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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  22     <h3>Entries from January 2013.</h3>
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  25       <div class="title">
  26         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_modalias_info_to_find_packages_handling_my_hardware.html">Using modalias info to find packages handling my hardware</a>
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  28       <div class="date">
  29         15th January 2013
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  31       <div class="body">
  32         <p>Yesterday, I wrote about the
  33 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html">modalias
  34 values provided by the Linux kernel</a> following my hope for
  35 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">better
  36 dongle support in Debian</a>.  Using this knowledge, I have tested how
  37 modalias values attached to package names can be used to map packages
  38 to hardware.  This allow the system to look up and suggest relevant
  39 packages when I plug in some new hardware into my machine, and replace
  40 discover and discover-data as the database used to map hardware to
  41 packages.</p>
  42
  43 <p>I create a modaliases file with entries like the following,
  44 containing package name, kernel module name (if relevant, otherwise
  45 the package name) and globs matching the relevant hardware
  46 modalias.</p>
  47
  48 <p><blockquote>
  49 Package: package-name
  50 <br>Modaliases: module(modaliasglob, modaliasglob, modaliasglob)</p>
  51 </blockquote></p>
  52
  53 <p>It is fairly trivial to write code to find the relevant packages
  54 for a given modalias value using this file.</p>
  55
  56 <p>An entry like this would suggest the video and picture application
  57 cheese for many USB web cameras (interface bus class 0E01):</p>
  58
  59 <p><blockquote>
  60 Package: cheese
  61 <br>Modaliases: cheese(usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic0Eisc01ip*)</p>
  62 </blockquote></p>
  63
  64 <p>An entry like this would suggest the pcmciautils package when a
  65 CardBus bridge (bus class 0607) PCI device is present:</p>
  66
  67 <p><blockquote>
  68 Package: pcmciautils
  69 <br>Modaliases: pcmciautils(pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc06sc07i*)
  70 </blockquote></p>
  71
  72 <p>An entry like this would suggest the package colorhug-client when
  73 plugging in a ColorHug with USB IDs 04D8:F8DA:</p>
  74
  75 <p><blockquote>
  76 Package: colorhug-client
  77 <br>Modaliases: colorhug-client(usb:v04D8pF8DAd*)</p>
  78 </blockquote></p>
  79
  80 <p>I believe the format is compatible with the format of the Packages
  81 file in the Debian archive.  Ubuntu already uses their Packages file
  82 to store their mappings from packages to hardware.</p>
  83
  84 <p>By adding a XB-Modaliases: header in debian/control, any .deb can
  85 announce the hardware it support in a way my prototype understand.
  86 This allow those publishing packages in an APT source outside the
  87 Debian archive as well as those backporting packages to make sure the
  88 hardware mapping are included in the package meta information.  I've
  89 tested such header in the pymissile package, and its modalias mapping
  90 is working as it should with my prototype.  It even made it to Ubuntu
  91 Raring.</p>
  92
  93 <p>To test if it was possible to look up supported hardware using only
  94 the shell tools available in the Debian installer, I wrote a shell
  95 implementation of the lookup code.  The idea is to create files for
  96 each modalias and let the shell do the matching.  Please check out and
  97 try the
  98 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/hw-support-lookup?view=co">hw-support-lookup</a>
  99 shell script.  It run without any extra dependencies and fetch the
 100 hardware mappings from the Debian archive and the subversion
 101 repository where I currently work on my prototype.</p>
 102
 103 <p>When I use it on a machine with a yubikey inserted, it suggest to
 104 install yubikey-personalization:</p>
 105
 106 <p><blockquote>
 107 % ./hw-support-lookup
 108 <br>yubikey-personalization:
 109 <br>%
 110 </blockquote></p>
