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 		<title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
 		<description></description>
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+                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
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-		<title>Great book: &quot;Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future&quot;</title>
-		<link>Great_book___Content__Selected_Essays_on_Technology__Creativity__Copyright__and_the_Future_of_the_Future_.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<title>Vinmonopolet bryter loven åpenlyst - og flere planlegger å gjøre det samme</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vinmonopolet_bryter_loven___penlyst___og_flere_planlegger____gj__re_det_samme.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vinmonopolet_bryter_loven___penlyst___og_flere_planlegger____gj__re_det_samme.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;The last few weeks i have had the pleasure of reading a
-thought-provoking collection of essays by Cory Doctorow, on topics
-touching copyright, virtual worlds, the future of man when the
-conscience mind can be duplicated into a computer and many more. The
-book titled &quot;Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity,
-Copyright, and the Future of the Future&quot; is available with few
-restrictions on the web, for example from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://craphound.com/content/&quot;&gt;his own site&lt;/a&gt;. I read the
-epub-version from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2883&quot;&gt;feedbooks&lt;/a&gt; using
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fbreader.org/&quot;&gt;fbreader&lt;/a&gt; and my N810. I
-strongly recommend this book.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/06/16/nyheter/innenriks/streik/arbeidsliv/12157858/&quot;&gt;Dagbladet
+melder&lt;/a&gt; at Vinmonopolet med bakgrunn i vekterstreiken som pågår i
+Norge for tiden, har bestemt seg for med vitende og vilje å bryte
+sentralbanklovens paragraf 14 ved å nekte folk å betale med
+kontanter, og at flere butikker planlegger å følge deres eksempel.
+Jeg synes det er hårreisende hvis de slipper unna med et slikt
+soleklart lovbrudd, og lurer på hva slags muligheter jeg vil ha hvis
+jeg blir nektet å handle med kontakter.  Jeg handler i hovedsak med
+kontanter selv, da jeg anser det som en borgerrett å kunne handle
+anonymt uten at det blir registrert.  For meg er det et angrep på mitt
+personvern å nekte å ta imot kontakt betaling.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-19850524-028-003.html#14&quot;&gt;Paragrafen
+i sentralbankloven&lt;/a&gt; lyder:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;§ 14. Tvungent betalingsmiddel&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Bankens sedler og mynter er tvungent betalingsmiddel i Norge. Ingen
+er pliktig til i én betaling å ta imot mer enn femogtyve mynter av
+hver enhet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Sterkt skadde sedler og mynter er ikke tvungent
+betalingsmiddel. Banken gir nærmere forskrifter om erstatning for
+bortkomne, brente eller skadde sedler og mynter.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Selv om en avtale inneholder klausul om betaling av en
+pengeforpliktelse i gullverdi, kan skyldneren frigjøre seg med tvungne
+betalingsmidler uten hensyn til denne klausul.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er med bakgrunn i denne lovet ikke tillatt å nekte å ta imot
+kontakt betaling.  Det er en lov jeg har sans for, og som jeg mener må
+håndheves strengt.&lt;/p&gt;
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-		<title>Kerberos for Debian Edu/Squeeze?</title>
-		<link>Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">Kerberos_for_Debian_Edu_Squeeze_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<title>Officeshots taking shape</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Officeshots_taking_shape.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Officeshots_taking_shape.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20100413-kerberos/&quot;&gt;Yesterdays
-NUUG presentation&lt;/a&gt; about Kerberos was inspiring, and reminded me
-about the need to start using Kerberos in Skolelinux.  Setting up a
-Kerberos server seem to be straight forward, and if we get this in
-place a long time before the Squeeze version of Debian freezes, we
-have a chance to migrate Skolelinux away from NFSv3 for the home
-directories, and over to an architecture where the infrastructure do
-not have to trust IP addresses and machines, and instead can trust
-users and cryptographic keys instead.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A challenge will be integration and administration.  Is there a
-Kerberos implementation for Debian where one can control the
-administration access in Kerberos using LDAP groups?  With it, the
-school administration will have to maintain access control using flat
-files on the main server, which give a huge potential for errors.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A related question I would like to know is how well Kerberos and
-pam-ccreds (offline password check) work together.  Anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Next step will be to use Kerberos for access control in Lwat and
-Nagios.  I have no idea how much work that will be to implement.  We
-would also need to document how to integrate with Windows AD, as such
-shared network will require two Kerberos realms that need to cooperate
-to work properly.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I believe a good start would be to start using Kerberos on the
-skolelinux.no machines, and this way get ourselves experience with
-configuration and integration.  A natural starting point would be
-setting up ldap.skolelinux.no as the Kerberos server, and migrate the
-rest of the machines from PAM via LDAP to PAM via Kerberos one at the
-time.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you would like to contribute to get this working in Skolelinux,
-I recommend you to see the video recording from yesterdays NUUG
-presentation, and start using Kerberos at home.  The video show show
-up in a few days.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;For those of us caring about document exchange and
+interoperability, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.officeshots.org/&quot;&gt;OfficeShots&lt;/a&gt;
+is a great service.  It is to ODF documents what
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://browsershots.org/&quot;&gt;BrowserShots&lt;/a&gt; is for web
+pages.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A while back, I was contacted by Knut Yrvin at the part of Nokia
+that used to be Trolltech, who wanted to help the OfficeShots project
