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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from February 2014</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from February 2014</description>
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  10                 <title>Lenker for 2014-02-28</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese de siste
  15 månedene.  Det er mye om varsleren Edward Snowden, som burde få all
  16 hjelp, støtte og beskyttelse Norge kan stille opp med for å ha satt
  17 totalitær overvåkning på sakskartet, men også endel annet
  18 tankevekkende og interessant.&lt;/p&gt;
  19
  20 &lt;ul&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-21
  23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/21/nyheter/thomas_drake/nsa/overvakning/snowden/30925886/&quot;&gt;-
  24 NSA tenker som Stasi&lt;/a&gt; - Dagbladet.no&lt;/li&gt;
  25
  26 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagensit.no/article2732734.ece&quot;&gt;-
  27 Staten har ikke rett til å vite alt om deg&lt;/a&gt; - DN.no&lt;/li&gt;
  28
  29 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-21
  30 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/21/nyheter/krig_og_konflikter/politikk/utenriks/30961126/&quot;&gt;Nye
  31 mål for NSAs spionasje avslørt&lt;/a&gt; - Dagbladet.no&lt;/li&gt;
  32
  33 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-19
  34 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/19/nyheter/nsa/usa/politikk/barack_obama/30918684/&quot;&gt;«NSA
  35 bør fjernes fra sin makt til å samle inn metadata fra amerikanske
  36 telefonsamtaler»&lt;/a&gt; - Dagbladet.no&lt;/li&gt;
  37
  38 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-18
  39 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/18/kultur/meninger/hovedkronikk/debatt/snowden/30901089/&quot;&gt;Etterretning,
  40 overvåking, frihet og sikkerhet&lt;/a&gt; - Dagbladet.no&lt;/li&gt;
  41
  42 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-17
  43 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/verden/snowden-vil-ha-asyl-i-brasil-1.11423444&quot;&gt;Snowden
  44 angriper USA i åpent brev&lt;/a&gt; - nrk.no&lt;/li&gt;
  45
  46 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-17
  47 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/925820/rettslig-nederlag-for-etterretning&quot;&gt;Rettslig
  48 nederlag for etterretning&lt;/a&gt; - digi.no&lt;/li&gt;
  49
  50 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-21
  51 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/21/kultur/meninger/hovedkommentar/kommentar/etterretning/30963284/&quot;&gt;Truende
  52 nedkjøling&lt;/a&gt; - dagbladet.no&lt;/li&gt;
  53
  54 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-20
  55 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Matematikk-og-forstaelse-7411849.html&quot;&gt;Matematikk
  56 og forståelse&lt;/a&gt; - aftenposten.no&lt;/li&gt;
  57
  58 &lt;li&gt;2013-10-20
  59 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/viten/ny-studie_sovn-reinser-hjernen-var-1.11306106&quot;&gt;Vi
  60 søv for å reinse hjernen vår, ifølgje ny studie&lt;/a&gt; - nrk.no&lt;/li&gt;
  61
  62 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-11
  63 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/buskerud/julebaksten-i-vasken-1.11410033&quot;&gt;Rotterace
  64 i kloakken&lt;/a&gt; - nrk.no&lt;/li&gt;
  65
  66 &lt;li&gt;2013-12-30
  67 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Apne-brev-og-frie-tanker-7413734.html&quot;&gt;Åpne
  68 brev og frie tanker&lt;/a&gt; - aftenposten.no&lt;/li&gt;
  69
  70 &lt;li&gt;2014-01-12
  71 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Stopp-kunnskapsapartheidet-7428229.html&quot;&gt;Stopp dagens kunnskapsapartheid!&lt;/a&gt; - aftenposten.no&lt;/li&gt;
  72
  73 &lt;li&gt;2014-01-09
  74 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/EU-rapport-Britisk-og-amerikansk-overvaking-ser-ut-til-a-vare-ulovlig-7428933.html&quot;&gt;EU-rapport:
  75 Britisk og amerikansk overvåking ser ut til å være ulovlig&lt;/a&gt; -
  76 aftenposten.no&lt;/li&gt;
  77
  78 &lt;li&gt;2013-10-23 Professor Jan Arild Audestad
  79 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/924008/advarer-mot-konspirasjonsteori&quot;&gt;Advarer
  80 mot konspirasjonsteori&lt;/a&gt; i digi.no og sier han ikke tror NSA kan
  81 avlytte mobiltelefoner, mens han noen måneder senere forteller:&lt;/li&gt;
  82
  83 &lt;li&gt;2014-01-09
  84 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/--Vi-ble-presset-til-a-svekke-mobilsikkerheten-pa-80-tallet-7410467.html&quot;&gt;-
  85 Vi ble presset til å svekke mobilsikkerheten på 80-tallet&lt;/a&gt; -
  86 aftenposten.no&lt;/li&gt;
  87
  88 &lt;li&gt;2014-02-12
