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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 <a href="https://supporters.eff.org/donate/nsa-videos">video
  39 documentaries about the excessive spying</a> on every Internet user that
  40 take place these days, and their need to fund the work.  I've already
  41 donated.  Are you next?</p>
  42
  43 <p>For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og
  44 Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a
  45 statement under the heading
  46 <a href="http://saih.no/Bloggers_United/">Bloggers United for Open
  47 Access</a> for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the
  48 Norwegian government.  So far 499 signatures.  I hope you will sign it
  49 too.</p>
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  54         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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  62       <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>
  63       <div class="date">11th October 2013</div>
  64       <div class="body"><p>Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing
  65 networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large
  66 areas, depending on the radio technology used.  Normal wifi equipment
  67 can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several
  68 successful examples like
  69 <a href="http://www.freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a> and
  70 <a href="http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network</a>
  71 (see
  72 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece">wikipedia
  73 for a large list</a>) around the globe.  To give you an idea how it
  74 work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which
  75 can be seen from their
  76 <a href="http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html">dynamically
  77 updated node graph and map</a>, where one can see how the mesh nodes
  78 automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing.
  79 There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway,
  80 and that is the main topic of this blog post.</p>
  81
  82 <p>I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped
  83 to do it as part of my involvement with the <a
  84 href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG member organisation</a> community, and
  85 my recent involvement in
  86 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the Freedombox project</a>
  87 finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a
  88 Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family
  89 when possible, given that most communication between people are
  90 between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook
  91 communication patterns).  It also allow people to communicate without
  92 any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the
  93 private communication of citizens, which have become more and more
  94 important over the years.</p>
  95
  96 <p>So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo
  97 working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space
  98 <a href="http://hackeriet.no/">Hackeriet</a> at Husmania.  They seem to
  99 have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called
 100 <a href="http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page">the Oslo
 101 Freifunk project</a>, but that effort is now dead and the people
 102 behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called
 103 <a href="http://meshfx.org/trac">meshfx</a>.  Unfortunately the wiki
 104 site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to
 105 reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to
 106 the new project.  A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
 107 from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks.  I
 108 came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
 109 speakers about this talk (from
 110 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY">youtube</a>):</p>
 111
 112 <p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
 113
 114 <p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
 115 There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
 116 figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
 117 given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
 118 is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
 119 completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on
 120 batman-adv for now.  It sure help me to  know that the very cool
 121 <a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a>
 122 is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
 123 organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
 124 less industrialized communities.  Check out this cool video presenting
 125 that project (from
 126 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube</a>):</p>
 127
 128 <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
 129
 130 <p>According to the wikipedia page on
 131 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless
 132 mesh network</a> there are around 70 competing schemes for routing
 133 packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
 134 B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
 135 based community mesh networks.</p>
 136
 137 <p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
 138 (as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
 139 network.  One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
 140 vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
 141 computer.  The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
 142 least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up.  A
 143 <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good
 144 introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project.  These are
 145 the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p>
 146
 147 <p><table>
 148 <tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr>
 149 <tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr>
 150 <tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr>
 151 <td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr>
 152 <td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td>
 153 </table></p>
 154
 155 <p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
 156 in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers.  (See a nice post from
 157 VillageTelco about
 158 "<a href="http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information
 159 about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!</a>
 160 for details.)  When these settings are activated and you have some
 161 other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
 162 network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
 163 any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)</p>
 164
 165 <p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
 166 but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
 167 firmware supporting batman-adv.  If anyone know how to use that old
 168 wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.</p>
 169
 170 <p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
 171 us on IRC, either channel
 172 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace</a>
 173 or <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug</a> on
 174 irc.freenode.net.</p>
 175
 176 <p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
 177 research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
 178 and Innovation called
 179 <a href="http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The
 180 reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks</a> and elsewhere
 181 learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
 182 Grünerløkka in Oslo.  So mesh networks are also interesting for
 183 commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
 184 to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
 185 know have closed down the experiment.  Perhaps Telenor or others would
 186 be interested in a cooperation?</p>
 187
 188 <p><strong>Update 2013-10-12</strong>: I was just
 189 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005900.html">told
 190 by the Serval project developers</a> that they no longer use
 191 batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based
 192 mesh system.</p>
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 196
 197         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="entry">
 205       <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>
 206       <div class="date"> 8th October 2013</div>
 207       <div class="body"><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
 208 Salvador had published a
 209 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
 210 Youtube</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
 211 Skolelinux profile.  This is the profile intended for use at home or
 212 on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
 213 services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
 214 in other word a single user machine).  The result is 11 minutes long,
 215 and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
 216 Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
 217 showing the <a href="http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body 3D model
 218 of the human body</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
 219 other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
