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23 <div class=
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</a></div>
24 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
11 15:
10</div>
26 <p>As I continue to explore
27 <a href=
"http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin
</a>, I've starting to wonder
28 what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
29 and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
</p>
31 <p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
32 verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
33 is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
34 published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
35 possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
36 that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
37 all transactions. There I can see that my address
38 <a href=
"http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
</a>
39 have received
16.06 Bitcoin, the
40 <a href=
"http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv
8MHqvwst
3</a>
41 address of Simon Phipps have received
181.97 BitCoin and the address
42 <a href=
"http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
</A>
43 of EFF have received
2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
44 every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
45 fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
46 address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
47 generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
48 there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
49 organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
50 themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
</p>
52 <p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
53 regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
54 without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
55 laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
56 If the Skolelinux foundation
57 (
<a href=
"http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
58 Debian Labs
</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
59 normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
60 Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
61 not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
62 should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
63 income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
64 BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
</p>
66 <p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
67 accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
68 the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
69 easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
70 access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
71 a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
72 so I wonder when my kind of show would start accepting BitCoins. I
73 would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
74 and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
75 if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
76 to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
77 will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
78 probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
79 believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
82 <p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
83 CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
84 competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
85 to see which one get the next lump of cash. The "winner" get
50
86 BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
87 join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
88 by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
89 and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the
50
91 <a href=
"http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool
</a>
92 if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
93 machine to participate there yet.
</p>
99 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin
</a>,
<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/personvern">personvern
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet
</a>.
103 <div class=
"padding"></div>
106 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pornoskannerne_p___flyplassene_bedrer_visst_ikke_sikkerheten.html">Pornoskannerne på flyplassene bedrer visst ikke sikkerheten
</a></div>
107 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
11 10:
45</div>
109 <p>Via
<a href=
"http://webmink.com/2010/12/10/links-for-2010-12-10/">en
110 blogpost fra Simon Phipps i går
</a>, fant jeg en referanse til
111 <a href=
"http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/9/exposed-tsas-x-rated-scanner-fraud/">en
112 artikkel i Washington Times
</a> som igjen refererer til en artikkel i
113 det fagfellevurderte tidsskriftet Journal of Transportation Security
115 "
<a href=
"http://springerlink.com/content/g6620thk08679160/fulltext.html">An
116 evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image
117 characteristics
</a>" som enkelt konstaterer at
118 <a href="http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?a=
2389&c=
124">pornoscannerne</a>
119 som kler av reisende på flyplasser ikke er i stand til å avsløre det
120 produsenten og amerikanske myndigheter sier de skal avsløre. Kort
121 sagt, de bedrer ikke sikkerheten. Reisende må altså la ansatte på
122 flyplasser <a href="http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/
">se dem
123 nakne eller la seg beføle i skrittet</a> uten grunn. Jeg vil
124 fortsette å nekte å bruke disse pornoskannerne, unngå flyplasser der
125 de er tatt i bruk, og reise med andre transportmidler enn fly hvis jeg
132 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/sikkerhet
">sikkerhet</a>.
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139 <div class="title
"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html
">Now accepting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money</a></div>
140 <div class="date
">2010-12-10 08:20</div>
142 <p>With this weeks lawless
143 <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
2010/
12/
06/wikileaks/index.html
">governmental
144 attacks</a> on Wikileak and
145 <a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/
2010/
12/
06/war_on_speech
">free
146 speech</a>, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
147 not be trusted to handle money transactions.
149 <a href="http://webmink.com/
2010/
12/
06/now-accepting-bitcoin/
">Simon
150 Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about a project that a friend of
151 mine mentioned earlier. I decided to follow Simon's example, and get
152 involved with <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/
">BitCoin</a>. I got
153 some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
154 some bitcoins to get started. I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
155 for helping me remember BitCoin.</p>
157 <p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder? It is a digital
158 crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
159 networks. It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
160 control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
161 and companies alike to block donations and other transactions. The
162 source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
163 for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
164 line client builds just fine. Hopefully Jonas
165 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/
578157">will get the package into
168 <p>Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
169 There are <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/trade
">companies accepting
170 bitcoins</a> when selling services and goods, and there are even
171 currency "stock" markets where the exchange rate is decided. There
172 are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising. If you
173 want to get started and lack a friend with any bitcoins to spare,
175 <a href=
"https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/">some for free
</a> (
0.05
176 bitcoin at the time of writing). Use
177 <a href=
"http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/">BitcoinWatch
</a> to keep an eye
178 on the current exchange rates.
