X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/c75c99e3db61c669fcd48cf13fbe1b7e812e5b8a..081437fbd6263afb4f7fe86af8bd841e06c9f2ba:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 5e33e0e4a5..c75414270e 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -7,973 +7,778 @@ - Good causes: Debian Outreach Program for Women, EFF documenting the spying and Open access in Norway - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_causes__Debian_Outreach_Program_for_Women__EFF_documenting_the_spying_and_Open_access_in_Norway.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_causes__Debian_Outreach_Program_for_Women__EFF_documenting_the_spying_and_Open_access_in_Norway.html - Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:30:00 +0200 - <p>The last few days I came across a few good causes that should get -wider attention. I recommend signing and donating to each one of -these. :)</p> - -<p>Via <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/18/">Debian -Project News for 2013-10-14</a> I came across the Outreach Program for -Women program which is a Google Summer of Code like initiative to get -more women involved in free software. One debian sponsor has offered -to match <a href="http://debian.ch/opw2013">any donation done to Debian -earmarked</a> for this initiative. I donated a few minutes ago, and -hope you will to. :)</p> - -<p>And the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced plans to -create <a href="https://supporters.eff.org/donate/nsa-videos">video -documentaries about the excessive spying</a> on every Internet user that -take place these days, and their need to fund the work. I've already -donated. Are you next?</p> - -<p>For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og -Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a -statement under the heading -<a href="http://saih.no/Bloggers_United/">Bloggers United for Open -Access</a> for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the -Norwegian government. So far 499 signatures. I hope you will sign it -too.</p> + A fist full of non-anonymous Bitcoins + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_fist_full_of_non_anonymous_Bitcoins.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_fist_full_of_non_anonymous_Bitcoins.html + Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:10:00 +0100 + <p>Bitcoin is a incredible use of peer to peer communication and +encryption, allowing direct and immediate money transfer without any +central control. It is sometimes claimed to be ideal for illegal +activity, which I believe is quite a long way from the truth. At least +I would not conduct illegal money transfers using a system where the +details of every transaction are kept forever. This point is +investigated in +<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login">USENIX ;login:</a> +from December 2013, in the article +"<a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/03_meiklejohn-online.pdf">A +Fistful of Bitcoins - Characterizing Payments Among Men with No +Names</a>" by Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole,Grant Jordan, Kirill +Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. They +analyse the transaction log in the Bitcoin system, using it to find +addresses belong to individuals and organisations and follow the flow +of money from both Bitcoin theft and trades on Silk Road to where the +money end up. This is how they wrap up their article:</p> + +<p><blockquote> +<p>"To demonstrate the usefulness of this type of analysis, we turned +our attention to criminal activity. In the Bitcoin economy, criminal +activity can appear in a number of forms, such as dealing drugs on +Silk Road or simply stealing someone else’s bitcoins. We followed the +flow of bitcoins out of Silk Road (in particular, from one notorious +address) and from a number of highly publicized thefts to see whether +we could track the bitcoins to known services. Although some of the +thieves attempted to use sophisticated mixing techniques (or possibly +mix services) to obscure the flow of bitcoins, for the most part +tracking the bitcoins was quite straightforward, and we ultimately saw +large quantities of bitcoins flow to a variety of exchanges directly +from the point of theft (or the withdrawal from Silk Road).</p> + +<p>As acknowledged above, following stolen bitcoins to the point at +which they are deposited into an exchange does not in itself identify +the thief; however, it does enable further de-anonymization in the +case in which certain agencies can determine (through, for example, +subpoena power) the real-world owner of the account into which the +stolen bitcoins were deposited. Because such exchanges seem to serve +as chokepoints into and out of the Bitcoin economy (i.e., there are +few alternative ways to cash out), we conclude that using Bitcoin for +money laundering or other illicit purposes does not (at least at +present) seem to be particularly attractive."</p> +</blockquote><p> + +<p>These researches are not the first to analyse the Bitcoin +transaction log. The 2011 paper +"<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524">An Analysis of Anonymity in +the Bitcoin System</A>" by Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan is +summarized like this:</p> + +<p><blockquote> +"Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a +complicated issue. Within the system, users are identified by +public-keys only. An attacker wishing to de-anonymize its users will +attempt to construct the one-to-many mapping between users and +public-keys and associate information external to the system with the +users. Bitcoin tries to prevent this attack by storing the mapping of +a user to his or her public-keys on that user's node only and by +allowing each user to generate as many public-keys as required. In +this chapter we consider the topological structure of two networks +derived from Bitcoin's public transaction history. We show that the +two networks have a non-trivial topological structure, provide +complementary views of the Bitcoin system and have implications for +anonymity. We combine these structures with external information and +techniques such as context discovery and flow analysis to investigate +an alleged theft of Bitcoins, which, at the time of the theft, had a +market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars." +</blockquote></p> + +<p>I hope these references can help kill the urban myth that Bitcoin +is anonymous. It isn't really a good fit for illegal activites. Use +cash if you need to stay anonymous, at least until regular DNA +sampling of notes and coins become the norm. :)</p> + +<p>As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> - Oslo community mesh network - with NUUG and Hackeriet at Hausmania - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html - Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:10:00 +0200 - <p>Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing -networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large -areas, depending on the radio technology used. Normal wifi equipment -can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several -successful examples like -<a href="http://www.freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a> and -<a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network</a> -(see -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece">wikipedia -for a large list</a>) around the globe. To give you an idea how it -work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which -can be seen from their -<a href="http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html">dynamically -updated node graph and map</a>, where one can see how the mesh nodes -automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing. -There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway, -and that is the main topic of this blog post.</p> - -<p>I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped -to do it as part of my involvement with the <a -href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG member organisation</a> community, and -my recent involvement in -<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the Freedombox project</a> -finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a -Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family -when possible, given that most communication between people are -between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook -communication patterns). It also allow people to communicate without -any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the -private communication of citizens, which have become more and more -important over the years.