 220 advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
 221 Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
 222 computers without hard drives by installing one central
 223 <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server</a>.</p>
 224
 225 <p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:</p>
 226
 227 <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 228
 229 <p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux?  Please let
 230 me know. :)</p>
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 235         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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 242     <div class="entry">
 243       <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>
 244       <div class="date">29th September 2013</div>
 245       <div class="body"><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
 246 Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team.  The
 247 complete announcement text can be found at
 248 <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
 249 section</a>, translated to several languages.  Please check it out.</p>
 250
 251 <p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon.  One
 252 can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
 253 partition is too small.  A workaround is to extend the partition (use
 254 lvresize + resize2fs in tty 2 while installing).</p>
 255 </div>
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 258
 259         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="entry">
 267       <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>
 268       <div class="date">27th September 2013</div>
 269       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
 270 project</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
 271 vision, ideas and solution several places.  Here is a little
 272 collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.</p>
 273
 274 <ul>
 275
 276 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
 277 2,5 minute marketing film</a> (Youtube)</li>
 278
 279 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
 280 discusses the Freedombox on CBS news 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 281
 282 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
 283 Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
 284 Web 2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting 2010</a>
 285 (Youtube)</li>
 286
 287 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem 2011
 288 Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox</a> (Youtube)</li>
 289
 290 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
 291 the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz 2011</a> (Youtube)</li>
 292
 293 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
 294 Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
 295 York City in 2012</a> (Youtube)</li>
 296
 297 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
 298 to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in 2012</a>
 299 (Youtube)</li>
 300
 301 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
 302 of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat, 2012</a> (Youtube) </li>
 303
 304 <li><a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
 305 1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem 2013</a> (FOSDEM) </li>
 306
 307 <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
 308 FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
 309 2013</a> (Youtube)</li>
 310
 311 </ul>
 312
 313 <p>A larger list is available from
 314 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
 315 Freedombox Wiki</a>.</p>
 316
 317 <p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
 318 Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
 319 Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
 320 a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
 321 The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
 322 pending in NEW.  The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
 323 metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload.  Join
 324 us on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
 325 (#freedombox on irc.debian.org)</a> and
 326 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
 327 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
 328 </div>
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 331
 332         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="entry">
 340       <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>
 341       <div class="date">16th September 2013</div>
 342       <div class="body"><p>The third wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 343 today.  This is the release announcement from Holger Levsen:</p>
 344
 345 <blockquote>
 346 <p>Hi,</p>
 347
 348 <p>it is my pleasure to announce the third beta release (beta 2 for
 349 short) of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 350 Skolelinux</a> based on Debian Wheezy!</p>
 351
 352 <p>Please test these images extensivly, if no new problems are found
 353 we plan to do this final Debian Edu Wheezy release this coming
 354 weekend.  We are not aware of any major problems or blockers in beta2,
 355 if you find something, please notify us immediately!</p>
 356
 357 <p>(More about the remaining steps for the Edu Wheezy release in
 358 another mail to the edu list tonight or tomorrow...)</p>
 359
 360 <p>Noteworthy changes and software updates for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b2
 361 compared to beta1:</p>
 362
 363 <ul>
 364
 365 <li>The KDE proxy setup has been adjusted to use the provided wpad.dat. This
 366 also gets Chromium to use this proxy.</li>
 367 <li>Install kdepim-groupware with KDE desktops to make sure korganizer
 368 understand ical/dav sources.</li>
 369 <li>Increased default maximum size of /var/spool/squid and /skole/backup on the
 370 main server.</li>
 371 <li>A source DVD image containing all source packages is now available as well.</li>
 372 <li>Updates for chromium (29.0.1547.57-1~deb7u1), imagemagick
 373 (6.7.7.10-5+deb7u2), php5 (5.4.4-14+deb7u4), libmodplug
 374 (0.8.8.4-3+deb7u1+git20130828), tiff (4.0.2-6+deb7u2), linux-image
 375 (3.2.0-4-486_3.2.46-1+deb7u1).</li>
 376
 377 </ul>
 378
 379 <p>Where to get it:</p>
 380
 381 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 382
 383 <ul>
 384 <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>
 385 <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>
 386 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-CD.iso .</li>
 387 </ul>
 388
 389 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is:  3a1c89f4666df80eebcd46c5bf5fedb866f9472f</p>
 390
 391 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use
 392 <ul>
 393 <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>
 394 <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>
 395 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-USB.iso .</li>
 396 </ul>
 397
 398 <p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 702d1718548f401c74bfa6df9f032cc3ee16597e</p>
 399
 400 <p>The Source DVD image has the filename
 401 debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b2-source-DVD.iso and the SHA1SUM
 402 089eed8b3f962db47aae1f6a9685e9bb2fa30ca5 and is available the same way
 403 as the other isos.</p>
 404
 405 <p>How to report bugs</p>
 406
 407 <p>For information how to report bugs please see
 408 <br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
 409
 410
 411 <p>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</p>
 412
 413 <p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
 414 on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
 415 configured school network. Immediately after installation a school
 416 server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
 417 waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
 418 Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
 419 initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
 420 machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
 421 provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
 422 centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
 423 services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
 424 packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
 425 can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 426
 427 <p>This is the seventh test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
 428 this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
 429 Squeeze release.</p>
 430
 431 <p>Notes for upgrades from Alpha Prereleases</p>
 432
 433 <p>Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 434 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 435 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 436 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 437 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined on the mailing list. (2)
 438 Accept the new version of gosa.conf and replace both contained admin
 439 password placeholders with the password hashes found in the old one
 440 (backup copy!). In both cases all users need to change their password
 441 to make sure a password is set for CIFS access to their home
 442 directory.</p>
 443
 444
 445 <p>cheers,
 446 <br>        Holger</p>
 447 </blockquote>
 448 </div>
 449       <div class="tags">
 450
 451
 452         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>.