 111
 112 <p>When I run it on my Thinkpad X40 with a PCMCIA/CardBus slot, it
 113 propose to install the pcmciautils package:</p>
 114
 115 <p><blockquote>
 116 % ./hw-support-lookup
 117 <br>pcmciautils
 118 <br>%
 119 </blockquote></p>
 120
 121 <p>If you know of any hardware-package mapping that should be added to
 122 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/modaliases?view=co">my
 123 database</a>, please tell me about it.</p>
 124
 125 <p>It could be possible to generate several of the mappings between
 126 packages and hardware.  One source would be to look at packages with
 127 kernel modules, ie packages with *.ko files in /lib/modules/, and
 128 extract their modalias information.  Another would be to look at
 129 packages with udev rules, ie packages with files in
 130 /lib/udev/rules.d/, and extract their vendor/model information to
 131 generate a modalias matching rule.  I have not tested any of these to
 132 see if it work.</p>
 133
 134 <p>If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what
 135 packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
 136 machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
 137 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel">#debian-devel</a>.</p>
 138
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 140       <div class="tags">
 141
 142
 143         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 151       <div class="title">
 152         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Modalias_strings___a_practical_way_to_map__stuff__to_hardware.html">Modalias strings - a practical way to map "stuff" to hardware</a>
 153       </div>
 154       <div class="date">
 155         14th January 2013
 156       </div>
 157       <div class="body">
 158         <p>While looking into how to look up Debian packages based on hardware
 159 information, to find the packages that support a given piece of
 160 hardware, I refreshed my memory regarding modalias values, and decided
 161 to document the details.  Here are my findings so far, also available
 162 in
 163 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
 164 Debian Edu subversion repository</a>:
 165
 166 <p><strong>Modalias decoded</strong></p>
 167
 168 <p>This document try to explain what the different types of modalias
 169 values stands for.  It is in part based on information from
 170 &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modalias</a> &gt;,
 171 &lt;URL: <a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26132/how-to-assign-usb-driver-to-device</a> &gt;,
 172 &lt;URL: <a href="http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c">http://code.metager.de/source/history/linux/stable/scripts/mod/file2alias.c</a> &gt; and
 173 &lt;URL: <a href="http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup">http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/dmidecode/dmidecode.c?root=dmidecode&view=markup</a> &gt;.
 174
 175 <p>The modalias entries for a given Linux machine can be found using
 176 this shell script:</p>
 177
 178 <pre>
 179 cat $(find /sys -name modalias) | sort -u
 180 </pre>
 181
 182 <p>The supported modalias globs for a given kernel module can be found
 183 using modinfo:</p>
 184
 185 <pre>
 186 % /sbin/modinfo psmouse | grep alias:
 187 alias:          serio:ty05pr*id*ex*
 188 alias:          serio:ty01pr*id*ex*
 189 %
 190 </pre>
 191
 192 <p><strong>PCI subtype</strong></p>
 193
 194 <p>A typical PCI entry can look like this.  This is an Intel Host
 195 Bridge memory controller:</p>
 196
 197 <p><blockquote>
 198 pci:v00008086d00002770sv00001028sd000001ADbc06sc00i00
 199 </blockquote></p>
 200
 201 <p>This represent these values:</p>
 202
 203 <pre>
 204  v   00008086  (vendor)
 205  d   00002770  (device)
 206  sv  00001028  (subvendor)
 207  sd  000001AD  (subdevice)
 208  bc  06        (bus class)
 209  sc  00        (bus subclass)
 210  i   00        (interface)
 211 </pre>
 212
 213 <p>The vendor/device values are the same values outputted from 'lspci
 214 -n' as 8086:2770.  The bus class/subclass is also shown by lspci as
 215 0600.  The 0600 class is a host bridge.  Other useful bus values are
 216 0300 (VGA compatible card) and 0200 (Ethernet controller).</p>
 217
