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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_bye_subkeys_pgp_net__welcome_pool_sks_keyservers_net.html">Good bye subkeys.pgp.net, welcome pool.sks-keyservers.net</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">10th September 2014</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a talk with the
  26 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> about
  27 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20140909-sks-keyservers/">the
  28 OpenPGP keyserver pool sks-keyservers.net</a>, and was very happy to
  29 learn that there is a large set of publicly available key servers to
  30 use when looking for peoples public key.  So far I have used
  31 subkeys.pgp.net, and some times wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net when the former
  32 were misbehaving, but those days are ended.  The servers I have used
  33 up until yesterday have been slow and some times unavailable.  I hope
  34 those problems are gone now.</p>
  35
  36 <p>Behind the round robin DNS entry of the
  37 <a href="https://sks-keyservers.net/">sks-keyservers.net</a> service
  38 there is a pool of more than 100 keyservers which are checked every
  39 day to ensure they are well connected and up to date.  It must be
  40 better than what I have used so far. :)</p>
  41
  42 <p>Yesterdays speaker told me that the service is the default
  43 keyserver provided by the default configuration in GnuPG, but this do
  44 not seem to be used in Debian.  Perhaps it should?</p>
  45
  46 <p>Anyway, I've updated my ~/.gnupg/options file to now include this
  47 line:</p>
  48
  49 <p><blockquote><pre>
  50 keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net
  51 </pre></blockquote></p>
  52
  53 <p>With GnuPG version 2 one can also locate the keyserver using SRV
  54 entries in DNS.  Just for fun, I did just that at work, so now every
  55 user of GnuPG at the University of Oslo should find a OpenGPG
  56 keyserver automatically should their need it:</p>
  57
  58 <p><blockquote><pre>
  59 % host -t srv _pgpkey-http._tcp.uio.no
  60 _pgpkey-http._tcp.uio.no has SRV record 0 100 11371 pool.sks-keyservers.net.
  61 %
  62 </pre></blockquote></p>
  63
  64 <p>Now if only
  65 <a href="http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-shaw-openpgp-hkp/">the
  66 HKP lookup protocol</a> supported finding signature paths, I would be
  67 very happy.  It can look up a given key or search for a user ID, but I
  68 normally do not want that, but to find a trust path from my key to
  69 another key.  Given a user ID or key ID, I would like to find (and
  70 download) the keys representing a signature path from my key to the
  71 key in question, to be able to get a trust path between the two keys.
  72 This is as far as I can tell not possible today.  Perhaps something
  73 for a future version of the protocol?</p>
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  86       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Do_you_need_an_agreement_with_MPEG_LA_to_publish_and_broadcast_H_264_video_in_Norway_.html">Do you need an agreement with MPEG-LA to publish and broadcast H.264 video in Norway?</a></div>
  87       <div class="date">25th August 2014</div>
  88       <div class="body"><p>Two years later, I am still not sure if it is legal here in Norway
  89 to use or publish a video in H.264 or MPEG4 format edited by the
  90 commercially licensed video editors, without limiting the use to
  91 create "personal" or "non-commercial" videos or get a license
  92 agreement with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com">MPEG LA</a>.  If one
  93 want to publish and broadcast video in a non-personal or commercial
  94 setting, it might be that those tools can not be used, or that video
  95 format can not be used, without breaking their copyright license.  I
  96 am not sure.
  97 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trenger_en_avtale_med_MPEG_LA_for___publisere_og_kringkaste_H_264_video_.html">Back
  98 then</a>, I found that the copyright license terms for Adobe Premiere
  99 and Apple Final Cut Pro both specified that one could not use the
 100 program to produce anything else without a patent license from MPEG
 101 LA.  The issue is not limited to those two products, though.  Other
 102 much used products like those from Avid and Sorenson Media have terms
 103 of use are similar to those from Adobe and Apple.  The complicating
 104 factor making me unsure if those terms have effect in Norway or not is
 105 that the patents in question are not valid in Norway, but copyright
 106 licenses are.</p>
 107
 108 <p>These are the terms for Avid Artist Suite, according to their
 109 <a href="http://www.avid.com/US/about-avid/legal-notices/legal-enduserlicense2">published
 110 end user</a>
 111 <a href="http://www.avid.com/static/resources/common/documents/corporate/LICENSE.pdf">license
 112 text</a> (converted to lower case text for easier reading):</p>
 113
 114 <p><blockquote>
 115 <p>18.2. MPEG-4. MPEG-4 technology may be included with the
 116 software. MPEG LA, L.L.C. requires this notice: </p>
 117
 118 <p>This product is licensed under the MPEG-4 visual patent portfolio
 119 license for the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer for (i)
 120 encoding video in compliance with the MPEG-4 visual standard (“MPEG-4
 121 video”) and/or (ii) decoding MPEG-4 video that was encoded by a
 122 consumer engaged in a personal and non-commercial activity and/or was
 123 obtained from a video provider licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4