+and wondered if the University of Oslo where I work would be
+interested in supporting the project.  I helped him to navigate his
+request to the right people at work, and his request was answered with
+a spot in the machine room with power and network connected, and Knut
+arranged funding for a machine to fill the spot.  The machine is
+administrated by the OfficeShots people, so I do not have daily
+contact with its progress, and thus from time to time check back to
+see how the project is doing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Today I had a look, and was happy to see that the Dell box in our
+machine room now is the host for several virtual machines running as
+OfficeShots factories, and the project is able to render ODF documents
+in 17 different document processing implementation on Linux and
+Windows.  This is great.&lt;/p&gt;
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-		<title>PÃ¥ vegne av vanvitting mange, Aftenposten!</title>
-		<link>P___vegne_av_vanvitting_mange__Aftenposten_.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">P___vegne_av_vanvitting_mange__Aftenposten_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 6 Mar 2010 21:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<title>Lenny-&gt;Squeeze upgrades, removals by apt and aptitude</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__removals_by_apt_and_aptitude.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__removals_by_apt_and_aptitude.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fotball.aftenposten.no/incoming/article163000.ece&quot;&gt;Aftenposten
-melder&lt;/a&gt; på forsiden av webavisen sin at de tror Erling Fossen
-provoserer nordlendinger med sine uttalelser på
-fotballtinget.  Jeg er utflyttet nordlending, og må innrømme at jeg
-ikke kjennet så mye som et snev av provokasjon fra denne litt morsomme
-uttalelsen til Hr. Fossen.  Lurer på om Aftenposten har noen kilder
-utenom redaksjonen for sin påstand om at nordledinger er provosert av
-Hr. Fossen.  Må innrømme at jeg tviler på det.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det hele bringer tankene tilbake til Sture Hansen i Hallo i Uken.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;My
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html&quot;&gt;testing
+of Debian upgrades&lt;/a&gt; from Lenny to Squeeze continues, and I&#39;ve
+finally made the upgrade logs available from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&quot;&gt;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-upgrade-testing/&lt;/a&gt;.
+I am now testing dist-upgrade of Gnome and KDE in a chroot using both
+apt and aptitude, and found their differences interesting.  This time
+I will only focus on their removal plans.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;After installing a Gnome desktop and the laptop task, apt-get wants
+to remove 72 packages when dist-upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze.  The
+surprising part is that it want to remove xorg and all
+xserver-xorg-video* drivers.  Clearly not a good choice, but I am not
+sure why.  When asking aptitude to do the same, it want to remove 129
+packages, but most of them are library packages I suspect are no
+longer needed.  Both of them want to remove bluetooth packages, which
+I do not know.  Perhaps these bluetooth packages are obsolete?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For KDE, apt-get want to remove 82 packages, among them kdebase
+which seem like a bad idea and xorg the same way as with Gnome. Asking
+aptitude for the same, it wants to remove 192 packages, none which are
+too surprising.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I guess the removal of xorg during upgrades should be investigated
+and avoided, and perhaps others as well.  Here are the complete list
+of planned removals.  The complete logs is available from the URL
+above.  Note if you want to repeat these tests, that the upgrade test
+for kde+apt-get hung in the tasksel setup because of dpkg asking
+conffile questions.  No idea why.  I worked around it by using
+&#39;&lt;tt&gt;echo &gt;&gt; /proc/&lt;em&gt;pidofdpkg&lt;/em&gt;/fd/0&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; to tell dpkg to
+continue.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;apt-get gnome 72&lt;/b&gt;
+&lt;br&gt;bluez-gnome cupsddk-drivers deskbar-applet gnome
+  gnome-desktop-environment gnome-network-admin gtkhtml3.14
+  iceweasel-gnome-support libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libgdl-1-0
+  libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libmetacity0 libslab0 libxcb-xlib0
+  nautilus-cd-burner python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras
+  serpentine swfdec-mozilla update-manager xorg xserver-xorg
+  xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
+  xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
+  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
+  xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
+  xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
+  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
+  xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
+  xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
+  xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt
+  xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
+  xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
+  xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
+  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
+  xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
+  xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
+  xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
+  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
+  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
+  xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident
+  xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
+  xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
+  xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9
+  xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;aptitude gnome 129&lt;/b&gt;
+
+&lt;br&gt;bluez-gnome bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers dhcdbd
+  djvulibre-desktop finger gnome-app-install gnome-mount
+  gnome-network-admin gnome-spell gnome-vfs-obexftp
+  gnome-volume-manager gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gtkhtml3.14 libao2
+  libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2
+  libcamel1.2-11 libcdio7 libcucul0 libcupsys2 libcurl3 libdatrie0
+  libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdvdread3 libedataserver1.2-9 libeel2-2.20
+  libeel2-data libepc-1.0-1 libepc-ui-1.0-1 libfaad0 libgail-common
+  libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common libgdl-1-0 libgdl-1-common
