X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/ef311601a5b41695f4985e2399216f47d1e9ae8f..4f753f98b29463d262e20b4faba8cfa1ae3c0a07:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 9d9e5f83b6..11a0f0d177 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -7,510 +7,521 @@ - Faktasjekk: Trond Giske hevder Henry Ford sa at hvis du spør folk hva de vil ha så svarer de ”en større hest” - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Faktasjekk__Trond_Giske_hevder_Henry_Ford_sa_at_hvis_du_sp_r_folk_hva_de_vil_ha_s__svarer_de__en_st_rre_hest_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Faktasjekk__Trond_Giske_hevder_Henry_Ford_sa_at_hvis_du_sp_r_folk_hva_de_vil_ha_s__svarer_de__en_st_rre_hest_.html - Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:06:17 GMT - <p>Næringsminister Trond Giske er av -<a href="http://www.dn.no/forsiden/naringsliv/article2361916.ece">Dagens -Næringsliv</a> i dag sitert på å ha sagt følgende:</p> + HTC One X - Your video? What do you mean? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html + Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:20:00 +0200 + <p>In <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece">an +article today</a> published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer +<a href="http://www.urke.com/eirik/">Eirik Helland Urke</a> reports +that the video editor application included with +<a href="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs">HTC One +X</a> have some quite surprising terms of use. The article is mostly +based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating: <p><blockquote> -Henry Ford sa at hvis du spør folk hva de vil ha så svarer de ”en -større hest” +"<a href="http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280">Drøy +brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv +kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat</a>" </blockquote></p> -<p>Det syntes jeg var en så merkelig ting for Henry Ford å si at jeg -sjekket litt rundt sitatet. Det Giske ser ut til å feilsitere, er et -sitat kreditert Henry Ford som lyder "If I had asked people what they -wanted, they would have said faster horses". Altså ikke større hest, -men raskere hester.</p> - -<p>I følge -<a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/henry_ford_never_said_the_fast.html">Patrick -Vlaskovits i en blogg</a> i Stanford Business Review, har Henry Ford -aldri sagt dette, og den tidligste referansen han klarte å finne til -sitatet er en bok fra 2002. Jeg finner -<a href="http://280group.com/blog/?p=1443">andre kilder</a> som også -hevder at det ikke er påvist at Henry Ford faktisk har uttalt at -kundene ville bedt om raskere hester .</p> - -<p>Konklusjonen min blir at Trond Giske ikke har fakta på sin side når -det gjelder dette sitatet. Med forbehold om at journalisten i Dagens -Næringsliv skrev det som ble sagt, og ikke det journalisten hørte.</p> +<p>I quickly translated it to this English message:</p> + +<p><blockquote> +"Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos +commercially. Although I can ONLY use them privately." +</blockquote></p> + +<p>I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but +suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">discovered +with my Canon IXUS 130</a>. The HTC One X specification specifies that +the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for +video. AMR is +<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues">Adaptive +Multi-Rate audio codec</a> with patents which according to the +Wikipedia article require an license agreement with +<a href="http://www.voiceage.com/">VoiceAge</a>. MP4 is +<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing">MPEG4 with +H.264</a>, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement +with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com/">MPEG-LA</a>.</p> + +<p>I know why I prefer +<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and open +standards</a> also for video.</p> - Debian Edu screencast: Checking email with kmail using Kerberos authentication - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html - Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0200 - <!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html --> - -<p>The same Debian Edu developer that did the last screen cast I -published, Wolfgang Schweer, has created a new screen cast showing how -to set up Kmail in Debian Edu Squeze to authenticate using Kerberos, -allowing users to check their local email account without providing -any password. The video is embedded here in quarter size, -and also available from <a href="https://vimeo.com/38601767">vimeo</a> -and download as a -<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg -Theora</a> file. Check it out below.</p> - -<p><video id="kmail-kerberos-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls> - <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' /> - <p>Download video as - <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p> -</video></p> + Holder de ord og NUUG lanserer testtjeneste med stortingsinformasjon + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html + Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:45:00 +0200 + <p>I +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_har_mine_representanter_stemt_i_Storinget_.html">januar +i fjor</a> startet vi i NUUG arbeid med å gjøre informasjon om hvem +som har stemt hva på <a href="http://www.stortinget.no/">Stortinget</a> +enklere tilgjengelig. I løpet av få måneder fant vi sammen med +organisasjonen <a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/">Holder de ord</a> +som arbeidet mot et lignende mål.</p> + +<p>Siden den gang har vi fått tak i maskinelt lesbart informasjon om +hvem som stemte hva mellom 1990 og våren 2010, og tilgang til +stortingets nye datatjeneste som har informasjon fra høsten 2011 til i +dag. Det gjenstår litt arbeid med det første datasettet, men +datasettet fra høsten 2011 er klart til bruk. Begge datasettene er +tilgjengelig <a href="https://gitorious.org/nuug/folketingparser">via +git</a>.</p> + +<p>På +<a href="http://www.goopen.no/holder-de-ord-datadrevet-oppfolging-av-politiske-lofter/">Go Open</a> i morgen lanserer +NUUG sammen med Holder de ord <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/">en +test-tjeneste</a> som viser hva som er og blir behandlet på Stortinget og +hvem som har stemt hva siden oktober i fjor. Du får herved mulighet +til å ta en sniktitt.