10             (chassis type)
+ cvr  NotAvailable   (chassis version)
+
+ +

The chassis type 10 is Notebook. Other interesting values can be +found in the dmidecode source:

+ +
+  3 Desktop
+  4 Low Profile Desktop
+  5 Pizza Box
+  6 Mini Tower
+  7 Tower
+  8 Portable
+  9 Laptop
+ 10 Notebook
+ 11 Hand Held
+ 12 Docking Station
+ 13 All In One
+ 14 Sub Notebook
+ 15 Space-saving
+ 16 Lunch Box
+ 17 Main Server Chassis
+ 18 Expansion Chassis
+ 19 Sub Chassis
+ 20 Bus Expansion Chassis
+ 21 Peripheral Chassis
+ 22 RAID Chassis
+ 23 Rack Mount Chassis
+ 24 Sealed-case PC
+ 25 Multi-system
+ 26 CompactPCI
+ 27 AdvancedTCA
+ 28 Blade
+ 29 Blade Enclosing
+
+ +

The chassis type values are not always accurately set in the DMI +table. For example my home server is a tower, but the DMI modalias +claim it is a desktop.

+ +

SerIO subtype

+ +

This type is used for PS/2 mouse plugs. One example is from my +test machine:

+ +

+serio:ty01pr00id00ex00 +

+ +

The values present are

+ +
+  ty  01  (type)
+  pr  00  (prototype)
+  id  00  (id)
+  ex  00  (extra)
+
+ +

This type is supported by the psmouse driver. I am not sure what +the valid values are.

+ +

Other subtypes

+ +

There are heaps of other modalias subtypes according to +file2alias.c. There is the rest of the list from that source: amba, +ap, bcma, ccw, css, eisa, hid, i2c, ieee1394, input, ipack, isapnp, +mdio, of, parisc, pcmcia, platform, scsi, sdio, spi, ssb, vio, virtio, +vmbus, x86cpu and zorro. I did not spend time documenting all of +these, as they do not seem relevant for my intended use with mapping +hardware to packages when new stuff is inserted during run time.

+ +

Looking up kernel modules using modalias values

+ +

To check which kernel modules provide support for a given modalias, +one can use the following shell script:

+ +
+  for id in $(find /sys -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat | sort -u); do \
+    echo "$id" ; \
+    /sbin/modprobe --show-depends "$id"|sed 's/^/  /' ; \
+  done
+
+ +

The output can look like this (only the first few entries as the +list is very long on my test machine):

+ +
+  acpi:ACPI0003:
+    insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko 
+  acpi:device:
+  FATAL: Module acpi:device: not found.
+  acpi:IBM0068:
+    insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/char/nvram.ko 
+    insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/leds/led-class.ko 
+    insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko 
+    insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko 
+  acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
+    insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko 
+    insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/net/irda/irda.ko 
+    insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.ko 
+  [...]
+
+ +

If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what +packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian +machine, please send me an email or talk to me on +#debian-devel.

+ +

Update 2013-01-15: Rewrite "cat $(find ...)" to +"find ... -print0 | xargs -0 cat" to make sure it handle directories +in /sys/ with space in them.

- Tags: norsk, personvern. + Tags: debian, english, isenkram.
@@ -710,38 +885,31 @@ befinner seg hos fingerens eier. Jeg vil ikke ha et slikt pass.

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I snitt rapporteres det nå via FiksGataMi ca. 100 meldinger i uka fra -innbyggerne om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.

+
Moved the pymissile Debian packaging to collab-maint
+
10th January 2013
+

As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian +for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket +Launcher and updated the Debian package +pymissile to make +sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in. I +also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and +hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user +plug in his rocket launcher. In the process I moved the source to a +git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to +contribute. Upstream +is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five +years of relative silence. The new git repository is not listed in +the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a +bit more before I upload the new version. If you want to check out +the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the +gitweb +view or use "git clone +git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git".

- Tags: fiksgatami, norsk, nuug. + Tags: debian, english, robot.
@@ -756,6 +924,15 @@ innbyggerne om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.

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