+  libggz2 libggzcore9 libggzmod4 libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-1 libgmyth0
+  libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libgnomeprint2.2-0
+  libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common
+  libgnomevfs2-bin libgpod3 libgraphviz4 libgtkhtml2-0
+  libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgucharmap6
+  libhesiod0 libicu38 libiw29 libkpathsea4 libltdl3 libmagick++10
+  libmagick10 libmalaga7 libmetacity0 libmtp7 libmysqlclient15off
+  libnautilus-burn4 libneon27 libnm-glib0 libnm-util0 libopal-2.2
+  libosp5 libparted1.8-10 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3 libpt-1.10.10
+  libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l libraw1394-8
+  libsensors3 libslab0 libsmbios2 libsoup2.2-8 libssh2-1
+  libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libswfdec-0.6-90 libtalloc1 libtotem-plparser10
+  libtrackerclient0 libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0
+  libxerces2-java libxerces2-java-gcj libxklavier12 libxtrap6
+  libxxf86misc1 libzephyr3 mysql-common nautilus-cd-burner
+  openoffice.org-writer2latex openssl-blacklist p7zip
+  python-4suite-xml python-eggtrayicon python-gnome2-desktop
+  python-gnome2-extras python-gtkhtml2 python-gtkmozembed
+  python-numeric python-sexy serpentine svgalibg1 swfdec-gnome
+  swfdec-mozilla totem-gstreamer update-manager wodim
+  xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt
+  xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
+  zip&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;apt-get kde 82&lt;/b&gt;
+
+&lt;br&gt;cupsddk-drivers karm kaudiocreator kcoloredit kcontrol kde kde-core
+  kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-bin-kde3
+  kdebase-kio-plugins kdesktop kdeutils khelpcenter kicker
+  kicker-applets knewsticker kolourpaint konq-plugins konqueror korn
+  kpersonalizer kscreensaver ksplash libavcodec51 libdatrie0 libkiten1
+  libxcb-xlib0 quanta superkaramba texlive-base-bin xorg xserver-xorg
+  xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
+  xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
+  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
+  xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
+  xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
+  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
+  xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
+  xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128
+  xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-imstt
+  xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
+  xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
+  xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
+  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
+  xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
+  xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
+  xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
+  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
+  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
+  xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident
+  xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
+  xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
+  xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xulrunner-1.9&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;aptitude kde 192&lt;/b&gt;
+&lt;br&gt;bluez-utils cpp-4.3 cupsddk-drivers cvs dcoprss dhcdbd
+  djvulibre-desktop dosfstools eyesapplet fifteenapplet finger gettext
+  ghostscript-x imlib-base imlib11 indi kandy karm kasteroids
+  kaudiocreator kbackgammon kbstate kcoloredit kcontrol kcron kdat
+  kdeadmin-kfile-plugins kdeartwork-misc kdeartwork-theme-window
+  kdebase-bin-kde3 kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu-data
+  kdegraphics-kfile-plugins kdelirc kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data
+  kdemultimedia-kfile-plugins kdenetwork-kfile-plugins
+  kdepim-kfile-plugins kdepim-kio-plugins kdeprint kdesktop kdessh
+  kdict kdnssd kdvi kedit keduca kenolaba kfax kfaxview kfouleggs
+  kghostview khelpcenter khexedit kiconedit kitchensync klatin
+  klickety kmailcvt kmenuedit kmid kmilo kmoon kmrml kodo kolourpaint
+  kooka korn kpager kpdf kpercentage kpf kpilot kpoker kpovmodeler
+  krec kregexpeditor ksayit ksim ksirc ksirtet ksmiletris ksmserver
+  ksnake ksokoban ksplash ksvg ksysv ktip ktnef kuickshow kverbos
+  kview kviewshell kvoctrain kwifimanager kwin kwin4 kworldclock
+  kxsldbg libakode2 libao2 libarts1-akode libarts1-audiofile
+  libarts1-mpeglib libarts1-xine libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
+  libavahi-core5 libavc1394-0 libavcodec51 libbluetooth2
+  libboost-python1.34.1 libcucul0 libcurl3 libcvsservice0 libdatrie0
+  libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdvdread3 libfaad0 libfreebob0
+  libgail-common libgd2-noxpm libgraphviz4 libgsmme1c2a libgtkhtml2-0
+  libicu38 libiec61883-0 libindex0 libiw29 libk3b3 libkcal2b libkcddb1
+  libkdeedu3 libkdepim1a libkgantt0 libkiten1 libkleopatra1 libkmime2
+  libkpathsea4 libkpimexchange1 libkpimidentities1 libkscan1
+  libksieve0 libktnef1 liblockdev1 libltdl3 libmagick10 libmimelib1c2a
+  libmozjs1d libmpcdec3 libneon27 libnm-util0 libopensync0 libpisock9
+  libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler3 libraw1394-8 libsmbios2
+  libssh2-1 libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libtalloc1 libtiff-tools
+  libxalan2-java libxalan2-java-gcj libxcb-xlib0 libxerces2-java
+  libxerces2-java-gcj libxtrap6 mpeglib networkstatus
+  openoffice.org-writer2latex pmount poster psutils quanta quanta-data
+  superkaramba svgalibg1 tex-common texlive-base texlive-base-bin
+  texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended
+  xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-imstt
+  xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
+  xulrunner-1.9&lt;/p&gt;
+
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-		<title>After 6 years of waiting, the Xreset.d feature is implemented</title>
-		<link>After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">After_6_years_of_waiting__the_Xreset_d_feature_is_implemented.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<title>Åpne trådløsnett er et samfunnsgode</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/__pne_tr__dl__snett_er_et_samfunnsgode.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/__pne_tr__dl__snett_er_et_samfunnsgode.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;6 years ago, as part of the Debian Edu development I am involved
-in, I asked for a hook in the kdm and gdm setup to run scripts as root
-when the user log out.  A bug was submitted against the xfree86-common
-package in 2004 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/230422&quot;&gt;#230422&lt;/a&gt;),
-and revisited every time Debian Edu was working on a new release.
