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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html">Oslo community mesh network - with NUUG and Hackeriet at Hausmania</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">11th October 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing
  26 networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large
  27 areas, depending on the radio technology used.  Normal wifi equipment
  28 can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several
  29 successful examples like
  30 <a href="http://www.freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a> and
  31 <a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network</a>
  32 (see
  33 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece">wikipedia
  34 for a large list</a>) around the globe.  To give you an idea how it
  35 work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which
  36 can be seen from their
  37 <a href="http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html">dynamically
  38 updated node graph and map</a>, where one can see how the mesh nodes
  39 automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing.
  40 There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway,
  41 and that is the main topic of this blog post.</p>
  42
  43 <p>I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped
  44 to do it as part of my involvement with the <a
  45 href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG member organisation</a> community, and
  46 my recent involvement in
  47 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the Freedombox project</a>
  48 finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a
  49 Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family
  50 when possible, given that most communication between people are
  51 between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook
  52 communication patterns).  It also allow people to communicate without
  53 any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the
  54 private communication of citizens, which have become more and more
  55 important over the years.</p>
  56
  57 <p>So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo
  58 working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space
  59 <a href="http://hackeriet.no/">Hackeriet</a> at Husmania.  They seem to
  60 have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called
  61 <a href="http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page">the Oslo
  62 Freifunk project</a>, but that effort is now dead and the people
  63 behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called
  64 <a href="http://meshfx.org/trac">meshfx</a>.  Unfortunately the wiki
  65 site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to
  66 reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to
  67 the new project.  A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
  68 from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks.  I
  69 came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
  70 speakers about this talk (from
  71 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY">youtube</a>:</p>
  72
  73
  74 <p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
  75
  76 <p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
  77 There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
  78 figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
  79 given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
  80 is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
  81 completely different setup, and thus this have decided to focus on
  82 batman-adv for now.  It sure help me to  know that the very cool
  83 <a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a>
  84 is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
  85 organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
  86 less industrialized communities.  Check out this cool video presenting
  87 that project (from
  88 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube</a>:</p>
  89
  90 <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
  91
  92 <p>According to the wikipedia page on
  93 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless
  94 mesh network</a> there are around 70 competing schemes for routing
  95 packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
  96 B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
  97 based community mesh networks.</p>
  98
  99 </p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
 100 (as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
 101 network.  One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
 102 vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
 103 computer.  The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
 104 least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up.  A
 105 <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good
 106 introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project.  These are
 107 the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p>
 108
 109 <table>
 110 <tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr>
 111 <tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr>
 112 <tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr>
 113 <td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr>
 114 <td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td>
 115 </table>
 116
 117 <p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
 118 in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers.  (See a nice post from
 119 VillageTelco about
 120 "<a href="http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information
 121 about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!</a>
 122 for details.)  When these settings are activated and you have some
 123 other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
 124 network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
 125 any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)</p>
 126
 127 <p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
 128 but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
 129 firmware supporting batman-adv.  If anyone know how to use that old
 130 wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.</p>
 131
 132 <p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
 133 us on IRC, either channel
 134 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace</a>
 135 or <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug</a> on
 136 irc.freenode.net.</p>
 137
 138 <p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
 139 research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
 140 and Innovation called
 141 <a href="http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The
 142 reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks</a> and elsewhere
 143 learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
 144 Grünerløkka in Oslo.  So mesh networks are also interesting for
 145 commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
 146 to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
 147 know have closed down the experiment.  Perhaps Telenor or others would
 148 be interested in a cooperation?</p>
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 153         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 161       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu 7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador</a></div>
 162       <div class="date"> 8th October 2013</div>
 163       <div class="body"><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
 164 Salvador had published a
 165 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
 166 Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
 167 Skolelinux profile.  This is the profile intended for use at home or
 168 on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
 169 services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
 170 in other word a single user machine).  The result is 11 minutes long,
 171 and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
 172 Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
 173 showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model
 174 of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
 175 other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
 176 advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
 177 Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
 178 computers without hard drives by installing one central
 179 <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p>
 180
 181 <p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p>
 182
 183 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 184
 185 <p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux?  Please let
 186 me know. :)</p>
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 191         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
