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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html">Oslo community mesh network - with NUUG and Hackeriet at Hausmania</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">11th October 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing
  26 networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large
  27 areas, depending on the radio technology used.  Normal wifi equipment
  28 can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several
  29 successful examples like
  30 <a href="http://www.freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a> and
  31 <a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network</a>
  32 (see
  33 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece">wikipedia
  34 for a large list</a>) around the globe.  To give you an idea how it
  35 work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which
  36 can be seen from their
  37 <a href="http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html">dynamically
  38 updated node graph and map</a>, where one can see how the mesh nodes
  39 automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing.
  40 There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway,
  41 and that is the main topic of this blog post.</p>
  42
  43 <p>I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped
  44 to do it as part of my involvement with the <a
  45 href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG member organisation</a> community, and
  46 my recent involvement in
  47 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the Freedombox project</a>
  48 finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a
  49 Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family
  50 when possible, given that most communication between people are
  51 between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook
  52 communication patterns).  It also allow people to communicate without
  53 any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the
  54 private communication of citizens, which have become more and more
  55 important over the years.</p>
  56
  57 <p>So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo
  58 working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space
  59 <a href="http://hackeriet.no/">Hackeriet</a> at Husmania.  They seem to
  60 have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called
  61 <a href="http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page">the Oslo
  62 Freifunk project</a>, but that effort is now dead and the people
  63 behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called
  64 <a href="http://meshfx.org/trac">meshfx</a>.  Unfortunately the wiki
  65 site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to
  66 reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to
  67 the new project.  A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
  68 from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks.  I
  69 came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
  70 speakers about this talk (from
  71 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY">youtube</a>):</p>
  72
  73 <p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
  74
  75 <p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
  76 There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
  77 figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
  78 given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
  79 is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
  80 completely different setup, and thus this have decided to focus on
  81 batman-adv for now.  It sure help me to  know that the very cool
  82 <a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a>
  83 is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
  84 organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
  85 less industrialized communities.  Check out this cool video presenting
  86 that project (from
  87 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube</a>):</p>
  88
  89 <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
  90
  91 <p>According to the wikipedia page on
  92 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless
  93 mesh network</a> there are around 70 competing schemes for routing
  94 packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
  95 B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
  96 based community mesh networks.</p>
  97
  98 <p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
  99 (as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
 100 network.  One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
 101 vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
 102 computer.  The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
 103 least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up.  A
 104 <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good
 105 introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project.  These are
 106 the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p>
 107
 108 <p><table>
 109 <tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr>
 110 <tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr>
 111 <tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr>
 112 <td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr>
 113 <td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td>
 114 </table></p>
 115
 116 <p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
 117 in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers.  (See a nice post from
 118 VillageTelco about
 119 "<a href="http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information
 120 about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!</a>
 121 for details.)  When these settings are activated and you have some
 122 other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
 123 network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
 124 any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)</p>
 125
 126 <p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
 127 but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
 128 firmware supporting batman-adv.  If anyone know how to use that old
 129 wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.</p>
 130
 131 <p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
 132 us on IRC, either channel
 133 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace</a>
 134 or <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug</a> on
 135 irc.freenode.net.</p>
 136
 137 <p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
 138 research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
 139 and Innovation called
 140 <a href="http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The
 141 reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks</a> and elsewhere
 142 learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
 143 Grünerløkka in Oslo.  So mesh networks are also interesting for
 144 commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
 145 to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
 146 know have closed down the experiment.  Perhaps Telenor or others would
 147 be interested in a cooperation?</p>
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 152         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 160       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu 7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador</a></div>
 161       <div class="date"> 8th October 2013</div>
 162       <div class="body"><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
 163 Salvador had published a
 164 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
 165 Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
 166 Skolelinux profile.  This is the profile intended for use at home or
 167 on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
 168 services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
 169 in other word a single user machine).  The result is 11 minutes long,
 170 and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
 171 Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
 172 showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model
 173 of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
 174 other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
 175 advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
 176 Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
 177 computers without hard drives by installing one central
 178 <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p>
 179
 180 <p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p>
 181
 182 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 183
 184 <p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux?  Please let
 185 me know. :)</p>
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 190         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/video">video</a>.