-Today, this finally paid off.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The framework for this feature was today commited to the git
-repositry for the xorg package, and the git repository for xdm has
-been updated to use this framework.  Next on my agenda is to make sure
-kdm and gdm also add code to use this framework.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;In Debian Edu, we want to ability to run commands as root when the
-user log out, to get rid of runaway processes and do general cleanup
-after a user.  With this framework in place, we finally can do that in
-a generic way that work with all display managers using this
-framework.  My goal is to get all display managers in Debian use it,
-similar to how they use the Xsession.d framework today.&lt;p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Veldig glad for å oppdage via
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/06/11/1841256/Finland-To-Legalize-Use-of-Unsecured-Wi-Fi&quot;&gt;Slashdot&lt;/a&gt;
+at folk i Finland har forstått at åpne trådløsnett er et samfunnsgode.
+Jeg ser på åpne trådløsnett som et fellesgode på linje med retten til
+ferdsel i utmark og retten til å bevege seg i strandsonen.  Jeg har
+glede av åpne trådløsnett når jeg finner dem, og deler gladelig nett
+med andre så lenge de ikke forstyrrer min bruk av eget nett.
+Nettkapasiteten er sjelden en begrensning ved normal browsing og enkel
+SSH-innlogging (som er min vanligste nettbruk), og nett kan brukes til
+så mye positivt og nyttig (som nyhetslesing, sjekke været, kontakte
+slekt og venner, holde seg oppdatert om politiske saker, kontakte
+organisasjoner og politikere, etc), at det for meg er helt urimelig å
+blokkere dette for alle som ikke gjør en flue fortred.  De som mener
+at potensialet for misbruk er grunn nok til å hindre all den positive
+og lovlydige bruken av et åpent trådløsnett har jeg dermed ingen
+forståelse for.  En kan ikke eksistensen av forbrytere styre hvordan
+samfunnet skal organiseres.  Da får en et kontrollsamfunn de færreste
+ønsker å leve i, og det at vi har et samfunn i Norge der tilliten til
+hverandre er høy gjør at samfunnet fungerer ganske godt.  Det bør vi
+anstrenge oss for å beholde.&lt;/p&gt;
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-		<title>Digitale bøker uten digitale restriksjonsmekanismer (DRM) bør få mva-fritak</title>
-		<link>Digitale_b__ker_uten_digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer__DRM__b__r_f___mva_fritak.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">Digitale_b__ker_uten_digitale_restriksjonsmekanismer__DRM__b__r_f___mva_fritak.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<title>Automatic upgrade testing from Lenny to Squeeze</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_upgrade_testing_from_Lenny_to_Squeeze.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;Den norske bokbransjen har
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/823912/nei-til-moms-paa-e-boker&quot;&gt;bedt om at
-digitale bøker må få mva-fritak&lt;/a&gt; slik papirbøker har det, og
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/836875/moms-paa-alt-digitalt-innhold&quot;&gt;finansdepartementet
-har sagt nei&lt;/a&gt;.  Det er et interessant spørsmål om digitale bøker
-bør ha mva-fritak eller ikke, og svaret er ikke så enkelt som et ja
-eller nei.
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/836925/norske-e-boker-truet-av-moms&quot;&gt;Enkelte
-medlemmer&lt;/a&gt; av bokbransjen truer med å droppe den planlagte
-lanseringen av norske digitale bøker med digitale restriksjonsmekanismer
-(DRM) som de har snakket om å gjennomføre nå i vår, og det må de
-gjerne gjøre for min del.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Papirbøker har mva-fritak pga. at de fremmer kultur- og
-kunnskapsspredning.  Digitale bøker uten digitale
-restriksjonsmekanismer (DRM) fremmer kultur- og kunnskapsspredning,
-mens digitale bøker med DRM hindrer kultur og kunnskapsspredning.
-Digitale bøker uten DRM bør få mva-fritak da det er salg av bøker på
-lik linje med salg av papirbøker, mens digitale bøker med DRM ikke bør
-få det da det er utleie av bøker og ikke salg.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg foretrekker å kjøpe bøker, og velger dermed å la være å bruke
-DRM-belastede digitale bøker.  Vet ikke helt hva jeg ville være villig
-til å betale for å leie en bok, men tror ikke det er mange kronene.
-Heldigvis er det mye bøker tilgjengelig uten slike restriksjoner, og
-de som vil ha tak i engelske bøker kan laste ned bøker som er
-tilgjengelig uten bruksbegresninger fra &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/&quot;&gt;The
-Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;. Der er det pr. i dag 1 889 313 bøker
-tilgjengelig. De er tilgjengelig i flere formater. Besøk
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/details/texts&quot;&gt;oversikten over tekster
-der&lt;/a&gt; for å se hva de har.