 124 video.  No license is granted or shall be implied for any other
 125 use. Additional information including that relating to promotional,
 126 internal and commercial uses and licensing may be obtained from MPEG
 127 LA, LLC.  See http://www.mpegla.com. This product is licensed under
 128 the MPEG-4 systems patent portfolio license for encoding in compliance
 129 with the MPEG-4 systems standard, except that an additional license
 130 and payment of royalties are necessary for encoding in connection with
 131 (i) data stored or replicated in physical media which is paid for on a
 132 title by title basis and/or (ii) data which is paid for on a title by
 133 title basis and is transmitted to an end user for permanent storage
 134 and/or use, such additional license may be obtained from MPEG LA,
 135 LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com for additional details.</p>
 136
 137 <p>18.3. H.264/AVC. H.264/AVC technology may be included with the
 138 software.  MPEG LA, L.L.C. requires this notice:</p>
 139
 140 <p>This product is licensed under the AVC patent portfolio license for
 141 the personal use of a consumer or other uses in which it does not
 142 receive remuneration to (i) encode video in compliance with the AVC
 143 standard (“AVC video”) and/or (ii) decode AVC video that was encoded
 144 by a consumer engaged in a personal activity and/or was obtained from
 145 a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. No license is granted
 146 or shall be implied for any other use. Additional information may be
 147 obtained from MPEG LA, L.L.C. See http://www.mpegla.com.</p>
 148 </blockquote></p>
 149
 150 <p>Note the requirement that the videos created can only be used for
 151 personal or non-commercial purposes.</p>
 152
 153 <p>The Sorenson Media software have
 154 <a href="http://www.sorensonmedia.com/terms/">similar terms</a>:</p>
 155
 156 <p><blockquote>
 157
 158 <p>With respect to a license from Sorenson pertaining to MPEG-4 Video
 159 Decoders and/or Encoders: Any such product is licensed under the
 160 MPEG-4 visual patent portfolio license for the personal and
 161 non-commercial use of a consumer for (i) encoding video in compliance
 162 with the MPEG-4 visual standard (“MPEG-4 video”) and/or (ii) decoding
 163 MPEG-4 video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a personal and
 164 non-commercial activity and/or was obtained from a video provider
 165 licensed by MPEG LA to provide MPEG-4 video. No license is granted or
 166 shall be implied for any other use. Additional information including
 167 that relating to promotional, internal and commercial uses and
 168 licensing may be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See
 169 http://www.mpegla.com.</p>
 170
 171 <p>With respect to a license from Sorenson pertaining to MPEG-4
 172 Consumer Recorded Data Encoder, MPEG-4 Systems Internet Data Encoder,
 173 MPEG-4 Mobile Data Encoder, and/or MPEG-4 Unique Use Encoder: Any such
 174 product is licensed under the MPEG-4 systems patent portfolio license
 175 for encoding in compliance with the MPEG-4 systems standard, except
 176 that an additional license and payment of royalties are necessary for
 177 encoding in connection with (i) data stored or replicated in physical
 178 media which is paid for on a title by title basis and/or (ii) data
 179 which is paid for on a title by title basis and is transmitted to an
 180 end user for permanent storage and/or use. Such additional license may
 181 be obtained from MPEG LA, LLC. See http://www.mpegla.com for
 182 additional details.</p>
 183
 184 </blockquote></p>
 185
 186 <p>Some free software like
 187 <a href="https://handbrake.fr/">Handbrake</A> and
 188 <a href="http://ffmpeg.org/">FFMPEG</a> uses GPL/LGPL licenses and do
 189 not have any such terms included, so for those, there is no
 190 requirement to limit the use to personal and non-commercial.</p>
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 195         Tags: <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/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</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>.
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 203       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2014_08_03.html">Lenker for 2014-08-03</a></div>
 204       <div class="date"> 3rd August 2014</div>
 205       <div class="body"><p>Lenge siden jeg har hatt tid til å publisere lenker til skriverier
 206 jeg har hatt glede og nytte av av å lese.  Her er en liten norsk
 207 lenkesamling.</p>
 208
 209 <p><ul>
 210
 211 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/sjoslag-om-fiskemilliardene-1.11576109">Sjøslag
 212 om fiskemilliardene</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-03-03) - litt om hvordan de
 213 norske felles matressurser røves fra felleskapet.</li>
 214
 215 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/Matkrisen-kan-komme-til-Norge-7522341.html">Matkrisen
 216 kan komme til Norge</a> (Aftenposten 2014-4-01) - hvordan miljøendringene vil gjøre matproduksjonen i Norge mer sårbar.</li>
 217
 218 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/norge-trenger-kornlager-1.11726744">Norge
 219 trenger kornlager</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-06-07) Chr. Anton Smedshaug
 220 forteller litt om Norges sårbare matsituasjon etter at Staten solgte
 221 Norges kornlager.</li>
 222
 223 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/norge/pst-vil-overvake-datatastaturer-1.11583286">PST
 224 vil overvåke datatastaturer</a> (NRK 2014-03-04) - PST ønsker retten
 225 til å bryte seg inn på private PC-er og legge inn spionprogrammer.
