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23 <div class=
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24 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
22 14:
55</div>
26 <p>The last few days I have spent at work here at the
<a
27 href=
"http://www.uio.no/">University of oslo
</a> testing if the new
28 batch of computers will work with Linux. Every year for the last few
29 years the university have organized shared bid of a few thousand
30 computers, and this year HP won the bid. Two different desktops and
31 five different laptops are on the list this year. We in the UNIX
32 group want to know which one of these computers work well with RHEL
33 and Ubuntu, the two Linux distributions we currently handle at the
36 <p>My test method is simple, and I share it here to get feedback and
37 perhaps inspire others to test hardware as well. To test, I PXE
38 install the OS version of choice, and log in as my normal user and run
39 a few applications and plug in selected pieces of hardware. When
40 something fail, I make a note about this in the test matrix and move
41 on. If I have some spare time I try to report the bug to the OS
42 vendor, but as I only have the machines for a short time, I rarely
43 have the time to do this for all the problems I find.
</p>
45 <p>Anyway, to get to the point of this post. Here is the simple tests
46 I perform on a new model.
</p>
50 <li>Is PXE installation working? I'm testing with RHEL6, Ubuntu Lucid
51 and Ubuntu Maverik at the moment. If I feel like it, I also test with
52 RHEL5 and Debian Edu/Squeeze.
</li>
54 <li>Is X.org working? If the graphical login screen show up after
55 installation, X.org is working.
</li>
57 <li>Is hardware accelerated OpenGL working? Running glxgears (in
58 package mesa-utils on Ubuntu) and writing down the frames per second
59 reported by the program.
</li>
61 <li>Is sound working? With Gnome and KDE, a sound is played when
62 logging in, and if I can hear this the test is successful. If there
63 are several audio exits on the machine, I try them all and check if
64 the Gnome/KDE audio mixer can control where to send the sound. I
65 normally test this by playing
66 <a href=
"http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20101012-chef/ ">a HTML5
67 video
</a> in Firefox/Iceweasel.
</li>
69 <li>Is the USB subsystem working? I test this by plugging in a USB
70 memory stick and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.
</li>
72 <li>Is the CD/DVD player working? I test this by inserting any CD/DVD
73 I have lying around, and see if Gnome/KDE notices this.
</li>
75 <li>Is any built in camera working? Test using cheese, and see if a
76 picture from the v4l device show up.