</p> - Større PC-tetthet i skolen med Skolelinux? - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html - Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:25:00 +0100 - <p>Den siste uka har det vært en del skriverier om hvor store -forskjeller det er mellom skolene når det gjelder digital kompetanse. -Et eksempel er -<a href="http://www.digi.no/891660/bekymret-for-it-i-skolen">oppslaget -i Digi</a>. Diskusjonen fikk meg til å bli litt nysgjerrig på om -Linux-skoler har større PC-tettet enn snittet i landet. Grunnlaget -for diskusjonen har vært undersøkelsen -<a href="https://iktsenteret.no/ressurser/monitor-2011-skolens-digitale-tilstand">Monitor -2011</a>, som bruker informasjon fra -<a href="https://www.wis.no/gsi">Grunnskolens Informasjonssystem</a> -(GSI). GSI-data kan lastes ned fra web og jeg lastet ned en Excel-fil -(intet åpen standard-valg tilgjengelig) med navn på alle skoler, -hvilke kommune de befinner seg i og hvor mange elever pr. elev-PC de -har rapportert inn. For å få en ide om svaret trenger jeg deretter å -vite hvilke skoler i landet som bruker Linux, slik at jeg kan slå dem -opp i GSI og finne ut hvor stor PC-tetthet de har.</p> - -<p>Jeg vet om skoler i Balsfjord, Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik, -Nittedal, Nord-Odal, Randaberg og Sunndal som bruker Skolelinux eller -andre Linux-varianter. Jeg tror det er flere enn de 56 skolene jeg -har klart å identifisere de siste dagene, men har ikke klart å få det -bekreftet med offentlige kilder.</p> - -<p>Monitor 2011-rapporteres side 95 forteller at det "ifølge GSI -(20120-2011) er det 3,11 elever per datamaskin når vi tar med alle -grunnskoler (1.-10.trinn)". For de 56 Linux-skolene jeg har klart å -koble mot informasjon i GSI er det 2,28 elever per elevdatamaskin, -hvilket betyr at det er 36% høyere PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler enn -landsgjennomsnittet. Linux-skolen med høyest tettet blant de jeg har -notert -skole er Flora ungdomsskule i Flora kommune med 0.82 elev -pr. PC (482 elever, 588 elevdatamaskiner).</p> - -<p>Skolelinux gir datamaskiner lengre levetid, og en kan dermed få -flere operative datamaskiner for samme budsjett, i tillegg til en -rekke andre fordeler. Kan det være forklaringen på forskjellen?</p> - -<p>Tallene må tas med en liten klype, da GSI ser ut til å ha endel -feilføringer. Jeg synes i hvert fall en skole med 423 elever og 9 -elevmaskiner ser mistenkelig ut. Eller en skole med 346 elever, 0 -elevmaskiner, som er et annet ekstremt eksempel jeg fant.</p> - -<p>Takk til Sturle Sunde, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Ole-Anders Andreassen og -Trond Mæhlum for innspill om skoler med Linux.</p> + RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html + Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:20:00 +0200 + <p>Here in Norway, the +<a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad.html?id=339"> Ministry of +Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs</a> is behind +a <a href="http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder">directory of +standards</a> that are recommended or mandatory for use by the +government. When the directory was created, the people behind it made +an effort to ensure that everyone would be able to implement the +standards and compete on equal terms to supply software and solutions +to the government. Free software and non-free software could compete +on the same level.</p> + +<p>But recently, some standards with RAND +(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing">Reasonable +And Non-Discriminatory</a>) terms have made their way into the +directory. And while this might not sound too bad, the fact is that +standard specifications with RAND terms often block free software from +implementing them. The reasonable part of RAND mean that the cost per +user/unit is low,and the non-discriminatory part mean that everyone +willing to pay will get a license. Both sound great in theory. In +practice, to get such license one need to be able to count users, and +be able to pay a small amount of money per unit or user. By +definition, users of free software do not need to register their use. +So counting users or units is not possible for free software projects. +And given that people will use the software without handing any money +to the author, it is not really economically possible for a free +software author to pay a small amount of money to license the rights +to implement a standard when the income available is zero. The result +in these situations is that free software are locked out from +implementing standards with RAND terms.</p> + +<p>Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a +standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is +how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory. Because free +software developers are working in a global market, it does not really +help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable +in Norway. The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here. +I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more +attention to these issues in the future.</p> + +<p>You can find more on the issues with RAND, FRAND and RAND-Z terms +from Simon Phipps +(<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/11/rand-not-so-reasonable/">RAND: +Not So Reasonable?</a>).</p> + +<p>Update 2012-04-21: Just came across a +<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/of-microsoft-netscape-patents-and-open-standards/index.htm">blog +post from Glyn Moody</a> over at Computer World UK warning about the +same issue, and urging people to speak out to the UK government. I +can only urge Norwegian users to do the same for +<a href="http://www.standard.difi.no/hoyring/hoyring-om-nye-anbefalte-it-standarder">the +hearing taking place at the moment</a> (respond before 2012-04-27). +It proposes to require video conferencing standards including +specifications with RAND terms.</p> + + + + + Forskning: "GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker" + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html + Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0200 + <p>Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over +<a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309">en +hovedfagsoppgave</a> ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien +av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer. Jeg ble fascinert +over det som presenteres der. Her er sammendraget:</p> + +<p><blockquote> + +<p>Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring +over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det +økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg +for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på +fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover +økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri +programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.