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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 <p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
  74
  75 <p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
  76 There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
  77 figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
  78 given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
  79 is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
  80 completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on
  81 batman-adv for now.  It sure help me to  know that the very cool
  82 <a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a>
  83 is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
  84 organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
  85 less industrialized communities.  Check out this cool video presenting
  86 that project (from
  87 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube</a>):</p>
  88
  89 <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
  90
  91 <p>According to the wikipedia page on
  92 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless
  93 mesh network</a> there are around 70 competing schemes for routing
  94 packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
  95 B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
  96 based community mesh networks.</p>
  97
  98 <p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
  99 (as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
 100 network.  One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
 101 vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
 102 computer.  The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
 103 least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up.  A
 104 <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good
 105 introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project.  These are
 106 the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p>
 107
 108 <p><table>
 109 <tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr>
 110 <tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr>
 111 <tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr>
 112 <td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr>
 113 <td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td>
 114 </table></p>
 115
 116 <p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
 117 in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers.  (See a nice post from
 118 VillageTelco about
 119 "<a href="http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information
 120 about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!</a>
 121 for details.)  When these settings are activated and you have some
 122 other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
 123 network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
 124 any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)</p>
 125
 126 <p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
 127 but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
 128 firmware supporting batman-adv.  If anyone know how to use that old
 129 wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.</p>
 130
 131 <p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
 132 us on IRC, either channel
 133 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace</a>
 134 or <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug</a> on
 135 irc.freenode.net.</p>
 136
 137 <p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
 138 research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
 139 and Innovation called
 140 <a href="http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The
 141 reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks</a> and elsewhere
 142 learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
 143 Grünerløkka in Oslo.  So mesh networks are also interesting for
 144 commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
 145 to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
 146 know have closed down the experiment.  Perhaps Telenor or others would
 147 be interested in a cooperation?</p>
 148
 149 <p><strong>Update 2013-10-12</strong>: I was just
 150 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005900.html">told
 151 by the Serval project developers</a> that they no longer use
 152 batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based
 153 mesh system.</p>
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 158         Tags: <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/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 166       <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>
 167       <div class="date"> 8th October 2013</div>
 168       <div class="body"><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
 169 Salvador had published a
 170 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
 171 Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
 172 Skolelinux profile.  This is the profile intended for use at home or
 173 on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
 174 services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
 175 in other word a single user machine).  The result is 11 minutes long,
 176 and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
 177 Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
 178 showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model
 179 of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
 180 other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
 181 advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
 182 Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
 183 computers without hard drives by installing one central
 184 <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p>
 185
 186 <p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p>
 187
 188 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 189
 190 <p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux?  Please let
 191 me know. :)</p>
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 196         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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 204       <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>
 205       <div class="date">29th September 2013</div>
 206       <div class="body"><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
 207 Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team.  The
 208 complete announcement text can be found at
 209 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
 210 section</a>, translated to several languages.  Please check it out.</p>
 211
 212 <p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon.  One
 213 can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
 214 partition is too small.  A workaround is to extend the partition (use
 215 lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p>
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 220         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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 228       <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>
 229       <div class="date">27th September 2013</div>
 230       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
 231 project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
 232 vision, ideas and solution several places.  Here is a little
 233 collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p>
 234
 235 <ul>
 236
 237 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
 238 2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li>
 239
 240 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
 241 discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 242
 243 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
 244 Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
 245 Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a>
 246 (Youtube)</li>
 247
 248 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011
 249 Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li>
 250
 251 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
 252 the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 253
 254 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
 255 Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
 256 York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li>
 257
 258 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
 259 to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a>
 260 (Youtube)</li>
 261
 262 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
 263 of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li>
 264
 265 <li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
 266 1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li>
 267
 268 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
 269 FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
 270 2013</a> (Youtube)</li>
 271
 272 </ul>
 273
 274 <p>A larger list is available from
 275 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
 276 Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p>
 277
 278 <p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
 279 Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
 280 Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
 281 a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
 282 The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
 283 pending in NEW.  The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
 284 metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload.  Join
 285 us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
 286 (#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and
 287 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
 288 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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 293         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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 301       <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>
 302       <div class="date">16th September 2013</div>
 303       <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 304 today.  This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:</p>
 305
 306 <blockquote>
 307 <p>Hi,</p>
 308