 453
 454
 455       </div>
 456     </div>
 457     <div class="padding"></div>
 458
 459     <div class="entry">
 460       <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>
 461       <div class="date">10th September 2013</div>
 462       <div class="body"><p>I was introduced to the
 463 <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox project</a>
 464 in 2010, when Eben Moglen presented his vision about serving the need
 465 of non-technical people to keep their personal information private and
 466 within the legal protection of their own homes.  The idea is to give
 467 people back the power over their network and machines, and return
 468 Internet back to its intended peer-to-peer architecture.  Instead of
 469 depending on a central service, the Freedombox will give everyone
 470 control over their own basic infrastructure.</p>
 471
 472 <p>I've intended to join the effort since then, but other tasks have
 473 taken priority.  But this summers nasty news about the misuse of trust
 474 and privilege exercised by the "western" intelligence gathering
 475 communities increased my eagerness to contribute to a point where I
 476 actually started working on the project a while back.</p>
 477
 478 <p>The <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/freedombox/">initial
 479 Debian initiative</a> based on the vision from Eben Moglen, is to
 480 create a simple and cheap Debian based appliance that anyone can hook
 481 up in their home and get access to secure and private services and
 482 communication.  The initial deployment platform have been the
 483 <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-dreamplugdetails.aspx">Dreamplug</a>,
 484 which is a piece of hardware I do not own.  So to be able to test what
 485 the current Freedombox setup look like, I had to come up with a way to install
 486 it on some hardware I do have access to.  I have rewritten the
 487 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker">freedom-maker</a>
 488 image build framework to use .deb packages instead of only copying
 489 setup into the boot images, and thanks to this rewrite I am able to
 490 set up any machine supported by Debian Wheezy as a Freedombox, using
 491 the previously mentioned deb (and a few support debs for packages
 492 missing in Debian).</p>
 493
 494 <p>The current Freedombox setup consist of a set of bootstrapping
 495 scripts
 496 (<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>),
 497 and a administrative web interface
 498 (<a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth">plinth</a> + exmachina +
 499 withsqlite), as well as a privacy enhancing proxy based on
 500 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>
 501 (freedombox-privoxy).  There is also a web/javascript based XMPP
 502 client (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/jwchat">jwchat</a>)
 503 trying (unsuccessfully so far) to talk to the XMPP server
 504 (<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/ejabberd">ejabberd</a>).  The
 505 web interface is pluggable, and the goal is to use it to enable OpenID
 506 services, mesh network connectivity, use of TOR, etc, etc.  Not much of
 507 this is really working yet, see
 508 <a href="https://github.com/NickDaly/freedombox-todos/blob/master/TODO">the
 509 project TODO</a> for links to GIT repositories.  Most of the code is
 510 on github at the moment.  The HTTP proxy is operational out of the
 511 box, and the admin web interface can be used to add/remove plinth
 512 users.  I've not been able to do anything else with it so far, but
 513 know there are several branches spread around github and other places
 514 with lots of half baked features.</p>
 515
 516 <p>Anyway, if you want to have a look at the current state, the
 517 following recipes should work to give you a test machine to poke
 518 at.</p>
 519
 520 <p><strong>Debian Wheezy amd64</strong></p>
 521
 522 <ol>
 523
 524 <li>Fetch normal Debian Wheezy installation ISO.</li>
 525 <li>Boot from it, either as CD or USB stick.</li>
 526 <li><p>Press [tab] on the boot prompt and add this as a boot argument
 527 to the Debian installer:<p>
 528 <pre>url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-wheezy.dat</a></pre></li>
 529
 530 <li>Answer the few language/region/password questions and pick disk to
 531 install on.</li>
 532
 533 <li>When the installation is finished and the machine have rebooted a
 534 few times, your Freedombox is ready for testing.</li>