</p> - -<p>So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo -working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space -<a href="http://hackeriet.no/">Hackeriet</a> at Husmania. They seem to -have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called -<a href="http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page">the Oslo -Freifunk project</a>, but that effort is now dead and the people -behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called -<a href="http://meshfx.org/trac">meshfx</a>. Unfortunately the wiki -site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to -reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to -the new project. A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people -from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks. I -came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the -speakers about this talk (from -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY">youtube</a>):</p> - -<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> - -<p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols. -There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to -figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but -given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it -is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a -completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on -batman-adv for now. It sure help me to know that the very cool -<a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a> -is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self -organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and -less industrialized communities. Check out this cool video presenting -that project (from -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube</a>):</p> - -<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> - -<p>According to the wikipedia page on -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless -mesh network</a> there are around 70 competing schemes for routing -packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and -B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software -based community mesh networks.</p> - -<p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2 -(as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same -network. One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based -vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your -computer. The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at -least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up. A -<a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good -introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project. These are -the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p> - -<p><table> -<tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr> -<tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr> -<tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr> -<td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr> -<td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td> -</table></p> - -<p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs -in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers. (See a nice post from -VillageTelco about -"<a href="http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information -about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!</a> -for details.) When these settings are activated and you have some -other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh -network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to -any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)</p> - -<p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node, -but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a -firmware supporting batman-adv. If anyone know how to use that old -wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.</p> - -<p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join -us on IRC, either channel -<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace</a> -or <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug</a> on -irc.freenode.net.</p> - -<p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old -research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research -and Innovation called -<a href="http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The -reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks</a> and elsewhere -learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at -Grünerløkka in Oslo. So mesh networks are also interesting for -commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard -to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I -know have closed down the experiment. Perhaps Telenor or others would -be interested in a cooperation?</p> - -<p><strong>Update 2013-10-12</strong>: I was just -<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005900.html">told -by the Serval project developers</a> that they no longer use -batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based -mesh system.</p> - - - - - Skolelinux / Debian Edu 7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html - Tue, 8 Oct 2013 17:10:00 +0200 - <p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo -Salvador had published a -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on -Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu / -Skolelinux profile. This is the profile intended for use at home or -on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network -services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc, -in other word a single user machine). The result is 11 minutes long, -and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked). -Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium -showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model -of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find -other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the -advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian -Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of -computers without hard drives by installing one central -<a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p> - -<p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p> - -<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> - -<p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux? Please let -me know. :)</p> - - - - - Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today! - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html - Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:20:00 +0200 - <p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of -Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team. The -complete announcement text can be found at -<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News -section</a>, translated to several languages. Please check it out.</p> - -<p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon. One -can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/ -partition is too small. A workaround is to extend the partition (use -lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p> - - - - - Videos about the Freedombox project - for inspiration and learning - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html - Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:10:00 +0200 - <p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox -project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the -vision, ideas and solution several places. Here is a little -collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p> + New chrpath release 0.16 + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_16.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_16.html + Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:00:00 +0100 + <p><a href="http://www.coverity.com/">Coverity</a> is a nice tool to +find problems in C, C++ and Java code using static source code +analysis. It can detect a lot of different problems, and is very +useful to find memory and locking bugs in the error handling part of +the source. The company behind it provide +<a href="https://scan.coverity.com/">check of free software projects as +a community service</a>, and many hundred free software projects are +already checked. A few days ago I decided to have a closer look at +the Coverity system, and discovered that the +<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/">gnash</a> and +<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool/">ipmitool</a> +projects I am involved with was already registered. But these are +fairly big, and I would also like to have a small and easy project to +check, and decided to <a href="http://scan.coverity.com/projects/1179">request +checking of the chrpath project</a>. It was +added to the checker and discovered seven potential defects. Six of +these were real, mostly resource "leak" when the program detected an +error. Nothing serious, as the resources would be released a fraction +of a second later when the program exited because of the error, but it +is nice to do it right in case the source of the program some time in +the future end up in a library. Having fixed all defects and added +<a href="https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/chrpath-devel">a +mailing list for the chrpath developers</a>, I decided it was time to +publish a new release. These are the release notes:</p> + +<p>New in 0.16 released 2014-01-14:</p> <ul> -<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox - -2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li> - -<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen -discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li> - -<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen - -Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for -Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a> -(Youtube)</li> - -<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011 -Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li> - -<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of -the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li> - -<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox - -Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New -York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li> - -<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction -to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a> -(Youtube)</li> - -<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out -of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li> - -<li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox -1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li> - -<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the -FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus -2013</a> (Youtube)</li> + <li>Fixed all minor bugs discovered by Coverity.