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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Datalagringsdirektivet_gj_r_at_Oslo_H_yre_og_Arbeiderparti_ikke_f_r_min_stemme_i__r.html">Datalagringsdirektivet gjør at Oslo Høyre og Arbeiderparti ikke får min stemme i år</a></div>
  24       <div class="date"> 8th September 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og
  26 Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske
  27 folk.  Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt
  28 år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de
  29 snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen.  Det skal også
  30 registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost
  31 til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte.  Saken er kjent som
  32 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet
  33 (DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor norges
  34 grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt.  Det ble i praksis innført brev og
  35 besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen.  Rapporter fra de landene som
  36 allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes
  37 kommunkasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i
  38 kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.  Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre
  39 millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets
  40 arbeide.  Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt
  41 på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.
  42 Se mer på
  43 <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a>
  44 og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p>
  45
  46 <p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje?  Et åpenbart problem er at
  47 medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut.  Den innsamlede
  48 informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med
  49 journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten
  50 av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon.  Et annet er at
  51 aadvokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem
  52 som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat.
  53 Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke
  54 nettsteder en har besøkt.  Har en besøkt hivnorge.no,
  55 swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede
  56 interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være
  57 tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
  58
  59 <p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for.  Høyre og
  60 Arbeiderpartiet.  Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har
  61 DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre
  62 fylkene).  Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse
  63 partiene.  Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med
  64 informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget,
  65 basert på informasjon fra mine venner i
  66 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de
  67 Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>.
  68 Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p>
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  77 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
  78
  79 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
  80 <td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td>
  81 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
  82
  83 <tr class="mot"><td>2.</td>
  84 <td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td>
  85 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr>
  86
  87 <tr class="mot"><td>3.</td>
  88 <td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td>
  89 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td>
  90
  91 <tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td>
  92 <td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td>
  93 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
  94
  95 <tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td>
  96 <td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td>
  97 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
  98
  99 <tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td>
 100 <td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td>
 101 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 102
 103 <tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td>
 104 <td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td>
 105 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 106
 107 <tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td>
 108 <td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td>
 109 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 110
 111 <tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td>
 112 <td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td>
 113 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 114
 115 <tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td>
 116 <td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td>
 117 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 118
 119 <tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td>
 120 <td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td>
 121 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 122
 123 <tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td>
 124 <td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td>
 125 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 126
 127 <tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td>
 128 <td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td>
 129 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 130
 131 <tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td>
 132 <td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td>
 133 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 134
 135 <tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td>
 136 <td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td>
 137 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 138
 139 <tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td>
 140 <td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td>
 141 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 142
 143 <tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td>
 144 <td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td>
 145 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 146
 147 <tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td>
 148 <td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td>
 149 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 150
 151 <tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td>
 152 <td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td>
 153 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 154
 155 <tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td>
 156 <td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td>
 157 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 158
 159 <tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td>
 160 <td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td>
 161 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 162
 163 <tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td>
 164 <td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td>
 165 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 166
 167 <tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td>
 168 <td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td>
 169 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 170
 171 <tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td>
 172 <td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td>
 173 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 174
 175 <tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td>
 176 <td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td>
 177 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 178
 179 </table>
 180
 181 <p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p>
 182
 183 <table>
 184
 185 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 186
 187 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 188 <td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td>
 189 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 190
 191 <tr class="for"><td>2.</td>
 192 <td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td>
 193 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 194
 195 <tr class="for"><td> 3.</td>
 196 <td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td>
 197 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 198
 199 <tr class="for"><td> 4.</td>
 200 <td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td>
 201 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 202
 203 <tr class="for"><td> 5.</td>
 204 <td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td>
 205 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 206
 207 <tr class="for"><td> 6.</td>
 208 <td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td>
 209 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 210
 211 <tr class="for"><td> 7.</td>
 212 <td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td>
 213 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 214
 215 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td>
 216 <td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td>
 217 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 218
 219 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td>
 220 <td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td>
 221 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 222
 223 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td>
 224 <td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td>
 225 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 226
 227 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td>
 228 <td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td>
 229 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 230
 231 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td>
 232 <td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td>
 233 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 234
 235 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td>
 236 <td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td>
 237 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 238
 239 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td>
 240 <td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td>
 241 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 242
 243 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td>
 244 <td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td>
 245 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 246
 247 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td>
 248 <td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td>
 249 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 250
 251 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td>
 252 <td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td>
 253 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 254
 255 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td>
 256 <td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td>
 257 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 258
 259 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td>
 260 <td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td>
 261 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 262
 263 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td>
 264 <td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td>
 265 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 266
 267 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td>
 268 <td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td>
 269 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 270
 271 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td>
 272 <td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td>
 273 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 274
 275 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td>
 276 <td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td>
 277 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 278
 279 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td>
 280 <td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td>
 281 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 282
 283 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td>
 284 <td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td>
 285 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 286
 287 </table>
 288
 289 <p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år.  Jeg tror det blir
 290 <ahref="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>.  Hvis de kan bidra
 291 til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får
 292 kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har
 293 hatt så langt.</p>
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 299         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg</a>.