 309 <p>it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
 310 short) of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 311 Skolelinux</a> based on Debian Wheezy!</p>
 312
 313 <p>Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
 314 we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
 315 weekend.  We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
 316 if you find something, please notify us immediately!</p>
 317
 318 <p>(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
 319 another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)</p>
 320
 321 <p>Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
 322 compared to beta1:</p>
 323
 324 <ul>
 325
 326 <li>The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
 327 also gets Chromium to use this proxy.</li>
 328 <li>Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
 329 understand ical/dav sources.</li>
 330 <li>Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
 331 main server.</li>
 332 <li>A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.</li>
 333 <li>Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
 334 (6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
 335 (0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
 336 (3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).</li>
 337
 338 </ul>
 339
 340 <p>Where to get it:</p>
 341
 342 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 343
 344 <ul>
 345 <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>
 346 <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>
 347 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .</li>
 348 </ul>
 349
 350 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is:  3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f</p>
 351
 352 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
 353 <ul>
 354 <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>
 355 <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>
 356 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .</li>
 357 </ul>
 358
 359 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e</p>
 360
 361 <p>The Source DVD image has the filename
 362 debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
 363 089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
 364 as the other isos.</p>
 365
 366 <p>How to report bugs</p>
 367
 368 <p>For information how to report bugs please see
 369 <br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
 370
 371
 372 <p>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</p>
 373
 374 <p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
 375 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
 376 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
 377 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
 378 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
 379 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
 380 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
 381 machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
 382 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
 383 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
 384 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
 385 packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
 386 can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 387
 388 <p>This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
 389 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
 390 Squeeze release.</p>
 391
 392 <p>Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases</p>
 393
 394 <p>Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 395 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 396 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 397 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 398 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
 399 Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
 400 password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
 401 (backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
 402 to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
 403 directory.</p>
 404
 405
 406 <p>cheers,
 407 <br>        Holger</p>
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 413         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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 421       <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>
 422       <div class="date">10th September 2013</div>
 423       <div class="body"><p>I was introduced to the
 424 <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
 425 in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
 426 of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
 427 within the legal protection of their own homes.  The idea is to give
 428 people back the power over their network and machines, and return
 429 Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.  Instead of
 430 depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
 431 control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
 432
 433 <p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
 434 taken priority.  But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
 435 and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
 436 communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
 437 actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
 438
 439 <p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
 440 Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
 441 create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
 442 up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
 443 communication.  The initial deployment platform have been the
 444 <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
 445 which is a piece of hardware I do not own.  So to be able to test what
 446 the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install
 447 it on some hardware I do have access to.  I have rewritten the
 448 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
 449 image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
 450 setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
 451 set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
 452 the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
 453 missing in Debian).</p>
 454
 455 <p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
 456 scripts
 457 (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
 458 and a administrative web interface
 459 (<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
 460 withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
 461 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
 462 (freedombox-privoxy).  There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
 463 client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
 464 trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
 465 (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>).  The
 466 web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
 467 services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc.  Not much of
 468 this is really working yet, see
 469 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
 470 project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories.  Most of the code is
 471 on github at the moment.  The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
 472 box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
 473 users.  I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
 474 know there are several branches spread around github and other places
 475 with lots of half baked features.</p>
 476
 477 <p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
 478 following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
 479 at.</p>
 480
 481 <p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
 482
 483 <ol>
 484
 485 <li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
 486 <li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
 487 <li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
 488 to the Debian installer:<p>
 489 <pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
 490
 491 <li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
 492 install on.</li>
 493
 494 <li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
 495 few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
 496
 497 </ol>
 498
 499 <p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
 500
 501 <ol>
 502
 503 <li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
 504 <li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
 505 <li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
 506 <pre>
 507 deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
 508 </pre></li>
 509 <li><p>Run this as root:</p>
 510 <pre>
 511 wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
 512    apt-key add -
 513 apt-get update
 514 apt-get install freedombox-setup
 515 /usr/lib/freedombox/setup
 516 </pre></li>
 517 <li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
 518
 519 </ol>
 520
 521 <p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
 522 freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
 523 the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
 524 in my APT repository.  But do not let this stop you.  It is only a
 525 short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
 526
 527 <p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
 528 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
 529 off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
 530 disable</tt>" as root.</p>
 531
 532 <p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
 533 problems.  We gather on the IRC channel
 534 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
 535 irc.debian.org and the
 536 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
 537 mailing list</a>.</p>
 538
 539 <p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
 540 <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
 541 welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
 542 get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
 543 to look at the rest of plinth.  The default user is 'admin' and the
 544 default password is 'secret'.</p>
 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>, <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>.