</li> + <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project.</li> + <li>Mention new project mailing list in the documentation.</li> </ul> -<p>A larger list is available from -<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the -Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p> - -<p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian -Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using -Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In -a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian. -The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is -pending in NEW. The third and vital part of that puzzle is the -metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload. Join -us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC -(#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and -<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the -mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p> +<p>You can +<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the +new version 0.16 from alioth</a>. Please let us know via the Alioth +project if something is wrong with the new release. The test suite +did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also +include a test suite check.</p> - Third and probably last beta release of Debian Edu Wheezy - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html - Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:30:00 +0200 - <p>The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up -today. This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:</p> - -<blockquote> -<p>Hi,</p> - -<p>it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for -short) of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / -Skolelinux</a> based on Debian Wheezy!</p> - -<p>Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found -we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming -weekend. We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2, -if you find something, please notify us immediately!</p> - -<p>(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in -another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)</p> - -<p>Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2 -compared to beta1:</p> + Debian Edu interview: Dominik George + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Dominik_George.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Dominik_George.html + Wed, 25 Dec 2013 13:40:00 +0100 + <p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux +project</a> consist of both newcomers and old timers, and this time I +was able to get an interview with a newcomer in the project who showed +up on the IRC channel a few weeks ago to let us know about his +successful installation of Debian Edu Wheezy in his School. Say hello +to <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Natureshadow">Dominik +George</a>.</p> + +<!-- http://www.dominik-george.de/images/foto.jpg --> + +<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p> + +<p>I am a 23 year-old student from Germany who has spent half of his +life with open source. In "real life", I am, as already mentioned, a +student in the fields of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, +Information Technologies and Anglistics. Due to my (only partially +voluntary) huge engagement in the open source world, these things are +a bit vacant right now however.</p> + +<p>I also have been working as a project teacher at a Gymasnium +(public school) for various years now. I took up that work some time +around 2005 when still attending that school myself and have continued +it until today. I also had been running the (kind of very advanced) +network of that school together with a team of very interested and +talented students in the age of 11 to 15 years, who took the chance to +learn a lot about open source and networking before I left the school +to help building another school's informational education concept from +scratch.</p> + +<p>That said, one might see me as a kind of "glue" between school kids +and the elderly of teachers as well as between the open source +ecosystem and the (even more complex) educational ecosystem.</p> + +<p>When I am not busy with open source or education, I like Geocaching +and cycling.</p> + +<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu +project?</strong></p> + +<p>I think that happened some time around 2009 when I first attended +<a href="http://www.froscon.org">FrOSCon</a> and visited the project +booth. I think I wasn't too interested back then because I used to +have an attitude of disliking software that does too much stuff on its +own. Maybe I was too inexperienced to realise the upsides of an +"out-of-the-box" solution ;).</p> + +<p>The first time I actively talked to Skolelinux people was at +<a href="http://www.openrheinruhr.de">OpenRheinRuhr</a> 2011 when the +BiscuIT project, a home-grewn software used by my school for various +really cool things from timetables and class contact lists to lunch +ordering, student ID card printing and project elections first got to +a stage where it could have been published. I asked the Skolelinux +guys running the booth if the project were interested in it and gave a +small demonstration, but there wasn't any real feedback and the guys +seemed rather uninterested.</p> + +<p>After I left the school where I developed the software, it got +mostly lost, but I am now reimplementing it for my new school. I have +reusability and compatibility in mind, and I hop there will be a new +basis for contributing it to the Skolelinux project ;)!</p> + +<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian +Edu?</strong></p> + +<p>The most important advantage seems to be that it "just +works". After overcoming some minor (but still very annoying) glitches +in the installer, I got a fully functional, working school network, +without the month-long hassle I experienced when setting all that up +from scratch in earlier years. And above that, it rocked - I didn't +have any real hardware at hand, because the school was just founded +and has no money whatsoever, so I installed a combined server (main +server, terminal services and workstation) in a VM on my personal +notebook, bridging the LTSP network interface to the ethernet port, +and then PXE-booted the Windows notebooks that were lying around from +it. I could use 8 clients without any performance issues, by using a +tiny little VM on a tiny little notebook. I think that's enough to say +that it rocks!</p> + +<p>Secondly, there are marketing reasons. Life's bad, and so no +politician will ever permit a setup described as "Debian, an universal +operating system, with some really cool educational tools" while they +will be jsut fine with "Skolelinux, a single-purpose solution for your +school network", even if both turn out to be the very same thing (yes, +this is unfair towards the Skolelinux project, and must not be taken +too seriously - you get the idea, anyway).</p> + +<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian +Edu?</strong></p> + +<p>I have not been involved with Skolelinux long enough to really +answer this question in a fair way. Thus, please allow me to put it in +other words: "What do you expect from Skolelinux to keep liking it?" I +can list a few points about that:</p> <ul> -<li>The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This -also gets Chromium to use this proxy.</li> -<li>Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer -understand ical/dav sources.</li> -<li>Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the -main server.</li> -<li>A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.</li> -<li>Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick -(6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug -(0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image -(3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).</li> + <li>always strive to get all things integrated into Debian upstream + <li>be open to discussion about changes and the like, even with newcomers + <li>be helpful at being helpful ;) </ul> -<p>Where to get it:</p> - -<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p> +<p>I'm really sorry I cannot say much more about that :(!</p> + +<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p> + +<p>First of all, all software I use is free and open. I have abandoned +all non-free software (except for firmware on my darned phone) this +year.