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 307       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_beta_release__beta_1__of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">Second beta release (beta 1) of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
 308       <div class="date">22nd August 2013</div>
 309       <div class="body"><p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 310 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
 311 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:</p>
 312
 313 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
 314
 315 <p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 316 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 317
 318 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 319
 320 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 321 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 322 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 323 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 324 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 325 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 326 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 327 the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be
 328 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 329 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 330 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 331 desktop contains
 332 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 333 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 334 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 335 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 336
 337 <p>This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
 338 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
 339 release.</p>
 340
 341 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 342 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 343 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 344 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 345 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
 346 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
 347 the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
 348 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
 349 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
 350 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
 351 CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
 352
 353 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 354
 355 <ul>
 356
 357 <li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
 358     work also without a attached tty.</li>
 359 <li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
 360     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
 361     tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
 362     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
 363     required).</li>
 364
 365 </ul>
 366
 367 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 368
 369 <ul>
 370
 371 <li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
 372 needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
 373 <li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
 374 stick ISO image.</li>
 375 <li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
 376 <li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
 377 <li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
 378     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
 379     cope with this.</li>
 380 <li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
 381 <li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
 382     empty password hashes.</li>
 383 <li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
 384     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
 385     from joining the Samba domain.</li>
 386
 387 </ul>
 388
 389 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 390
 391 <ul>
 392
 393 <li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
 394     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
 395 <li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
 396     (using the KDE configuration).</li>
 397
 398 </ul>
 399
 400 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 401
 402 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 403
 404 <ul>
 405
 406 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
 407
 408 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso</a></li>
 409
 410 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
 411
 412 </ul>
 413
 414 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
 415 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
 416
 417 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 418
 419 <ul>
 420
 421 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
 422 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso</a></li>
 423 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
 424
 425 </ul>
 426
 427 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
 428 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</p>
 429
 430
 431 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 432
 433 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
 434 </div>
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 436
 437
 438         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 445     <div class="entry">
 446       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_180_SSD_disk_with_Lenovo_firmware_can_not_use_Intel_firmware.html">Intel 180 SSD disk with Lenovo firmware can not use Intel firmware</a></div>
 447       <div class="date">18th August 2013</div>
 448       <div class="body"><p>Earlier, I reported about
 449 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">my
 450 problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk</a>.  Friday I was
 451 told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away.  And as
 452 there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided
 453 today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware
 454 currently on the disk.</p>
 455
 456 <p>I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found
 457 <a href="https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=3472&DwnldID=18363&ProductFamily=Solid-State+Drives+and+Caching&ProductLine=Intel%c2%ae+High+Performance+Solid-State+Drive&ProductProduct=Intel%c2%ae+SSD+520+Series+(180GB%2c+2.5in+SATA+6Gb%2fs%2c+25nm%2c+MLC)&lang=eng">issdfut_2.0.4.iso</a>
 458 (aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which
 459 according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD
 460 disks.  I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and
 461 booted the ISO from a USB stick.  The disk was recognized, but the
 462 program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused
 463 to insert any Intel firmware.  So no change, and the disk is still
 464 unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them
 465 working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware.  No idea how likely
 466 that is.  Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness.  I
 467 got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on
 468 the broken disks.</p>
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 472
 473         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 474
 475
 476       </div>
 477     </div>
 478     <div class="padding"></div>
 479
 480     <div class="entry">
 481       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html">90 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</a></div>
 482       <div class="date"> 2nd August 2013</div>
 483       <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since my last update.  Since last summer, I
 484 have worked on a Norwegian
 485 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book
 486 <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig,
 487 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
 488 law.  Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
 489 number of strings to translate.  Due to real life constraints, I have
 490 not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
 491 I found time to work on it again.  Still lots of work left, but the
 492 first draft is nearing completion.  I created a graph to show the
 493 progress of the translation:</p>
 494
 495 <p><img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"></p>
 496
 497 <p>When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
 498 proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
 499 drawings need to be fixed.  There are probably also some index entries
 500 missing that need to be added.  This can be done by comparing the
 501 index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
 502 English docbook version with the paper version.  Last, the colophon
 503 page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
 504 done.  I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
 505 of the index pages.  All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
 506 docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
 507 Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.</p>
 508
 509 <p>There is still need for translators and people with docbook
 510 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
 511 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
 512 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
 513 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
 514 around?  There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
 515 If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
 516 project files currently available from
 517 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
 518
 519 <p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
 520 the updated
 521 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
 522 and
 523 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
 524 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
 525 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
 526 saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
 527 </div>
 528       <div class="tags">
 529
 530
 531         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>.
