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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_causes__Debian_Outreach_Program_for_Women__EFF_documenting_the_spying_and_Open_access_in_Norway.html">Good causes: Debian Outreach Program for Women, EFF documenting the spying and Open access in Norway</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">15th October 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>The last few days I came across a few good causes that should get
  26 wider attention.  I recommend signing and donating to each one of
  27 these. :)</p>
  28
  29 <p>Via <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/18/">Debian
  30 Project News for 2013-10-14</a> I came across the Outreach Program for
  31 Women program which is a Google Summer of Code like initiative to get
  32 more women involved in free software.  One debian sponsor has offered
  33 to match <a href="http://debian.ch/opw2013">any donation done to Debian
  34 earmarked</a> for this initiative.  I donated a few minutes ago, and
  35 hope you will to. :)</p>
  36
  37 <p>And the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced plans to
  38 create video documentaries about the excessive spying on every
  39 Internet user that take place these days, and their need to fund the
  40 work.  I've already donated.  Are you next?</p>
  41
  42 <p>For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og
  43 Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a
  44 statement under the heading
  45 <a href="http://saih.no/Bloggers_United/">Bloggers United for Open
  46 Access</a> for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the
  47 Norwegian government.  So far 499 signatures.  I hope you will sign it
  48 too.</p>
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  53         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/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
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  61       <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>
  62       <div class="date">11th October 2013</div>
  63       <div class="body"><p>Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing
  64 networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large
  65 areas, depending on the radio technology used.  Normal wifi equipment
  66 can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several
  67 successful examples like
  68 <a href="http://www.freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a> and
  69 <a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network</a>
  70 (see
  71 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece">wikipedia
  72 for a large list</a>) around the globe.  To give you an idea how it
  73 work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which
  74 can be seen from their
  75 <a href="http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html">dynamically
  76 updated node graph and map</a>, where one can see how the mesh nodes
  77 automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing.
  78 There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway,
  79 and that is the main topic of this blog post.</p>
  80
  81 <p>I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped
  82 to do it as part of my involvement with the <a
  83 href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG member organisation</a> community, and
  84 my recent involvement in
  85 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the Freedombox project</a>
  86 finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a
  87 Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family
  88 when possible, given that most communication between people are
  89 between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook
  90 communication patterns).  It also allow people to communicate without
  91 any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the
  92 private communication of citizens, which have become more and more
  93 important over the years.</p>
  94
  95 <p>So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo
  96 working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space
  97 <a href="http://hackeriet.no/">Hackeriet</a> at Husmania.  They seem to
  98 have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called
  99 <a href="http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page">the Oslo
 100 Freifunk project</a>, but that effort is now dead and the people
 101 behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called
 102 <a href="http://meshfx.org/trac">meshfx</a>.  Unfortunately the wiki
 103 site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to
 104 reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to
 105 the new project.  A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
 106 from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks.  I
 107 came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
 108 speakers about this talk (from
 109 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY">youtube</a>):</p>
 110
 111 <p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
 112
 113 <p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
 114 There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
 115 figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
 116 given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
 117 is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
 118 completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on
 119 batman-adv for now.  It sure help me to  know that the very cool
 120 <a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a>
 121 is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
 122 organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
 123 less industrialized communities.  Check out this cool video presenting
 124 that project (from
 125 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube</a>):</p>
 126
 127 <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
 128
 129 <p>According to the wikipedia page on
 130 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless
 131 mesh network</a> there are around 70 competing schemes for routing
 132 packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
 133 B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
 134 based community mesh networks.</p>
 135
 136 <p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
 137 (as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
 138 network.  One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
 139 vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
 140 computer.  The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
 141 least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up.  A
 142 <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good
 143 introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project.  These are
 144 the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p>
 145
 146 <p><table>
 147 <tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr>
 148 <tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr>
 149 <tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr>
 150 <td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr>
 151 <td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td>
 152 </table></p>
 153
 154 <p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
 155 in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers.  (See a nice post from
 156 VillageTelco about
 157 "<a href="http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information
 158 about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!</a>
 159 for details.)  When these settings are activated and you have some
 160 other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
 161 network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
 162 any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)</p>
 163
 164 <p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
 165 but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
 166 firmware supporting batman-adv.  If anyone know how to use that old
 167 wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.</p>
 168
 169 <p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
 170 us on IRC, either channel
 171 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace</a>
 172 or <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug</a> on
 173 irc.freenode.net.</p>
 174
 175 <p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
 176 research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