 535
 536 </ol>
 537
 538 <p><strong>Raspberry Pi Raspbian</strong></p>
 539
 540 <ol>
 541
 542 <li>Fetch a Raspbian SD card image, create SD card.</li>
 543 <li>Boot from SD card, extend file system to fill the card completely.</li>
 544 <li><p>Log in and add this to /etc/sources.list:</p>
 545 <pre>
 546 deb <a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox</a> wheezy main
 547 </pre></li>
 548 <li><p>Run this as root:</p>
 549 <pre>
 550 wget -O - http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/BE1A583D.asc | \
 551    apt-key add -
 552 apt-get update
 553 apt-get install freedombox-setup
 554 /usr/lib/freedombox/setup
 555 </pre></li>
 556 <li>Reboot into your freshly created Freedombox.</li>
 557
 558 </ol>
 559
 560 <p>You can test it on other architectures too, but because the
 561 freedombox-privoxy package is binary, it will only work as intended on
 562 the architectures where I have had time to build the binary and put it
 563 in my APT repository.  But do not let this stop you.  It is only a
 564 short "<tt>apt-get source -b freedombox-privoxy</tt>" away. :)</p>
 565
 566 <p>Note that by default Freedombox is a DHCP server on the
 567 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, so if this is your subnet be careful and turn
 568 off the DHCP server by running "<tt>update-rc.d isc-dhcp-server
 569 disable</tt>" as root.</p>
 570
 571 <p>Please let me know if this works for you, or if you have any
 572 problems.  We gather on the IRC channel
 573 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">#freedombox</a> on
 574 irc.debian.org and the
 575 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">project
 576 mailing list</a>.</p>
 577
 578 <p>Once you get your freedombox operational, you can visit
 579 <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/</tt> to see the state of the plint
 580 welcome screen (dead end - do not be surprised if you are unable to
 581 get past it), and next visit <tt>http://your-host-name:8001/help/</tt>
 582 to look at the rest of plinth.  The default user is 'admin' and the
 583 default password is 'secret'.</p>
 584 </div>
 585       <div class="tags">
 586
 587
 588         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>.
 589
 590
 591       </div>
 592     </div>
 593     <div class="padding"></div>
 594
 595     <div class="entry">
 596       <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>
 597       <div class="date"> 8th September 2013</div>
 598       <div class="body"><p>I 2011 raderte et stortingsflertall bestående av Høyre og
 599 Arbeiderpartiet vekk en betydelig del av privatsfæren til det norske
 600 folk.  Det ble vedtatt at det skulle registreres og lagres i et halvt
 601 år hvor alle som bærer på en mobiltelefon befinner seg, hvem de
 602 snakker med og hvor lenge de snakket sammen.  Det skal også
 603 registreres hvem de sendte SMS-meldinger til, hvem en har sendt epost
 604 til, og hvilke nett-tjenere en besøkte.  Saken er kjent som
 605 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/issues/innfore-datalagringsdirektivet">Datalagringsdirektivet
 606 (DLD)</a>, og innebærer at alle innbyggerne og andre innenfor Norges
 607 grenser overvåkes døgnet rundt.  Det ble i praksis innført brev og
 608 besøkskontroll av hele befolkningen.  Rapporter fra de landene som
 609 allerede har innført slik total lagring av borgernes
 610 kommunikasjonsmønstre forteller at det ikke hjelper i
 611 kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.  Den norske prislappen blir mange hundre
 612 millioner, uten at det ser ut til å bidra positivt til politiets
 613 arbeide.  Jeg synes flere hundre millioner i stedet burde vært brukt
 614 på noe som kan dokumenteres å ha effekt i kriminalitetsbekjempelsen.
 615 Se mer på
 616 <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">Wikipedia</a>
 617 og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?cat=84">Jon Wessel-Aas</a>.</p>
 618
 619 <p>Hva er problemet, tenkter du kanskje?  Et åpenbart problem er at
 620 medienes kildevern i praksis blir radert ut.  Den innsamlede
 621 informasjonen gjør det mulig å finne ut hvem som har snakket med
 622 journalister på telefon, SMS og epost, og hvem som har vært i nærheten
 623 av journalister så sant begge bar med seg en telefon.  Et annet er at
 624 advokatvernet blir sterkt redusert, der politiet kan finne ut hvem
 625 som har snakket med en advokat når, eller vært i møter en med advokat.