</p> + +<p>Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert +programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid +programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning, +disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de +manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven +er:</p> + +<ul> +<li>Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?</li> +<li>Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? </li> +</ul> + +<p>Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og +modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom +kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med +frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i +dialog med informantene.</p> + +<p>Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige +ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen +for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus +fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske +delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler +operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken +OpenOffice.org.</p> + +<p>Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling +av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom +begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt +vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de +økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og +stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som +omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien +til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall +eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken +inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og +formater.</p> + +<p>Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er +laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av +OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i +skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt +symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i +Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode, +mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske +friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også +slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».</p> +</blockquote></p> + +<p>Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke +komplett oppgave tilgjengelig. På tide å holde et øye med +<a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux">Skolelinux-søket</a> +til DUO...</p> + - Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html - Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:15:00 +0100 - <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> -users are spread all across the globe. The second inteview after -<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">the -Squeeze release</a> was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and -long time Linux user in United Kingdom.</p> + Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html + Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:10:00 +0200 + <p>Behind <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and +Skolelinux</a> there are a lot of people doing the hard work of +setting together all the pieces. This time I present to you Andreas +Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several +years. He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set +up in the recently released +<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian +Edu Squeeze</a> version.</p> <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p> -<p>I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings -Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical -author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also -contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of -encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six -years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we -weren't able to convert many of them into sustainable -installations.</p> +<p>My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany. After +studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in +Quantum Optics. After that I worked some years in an optics company. +Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started +teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school. I teach math, physics, +information technology and science/technology.</p> <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu project?</strong></p> -<p>Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in -London which I attended. However at that time our school network had -just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came -along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a -mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as -well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems -have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the -LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all -these things we decided to try it.</p> +<p>Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu +project because of my interest in education and Debian. Within the +qualification/training period for the teaching, I started +contributing.</p> <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?</strong></p> -<p>By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart -from that I have always believed in the same "sustainable computing" -goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which -would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and -low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know -that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25 -Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had -proprietary software everywhere.</p> +<p>The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the +out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the +Debian Project!</p> <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?</strong></p> -<p>As a newcomer I'm just finding out who's who in the community and -how you're organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with -various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only -English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as -users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!