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 199       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html">Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today!</a></div>
 200       <div class="date">29th September 2013</div>
 201       <div class="body"><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
 202 Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team.  The
 203 complete announcement text can be found at
 204 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
 205 section</a>, translated to several languages.  Please check it out.</p>
 206
 207 <p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon.  One
 208 can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
 209 partition is too small.  A workaround is to extend the partition (use
 210 lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p>
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 215         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 223       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html">Videos about the Freedombox project - for inspiration and learning</a></div>
 224       <div class="date">27th September 2013</div>
 225       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
 226 project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
 227 vision, ideas and solution several places.  Here is a little
 228 collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p>
 229
 230 <ul>
 231
 232 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
 233 2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li>
 234
 235 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
 236 discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 237
 238 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
 239 Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
 240 Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a>
 241 (Youtube)</li>
 242
 243 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011
 244 Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li>
 245
 246 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
 247 the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 248
 249 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
 250 Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
 251 York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li>
 252
 253 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
 254 to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a>
 255 (Youtube)</li>
 256
 257 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
 258 of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li>
 259
 260 <li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
 261 1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li>
 262
 263 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
 264 FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
 265 2013</a> (Youtube)</li>
 266
 267 </ul>
 268
 269 <p>A larger list is available from
 270 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
 271 Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p>
 272
 273 <p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
 274 Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
 275 Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
 276 a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
 277 The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
 278 pending in NEW.  The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
 279 metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload.  Join
 280 us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
 281 (#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and
 282 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
 283 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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 288         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/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 296       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html">Third and probably last beta release of Debian Edu Wheezy</a></div>
 297       <div class="date">16th September 2013</div>
 298       <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 299 today.  This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:</p>
 300
 301 <blockquote>
 302 <p>Hi,</p>
 303
 304 <p>it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
 305 short) of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 306 Skolelinux</a> based on Debian Wheezy!</p>
 307
 308 <p>Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
 309 we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
 310 weekend.  We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
 311 if you find something, please notify us immediately!</p>
 312
 313 <p>(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
 314 another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)</p>
 315
 316 <p>Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
 317 compared to beta1:</p>
 318
 319 <ul>
 320
 321 <li>The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
 322 also gets Chromium to use this proxy.</li>
 323 <li>Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
 324 understand ical/dav sources.</li>
 325 <li>Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
 326 main server.</li>
 327 <li>A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.</li>
 328 <li>Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
 329 (6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
 330 (0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
 331 (3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).</li>
 332
 333 </ul>
 334
 335 <p>Where to get it:</p>
 336
 337 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 338
 339 <ul>
 340 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
 341 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
 342 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .</li>
 343 </ul>
 344
 345 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is:  3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f</p>
 346
 347 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
 348 <ul>
 349 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
 350 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
 351 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .</li>
 352 </ul>
 353
 354 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e</p>
 355
 356 <p>The Source DVD image has the filename
 357 debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
 358 089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
 359 as the other isos.</p>
 360
 361 <p>How to report bugs</p>
 362
 363 <p>For information how to report bugs please see
 364 <br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
 365
 366
 367 <p>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</p>
 368
 369 <p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
 370 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
 371 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
 372 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
 373 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
 374 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
 375 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
 376 machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
 377 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
 378 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
 379 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
 380 packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
 381 can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 382
 383 <p>This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
 384 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
 385 Squeeze release.</p>
 386
 387 <p>Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases</p>
 388
 389 <p>Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 390 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 391 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 392 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 393 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
 394 Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
 395 password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
 396 (backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
 397 to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
 398 directory.</p>
 399
 400
 401 <p>cheers,
 402 <br>        Holger</p>
 403 </blockquote>
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 408         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 416       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Recipe_to_test_the_Freedombox_project_on_amd64_or_Raspberry_Pi.html">Recipe to test the Freedombox project on amd64 or Raspberry Pi</a></div>
 417       <div class="date">10th September 2013</div>
 418       <div class="body"><p>I was introduced to the
 419 <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