  89 &lt;a href=&quot;http://tv.nrk.no/program/koid20005814/et-moete-med-edward-snowden&quot;&gt;Et
  90 møte med Edward Snowden&lt;/a&gt; - intervju sendt av nrk, tilgjengelig til
  91 2015-01-31&lt;/li&gt;
  92
  93 &lt;li&gt;2014-02-17
  94 &lt;a href=&quot;http://politiken.dk/debat/profiler/jessteinpedersen/ECE2210356/litteraturredaktoeren-helle-thornings-tavshed-om-snowden-er-en-skandale/&quot;&gt;Litteraturredaktøren:
  95 Helle Thornings tavshed om Snowden er en skandale&lt;/a&gt; -
  96 politiken.dk&lt;/li&gt;
  97
  98 &lt;li&gt;2014-02-21
  99 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Bra-a-ha-en-Storebror-7476734.html&quot;&gt;Bra å ha en «Storebror»&lt;/a&gt; - aftenposten.no&lt;/li&gt;
 100
 101 &lt;li&gt;2014-02-28
 102 &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnchristianelden.blogg.no/1393536806_narkotikasiktet_stort.html&quot;&gt;&quot;Narkotikasiktet
 103 Stortingsmann&quot; - Spillet bak kulissene&lt;/a&gt; - John Christian Eldens
 104 blogg&lt;/li&gt;
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 111                 <title>New home and release 1.0 for netgroup and innetgr (aka ng-utils)</title>
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 114                 <pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
 115                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Many years ago, I wrote a GPL licensed version of the netgroup and
 116 innetgr tools, because I needed them in
 117 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.  I called the project
 118 ng-utils, and it has served me well.  I placed the project under the
 119 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hungry.com/&quot;&gt;Hungry Programmer&lt;/a&gt; umbrella, and it was maintained in our CVS
 120 repository.  But many years ago, the CVS repository was dropped (lost,
 121 not migrated to new hardware, not sure), and the project have lacked a
 122 proper home since then.&lt;/p&gt;
 123
 124 &lt;p&gt;Last summer, I had a look at the package and made a new release
 125 fixing a irritating crash bug, but was unable to store the changes in
 126 a proper source control system.  I applied for a project on
 127 &lt;a href=&quot;https://alioth.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Alioth&lt;/a&gt;, but did not have time
 128 to follow up on it.  Until today. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 129
 130 &lt;p&gt;After many hours of cleaning and migration, the ng-utils project
 131 now have a new home, and a git repository with the highlight of the
 132 history of the project.  I published all release tarballs and imported
 133 them into the git repository.  As the project is really stable and not
 134 expected to gain new features any time soon, I decided to make a new
 135 release and call it 1.0.  Visit the new project home on
 136 &lt;a href=&quot;https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/&quot;&gt;https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/&lt;/a&gt;
 137 if you want to check it out.  The new version is also uploaded into
 138 &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ng-utils.html&quot;&gt;Debian Unstable&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 143                 <title>Testing sysvinit from experimental in Debian Hurd</title>
 144                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_sysvinit_from_experimental_in_Debian_Hurd.html</link>
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 146                 <pubDate>Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
 147                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I decided to try to help the Hurd people to get
 148 their changes into sysvinit, to allow them to use the normal sysvinit
 149 boot system instead of their old one.  This follow up on the
 150 &lt;a href=&quot;https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de//categories/gsoc.html&quot;&gt;great
 151 Google Summer of Code work&lt;/a&gt; done last summer by Justus Winter to
 152 get Debian on Hurd working more like Debian on Linux.  To get started,
 153 I downloaded a prebuilt hard disk image from
 154 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz&quot;&gt;http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz&lt;/a&gt;,
 155 and started it using virt-manager.&lt;/p&gt;
 156
 157 &lt;p&gt;The first think I had to do after logging in (root without any
 158 password) was to get the network operational.  I followed
 159 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install&quot;&gt;the
 160 instructions on the Debian GNU/Hurd ports page&lt;/a&gt; and ran these
 161 commands as root to get the machine to accept a IP address from the
 162 kvm internal DHCP server:&lt;/p&gt;
 163