 218 <p>Not sure how to figure out the interface value, nor what it
 219 means.</p>
 220
 221 <p><strong>USB subtype</strong></p>
 222
 223 <p>Some typical USB entries can look like this.  This is an internal
 224 USB hub in a laptop:</p>
 225
 226 <p><blockquote>
 227 usb:v1D6Bp0001d0206dc09dsc00dp00ic09isc00ip00
 228 </blockquote></p>
 229
 230 <p>Here is the values included in this alias:</p>
 231
 232 <pre>
 233  v    1D6B  (device vendor)
 234  p    0001  (device product)
 235  d    0206  (bcddevice)
 236  dc     09  (device class)
 237  dsc    00  (device subclass)
 238  dp     00  (device protocol)
 239  ic     09  (interface class)
 240  isc    00  (interface subclass)
 241  ip     00  (interface protocol)
 242 </pre>
 243
 244 <p>The 0900 device class/subclass means hub.  Some times the relevant
 245 class is in the interface class section.  For a simple USB web camera,
 246 these alias entries show up:</p>
 247
 248 <p><blockquote>
 249 usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc01ip00
 250 <br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic01isc02ip00
 251 <br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc01ip00
 252 <br>usb:v0AC8p3420d5000dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc02ip00
 253 </blockquote></p>
 254
 255 <p>Interface class 0E01 is video control, 0E02 is video streaming (aka
 256 camera), 0101 is audio control device and 0102 is audio streaming (aka
 257 microphone).  Thus this is a camera with microphone included.</p>
 258
 259 <p><strong>ACPI subtype</strong></p>
 260
 261 <p>The ACPI type is used for several non-PCI/USB stuff.  This is an IR
 262 receiver in a Thinkpad X40:</p>
 263
 264 <p><blockquote>
 265 acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
 266 </blockquote></p>
 267
 268 <p>The values between the colons are IDs.</p>
 269
 270 <p><strong>DMI subtype</strong></p>
 271
 272 <p>The DMI table contain lots of information about the computer case
 273 and model.  This is an entry for a IBM Thinkpad X40, fetched from
 274 /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/modalias:</p>
 275
 276 <p><blockquote>
 277 dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1UETB6WW(1.66):bd06/15/2005:svnIBM:pn2371H4G:pvrThinkPadX40:rvnIBM:rn2371H4G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
 278 </blockquote></p>
 279
 280 <p>The values present are</p>
 281
 282 <pre>
 283  bvn  IBM            (BIOS vendor)
 284  bvr  1UETB6WW(1.66) (BIOS version)
 285  bd   06/15/2005     (BIOS date)
 286  svn  IBM            (system vendor)
 287  pn   2371H4G        (product name)
 288  pvr  ThinkPadX40    (product version)
 289  rvn  IBM            (board vendor)
 290  rn   2371H4G        (board name)
 291  rvr  NotAvailable   (board version)
 292  cvn  IBM            (chassis vendor)
 293  ct   10             (chassis type)
 294  cvr  NotAvailable   (chassis version)
 295 </pre>
 296
 297 <p>The chassis type 10 is Notebook.  Other interesting values can be
 298 found in the dmidecode source:</p>
 299
 300 <pre>
 301   3 Desktop
 302   4 Low Profile Desktop
 303   5 Pizza Box
 304   6 Mini Tower
 305   7 Tower
 306   8 Portable
 307   9 Laptop
 308  10 Notebook
 309  11 Hand Held
 310  12 Docking Station
 311  13 All In One
 312  14 Sub Notebook
 313  15 Space-saving
 314  16 Lunch Box
 315  17 Main Server Chassis
 316  18 Expansion Chassis
 317  19 Sub Chassis
 318  20 Bus Expansion Chassis
 319  21 Peripheral Chassis
 320  22 RAID Chassis
 321  23 Rack Mount Chassis
 322  24 Sealed-case PC
 323  25 Multi-system
 324  26 CompactPCI
 325  27 AdvancedTCA
 326  28 Blade
 327  29 Blade Enclosing
 328 </pre>
 329
 330 <p>The chassis type values are not always accurately set in the DMI
 331 table.  For example my home server is a tower, but the DMI modalias
 332 claim it is a desktop.</p>
 333
 334 <p><strong>SerIO subtype</strong></p>
 335
 336 <p>This type is used for PS/2 mouse plugs.  One example is from my
 337 test machine:</p>
 338
 339 <p><blockquote>
 340 serio:ty01pr00id00ex00
 341 </blockquote></p>
 342
 343 <p>The values present are</p>
 344
 345 <pre>
 346   ty  01  (type)
 347   pr  00  (prototype)
 348   id  00  (id)
 349   ex  00  (extra)
 350 </pre>
 351
 352 <p>This type is supported by the psmouse driver.  I am not sure what