+&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have done some upgrade testing in Debian, to
+see if the upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze will go smoothly.  A few bugs
+have been discovered and reported in the process
+(&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/585410&quot;&gt;#585410&lt;/a&gt; in nagios3-cgi,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/584879&quot;&gt;#584879&lt;/a&gt; already fixed in
+enscript and &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/584861&quot;&gt;#584861&lt;/a&gt; in
+kdebase-workspace-data), and to get a more regular testing going on, I
+am working on a script to automate the test.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The idea is to create a Lenny chroot and use tasksel to install a
+Gnome or KDE desktop installation inside the chroot before upgrading
+it.  To ensure no services are started in the chroot, a policy-rc.d
+script is inserted.  To make sure tasksel believe it is to install a
+desktop on a laptop, the tasksel tests are replaced in the chroot
+(only acceptable because this is a throw-away chroot).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A naive upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze using aptitude dist-upgrade
+currently always fail because udev refuses to upgrade with the kernel
+in Lenny, so to avoid that problem the file /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade
+is created.  The bug report
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/566000&quot;&gt;#566000&lt;/a&gt; make me suspect
+this problem do not trigger in a chroot, but I touch the file anyway
+to make sure the upgrade go well.  Testing on virtual and real
+hardware have failed me because of udev so far, and creating this file
+do the trick in such settings anyway.  This is a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/failed-dist-upgrade-due-to-udev-config_sysfs_deprecated-nonsense-804130/&quot;&gt;known
+issue&lt;/a&gt; and the current udev behaviour is intended by the udev
+maintainer because he lack the resources to rewrite udev to keep
+working with old kernels or something like that.  I really wish the
+udev upstream would keep udev backwards compatible, to avoid such
+upgrade problem, but given that they fail to do so, I guess
+documenting the way out of this mess is the best option we got for
+Debian Squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Anyway, back to the task at hand, testing upgrades.  This test
+script, which I call &lt;tt&gt;upgrade-test&lt;/tt&gt; for now, is doing the
+trick:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+#!/bin/sh
+set -ex
+
+if [ &quot;$1&quot; ] ; then
+    desktop=$1
+else
+    desktop=gnome
+fi
+
+from=lenny
+to=squeeze
+
+exec &amp;lt; /dev/null
+unset LANG
+mirror=http://ftp.skolelinux.org/debian
+tmpdir=chroot-$from-upgrade-$to-$desktop
+fuser -mv .
+debootstrap $from $tmpdir $mirror
+chroot $tmpdir aptitude update
+cat &gt; $tmpdir/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+exit 101
+EOF
+chmod a+rx $tmpdir/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
+exit_cleanup() {
+    umount $tmpdir/proc
+}
+mount -t proc proc $tmpdir/proc
+# Make sure proc is unmounted also on failure
+trap exit_cleanup EXIT INT
+
+chroot $tmpdir aptitude -y install debconf-utils
+
+# Make sure tasksel autoselection trigger.  It need the test scripts
+# to return the correct answers.
+echo tasksel tasksel/desktop multiselect $desktop | \
+    chroot $tmpdir debconf-set-selections
+
+# Include the desktop and laptop task
+for test in desktop laptop ; do
+    echo &gt; $tmpdir/usr/lib/tasksel/tests/$test &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+exit 2
+EOF
+    chmod a+rx $tmpdir/usr/lib/tasksel/tests/$test
+done
+
+DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND DEBIAN_PRIORITY
+chroot $tmpdir tasksel --new-install
+
+echo deb $mirror $to main &gt; $tmpdir/etc/apt/sources.list
+chroot $tmpdir aptitude update
+touch $tmpdir/etc/udev/kernel-upgrade
+chroot $tmpdir aptitude -y dist-upgrade
+fuser -mv
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I suspect it would be useful to test upgrades with both apt-get and
+with aptitude, but I have not had time to look at how they behave
+differently so far.  I hope to get a cron job running to do the test
+regularly and post the result on the web.  The Gnome upgrade currently
+work, while the KDE upgrade fail because of the bug in
+kdebase-workspace-data&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am not quite sure what kind of extract from the huge upgrade logs
+(KDE 167 KiB, Gnome 516 KiB) it make sense to include in this blog
+post, so I will refrain from trying.  I can report that for Gnome,
+aptitude report 760 packages upgraded, 448 newly installed, 129 to
+remove and 1 not upgraded and 1024MB need to be downloaded while for
+KDE the same numbers are 702 packages upgraded, 507 newly installed,
+193 to remove and 0 not upgraded and 1117MB need to be downloaded&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am very happy to notice that the Gnome desktop + laptop upgrade
+is able to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing and parallel
+booting without a hitch.  Was unsure if there were still bugs with
+packages failing to clean up their obsolete init.d script during
+upgrades, and no such problem seem to affect the Gnome desktop+laptop
+packages.&lt;/p&gt;
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-		<title>Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Lenny released, work continues</title>
-		<link>Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Lenny_released__work_continues.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<title>Skolelinux er laget for sentraldrifting, naturligvis</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_er_laget_for_sentraldrifting__naturligvis.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_er_laget_for_sentraldrifting__naturligvis.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;On Tuesday, the Debian/Lenny based version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; was finally