 177 and Innovation called
 178 <a href="http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The
 179 reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks</a> and elsewhere
 180 learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
 181 Grünerløkka in Oslo.  So mesh networks are also interesting for
 182 commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
 183 to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
 184 know have closed down the experiment.  Perhaps Telenor or others would
 185 be interested in a cooperation?</p>
 186
 187 <p><strong>Update 2013-10-12</strong>: I was just
 188 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005900.html">told
 189 by the Serval project developers</a> that they no longer use
 190 batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based
 191 mesh system.</p>
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 196         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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 204       <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>
 205       <div class="date"> 8th October 2013</div>
 206       <div class="body"><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
 207 Salvador had published a
 208 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
 209 Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
 210 Skolelinux profile.  This is the profile intended for use at home or
 211 on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
 212 services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
 213 in other word a single user machine).  The result is 11 minutes long,
 214 and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
 215 Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
 216 showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model
 217 of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
 218 other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
 219 advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
 220 Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
 221 computers without hard drives by installing one central
 222 <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p>
 223
 224 <p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p>
 225
 226 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 227
 228 <p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux?  Please let
 229 me know. :)</p>
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 234         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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 241     <div class="entry">
 242       <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>
 243       <div class="date">29th September 2013</div>
 244       <div class="body"><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
 245 Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team.  The
 246 complete announcement text can be found at
 247 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
 248 section</a>, translated to several languages.  Please check it out.</p>
 249
 250 <p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon.  One
 251 can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
 252 partition is too small.  A workaround is to extend the partition (use
 253 lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p>
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 258         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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 266       <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>
 267       <div class="date">27th September 2013</div>
 268       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
 269 project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
 270 vision, ideas and solution several places.  Here is a little
 271 collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p>
 272
 273 <ul>
 274
 275 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
 276 2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li>
 277
 278 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
 279 discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 280
 281 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
 282 Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
 283 Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a>
 284 (Youtube)</li>
 285
 286 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011
 287 Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li>
 288
 289 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
 290 the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 291
 292 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
 293 Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
 294 York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li>
 295
 296 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
 297 to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a>
 298 (Youtube)</li>
 299
 300 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
 301 of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li>
 302
 303 <li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
 304 1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li>
 305
 306 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
 307 FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
 308 2013</a> (Youtube)</li>
 309
 310 </ul>
 311
 312 <p>A larger list is available from
 313 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
 314 Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p>
 315
 316 <p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
 317 Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
 318 Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
 319 a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
 320 The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
 321 pending in NEW.  The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
 322 metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload.  Join
 323 us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
 324 (#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and
 325 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
 326 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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 331         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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 339       <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>
 340       <div class="date">16th September 2013</div>
 341       <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 342 today.  This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:</p>
 343
 344 <blockquote>
 345 <p>Hi,</p>
 346
 347 <p>it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
 348 short) of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 349 Skolelinux</a> based on Debian Wheezy!</p>
 350
 351 <p>Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
 352 we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
 353 weekend.  We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
 354 if you find something, please notify us immediately!</p>
 355
 356 <p>(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
 357 another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)</p>
 358
 359 <p>Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
 360 compared to beta1:</p>
 361
 362 <ul>
 363
 364 <li>The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
 365 also gets Chromium to use this proxy.</li>
 366 <li>Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
 367 understand ical/dav sources.</li>
 368 <li>Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
 369 main server.</li>
 370 <li>A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.</li>
 371 <li>Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
 372 (6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
 373 (0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
 374 (3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).</li>
 375
 376 </ul>
 377
 378 <p>Where to get it:</p>
 379
 380 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 381
 382 <ul>
 383 <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>
 384 <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>
 385 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .</li>
 386 </ul>
 387
 388 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is:  3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f</p>
 389
 390 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
 391 <ul>