 626 Et tredje er at svært personlig informasjon kan avledes fra hvilke
 627 nettsteder en har besøkt.  Har en besøkt hivnorge.no,
 628 swingersnorge.com eller andre sider som kan brukes til avlede
 629 interesser som hører til privatsfæren, vil denne informasjonen være
 630 tilgjengelig takket være datalagringsdirektivet.</p>
 631
 632 <p>De fleste partiene var mot, kun to partier stemte for.  Høyre og
 633 Arbeiderpartiet.  Og både Høyre og Arbeiderpartiet i Oslo har
 634 DLD-forkjempere på toppen av sine lister (har ikke sjekket de andre
 635 fylkene).  Det er dermed helt uaktuelt for meg å stemme på disse
 636 partiene.  Her er oversikten over partienes valglister i Oslo, med
 637 informasjon om hvem som stemte hva i første DLD-votering i Stortinget,
 638 basert på informasjon fra mine venner i
 639 <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/votes/1301946411e">Holder de
 640 Ord</a> samt <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no</a>.
 641 Først ut er stortingslista fra Høyre for Oslo:</p>
 642
 643 <style type="text/css">
 644 .for    {background-color:#F5A9A9;}
 645 .mot    {background-color:#A9F5BC;}
 646 .ukjent { }
 647 </style>
 648
 649 <table>
 650 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 651
 652 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 653 <td>Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (1976), Gamle Oslo</td>
 654 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 655
 656 <tr class="mot"><td>2.</td>
 657 <td>Nikolai Astrup (1978), Frogner</td>
 658 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td></tr>
 659
 660 <tr class="mot"><td>3.</td>
 661 <td>Michael Tetzschner (1954), Vestre Aker</td>
 662 <td>Stemte mot DLD</td>
 663
 664 <tr class="ukjent"><td>4.</td>
 665 <td>Kristin Vinje (1963), Nordre Aker</td>
 666 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 667
 668 <tr class="ukjent"><td>5.</td>
 669 <td>Mudassar Hussain Kapur (1976), Nordstrand</td>
 670 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 671
 672 <tr class="ukjent"><td>6.</td>
 673 <td>Stefan Magnus B. Heggelund (1984), Grünerløkka</td>
 674 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 675
 676 <tr class="ukjent"><td>7.</td>
 677 <td>Heidi Nordby Lunde (1973), Grünerløkka</td>
 678 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 679
 680 <tr class="ukjent"><td>8.</td>
 681 <td>Frode Helgerud (1950), Frogner</td>
 682 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 683
 684 <tr class="ukjent"><td>9.</td>
 685 <td>Afshan Rafiq (1975), Stovner</td>
 686 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 687
 688 <tr class="ukjent"><td>10.</td>
 689 <td>Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936), Frogner</td>
 690 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 691
 692 <tr class="ukjent"><td>11.</td>
 693 <td>Camilla Strandskog (1984) St.Hanshaugen</td>
 694 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 695
 696 <tr class="ukjent"><td>12.</td>
 697 <td>John Christian Elden (1967), Ullern</td>
 698 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 699
 700 <tr class="ukjent"><td>13.</td>
 701 <td>Berit Solli (1972), Alna</td>
 702 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 703
 704 <tr class="ukjent"><td>14.</td>
 705 <td>Ola Kvisgaard (1963), Frogner</td>
 706 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 707
 708 <tr class="ukjent"><td>15.</td>
 709 <td>James Stove Lorentzen (1957), Vestre Aker</td>
 710 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 711
 712 <tr class="ukjent"><td>16.</td>
 713 <td>Gülsüm Koc (1987), Stovner</td>
 714 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 715
 716 <tr class="ukjent"><td>17.</td>
 717 <td>Jon Ole Whist (1976), Grünerløkka</td>
 718 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 719
 720 <tr class="ukjent"><td>18.</td>
 721 <td>Maren Eline Malthe-Sørenssen (1971), Vestre Aker</td>
 722 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 723
 724 <tr class="ukjent"><td>19.</td>
 725 <td>Ståle Hagen (1968), Søndre Nordstrand</td>
 726 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 727
 728 <tr class="ukjent"><td>20.</td>
 729 <td>Kjell Omdal Erichsen (1978), Sagene</td>
 730 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 731
 732 <tr class="ukjent"><td>21.</td>
 733 <td>Saida R. Begum (1987), Grünerløkka</td>
 734 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 735
 736 <tr class="ukjent"><td>22.</td>
 737 <td>Torkel Brekke (1970), Nordre Aker</td>
 738 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 739
 740 <tr class="ukjent"><td>23.</td>
 741 <td>Sverre K. Seeberg (1950), Vestre Aker</td>
 742 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 743
 744 <tr class="ukjent"><td>24.</td>
 745 <td>Julie Margrethe Brodtkorb (1974), Ullern</td>
 746 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 747
 748 <tr class="ukjent"><td>25.</td>
 749 <td>Fabian Stang (1955), Frogner</td>