</p>
180 <p>As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
181 machines. If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
182 donations to the address
183 <b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
</b>. Thank you!
</p>
189 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin
</a>,
<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/personvern">personvern
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet
</a>.
193 <div class=
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196 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Martin_Bekkelund__En_stille_b__nn_om_Datalagringsdirektivet.html">Martin Bekkelund: En stille bønn om Datalagringsdirektivet
</a></div>
197 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
09 21:
25</div>
199 <p><a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/">Martin Bekkelund
</a> ved
200 <a href=
"http://www.friprog.no/">friprog-senteret
</a> har skrevet
202 <a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/12/09/en-stille-bonn/">korte
203 oppsummering
</a> rundt datalagringsdirektivet, som jeg videreformidler
206 <p><blockquote><strong>Det pågår i disse dager en intens diskusjon om
207 innføring av Datalagringsdirektivet (
<acronym
208 title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym>) i norsk rett. Kanskje
209 har du gjort deg opp en mening, kanskje er du usikker. I begge
210 tilfeller ber jeg deg lese videre.
</strong></p>
212 <p>Samtlige fagmiljøer, både i Norge og EU, har konkludert med at
213 <acronym title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym> ikke bør
214 innføres på nåværende tidspunkt. Den tekniske kvaliteten på direktivet
215 er dårlig, det griper uforholdsmessig inn i personvernet, det har
216 store mangler og viktige spørsmål som hvem som skal ha tilgang og
217 hvordan data skal lagres er fortsatt uavklart.
</p>
220 <li><a href=
"http://ikt-norge.no/norge-kan-slippe-datalagringsdirektivet/">EU-ekspertene sier
</a> at konsekvensene av å benytte vetoretten er minimale
</li>
221 <li><a href=
"http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/Deninternasjonalejuristkommisjon.pdf">Juristene påpeker
</a> at direktivet er i strid med EMK
</li>
222 <li><a href=
"http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/12/06/kultur/debatt/kronikk/dld/personvern/14594699/">Datatilsynet sier
</a> direktivet får store konsekvenser for personvernet og at direktivet er irreversibelt
</li>
223 <li><a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/?s=dld">Teknologene sier
</a> at sikker lagring ikke er mulig, at det er svært enkelt å omgå og mulig å manipulere data og produsere falske beviser
</li>
224 <li><a href=
"http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/NJ_247460_1_P.pdf">Pressen sier
</a> nei av hensyn til kildevernet
</li>
225 <li>Det er store
<a href=
"http://tetzschner.blogspot.com/2010/03/den-tyske-forfatningsdomstol.html">interne
</a> <a href=
"http://stoppdld.no/2010/03/02/datalagring-stoppet-av-tysk-forfatningsdomstol/">stridigheter
</a> i EU. Blant annet har den tyske forfatningsdomstolen funnet at måten
<acronym title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym> er innført på er i strid med tysk grunnlov
</li>
226 <li>Alle de store
<a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/12/08/lokasjonsdata-og-datalagringsdirektivet/">operatørene og tilbyderne sier nei
</a>, av tekniske og personvernmessige årsaker
</li>
229 <p>Jeg liker å tro at jeg er en hyggelig fyr. Jeg har et rent
230 rulleblad, og med unntak av to fartsbøter har jeg aldri vært en byrde
231 for samfunnet. Det akter jeg å fortsette med. Det er mange som meg,
232 lovlydige, pliktoppfyllende borgere som aldri vil utgjøre en trussel
233 mot noe som helst. Vi synes derfor det er trist og sårende at all vår
234 atferd skal overvåkes døgnkontinuerlig.