 226 Hvilket nok vil gjøre Linux mer populært, men gjør at en i enda mindre
 227 grad enn i dag kan stole på datamaskiner - neppe en god ide for
 228 samfunnet totalt sett.</li>
 229
 230 <li><a href="http://www.osloby.no/nyheter/Ruter-fremstar-som-et-pobelvelde-7490624.html">«Ruter
 231 fremstår som et pøbelvelde»</a> (OsloBy 2014-03-05) - et eksempel på
 232 hvordan kollektivtransportselskapet i Oslo håndterer sine kunder.</li>
 233
 234 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/05/nyheter/dbtv/reklame/clear_channel/32123808/">Clear
 235 Channel nektet å vise Greenpeace-reklame i Oslo</a> (Dagbladet
 236 2014-03-05) - forteller litt om hvordan hvilke budskap som når ut i
 237 det offentlige rom kontrolleres i Norge.</li>
 238
 239 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/06/kultur/meninger/debattinnlegg/kronikk/22_juli/32175854/">Svarte
 240 ikke på kritikken</a> (Dagbladet 2014-03-06) - innlegg fra Norsk
 241 presseforbund der de nok en gang tar opp det forkastelige i at
 242 politiet nå har full tilgang til å bedrive telefonkontroll av
 243 advokater.</li>
 244
 245 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Putin-spiller-poker_-ikke-sjakk-I-sjakk-har-man-regler-7495368.html">«Putin
 246 spiller poker, ikke sjakk. I sjakk har man regler.»</a> (Aftenposten
 247 2014-03-08) - sjakklegenden Kasparov forklarer litt om hvordan han ser
 248 at Russlands politikk fungerer, blant annet i lys av started av
 249 Ukraina-krisen.</li>
 250
 251 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/I-seng-med-fienden-7492605.html">I
 252 seng med fienden</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-10) - kronikk fra Eirik
 253 H. Vinje om hvordan menn og kvinner settes opp mot hverandre i det
 254 offentlige ordskiftet, kanskje på sviktende grunnlag.</li>
 255
 256 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/Hvor-er-elevene-7501690.html">Fritt
 257 frem for skulk</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-14) - skildring av hvordan
 258 norske elever i dag ikke lenger har rimelig krav om oppmøte på
 259 skolen.</li>
 260
 261 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/digital/Datalagringsdirektiv-avslorte-abort_-sykdom-og-vapenkjop--7503014.html">«Datalagringsdirektiv»
 262 avslørte abort, sykdom og våpenkjøp</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-14) - om
 263 hvordan forskere har dokumentert hvordan innsamling av metadata om
 264 telefoni og Internett-bruk kan være svært avslørende.</li>
 265
 266 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/14/kultur/meninger/ideer/lordagskommentaren/agnes_ravatn/32302856/">Konsentrasjonssvikt
 267 på pensum</a> (Dagbladet 2014-03-14) - Kommentar om hvordan (feil)
 268 bruk IKT i skolen kan ødelegge mer enn det bidrar til læring.</li>
 269
 270 <li><a href="http://doremusnor.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/reservasjonsrettsstaten/">Reservasjonsrettsstaten</a>
 271 (blogg fra Doremus 2014-02-09) - morsom beskrivelse om hvordan
 272 regjeringens forslag til reservasjonsrett for leger kan utvides til å
 273 gjelde alles samvittighet.</li>
 274
 275 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Autoritar-gjokunge-7514915.html">Autoritær
 276 gjøkunge</a> (Aftenposten 2014-03-25) - Kronikk av Bjørn Stærk om
 277 snurpenots-overvåkningen som varsleren Snowden dokumenterte.</li>
 278
 279 <li><a href="http://blogg.friprog.no/2014/03/leveransekrise-i-offentlig-sektor-mener-mike-bracken-executive-director-of-digital-in-the-cabinet-office/">Leveransekrise
 280 i Offentlig sektor – mener Mike Bracken, Executive Director of Digital
 281 in the Cabinet Office</a> (blogg fra Friprog-senteret 2014-03-26).</li>
 282
 283 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/26/kultur/meninger/kronikk/etiopia/avlytting/32499687/">Norge
 284 må stanse avlyttingen</a> (Dagbladet 2014-03-26) - leserinnlegg fra
 285 Felix Horne der han ber om at Norge gjør en innsats for å få slutt på
 286 overvåkning av innbyggerne som gjøres i Norge av Etiopiske
 287 myndigheter.</li>
 288
 289 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Demokrati-er-ingen-naturlig-styreform-7521957.html">Demokrati
 290 er ingen naturlig styreform</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-01) - kronikk av
 291 Stein Ringen om hvordan demokrati som styreform går tapt når
 292 innbyggerne tar det for gitt.</li>
 293
 294 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/ytringsansvar-ere-enhver-tilladte_-1.11618934">Ytringsansvar
 295 ere Enhver tilladte!</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-04-01) - innspill fra Trygve
 296 Svensson og Helge Svare om at hver enkelt av oss har et ansvar for å
 297 ytre oss i den offentlige debatten.</li>
 298
 299 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/Jeg-er-ingen-god-samfunnsborger-7527128.html">Jeg
 300 er ingen god samfunnsborger</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-16), kronikk av
 301 Simen Tveitereid om alternative måter å motiveres i samfunnet, uten å
 302 hige etter mer penger og flere ting.</li>
 303
 304 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Avgjorelsen-far-umiddelbar-virkning-7531811.html">DLD-dommen:
 305 Avgjørelsen får umiddelbar virkning</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-10) -