 532
 533
 534       </div>
 535     </div>
 536     <div class="padding"></div>
 537
 538     <div class="entry">
 539       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">First beta release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
 540       <div class="date">27th July 2013</div>
 541       <div class="body"><p>The first wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 542 today.  This is the release announcement:</p>
 543
 544 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b0 released
 545 2013-07-27</strong></p>
 546
 547 <p>These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 548 7.1+edu0~b0, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 549
 550 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 551
 552 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 553 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 554 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 555 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 556 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 557 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 558 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 559 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
 560 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 561 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 562 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 563 desktop contains
 564 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 565 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 566 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 567 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 568
 569 <p>This is the fifth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
 570 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
 571 Squeeze release.</p>
 572
 573 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 574 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 575 release.</p>
 576
 577 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 578
 579 <ul>
 580
 581 <li>Switched roaming workstation profiles from wicd to network-manager
 582    for network configuration, as wicd didn't work any more.</li>
 583 <li>Changed version numbers of patched gosa and libpam-mklocaluser
 584    packages to make sure our locally patched versions will be replaced
 585    by the official packages when they are released from Debian. Those
 586    installing alpha version need to reinstall or manually downgrade gosa
 587    and libpam-mklocaluser.</li>
 588 <li>Added bluetooth tools to the default desktop (bluedevil, blueman).</li>
 589 <li>Added tools for sharing the desktop on KDE (krdc, krfb).</li>
 590 <li>Added valgrind to the default installation for easier debugging of
 591    crash bugs.</li>
 592
 593 </ul>
 594
 595 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 596
 597 <ul>
 598
 599 <li>Fixed artwork package to work with gnome, no longer break
 600    desktop=gnome installations.</li>
 601 <li>Adjusted installer to now work when forced to use a proxy with the
 602    netinst CD.</li>
 603 <li>Fixed code detecting and setting/loading hardware specific
 604    setup/firmware to work more robust out of the box.</li>
 605 <li>Adjusted Kerberos setup to detect realm and server settings at
 606    install time instead of dynamically at run time. This avoid a crash
 607    with krb5-auth-dialog on diskless workstations without a DNS name.</li>
 608 <li>Worked around misfeature in network-manager not calling the dhclient
 609    exit hooks, causing automatic proxy configuration and automatic host
 610    name setting at run time to work again.</li>
 611 <li>Fixed feature setting the default Iceweasel start page from URL
 612    fetched from LDAP, to allow schools to set the global default by
 613    updating the dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no LDAP object.</li>
 614 <li>Changed default host name on all networked machines to be unique
 615    (generated from MAC or reverse DNS) after boot.</li>
 616 <li>Adjusted partition sizes to make sure they are big enough.</li>
 617
 618 </ul>
 619
 620 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 621
 622 <ul>
 623
 624 <li>Grub is missing the new artwork.</li>
 625 <li>KDE fail to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
 626     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
 627 <li>Chromium also fail to use the proxy.</li>
 628
 629 </ul>
 630
 631 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 632
 633 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 634
 635 <ul>
 636
 637 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso</a></li>
 638
 639 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso</a></li>
 640
 641 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-CD.iso .</li>
 642
 643 </ul>
 644
 645 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 55d5de9765b6dccd5d9ec33cf1a07109
 646 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 996a1d9517740e4d627d100de2d12b23dd545a3f</p>
 647
 648 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 649
 650 <ul>
 651
 652 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso</a></li>
 653 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso</a></li>
 654 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b0-USB.iso .</li>
 655
 656 </ul>
 657
 658 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: d8f0818c51a78d357de794066f289f69
 659 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 49185ca354e8d0543240423746924f76a6cee733</p>
 660
 661
 662 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 663
 664 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
 665 </div>
 666       <div class="tags">
 667
 668
 669         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>.