</p>
236 <p><strong>Understøttet av faglige vurderinger kan du trygt si nei til
237 <acronym title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym>.
</strong></p>
239 <p><a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/kontakt/">Ta kontakt med meg
</a>
240 hvis du har spørsmål om
<acronym
241 title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym>, uansett hva det måtte
244 <p class=
"info">Denne teksten er å anse som
<a
245 href=
"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/"><em>Public
246 Domain
</em></a>. Spre den videre til alle som kan ha nytte av
250 <p>Siste
<a href=
"http://www.nettavisen.no/it/article3043918.ece">melding
251 fra Nettavisen
</a> er at regjeringen planlegger å fremme sitt forslag
252 til implementering av datalagringsdirektivet i morgen, i ly av
253 fredprisutdelingen for å få minst mulig pressedekning om saken. Vi
254 får snart se om det stemmer.
</p>
260 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>.
264 <div class=
"padding"></div>
267 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Student_group_continue_the_work_on_my_Reprap_3D_printer.html">Student group continue the work on my Reprap
3D printer
</a></div>
268 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
09 19:
30</div>
270 <p>A few days ago, I was introduces to some students in the robot
271 student assosiation
<a href=
"http://www.robotica.no/">Robotica
272 Osloensis
</a> at the University of Oslo where I work, who planned to
273 get their own
3D printer. They wanted to learn from me based on my
274 work in the area. After having a short lunch meeting with them, I
275 offered them to borrow my reprap kit, as I never had time to complete
276 the build and this seem unlike to change any time soon. I look
277 forward to see how this goes. This monday their volunteer driver
278 picked up my kit and drove it to their lab, and tomorrow I am told the
279 last exam is over so they can start work on getting the
3D printer
282 <p>The robotic group have already build several robots on their own,
283 and seem capable of getting the reprap operational. I really look
284 forward to being able to print all the cool
3D designs published on
285 <a href=
"http://www.thingiverse.com/">Thingiverse
</a>. I even got
286 some
3D scans I got made during Dagen@IFI when one of the groups at
287 the computer science department at the university demonstrated their
288 very cool
3D scanner.
</p>
294 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap
</a>.
298 <div class=
"padding"></div>
301 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html">Debian Edu development gathering and General Assembly for FRiSK
</a></div>
302 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
29 18:
40</div>
304 <p>On friday, the first Debian Edu / Skolelinux
305 <a href=
"http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2010-12-03-05-Oslo">development
306 gathering
</a> in a long time take place here in Oslo, Norway. I
307 really look forward to seeing all the good people working on the
308 Squeeze release. The gathering is open for everyone interested in
309 learning more about Debian Edu / Skolelinux.
</p>
311 <p>On Saturday, the Norwegian member organization taking care of
312 organizing these development gatherings, Fri Programvare i Skolen,
314 <a href=
"http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Genfors/2010">General Assembly
315 for
2010</a>. Membership is open for all, and currently there are
388
316 people registered as members. Last year
32 members cast their vote in
317 the memberdb based election system. I hope more people find time to
324 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/nuug">nuug
</a>.
328 <div class=
"padding"></div>
331 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html">Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?
</a></div>
332 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
27 11:
30</div>
334 <p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
335 presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
336 Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
337 to play a video file or stream. Only if VLC fail will I drag out
338 gmplayer to see if it can do better. The reason is mostly the failure
339 model and trust. When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
340 reporting the problem. When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
341 just hangs. The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.
<p>
343 <p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
344 mplayer in
<a href=
"http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
345 Edu/Skolelinux
</a>. The reason is simple. We need a good browser
346 plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
347 not very good. For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
348 is no way for the user to pause the video. Also, when I
349 <a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">last
350 tested the browser plugins
</a> available in Debian, the VLC plugin
351 failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked. If
352 the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
353 package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.
</P>
355 <p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
356 annoying. The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
357 keyboard shortcuts. When the player is in full screen mode, its
358 shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
359 For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode. I
360 wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
361 window mode. Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
362 the current video. It is very nice when playing short videos from the
363 web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
364 what is going on.
</p>
370 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<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/multimedia">multimedia
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web
</a>.