-shipped.  This was a major leap forward for the project, and I am very
-pleased that we finally got the release wrapped up.  Work on the first
-point release starts imediately, as we plan to get that one out a
-month after the major release, to include all fixes for bugs we found
-and fixed too late in the release process to include last Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it even is time for some partying?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;After this first point release, my plan is to focus again on the
-next major release, based on Squeeze.  We will try to get as many of
-the fixes we need into the official Debian packages before the freeze,
-and have just a few weeks or months to make it happen.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Det er merkelig hvordan myter om Skolelinux overlever.  En slik
+myte er at Skolelinux ikke kan sentraldriftes og ha sentralt plasserte
+tjenermaskiner.  I siste Computerworld Norge er
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article169432.ece&quot;&gt;IT-sjef
+Viggo Billdal i Steinkjer intervjuet&lt;/a&gt;, og forteller uten
+blygsel:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vi hadde Skolelinux, men det har vi sluttet med. Vi testet
+om det lønte seg med Microsoft eller en åpen plattform. Vi fant ut at
+Microsoft egentlig var totalt sett bedre egnet. Det var store
+driftskostnader med Skolelinux, blant annet på grunn av
+desentraliserte servere. Det var komplisert, så vi gikk vekk fra det
+og bruker nå bare Windows.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;En &lt;a
+href=&quot;https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/bruker/2010-June/009101.html&quot;&gt;rask
+sjekk&lt;/a&gt; mot den norske brukerlista i Skolelinuxprosjektet forteller
+at Steinkjers forsøk foregikk fram til 2004/2005, og at Røysing skole
+i Steinkjer skal ha vært svært fornøyd med Skolelinux men at kommunen
+overkjørte skolen og krevde at de gikk over til Windows.  Et søk på
+nettet sendte meg til
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dn.no/multimedia/archive/00090/Dagens_it_nr__18_90826a.pdf&quot;&gt;Dagens
+IT nr. 18 2005&lt;/a&gt; hvor en kan lese på side 18:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inge Tømmerås ved Røysing skole i Steinkjer kjører ennå
+Microsoft, men forteller at kompetanseutfordringen med Skolelinux ikke
+var så stor.  ­ Jeg syntes Skolelinux var utrolig lett å drifte uten
+forkunnskaper. Men man må jo selvsagt ha tilgang på ekstern kompetanse
+til installasjoner og maskinvarefeil, sier Tømmerås.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Som systemarkitekten bak Skolelinux, kan jeg bare riste på hodet
+over påstanden om at Skolelinux krever desentraliserte tjenere.
+Skolelinux-arkitekturen er laget for sentralisert drift og plassering
+av tjenerne lokalt eller sentralt alt etter behov og nettkapasitet.
+Den er modellert på nettverks- og tjenerløsningen som brukes på
+Universitetet i Tromsø og Oslo, der jeg jobber med utvikling av
+driftstjenester.  Dette er det heldigvis noen som har fått med seg, og
+jeg er glad for å kunne sitere fra en kommentar på den overnevnte
+artikkelen.  Min venn og gamle kollega Sturle Sunde forteller der:
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I Flora kommune køyrer vi Skulelinux på skular med alt frå 15 til
+meir enn 500 elevar. Dei store skulane har eigen tenar, for det er
+mest praktisk. Eg, som er driftsansvarleg for heile nettet, ser
+sjeldan dei tenarane fysisk, men at dei står der gjer skulane mindre
+avhengige av eksterne linjer som er trege eller dyre. Dei minste
+skulane har ikkje eigen tenar. Å bruke sentral tenar er heller ikkje
+noko problem. Småskulane klarar seg fint med 1 mbit-linje til ein
+sentral tenar eller tenaren på ein større skule.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det beste med Skulelinux er halvtjukke klientar. Dei treng ikkje
+harddisk og brukar minimalt med ressursar på tenaren fordi dei køyrer
+programma lokalt. Eit klasserom med 30 sju-åtte år gamle maskiner har
+mykje meir CPU og RAM totalt enn nokon moderne tenar til under
+millionen. Det trengst to kommandoar på den sentrale tenaren for å
+oppdatere alle klientane, både tynne og halvtjukke. Vi har ingen
+problem med diskar som ryk heller, som var eit problem før fordi
+elevane sat og sparka i maskinene. Og dei krev lite bandbreidde i
+nettet, so det er fullt mogleg å køyre slike på småskular med trege
+linjer mot tenaren på ein større skule.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Flora kommune har nesten 800 Linux-maskiner i sitt skulenett, og
+ein person som tek seg av drift av heile nettet, inkludert tenarar,
+klientar, operativsystem, programvare, heimekontorløysing og
+administrasjon av brukarar.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;No skal det seiast at vi ikkje køyrer rein Skulelinux ut av
+boksen. Vi har gjort ein del tilpassingar mot noko Novell-greier som
+var der frå før, og som har komplisert installasjonen vår. Etter at
+oppsettet var gjort har løysinga vore stabil og kravd minimalt med
+arbeid.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg vet at Narvik, Harstad og Oslo er kommuner der Skolelinux
+sentraldriftes med sentrale tjenere.  Det forteller meg at Steinkjers
+IT-sjef neppe bør skylde på Skolelinux-løsningen for sine 5 år gamle
+minner.&lt;/p&gt;
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-		<title>Danmark går for ODF?</title>
-		<link>Danmark_g__r_for_ODF_.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">Danmark_g__r_for_ODF_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<title>Upstart or sysvinit - as init.d scripts see it</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Upstart_or_sysvinit___as_init_d_scripts_see_it.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Upstart_or_sysvinit___as_init_d_scripts_see_it.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jun 2010 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;Ble nettopp gjort oppmerksom på en