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 198       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html">Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today!</a></div>
 199       <div class="date">29th September 2013</div>
 200       <div class="body"><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
 201 Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team.  The
 202 complete announcement text can be found at
 203 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
 204 section</a>, translated to several languages.  Please check it out.</p>
 205
 206 <p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon.  One
 207 can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
 208 partition is too small.  A workaround is to extend the partition (use
 209 lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p>
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 214         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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 222       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html">Videos about the Freedombox project - for inspiration and learning</a></div>
 223       <div class="date">27th September 2013</div>
 224       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
 225 project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
 226 vision, ideas and solution several places.  Here is a little
 227 collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p>
 228
 229 <ul>
 230
 231 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
 232 2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li>
 233
 234 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
 235 discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 236
 237 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
 238 Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
 239 Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a>
 240 (Youtube)</li>
 241
 242 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011
 243 Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li>
 244
 245 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
 246 the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 247
 248 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
 249 Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
 250 York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li>
 251
 252 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
 253 to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a>
 254 (Youtube)</li>
 255
 256 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
 257 of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li>
 258
 259 <li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
 260 1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li>
 261
 262 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
 263 FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
 264 2013</a> (Youtube)</li>
 265
 266 </ul>
 267
 268 <p>A larger list is available from
 269 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
 270 Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p>
 271
 272 <p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
 273 Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
 274 Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
 275 a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
 276 The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
 277 pending in NEW.  The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
 278 metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload.  Join
 279 us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
 280 (#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and
 281 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
 282 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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 287         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>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 295       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_and_probably_last_beta_release_of_Debian_Edu_Wheezy.html">Third and probably last beta release of Debian Edu Wheezy</a></div>
 296       <div class="date">16th September 2013</div>
 297       <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 298 today.  This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:</p>
 299
 300 <blockquote>
 301 <p>Hi,</p>
 302
 303 <p>it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
 304 short) of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 305 Skolelinux</a> based on Debian Wheezy!</p>
 306
 307 <p>Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
 308 we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
 309 weekend.  We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
 310 if you find something, please notify us immediately!</p>
 311
 312 <p>(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
 313 another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)</p>
 314
 315 <p>Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
 316 compared to beta1:</p>
 317
 318 <ul>
 319
 320 <li>The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
 321 also gets Chromium to use this proxy.</li>
 322 <li>Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
 323 understand ical/dav sources.</li>
 324 <li>Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
 325 main server.</li>
 326 <li>A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.</li>
 327 <li>Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
 328 (6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
 329 (0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
 330 (3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).</li>
 331
 332 </ul>
 333
 334 <p>Where to get it:</p>
 335
 336 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 337
 338 <ul>
 339 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
 340 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso</a></li>
 341 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .</li>
 342 </ul>
 343
 344 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is:  3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f</p>
 345
 346 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
 347 <ul>
 348 <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
 349 <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso</a></li>
 350 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .</li>
 351 </ul>
 352
 353 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e</p>
 354
 355 <p>The Source DVD image has the filename
 356 debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
 357 089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
 358 as the other isos.</p>
 359
 360 <p>How to report bugs</p>
 361
 362 <p>For information how to report bugs please see
 363 <br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
 364
 365
 366 <p>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</p>
 367
 368 <p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
 369 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
 370 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
 371 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
 372 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
 373 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
 374 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
 375 machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
 376 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
 377 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
 378 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
 379 packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
 380 can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 381
 382 <p>This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
 383 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
 384 Squeeze release.</p>
 385
 386 <p>Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases</p>
 387
 388 <p>Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 389 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 390 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 391 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 392 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
 393 Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
 394 password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
 395 (backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
 396 to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
 397 directory.</p>
 398
 399
 400 <p>cheers,
 401 <br>        Holger</p>
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 415       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Recipe_to_test_the_Freedombox_project_on_amd64_or_Raspberry_Pi.html">Recipe to test the Freedombox project on amd64 or Raspberry Pi</a></div>
 416       <div class="date">10th September 2013</div>