 392 <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>
 393 <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>
 394 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .</li>
 395 </ul>
 396
 397 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e</p>
 398
 399 <p>The Source DVD image has the filename
 400 debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
 401 089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
 402 as the other isos.</p>
 403
 404 <p>How to report bugs</p>
 405
 406 <p>For information how to report bugs please see
 407 <br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
 408
 409
 410 <p>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</p>
 411
 412 <p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
 413 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
 414 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
 415 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
 416 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
 417 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
 418 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
 419 machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
 420 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
 421 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
 422 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
 423 packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
 424 can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 425
 426 <p>This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
 427 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
 428 Squeeze release.</p>
 429
 430 <p>Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases</p>
 431
 432 <p>Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 433 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 434 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 435 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 436 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
 437 Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
 438 password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
 439 (backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
 440 to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
 441 directory.</p>
 442
 443
 444 <p>cheers,
 445 <br>        Holger</p>
 446 </blockquote>
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 449
 450
 451         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>.
 452
 453
 454       </div>
 455     </div>
 456     <div class="padding"></div>
 457
 458     <div class="entry">
 459       <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>
 460       <div class="date">10th September 2013</div>
 461       <div class="body"><p>I was introduced to the
 462 <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
 463 in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
 464 of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
 465 within the legal protection of their own homes.  The idea is to give
 466 people back the power over their network and machines, and return
 467 Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.  Instead of
 468 depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
 469 control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
 470
 471 <p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
 472 taken priority.  But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
 473 and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
 474 communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
 475 actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
 476
 477 <p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
 478 Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
 479 create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
 480 up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
 481 communication.  The initial deployment platform have been the
 482 <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
 483 which is a piece of hardware I do not own.  So to be able to test what
 484 the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install
 485 it on some hardware I do have access to.  I have rewritten the
 486 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
 487 image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
 488 setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
 489 set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
 490 the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
 491 missing in Debian).</p>
 492
 493 <p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
 494 scripts
 495 (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
 496 and a administrative web interface
 497 (<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
 498 withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
 499 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
 500 (freedombox-privoxy).  There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
 501 client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
 502 trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
 503 (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>).  The
 504 web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
 505 services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc.  Not much of
 506 this is really working yet, see
 507 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
 508 project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories.  Most of the code is
 509 on github at the moment.  The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
 510 box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
 511 users.  I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
 512 know there are several branches spread around github and other places
 513 with lots of half baked features.</p>
 514
 515 <p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
 516 following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
 517 at.</p>
 518
 519 <p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
 520
 521 <ol>
 522
 523 <li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
 524 <li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
 525 <li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
 526 to the Debian installer:<p>
 527 <pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
 528
 529 <li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
 530 install on.</li>
 531
 532 <li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
 533 few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
 534
 535 </ol>
 536
 537 <p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
 538
 539 <ol>
 540
 541 <li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
 542 <li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
 543 <li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
 544 <pre>
 545 deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
 546 </pre></li>
 547 <li><p>Run this as root:</p>
 548 <pre>
 549 wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
 550    apt-key add -
 551 apt-get update
 552 apt-get install freedombox-setup
 553 /usr/lib/freedombox/setup
 554 </pre></li>
 555 <li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
 556
 557 </ol>
 558
 559 <p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
 560 freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
 561 the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
 562 in my APT repository.  But do not let this stop you.  It is only a
 563 short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
 564
 565 <p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
 566 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
 567 off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
 568 disable</tt>" as root.</p>
 569
 570 <p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
 571 problems.  We gather on the IRC channel
 572 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
 573 irc.debian.org and the
 574 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
 575 mailing list</a>.</p>
 576
 577 <p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
 578 <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
 579 welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
 580 get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
 581 to look at the rest of plinth.  The default user is 'admin' and the
 582 default password is 'secret'.</p>
 583 </div>
 584       <div class="tags">
 585
 586
 587         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>.