 670
 671
 672       </div>
 673     </div>
 674     <div class="padding"></div>
 675
 676     <div class="entry">
 677       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">How to fix a Thinkpad X230 with a broken 180 GB SSD disk</a></div>
 678       <div class="date">17th July 2013</div>
 679       <div class="body"><p>Today I switched to
 680 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html">my
 681 new laptop</a>.  I've previously written about the problems I had with
 682 my new Thinkpad X230, which was delivered with an
 683 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_SSD_520_Series_180_GB_with_Lenovo_firmware_still_lock_up_from_sustained_writes.html">180
 684 GB Intel SSD disk with Lenovo firmware</a> that did not handle
 685 sustained writes.  My hardware supplier have been very forthcoming in
 686 trying to find a solution, and after first trying with another
 687 identical 180 GB disks they decided to send me a 256 GB Samsung SSD
 688 disk instead to fix it once and for all.  The Samsung disk survived
 689 the installation of Debian with encrypted disks (filling the disk with
 690 random data during installation killed the first two), and I thus
 691 decided to trust it with my data.  I have installed it as a Debian Edu
 692 Wheezy roaming workstation hooked up with my Debian Edu Squeeze main
 693 server at home using Kerberos and LDAP, and will use it as my work
 694 station from now on.</p>
 695
 696 <p>As this is a solid state disk with no moving parts, I believe the
 697 Debian Wheezy default installation need to be tuned a bit to increase
 698 performance and increase life time of the disk.  The Linux kernel and
 699 user space applications do not yet adjust automatically to such
 700 environment.  To make it easier for my self, I created a draft Debian
 701 package <tt>ssd-setup</tt> to handle this tuning.  The
 702 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ssd-setup.git">source
 703 for the ssd-setup package</a> is available from collab-maint, and it
 704 is set up to adjust the setup of the machine by just installing the
 705 package.  If there is any non-SSD disk in the machine, the package
 706 will refuse to install, as I did not try to write any logic to sort
 707 file systems in SSD and non-SSD file systems.</p>
 708
 709 <p>I consider the package a draft, as I am a bit unsure how to best
 710 set up Debian Wheezy with an SSD.  It is adjusted to my use case,
 711 where I set up the machine with one large encrypted partition (in
 712 addition to /boot), put LVM on top of this and set up partitions on
 713 top of this again.  See the README file in the package source for the
 714 references I used to pick the settings.  At the moment these
 715 parameters are tuned:</p>
 716
 717 <ul>
 718
 719 <li>Set up cryptsetup to pass TRIM commands to the physical disk
 720     (adding discard to /etc/crypttab)</li>
 721
 722 <li>Set up LVM to pass on TRIM commands to the underlying device (in
 723     this case a cryptsetup partition) by changing issue_discards from
 724     0 to 1 in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf.</li>
 725
 726 <li>Set relatime as a file system option for ext3 and ext4 file
 727     systems.</li>
 728
 729 <li>Tell swap to use TRIM commands by adding 'discard' to
 730     /etc/fstab.</li>
 731
 732 <li>Change I/O scheduler from cfq to deadline using a udev rule.</li>
 733
 734 <li>Run fstrim on every ext3 and ext4 file system every night (from
 735     cron.daily).</li>
 736
 737 <li>Adjust sysctl values vm.swappiness to 1 and vm.vfs_cache_pressure
 738     to 50 to reduce the kernel eagerness to swap out processes.</li>
 739
 740 </ul>
 741
 742 <p>During installation, I cancelled the part where the installer fill
 743 the disk with random data, as this would kill the SSD performance for
 744 little gain.  My goal with the encrypted file system is to ensure
 745 those stealing my laptop end up with a brick and not a working
 746 computer.  I have no hope in keeping the really resourceful people
 747 from getting the data on the disk (see
 748 <a href="http://xkcd.com/538/">XKCD #538</a> for an explanation why).