</p> +<p>As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its +downside, too. In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the +setup, if you need or want that. Further more, it is not easily +possible to upgrade the system to a new release. It takes much too +long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps +because the number of developers working on the core of the code is +rather small and often busy elsewhere.</p> + +<p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN">Debian LAN</a> +project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.</p> <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p> -<p>Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba, -OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the -desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I -use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I'm not sure if -that counts...)</p> +<p>I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian +on all my machines. For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then +mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing. At school I +have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.</p> <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to get schools to use free software?</strong></p> -<p>That's a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed -and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels -the notion of "computer" means simply "proprietary office -applications". However, schools today are experiencing budget -constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows -XP. At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use -iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no -longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last -realised that we need people with programming skills, so they're -putting coding back in the curriculum! And it's encouraging that the -first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.</p> - -<p>I don't really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use -free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian -Edu users in this country has to be part of it.</p> +<p>One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom: +Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and +politicians, this works out great for the "market-leader". The school +administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor. +Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats. Even +free browsers do not work for the school administration. Publishers +of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.</p> + +<p>To change this, political work is very important. Parts of the +political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years. +However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to 'free' +the system. There is currently some discussion about "Open Data" and +"Free/Open Standards". I am not sure if all the involved parties have +a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a +fraction takes them seriously. However it might slowly make free +software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.</p> - Writing and translating documentation in Debian Edu - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html - Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:55:00 +0100 - <p>Documentation in Debian Edu is provided in several languages, and -it is important to make it both easy to contribute and to keep the -translated versions in sync. To do this we have come up with what we -believe is a very efficient work flow.</p> - -<ol> - -<li>The documentation is written in a -<a href="http://moinmo.in">moinmoin wiki</a> (see for example -<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">the -Squeeze release manual</a>) with support for exporting the content as -docbook XML.</li> - -<li>This docbook document is given to po4a to extract a gettext style -.pot file with the content, which in turn is used to create .po files -with the translated text.</li> - -<li>The .po files are given to translators, and they can always tell -which part of the original wiki document is new or changed. They can -use their normal translation tools like lokalize or poedit to write -the translation. There is even a system in place to handle translated -images.</li> - -<li>The translated .po files are combined with the original docbook -XML document using po4a to create a translated docbook document.</li> - -<li>The final step is to use all the generated docbook files and -create PDF and HTML version of the original and translated documents.</li> - -</ol> - -<p>This setup work very well, but have a few issues. The biggest -issue is that <a href="http://moinmo.in/DocBook">the docbook support -we use in moinmoin</a> is not actively maintained. The docbook -support is also buggy, and our build system contain workarounds to -make sure the generated docbook is usable despite these bugs.</p> - -<p>If you want to have a look at our setup, it is all there in the -<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-doc">debian-edu-doc -package</a>.</p> + Jeg skal på konferansen Go Open 2012 + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html + Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:30:00 +0200 + <p>Jeg har tenkt meg på konferansen <a href="http://www.goopen.no/">Go +Open 2012</a> i Oslo 23. april. +<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Medlemsforeningen NUUG</a> deler ut +<a href="http://www.nuug.no/prisen/">prisen for fremme av fri +programvare i Norge</a> der i år. Kommer du?</p> - NUUG-presentasjon: Skolelinux - ferdig oppsatt skolenettløsning - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html - Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:55:00 +0100 - <p>I dag presenterte jeg ny versjon av Skolelinux for NUUGs medlemmer. -<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/20120313-skolelinux-squeeze.html">Lysark</a> -er tilgjengelige allerede og -<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">video-opptak</a> -kommer så snart videogruppa til NUUG får publisert den. Jeg kom på -endel punkter om nye ting i Squeeze-utgaven under veis som jeg burde -hatt med, og har sikkert skrevet noe tull på lysarkene som jeg ennå -ikke har oppdaget. Denne presentasjonen ble smurt ihop på veldig kort -tid, og jeg rakk ikke finpusse den. Håper den kan være lærerik -likevel.</p> + Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html + Sun, 8 Apr 2012 10:50:00 +0200 + <p>It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution +like <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>, +and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big +contributor to the +<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian +Edu Squeeze release manual</a>. + +<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p> + +<p>I'm a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has +occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.