 353 the valid values are.</p>
 354
 355 <p><strong>Other subtypes</strong></p>
 356
 357 <p>There are heaps of other modalias subtypes according to
 358 file2alias.c.  There is the rest of the list from that source: amba,
 359 ap, bcma, ccw, css, eisa, hid, i2c, ieee1394, input, ipack, isapnp,
 360 mdio, of, parisc, pcmcia, platform, scsi, sdio, spi, ssb, vio, virtio,
 361 vmbus, x86cpu and zorro.  I did not spend time documenting all of
 362 these, as they do not seem relevant for my intended use with mapping
 363 hardware to packages when new stuff is inserted during run time.</p>
 364
 365 <p><strong>Looking up kernel modules using modalias values</strong></p>
 366
 367 <p>To check which kernel modules provide support for a given modalias,
 368 one can use the following shell script:</p>
 369
 370 <pre>
 371   for id in $(cat $(find /sys -name modalias)|sort -u); do \
 372     echo "$id" ; \
 373     /sbin/modprobe --show-depends "$id"|sed 's/^/  /' ; \
 374   done
 375 </pre>
 376
 377 <p>The output can look like this (only the first few entries as the
 378 list is very long on my test machine):</p>
 379
 380 <pre>
 381   acpi:ACPI0003:
 382     insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko
 383   acpi:device:
 384   FATAL: Module acpi:device: not found.
 385   acpi:IBM0068:
 386     insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/char/nvram.ko
 387     insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/leds/led-class.ko
 388     insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko
 389     insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko
 390   acpi:IBM0071:PNP0511:
 391     insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko
 392     insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/net/irda/irda.ko
 393     insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.ko
 394   [...]
 395 </pre>
 396
 397 <p>If you want to help implementing a system to let us propose what
 398 packages to install when new hardware is plugged into a Debian
 399 machine, please send me an email or talk to me on
 400 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-devel">#debian-devel</a>.</p>
 401
 402       </div>
 403       <div class="tags">
 404
 405
 406         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 414       <div class="title">
 415         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Moved_the_pymissile_Debian_packaging_to_collab_maint.html">Moved the pymissile Debian packaging to collab-maint</a>
 416       </div>
 417       <div class="date">
 418         10th January 2013
 419       </div>
 420       <div class="body">
 421         <p>As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian
 422 for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket
 423 Launcher and updated the Debian package
 424 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">pymissile</a> to make
 425 sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in.  I
 426 also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and
 427 hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user
 428 plug in his rocket launcher.  In the process I moved the source to a
 429 git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to
 430 contribute.  <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/">Upstream</a>
 431 is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five
 432 years of relative silence.  The new git repository is not listed in
 433 the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a
 434 bit more before I upload the new version.  If you want to check out
 435 the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the
 436 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git">gitweb
 437 view</a> or use "<tt>git clone
 438 git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git</tt>".</p>
 439
 440       </div>
 441       <div class="tags">
 442
 443
 444         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
 445
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 448     </div>
 449     <div class="padding"></div>
 450
 451     <div class="entry">
 452       <div class="title">
 453         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html">Lets make hardware dongles easier to use in Debian</a>