 749 Thus I concluded that adding the discard option to crypttab is the
 750 right thing to do.</p>
 751
 752 <p>I considered using the noop I/O scheduler, as several recommended
 753 it for SSD, but others recommended deadline and a benchmark I found
 754 indicated that deadline might be better for interactive use.</p>
 755
 756 <p>I also considered using the 'discard' file system option for ext3
 757 and ext4, but read that it would give a performance hit ever time a
 758 file is removed, and thought it best to that that slowdown once a day
 759 instead of during my work.</p>
 760
 761 <p>My package do not set up tmpfs on /var/run, /var/lock and /tmp, as
 762 this is already done by Debian Edu.</p>
 763
 764 <p>I have not yet started on the user space tuning.  I expect
 765 iceweasel need some tuning, and perhaps other applications too, but
 766 have not yet had time to investigate those parts.</p>
 767
 768 <p>The package should work on Ubuntu too, but I have not yet tested it
 769 there.</p>
 770
 771 <p>As for the answer to the question in the title of this blog post,
 772 as far as I know, the only solution I know about is to replace the
 773 disk.  It might be possible to flash it with Intel firmware instead of
 774 the Lenovo firmware.  But I have not tried and did not want to do so
 775 without approval from Lenovo as I wanted to keep the warranty on the
 776 disk until a solution was found and they wanted the broken disks
 777 back.</p>
 778 </div>
 779       <div class="tags">
 780
 781
 782         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 783
 784
 785       </div>
 786     </div>
 787     <div class="padding"></div>
 788
 789     <div class="entry">
 790       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intel_SSD_520_Series_180_GB_with_Lenovo_firmware_still_lock_up_from_sustained_writes.html">Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB with Lenovo firmware still lock up from sustained writes</a></div>
 791       <div class="date">10th July 2013</div>
 792       <div class="body"><p>A few days ago, I wrote about
 793 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html">the
 794 problems I experienced with my new X230 and its SSD disk</a>, which
 795 was dying during installation because it is unable to cope with
 796 sustained write.  My supplier is in contact with
 797 <a href="http://www.lenovo.com/">Lenovo</a>, and they wanted to send a
 798 replacement disk to try to fix the problem.  They decided to send an
 799 identical model, so my hopes for a permanent fix was slim.</p>
 800
 801 <p>Anyway, today I got the replacement disk and tried to install
 802 Debian Edu Wheezy with encrypted disk on it.  The new disk have the
 803 same firmware version as the original.  This time my hope raised
 804 slightly as the installation progressed, as the original disk used to
 805 die after 4-7% of the disk was written to, while this time it kept
 806 going past 10%, 20%, 40% and even past 50%.  But around 60%, the disk
 807 died again and I was back on square one.  I still do not have a new
 808 laptop with a disk I can trust.  I can not live with a disk that might
 809 lock up when I download a new
 810 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> ISO or
 811 other large files.  I look forward to hearing from my supplier with
 812 the next proposal from Lenovo.</p>
 813
 814 <p>The original disk is marked Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB,
 815 11S0C38722Z1ZNME35X1TR, ISN: CVCV321407HB180EGN, SA: G57560302, FW:
 816 LF1i, 29MAY2013, PBA: G39779-300, LBA 351,651,888, LI P/N: 0C38722,
 817 Pb-free 2LI, LC P/N: 16-200366, WWN: 55CD2E40002756C4, Model:
 818 SSDSC2BW180A3L 2.5" 6Gb/s SATA SSD 180G 5V 1A, ASM P/N 0C38732, FRU
 819 P/N 45N8295, P0C38732.</p>
 820
 821 <p>The replacement disk is marked Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB,
 822 11S0C38722Z1ZNDE34N0L0, ISN: CVCV315306RK180EGN, SA: G57560-302, FW:
 823 LF1i, 22APR2013, PBA: G39779-300, LBA 351,651,888, LI P/N: 0C38722,
 824 Pb-free 2LI, LC P/N: 16-200366, WWN: 55CD2E40000AB69E, Model:
 825 SSDSC2BW180A3L 2.5" 6Gb/s SATA SSD 180G 5V 1A, ASM P/N 0C38732, FRU
 826 P/N 45N8295, P0C38732.</p>
 827
 828 <p>The only difference is in the first number (serial number?), ISN,
