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