 306 kronikk av Høyres Michael Tetzschner, en partiutbryter i DLD-saken som
 307 stemte nei til DLD i Stortinget i 2011.</li>
 308
 309 <li><a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=1466">Datalagringsdirektivets
 310 endelikt</a> (blogg fra John Wessel-Aas 2014-04-11) - oppsummering
 311 av hvordan direktivet ble funnet ugyldig i EU-domstolen.</li>
 312
 313 <li><a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/kronikk-kapitulasjonspresidenten/a/10147713/">Kronikk:
 314 Kapitulasjonspresidenten</a> (VG 2014-04-22) - kronikk av Einar
 315 Kr. Steffenak om hvordan Stortingspresidenten og regjeringen viser sin
 316 prinsippløshet i møte med Kina.</li>
 317
 318 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Innerst-inne-er-alle-nordmenn-7542617.html">Innerst
 319 inne er alle nordmenn</a> (Aftenposten 2014-04-27) - kronikk fra Bjørn
 320 Stærk om hvordan vi i Vesten i stor grad baserer oss på en fantasi om
 321 at alle i verden bærer på en drøm om å bli som oss.</li>
 322
 323 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/uviten/Det-italienske-senatet-gav-seg-selv-134-milliarder-euro-i-sluttpakke--7575312.html">Det
 324 italienske senatet gav seg selv 134 milliarder euro i sluttpakke</a>
 325 (Aftenposten 2014-06-19) - forsker Simen Gaure forteller hvordan
 326 løgner og fantasi fra nettkilder i stor grad blir akseptert som
 327 sannhet - antagelig også av deg og meg.</li>
 328
 329 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/05/30/kultur/meninger/kronikk/skole/33576392/">Et
 330 forsvar for bråkmakerne</a> (Dagbladet 2014-05-30) - kronikk av Dag
 331 Øystein Nome som beskriver hvordan dagens skole ikke fungerer så godt
 332 for mange elever.</li>
 333
 334 <li><a href="http://www.osloby.no/nyheter/Betalte-med-slitt-seddel---havnet-i-arresten-7617208.html">Betalte
 335 med slitt seddel - havnet i arresten</a> (Osloby 2014-06-25)) -
 336 dokumentasjon av Oslopolitiets angrep på vår alles rett til å ferdes
 337 uten elektronisk sporing.  Jeg bruker kontanter i så stor grad som
 338 mulig da banken ikke har noe med hvor jeg er og hva jeg kjøper.  Vi
 339 som gjør dette risikerer som beskrevet overgrep som frihetsberøvelse
 340 og registrering og lagring av fingeravtrykk og bilde i politiets
 341 database over mistenkte.</li>
 342
 343 <li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/leder/Fredsprisen-til-Snowden-7620422.html">Fredsprisen
 344 til Snowden</a> (Aftenposten 2014-06-28) - leder som forklarer hvorfor
 345 varsleren Snowden bør få fredsprisen.</li>
 346
 347 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/08/01/kultur/meninger/dbmener/leder1/34598010/">Strategi
 348 for politistaten</a> (Dagbladet 2014-08-01) - leder som advarer om
 349 sterke krefter som bruker terrortrusselen til å lirke Norge nærmere å
 350 bli en politistat.</li>
 351
 352 <li><a href="http://www.nrk.no/ytring/vi-ma-tenke-nytt-om-narkotika-1.11859322">Vi
 353 må tenke nytt om narkotika</a> (NRK Ytring 2014-08-03) - Mark Lewis
 354 forklarer hvorfor legalisering og offentlig kontroll av
 355 narkotikamarkedet er mye bedre enn å overlate det til kriminelle.</li>
 356
 357
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 363         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
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 371       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Bernd_Zeitzen.html">Debian Edu interview: Bernd Zeitzen</a></div>
 372       <div class="date">31st July 2014</div>
 373       <div class="body"><p>The complete and free “out of the box” software solution for
 374 schools, <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 375 Skolelinux</a>, is used quite a lot in Germany, and one of the people
 376 involved is Bernd Zeitzen, who show up on the project mailing lists
 377 from time to time with interesting questions and tips on how to adjust
 378 the setup.  I managed to interview him this summer.</p>
 379
 380 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 381
 382 <p>My name is Bernd Zeitzen and I'm married with Hedda, a self
 383 employed physiotherapist.  My former profession is tool maker, but I
 384 haven't worked for 30 years in this job.  30 years ago I started to
 385 support my wife and become her officeworker and a few years later the
 386 administrator for a small computer network, today based on Ubuntu
 387 Server (Samba, OpenVPN). For her daily work she has to use Windows
 388 Desktops because the software she needs to organize her business only
 389 works with Windows . :-(</p>
 390
 391 <p>In 1988 we started with one PC and DOS, then I learned to use
 392 Windows 98, 2000, XP, …, 8, Ubuntu, MacOSX.  Today we are running a
 393 Linux server with 6 Windows clients and 10 persons (teacher of
 394 children with special needs, speech therapist, occupational therapist,
 395 psychologist and officeworkers) using our Samba shares via OpenVPN to
 396 work with the documentations of our patients.</p>
 397
 398 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 399 project?</strong></p>
 400
 401 <p>Two years ago a friend of mine asked me, if I want to get a job in
 402 his school (<a href="http://www.gymnasium-harsewinkel.de/">Gymnasium
 403 Harsewinkel</a>).  They started with Skolelinux / Debian Edu and they
 404 were looking for people to give support to the teachers using the