</li>
78 <li>Is bluetooth working? Use the Gnome/KDE browsing tool to see if
79 any bluetooth devices are discovered. In my office, I normally see a
82 <li>For laptops, is the SD or Compaq Flash reader working. I have
83 memory modules lying around, and stick them in and see if Gnome/KDE
86 <li>For laptops, is suspecd/hibernate working? I'm testing if the
87 special button work, and if the laptop continue to work after
90 <li>For laptops, is the extra buttons working, like audio level,
91 adjusting background light, switching on/off external video output,
92 switching on/off wifi, bluetooth, etc? The set of buttons differ from
93 laptop to laptop, so I just write down which are working and which are
96 <li>Some laptops have smart card readers, finger print readers,
97 acceleration sensors etc. I rarely test these, as I do not know how
98 to quickly test if they are working or not, so I only document their
103 <p>By now I suspect you are really curious what the test results are
104 for the HP machines I am testing. I'm not done yet, so I will report
105 the test results later. For now I can report that HP
8100 Elite work
106 fine, and hibernation fail with HP EliteBook
8440p on Ubuntu Lucid,
107 and audio fail on RHEL6. Ubuntu Maverik worked with
8440p. As you
108 can see, I have most machines left to test. One interesting
109 observation is that Ubuntu Lucid has almost twice the framerate than
110 RHEL6 with glxgears. No idea why.
</p>
116 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
120 <div class=
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123 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Some_thoughts_on_BitCoins.html">Some thoughts on BitCoins
</a></div>
124 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
11 15:
10</div>
126 <p>As I continue to explore
127 <a href=
"http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin
</a>, I've starting to wonder
128 what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
129 and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
</p>
131 <p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
132 verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
133 is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
134 published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
135 possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
136 that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
137 all transactions. There I can see that my address
138 <a href=
"http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
</a>
139 have received
16.06 Bitcoin, the
140 <a href=
"http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv
8MHqvwst
3</a>
141 address of Simon Phipps have received
181.97 BitCoin and the address
142 <a href=
"http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
</A>
143 of EFF have received
2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
144 every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
145 fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
146 address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
147 generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
148 there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
149 organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
150 themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
</p>
152 <p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
153 regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
154 without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
155 laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
156 If the Skolelinux foundation
157 (
<a href=
"http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
158 Debian Labs
</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
159 normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
160 Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
161 not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
162 should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
163 income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
164 BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
</p>
166 <p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
167 accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
168 the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
169 easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
170 access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
171 a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
172 so I wonder when my kind of shop would start accepting BitCoins. I
173 would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
174 and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
175 if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
176 to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
177 will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
178 probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
179 believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
182 <p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
183 CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
184 competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
185 to see which one get the next lump of cash). The "winner" get
50
186 BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
187 join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
188 by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
189 and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the
50
191 <a href=
"http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool
</a>
192 if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
193 machine to participate there yet, but have seen that running on ones
194 own for a few days have not yield any BitCoins througth mining
197 <p>Update
2010-
12-
15: Found an
<a
198 href=
"http://inertia.posterous.com/reply-to-the-underground-economist-why-bitcoi">interesting
199 criticism
</a> of bitcoin. Not quite sure how valid it is, but thought
200 it was interesting to read. The arguments presented seem to be
201 equally valid for gold, which was used as a currency for many years.
</p>
207 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet
</a>.
211 <div class=
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214 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Pornoskannerne_p___flyplassene_bedrer_visst_ikke_sikkerheten.html">Pornoskannerne på flyplassene bedrer visst ikke sikkerheten
</a></div>
215 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
11 10:
45</div>
217 <p>Via
<a href=
"http://webmink.com/2010/12/10/links-for-2010-12-10/">en
218 blogpost fra Simon Phipps i går
</a>, fant jeg en referanse til
219 <a href=
"http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/9/exposed-tsas-x-rated-scanner-fraud/">en
220 artikkel i Washington Times
</a> som igjen refererer til en artikkel i
221 det fagfellevurderte tidsskriftet Journal of Transportation Security
223 "
<a href=
"http://springerlink.com/content/g6620thk08679160/fulltext.html">An
224 evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image
225 characteristics
</a>" som enkelt konstaterer at
226 <a href="http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?a=
2389&c=
124">pornoscannerne</a>
227 som kler av reisende på flyplasser ikke er i stand til å avsløre det
228 produsenten og amerikanske myndigheter sier de skal avsløre. Kort
229 sagt, de bedrer ikke sikkerheten. Reisende må altså la ansatte på
230 flyplasser <a href="http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/
">se dem
231 nakne eller la seg beføle i skrittet</a> uten grunn. Jeg vil
232 fortsette å nekte å bruke disse pornoskannerne, unngå flyplasser der
233 de er tatt i bruk, og reise med andre transportmidler enn fly hvis jeg
240 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk
">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern
">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet
">sikkerhet</a>.
244 <div class="padding
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247 <div class="title
"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html
">Now accepting bitcoins - anonymous and distributed p2p crypto-money</a></div>
248 <div class="date
">2010-12-10 08:20</div>
250 <p>With this weeks lawless
251 <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
2010/
12/
06/wikileaks/index.html
">governmental
252 attacks</a> on Wikileak and
253 <a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/
2010/
12/
06/war_on_speech
">free
254 speech</a>, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
255 not be trusted to handle money transactions.