 550
 551
 552       </div>
 553     </div>
 554     <div class="padding"></div>
 555
 556     <div class="entry">
 557       <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>
 558       <div class="date"> 8th September 2013</div>
 559       <div class="body"><p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og
 560 Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske
 561 folk.  Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt
 562 år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de
 563 snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen.  Det skal også
 564 registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost
 565 til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte.  Saken er kjent som
 566 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet
 567 (DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges
 568 grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt.  Det ble i praksis innført brev og
 569 besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen.  Rapporter fra de landene som
 570 allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes
 571 kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i
 572 kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.  Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre
 573 millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets
 574 arbeide.  Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt
 575 på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.
 576 Se mer på
 577 <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a>
 578 og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p>
 579
 580 <p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje?  Et åpenbart problem er at
 581 medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut.  Den innsamlede
 582 informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med
 583 journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten
 584 av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon.  Et annet er at
 585 advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem
 586 som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat.
 587 Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke
 588 nettsteder en har besøkt.  Har en besøkt hivnorge.no,
 589 swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede
 590 interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være
 591 tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
 592
 593 <p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for.  Høyre og
 594 Arbeiderpartiet.  Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har
 595 DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre
 596 fylkene).  Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse
 597 partiene.  Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med
 598 informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget,
 599 basert på informasjon fra mine venner i
 600 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de
 601 Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>.
 602 Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p>
 603
 604 <style type="text/css">
 605 .for    {background-color:#F5A9A9;}
 606 .mot    {background-color:#A9F5BC;}
 607 .ukjent { }
 608 </style>
 609
 610 <table>
 611 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 612
 613 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 614 <td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td>
 615 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 616
 617 <tr class="mot"><td>2.</td>
 618 <td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td>
 619 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr>
 620
 621 <tr class="mot"><td>3.</td>
 622 <td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td>
 623 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td>
 624
 625 <tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td>
 626 <td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td>
 627 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 628
 629 <tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td>
 630 <td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td>
 631 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 632
 633 <tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td>
 634 <td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td>
 635 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 636
 637 <tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td>
 638 <td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td>
 639 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 640
 641 <tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td>
 642 <td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td>
 643 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 644
 645 <tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td>
 646 <td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td>
 647 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 648
 649 <tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td>
 650 <td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td>
 651 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 652
 653 <tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td>
 654 <td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td>
 655 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 656
 657 <tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td>
 658 <td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td>
 659 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 660
 661 <tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td>
 662 <td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td>
 663 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 664
 665 <tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td>
 666 <td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td>
 667 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 668
 669 <tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td>
 670 <td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td>
 671 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 672
 673 <tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td>
 674 <td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td>
 675 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 676
 677 <tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td>
 678 <td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td>
 679 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 680
 681 <tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td>
 682 <td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td>
 683 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 684
 685 <tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td>
 686 <td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td>
 687 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 688
 689 <tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td>
 690 <td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td>
 691 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 692
 693 <tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td>
 694 <td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td>
 695 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 696
 697 <tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td>
 698 <td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td>
 699 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 700
 701 <tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td>
 702 <td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td>
 703 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 704
 705 <tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td>
 706 <td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td>
 707 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 708
 709 <tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td>
 710 <td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td>
 711 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 712
 713 </table>
 714
 715 <p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p>
 716
 717 <table>
 718
 719 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 720
 721 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 722 <td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td>
 723 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 724
 725 <tr class="for"><td>2.</td>
 726 <td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td>
 727 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 728
 729 <tr class="for"><td> 3.</td>
 730 <td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td>
 731 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 732
 733 <tr class="for"><td> 4.</td>
 734 <td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td>
 735 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 736
 737 <tr class="for"><td> 5.</td>
 738 <td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td>
 739 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 740
 741 <tr class="for"><td> 6.</td>
 742 <td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td>
 743 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 744
 745 <tr class="for"><td> 7.</td>
