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                <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from March 2012</title>
                <description>Entries from March 2012</description>
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                <title>Er billettautomatene til kollektivtrafikken i Oslo uten sikkerhetsoppdateringer?</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;På tur mot jobb i dag fikk jeg se en av Ruters billettautomater i
Nydalen som var brutt sammen.  Tok bilde av det hele, og lot meg
overraske over at den så ut til å kjøre
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000&quot;&gt;Windows 2000
Professional&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-03-02-ruter-win2000pro.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;40%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-03-02-ruter-win2000pro.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;[foto av billettautomat]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble overrasket da den versjonen av operativsystemene til
Microsoft så vidt jeg vet ikke lenger mottar sikkerhetsoppdateringer.
I følge Wikipedia og
&lt;a href=&quot;http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&amp;alpha=Windows+2000&amp;Filter=FilterNO&quot;&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt;
har den ikke hatt støtte fra Microsoft siden 2010-07-13.  Det er en
ganske stor sikkerhetsrisiko å bruke operativsystemer i et og et halvt
år etter at de ikke lenger blir tatt vare på sikkerhetsmessig.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Bildet er tilgjengelig for bruk med bruksvilkårene til
&lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/no/&quot;&gt;Creative
Commons Navngivelse 3.0 Norge (CC BY 3.0)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Stopmotion for making stop motion animations on Linux - reloaded</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Many years ago, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
/ Debian Edu project&lt;/a&gt; initiated a student project to create a tool
for making stop motion movies.  The proposal came from a teacher
needing such tool on Skolelinux.  The project, called &quot;stopmotion&quot;,
was manned by two extraordinary students and won a school award and a
national aware with this great project.  The project was initiated and
mentored by Herman Robak, and manned by the students Bjørn Erik Nilsen
and Fredrik Berg Kjølstad.  They got in touch with people at Aardman
Animation studio and received feedback on how professionals would like
such stopmotion tool to work, and the end result was and is used by
animators around the globe.  But as is usual after studying, both got
jobs and went elsewhere, and did not have time to properly tend to the
project, and it has been lingering for a few years now.  Until last
year...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Last year some of the users got together with Herman, and moved the
project to Sourceforge and in effect restarted the project under a new
name,
&lt;a href=&quot;http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxstopmotion/&quot;&gt;linuxstopmotion&lt;/a&gt;.
The name change was done to make it possible to find the project using
Internet search engines (try to search for &#39;stopmotion&#39; to see what I
mean). I&#39;ve been following
&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxstopmotion-community&quot;&gt;the
mailing list&lt;/a&gt; and the improvement already in place and planned for
the future is encouraging.  If you want to make stop motion movies.
Check it out. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Third release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend we wrapped up and published the third release
candidate for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; based on Squeeze.  The full announcement is
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;available&lt;/a&gt;
from the project announcement list.  Check it out if you
need a software solution for your school.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Hamar kommune imponerer i FiksGataMi-rapportert problem i dag</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Tok nettopp en titt på listen over løste problemer i
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; (hentet via
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/open311&quot;&gt;Open311-søkegrensesnittet&lt;/a&gt;),
og lot meg imponere over Hamar kommunes raske respons.  Sjekk
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/report/10791&quot;&gt;rapport #10791&lt;/a&gt;, der
Hamar kommune kl. 10:19 i dag får beskjed om at det er dårlig
brøyting, allerede 10:50 melder kommunen tilbake at de er på saken.
18:26 samme dag melder så innsender at problemet er løst.  Hatten av
for folkene i Hamar kommune!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Apropos bra respons.  En bruker sendte for noen dager inn følgende
tilbakemelding til oss som står bak tjenesten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Rapporterte inn slukte gatelys på Torsnesveien, og to
uker etterpå er lysene tilbake. Flott service!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det er veldig hyggelig å høre at FiksGataMi fungerer bra for
innbyggerne.  Måtte alle landets innbyggere få samme gode erfaring med
FiksGataMi og det offentlige.  I dag er det 52 kommuner som har lenke
til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider, og dermed indikerer at de liker vår
tjeneste.  Måtte de få følge av resten av landets kommuner snart. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
Debian Edu Squeeze.  The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
also available from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/37675399&quot;&gt;vimeo&lt;/a&gt; and
download as a
&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg
Theora&lt;/a&gt; file.  Check it out below.&lt;/p&gt;

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    &lt;p&gt;Download video as
      &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv&quot;&gt;Ogg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; 
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                <title>Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Inspired by the interview series conducted by Raphael, I started a
Norwegian interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu /
Skolelinux community.  This was so popular that I believe it is time
to move to a more international audience.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
Europe, there are users all around the globe.  One of those far away
from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
and contributor.  It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
work out of the box in Japan.  I got him to answer a few questions,
and am happy to share the response with you. :)


&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn&#39;t really improve my setup. I
did various desperate searches for things like &quot;school Linux server&quot;
and ended up in a document called &quot;Drift&quot; something or other. Reading
there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
doesn&#39;t necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
Japan.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
who don&#39;t need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is.  A
second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
multiplies. For example, backup wasn&#39;t working properly in Lenny. It
took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
help.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
(customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
house, that&#39;s very useful for the family photos and music.  At school
the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS.  We also
have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago.  The Edu aspect is
also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu?  But of course the main attraction is
budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
are not impressed when their USB drive doesn&#39;t work, or their browser
doesn&#39;t play flash, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
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