257 <a href="http://webmink.com/
2010/
12/
06/now-accepting-bitcoin/
">Simon
258 Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about a project that a friend of
259 mine mentioned earlier. I decided to follow Simon's example, and get
260 involved with <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/
">BitCoin</a>. I got
261 some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
262 some bitcoins to get started. I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
263 for helping me remember BitCoin.</p>
265 <p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder? It is a digital
266 crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
267 networks. It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
268 control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
269 and companies alike to block donations and other transactions. The
270 source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
271 for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
272 line client builds just fine. Hopefully Jonas
273 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/
578157">will get the package into
276 <p>Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
277 There are <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/trade
">companies accepting
278 bitcoins</a> when selling services and goods, and there are even
279 currency "stock" markets where the exchange rate is decided. There
280 are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising. If you
281 want to get started and lack a friend with any bitcoins to spare,
283 <a href=
"https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/">some for free
</a> (
0.05
284 bitcoin at the time of writing). Use
285 <a href=
"http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/">BitcoinWatch
</a> to keep an eye
286 on the current exchange rates.
</p>
288 <p>As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
289 machines. If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
290 donations to the address
291 <b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
</b>. Thank you!
</p>
297 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet
</a>.
301 <div class=
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304 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Martin_Bekkelund__En_stille_b__nn_om_Datalagringsdirektivet.html">Martin Bekkelund: En stille bønn om Datalagringsdirektivet
</a></div>
305 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
09 21:
25</div>
307 <p><a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/">Martin Bekkelund
</a> ved
308 <a href=
"http://www.friprog.no/">friprog-senteret
</a> har skrevet
310 <a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/12/09/en-stille-bonn/">korte
311 oppsummering
</a> rundt datalagringsdirektivet, som jeg videreformidler
314 <p><blockquote><strong>Det pågår i disse dager en intens diskusjon om
315 innføring av Datalagringsdirektivet (
<acronym
316 title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym>) i norsk rett. Kanskje
317 har du gjort deg opp en mening, kanskje er du usikker. I begge
318 tilfeller ber jeg deg lese videre.
</strong></p>
320 <p>Samtlige fagmiljøer, både i Norge og EU, har konkludert med at
321 <acronym title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym> ikke bør
322 innføres på nåværende tidspunkt. Den tekniske kvaliteten på direktivet
323 er dårlig, det griper uforholdsmessig inn i personvernet, det har
324 store mangler og viktige spørsmål som hvem som skal ha tilgang og
325 hvordan data skal lagres er fortsatt uavklart.
</p>
328 <li><a href=
"http://ikt-norge.no/norge-kan-slippe-datalagringsdirektivet/">EU-ekspertene sier
</a> at konsekvensene av å benytte vetoretten er minimale
</li>
329 <li><a href=
"http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/Deninternasjonalejuristkommisjon.pdf">Juristene påpeker
</a> at direktivet er i strid med EMK
</li>
330 <li><a href=
"http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/12/06/kultur/debatt/kronikk/dld/personvern/14594699/">Datatilsynet sier
</a> direktivet får store konsekvenser for personvernet og at direktivet er irreversibelt
</li>
331 <li><a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/?s=dld">Teknologene sier
</a> at sikker lagring ikke er mulig, at det er svært enkelt å omgå og mulig å manipulere data og produsere falske beviser
</li>
332 <li><a href=
"http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/NJ_247460_1_P.pdf">Pressen sier
</a> nei av hensyn til kildevernet
</li>
333 <li>Det er store
<a href=
"http://tetzschner.blogspot.com/2010/03/den-tyske-forfatningsdomstol.html">interne
</a> <a href=
"http://stoppdld.no/2010/03/02/datalagring-stoppet-av-tysk-forfatningsdomstol/">stridigheter
</a> i EU. Blant annet har den tyske forfatningsdomstolen funnet at måten
<acronym title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym> er innført på er i strid med tysk grunnlov
</li>
334 <li>Alle de store
<a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/12/08/lokasjonsdata-og-datalagringsdirektivet/">operatørene og tilbyderne sier nei
</a>, av tekniske og personvernmessige årsaker
</li>
337 <p>Jeg liker å tro at jeg er en hyggelig fyr. Jeg har et rent
338 rulleblad, og med unntak av to fartsbøter har jeg aldri vært en byrde
339 for samfunnet. Det akter jeg å fortsette med. Det er mange som meg,
340 lovlydige, pliktoppfyllende borgere som aldri vil utgjøre en trussel
341 mot noe som helst. Vi synes derfor det er trist og sårende at all vår
342 atferd skal overvåkes døgnkontinuerlig.