374 <div class=
"padding"></div>
377 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html">DND hedrer overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen
</a></div>
378 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
23 14:
15</div>
380 <p>Jeg registrerer med vond smak i munnen at Den Norske Dataforening
382 href=
"http://www.dataforeningen.no/hedret-med-rosingprisen.4849070-133913.html">hedrer
383 overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen for kreativitet i år
</a>. Jeg
384 er glad jeg nå er meldt ut av DND.
</p>
386 <p>Å elektronisk overvåke sine barn er ikke å gjøre dem en tjeneste,
387 men et overgrep mot individer i utvikling som bør læres opp til å ta
390 <p>For å sitere Datatilsynets nye leder, Bjørn Erik Thon, i
391 <a href=
"http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article174262.ece">et intervju
392 med Computerworld Norge
</A>:
</p>
395 - For alle som har barn, meg selv inkludert, er førstetanken at det
396 hadde vært fint å vite hvor barnet sitt er til enhver tid. Men ungene
397 har ikke godt av det. De er små individer som skal søke rundt og finne
398 sine små gjemmesteder og utvide horisonten, uten at foreldrene ser dem
399 i kortene. Det kan være fristende, men jeg ville ikke gått inn i
403 <p>Det er skremmende å se at DND mener en tjeneste som legger opp til
404 slike overgrep bør hedres. Å flytte oppveksten for barn inn i en
406 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon">Panopticon
</a> er et
407 grovt overgrep og vil gjøre skade på barnenes utvikling, og foreldre
408 burde tenke seg godt om før de gir etter for sine instinkter her.
</p>
410 <p>Blipper-tjenesten får meg til å tenke på bøkene til
411 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Twelve_Hawks">John Twelve
412 Hawks
</a>, som forbilledlig beskriver hvordan et totalitært
413 overvåkningssamfunn bygges sakte men sikkert rundt oss, satt sammen av
414 gode intensjoner og manglende bevissthet om hvilke prinsipper et
415 liberalt demokrati er fundamentert på. Jeg har hatt stor glede av å
416 lese alle de tre bøkene.
</p>
422 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern
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<a href=
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426 <div class=
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429 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades_of_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop__now_with_apt_get_autoremove.html">Lenny-
>Squeeze upgrades of the Gnome and KDE desktop, now with apt-get autoremove
</a></div>
430 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
22 14:
15</div>
432 <p>Michael Biebl suggested to me on IRC, that I changed my automated
433 upgrade testing of the
434 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/">Lenny
435 Gnome and KDE Desktop
</a> to do
<tt>apt-get autoremove
</tt> when using apt-get.
436 This seem like a very good idea, so I adjusted by test scripts and
437 can now present the updated result from today:
</p>
439 <p>This is for Gnome:
</p>
441 <p>Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude
</p>
455 freedesktop-sound-theme
457 gconf-defaults-service
472 gnome-desktop-environment
476 gnome-session-canberra
481 gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
490 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
493 libboost-date-time1.42
.0
494 libboost-python1.42
.0
495 libboost-thread1.42
.0
497 libchamplain-gtk-
0.4-
0
499 libclutter-gtk-
0.10-
0
506 libfreerdp-plugins-standard
521 libgnomepanel2.24-cil
526 libgtksourceview2.0-common
527 libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
528 libmono-addins0.2-cil
530 libmono-corlib2.0-cil
531 libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil
533 libmono-security2.0-cil
534 libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil
535 libmono-system2.0-cil
538 libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil
549 libtelepathy-farsight0
558 nautilus-sendto-empathy
579 python-gtksourceview2
603 python-zope.interface
608 rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
615 system-config-printer-udev
617 telepathy-mission-control-
5
630 <p>Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude
</p>
638 fast-user-switch-applet
657 libgtksourceview2.0-
0
665 system-config-printer
672 <p>Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get
</p>
675 gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
678 <p>Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get
</p>
684 <p>This is for KDE:
</p>
686 <p>Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude
</p>
692 <p>Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude
</p>
699 <p>Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get
</p>
717 kdeartwork-theme-icon
721 kdebase-workspace-bin
722 kdebase-workspace-data
751 plasma-dataengines-workspace
753 plasma-desktopthemes-artwork
754 plasma-runners-addons
755 plasma-scriptengine-googlegadgets
756 plasma-scriptengine-python
757 plasma-scriptengine-qedje
758 plasma-scriptengine-ruby
759 plasma-scriptengine-webkit
761 plasma-wallpapers-addons
762 plasma-widget-folderview
763 plasma-widget-networkmanagement
767 xscreensaver-data-extra
769 xscreensaver-gl-extra
770 xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
773 <p>Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get
</p>
777 google-gadgets-common
800 libkonqsidebarplugin4a
809 libplasma-geolocation-interface4
811 libplasmagenericshell4
854 plasma-dataengines-addons
855 plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba
856 plasma-widget-lancelot
857 plasma-widgets-addons
858 plasma-widgets-workspace
862 update-notifier-common
865 <p>Running apt-get autoremove made the results using apt-get and
866 aptitude a bit more similar, but there are still quite a lott of
867 differences. I have no idea what packages should be installed after
868 the upgrade, but hope those that do can have a look.