 417       <div class="body"><p>I was introduced to the
 418 <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
 419 in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
 420 of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
 421 within the legal protection of their own homes.  The idea is to give
 422 people back the power over their network and machines, and return
 423 Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.  Instead of
 424 depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
 425 control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
 426
 427 <p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
 428 taken priority.  But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
 429 and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
 430 communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
 431 actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
 432
 433 <p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
 434 Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
 435 create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
 436 up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
 437 communication.  The initial deployment platform have been the
 438 <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
 439 which is a piece of hardware I do not own.  So to be able to test what
 440 the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install
 441 it on some hardware I do have access to.  I have rewritten the
 442 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
 443 image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
 444 setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
 445 set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
 446 the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
 447 missing in Debian).</p>
 448
 449 <p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
 450 scripts
 451 (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
 452 and a administrative web interface
 453 (<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
 454 withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
 455 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
 456 (freedombox-privoxy).  There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
 457 client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
 458 trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
 459 (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>).  The
 460 web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
 461 services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc.  Not much of
 462 this is really working yet, see
 463 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
 464 project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories.  Most of the code is
 465 on github at the moment.  The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
 466 box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
 467 users.  I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
 468 know there are several branches spread around github and other places
 469 with lots of half baked features.</p>
 470
 471 <p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
 472 following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
 473 at.</p>
 474
 475 <p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
 476
 477 <ol>
 478
 479 <li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
 480 <li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
 481 <li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
 482 to the Debian installer:<p>
 483 <pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
 484
 485 <li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
 486 install on.</li>
 487
 488 <li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
 489 few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
 490
 491 </ol>
 492
 493 <p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
 494
 495 <ol>
 496
 497 <li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
 498 <li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
 499 <li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
 500 <pre>
 501 deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
 502 </pre></li>
 503 <li><p>Run this as root:</p>
 504 <pre>
 505 wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
 506    apt-key add -
 507 apt-get update
 508 apt-get install freedombox-setup
 509 /usr/lib/freedombox/setup
 510 </pre></li>
 511 <li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
 512
 513 </ol>
 514
 515 <p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
 516 freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
 517 the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
 518 in my APT repository.  But do not let this stop you.  It is only a
 519 short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
 520
 521 <p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
 522 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
 523 off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
 524 disable</tt>" as root.</p>
 525
 526 <p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
 527 problems.  We gather on the IRC channel
 528 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
 529 irc.debian.org and the
 530 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
 531 mailing list</a>.</p>
 532
 533 <p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
 534 <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
 535 welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
 536 get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
 537 to look at the rest of plinth.  The default user is 'admin' and the
 538 default password is 'secret'.</p>
 539 </div>
 540       <div class="tags">
 541
 542
 543         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>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
 544
 545
 546       </div>
 547     </div>
 548     <div class="padding"></div>
 549
 550     <div class="entry">
 551       <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>
 552       <div class="date"> 8th September 2013</div>
 553       <div class="body"><p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og
 554 Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske
 555 folk.  Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt
 556 år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de
 557 snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen.  Det skal også
 558 registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost
 559 til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte.  Saken er kjent som
 560 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet
 561 (DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges
 562 grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt.  Det ble i praksis innført brev og
 563 besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen.  Rapporter fra de landene som
 564 allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes
 565 kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i
 566 kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.  Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre
 567 millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets
 568 arbeide.  Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt
 569 på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.
 570 Se mer på
 571 <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a>
 572 og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p>
 573
 574 <p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje?  Et åpenbart problem er at
 575 medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut.  Den innsamlede
 576 informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med
 577 journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten
 578 av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon.  Et annet er at
 579 advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem
 580 som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat.
 581 Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke
 582 nettsteder en har besøkt.  Har en besøkt hivnorge.no,
 583 swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede
 584 interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være
 585 tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
 586
 587 <p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for.  Høyre og
 588 Arbeiderpartiet.  Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har
 589 DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre
 590 fylkene).  Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse
 591 partiene.  Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med
 592 informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget,
 593 basert på informasjon fra mine venner i
 594 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de
 595 Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>.