 420 in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
 421 of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
 422 within the legal protection of their own homes.  The idea is to give
 423 people back the power over their network and machines, and return
 424 Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.  Instead of
 425 depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
 426 control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
 427
 428 <p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
 429 taken priority.  But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
 430 and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
 431 communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
 432 actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
 433
 434 <p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
 435 Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
 436 create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
 437 up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
 438 communication.  The initial deployment platform have been the
 439 <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
 440 which is a piece of hardware I do not own.  So to be able to test what
 441 the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install
 442 it on some hardware I do have access to.  I have rewritten the
 443 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
 444 image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
 445 setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
 446 set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
 447 the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
 448 missing in Debian).</p>
 449
 450 <p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
 451 scripts
 452 (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
 453 and a administrative web interface
 454 (<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
 455 withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
 456 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
 457 (freedombox-privoxy).  There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
 458 client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
 459 trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
 460 (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>).  The
 461 web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
 462 services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc.  Not much of
 463 this is really working yet, see
 464 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
 465 project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories.  Most of the code is
 466 on github at the moment.  The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
 467 box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
 468 users.  I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
 469 know there are several branches spread around github and other places
 470 with lots of half baked features.</p>
 471
 472 <p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
 473 following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
 474 at.</p>
 475
 476 <p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
 477
 478 <ol>
 479
 480 <li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
 481 <li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
 482 <li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
 483 to the Debian installer:<p>
 484 <pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
 485
 486 <li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
 487 install on.</li>
 488
 489 <li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
 490 few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
 491
 492 </ol>
 493
 494 <p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
 495
 496 <ol>
 497
 498 <li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
 499 <li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
 500 <li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
 501 <pre>
 502 deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
 503 </pre></li>
 504 <li><p>Run this as root:</p>
 505 <pre>
 506 wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
 507    apt-key add -
 508 apt-get update
 509 apt-get install freedombox-setup
 510 /usr/lib/freedombox/setup
 511 </pre></li>
 512 <li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
 513
 514 </ol>
 515
 516 <p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
 517 freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
 518 the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
 519 in my APT repository.  But do not let this stop you.  It is only a
 520 short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
 521
 522 <p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
 523 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
 524 off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
 525 disable</tt>" as root.</p>
 526
 527 <p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
 528 problems.  We gather on the IRC channel
 529 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
 530 irc.debian.org and the
 531 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
 532 mailing list</a>.</p>
 533
 534 <p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
 535 <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
 536 welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
 537 get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
 538 to look at the rest of plinth.  The default user is 'admin' and the
 539 default password is 'secret'.</p>
 540 </div>
 541       <div class="tags">
 542
 543
 544         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/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 545
 546
 547       </div>
 548     </div>
 549     <div class="padding"></div>
 550
 551     <div class="entry">
 552       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_gj_r_at_Oslo_H_yre_og_Arbeiderparti_ikke_f_r_min_stemme_i__r.html">Datalagringsdirektivet gjør at Oslo Høyre og Arbeiderparti ikke får min stemme i år</a></div>
 553       <div class="date"> 8th September 2013</div>
 554       <div class="body"><p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og
 555 Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske
 556 folk.  Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt
 557 år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de
 558 snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen.  Det skal også
 559 registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost
 560 til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte.  Saken er kjent som
 561 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet
 562 (DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges
 563 grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt.  Det ble i praksis innført brev og
 564 besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen.  Rapporter fra de landene som
 565 allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes
 566 kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i
 567 kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.  Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre
 568 millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets
 569 arbeide.  Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt
 570 på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.
 571 Se mer på
 572 <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a>
 573 og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p>
 574
 575 <p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje?  Et åpenbart problem er at
 576 medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut.  Den innsamlede
 577 informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med
 578 journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten
 579 av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon.  Et annet er at
 580 advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem
 581 som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat.
 582 Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke
 583 nettsteder en har besøkt.  Har en besøkt hivnorge.no,
 584 swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede
 585 interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være
 586 tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
 587
 588 <p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for.  Høyre og
 589 Arbeiderpartiet.  Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har
 590 DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre
 591 fylkene).  Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse
 592 partiene.  Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med
 593 informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget,
 594 basert på informasjon fra mine venner i
 595 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de
 596 Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>.