</p> + +<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu +project?</strong></p> + +<p>I'm neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user! The only +reason my name's in the credits for the documentation is that I hang +around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things +they'd like a native English speaker to proofread... So I did a sweep +through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of +"localisation".</p> + +<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?</strong></p> + +<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?</strong></p> + +<p>These questions are too hard for me - I don't use it! In fact I +had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I'd got out of the +education system.</p> + +<p>I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up +as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do +everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend +money on the latest hardware.</p> + +<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p> + +<p>I've been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the +software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other +words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).</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, I don't know. I suppose I'd be inclined to try reasoning +with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked +you would hardly need a strategy.</p> - Skolelinux-intervju: Kåre Nordby - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html - Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:10:00 +0100 - <p>Første ut i serien med intervjuer av folk i -<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-miljøet etter at -<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">ny -versjon av Skolelinux</a> ble lansert i helga, er nylig valgte -styremedlem i foreningen -<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">Fri programvare i -Skolen</a> (FRiSK) som organiserer -Skolelinux-utviklingen og daglig leder i -<a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a>, selskapet -prosjektet opprettet som et tilbud til skoler som ønsket en -kommersiell samarbeidsparter. Det bør nevnes at jeg er styremedlem i -Skolelinux Drift AS og styreleder i selskapets hovedeier stiftelsen -<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/">SLX Debian Labs</a> -som beskytter verdiene til Skolelinux-prosjektet, og kjenner Kåre den -veien.</p> - -<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p> - -<p>Jeg har siden januar 2010 vært daglig leder i Skolelinux Drift AS, -som leverer support, installasjon, tilpasning, drift, og opplæring på -Debian Edu / Skolelinux. Fra 2012 er jeg valgt inn som styremedlem i -FRiSK. Min forrige jobb var som KAM i Redpill Linpro (som er en av -eierne i Skolelinux Drift). Før det var jeg daglig leder i et eget 7 -manns konsulent selskap som også startet med fri programvare mot -slutten.</p> - -<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p> - -<p>Jeg hørte om det først når jeg jobbet i Redpill Linpro. Men jeg -har også en datter som går på en friskole, som også bruker Skolelinux. -Som kjent har ikke friskoler de samme økonomiske rammebetingelsene som -offentlige skoler, så for dem var det det absolutt beste alternativet. -De anser også Skolelinux som et stabilt system, som bare går og går (i -motsetning til det lille Windows-baserte nettverket de har på -admin-siden).</p> - -<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p> - -<p>Sentralisert drift av tynne og diskløse arbeidsstasjoner. Således -lydløse og raskere arbeidsstasjoner som er bedre i klasserommet. -Lengre levetid på PC'er. Store besparelser på maskinvare og drift. Og -så klart fjerning av alle lisenskostnader. Personlig synes jeg også at -mange av programmene er bedre enn alternativene. Men dette er ofte en -smakssak og avhengig om man må ha det man er vant til fra før.</p> - -<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p> - -<p>For lite kjentskap til løsningen. Noen ganger for dårlig -kompatibilitet med arbeidsstasjoners/bærbare maskiner sine -nettverksdrivere eller skjermkort. Men dette løser vi i skolene ved -standardisering. Ellers er det få, om nesten ingen, av de kjente -maskinvare / infrastruktur leverandørene til fylkes- / kommuner som -tilbyr denne plattformen. Skal dette endre seg så må kommunene selv -sette slike krav til leverandørene.</p> - -<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p> - -<p>Har brukt OpenOffice.org siden starten (2001 ?), Kun Linux på -desktop siden 2005. Bruker i dag Kubuntu, Libreoffice og ymse annet -programvare til ulik kontorbruk som er lett å installere / teste via -alle programarkivene som finnes.</p> - -<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få -skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p> - -<p>Fortsette å presentere flere av de gode eksemplene hvor Debian Edu -/ Skolelinux brukes i kommuner og enkeltskoler. Vi må få bedre frem -at det er mulig tilknytte både Windows og Mac klienter på denne -plattformen (selv om det vil øke driftskostnadene). Dette gjøres -mange steder. Spesielt er det mange lærere som ønsker å bruke -Windows/Mac-bærbare, gjerne som sin private PC også. Det er også mulig -for kommunen å integrere med Active Directory i stedet for OpenLDAP -som kommer med ut av boksen (selv om også dette øker kostnadene). -Dette vil muligens bidra til å fjerne noe motstand hos noen -potensielle brukere / driftpersonell for å ta i bruk noe -nytt. Fremveksten av mobile brukere og nettbrett går i vår favør. -Brukerne blir kjent og vant til flere nye operativsystemer / -brukergrensesnitt. Så utviklerfellesskapet bør jobbe videre med å -integrere flere nye klienttyper, som ultra lav-kostklienter og -nettbrett (blant annet fri programvare-alternativet -<a href="http://makeplaylive.com/">Spark</a> med -<a href="http://www.merproject.org/">Mer OS</a> og -<a href="http://plasma-active.org/">KDE Active Plasma</a>).