 454       </div>
 455       <div class="date">
 456          9th January 2013
 457       </div>
 458       <div class="body">
 459         <p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
 460 general, is that there is a great package management system with the
 461 ability to automatically install software packages by downloading them
 462 from the distribution mirrors, but no way to get it to automatically
 463 install the packages I need to use the hardware I plug into my
 464 machine.  Even if the package to use it is easily available from the
 465 Linux distribution.  When I plug in a LEGO Mindstorms NXT, it could
 466 suggest to automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages
 467 I need to talk to it.  When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
 468 yubikey-personalization package.  The information required to do this
 469 is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.</p>
 470
 471 <p>Some years ago, I proposed to
 472 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg01206.html">use
 473 the discover subsystem to implement this</a>.  The idea is fairly
 474 simple:
 475
 476 <ul>
 477
 478 <li>Add a desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ pointing to a program
 479   starting when a user log in.</li>
 480
 481 <li>Set this program up to listen for kernel events emitted when new
 482   hardware is inserted into the computer.</li>
 483
 484 <li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware ID in a
 485   database mapping to packages, and take note of any non-installed
 486   packages.</li>
 487
 488 <li>Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
 489   package, and make it easy to install it.</li>
 490
 491 </ul>
 492
 493 <p>I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my
 494 initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the
 495 discover database to find packages and
 496 <a href="http://www.packagekit.org/">PackageKit</a> to install
 497 packages.</p>
 498
 499 <p>Yesterday, I found time to try to implement this idea, and the
 500 draft package is now checked into
 501 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
 502 Debian Edu subversion repository</a>.  In the process, I updated the
 503 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html">discover-data</a>
 504 package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to
 505 the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version
 506 2.2013.01.09 to unstable.  I also discovered that the current
 507 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover.html">discover</a>
 508 package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because
 509 /proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present.  I ported it to use
 510 libusb as a fall back option to get it working.  The fixed package
 511 version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental (didn't upload it to unstable
 512 because of the freeze).</p>
 513
 514 <p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
 515 desktop notification to show up (only once, the first time it is
 516 inserted):</p>
 517
 518 <p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png"></p>
 519
 520 <p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
 521 install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install
 522 program(s)" button should to be implemented.</p>
 523
 524 <p>If this idea seem useful to you, and you want to help make it
 525 happen, please help me update the discover-data database with mappings
 526 from hardware to Debian packages.  Check if 'discover-pkginstall -l'
 527 list the package you would like to have installed when a given
 528 hardware device is inserted into your computer, and report bugs using
 529 reportbug if it isn't.  Or, if you know of a better way to provide
 530 such mapping, please let me know.</p>
 531
 532 <p>This prototype need more work, and there are several questions that
 533 should be considered before it is ready for production use.  Is dbus
 534 the correct way to detect new hardware?  At the moment I look for HAL
 535 dbus events on the system bus, because that is the events I could see
 536 on my Debian Squeeze KDE desktop.  Are there better events to use?