 596 Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p>
 597
 598 <style type="text/css">
 599 .for    {background-color:#F5A9A9;}
 600 .mot    {background-color:#A9F5BC;}
 601 .ukjent { }
 602 </style>
 603
 604 <table>
 605 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 606
 607 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 608 <td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td>
 609 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 610
 611 <tr class="mot"><td>2.</td>
 612 <td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td>
 613 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr>
 614
 615 <tr class="mot"><td>3.</td>
 616 <td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td>
 617 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td>
 618
 619 <tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td>
 620 <td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td>
 621 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 622
 623 <tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td>
 624 <td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td>
 625 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 626
 627 <tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td>
 628 <td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td>
 629 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 630
 631 <tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td>
 632 <td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td>
 633 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 634
 635 <tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td>
 636 <td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td>
 637 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 638
 639 <tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td>
 640 <td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td>
 641 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 642
 643 <tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td>
 644 <td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td>
 645 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 646
 647 <tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td>
 648 <td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td>
 649 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 650
 651 <tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td>
 652 <td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td>
 653 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 654
 655 <tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td>
 656 <td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td>
 657 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 658
 659 <tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td>
 660 <td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td>
 661 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 662
 663 <tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td>
 664 <td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td>
 665 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 666
 667 <tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td>
 668 <td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td>
 669 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 670
 671 <tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td>
 672 <td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td>
 673 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 674
 675 <tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td>
 676 <td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td>
 677 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 678
 679 <tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td>
 680 <td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td>
 681 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 682
 683 <tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td>
 684 <td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td>
 685 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 686
 687 <tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td>
 688 <td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td>
 689 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 690
 691 <tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td>
 692 <td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td>
 693 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 694
 695 <tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td>
 696 <td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td>
 697 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 698
 699 <tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td>
 700 <td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td>
 701 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 702
 703 <tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td>
 704 <td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td>
 705 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 706
 707 </table>
 708
 709 <p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p>
 710
 711 <table>
 712
 713 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 714
 715 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 716 <td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td>
 717 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 718
 719 <tr class="for"><td>2.</td>
 720 <td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td>
 721 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 722
 723 <tr class="for"><td> 3.</td>
 724 <td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td>
 725 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 726
 727 <tr class="for"><td> 4.</td>
 728 <td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td>
 729 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 730
 731 <tr class="for"><td> 5.</td>
 732 <td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td>
 733 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 734
 735 <tr class="for"><td> 6.</td>
 736 <td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td>
 737 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 738
 739 <tr class="for"><td> 7.</td>
 740 <td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td>
 741 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 742
 743 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td>
 744 <td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td>
 745 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 746
 747 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td>
 748 <td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td>
 749 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 750
 751 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td>
 752 <td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td>
 753 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 754
 755 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td>
 756 <td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td>
 757 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 758
 759 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td>
 760 <td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td>
 761 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 762
 763 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td>
 764 <td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td>
 765 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 766
 767 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td>
 768 <td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td>
 769 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 770
 771 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td>
 772 <td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td>
 773 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 774
 775 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td>
 776 <td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td>
 777 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 778
 779 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td>
 780 <td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td>
 781 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 782
 783 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td>
 784 <td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td>
 785 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 786
 787 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td>
 788 <td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td>
 789 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 790
 791 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td>
 792 <td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td>
 793 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 794
 795 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td>
 796 <td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td>
 797 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 798
 799 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td>
 800 <td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td>
 801 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 802
 803 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td>
 804 <td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td>
 805 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 806
 807 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td>
 808 <td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td>
 809 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 810
 811 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td>
 812 <td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td>
 813 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 814
 815 </table>
 816
 817 <p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år.  Jeg tror det blir
 818 <a href="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>.  Hvis de kan bidra
 819 til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får
 820 kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har
 821 hatt så langt.</p>
 822
 823 </div>
 824       <div class="tags">
 825
 826
 827         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>.
 828
 829
 830       </div>
 831     </div>
 832     <div class="padding"></div>
 833
 834     <div class="entry">
 835       <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>
 836       <div class="date">22nd August 2013</div>
 837       <div class="body"><p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 838 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
 839 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:</p>
 840
 841 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
 842
 843 <p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 844 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 845
 846 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 847
 848 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 849 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 850 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 851 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 852 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 853 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 854 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 855 the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be
 856 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 857 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 858 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 859 desktop contains
 860 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 861 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 862 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 863 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 864
 865 <p>This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
 866 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
 867 release.</p>
 868
 869 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 870 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 871 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 872 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 873 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
 874 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
 875 the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
 876 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
 877 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
 878 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
 879 CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
 880
 881 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 882
 883 <ul>
 884
 885 <li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
 886     work also without a attached tty.</li>
 887 <li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
 888     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
 889     tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
 890     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
 891     required).</li>
 892
 893 </ul>
 894
 895 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 896
 897 <ul>
 898
 899 <li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
 900 needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
 901 <li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
 902 stick ISO image.</li>
 903 <li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
 904 <li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
 905 <li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
 906     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
 907     cope with this.</li>
 908 <li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
 909 <li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
 910     empty password hashes.</li>
 911 <li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
 912     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
 913     from joining the Samba domain.</li>
 914
 915 </ul>
 916
 917 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 918
 919 <ul>
 920
 921 <li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
 922     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
 923 <li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
 924     (using the KDE configuration).</li>
 925
 926 </ul>
 927
 928 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 929
 930 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 931
 932 <ul>
 933
 934 <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>
 935
 936 <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>
 937
 938 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
 939
 940 </ul>
 941
 942 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
 943 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
 944
 945 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 946
 947 <ul>
 948
 949 <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>
 950 <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>
 951 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
 952
 953 </ul>
 954
 955 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
 956 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</p>
 957
 958
 959 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
 960
 961 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
 962 </div>
 963       <div class="tags">
 964
 965
 966         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>.