 597 Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p>
 598
 599 <style type="text/css">
 600 .for    {background-color:#F5A9A9;}
 601 .mot    {background-color:#A9F5BC;}
 602 .ukjent { }
 603 </style>
 604
 605 <table>
 606 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 607
 608 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 609 <td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td>
 610 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 611
 612 <tr class="mot"><td>2.</td>
 613 <td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td>
 614 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr>
 615
 616 <tr class="mot"><td>3.</td>
 617 <td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td>
 618 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td>
 619
 620 <tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td>
 621 <td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td>
 622 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 623
 624 <tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td>
 625 <td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td>
 626 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 627
 628 <tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td>
 629 <td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td>
 630 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 631
 632 <tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td>
 633 <td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td>
 634 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 635
 636 <tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td>
 637 <td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td>
 638 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 639
 640 <tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td>
 641 <td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td>
 642 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 643
 644 <tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td>
 645 <td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td>
 646 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 647
 648 <tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td>
 649 <td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td>
 650 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 651
 652 <tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td>
 653 <td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td>
 654 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 655
 656 <tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td>
 657 <td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td>
 658 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 659
 660 <tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td>
 661 <td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td>
 662 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 663
 664 <tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td>
 665 <td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td>
 666 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 667
 668 <tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td>
 669 <td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td>
 670 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 671
 672 <tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td>
 673 <td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td>
 674 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 675
 676 <tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td>
 677 <td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td>
 678 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 679
 680 <tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td>
 681 <td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td>
 682 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 683
 684 <tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td>
 685 <td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td>
 686 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 687
 688 <tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td>
 689 <td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td>
 690 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 691
 692 <tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td>
 693 <td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td>
 694 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 695
 696 <tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td>
 697 <td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td>
 698 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 699
 700 <tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td>
 701 <td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td>
 702 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 703
 704 <tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td>
 705 <td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td>
 706 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 707
 708 </table>
 709
 710 <p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p>
 711
 712 <table>
 713
 714 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 715
 716 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 717 <td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td>
 718 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 719
 720 <tr class="for"><td>2.</td>
 721 <td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td>
 722 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 723
 724 <tr class="for"><td> 3.</td>
 725 <td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td>
 726 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 727
 728 <tr class="for"><td> 4.</td>
 729 <td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td>
 730 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 731
 732 <tr class="for"><td> 5.</td>
 733 <td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td>
 734 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 735
 736 <tr class="for"><td> 6.</td>
 737 <td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td>
 738 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 739
 740 <tr class="for"><td> 7.</td>
 741 <td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td>
 742 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 743
 744 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td>
 745 <td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td>
 746 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 747
 748 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td>
 749 <td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td>
 750 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 751
 752 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td>
 753 <td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td>
 754 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 755
 756 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td>
 757 <td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td>
 758 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 759
 760 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td>
 761 <td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td>
 762 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 763
 764 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td>
 765 <td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td>
 766 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 767
 768 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td>
 769 <td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td>
 770 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 771
 772 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td>
 773 <td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td>
 774 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 775
 776 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td>
 777 <td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td>
 778 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 779
 780 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td>
 781 <td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td>
 782 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 783
 784 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td>
 785 <td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td>
 786 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 787
 788 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td>
 789 <td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td>
 790 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 791
 792 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td>
 793 <td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td>
 794 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 795
 796 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td>
 797 <td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td>
 798 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 799
 800 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td>
 801 <td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td>
 802 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 803
 804 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td>
 805 <td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td>
 806 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 807
 808 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td>
 809 <td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td>
 810 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 811
 812 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td>
 813 <td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td>
 814 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 815
 816 </table>
 817
 818 <p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år.  Jeg tror det blir
 819 <a href="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>.  Hvis de kan bidra
 820 til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får
 821 kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har
 822 hatt så langt.</p>
 823
 824 </div>
 825       <div class="tags">
 826
 827
 828         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg</a>.
 829
 830
 831       </div>
 832     </div>
 833     <div class="padding"></div>
 834
 835     <div class="entry">
 836       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">Second beta release (beta 1) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
 837       <div class="date">22nd August 2013</div>
 838       <div class="body"><p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 839 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
 840 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:</p>
 841
 842 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
 843
 844 <p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 845 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 846
 847 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 848
 849 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 850 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 851 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 852 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 853 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 854 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 855 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 856 the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be
 857 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 858 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 859 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 860 desktop contains
 861 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 862 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 863 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 864 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 865
 866 <p>This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
 867 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
 868 release.</p>
 869
 870 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 871 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 872 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 873 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 874 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