 537 How should the user be notified?  Is the desktop notification
 538 mechanism the best option, or should the background daemon raise a
 539 popup instead?  How should packages be installed?  When should they
 540 not be installed?</p>
 541
 542 <p>If you want to help getting such feature implemented in Debian,
 543 please send me an email. :)</p>
 544
 545       </div>
 546       <div class="tags">
 547
 548
 549         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 550
 551
 552       </div>
 553     </div>
 554     <div class="padding"></div>
 555
 556     <div class="entry">
 557       <div class="title">
 558         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">New IRC channel for LEGO designers using Debian</a>
 559       </div>
 560       <div class="date">
 561          2nd January 2013
 562       </div>
 563       <div class="body">
 564         <p>During Christmas, I have worked a bit on the Debian support for
 565 <a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx">LEGO Mindstorm
 566 NXT</a>.  My son and I have played a bit with my NXT set, and I
 567 discovered I had to build all the tools myself because none were
 568 already in Debian Squeeze.  If Debian support for LEGO is something
 569 you care about, please join me on the IRC channel
 570 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">#debian-lego</a> (server
 571 irc.debian.org).  There is a lot that could be done to improve the
 572 Debian support for LEGO designers.  For example both CAD software
 573 and Mindstorm compilers are missing. :)</p>
 574
 575 <p>Update 2012-01-03: A
 576 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">project page</a>
 577 including links to Lego related packages is now available.</p>
 578
 579       </div>
 580       <div class="tags">
 581
 582
 583         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
 584
 585
 586       </div>
 587     </div>
 588     <div class="padding"></div>
 589
 590     <div class="entry">
 591       <div class="title">
 592         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html">Lenker for 2013-01-01</a>
 593       </div>
 594       <div class="date">
 595          1st January 2013
 596       </div>
 597       <div class="body">
 598         <p>Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese den
 599 siste måneden.</p>
 600
 601 <ul>
 602
 603 <li>2012-12-07
 604   <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article262047.ece">Myter og
 605   FUD om fri programvare</a> av min venn Christer Gundersen som
 606   kommenterer noen av de påstandene som er spredt via Computerworld
 607   Norge de siste månedene.</li>
 608
 609 <li>BankID er et opplegg der utsteder (dvs. banken eller dens
 610   leverandør) sitter på alt som trengs for å bruke BankID, men har
 611   lovet å ikke bruke den unntatt på oppdrag fra deg.  Det er greit nok
 612   for banktjenester, der banken allerede har full kontroll over
 613   resultatet, men problematisk når det gjelder tilgang til
 614   helseopplysninger og avtaleinngåelse med andre enn banken.  Jeg
 615   håper protestene brer om seg.
 616
 617   <ul>
 618
 619   <li>2012-12-11 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/BankID-blottlegger-helseopplysninger-7067148.html">BankID
 620     blottlegger helseopplysninger</a></li>
 621
 622   <li>2012-12-07 <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.9695027">-
 623     Helseopplysningene ikke sikre med Bank-ID</a></li>
 624
 625   <li>2012-12-07
 626     <a href="https://www.bankid.no/Presse-og-nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/2012/Papeker-alvorlige-men-kjente-utfordringer/">Påpeker
 627     alvorlige, men kjente utfordringer</a> er den offisielle
 628     holdningen til de som lager BankID.</li>
 629
 630   <li>2012-12-08
 631     <a href="http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3419-ntnu-researcher-warns-against-security-of-bank-id-password">NTNU
 632       Researcher Warns against Security of Bank ID Password</a>
 633
 634   </ul>
 635
 636 <li>2012-12-11 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Norske-elever-er-darligst-i-Europa-pa-algebra-7066752.html">Norske elever er dårligst i Europa på algebra</a>
 637
 638 <li>2012-12-11
 639   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Realfagsdodaren-7067173.html">Realfagsdødaren</a>
 640
 641 <li>2012-12-21
 642   <a href="http://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/112/--Forventningene-er-for-hoye-2816450.html">-
 643   Noen må bli skuffet</a> - Politiet i Bergen forteller hvor lavt de
 644   prioriterer hverdagskriminalitet.</li>
 645
 646 <li>2012-05-03
 647   <a href="http://e24.no/jobb/kripos-ansatt-doemt-for-snoking-for-venn/20208585">
 648   Kripos-ansatt dømt for snoking for venn</A> - viser hvor svak
 649   reaksjonen blir når politiet misbruker innsamlet informasjon.  En
 650   forvarsel på konsekvensene av nasjonal brev- og besøkskontroll -
 651   ofte kalt Datalagringsdirektivet.</li>
 652
 653 <li>2012-12-14
 654   <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/12/14/kultur/debatt/kronikk/jul/ensomhet/24838541/">Å
 655   smøre en forskjell</a> - om ensomhet og jul.</li>
 656
 657 <li>2012-12-18
 658   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/n-krise-av-gangen_-takk-7072452.html">Én
 659   krise av gangen, takk!</a>
 660
 661
 662 <li>2012-12-17
 663   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/NAV-Et-mangehodet-monster--7072165.html">NAV:
 664   Et mangehodet monster</a></li>
 665
 666 <li>2011-01-12
 667   <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/01/12/kultur/debatt/kronikk/personvern/15027203/">Pasienter
 668   uten vern</a> - forteller litt om hvordan Norsk Pasientregister og
 669   andre helseregister raderer bort pasienters privatsfære.</li>
 670
 671
 672 <li>2012-12-19
 673   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Hvorfor-er-barnefamilier-fattige-7073951.html">Hvorfor
 674   er barnefamilier fattige?</a></li>
 675
 676 <li>2012-12-25
 677   <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/spaltister/Den-skjulte-minoriteten--konservative-kristne-i-Norge-7075518.html">Den
 678   skjulte minoriteten – konservative kristne i Norge</a> - kronikk av
 679   Bjørn Stærk fra aftenposten</li>
 680