 967
 968
 969       </div>
 970     </div>
 971     <div class="padding"></div>
 972
 973     <div class="entry">
 974       <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>
 975       <div class="date">18th August 2013</div>
 976       <div class="body"><p>Earlier, I reported about
 977 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">my
 978 problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk</a>.  Friday I was
 979 told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away.  And as
 980 there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided
 981 today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware
 982 currently on the disk.</p>
 983
 984 <p>I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found
 985 <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>
 986 (aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which
 987 according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD
 988 disks.  I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and
 989 booted the ISO from a USB stick.  The disk was recognized, but the
 990 program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused
 991 to insert any Intel firmware.  So no change, and the disk is still
 992 unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them
 993 working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware.  No idea how likely
 994 that is.  Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness.  I
 995 got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on
 996 the broken disks.</p>
 997 </div>
 998       <div class="tags">
 999
1000
1001         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>.
1002
1003
1004       </div>
1005     </div>
1006     <div class="padding"></div>
1007
1008     <div class="entry">
1009       <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>
1010       <div class="date"> 2nd August 2013</div>
1011       <div class="body"><p>It has been a while since my last update.  Since last summer, I
1012 have worked on a Norwegian
1013 <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book
1014 <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig,
1015 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
1016 law.  Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
1017 number of strings to translate.  Due to real life constraints, I have
1018 not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
1019 I found time to work on it again.  Still lots of work left, but the
1020 first draft is nearing completion.  I created a graph to show the
1021 progress of the translation:</p>
1022
1023 <p><img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"></p>
1024
1025 <p>When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
1026 proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
1027 drawings need to be fixed.  There are probably also some index entries
1028 missing that need to be added.  This can be done by comparing the
1029 index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
1030 English docbook version with the paper version.  Last, the colophon
1031 page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
1032 done.  I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
1033 of the index pages.  All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
1034 docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
1035 Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.</p>
1036
1037 <p>There is still need for translators and people with docbook
1038 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
1039 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
1040 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
1041 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
1042 around?  There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
1043 If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
1044 project files currently available from
1045 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
1046
1047 <p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
1048 the updated
1049 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
1050 and
1051 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
1052 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
1053 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
1054 saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
1055 </div>
1056       <div class="tags">
1057
1058
1059         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>.
1060
1061
1062       </div>
1063     </div>
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1071 <h2>Archive</h2>
1072 <ul>
1073
1074 <li>2013
1075 <ul>
1076
1077 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
1078
1079 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
1080
1081 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
1082
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1084
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1086
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1088
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1090
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1092
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1094
1095 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1096
1097 </ul></li>
1098
1099 <li>2012
1100 <ul>
1101
1102 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1103
1104 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
1105
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1117
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1119
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1121
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1123
1124 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1125
1126 </ul></li>
1127
1128 <li>2011
1129 <ul>
1130
1131 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
1132
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1134
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1136
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1138
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1140
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1142
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1144
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1146
1147 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
1148
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1150
1151 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1152
1153 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1154
1155 </ul></li>
1156
1157 <li>2010
1158 <ul>
1159
1160 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1161
1162 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1163
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1165
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1167
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1169
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1173
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1175
1176 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
1177
1178 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
1179
1180 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1181
1182 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1183
1184 </ul></li>
1185
1186 <li>2009
1187 <ul>
1188
1189 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1190
1191 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
1192
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1194
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1196
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1198
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1200
1201 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
1202
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1204
1205 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1206
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1208
1209 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1210
1211 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1212
1213 </ul></li>
1214
1215 <li>2008
1216 <ul>
1217
1218 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1219
1220 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1221
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1223
1224 </ul>
1225
1226
1227
1228 <h2>Tags</h2>
1229 <ul>
1230
1231  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
1232
1233  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/amiga">amiga (1)</a></li>
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1244
1245  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (86)</a></li>
1246
1247  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (142)</a></li>
1248
1249  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (10)</a></li>
1250
1251  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (10)</a></li>
1252
1253  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
1254
1255  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (219)</a></li>
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1260
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1262
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1290
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1310
1311  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
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1313  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (43)</a></li>
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1315  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (3)</a></li>
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1317  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (8)</a></li>
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1319  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (18)</a></li>
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1321  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (1)</a></li>
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1325  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (39)</a></li>
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