 164 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 165 settrans -fgap /dev/netdde /hurd/netdde
 166 kill $(ps -ef|awk &#39;/[p]finet/ { print $2}&#39;)
 167 kill $(ps -ef|awk &#39;/[d]evnode/ { print $2}&#39;)
 168 dhclient /dev/eth0
 169 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 170
 171 &lt;p&gt;After this, the machine had internet connectivity, and I could
 172 upgrade it and install the sysvinit packages from experimental and
 173 enable it as the default boot system in Hurd.&lt;/p&gt;
 174
 175 &lt;p&gt;But before I did that, I set a password on the root user, as ssh is
 176 running on the machine it for ssh login to work a password need to be
 177 set.  Also, note that a bug somewhere in openssh on Hurd block
 178 compression from working.  Remember to turn that off on the client
 179 side.&lt;/p&gt;
 180
 181 &lt;p&gt;Run these commands as root to upgrade and test the new sysvinit
 182 stuff:&lt;/p&gt;
 183
 184 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 185 cat &gt; /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
 186 deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ experimental main
 187 EOF
 188 apt-get update
 189 apt-get dist-upgrade
 190 apt-get install -t experimental initscripts sysv-rc sysvinit \
 191     sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
 192 update-alternatives --config runsystem
 193 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 194
 195 &lt;p&gt;To reboot after switching boot system, you have to use
 196 &lt;tt&gt;reboot-hurd&lt;/tt&gt; instead of just &lt;tt&gt;reboot&lt;/tt&gt;, as there is not
 197 yet a sysvinit process able to receive the signals from the normal
 198 &#39;reboot&#39; command.  After switching to sysvinit as the boot system,
 199 upgrading every package and rebooting, the network come up with DHCP
 200 after boot as it should, and the settrans/pkill hack mentioned at the
 201 start is no longer needed.  But for some strange reason, there are no
 202 longer any login prompt in the virtual console, so I logged in using
 203 ssh instead.
 204
 205 &lt;p&gt;Note that there are some race conditions in Hurd making the boot
 206 fail some times.  No idea what the cause is, but hope the Hurd porters
 207 figure it out.  At least Justus said on IRC (#debian-hurd on
 208 irc.debian.org) that they are aware of the problem.  A way to reduce
 209 the impact is to upgrade to the Hurd packages built by Justus by
 210 adding this repository to the machine:&lt;/p&gt;
 211
 212 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 213 cat &gt; /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hurd-ci.list &amp;lt;&amp;lt;EOF
 214 deb http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/hurd-ci/ sid main
 215 EOF
 216 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 217
 218 &lt;p&gt;At the moment the prebuilt virtual machine get some packages from
 219 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian, because some of the packages in
 220 unstable do not yet include the required patches that are lingering in
 221 BTS.  This is the completely list of &quot;unofficial&quot; packages installed:&lt;/p&gt;
 222
 223 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
 224 # aptitude search &#39;?narrow(?version(CURRENT),?origin(Debian Ports))&#39;
 225 i   emacs                   - GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
 226 i   gdb                     - GNU Debugger
 227 i   hurd-recommended        - Miscellaneous translators
 228 i   isc-dhcp-client         - ISC DHCP client
 229 i   isc-dhcp-common         - common files used by all the isc-dhcp* packages
 230 i   libc-bin                - Embedded GNU C Library: Binaries
 231 i   libc-dev-bin            - Embedded GNU C Library: Development binaries
 232 i   libc0.3                 - Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
 233 i A libc0.3-dbg             - Embedded GNU C Library: detached debugging symbols
 234 i   libc0.3-dev             - Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
 235 i   multiarch-support       - Transitional package to ensure multiarch compatibilit
 236 i A x11-common              - X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
 237 i   xorg                    - X.Org X Window System
 238 i A xserver-xorg            - X.Org X server
 239 i A xserver-xorg-input-all  - X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
 240 #
 241 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 242
 243 &lt;p&gt;All in all, testing hurd has been an interesting experience. :)
 244 X.org did not work out of the box and I never took the time to follow
 245 the porters instructions to fix it.  This time I was interested in the
 246 command line stuff.&lt;p&gt;
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