 829 SA, date and WNPP values.  Mentioning all the details here in case
 830 someone is able to use the information to find a way to identify the
 831 failing disk among working ones (if any such working disk actually
 832 exist).</p>
 833 </div>
 834       <div class="tags">
 835
 836
 837         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 838
 839
 840       </div>
 841     </div>
 842     <div class="padding"></div>
 843
 844     <div class="entry">
 845       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/July_13th__Debian_Ubuntu_BSP_and_Skolelinux_Debian_Edu_developer_gathering_in_Oslo.html">July 13th: Debian/Ubuntu BSP and Skolelinux/Debian Edu developer gathering in Oslo</a></div>
 846       <div class="date"> 9th July 2013</div>
 847       <div class="body"><p>The upcoming Saturday, 2013-07-13, we are organising a combined
 848 Debian Edu developer gathering and Debian and Ubuntu bug squashing
 849 party in Oslo.  It is organised by <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the
 850 member assosiation NUUG</a> and
 851 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 852 project</a> together with <a href="http://bitraf.no/">the hack space
 853 Bitraf</a>.</p>
 854
 855 <p>It starts 10:00 and continue until late evening.  Everyone is
 856 welcome, and there is no fee to participate.  There is on the other
 857 hand limited space, and only room for 30 people.  Please put your name
 858 on <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2013/07/13/no/Oslo">the event
 859 wiki page</a> if you plan to join us.</p>
 860 </div>
 861       <div class="tags">
 862
 863
 864         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/nuug">nuug</a>.
 865
 866
 867       </div>
 868     </div>
 869     <div class="padding"></div>
 870
 871     <div class="entry">
 872       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230_.html">The Thinkpad is dead, long live the Thinkpad X230?</a></div>
 873       <div class="date"> 5th July 2013</div>
 874       <div class="body"><p>Half a year ago, I reported that I had to find a
 875 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html">replacement
 876 for my trusty old Thinkpad X41</a>.  Unfortunately I did not have much
 877 time to spend on it, and it took a while to find a model I believe
 878 will do the job, but two days ago the replacement finally arrived.  I
 879 ended up picking a
 880 <a href="http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_x230">Thinkpad X230</a>
 881 with SSD disk (NZDAJMN).  I first test installed Debian Edu Wheezy as
 882 a roaming workstation, and it seemed to work flawlessly.  But my
 883 second installation with encrypted disk was not as successful.  More
 884 on that below.</p>
 885
 886 <p>I had a hard time trying to track down a good laptop, as my most
 887 important requirements (robust and with a good keyboard) are never
 888 listed in the feature list.  But I did get good help from the search
 889 feature at <a href="http://www.prisjakt.no/">Prisjakt</a>, which
 890 allowed me to limit the list of interesting laptops based on my other
 891 requirements.  A bit surprising that SSD disk are not disks according
 892 to that search interface, so I had to drop specifying the number of
 893 disks from my search parameters.  I also asked around among friends to
 894 get their impression on keyboards and robustness.</p>
 895
 896 <p>So the new laptop arrived, and it is quite a lot wider than the
 897 X41.  I am not quite convinced about the keyboard, as it is
 898 significantly wider than my old keyboard, and I have to stretch my
 899 hand a lot more to reach the edges.  But the key response is fairly
 900 good and the individual key shape is fairly easy to handle, so I hope
 901 I will get used to it.  My old X40 was starting to fail, and I really
 902 needed a new laptop now. :)</p>
 903
 904 <p>Turning off the touch pad was simple.  All it took was a quick
 905 visit to the BIOS during boot it disable it.</p>
 906
 907 <p>But there is a fatal problem with the laptop.  The 180 GB SSD disk
 908 lock up during load.  And this happen when installing Debian Wheezy
 909 with encrypted disk, while the disk is being filled with random data.