</p> + +<p>I run Debian GNU/Linux on all PC systems I use. On that, I mostly +run text tools. I use +<a href="https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm">mksh</a> as shell, +<a href="https://www.mirbsd.org/jupp.htm">jupp</a> as very advanced +text editor (I even got the developer to help me write a script/macro +based full-featured student management software with the two), +<a href="http://mcabber.com/">mcabber</a> for XMPP and +<a href="http://www.irssi.org/">irssi</a> for IRC. For that overly +coloured world called the WWW, I use +<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Iceweasel +(Firefox)</a>. Oh, and <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a> for +e-mail.</p> + +<p>However, while I am personally aware of the fact that text tools +are more efficient and powerful than anything else, I also use (or at +least operate) some tools that are suitable to bring open source to +kids. One of these things is <a href="http://jappix.org/">Jappix</a>, +which I already introduced to some kids even before they got aware of +Facebook, making them see for themselves that they do not need +Facebook now ;).</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, that's a two-sided thing. One side is what I believe, and one +side is what I have experienced.</p> + +<p>I believe that the right strategy is showing them the benefits. But +that won't work out as long as the acceptance of free alternatives +grows globally. What I mean is that if all the kids are almost forced +to use Windows, Facebook, Skype, you name it at home, they will not +see why they would want to use alternatives at school. I have seen +students take seat in front of a fully-functional, modern Debian +desktop that could do anything their Windows at home could do, and +they jsut refused to use it because "Linux sucks". It is something +that makes the council of our city spend around 600000 € to buy +software - not including hardware, mind you - for operating school +networks, and for installing a system that, as has been proved, does +not work. For those of you readers who are good at maths, have you +already found out how many lives could have been saved with that money +if we had instead used it to bring education to parts of the world +that need it? I have, and found it to be nothing less dramatic than +plain criminal.</p> + +<p>That said, the only feasible way appears to be the bottom up +method. We have to bring free software to kids and parents. I have +founded an association named +<a href="https://www.teckids.org">Teckids</a> here in Germany that does +just that. We organise several events for kids and adolescents in the +area of free and open source software, for example the +<a href="http://kids.froscon.org">FrogLabs</a>, which share staff with +Teckids and are the youth programme of +<a href="http://www.froscon.org">the Free and Open Source Software +Conference (FrOSCon)</a>. We do a lot more than most other conferences +- this year, we first offered the FrogLabs as a holiday camp for kids +aged 10 to 16. It was a huge success, with approx. 30 kids taking part +and learning with and about free software through a whole weekend. All +of us had a lot of fun, and the results were really exciting.</p> + +<p>Apart from that, we are preparing a campaign that is supposed to bring +the message of free alternatives to stuff kids use every day to them and +their parents, e.g. the use of Jabber / Jappix instead of Facebook and +Skype. To make that possible, we are planning to get together a team of +clever kids who understand very well what their peers need and can bring +it across to them. So we will have a peer-driven network of adolescents +who teach each other and collect feedback from the community of minors. +We then take that feedback and our own experience to work closely with +open source projects, such as Skolelinux or Jappix, at improving their +software in a way that makes it more and more attractive for the target +group. At least I hope that we will have good cooperation with +Skolelinux in the future ;)!</p> + +<p>So in conclusion, what I believe is that, if it weren't for the world +being so bad, it should be very clear to the political decision makers +that the only way to go nowadays is free software for various reasons, +but I have learnt that the only way that seems to work is bottom up.</p> + +<!-- + +> * Who should be interviewed with this questions in the future? + +That's probably the hardest question of them all, as I do not know the +community. However, I would be willing to do the following: + + <li>Run an interview with a German headteacher who is very open to + free software, and also prefers it, but cannot really use it because + of the decision makers above; + <li>Run interviews with some kids, both with and without previous + knowledge about free software + +If that is wanted, just let me know ;). + +--> + + + + + Dugnadsnett for alle stiller på Oslo Maker Faire i januar 2014 + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle_stiller_p__Oslo_Maker_Faire_i_januar_2014.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle_stiller_p__Oslo_Maker_Faire_i_januar_2014.html + Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:20:00 +0100 + <p>Helga 18. og 19. januar 2014 arrangeres +<a href="http://makerfaireoslo.no/no/program/dugnadsnett">Oslo Maker +Faire</a>, og <a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">Dugnadsnett for +alle</a> har fått plass! Planen er å ha et bord med en plakat der vi +forteller om hva Dugnadsnett for alle er for noe, og et lite verksted +der vi hjelper folk som er interessert i å få opp sin egen mesh-node. +Jeg gleder meg til å se hvordan prosjektet blir mottatt der.</p> + +<p>Målet med dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo er å få på plass et datanett +for kommunikasjon ved hjelp av radio-repeaterstasjoner (kalt +mesh-noder) som gjør at en kan direkte kommunisere med slekt, venner +og bekjente i Oslo via andre som deltar i dugnadsnettet, samt gjøre +det mulig komme ut på internett via dugnadsnettet. Første delmål er å +kunne sende SMS-meldinger vha. IP-telefoni løsningen +<a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project</a> mellom +deltagerne i Dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo. Formålet er å ta tilbake +kontrollen over egen nett-infrastruktur og gjøre det dyrere å bedrive +massiv innsamling av informasjon om borgernes bruk av datanett.</p> + +<p>Høres dette interessant ut? Bli med på prosjektet, fortell oss +hvor du kunne tenke deg å sette opp en radio-repeater (slik at folk i +nærheten kan finne hverandre ved hjelp av +<a href="http://flynor.net/mesh/mesh.php">kartet over planlagte og +eksisterende radio-repeatere</A>), bli med på epostlisten +<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/dugnadsnett">dugnadsnett +(at) nuug.no</a> og stikk innom +<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#dugnadsnett.no">IRC-kanalen +#dugnadsnett.no</a>. Så langt er det planlagt over 40 +radio-repeatere, med VPN-forbindelser via Internet for å la de delene +av nettet som ikke når hverandre via radio kunne snakke med hverandre +likevel.</p> + + + + + Debian Edu interview: Klaus Knopper + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html + Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:50:00 +0100 + <p>It has been a while since I managed to publish the last interview, +but the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / +Skolelinux</a> community is still going strong, and yesterday we even +had a new school administrator show up on +<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu">#debian-edu</a> to share +his success story with installing Debian Edu at their school. This +time I have been able to get some helpful comments from the creator of +Knoppix, Klaus Knopper, who was involved in a Skolelinux project in +Germany a few years ago.</p> + +<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p> + +<p>I am Klaus Knopper. I have a master degree in electrical +engineering, and is currently professor in information management at +the university of applied sciences Kaiserslautern / Germany and +freelance Open Source software developer and consultant.</p> + +<p>All of this is pretty much of the work I spend my days with. Apart +from teaching, I'm also conducting some more or less experimental +projects like the <a href="http://www.knoppix.org">Knoppix GNU/Linux live +system</a> (Debian-based like Skolelinux), +<a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html">ADRIANE</a> +(a blind-friendly talking desktop system) and +<a href="http://www.knopper.net/linbo/index-en.html">LINBO</a> +(Linux-based network boot console, a fast remote install and repair +system supporting various operating systems).</p> + +<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu +project?</strong></p> + +<p>The credit for this have to go to Kurt Gramlich, who is the German +coordinator for Skolelinux. We were looking for an all-in-one open +source community-supported distribution for schools, and Kurt +introduced us to Skolelinux for this purpose.</p> + +<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian +Edu?</strong></p> <ul> -<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li> -<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li> -<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .</li> + <li>Quick installation,</li> + <li>works (almost) out of the box,</li> + <li>contains many useful software packages for teaching and learning,</li> + <li>is a purely community-based distro and not controlled by a + single company,</li> + <li>has a large number of supporters and teachers who share their + experience and problem solutions.