 746 <td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td>
 747 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 748
 749 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td>
 750 <td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td>
 751 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 752
 753 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td>
 754 <td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td>
 755 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 756
 757 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td>
 758 <td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td>
 759 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 760
 761 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td>
 762 <td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td>
 763 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 764
 765 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td>
 766 <td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td>
 767 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 768
 769 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td>
 770 <td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td>
 771 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 772
 773 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td>
 774 <td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td>
 775 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 776
 777 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td>
 778 <td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td>
 779 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 780
 781 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td>
 782 <td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td>
 783 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 784
 785 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td>
 786 <td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td>
 787 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 788
 789 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td>
 790 <td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td>
 791 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 792
 793 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td>
 794 <td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td>
 795 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 796
 797 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td>
 798 <td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td>
 799 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 800
 801 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td>
 802 <td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td>
 803 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 804
 805 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td>
 806 <td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td>
 807 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 808
 809 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td>
 810 <td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td>
 811 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 812
 813 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td>
 814 <td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td>
 815 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 816
 817 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td>
 818 <td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td>
 819 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 820
 821 </table>
 822
 823 <p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år.  Jeg tror det blir
 824 <a href="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>.  Hvis de kan bidra
 825 til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får
 826 kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har
 827 hatt så langt.</p>
 828
 829 </div>
 830       <div class="tags">
 831
 832
 833         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>.
 834
 835
 836       </div>
 837     </div>
 838     <div class="padding"></div>
 839
 840     <div class="entry">
 841       <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>
 842       <div class="date">22nd August 2013</div>
 843       <div class="body"><p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 844 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
 845 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:</p>
 846
 847 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
 848
 849 <p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 850 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 851
 852 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 853
 854 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 855 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 856 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 857 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 858 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 859 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 860 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 861 the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be
 862 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 863 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 864 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 865 desktop contains
 866 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 867 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 868 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 869 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 870
 871 <p>This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
 872 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
 873 release.</p>
 874
 875 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 876 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 877 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 878 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 879 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
 880 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
 881 the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
 882 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
 883 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
 884 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
 885 CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
 886
 887 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 888
 889 <ul>
 890
 891 <li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
 892     work also without a attached tty.</li>
 893 <li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
 894     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
 895     tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
 896     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
 897     required).</li>
 898
 899 </ul>
 900
 901 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 902
 903 <ul>
 904
 905 <li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
 906 needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
 907 <li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
 908 stick ISO image.</li>
 909 <li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
 910 <li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
 911 <li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
 912     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
 913     cope with this.</li>
 914 <li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
 915 <li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
 916     empty password hashes.</li>
 917 <li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
 918     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
 919     from joining the Samba domain.</li>
 920
 921 </ul>
 922
 923 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 924
 925 <ul>
 926
 927 <li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
 928     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
 929 <li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
 930     (using the KDE configuration).</li>
 931
 932 </ul>
 933
 934 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 935
 936 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 937
 938 <ul>
 939
 940 <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>
 941
 942 <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>
 943
 944 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
 945
 946 </ul>
 947
 948 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
 949 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
 950
 951 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 952
 953 <ul>
 954
 955 <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>
 956 <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>
 957 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
 958
 959 </ul>
 960
 961 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
 962 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</p>
 963
 964
 965 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 966
 967 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
 968 </div>
 969       <div class="tags">
 970
 971
 972         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>.