 750 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 751
 752 </table>
 753
 754 <p>Deretter har vi stortingslista fra Arbeiderpartiet for Oslo:</p>
 755
 756 <table>
 757
 758 <tr><th>#</th><th>Navn, fødselsår og valgkrets</th><th>Stemme/kommentar</th></tr>
 759
 760 <tr class="for"><td>1.</td>
 761 <td>Jens Stoltenberg (1959), Frogner</td>
 762 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, leder av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 763
 764 <tr class="for"><td>2.</td>
 765 <td>Hadia Tajik (1983), Grünerløkka</td>
 766 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 767
 768 <tr class="for"><td> 3.</td>
 769 <td>Jonas Gahr Støre (1960), Vestre Aker</td>
 770 <td>Ikke til stede i Stortinget, medlem av regjeringen som fremmet forslaget</td></tr>
 771
 772 <tr class="for"><td> 4.</td>
 773 <td>Marianne Marthinsen (1980), Grünerløkka</td>
 774 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 775
 776 <tr class="for"><td> 5.</td>
 777 <td>Jan Bøhler (1952), Alna</td>
 778 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 779
 780 <tr class="for"><td> 6.</td>
 781 <td>Marit Nybakk (1947), Frogner</td>
 782 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 783
 784 <tr class="for"><td> 7.</td>
 785 <td>Truls Wickholm (1978), Sagene</td>
 786 <td>Stemte for DLD</td></tr>
 787
 788 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 8.</td>
 789 <td>Prableen Kaur (1993), Grorud</td>
 790 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 791
 792 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 9.</td>
 793 <td>Vegard Grøslie Wennesland (1983), St.Hanshaugen</td>
 794 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 795
 796 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 10.</td>
 797 <td>Inger Helene Vaaten (1975), Grorud</td>
 798 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 799
 800 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 11.</td>
 801 <td>Ivar Leveraas (1939), Alna</td>
 802 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 803
 804 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 12.</td>
 805 <td>Grete Haugdal (1971), Gamle Oslo</td>
 806 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 807
 808 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 13.</td>
 809 <td>Olav Tønsberg (1948), Alna</td>
 810 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 811
 812 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 14.</td>
 813 <td>Khamshajiny Gunaratnam (1988), Grorud</td>
 814 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 815
 816 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 15.</td>
 817 <td>Fredrik Mellem (1969), Sagene</td>
 818 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 819
 820 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 16.</td>
 821 <td>Brit Axelsen (1945), Stovner</td>
 822 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 823
 824 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 17.</td>
 825 <td>Dag Bayegan-Harlem (1977), Ullern</td>
 826 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 827
 828 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 18.</td>
 829 <td>Kristin Sandaker (1963), Østeinsjø</td>
 830 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 831
 832 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 19.</td>
 833 <td>Bashe Musse (1965), Grünerløkka</td>
 834 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 835
 836 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 20.</td>
 837 <td>Torunn Kanutte Husvik (1983), St. Hanshaugen</td>
 838 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 839
 840 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 21.</td>
 841 <td>Steinar Andersen (1947), Nordstrand</td>
 842 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 843
 844 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 22.</td>
 845 <td>Anne Cathrine Berger (1972), Sagene</td>
 846 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 847
 848 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 23.</td>
 849 <td>Khalid Mahmood (1959), Østensjø</td>
 850 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 851
 852 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 24.</td>
 853 <td>Munir Jaber (1990), Alna</td>
 854 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 855
 856 <tr class="ukjent"><td> 25.</td>
 857 <td>Libe Solberg Rieber-Mohn (1965), Frogner</td>
 858 <td>Ikke til stede</td></tr>
 859
 860 </table>
 861
 862 <p>Hvilket parti får så min stemme i år.  Jeg tror det blir
 863 <a href="http://piratpartiet.no/">Piratpartiet</a>.  Hvis de kan bidra
 864 til at det kommer noen inn på Stortinget med teknisk peiling, så får
 865 kanskje ikke overvåkningsgalskapen like fritt spillerom som det har
 866 hatt så langt.</p>
 867
 868 </div>
 869       <div class="tags">
 870
 871
 872         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>.