</li> </ul> -<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f</p> +<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian +Edu?</strong></p> -<p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use <ul> -<li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li> -<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li> -<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .</li> -</ul> + <li>Skolelinux is - as we had to learn - not easily upgradable to + the next version. Opposed to its genuine Debian base, upgrading to + a new version means a full new installation from scratch to get it + working again reliably. + + <li>Skolelinux is based on Debian/stable, and therefore always a + little outdated in terms of program versions compared to Edubuntu or + similar educational Linux distros, which rather use Debian/testing + as their base. + + <li>Skolelinux has some very self-opinionated and stubborn default + configuration which in my opinion adds unnecessary complexity and is + not always suitable for a schools needs, the preset network + configuration is actually a core definition feature of Skolelinux + and not easy to change, so schools sometimes have to change their + network configuration to make it "Skolelinux-compatible". + + <li>Some proposed extensions, which were made available as + contribution, like secure examination mode and lecture material + distribution and collection, were not accepted into the mainline + Skolelinux development and are now not easy to maintain in the + future because of Skolelinux somewhat undeterministic update + schemes.</li> + + <li>Skolelinux has only a very tiny number of base developers + compared to Debian.</li> -<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e</p> +</ul> -<p>The Source DVD image has the filename -debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM -089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way -as the other isos.</p> +<p>For these reasons and experience from our project, I would now +rather consider using plain Debian for schools next time, until +Skolelinux is more closely integrated into Debian and becomes +upgradeable without reinstallation.</p> -<p>How to report bugs</p> +<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p> -<p>For information how to report bugs please see -<br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p> +<p>GNU/Linux with LXDE desktop, bash for interactive dialog and +programming, texlive for documentation and correspondence, +occasionally LibreOffice for document format conversion. Various +programming languages for teaching.</p> +<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to +get schools to use free software?</strong></p> -<p>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</p> +<p>Strong arguments are</p> -<p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, 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 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 more than 60 educational software -packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools -can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.</p> +<ul> -<p>This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically -this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the -Squeeze release.</p> + <li>Knowledge is free, and so should be methods and tools for + teaching and learning.</li> -<p>Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases</p> + <li>Students can learn with and use the same software at school, at + home, and at their working place without running into license or + conversion problems.</li> -<p>Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the -versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta -release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or -deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep -gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2) -Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin -password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one -(backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password -to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home -directory.</p> + <li>Closed source or proprietary software hides knowledge rather + than exposing it, and proprietary software vendors try to bind + customers to certain products. But teachers need to teach + science, not products.</li> + <li>If you have everything you for daily work as open source, what + would you need proprietary software for?</li> -<p>cheers, -<br> Holger</p> -</blockquote> +</ul> - Recipe to test the Freedombox project on amd64 or Raspberry Pi - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Recipe_to_test_the_Freedombox_project_on_amd64_or_Raspberry_Pi.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Recipe_to_test_the_Freedombox_project_on_amd64_or_Raspberry_Pi.html - Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:20:00 +0200 - <p>I was introduced to the -<a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a> -in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need -of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and -within the legal protection of their own homes. The idea is to give -people back the power over their network and machines, and return -Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture. Instead of -depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone -control over their own basic infrastructure.</p> - -<p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have -taken priority. But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust -and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering -communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I -actually started working on the project a while back.</p> - -<p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial -Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to -create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook -up in their home and get access to secure and private services and -communication. The initial deployment platform have been the -<a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>, -which is a piece of hardware I do not own. So to be able to test what -the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install -it on some hardware I do have access to. I have rewritten the -<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a> -image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying -setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to -set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using -the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages -missing in Debian).</p> - -<p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping -scripts -(<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>), -and a administrative web interface -(<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina + -withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on -<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a> -(freedombox-privoxy). There is also a web/javascript based XMPP -client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>) -trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server -(<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>). The -web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID -services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc. Not much of -this is really working yet, see -<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the -project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories. Most of the code is -on github at the moment. The HTTP proxy is operational out of the -box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth -users. I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but -know there are several branches spread around github and other places -with lots of half baked features.</p> - -<p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the -following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke -at.</p> - -<p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p> - -<ol> - -<li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li> -<li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li> -<li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument -to the Debian installer:<p> -<pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li> - -<li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to -install on.</li> - -<li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a -few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li> - -</ol> - -<p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p> - -<ol> - -<li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li> -<li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li> -<li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p> -<pre> -deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main -</pre></li> -<li><p>Run this as root:</p> -<pre> -wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \ - apt-key add - -apt-get update -apt-get install freedombox-setup -/usr/lib/freedombox/setup -</pre></li> -<li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li> - -</ol> - -<p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the -freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on -the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it -in my APT repository. But do not let this stop you. It is only a -short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p> - -<p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the -192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn -off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server -disable</tt>" as root.