It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to +
Entries from June 2010.
+ +It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to start at boot when an NVidia video card is used is handled. The problem seem to be that the nvidia X.org driver uses a long time to initialize, and this duration is longer than kdm is configured to @@ -54,28 +53,26 @@ but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.
I wonder why we end up handling bugs this way.
-Det står dårlig til med toget når en finner på å la det +
Det står dårlig til med toget når en finner på å la det kappkjøre med sykkel... Jeg tror det trengs strukturendringer for å få fikset på togproblemene i Norge.
@@ -83,28 +80,26 @@ fikset på togproblemene i Norge.Mon tro hva toglinje mellom Narvik og Tromsø ville hatt slags effekt på området der?
-When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible +
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 @@ -124,7 +119,7 @@ maintainer:~#
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 +information listed with Intel as vendor and no model, and virtual Xen machines listed as [no-dmi-info]. One can add -l as a command line option to list the individual machines.
@@ -137,56 +132,52 @@ 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. -Via the blog of Rob Weir I came across the very interesting essay named The Art of Standards Wars (PDF 25 pages). I recommend it for everyone following the standards wars of today.
-If Debian is to migrate to upstart on Linux, I expect some init.d +
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 @@ -228,28 +219,26 @@ to not be compatible with sysvinit in this regard.
looking for the UPSTART_JOB environment variable seem to be a good choice. -Det er merkelig hvordan myter om Skolelinux overlever. En slik +
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 IT-sjef @@ -327,28 +316,26 @@ sentraldriftes med sentrale tjenere. Det forteller meg at Steinkjers IT-sjef neppe bør skylde på Skolelinux-løsningen for sine 5 år gamle minner.
-The last few days I have done some upgrade testing in Debian, to +
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 (#585410 in nagios3-cgi, @@ -468,28 +455,26 @@ packages failing to clean up their obsolete init.d script during upgrades, and no such problem seem to affect the Gnome desktop+laptop packages.
-Veldig glad for å oppdage via +
Veldig glad for å oppdage via Slashdot 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 @@ -504,34 +489,32 @@ 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 +forståelse for. En kan ikke la 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.
-My testing of Debian upgrades from Lenny to Squeeze continues, and I've finally made the upgrade logs available from @@ -700,28 +683,26 @@ continue.
xulrunner-1.9 -For those of us caring about document exchange and +
For those of us caring about document exchange and interoperability, OfficeShots is a great service. It is to ODF documents what BrowserShots is for web @@ -744,28 +725,26 @@ OfficeShots factories, and the project is able to render ODF documents in 17 different document processing implementation on Linux and Windows. This is great.
-Dagbladet melder 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 @@ -800,28 +779,26 @@ betalingsmidler uten hensyn til denne klausul.
kontakt betaling. Det er en lov jeg har sans for, og som jeg mener må håndheves strengt. -A few times I have had the need to simulate the way tasksel +
A few times I have had the need to simulate the way tasksel installs packages during the normal debian-installer run. Until now, I have ended up letting tasksel do the work, with the annoying problem of not getting any feedback at all when something fails (like a @@ -863,28 +840,26 @@ installation.
install packages without using debconf-apt-progress, for use cases like this. -A while back, I +
A while back, I complained about the fact that it is not possible with the provided schemas for storing DNS and DHCP information in LDAP to combine the two sets @@ -927,28 +902,26 @@ package, and should thus be free to rewrite it as we see fit.
If you want to help out with implementing this for Debian Edu, please contact us on debian-edu@lists.debian.org.
-The last few days I have been looking into the status of the LDAP +
The last few days I have been looking into the status of the LDAP directory in Debian Edu, and in the process I started to miss a GUI tool to browse the LDAP tree. The only one I was able to find in Debian/Squeeze and Lenny is @@ -979,25 +952,41 @@ useful GUI alternative. It seem like a good tool, but is unmaintained in Debian and got a RC bug keeping it out of Squeeze. Unless that changes, it will not be an option for Debian Edu based on Squeeze.
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