 873
 874
 875       </div>
 876     </div>
 877     <div class="padding"></div>
 878
 879     <div class="entry">
 880       <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>
 881       <div class="date">22nd August 2013</div>
 882       <div class="body"><p>The second wheezy based beta release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
 883 today, slightly delayed because of some bugs in the initial Windows
 884 integration fixes .  This is the release announcement:</p>
 885
 886 <p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~b1 released 2013-08-22</strong></p>
 887
 888 <p>These are the release notes for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 889 7.1+edu0~b1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
 890
 891 <p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
 892
 893 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu, also known as
 894 Skolelinux</a>, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 895 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
 896 network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 897 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 898 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 899 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 900 the main server from CD or USB stick all other machines can be
 901 installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
 902 database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
 903 directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
 904 desktop contains
 905 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">more
 906 than 60 educational software packages</a> and more are available from
 907 the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
 908 and Xfce desktop environment.</p>
 909
 910 <p>This is the sixth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically this
 911 is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the Squeeze
 912 release.</p>
 913
 914 <p>ALERT: Alpha based installations should reinstall or downgrade the
 915 versions of gosa and libpam-mklocaluser to the ones used in this beta
 916 release. Both alpha and beta0 based installations should reinstall or
 917 deal with gosa.conf manually; there are two options: (1) Keep
 918 gosa.conf and edit this file as outlined
 919 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/08/msg00127.html">on
 920 the mailing list</a>. (2) Accept the new version of gosa.conf and
 921 replace both contained admin password placeholders with the password
 922 hashes found in the old one (backup copy!). In both cases every user
 923 need to change their their password to make sure a password is set for
 924 CIFS access to their home directory.</p>
 925
 926 <p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
 927
 928 <ul>
 929
 930 <li>Added ssh askpass packages to default installation, to ensure ssh
 931     work also without a attached tty.</li>
 932 <li>Add the command-not-found package to the default installation to
 933     make it easier to figure out where to find missing command line
 934     tools. Please note, that the command 'update-command-not-found'
 935     has to be run as root to actually make it useful (internet access
 936     required).</li>
 937
 938 </ul>
 939
 940 <p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
 941
 942 <ul>
 943
 944 <li>Adjusted the USB stick ISO image build to include every tool
 945 needed for desktop=xfce installations.</li>
 946 <li>Adjust thin-client-server task to work when installing from USB
 947 stick ISO image.</li>
 948 <li>Made new grub artwork (changed png from indexed to RGB format).</li>
 949 <li>Minor cleanup in the CUPS setup.</li>
 950 <li>Make sure that bootstrapping of the Samba domain really happens
 951     during installation of the main server and adjust SID handling to
 952     cope with this.</li>
 953 <li>Make Samba passwords changeable (again) via GOsa².</li>
 954 <li>Fix generation of LM and NT password hashes via GOsa² to avoid
 955     empty password hashes.</li>
 956 <li>Adapted Samba machine domain joining to latest change in the
 957     smbldap-tools Perl package, fixing bugs blocking Windows machines
 958     from joining the Samba domain.</li>
 959
 960 </ul>
 961
 962 <p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
 963
 964 <ul>
 965
 966 <li>KDE fails to understand the wpad.dat file provided, causing it to
 967     not use the http proxy as it should.</li>
 968 <li>Chromium also fails to use the proxy when using the KDE desktop
 969     (using the KDE configuration).</li>
 970
 971 </ul>
 972
 973 <p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
 974
 975 <p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
 976
 977 <ul>
 978
 979 <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>
 980
 981 <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>
 982
 983 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-CD.iso .</li>
 984
 985 </ul>
 986
 987 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 1e357f80b55e703523f2254adde6d78b
 988 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 7157f9be5fd27c7694d713c6ecfed61c3edda3b2</p>
 989
 990 <p>To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use</p>
 991
 992 <ul>
 993
 994 <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>
 995 <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>
 996 <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~b1-USB.iso .</li>
 997
 998 </ul>
 999
1000 <p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 7a8408ead59cf7e3cef25afb6e91590b
1001 <br>The SHA1SUM of this image is: f1817c031f02790d5edb3bfa0dcf8451088ad119</p>
1002
1003
1004 <p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
1005
1006 <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a>
1007 </div>
1008       <div class="tags">
1009
1010
1011         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>.
1012
1013
1014       </div>
1015     </div>
1016     <div class="padding"></div>
1017
1018     <div class="entry">
1019       <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>
1020       <div class="date">18th August 2013</div>
1021       <div class="body"><p>Earlier, I reported about
1022 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_fix_a_Thinkpad_X230_with_a_broken_180_GB_SSD_disk.html">my
1023 problems using an Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB disk</a>.  Friday I was
1024 told by IBM that the original disk should be thrown away.  And as
1025 there no longer was a problem if I bricked the firmware, I decided
1026 today to try to install Intel firmware to replace the Lenovo firmware
1027 currently on the disk.</p>
1028
1029 <p>I searched the Intel site for firmware, and found
1030 <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>
1031 (aka Intel SATA Solid-State Drive Firmware Update Tool) which
1032 according to the site should contain the latest firmware for SSD
1033 disks.  I inserted the broken disk in one of my spare laptops and
1034 booted the ISO from a USB stick.  The disk was recognized, but the
1035 program claimed the newest firmware already were installed and refused
1036 to insert any Intel firmware.  So no change, and the disk is still
1037 unable to handle write load. :( I guess the only way to get them
1038 working would be if Lenovo releases new firmware.  No idea how likely
1039 that is.  Anyway, just blogging about this test for completeness.  I
1040 got a working Samsung disk, and see no point in spending more time on
1041 the broken disks.</p>
1042 </div>
1043       <div class="tags">
1044
1045
1046         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>.