</p>
874 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<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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881 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html">Migrating Xen virtual machines using LVM to KVM using disk images
</a></div>
882 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
22 11:
20</div>
884 <p>Most of the computers in use by the
885 <a href=
"http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu/Skolelinux project
</a>
886 are virtual machines. And they have been Xen machines running on a
887 fairly old IBM eserver xseries
345 machine, and we wanted to migrate
888 them to KVM on a newer Dell PowerEdge
2950 host machine. This was a
889 bit harder that it could have been, because we set up the Xen virtual
890 machines to get the virtual partitions from LVM, which as far as I
891 know is not supported by KVM. So to migrate, we had to convert
892 several LVM logical volumes to partitions on a virtual disk file.
</p>
895 <a href=
"http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/35011-Six-steps-for-migrating-Xen-virtual-machines-to-KVM">a
896 nice recipe
</a> to do this, and wrote the following script to do the
897 migration. It uses qemu-img from the qemu package to make the disk
898 image, parted to partition it, losetup and kpartx to present the disk
899 image partions as devices, and dd to copy the data. I NFS mounted the
900 new servers storage area on the old server to do the migration.
</p>
906 # http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/
35011-Six-steps-for-migrating-Xen-virtual-machines-to-KVM
911 if [ -z "$
1" ] ; then
912 echo "Usage: $
0 <hostname
>"
918 if [ ! -e /dev/vg_data/$host-disk ] ; then
919 echo "error: unable to find LVM volume for $host"
923 # Partitions need to be a bit bigger than the LVM LVs. not sure why.
924 disksize=$( lvs --units m | grep $host-disk | awk '{sum = sum + $
4} END { print int(sum *
1.05) }')
925 swapsize=$( lvs --units m | grep $host-swap | awk '{sum = sum + $
4} END { print int(sum *
1.05) }')
926 totalsize=$(( ( $disksize + $swapsize ) ))
929 #dd if=/dev/zero of=$img bs=
1M count=$(( $disksize + $swapsize ))
930 qemu-img create $img ${totalsize}MMaking room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD
932 parted $img mklabel msdos
933 parted $img mkpart primary linux-swap
0 $disksize
934 parted $img mkpart primary ext2 $disksize $totalsize
935 parted $img set
1 boot on
938 losetup /dev/loop0 $img
941 dd if=/dev/vg_data/$host-disk of=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 bs=
1M
942 fsck.ext3 -f /dev/mapper/loop0p1 || true
943 mkswap /dev/mapper/loop0p2
946 losetup -d /dev/loop0
949 <p>The script is perhaps so simple that it is not copyrightable, but
950 if it is, it is licenced using GPL v2 or later at your discretion.
</p>
952 <p>After doing this, I booted a Debian CD in rescue mode in KVM with
953 the new disk image attached, installed grub-pc and linux-image-
686 and
954 set up grub to boot from the disk image. After this, the KVM machines
955 seem to work just fine.
</p>
961 Tags:
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</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu
</a>,
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