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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from March 2012</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from March 2012</description>
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  10                 <title>Er billettautomatene til kollektivtrafikken i Oslo uten sikkerhetsoppdateringer?</title>
  11                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html</link>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;På tur mot jobb i dag fikk jeg se en av Ruters billettautomater i
  15 Nydalen som var brutt sammen.  Tok bilde av det hele, og lot meg
  16 overraske over at den så ut til å kjøre
  17 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000&quot;&gt;Windows 2000
  18 Professional&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  19
  20 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-03-02-ruter-win2000pro.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;40%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-03-02-ruter-win2000pro.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;[foto av billettautomat]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;p&gt;Jeg ble overrasket da den versjonen av operativsystemene til
  23 Microsoft så vidt jeg vet ikke lenger mottar sikkerhetsoppdateringer.
  24 I følge Wikipedia og
  25 &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&amp;alpha=Windows+2000&amp;Filter=FilterNO&quot;&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt;
  26 har den ikke hatt støtte fra Microsoft siden 2010-07-13.  Det er en
  27 ganske stor sikkerhetsrisiko å bruke operativsystemer i et og et halvt
  28 år etter at de ikke lenger blir tatt vare på sikkerhetsmessig.&lt;/p&gt;
  29
  30 &lt;p&gt;Bildet er tilgjengelig for bruk med bruksvilkårene til
  31 &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/no/&quot;&gt;Creative
  32 Commons Navngivelse 3.0 Norge (CC BY 3.0)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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  37                 <title>Stopmotion for making stop motion animations on Linux - reloaded</title>
  38                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stopmotion_for_making_stop_motion_animations_on_Linux___reloaded.html</link>
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  40                 <pubDate>Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
  41                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Many years ago, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
  42 / Debian Edu project&lt;/a&gt; initiated a student project to create a tool
  43 for making stop motion movies.  The proposal came from a teacher
  44 needing such tool on Skolelinux.  The project, called &quot;stopmotion&quot;,
  45 was manned by two extraordinary students and won a school award and a
  46 national aware with this great project.  The project was initiated and
  47 mentored by Herman Robak, and manned by the students Bjørn Erik Nilsen
  48 and Fredrik Berg Kjølstad.  They got in touch with people at Aardman
  49 Animation studio and received feedback on how professionals would like
  50 such stopmotion tool to work, and the end result was and is used by
  51 animators around the globe.  But as is usual after studying, both got
  52 jobs and went elsewhere, and did not have time to properly tend to the
  53 project, and it has been lingering for a few years now.  Until last
  54 year...&lt;/p&gt;
  55
  56 &lt;p&gt;Last year some of the users got together with Herman, and moved the
  57 project to Sourceforge and in effect restarted the project under a new
  58 name,
  59 &lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxstopmotion/&quot;&gt;linuxstopmotion&lt;/a&gt;.
  60 The name change was done to make it possible to find the project using
  61 Internet search engines (try to search for &#39;stopmotion&#39; to see what I
  62 mean). I&#39;ve been following
  63 &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxstopmotion-community&quot;&gt;the
  64 mailing list&lt;/a&gt; and the improvement already in place and planned for
  65 the future is encouraging.  If you want to make stop motion movies.
  66 Check it out. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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  71                 <title>Third release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
  72                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
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  74                 <pubDate>Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
  75                 <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we wrapped up and published the third release
  76 candidate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
  77 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based on Squeeze.  The full announcement is
  78 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
  79 from the project announcement list.  Check it out if you
  80 need a software solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
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  85                 <title>Hamar kommune imponerer i FiksGataMi-rapportert problem i dag</title>
  86                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hamar_kommune_imponerer_i_FiksGataMi_rapportert_problem_i_dag.html</link>
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  88                 <pubDate>Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
  89                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Tok nettopp en titt på listen over løste problemer i
  90 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; (hentet via
  91 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/open311&quot;&gt;Open311-søkegrensesnittet&lt;/a&gt;),
  92 og lot meg imponere over Hamar kommunes raske respons.  Sjekk
  93 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/report/10791&quot;&gt;rapport #10791&lt;/a&gt;, der
  94 Hamar kommune kl. 10:19 i dag får beskjed om at det er dårlig
  95 brøyting, allerede 10:50 melder kommunen tilbake at de er på saken.