</p> - -<p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any -problems. We gather on the IRC channel -<a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on -irc.debian.org and the -<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project -mailing list</a>.</p> - -<p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit -<tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint -welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to -get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt> -to look at the rest of plinth. The default user is 'admin' and the -default password is 'secret'.</p> + Dugnadsnett for alle, a wireless community network in Oslo, take shape + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle__a_wireless_community_network_in_Oslo__take_shape.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle__a_wireless_community_network_in_Oslo__take_shape.html + Sat, 30 Nov 2013 10:10:00 +0100 + <p>If you want the ability to electronically communicate directly with +your neighbors and friends using a network controlled by your peers in +stead of centrally controlled by a few corporations, or would like to +experiment with interesting network technology, the +<a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">Dugnasnett for alle i Oslo</a> +might be project for you. 39 mesh nodes are currently being planned, +in the freshly started initiative from NUUG and Hackeriet to create a +wireless community network. The work is inspired by +<a href="http://freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a>, +<a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan +Network</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofnet">Roofnet</a> +and other successful mesh networks around the globe. Two days ago we +held a workshop to try to get people started on setting up their own +mesh node, and there we decided to create a new mailing list +<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/dugnadsnett">dugnadsnett +(at) nuug.no</a> and IRC channel +<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#dugnadsnett.no">#dugnadsnett.no</a> to +coordinate the work. See also the NUUG blog post +<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/E_postliste_og_IRC_kanal_for_Dugnadsnett_for_alle_i_Oslo.shtml">announcing +the mailing list and IRC channel</a>.</p> - Datalagringsdirektivet gjør at Oslo Høyre og Arbeiderparti ikke får min stemme i år - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_gj_r_at_Oslo_H_yre_og_Arbeiderparti_ikke_f_r_min_stemme_i__r.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_gj_r_at_Oslo_H_yre_og_Arbeiderparti_ikke_f_r_min_stemme_i__r.html - Sun, 8 Sep 2013 20:40:00 +0200 - <p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og -Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske -folk. Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt -år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de -snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen. Det skal også -registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost -til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte. Saken er kjent som -<a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet -(DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges -grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt. Det ble i praksis innført brev og -besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen. Rapporter fra de landene som -allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes -kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i -kriminalitetsbekjempelsen. Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre -millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets -arbeide. Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt -på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen. -Se mer på -<a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a> -og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p> - -<p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje? Et åpenbart problem er at -medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut. Den innsamlede -informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med -journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten -av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon. Et annet er at -advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem -som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat. -Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke -nettsteder en har besøkt. Har en besøkt hivnorge.no, -swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede -interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være -tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p> - -<p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for. Høyre og -Arbeiderpartiet. Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har -DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre -fylkene). Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse -partiene. Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med -informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget, -basert på informasjon fra mine venner i -<a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de -Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>. -Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p> - -<style type="text/css"> -.for {background-color:#F5A9A9;} -.mot {background-color:#A9F5BC;} -.ukjent { } -</style> - -<table> -<tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr> - -<tr class="for"><td>1.</td> -<td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td> -<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr> - -<tr class="mot"><td>2.</td> -<td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td> -<td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr> - -<tr class="mot"><td>3.</td> -<td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td> -<td>Stemte mot DLD</td> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td> -<td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td> -<td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td> -<td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td> -<td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td> -<td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td> -<td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td> -<td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td> -<td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td> -<td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td> -<td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td> -<td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td> -<td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td> -<td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td> -<td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td> -<td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td> -<td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td> -<td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td> -<td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td> -<td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td> -<td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td> -<td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td> -<td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -</table> - -<p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p> - -<table> - -<tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr> - -<tr class="for"><td>1.</td> -<td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td> -<td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr> - -<tr class="for"><td>2.</td> -<td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td> -<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr> + Hvor godt fungerer Linux-klienter mot MS Exchange? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvor_godt_fungerer_Linux_klienter_mot_MS_Exchange_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvor_godt_fungerer_Linux_klienter_mot_MS_Exchange_.html + Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:50:00 +0100 + <p>Jeg +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html">skrev +i juni om protestene</a> på planene til min arbeidsplass, +<a href="http://www.uio.no/">Universitetet i Oslo</a>, om å gå bort fra +fri programvare- og åpne standardløsninger for å håndtere epost, +vekk fra IETF-standarden SIEVE for filtrering av epost og over til +godseide spesifikasjoner og epostsystemet Microsoft Exchange. +Protestene har fått litt ny omtale i media de siste dagene, i tillegg +til de oppslagene som kom i mai.</p> -<tr class="for"><td> 3.</td> -<td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td> -<td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr> - -<tr class="for"><td> 4.</td> -<td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td> -<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr> - -<tr class="for"><td> 5.</td> -<td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td> -<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr> - -<tr class="for"><td> 6.