</p> + Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html + Fri, 6 Apr 2012 22:40:00 +0200 + <p>Recently I have spent time with +<a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a> on speeding +up a <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> +Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the +process I discovered something very surprising. The reason the KDE +menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly +due to the way KDE find application icons. I discovered that showing +the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be +passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server. Most of these were + +NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response. Because the +ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20 +ms, the menus would be very slow. Looking at the strace of kicker in +Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that +the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for +non-existing files. KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find +one icon file. In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required +around 230 access(2) calls.</p> + +<p>The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon +directories, and the list of possible directories is large. In +(almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg +and .xpm. The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS +mounted. Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS +requests. I am not the first one to discover this. I found a +<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416">KDE bug report +from 2009</a> about this problem, and it is still unsolved.</p> + +<p>My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package +kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files +used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths +for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the +icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/. Finally, I add symlinks to +these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look +for them. This cut down the number of file accesses required to find +one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu +almost instantaneous. I'm not quite sure where to make the package +publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.</p> + +<p>The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu +and icon handling, but also the login process. Not quite sure how to +speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and +that is not really an option at the moment.</p> + +<p>If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu +(at) lists.debian.org.</p> - Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze is out! - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html - Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:00:00 +0100 - <p>This weekend we finally published the first stable release of -<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a> based -on Debian/Squeeze. The full announcement is -<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">available</a> -from the project announcement list. Now is a good time to test if it -you have not done so already.</p> - -<p>I plan to present the new version at -<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">a NUUG -meeting</a> on tuesday. I look forward to seeing you there if you are -in Oslo, Norway.</p> + Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html + Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:00:00 +0200 + <p>About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about +<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a> by +Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News. The result was made public for +non-subscribers today. I am pleased to see liked our Linux solution +for schools. Check out his article +<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/">Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A +distribution for education</a> if you want to learn more.</p> - Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html - Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100 - <p>Inspired by <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/">the -interview series</a> conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian -interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux -community. This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a -more international audience.</p> - -<p>While <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and -Skolelinux</a> originated in France and Norway, and have most users in -Europe, there are users all around the globe. One of those far away -from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator -and contributor. It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to -work out of the box in Japan. I got him to answer a few questions, -and am happy to share the response with you. :) - + Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html + Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0200 + <p>Germany is a core area for the +<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a> +user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang +Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany. <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p> -<p>My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko, -and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT -Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a -teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics, -Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but -I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches -primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person, -so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster, -also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python -to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really -appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.</p> +<p>I've studied Mathematics at the university 'Ruhr-Universität' in +Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I'm working as a teacher at the school +"<a href="http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/">Westfalen-Kolleg +Dortmund</a>", a second chance school. Here, young adults is given +the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school +examination 'Abitur', which will allow to study at a university. This +second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective +or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.</p> + +<p>Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a +blended learning project called 'abitur-online.nrw' and in some other +information technology related projects. For about ten years I've been +teacher and coordinator for the 'abitur-online' project at my +school. Being now in my early sixties, I've decided to leave school at +the end of April this year.</p> <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu project?