 875 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
 876 the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
 877 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
 878 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
 879 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
 880 CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
 881
 882 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 883
 884 <ul>
 885
 886 <li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
 887     work also without a attached tty.</li>
 888 <li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
 889     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
 890     tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
 891     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
 892     required).</li>
 893
 894 </ul>
 895
 896 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 897
 898 <ul>
 899
 900 <li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
 901 needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
 902 <li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
 903 stick ISO image.</li>
 904 <li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
 905 <li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
 906 <li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
 907     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
 908     cope with this.</li>
 909 <li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
 910 <li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
 911     empty password hashes.</li>
 912 <li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
 913     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
 914     from joining the Samba domain.</li>
 915
 916 </ul>
 917
 918 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 919
 920 <ul>
 921
 922 <li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
 923     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
 924 <li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
 925     (using the KDE configuration).</li>
 926
 927 </ul>
 928
 929 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 930
 931 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 932
 933 <ul>
 934
 935 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
 936
 937 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
 938
 939 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
 940
 941 </ul>
 942
 943 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
 944 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
 945
 946 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 947
 948 <ul>
 949
 950 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
 951 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
 952 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
 953
 954 </ul>
 955
 956 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
 957 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</p>
 958
 959
 960 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 961
 962 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
 963 </div>
 964       <div class="tags">
 965
 966
 967         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 968
 969
 970       </div>
 971     </div>
 972     <div class="padding"></div>
 973
 974     <div class="entry">
 975       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_180_SSD_disk_with_Lenovo_firmware_can_not_use_Intel_firmware.html">Intel 180 SSD disk with Lenovo firmware can not use Intel firmware</a></div>
 976       <div class="date">18th August 2013</div>
 977       <div class="body"><p>Earlier, I reported about
 978 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">my
 979 problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk</a>.  Friday I was
 980 told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away.  And as
 981 there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided
 982 today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware
 983 currently on the disk.</p>
 984
 985 <p>I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found
 986 <a href="https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3472&DwnldID=18363&ProductFamily=Solid-State+Drives+and+Caching&ProductLine=Intel%c2%ae+High+Performance+Solid-State+Drive&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+SSD+520+Series+(180GB%2c+2.5in+SATA+6Gb%2fs%2c+25nm%2c+MLC)&lang=eng">issdfut_2.0.4.iso</a>
 987 (aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which
 988 according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD
 989 disks.  I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and
 990 booted the ISO from a USB stick.  The disk was recognized, but the
 991 program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused
 992 to insert any Intel firmware.  So no change, and the disk is still
 993 unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them
 994 working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware.  No idea how likely
 995 that is.  Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness.  I
 996 got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on
 997 the broken disks.</p>
 998 </div>
 999       <div class="tags">
1000
1001
1002         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>.
1003
1004
1005       </div>
1006     </div>
1007     <div class="padding"></div>
1008
1009     <div class="entry">
1010       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html">90 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</a></div>
1011       <div class="date"> 2nd August 2013</div>
1012       <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since my last update.  Since last summer, I
1013 have worked on a Norwegian
1014 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book
1015 <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig,
1016 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
1017 law.  Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
1018 number of strings to translate.  Due to real life constraints, I have
1019 not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
1020 I found time to work on it again.  Still lots of work left, but the
1021 first draft is nearing completion.  I created a graph to show the
1022 progress of the translation:</p>
1023
1024 <p><img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"></p>
1025
1026 <p>When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
1027 proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
1028 drawings need to be fixed.  There are probably also some index entries
1029 missing that need to be added.  This can be done by comparing the
1030 index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
1031 English docbook version with the paper version.  Last, the colophon
1032 page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
1033 done.  I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
1034 of the index pages.  All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
1035 docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
1036 Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.</p>
1037
1038 <p>There is still need for translators and people with docbook
1039 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
1040 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
1041 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
1042 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
1043 around?  There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
1044 If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
1045 project files currently available from
1046 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
1047
1048 <p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
1049 the updated
1050 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
1051 and
1052 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
1053 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
1054 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
1055 saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
1056 </div>
1057       <div class="tags">
1058
1059
1060         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.
1061
1062
1063       </div>
1064     </div>
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1072 <h2>Archive</h2>
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1074
1075 <li>2013
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1077
1078 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
1079
1080 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
1081
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1083
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1089
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1093
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1095
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1097
1098 </ul></li>
1099
1100 <li>2012
1101 <ul>
1102
1103 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1104
1105 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
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1124
1125 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1126
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1128
1129 <li>2011
1130 <ul>
1131
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1133
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1149
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1151
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1153
1154 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1155
1156 </ul></li>
1157
1158 <li>2010
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1160
1161 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1162
1163 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1164
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1174
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1176
1177 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
1178
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1180
1181 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1182
1183 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1184
1185 </ul></li>
1186
1187 <li>2009
1188 <ul>
1189
1190 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1191
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1195
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1201
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1203
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1205
1206 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1207
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1209
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1211
1212 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1213
1214 </ul></li>
1215
1216 <li>2008
1217 <ul>
1218
1219 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1220
1221 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1222
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1224
1225 </ul>
1226
1227
1228
1229 <h2>Tags</h2>
1230 <ul>
1231
1232  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
1233
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1247
1248  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (142)</a></li>
1249
1250  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (10)</a></li>
1251
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1254  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
1255
1256  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (219)</a></li>
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1302  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
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1311
1312  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
1313
1314  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (43)</a></li>
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1316  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (3)</a></li>
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1318  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (8)</a></li>
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1320  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (18)</a></li>
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1326  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (39)</a></li>
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