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  14        <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  20  <p>Entries from June 2010.</p>
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  25  <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/KDM_fail_at_boot_with_NVidia_cards___and_no_one_try_to_fix_it_.html">KDM fail at boot with NVidia cards - and no one try to fix it?</a>
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  28   2010-06-01 17:05
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  33 <p>It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to
  34 start at boot when an NVidia video card is used is handled.  The
  35 problem seem to be that the nvidia X.org driver uses a long time to
  36 initialize, and this duration is longer than kdm is configured to
  37 wait.</p>
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  39 <p>I came across two bugs related to this issue,
  40 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/583312">#583312</a> initially filed
  41 against initscripts and passed on to nvidia-glx when it became obvious
  42 that the nvidia drivers were involved, and
  43 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/524751">#524751</a> initially filed against
  44 kdm and passed on to src:nvidia-graphics-drivers for unknown reasons.</p>
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  46 <p>To me, it seem that no-one is interested in actually solving the
  47 problem nvidia video card owners experience and make sure the Debian
  48 distribution work out of the box for these users.  The nvidia driver
  49 maintainers expect kdm to be set up to wait longer, while kdm expect
  50 the nvidia driver maintainers to fix the driver to start faster, and
  51 while they wait for each other I guess the users end up switching to a
  52 distribution that work for them.  I have no idea what the solution is,
  53 but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.</p>
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  55 <p>I wonder why we end up handling bugs this way.</p>
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  70  <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Togsatsing_p___norsk__mot_sykkel.html">Togsatsing på norsk, mot sykkel</a>
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  73   2010-06-02 23:45
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  78 <p>Det står dårlig til med toget når en finner på å la det
  79 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article3677060.ece">kappkjøre
  80 med sykkel</a>...  Jeg tror det trengs strukturendringer for å få
  81 fikset på togproblemene i Norge.</p>
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  83 <p>Mon tro hva toglinje mellom Narvik og Tromsø ville hatt slags
  84 effekt på området der?</p>
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  91   Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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  99  <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sitesummary_tip__Listing_computer_hardware_models_used_at_site.html">Sitesummary tip: Listing computer hardware models used at site</a>
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 107 <p>When using sitesummary at a site to track machines, it is possible
 108 to get a list of the machine types in use thanks to the DMI
 109 information extracted from each machine.  The script to do so is
 110 included in the sitesummary package, and here is example output from
 111 the Skolelinux build servers:</p>
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 114 maintainer:~# /usr/lib/sitesummary/hardware-model-summary
 115   vendor                    count
 116   Dell Computer Corporation     1
 117     PowerEdge 1750              1
 118   IBM                           1
 119     eserver xSeries 345 -[8670M1X]-     1
 120   Intel                         2
 121   [no-dmi-info]                 3
 122 maintainer:~#
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 125 <p>The quality of the report depend on the quality of the DMI tables
 126 provided in each machine.  Here there are Intel machines without model
 127 information listed with Intel as vendor and mo model, and virtual Xen
 128 machines listed as [no-dmi-info].  One can add -l as a command line
 129 option to list the individual machines.</p>
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 131 <p>A larger list is
 132 <a href="http://narvikskolen.no/sitesummary/">available from the the
 133 city of Narvik</a>, which uses Skolelinux on all their shools and also
 134 provide the basic sitesummary report publicly.  In their report there
 135 are ~1400 machines. I know they use both Ubuntu and Skolelinux on
 136 their machines, and as sitesummary is available in both distributions,
 137 it is trivial to get all of them to report to the same central
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 153  <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_manual_for_standards_wars___.html">A manual for standards wars...</a>
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 156   2010-06-06 14:15
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 161 <p>Via the
 162 <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/robweir/antic-atom/~3/QzU4RgoAGMg/weekly-links-10.html">blog
 163 of Rob Weir</a> I came across the very interesting essay named
 164 <a href="http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/wars.pdf">The Art of
 165 Standards Wars</a> (PDF 25 pages).  I recommend it for everyone
 166 following the standards wars of today.</p>
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 185 <h2>Archive</h2>
 186 <ul>
 187
 188 <li>2010
 189 <ul>
 190
 191 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 192
 193 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 194
 195 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
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 197 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
 198
 199 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 200
 201 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (4)</a></li>
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 204
 205 <li>2009
 206 <ul>
 207
 208 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
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 210 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
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 212 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
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 214 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
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 216 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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 218 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
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 220 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
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 222 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
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 224 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
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 226 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
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 228 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
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 230 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
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 234 <li>2008
 235 <ul>
 236
 237 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
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 239 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
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 247 <h2>Tags</h2>
 248 <ul>
 249
 250  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (11)</a></li>
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 252  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/amiga">amiga (1)</a></li>
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 254  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/aros">aros (1)</a></li>
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 256  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (23)</a></li>
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 258  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (23)</a></li>
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 260  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (34)</a></li>
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 262  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (1)</a></li>
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 264  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (6)</a></li>
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 272  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (5)</a></li>
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 274  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (66)</a></li>
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 288  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (3)</a></li>
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 296  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (1)</a></li>
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 298  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (6)</a></li>
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