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.version2.dk/artikel/13690-breaking-odf-vinder-dokumentformat-krigen &quot;&gt;nyhet fra Version2&lt;/a&gt;
-fra Danmark, der det hevdes at Folketinget har vedtatt at ODF skal
-brukes som dokumentutvekslingsformat i Staten.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hyggelig lesning, spesielt hvis det viser seg at de av vedtatt
-kravlisten for hva som skal aksepteres som referert i kommentarfeltet
-til artikkelen og
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.version2.dk/artikel/13693-er-ooxml-doemt-ude-her-er-kravene-til-en-offentlig-dokumentstandard&quot;&gt;en
-annen artikkel&lt;/a&gt; i samme nett-avis.  Liker spesielt godt denne:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; Det skal demonstreres, at standarden i sin helhed kan
-implementeres af alle direkte i sin helhed på flere
-platforme.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Noe slikt burde være et krav også i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If Debian is to migrate to upstart on Linux, I expect some init.d
+scripts to migrate (some of) their operations to upstart job while
+keeping the init.d for hurd and kfreebsd.  The packages with such
+needs will need a way to get their init.d scripts to behave
+differently when used with sysvinit and with upstart.  Because of
+this, I had a look at the environment variables set when a init.d
+script is running under upstart, and when it is not.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;With upstart, I notice these environment variables are set when a
+script is started from rcS.d/ (ignoring some irrelevant ones like
+COLUMNS):&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL=2
+previous=N
+PREVLEVEL=
+RUNLEVEL=
+runlevel=S
+UPSTART_EVENTS=startup
+UPSTART_INSTANCE=
+UPSTART_JOB=rc-sysinit
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;With sysvinit, these environment variables are set for the same
+script.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.88
+previous=N
+PREVLEVEL=N
+RUNLEVEL=S
+runlevel=S
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The RUNLEVEL and PREVLEVEL environment variables passed on from
+sysvinit are not set by upstart.  Not sure if it is intentional or not
+to not be compatible with sysvinit in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For scripts needing to behave differently when upstart is used,
+looking for the UPSTART_JOB environment variable seem to be a good
+choice.&lt;/p&gt;
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-		<title>Automatic Munin and Nagios configuration</title>
-		<link>Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">Automatic_Munin_and_Nagios_configuration.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<title>A manual for standards wars...</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jun 2010 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;One of the new features in the next Debian/Lenny based release of
-Debian Edu/Skolelinux, which is scheduled for release in the next few
-days, is automatic configuration of the service monitoring system
-Nagios.  The previous release had automatic configuration of trend
-analysis using Munin, and this Lenny based release take that a step
-further.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;When installing a Debian Edu Main-server, it is automatically
-configured as a Munin and Nagios server.  In addition, it is
-configured to be a server for the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/SiteSummary&quot;&gt;SiteSummary
-system&lt;/a&gt; I have written for use in Debian Edu.  The SiteSummary
-system is inspired by a system used by the University of Oslo where I
-work.  In short, the system provide a centralised collector of
-information about the computers on the network, and a client on each
-computer submitting information to this collector.  This allow for
-automatic information on which packages are installed on each machine,
-which kernel the machines are using, what kind of configuration the
-packages got etc.  This also allow us to automatically generate Munin
-and Nagios configuration.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;All computers reporting to the sitesummary collector with the
-munin-node package installed is automatically enabled as a Munin
-client and graphs from the statistics collected from that machine show
-up automatically on http://www/munin/ on the Main-server.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;All non-laptop computers reporting to the sitesummary collector are
-automatically monitored for network presence (ping and any network
-services detected).  In addition, all computers (also laptops) with
-the nagios-nrpe-server package installed and configured the way
-sitesummary would configure it, are monitored for full disks, software
-raid status, swap free and other checks that need to run locally on
-the machine.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The result is that the administrator on a school using Debian Edu
-based on Lenny will be able to check the health of his installation
-with one look at the Nagios settings, without having to spend any time
-keeping the Nagios configuration up-to-date.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The only configuration one need to do to get Nagios up and running
-is to set the password used to get access via HTTP.  The system
-administrator need to run &quot;&lt;tt&gt;htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
-nagiosadmin&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; to create a nagiosadmin user and set a password for
-it to be able to log into the Nagios web pages.  After that,
-everything is taken care of.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Via the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/robweir/antic-atom/~3/QzU4RgoAGMg/weekly-links-10.html&quot;&gt;blog
+of Rob Weir&lt;/a&gt; I came across the very interesting essay named