 588
 589
 590       </div>
 591     </div>
 592     <div class="padding"></div>
 593
 594     <div class="entry">
 595       <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>
 596       <div class="date"> 8th September 2013</div>
 597       <div class="body"><p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og
 598 Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske
 599 folk.  Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt
 600 år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de
 601 snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen.  Det skal også
 602 registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost
 603 til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte.  Saken er kjent som
 604 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet
 605 (DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges
 606 grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt.  Det ble i praksis innført brev og
 607 besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen.  Rapporter fra de landene som
 608 allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes
 609 kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i
 610 kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.  Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre
 611 millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets
 612 arbeide.  Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt
 613 på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.
 614 Se mer på
 615 <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a>
 616 og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p>
 617
 618 <p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje?  Et åpenbart problem er at
 619 medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut.  Den innsamlede
 620 informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med
 621 journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten
 622 av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon.  Et annet er at
 623 advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem
 624 som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat.
 625 Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke
 626 nettsteder en har besøkt.  Har en besøkt hivnorge.no,
 627 swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede
 628 interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være
 629 tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
 630
 631 <p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for.  Høyre og
 632 Arbeiderpartiet.  Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har
 633 DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre
 634 fylkene).  Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse
 635 partiene.  Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med
 636 informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget,
 637 basert på informasjon fra mine venner i
 638 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de
 639 Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>.
 640 Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p>
 641
 642 <style type="text/css">
 643 .for    {background-color:#F5A9A9;}
 644 .mot    {background-color:#A9F5BC;}
 645 .ukjent { }
 646 </style>
 647
 648 <table>
 649 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 650
 651 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 652 <td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td>
 653 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 654
 655 <tr class="mot"><td>2.</td>
 656 <td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td>
 657 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr>
 658
 659 <tr class="mot"><td>3.</td>
 660 <td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td>
 661 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td>
 662
 663 <tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td>
 664 <td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td>
 665 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 666
 667 <tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td>
 668 <td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td>
 669 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 670
 671 <tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td>
 672 <td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td>
 673 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 674
 675 <tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td>
 676 <td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td>
 677 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 678
 679 <tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td>
 680 <td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td>
 681 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 682
 683 <tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td>
 684 <td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td>
 685 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 686
 687 <tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td>
 688 <td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td>
 689 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 690
 691 <tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td>
 692 <td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td>
 693 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 694
 695 <tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td>
 696 <td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td>
 697 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 698
 699 <tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td>
 700 <td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td>
 701 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 702
 703 <tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td>
 704 <td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td>
 705 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 706
 707 <tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td>
 708 <td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td>
 709 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 710
 711 <tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td>
 712 <td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td>
 713 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 714
 715 <tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td>
 716 <td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td>
 717 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 718
 719 <tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td>
 720 <td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td>
 721 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 722
 723 <tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td>
 724 <td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td>
 725 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 726
 727 <tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td>
 728 <td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td>
 729 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 730
 731 <tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td>
 732 <td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td>
 733 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 734
 735 <tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td>
 736 <td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td>
 737 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 738
 739 <tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td>
 740 <td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td>
 741 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 742
 743 <tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td>
 744 <td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td>
 745 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 746
 747 <tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td>
 748 <td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td>
 749 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 750
 751 </table>
 752
 753 <p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p>
 754
 755 <table>
 756
 757 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 758
 759 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 760 <td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td>
 761 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 762
 763 <tr class="for"><td>2.</td>
 764 <td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td>
 765 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 766
 767 <tr class="for"><td> 3.</td>
 768 <td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td>
 769 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 770
 771 <tr class="for"><td> 4.</td>
 772 <td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td>
 773 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 774
 775 <tr class="for"><td> 5.</td>
 776 <td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td>
 777 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 778
 779 <tr class="for"><td> 6.</td>
 780 <td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td>
 781 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 782
 783 <tr class="for"><td> 7.</td>
 784 <td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td>
 785 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 786
 787 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td>
 788 <td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td>
 789 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 790
 791 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td>
 792 <td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td>
 793 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 794
 795 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td>
 796 <td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td>
 797 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 798
 799 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td>
 800 <td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td>