</strong></p> -<p>In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a -server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central -samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered -Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn't really improve my setup. I -did various desperate searches for things like "school Linux server" -and ended up in a document called "Drift" something or other. Reading -there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my -problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my -previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used -Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I -downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the -Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and -my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.</p> +<p>The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my +attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server +Project). At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997 +using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since +2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin +clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of +reach. At home I'm using Debian since years and - subscribed to the +Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About +two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only +known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system: +Skolelinux.</p> + +<p>Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a +better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin +clients. The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI +was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI +and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for +the admin teachers.</p> <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?</strong></p> -<p>For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the -workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured -ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is -designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who -doesn't necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian -school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with -Japan.</p> +<p>It's open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it's +Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented! +So it was a perfect choice.</p> + +<p>Being open source, there are no license problems and so it's +possible to point teachers and students to programs like +OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp. It's of +high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of +a school and to choose where to get support for this.</p> <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?</strong></p> -<p>The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who -have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who -make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people -who don't need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be -important to the school. School administrators or directors, for -instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly -default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some -kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and -Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is. A -second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to -customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required -multiplies. For example, backup wasn't working properly in Lenny. It -took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups. -I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will -help.</p> +<p>Nothing yet.</p> <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p> -<p>Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for -studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux -(customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop -still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my -house, that's very useful for the family photos and music. At school -the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still -have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every -day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are -installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS. We also -have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution -and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.</p> +<p>At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice, +Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF +Annotator). At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit, +LibreOffice.</p> <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to get schools to use free software?</strong></p> -<p>Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry, -and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the -popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have -to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about -file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago. The Edu aspect is -also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the -Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu? But of course the main attraction is -budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not -compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That -is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People -are not impressed when their USB drive doesn't work, or their browser -doesn't play flash, for example.</p> - - - - - Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html - Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:40:00 +0100 - <!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html --> - -<p>One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a -screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on -Debian Edu Squeeze. The video is embedded here in quarter size, and -also available from <a href="http://vimeo.com/37675399">vimeo</a> and -download as a -<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg -Theora</a> file. Check it out below.</p> - -<p><video id="gosa-mass-user-create-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls> - <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' /> - <p>Download video as - <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p> -</video></p> +<p>Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But +that doesn't seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more +interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.</p>