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/wars.pdf&quot;&gt;The Art of
+Standards Wars&lt;/a&gt; (PDF 25 pages).  I recommend it for everyone
+following the standards wars of today.&lt;/p&gt;
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-		<title>Sikkerhet, teater, og hvordan gjøre verden sikrere</title>
-		<link>Sikkerhet__teater__og_hvordan_gj__re_verden_sikrere.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">Sikkerhet__teater__og_hvordan_gj__re_verden_sikrere.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<title>Sitesummary tip: Listing computer hardware models used at site</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;Via Slashdot fant jeg en
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/29/schneier.air.travel.security.theater/index.html&quot;&gt;nydelig
-kommentar fra Bruce Schneier&lt;/a&gt; som ble publisert hos CNN i går.  Den
-forklarer forbilledlig hvorfor sikkerhetsteater og innføring av
-totalitære politistatmetoder ikke er løsningen for å gjøre verden
-sikrere.  Anbefales på det varmeste.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Oppdatering: Kom over
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/5435675/president-obama-its-time-to-fire-the-tsa&quot;&gt;nok
-en kommentar&lt;/a&gt; om den manglende effekten av dagens sikkerhetsteater
-på flyplassene.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible
+to get a list of the machine types in use thanks to the DMI
+information extracted from each machine.  The script to do so is
+included in the sitesummary package, and here is example output from
+the Skolelinux build servers:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+maintainer:~# /usr/lib/sitesummary/hardware-model-summary
+  vendor                    count
+  Dell Computer Corporation     1
+    PowerEdge 1750              1
+  IBM                           1
+    eserver xSeries 345 -[8670M1X]-     1
+  Intel                         2
+  [no-dmi-info]                 3
+maintainer:~#
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The quality of the report depend on the quality of the DMI tables
+provided in each machine.  Here there are Intel machines without model
+information listed with Intel as vendor and mo model, and virtual Xen
+machines listed as [no-dmi-info].  One can add -l as a command line
+option to list the individual machines.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A larger list is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://narvikskolen.no/sitesummary/&quot;&gt;available from the the
+city of Narvik&lt;/a&gt;, which uses Skolelinux on all their shools and also
+provide the basic sitesummary report publicly.  In their report there
+are ~1400 machines. I know they use both Ubuntu and Skolelinux on
+their machines, and as sitesummary is available in both distributions,
+it is trivial to get all of them to report to the same central
+collector.&lt;/p&gt;
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-		<title>Opphavet til Skolelinux-prosjektet</title>
-		<link>Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html</link>
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">Opphavet_til_Skolelinux_prosjektet.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<title>Togsatsing på norsk, mot sykkel</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Togsatsing_p___norsk__mot_sykkel.html</link>
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Togsatsing_p___norsk__mot_sykkel.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 2 Jun 2010 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
 		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;De færreste er klar over at Skolelinux-prosjektet kom som et resultat
-av en avgjørelse på årsmøtet i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; i 2000-06-29, der HÃ¥kon Wium
-Lie, da varamedlem i styret, tok på seg oppdraget om å starte et
-initiativ kalt &quot;Teach the Teacher&quot;, som skulle være et initiativ for
-å få fri programvare og unix-lignende operativsystemer inn i Skolen.
-Tanken var at en måtte starte med lærerne for at ungene skulle få
-mulighet til å møte en bedre IT-hverdag.  Jeg var tilstede på
-møtet, og hadde sans for ideen, men intet skjedde.  På vårparten
-2001 ble det arrangert en demonstrasjon i anledning at First Tuesday
-hadde invitert Microsoft til et møte for å fortelle om fremtidens
-Internet.  Dette provoserte endel av oss, og EFN og NUUG tok initiativ
-til å arrangere
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/60982/first-tuesday-mote-med-microsoft-protest&quot;&gt;en
-demonstrasjon utenfor lokalene 2001-05-21&lt;/a&gt;.  Blant de som sto bak
-demonstrasjonen var Vidar Bakke fra NUUG og HÃ¥kon W. Lie fra EFN.
-Etter demonstrasjonen arrangerte HÃ¥kon en fest hjemme hos seg der alle
-som hadde vært aktive i demonstrasjonsplanlegging og gjennomføringen
-deltok.  Før festen var jeg blitt lei av å vente på at Håkon skulle ta
-initiativ til &quot;Teach the Teacher&quot;, og for å forsøke å få litt fremgang
-besteme jeg meg for å benytte anledningen hos Håkon til å snakke om
-behovet for å hjelpe skolene i gang med bedre datasystemer bestående
-av fri programvare og unix-lignende operativsystemer.  Flere var
-interessert, og Knut Yrvin tenkte på ideen.  Han
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.skolelinux.no/brev/2001-06-28-invitasjon-skolelinux.txt&quot;&gt;ropte
-sammen&lt;/a&gt; til et stiftelsesmøte i prosjektet i sin arbeidsgivers
-Objectwares lokaler ved Ullevål stadion 2001-07-02, og jeg ble med.
-Resten er historie. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Det står dårlig til med toget når en finner på å la det
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3677060.ece&quot;&gt;kappkjøre
+med sykkel&lt;/a&gt;...  Jeg tror det trengs strukturendringer for å få
+fikset på togproblemene i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Mon tro hva toglinje mellom Narvik og Tromsø ville hatt slags
+effekt på området der?&lt;/p&gt;
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