 405 software and the network and teaching the pupils increasing their
 406 computer skills in optional lessons.  I'm spending 4-6 hours a week
 407 with this job.</p>
 408
 409 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 410 Edu?</strong></p>
 411
 412 <p>The independence.</p>
 413
 414 <p>First: Every person is allowed to use, share and develop the
 415 software. Even if you are poor, you are allowed to use the software
 416 included in Skolelinux/Debian Edu and all the other Free Software.</p>
 417
 418 <p>Second: The software runs on old machines and this gives us the
 419 possibility to recycle computers, weeded out from offices.  The
 420 servers and desktops are running for more than two years and they are
 421 working reliable. </p>
 422
 423 <p>We have two servers (one tjener and one terminal server), 45
 424 workstations in three classrooms and seven laptops as a mobile
 425 solution for all classrooms.  These machines are all booting from the
 426 terminal server.  In the moment we are installing 30 laptops as mobile
 427 workstations.  Then the pupils have the possibility to work with these
 428 machines in their classrooms.  Internet access is realized by a WLAN
 429 router, connected to the schools network. This is all done without a
 430 dedicated system administrator or a computer science teacher.</p>
 431
 432 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 433 Edu?</strong></p>
 434
 435 <p>Teachers and pupils are Windows users.  &lt;Irony on&gt; And Linux
 436 isn't cool. It's software for freaks using the command line. &lt;Irony
 437 off&gt; They don't realize the stability of the system. </p>
 438
 439 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 440
 441 <p>Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Samba,
 442 Apache, MySQL, Joomla!, … and Skolelinux / Debian Edu)</p>
 443
 444 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 445 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 446
 447 <p>In Germany we have the situation: every school is free to decide
 448 which software they want to use. This decision is influenced by
 449 teachers who learned to use Windows and MS Office. They buy a PC with
 450 Windows preinstalled and an additional testing version of MS
 451 Office. They don't know about the possibility to use Free Software
 452 instead.  Another problem are the publisher of school books.  They
 453 develop their software, added to the school books, for Windows.</p>
 454 </div>
 455       <div class="tags">
 456
 457
 458         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/intervju">intervju</a>.
 459
 460
 461       </div>
 462     </div>
 463     <div class="padding"></div>
 464
 465     <div class="entry">
 466       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/98_6_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html">98.6 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</a></div>
 467       <div class="date">23rd July 2014</div>
 468       <div class="body"><p>This summer I finally had time to continue working on the Norwegian
 469 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book
 470 <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig,
 471 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with todays copyright
 472 law.  Yesterday, I finally completed translated the book text.  There
 473 are still some foot/end notes left to translate, the colophon page
 474 need to be rewritten, and a few words and phrases still need to be
 475 translated, but the Norwegian text is ready for the first proof
 476 reading. :) More spell checking is needed, and several illustrations
 477 need to be cleaned up.  The work stopped up because I had to give
 478 priority to other projects the last year, and the progress graph of
 479 the translation show this very well:</p>
 480
 481 <p><img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"></p>
 482
 483 <p>If you want to read the result, check out the
 484 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>
 485 project pages and the
 486 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>,
 487 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
 488 and HTML version available in the
 489 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive">archive
 490 directory</a>.</p>
 491
 492 <p>Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
 493 you find any.</p>
 494 </div>
 495       <div class="tags">
 496
 497
 498         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>.
 499
 500
 501       </div>
 502     </div>
 503     <div class="padding"></div>
 504
 505     <div class="entry">
 506       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/From_English_wiki_to_translated_PDF_and_epub_via_Docbook.html">From English wiki to translated PDF and epub via Docbook</a></div>
 507       <div class="date">17th June 2014</div>
 508       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 509 project</a> provide an instruction manual for teachers, system
 510 administrators and other users that contain useful tips for setting up
 511 and maintaining a Debian Edu installation.  This text is about how the
 512 text processing of this manual is handled in the project.</p>
 513
 514 <p>One goal of the project is to provide information in the native
 515 language of its users, and for this we need to handle translations.