</td> -<td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td> -<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr> - -<tr class="for"><td> 7.</td> -<td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td> -<td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td> -<td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td> -<td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td> -<td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td> -<td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td> -<td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td> -<td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td> -<td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td> -<td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td> -<td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td> -<td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> - -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td> -<td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> +<ul> -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td> -<td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> +<li>2013-11-26 <a href="http://www.version2.dk/artikel/gigantisk-outlook-konvertering-moeder-protester-paa-universitet-55147">Gigantisk Outlook-konvertering møder protester på universitet</a> - versjon2.dk</li> -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td> -<td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> +<li>2013-11-25 + <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article279407.ece">Microsoft-protest + på Universitetet</a> - Computerworld</li> -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td> -<td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> +<li>2013-11-25 + <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/11/uio-bor-bruke-apen-programvare.html">Kjemper + mot innføring av Microsoft Exchange på UiO</a> - Uniforum</li> -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td> -<td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> +<li>2013-11-25 + <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/11/uio-utsetter-innforing-av-nytt-e-postsystem.html">Utsetter + innføring av nytt e-postsystem</a> - Uniforum</li> -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td> -<td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> +<li>2013-05-29 + <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system">Forsvarer + nytt IT-system</a> - Universitas</li> -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td> -<td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> +<li>2013-05-23 + <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html">UiO + innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy</a> - Uniforum</li> -<tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td> -<td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td> -<td>Ikke til stede</td></tr> +<li>2013-05-22 + <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system">Protestgruppe + vil stanse IT-system</a> - Universitas</li> -</table> +<li>2013-05-15 + <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html">UiO + må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem</a> - Uniforum</li> -<p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år. Jeg tror det blir -<a href="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>. Hvis de kan bidra -til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får -kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har -hatt så langt.</p> +</ul> +<p>Prosjektledelsen har fortalt at dette skal fungere like godt for +Linux-brukere som for brukere av Microsoft Windows og Apple MacOSX, +men jeg lurer på hva slags erfaringer Linux-brukere i eksisterende +miljøer som bruker MS Exchange har gjort. Hvis du har slik erfaring +hadet det vært veldig fint om du kan send et leserbrev til +<a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/">Uniforum</a> og fortelle om hvor +greit det er å bruke Exchange i kryss-platform-miljøer? De jeg har +snakket med sier en greit får lest e-posten sin hvis Exchange har +slått på IMAP-funksjonalitet, men at kalender og møtebooking ikke +fungerer godt for Linux-klienter. Jeg har ingen personlig erfaring å +komme med, så jeg er nysgjerrig på hva andre kan dele av erfaringer +med universitetet.</p> + +<p>Mitt ankerpunkt mot å bytte ut fri programvare som fungerer godt +med godseid programvare er at en mister kontroll over egen +infrastruktur, låser seg inn i en løsning det vil bli dyrt å komme ut +av, uten at en får funksjonalitet en ikke kunne skaffet seg med fri +programvare, eventuelt videreutviklet med de pengene som brukes på +overgangen til MS Exchange. Personlig planlegger jeg å fortsette å +laste ned all eposten min til lokal maskin for indeksering og lesing +med <a href=="http://notmuchmail.org">notmuch</a>, så jeg håper jeg +ikke blir veldig skadelidende av overgangen.</p> + +<p><a href="http://dinis.linguateca.pt/Diana/ImotMSUiO.html">Underskriftslista +for oss som er mot endringen</a>, som omtales i artiklene, er fortsatt +åpen for de som vil signere på oppropet. Akkurat nå er det 298 +personer som har signert.</p> - Second beta release (beta 1) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html - Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:30:00 +0200 - <p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up -today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows -integration fixes . This is the release announcement:</p> - -<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p> - -<p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux -7.1+edu0~b1, 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 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 sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this -is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze -release.</p> - -<p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the -versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta -release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or -deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep -gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined -<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on -the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and -replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password -hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user -need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for -CIFS access to their home directory.</p> - -<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p> + New chrpath release 0.15 + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_15.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_15.html + Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:30:00 +0100 + <p>After many years break from the package and a vain hope that +development would be continued by someone else, I finally pulled my +acts together this morning and wrapped up a new release of chrpath, +the command line tool to modify the rpath and runpath of already +compiled ELF programs. The update was triggered by the persistence of +Isha Vishnoi at IBM, which needed a new config.guess file to get +support for the ppc64le architecture (powerpc 64-bit Little Endian) he +is working on. I checked the +<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/chrpath">Debian</a>, +<a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chrpath">Ubuntu</a> and +<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/chrpath">Fedora</a> +packages for interesting patches (failed to find the source from +OpenSUSE and Mandriva packages), and found quite a few nice fixes. +These are the release notes:</p> + +<p>New in 0.15 released 2013-11-24:</p> <ul> -<li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh - work also without a attached tty.</li> -<li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to - make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line - tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found' - has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access - required).</li> + <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project to work + with newer architectures. Thanks to isha vishnoi for the heads + up.</li> -</ul> + <li>Updated README with current URLs.</li> -<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p> + <li>Added byteswap fix found in Ubuntu, credited Jeremy Kerr and + Matthias Klose.</li> -<ul> + <li>Added missing help for -k|--keepgoing option, using patch by + Petr Machata found in Fedora.</li> -<li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool -needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li> -<li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB -stick ISO image.</li> -<li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li> -<li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li> -<li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens - during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to - cope with this.</li> -<li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li> -<li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid - empty password hashes.</li> -<li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the - smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines - from joining the Samba domain.