 801 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 802
 803 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td>
 804 <td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td>
 805 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 806
 807 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td>
 808 <td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td>
 809 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 810
 811 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td>
 812 <td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td>
 813 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 814
 815 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td>
 816 <td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td>
 817 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 818
 819 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td>
 820 <td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td>
 821 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 822
 823 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td>
 824 <td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td>
 825 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 826
 827 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td>
 828 <td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td>
 829 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 830
 831 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td>
 832 <td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td>
 833 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 834
 835 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td>
 836 <td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td>
 837 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 838
 839 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td>
 840 <td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td>
 841 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 842
 843 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td>
 844 <td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td>
 845 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 846
 847 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td>
 848 <td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td>
 849 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 850
 851 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td>
 852 <td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td>
 853 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 854
 855 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td>
 856 <td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td>
 857 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 858
 859 </table>
 860
 861 <p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år.  Jeg tror det blir
 862 <a href="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>.  Hvis de kan bidra
 863 til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får
 864 kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har
 865 hatt så langt.</p>
 866
 867 </div>
 868       <div class="tags">
 869
 870
 871         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>.
 872
 873
 874       </div>
 875     </div>
 876     <div class="padding"></div>
 877
 878     <div class="entry">
 879       <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>
 880       <div class="date">22nd August 2013</div>
 881       <div class="body"><p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 882 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
 883 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:</p>
 884
 885 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
 886
 887 <p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 888 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 889
 890 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 891
 892 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 893 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 894 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 895 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 896 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 897 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 898 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 899 the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be
 900 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 901 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 902 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 903 desktop contains
 904 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 905 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 906 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 907 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 908
 909 <p>This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
 910 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
 911 release.</p>
 912
 913 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 914 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 915 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 916 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 917 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
 918 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
 919 the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
 920 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
 921 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
 922 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
 923 CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
 924
 925 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 926
 927 <ul>
 928
 929 <li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
 930     work also without a attached tty.</li>
 931 <li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
 932     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
 933     tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
 934     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
 935     required).</li>
 936
 937 </ul>
 938
 939 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 940
 941 <ul>
 942
 943 <li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
 944 needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
 945 <li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
 946 stick ISO image.</li>
 947 <li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
 948 <li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
 949 <li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
 950     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
 951     cope with this.</li>
 952 <li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
 953 <li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
 954     empty password hashes.</li>
 955 <li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
 956     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
 957     from joining the Samba domain.</li>
 958
 959 </ul>
 960
 961 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 962
 963 <ul>
 964
 965 <li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
 966     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
 967 <li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
 968     (using the KDE configuration).</li>
 969
 970 </ul>
 971
 972 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 973
 974 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 975
 976 <ul>
 977
 978 <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>
 979
 980 <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>
 981
 982 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
 983
 984 </ul>
 985
 986 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
 987 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
 988
 989 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 990
 991 <ul>
 992
 993 <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>
 994 <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>
 995 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
 996
 997 </ul>
 998
 999 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
1000 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</p>
1001
1002
1003 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
1004
1005 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
1006 </div>
1007       <div class="tags">
1008
1009
1010         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>.
1011
1012
1013       </div>
1014     </div>
1015     <div class="padding"></div>
1016
1017     <div class="entry">
1018       <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>
1019       <div class="date">18th August 2013</div>
1020       <div class="body"><p>Earlier, I reported about
1021 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">my
1022 problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk</a>.  Friday I was
1023 told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away.  And as
1024 there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided
1025 today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware
1026 currently on the disk.</p>
1027
1028 <p>I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found
1029 <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>
1030 (aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which
1031 according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD
1032 disks.  I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and
1033 booted the ISO from a USB stick.  The disk was recognized, but the
1034 program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused
1035 to insert any Intel firmware.  So no change, and the disk is still
1036 unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them
1037 working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware.  No idea how likely
1038 that is.  Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness.  I
1039 got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on
1040 the broken disks.</p>
1041 </div>
1042       <div class="tags">
1043
1044
1045         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>.