 516 But we also want to make sure each language contain the same
 517 information, so for this we need a good way to keep the translations
 518 in sync.  And we want it to be easy for our users to improve the
 519 documentation, avoiding the need to learn special formats or tools to
 520 contribute, and the obvious way to do this is to make it possible to
 521 edit the documentation using a web browser.  We also want it to be
 522 easy for translators to keep the translation up to date, and give them
 523 help in figuring out what need to be translated. Here is the list of
 524 tools and the process we have found trying to reach all these
 525 goals.</p>
 526
 527 <p>We maintain the authoritative source of our manual in the
 528 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/">Debian
 529 wiki</a>, as several wiki pages written in English.  It consist of one
 530 front page with references to the different chapters, several pages
 531 for each chapter, and finally one "collection page" gluing all the
 532 chapters together into one large web page (aka
 533 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/AllInOne">the
 534 AllInOne page</a>).  The AllInOne page is the one used for further
 535 processing and translations.  Thanks to the fact that the
 536 <a href="http://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a> installation on
 537 wiki.debian.org support exporting pages in
 538 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">the Docbook format</a>, we can fetch
 539 the list of pages to export using the raw version of the AllInOne
 540 page, loop over each of them to generate a Docbook XML version of the
 541 manual.  This process also download images and transform image
 542 references to use the locally downloaded images.  The generated
 543 Docbook XML files are slightly broken, so some post-processing is done
 544 using the <tt>documentation/scripts/get_manual</tt> program, and the
 545 result is a nice Docbook XML file (debian-edu-wheezy-manual.xml) and
 546 a handfull of images.  The XML file can now be used to generate PDF, HTML
 547 and epub versions of the English manual.  This is the basic step of
 548 our process, making PDF (using dblatex), HTML (using xsltproc) and
 549 epub (using dbtoepub) version from Docbook XML, and the resulting files
 550 are placed in the debian-edu-doc-en binary package.</p>
 551
 552 <p>But English documentation is not enough for us.  We want translated
 553 documentation too, and we want to make it easy for translators to
 554 track the English original.  For this we use the
 555 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/poxml.html">poxml</a> package,
 556 which allow us to transform the English Docbook XML file into a
 557 translation file (a .pot file), usable with the normal gettext based
 558 translation tools used by those translating free software.  The pot
 559 file is used to create and maintain translation files (several .po
 560 files), which the translations update with the native language
 561 translations of all titles, paragraphs and blocks of text in the
 562 original.  The next step is combining the original English Docbook XML
 563 and the translation file (say debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.po), to
 564 create a translated Docbook XML file (in this case
 565 debian-edu-wheezy-manual.nb.xml).  This translated (or partly
 566 translated, if the translation is not complete) Docbook XML file can
 567 then be used like the original to create a PDF, HTML and epub version
 568 of the documentation.</p>
 569
 570 <p>The translators use different tools to edit the .po files.  We
 571 recommend using
 572 <a href="http://www.kde.org/applications/development/lokalize/">lokalize</a>,
 573 while some use emacs and vi, others can use web based editors like
 574 <a href="http://pootle.translatehouse.org/">Poodle</a> or
 575 <a href="https://www.transifex.com/">Transifex</a>.  All we care about
 576 is where the .po file end up, in our git repository.  Updated
 577 translations can either be committed directly to git, or submitted as
 578 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/src:debian-edu-doc">bug reports
 579 against the debian-edu-doc package</a>.</p>
 580
 581 <p>One challenge is images, which both might need to be translated (if
 582 they show translated user applications), and are needed in different
 583 formats when creating PDF and HTML versions (epub is a HTML version in
 584 this regard).  For this we transform the original PNG images to the
 585 needed density and format during build, and have a way to provide
 586 translated images by storing translated versions in
 587 images/$LANGUAGECODE/.  I am a bit unsure about the details here.  The
 588 package maintainers know more.</p>
 589
 590 <p>If you wonder what the result look like, we provide
 591 <a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/">the content
 592 of the documentation packages on the web</a>.  See for example the
 593 <a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/it/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.pdf">Italian
 594 PDF version</a> or the
 595 <a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/de/debian-edu-wheezy-manual.html">German
 596 HTML version</a>.  We do not yet build the epub version by default,
 597 but perhaps it will be done in the future.</p>
 598
 599 <p>To learn more, check out
 600 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-edu-doc.html">the
 601 debian-edu-doc package</a>,
 602 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/">the
 603 manual on the wiki</a> and
 604 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/Translations">the
 605 translation instructions</a> in the manual.</p>
 606 </div>
 607       <div class="tags">
 608
 609
 610         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/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 611
 612
 613       </div>
 614     </div>
 615     <div class="padding"></div>
 616
 617     <div class="entry">
 618       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html">Hvordan enkelt laste ned filmer fra NRK med den "nye" løsningen</a></div>
 619       <div class="date">16th June 2014</div>
 620       <div class="body"><p>Jeg har fortsatt behov for å kunne laste ned innslag fra NRKs
 621 nettsted av og til for å se senere når jeg ikke er på nett, men
 622 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK.html">min
 623 oppskrift fra 2011</a> sluttet å fungere da NRK byttet
 624 avspillermetode.  I dag fikk jeg endelig lett etter oppdatert løsning,
 625 og jeg er veldig glad for å fortelle at den enkleste måten å laste ned
 626 innslag er å bruke siste versjon 2014.06.07 av
 627 <a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a>.  Støtten i
 628 youtube-dl <a href="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2980">kom
 629 inn for 23 dager siden</a> og
 630 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/y/youtube-dl.html">versjonen i
 631 Debian</a> fungerer fint også som backport til Debian Wheezy.  Det er
 632 et lite problem, det håndterer kun URLer med små bokstaver, men hvis
 633 en har en URL med store bokstaver kan en bare gjøre alle store om til
 634 små bokstaver for å få youtube-dl til å laste ned.  Rapporterte
 635 nettopp
 636 <a href="https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2980">problemet til
 637 utviklerne</a>, og antar de får fikset det snart.</p>
 638
 639 <p>Dermed er alt klart til å laste ned dokumentarene om
 640 <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID23005014/usas-hemmelige-avlytting">USAs
 641 hemmelige avlytting</a> og
 642 <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID23005114/selskapene-bak-usas-avlytting">Selskapene
 643 bak USAs avlytting</a>, i tillegg til
 644 <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID20005814/et-moete-med-edward-snowden">intervjuet
 645 med Edward Snowden gjort av den tyske tv-kanalen ARD</a>.  Anbefaler
 646 alle å se disse, sammen med
 647 <a href="http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5713_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201312301130_-_to_protect_and_infect_part_2_-_jacob.html">foredraget
 648 til Jacob Appelbaum på siste CCC-konferanse</a>, for å forstå mer om
 649 hvordan overvåkningen av borgerne brer om seg.</p>
 650
 651 <p>Takk til gode venner på foreningen NUUGs IRC-kanal
 652 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug">#nuug på irc.freenode.net</a>
 653 for tipsene som fikk meg i mål</a>.</p>
 654
 655 <p><strong>Oppdatering 2014-06-17</strong>: Etter at jeg publiserte
 656 denne, ble jeg tipset om bloggposten
 657 "<a href="http://ingvar.blog.redpill-linpro.com/2012/05/31/downloading-hd-content-from-tv-nrk-no/">Downloading
 658 HD content from tv.nrk.no</a>" av Ingvar Hagelund, som har alternativ
 659 implementasjon og tips for å lage mkv-fil med undertekstene inkludert.