 910 I also tested to install Ubuntu Raring, and it happen there too if I
 911 reenable the code to fill the disk with random data (it is disabled by
 912 default in Ubuntu).  And the bug with is already known.  It was
 913 reported to Debian as <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/691427">BTS
 914 report #691427 2012-10-25</a> (journal commit I/O error on brand-new
 915 Thinkpad T430s ext4 on lvm on SSD).  It is also reported to the Linux
 916 kernel developers as
 917 <a href="https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51861">Kernel bugzilla
 918 report #51861 2012-12-20</a> (Intel SSD 520 stops working under load
 919 (SSDSC2BW180A3L in Lenovo ThinkPad T430s)). It is also reported on the
 920 Lenovo forums, both for
 921 <a href="http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T430s-Intel-SSD-520-180GB-issue/m-p/1070549">T430
 922 2012-11-10</a> and for
 923 <a href="http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/x230-SATA-errors-with-180GB-Intel-520-SSD-under-heavy-write-load/m-p/1068147">X230
 924 03-20-2013</a>.  The problem do not only affect installation.  The
 925 reports state that the disk lock up during use if many writes are done
 926 on the disk, so it is much no use to work around the installation
 927 problem and end up with a computer that can lock up at any moment.
 928 There is even a
 929 <a href="https://git.efficios.com/?p=test-ssd.git">small C program
 930 available</a> that will lock up the hard drive after running a few
 931 minutes by writing to a file.</p>
 932
 933 <p>I've contacted my supplier and asked how to handle this, and after
 934 contacting PCHELP Norway (request 01D1FDP) which handle support
 935 requests for Lenovo, his first suggestion was to upgrade the disk
 936 firmware.  Unfortunately there is no newer firmware available from
 937 Lenovo, as my disk already have the most recent one (version LF1i).  I
 938 hope to hear more from him today and hope the problem can be
 939 fixed. :)</p>
 940 </div>
 941       <div class="tags">
 942
 943
 944         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 945
 946
 947       </div>
 948     </div>
 949     <div class="padding"></div>
 950
 951     <div class="entry">
 952       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Thinkpad_is_dead__long_live_the_Thinkpad_X230.html">The Thinkpad is dead, long live the Thinkpad X230</a></div>
 953       <div class="date"> 4th July 2013</div>
 954       <div class="body"><p>Half a year ago, I reported that I had to find a replacement for my
 955 trusty old Thinkpad X41.  Unfortunately I did not have much time to
 956 spend on it, but today the replacement finally arrived.  I ended up
 957 picking a <a href="http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_x230">Thinkpad
 958 X230</a> with SSD disk (NZDAJMN).  I first test installed Debian Edu
 959 Wheezy as a roaming workstation, and it worked flawlessly.  As I write
 960 this, it is installing what I hope will be a more final installation,
 961 with a encrypted hard drive to ensure any dope head stealing it end up
 962 with an expencive door stop.</p>
 963
 964 <p>I had a hard time trying to track down a good laptop, as my most
 965 important requirements (robust and with a good keyboard) are never
 966 listed in the feature list.  But I did get good help from the search
 967 feature at <ahref="http://www.prisjakt.no/">Prisjakt</a>, which
 968 allowed me to limit the list of interesting laptops based on my other
 969 requirements.  A bit surprising that SSD disk are not disks, so I had
 970 to drop number of disks from my search parameters.</p>
 971
 972 <p>I am not quite convinced about the keyboard, as it is significantly
 973 wider than my old keyboard, and I have to stretch my hand a lot more
 974 to reach the edges.  But the key response is fairly good and the
 975 individual key shape is fairly easy to handle, so I hope I will get
 976 used to it.  My old X40 was starting to fail, and I really needed a
 977 new laptop now. :)</p>
 978
 979 <p>I look forward to figuring out how to turn off the touch pad.</p>
 980 </div>
 981       <div class="tags">
 982
 983
 984         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 985
 986
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 996 <h2>Archive</h2>
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1001
1002 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
1003
1004 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
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1006 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
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1009
1010 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1011
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1015
1016 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1017
1018 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1019
1020 </ul></li>
1021
1022 <li>2012
1023 <ul>
1024
1025 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1026
1027 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
1028
1029 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
1030
1031 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
1032
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1034
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1036
1037 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
1038
1039 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
1040
1041 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
1042
1043 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
1044
1045 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
1046
1047 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1048
1049 </ul></li>
1050
1051 <li>2011
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1053
1054 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
1055
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1069
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1071
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1075
1076 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1077
1078 </ul></li>
1079
1080 <li>2010
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1084
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1098
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1101 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
1102
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1104
1105 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1106
1107 </ul></li>
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1135
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1137
1138 <li>2008
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1140
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1142
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1148
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1169
1170  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (139)</a></li>
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1181
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1231
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