1046
1047
1048       </div>
1049     </div>
1050     <div class="padding"></div>
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1054
1055
1056
1057 <h2>Archive</h2>
1058 <ul>
1059
1060 <li>2013
1061 <ul>
1062
1063 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
1064
1065 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
1066
1067 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
1068
1069 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
1070
1071 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1072
1073 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/06/">June (10)</a></li>
1074
1075 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/07/">July (7)</a></li>
1076
1077 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1078
1079 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (5)</a></li>
1080
1081 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (3)</a></li>
1082
1083 </ul></li>
1084
1085 <li>2012
1086 <ul>
1087
1088 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1089
1090 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
1091
1092 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
1093
1094 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
1095
1096 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (12)</a></li>
1097
1098 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/06/">June (20)</a></li>
1099
1100 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
1101
1102 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
1103
1104 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
1105
1106 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
1107
1108 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
1109
1110 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1111
1112 </ul></li>
1113
1114 <li>2011
1115 <ul>
1116
1117 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
1118
1119 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
1120
1121 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
1122
1123 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
1124
1125 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
1126
1127 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
1128
1129 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
1130
1131 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
1132
1133 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
1134
1135 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1136
1137 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1138
1139 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1140
1141 </ul></li>
1142
1143 <li>2010
1144 <ul>
1145
1146 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1147
1148 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1149
1150 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
1151
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1153
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1155
1156 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
1157
1158 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
1159
1160 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
1161
1162 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
1163
1164 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
1165
1166 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1167
1168 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1169
1170 </ul></li>
1171
1172 <li>2009
1173 <ul>
1174
1175 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1176
1177 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
1178
1179 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
1180
1181 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
1182
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1184
1185 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
1186
1187 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
1188
1189 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1190
1191 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1192
1193 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1194
1195 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1196
1197 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1198
1199 </ul></li>
1200
1201 <li>2008
1202 <ul>
1203
1204 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1205
1206 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1207
1208 </ul></li>
1209
1210 </ul>
1211
1212
1213
1214 <h2>Tags</h2>
1215 <ul>
1216
1217  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
1218
1219  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/amiga">amiga (1)</a></li>
1220
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1222
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1224
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1230
1231  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (87)</a></li>
1232
1233  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (142)</a></li>
1234
1235  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (10)</a></li>
1236
1237  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (10)</a></li>
1238
1239  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
1240
1241  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (220)</a></li>
1242
1243  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (21)</a></li>
1244
1245  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (12)</a></li>
1246
1247  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (12)</a></li>
1248
1249  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox (3)</a></li>
1250
1251  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (11)</a></li>
1252
1253  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (37)</a></li>
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1255  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram (7)</a></li>
1256
1257  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (18)</a></li>
1258
1259  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ldap">ldap (8)</a></li>
1260
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1262
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1264
1265  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (25)</a></li>
1266
1267  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (235)</a></li>
1268
1269  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (154)</a></li>
1270
1271  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (8)</a></li>
1272
1273  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
1274
1275  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (45)</a></li>
1276
1277  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (66)</a></li>
1278
1279  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
1280
1281  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (11)</a></li>
1282
1283  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (2)</a></li>
1284
1285  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (7)</a></li>
1286
1287  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
1288
1289  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (4)</a></li>
1290
1291  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (2)</a></li>
1292
1293  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (31)</a></li>
1294
1295  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
1296
1297  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
1298
1299  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (43)</a></li>
1300
1301  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (3)</a></li>
1302
1303  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (8)</a></li>
1304
1305  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (19)</a></li>
1306
1307  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (1)</a></li>
1308
1309  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (8)</a></li>
1310
1311  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (39)</a></li>
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1315  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (28)</a></li>
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1317 </ul>
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