 660 Kanskje den passer bedre for deg?  I tillegg ble feilen i youtube-dl
 661 ble fikset litt senere ut på dagen i går, samt at youtube-dl fikk
 662 støtte for å laste ned undertitler.  Takk til Anders Einar Hilden for
 663 god innsats og youtube-dl-utviklerne for rask respons.</p>
 664 </div>
 665       <div class="tags">
 666
 667
 668         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</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>.
 669
 670
 671       </div>
 672     </div>
 673     <div class="padding"></div>
 674
 675     <div class="entry">
 676       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_car_computer_solution_.html">Free software car computer solution?</a></div>
 677       <div class="date">29th May 2014</div>
 678       <div class="body"><p>Dear lazyweb.  I'm planning to set up a small Raspberry Pi computer
 679 in my car, connected to
 680 <a href="http://www.dx.com/p/400a-4-0-tft-lcd-digital-monitor-for-vehicle-parking-reverse-camera-1440x272-12v-dc-57776">a
 681 small screen</a> next to the rear mirror.  I plan to hook it up with a
 682 GPS and a USB wifi card too.  The idea is to get my own
 683 "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carputer">Carputer</a>".  But I
 684 wonder if someone already created a good free software solution for
 685 such car computer.</p>
 686
 687 <p>This is my current wish list for such system:</p>
 688
 689 <ul>
 690
 691  <li>Work on Raspberry Pi.</li>
 692
 693  <li>Show current speed limit based on location, and warn if going too
 694    fast (for example using color codes yellow and red on the screen,
 695    or make a sound).  This could be done either using either data from
 696    <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">Openstreetmap</a> or OCR
 697    info gathered from a dashboard camera.</li>
 698
 699  <li>Track automatic toll road passes and their cost, show total spent
 700    and make it possible to calculate toll costs for planned
 701    route.</li>
 702
 703  <li>Collect GPX tracks for use with OpenStreetMap.</li>
 704
 705  <li>Automatically detect and use any wireless connection to connect
 706    to home server.  Try IP over DNS
 707    (<a href="http://dev.kryo.se/iodine/">iodine</a>) or ICMP
 708    (<a href="http://code.gerade.org/hans/">Hans</a>) if direct
 709    connection do not work.</li>
 710
 711  <li>Set up mesh network to talk to other cars with the same system,
 712    or some standard car mesh protocol.</li>
 713
 714  <li>Warn when approaching speed cameras and speed camera ranges
 715    (speed calculated between two cameras).</li>
 716
 717  <li>Suport dashboard/front facing camera to discover speed limits and
 718    run OCR to track registration number of passing cars.</li>
 719
 720 </ul>
 721
 722 <p>If you know of any free software car computer system supporting
 723 some or all of these features, please let me know.</p>
 724 </div>
 725       <div class="tags">
 726
 727
 728         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 729
 730
 731       </div>
 732     </div>
 733     <div class="padding"></div>
 734
 735     <div class="entry">
 736       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_the_Coverity_issues_in_Gnash_fixed_in_the_next_release.html">Half the Coverity issues in Gnash fixed in the next release</a></div>
 737       <div class="date">29th April 2014</div>
 738       <div class="body"><p>I've been following <a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">the Gnash
 739 project</a> for quite a while now.  It is a free software
 740 implementation of Adobe Flash, both a standalone player and a browser
 741 plugin.  Gnash implement support for the AVM1 format (and not the
 742 newer AVM2 format - see
 743 <a href="http://lightspark.github.io/">Lightspark</a> for that one),
 744 allowing several flash based sites to work.  Thanks to the friendly
 745 developers at Youtube, it also work with Youtube videos, because the
 746 Javascript code at Youtube detect Gnash and serve a AVM1 player to
 747 those users. :) Would be great if someone found time to implement AVM2
 748 support, but it has not happened yet.  If you install both Lightspark
 749 and Gnash, Lightspark will invoke Gnash if it find a AVM1 flash file,
 750 so you can get both handled as free software.  Unfortunately,
 751 Lightspark so far only implement a small subset of AVM2, and many
 752 sites do not work yet.</p>
 753
 754 <p>A few months ago, I started looking at
 755 <a href="http://scan.coverity.com/">Coverity</a>, the static source
 756 checker used to find heaps and heaps of bugs in free software (thanks
 757 to the donation of a scanning service to free software projects by the
 758 company developing this non-free code checker), and Gnash was one of
 759 the projects I decided to check out.  Coverity is able to find lock
 760 errors, memory errors, dead code and more.  A few days ago they even
 761 extended it to also be able to find the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL.