 973
 974
 975       </div>
 976     </div>
 977     <div class="padding"></div>
 978
 979     <div class="entry">
 980       <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>
 981       <div class="date">18th August 2013</div>
 982       <div class="body"><p>Earlier, I reported about
 983 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">my
 984 problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk</a>.  Friday I was
 985 told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away.  And as
 986 there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided
 987 today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware
 988 currently on the disk.</p>
 989
 990 <p>I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found
 991 <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>
 992 (aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which
 993 according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD
 994 disks.  I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and
 995 booted the ISO from a USB stick.  The disk was recognized, but the
 996 program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused
 997 to insert any Intel firmware.  So no change, and the disk is still
 998 unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them
 999 working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware.  No idea how likely
1000 that is.  Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness.  I
1001 got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on
1002 the broken disks.</p>
1003 </div>
1004       <div class="tags">
1005
1006
1007         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>.
1008
1009
1010       </div>
1011     </div>
1012     <div class="padding"></div>
1013
1014     <div class="entry">
1015       <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>
1016       <div class="date"> 2nd August 2013</div>
1017       <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since my last update.  Since last summer, I
1018 have worked on a Norwegian
1019 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book
1020 <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig,
1021 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
1022 law.  Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
1023 number of strings to translate.  Due to real life constraints, I have
1024 not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
1025 I found time to work on it again.  Still lots of work left, but the
1026 first draft is nearing completion.  I created a graph to show the
1027 progress of the translation:</p>
1028
1029 <p><img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"></p>
1030
1031 <p>When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
1032 proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
1033 drawings need to be fixed.  There are probably also some index entries
1034 missing that need to be added.  This can be done by comparing the
1035 index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
1036 English docbook version with the paper version.  Last, the colophon
1037 page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
1038 done.  I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
1039 of the index pages.  All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
1040 docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
1041 Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.</p>
1042
1043 <p>There is still need for translators and people with docbook
1044 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
1045 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
1046 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
1047 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
1048 around?  There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
1049 If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
1050 project files currently available from
1051 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
1052
1053 <p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
1054 the updated
1055 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
1056 and
1057 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
1058 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
1059 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
1060 saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
1061 </div>
1062       <div class="tags">
1063
1064
1065         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>.
1066
1067
1068       </div>
1069     </div>
1070     <div class="padding"></div>
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1077 <h2>Archive</h2>
1078 <ul>
1079
1080 <li>2013
1081 <ul>
1082
1083 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
1084
1085 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
1086
1087 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
1088
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1090
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1098
1099 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (5)</a></li>
1100
1101 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1102
1103 </ul></li>
1104
1105 <li>2012
1106 <ul>
1107
1108 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1109
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1111
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1128 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
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1130 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1131
1132 </ul></li>
1133
1134 <li>2011
1135 <ul>
1136
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1138
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1140
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1156
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1158
1159 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1160
1161 </ul></li>
1162
1163 <li>2010
1164 <ul>
1165
1166 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1167
1168 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1169
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1173
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1179
1180 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
1181
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1183
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1185
1186 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1187
1188 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1189
1190 </ul></li>
1191
1192 <li>2009
1193 <ul>
1194
1195 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1196
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1200
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1208
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1210
1211 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1212
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1214
1215 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1216
1217 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1218
1219 </ul></li>
1220
1221 <li>2008
1222 <ul>
1223
1224 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1225
1226 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1227
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1229
1230 </ul>
1231
1232
1233
1234 <h2>Tags</h2>
1235 <ul>
1236
1237  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
1238
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1253  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (142)</a></li>
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1317  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
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