</li> + <li>Rewrite removal of RPATH/RUNPATH to make sure the entry in + .dynamic is a NULL terminated string. Based on patch found in + Fedora credited Axel Thimm and Christian Krause.</li> </ul> -<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p> - -<ul> - -<li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to - not use the http proxy as it should.</li> -<li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop - (using the KDE configuration).</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-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li> - -<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li> - -<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li> - -</ul> - -<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b -<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</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~b1-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li> -<li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li> -<li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li> - -</ul> - -<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b -<br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</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>You can +<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the +new version 0.15 from alioth</a>. Please let us know via the Alioth +project if something is wrong with the new release. The test suite +did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also +include a testsuite check.</p> - Intel 180 SSD disk with Lenovo firmware can not use Intel firmware - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_180_SSD_disk_with_Lenovo_firmware_can_not_use_Intel_firmware.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_180_SSD_disk_with_Lenovo_firmware_can_not_use_Intel_firmware.html - Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:00:00 +0200 - <p>Earlier, I reported about -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">my -problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk</a>. Friday I was -told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away. And as -there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided -today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware -currently on the disk.</p> - -<p>I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found -<a href="https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3472&DwnldID=18363&ProductFamily=Solid-State+Drives+and+Caching&ProductLine=Intel%c2%ae+High+Performance+Solid-State+Drive&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+SSD+520+Series+(180GB%2c+2.5in+SATA+6Gb%2fs%2c+25nm%2c+MLC)&lang=eng">issdfut_2.0.4.iso</a> -(aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which -according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD -disks. I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and -booted the ISO from a USB stick. The disk was recognized, but the -program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused -to insert any Intel firmware. So no change, and the disk is still -unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them -working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware. No idea how likely -that is. Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness. I -got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on -the broken disks.</p> + RSS-kilde for fritekstsøk i offentlige anbud hos Doffin + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RSS_kilde_for_friteksts_k_i_offentlige_anbud_hos_Doffin.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RSS_kilde_for_friteksts_k_i_offentlige_anbud_hos_Doffin.html + Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:40:00 +0100 + <p>I fjor sommer lagde jeg en +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html">offentlig +tilgjengelig SQL-database over offentlig anbud</a> basert på skraping +av HTML-data fra Doffin. Den har stått og gått siden da, og har nå +ca. 28000 oppføringer. Jeg oppdaget da jeg tittet innom at noen +oppføringer var ikke blitt med, antagelig på grunn av at de fikk +tildelt sekvensnummer i Doffin en godt stund før de ble publisert, +slik at min nettsideskraper som fortsatte skrapingen der den slapp +sist ikke fikk dem med seg. Jeg har fikset litt slik at skraperen nå +ser litt tilbake i tid for å se om den har gått glipp av noen +oppføringer, og har skrapet på nytt fra midten av september 2013 og +fremover. Det bør dermed bli en mer komplett database for kommende +måneder. Hvis jeg får tid skal jeg forsøke å skrape "glemte" data fra +før midten av september 2013, men tør ikke garantere at det blir +prioritert med det første. </p> + +<p>Men målet med denne bloggposten er å vise hvordan denne +Doffin-databasen kan brukes og integreres med en RSS-leser, slik at en +kan la datamaskinen holde et øye med Doffin-annonseringer etter +nøkkelord. En kan lage sitt eget søk ved å besøke +<ahref="https://classic.scraperwiki.com/docs/api?name=norwegian-doffin#sqlite">API-et +hos Scraperwiki</a>, velge format rss2 og så legge inn noe ala dette i +"query in SQL":</p> + +<p><pre> +select title, scrapedurl as link, abstract as description, + publishdate as pubDate from 'swdata' + where abstract like '%linux%' or title like '%linux%' + order by seq desc limit 20 +</pre></p> + +<p>Dette vil søke opp alle anbud med ordet linux i oppsummering eller +tittel. En kan lage mer avanserte søk hvis en ønsker det. URL-en som +dukker opp nederst på siden kan en så gi til sin RSS-leser (jeg bruker +akregator selv), og så automatisk få beskjed hvis det dukker opp anbud +med det aktuelle nøkkelordet i teksten. Merk at kapasiteten og +ytelsen hos Scraperwiki er begrenset, så ikke be RSS-leseren hente ned +oftere enn en gang hver dag.</p> + +<p>Du lurer kanskje på hva slags informasjon en kan få ut fra denne +databasen. Her er to RSS-kilder, med søkeordet +"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25linux%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25linux%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">linux</a>", +søkeordet +"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">fri +programvare</a>" +og søkeordet +"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25odf%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25odf%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">odf</a>". +Det er bare å søke på det en er interessert i. Kopier gjerne +datasettet og sett opp din egen tjeneste hvis du vil gjøre mer +avanserte søk. SQLite-filen med Doffin-oppføringer kan lastes med fra +Scraperwiki for de som vil grave dypere.</p> + + + + + All drones should be radio marked with what they do and who they belong to + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/All_drones_should_be_radio_marked_with_what_they_do_and_who_they_belong_to.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/All_drones_should_be_radio_marked_with_what_they_do_and_who_they_belong_to.html + Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:40:00 +0100 + <p>Drones, flying robots, are getting more and more popular. The most +know ones are the killer drones used by some government to murder +people they do not like without giving them the chance of a fair +trial, but the technology have many good uses too, from mapping and +forest maintenance to photography and search and rescue. I am sure it +is just a question of time before "bad drones" are in the hands of +private enterprises and not only state criminals but petty criminals +too. The drone technology is very useful and very dangerous. To have +some control over the use of drones, I agree with Daniel Suarez in his +TED talk +"<a href="https://archive.org/details/DanielSuarez_2013G">The kill +decision shouldn't belong to a robot</a>", where he suggested this +little gem to keep the good while limiting the bad use of drones:</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Each robot and drone should have a cryptographically signed +I.D. burned in at the factory that can be used to track its movement +through public spaces. We have license plates on cars, tail numbers on +aircraft. This is no different. And every citizen should be able to +download an app that shows the population of drones and autonomous +vehicles moving through public spaces around them, both right now and +historically. And civic leaders should deploy sensors and civic drones +to detect rogue drones, and instead of sending killer drones of their +own up to shoot them down, they should notify humans to their +presence. And in certain very high-security areas, perhaps civic +drones would snare them and drag them off to a bomb disposal facility.</p> + +<p>But notice, this is more an immune system than a weapons system. It +would allow us to avail ourselves of the use of autonomous vehicles +and drones while still preserving our open, civil society.</p> + +</blockquote> + +<p>The key is that <em>every citizen</em> should be able to read the +radio beacons sent from the drones in the area, to be able to check +both the government and others use of drones. For such control to be +effective, everyone must be able to do it. What should such beacon +contain? At least formal owner, purpose, contact information and GPS +location. Probably also the origin and target position of the current +flight. And perhaps some registration number to be able to look up +the drone in a central database tracking their movement. Robots +should not have privacy. It is people who need privacy.</p>