 762 There are heaps of checks being done on the instrumented code, and the
 763 amount of bogus warnings is quite low compared to the other static
 764 code checkers I have tested over the years.</p>
 765
 766 <p>Since a few weeks ago, I've been working with the other Gnash
 767 developers squashing bugs discovered by Coverity.  I was quite happy
 768 today when I checked the current status and saw that of the 777 issues
 769 detected so far, 374 are marked as fixed.  This make me confident that
 770 the next Gnash release will be more stable and more dependable than
 771 the previous one.  Most of the reported issues were and are in the
 772 test suite, but it also found a few in the rest of the code.</p>
 773
 774 <p>If you want to help out, you find us on
 775 <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev">the
 776 gnash-dev mailing list</a> and on
 777 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#gnash">the #gnash channel on
 778 irc.freenode.net IRC server</a>.</p>
 779 </div>
 780       <div class="tags">
 781
 782
 783         Tags: <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>.
 784
 785
 786       </div>
 787     </div>
 788     <div class="padding"></div>
 789
 790     <div class="entry">
 791       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html">Install hardware dependent packages using tasksel (Isenkram 0.7)</a></div>
 792       <div class="date">23rd April 2014</div>
 793       <div class="body"><p>It would be nice if it was easier in Debian to get all the hardware
 794 related packages relevant for the computer installed automatically.
 795 So I implemented one, using
 796 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram">my Isenkram
 797 package</a>.  To use it, install the tasksel and isenkram packages and
 798 run tasksel as user root.  You should be presented with a new option,
 799 "Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)".  When you
 800 select it, tasksel will install the packages isenkram claim is fit for
 801 the current hardware, hot pluggable or not.<p>
 802
 803 <p>The implementation is in two files, one is the tasksel menu entry
 804 description, and the other is the script used to extract the list of
 805 packages to install.  The first part is in
 806 <tt>/usr/share/tasksel/descs/isenkram.desc</tt> and look like
 807 this:</p>
 808
 809 <p><blockquote><pre>
 810 Task: isenkram
 811 Section: hardware
 812 Description: Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)
 813  Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific packages are
 814  proposed.
 815 Test-new-install: mark show
 816 Relevance: 8
 817 Packages: for-current-hardware
 818 </pre></blockquote></p>
 819
 820 <p>The second part is in
 821 <tt>/usr/lib/tasksel/packages/for-current-hardware</tt> and look like
 822 this:</p>
 823
 824 <p><blockquote><pre>
 825 #!/bin/sh
 826 #
 827 (
 828     isenkram-lookup
 829     isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
 830 ) | sort -u
 831 </pre></blockquote></p>
 832
 833 <p>All in all, a very short and simple implementation making it
 834 trivial to install the hardware dependent package we all may want to
 835 have installed on our machines.  I've not been able to find a way to
 836 get tasksel to tell you exactly which packages it plan to install
 837 before doing the installation.  So if you are curious or careful,
 838 check the output from the isenkram-* command line tools first.</p>
 839
 840 <p>The information about which packages are handling which hardware is
 841 fetched either from the isenkram package itself in
 842 /usr/share/isenkram/, from git.debian.org or from the APT package
 843 database (using the Modaliases header).  The APT package database
 844 parsing have caused a nasty resource leak in the isenkram daemon (bugs
 845 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/719837">#719837</a> and
 846 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/730704">#730704</a>).  The cause is in
 847 the python-apt code (bug
 848 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/745487">#745487</a>), but using a
 849 workaround I was able to get rid of the file descriptor leak and
 850 reduce the memory leak from ~30 MiB per hardware detection down to
 851 around 2 MiB per hardware detection.  It should make the desktop
 852 daemon a lot more useful.  The fix is in version 0.7 uploaded to
 853 unstable today.</p>
 854
 855 <p>I believe the current way of mapping hardware to packages in
 856 Isenkram is is a good draft, but in the future I expect isenkram to
 857 use the AppStream data source for this.  A proposal for getting proper
 858 AppStream support into Debian is floating around as
 859 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11">DEP-11</a>, and
 860 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects#SummerOfCode2014.2FProjects.2FAppStreamDEP11Implementation.AppStream.2FDEP-11_for_the_Debian_Archive">GSoC
 861 project</a> will take place this summer to improve the situation.  I
 862 look forward to seeing the result, and welcome patches for isenkram to
 863 start using the information when it is ready.</p>
 864
 865 <p>If you want your package to map to some specific hardware, either
 866 add a "Xb-Modaliases" header to your control file like I did in
 867 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">the pymissile
 868 package</a> or submit a bug report with the details to the isenkram
 869 package.  See also
 870 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/">all my
 871 blog posts tagged isenkram</a> for details on the notation.  I expect
 872 the information will be migrated to AppStream eventually, but for the
 873 moment I got no better place to store it.</p>
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1061 <li>2008
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