1047
1048
1049       </div>
1050     </div>
1051     <div class="padding"></div>
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1053     <p style="text-align: right;"><a href="index.rss"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/xml.gif" alt="RSS feed" width="36" height="14" /></a></p>
1054     <div id="sidebar">
1055
1056
1057
1058 <h2>Archive</h2>
1059 <ul>
1060
1061 <li>2013
1062 <ul>
1063
1064 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
1065
1066 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
1067
1068 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
1069
1070 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
1071
1072 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1073
1074 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/06/">June (10)</a></li>
1075
1076 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/07/">July (7)</a></li>
1077
1078 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1079
1080 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (5)</a></li>
1081
1082 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (3)</a></li>
1083
1084 </ul></li>
1085
1086 <li>2012
1087 <ul>
1088
1089 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
1090
1091 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
1092
1093 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
1094
1095 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
1096
1097 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (12)</a></li>
1098
1099 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/06/">June (20)</a></li>
1100
1101 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
1102
1103 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
1104
1105 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
1106
1107 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
1108
1109 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
1110
1111 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1112
1113 </ul></li>
1114
1115 <li>2011
1116 <ul>
1117
1118 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
1119
1120 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
1121
1122 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
1123
1124 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
1125
1126 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
1127
1128 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
1129
1130 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
1131
1132 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
1133
1134 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
1135
1136 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1137
1138 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1139
1140 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
1141
1142 </ul></li>
1143
1144 <li>2010
1145 <ul>
1146
1147 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
1148
1149 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
1150
1151 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
1152
1153 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
1154
1155 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1156
1157 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
1158
1159 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
1160
1161 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
1162
1163 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
1164
1165 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
1166
1167 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
1168
1169 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
1170
1171 </ul></li>
1172
1173 <li>2009
1174 <ul>
1175
1176 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
1177
1178 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
1179
1180 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
1181
1182 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
1183
1184 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
1185
1186 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
1187
1188 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
1189
1190 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
1191
1192 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
1193
1194 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
1195
1196 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
1197
1198 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
1199
1200 </ul></li>
1201
1202 <li>2008
1203 <ul>
1204
1205 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1206
1207 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
1208
1209 </ul></li>
1210
1211 </ul>
1212
1213
1214
1215 <h2>Tags</h2>
1216 <ul>
1217
1218  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
1219
1220  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/amiga">amiga (1)</a></li>
1221
1222  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/aros">aros (1)</a></li>
1223
1224  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bankid">bankid (4)</a></li>
1225
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1227
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1229
1230  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bsa">bsa (2)</a></li>
1231
1232  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (87)</a></li>
1233
1234  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (142)</a></li>
1235
1236  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (10)</a></li>
1237
1238  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (10)</a></li>
1239
1240  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
1241
1242  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (220)</a></li>
1243
1244  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (21)</a></li>
1245
1246  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (12)</a></li>
1247
1248  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (12)</a></li>
1249
1250  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox (3)</a></li>
1251
1252  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (11)</a></li>
1253
1254  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (37)</a></li>
1255
1256  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram">isenkram (7)</a></li>
1257
1258  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (18)</a></li>
1259
1260  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ldap">ldap (8)</a></li>
1261
1262  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker (6)</a></li>
1263
1264  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ltsp">ltsp (1)</a></li>
1265
1266  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (25)</a></li>
1267
1268  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (235)</a></li>
1269
1270  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (154)</a></li>
1271
1272  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (8)</a></li>
1273
1274  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
1275
1276  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (45)</a></li>
1277
1278  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (66)</a></li>
1279
1280  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
1281
1282  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (11)</a></li>
1283
1284  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (2)</a></li>
1285
1286  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (7)</a></li>
1287
1288  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
1289
1290  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (4)</a></li>
1291
1292  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (2)</a></li>
1293
1294  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (31)</a></li>
1295
1296  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
1297
1298  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (4)</a></li>
1299
1300  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (43)</a></li>
1301
1302  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (3)</a></li>
1303
1304  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (8)</a></li>
1305
1306  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (19)</a></li>
1307
1308  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (1)</a></li>
1309
1310  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (8)</a></li>
1311
1312  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (39)</a></li>
1313
1314  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (4)</a></li>
1315
1316  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (28)</a></li>
1317
1318 </ul>
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