 681 <li>2009-05-04
 682   <a href="http://deltemeninger.no/-/bulletin/show/303429_folkebiblioteket-2-0?ref=checkpoint">Folkebiblioteket
 683   2.0</a> - Min venn Sturle om opphavsrett og Internett, i debatt med
 684   Olav Torvund.</li>
 685
 686 </ul>
 687
 688 <p>Og et godt nytt år til dere alle!</p>
 689
 690       </div>
 691       <div class="tags">
 692
 693
 694         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bankid">bankid</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
 695
 696
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 706 <h2>Archive</h2>
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 708
 709 <li>2013
 710 <ul>
 711
 712 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (6)</a></li>
 713
 714 </ul></li>
 715
 716 <li>2012
 717 <ul>
 718
 719 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 720
 721 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 722
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 724
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 730
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 732
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 734
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 736
 737 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
 738
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 740
 741 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 742
 743 </ul></li>
 744
 745 <li>2011
 746 <ul>
 747
 748 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 749
 750 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 751
 752 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 753
 754 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
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 757
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 759
 760 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
 761
 762 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 763
 764 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
 765
 766 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 767
 768 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 769
 770 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 771
 772 </ul></li>
 773
 774 <li>2010
 775 <ul>
 776
 777 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 778
 779 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 780
 781 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
 782
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 784
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 790
 791 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
 792
 793 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
 794
 795 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 796
 797 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
 798
 799 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
 800
 801 </ul></li>
 802
 803 <li>2009
 804 <ul>
 805
 806 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 807
 808 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
 809
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 811
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 813
 814 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 815
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 817
 818 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
 819
 820 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
 821
 822 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
 823
 824 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 825
 826 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 827
 828 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 829
 830 </ul></li>
 831
 832 <li>2008
 833 <ul>
 834
 835 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 836
 837 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 838
 839 </ul></li>
 840
 841 </ul>
 842
 843
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 845 <h2>Tags</h2>
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 850  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/amiga">amiga (1)</a></li>
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 853
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 855
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 857
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 859
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 861
 862  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (64)</a></li>
 863
 864  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (118)</a></li>
 865
 866  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (9)</a></li>
 867
 868  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (7)</a></li>
 869
 870  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
 871
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 877
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 879
 880  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (9)</a></li>
 881
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 883
 884  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (17)</a></li>
 885
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 887
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 889
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 891
 892  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (25)</a></li>
 893
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 895
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 899
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 901
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 903
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 905
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 907
 908  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (11)</a></li>
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 915
 916  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (4)</a></li>
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 925
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 928  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (3)</a></li>
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 931
 932  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (12)</a></li>
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 939
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