  96 18:26 samme dag melder så innsender at problemet er løst.  Hatten av
  97 for folkene i Hamar kommune!&lt;/p&gt;
  98
  99 &lt;p&gt;Apropos bra respons.  En bruker sendte for noen dager inn følgende
 100 tilbakemelding til oss som står bak tjenesten.&lt;/p&gt;
 101
 102 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Rapporterte inn slukte gatelys på Torsnesveien, og to
 103 uker etterpå er lysene tilbake. Flott service!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 104
 105 &lt;p&gt;Det er veldig hyggelig å høre at FiksGataMi fungerer bra for
 106 innbyggerne.  Måtte alle landets innbyggere få samme gode erfaring med
 107 FiksGataMi og det offentlige.  I dag er det 52 kommuner som har lenke
 108 til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider, og dermed indikerer at de liker vår
 109 tjeneste.  Måtte de få følge av resten av landets kommuner snart. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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 114                 <title>Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</title>
 115                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html</link>
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 117                 <pubDate>Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
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 119
 120 &lt;p&gt;One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
 121 screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
 122 Debian Edu Squeeze.  The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
 123 also available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/37675399&quot;&gt;vimeo&lt;/a&gt; and
 124 download as a
 125 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg
 126 Theora&lt;/a&gt; file.  Check it out below.&lt;/p&gt;
 127
 128 &lt;p&gt;&lt;video id=&quot;gosa-mass-user-create-movie&quot; width=&quot;256&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; preload controls&gt;
 129   &lt;source src=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot; type=&#39;video/ogg; codecs=&quot;theora, vorbis&quot;&#39; /&gt;
 130     &lt;p&gt;Download video as
 131       &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 132 &lt;/video&gt;
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 147                 <title>Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</title>
 148                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html</link>
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 150                 <pubDate>Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
 151                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/&quot;&gt;the
 152 interview series&lt;/a&gt; conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian
 153 interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 154 community.  This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a
 155 more international audience.&lt;/p&gt;
 156
 157 &lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
 158 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
 159 Europe, there are users all around the globe.  One of those far away
 160 from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
 161 and contributor.  It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
 162 work out of the box in Japan.  I got him to answer a few questions,
 163 and am happy to share the response with you. :)
 164
 165
 166 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 167
 168 &lt;p&gt;My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
 169 and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
 170 Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
 171 teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
 172 Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
 173 I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
 174 primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
 175 so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
 176 also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
 177 to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
 178 appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
 179
 180 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 181 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 182
 183 &lt;p&gt;In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
 184 server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
 185 samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
 186 Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn&#39;t really improve my setup. I
 187 did various desperate searches for things like &quot;school Linux server&quot;
 188 and ended up in a document called &quot;Drift&quot; something or other. Reading
 189 there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
 190 problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
 191 previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
 192 Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
 193 downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
 194 Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
 195 my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.&lt;/p&gt;
 196
 197 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 198 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 199
 200 &lt;p&gt;For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
 201 workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
 202 ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
 203 designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
 204 doesn&#39;t necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
 205 school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
 206 Japan.&lt;/p&gt;
 207
 208 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 209 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 210
 211 &lt;p&gt;The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
 212 have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
 213 make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
 214 who don&#39;t need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
 215 important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
 216 instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
 217 default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
 218 kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
 219 Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is.  A
 220 second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
 221 customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
 222 multiplies. For example, backup wasn&#39;t working properly in Lenny. It
 223 took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
 224 I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
 225 help.&lt;/p&gt;
 226
 227 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 228
 229 &lt;p&gt;Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
 230 studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
 231 (customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
 232 still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
 233 house, that&#39;s very useful for the family photos and music.  At school
 234 the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
 235 have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
 236 day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
 237 installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS.  We also
 238 have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
 239 and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.&lt;/p&gt;
 240
 241 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 242 get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 243
 244 &lt;p&gt;Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
 245 and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
 246 popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
 247 to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
 248 file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago.  The Edu aspect is
 249 also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
 250 Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu?  But of course the main attraction is
 251 budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
 252 compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
 253 is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
 254 are not impressed when their USB drive doesn&#39;t work, or their browser
 255 doesn&#39;t play flash, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
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