</p>
344 <p><strong>Understøttet av faglige vurderinger kan du trygt si nei til
345 <acronym title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym>.
</strong></p>
347 <p><a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/kontakt/">Ta kontakt med meg
</a>
348 hvis du har spørsmål om
<acronym
349 title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym>, uansett hva det måtte
352 <p class=
"info">Denne teksten er å anse som
<a
353 href=
"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/"><em>Public
354 Domain
</em></a>. Spre den videre til alle som kan ha nytte av
358 <p>Siste
<a href=
"http://www.nettavisen.no/it/article3043918.ece">melding
359 fra Nettavisen
</a> er at regjeringen planlegger å fremme sitt forslag
360 til implementering av datalagringsdirektivet i morgen, i ly av
361 fredprisutdelingen for å få minst mulig pressedekning om saken. Vi
362 får snart se om det stemmer.
</p>
368 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>.
372 <div class=
"padding"></div>
375 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Student_group_continue_the_work_on_my_Reprap_3D_printer.html">Student group continue the work on my Reprap
3D printer
</a></div>
376 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
09 19:
30</div>
378 <p>A few days ago, I was introduces to some students in the robot
379 student assosiation
<a href=
"http://www.robotica.no/">Robotica
380 Osloensis
</a> at the University of Oslo where I work, who planned to
381 get their own
3D printer. They wanted to learn from me based on my
382 work in the area. After having a short lunch meeting with them, I
383 offered them to borrow my reprap kit, as I never had time to complete
384 the build and this seem unlike to change any time soon. I look
385 forward to see how this goes. This monday their volunteer driver
386 picked up my kit and drove it to their lab, and tomorrow I am told the
387 last exam is over so they can start work on getting the
3D printer
390 <p>The robotic group have already build several robots on their own,
391 and seem capable of getting the reprap operational. I really look
392 forward to being able to print all the cool
3D designs published on
393 <a href=
"http://www.thingiverse.com/">Thingiverse
</a>. I even got
394 some
3D scans I got made during Dagen@IFI when one of the groups at
395 the computer science department at the university demonstrated their
396 very cool
3D scanner.
</p>
402 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap
</a>.
406 <div class=
"padding"></div>
409 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_development_gathering_and_General_Assembly_for_FRiSK.html">Debian Edu development gathering and General Assembly for FRiSK
</a></div>
410 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
29 18:
40</div>
412 <p>On friday, the first Debian Edu / Skolelinux
413 <a href=
"http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2010-12-03-05-Oslo">development
414 gathering
</a> in a long time take place here in Oslo, Norway. I
415 really look forward to seeing all the good people working on the
416 Squeeze release. The gathering is open for everyone interested in
417 learning more about Debian Edu / Skolelinux.
</p>
419 <p>On Saturday, the Norwegian member organization taking care of
420 organizing these development gatherings, Fri Programvare i Skolen,
422 <a href=
"http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Genfors/2010">General Assembly
423 for
2010</a>. Membership is open for all, and currently there are
388
424 people registered as members. Last year
32 members cast their vote in
425 the memberdb based election system. I hope more people find time to
432 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug
</a>.
436 <div class=
"padding"></div>
439 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_isn_t_Debian_Edu_using_VLC_.html">Why isn't Debian Edu using VLC?
</a></div>
440 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
27 11:
30</div>
442 <p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
443 presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
444 Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
445 to play a video file or stream. Only if VLC fail will I drag out
446 gmplayer to see if it can do better. The reason is mostly the failure
447 model and trust. When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
448 reporting the problem. When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
449 just hangs. The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.
<p>
451 <p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
452 mplayer in
<a href=
"http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
453 Edu/Skolelinux
</a>. The reason is simple. We need a good browser
454 plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
455 not very good. For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
456 is no way for the user to pause the video. Also, when I
457 <a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">last
458 tested the browser plugins
</a> available in Debian, the VLC plugin
459 failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked. If
460 the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
461 package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.
</P>
463 <p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
464 annoying. The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
465 keyboard shortcuts. When the player is in full screen mode, its
466 shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
467 For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode. I
468 wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
469 window mode. Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
470 the current video. It is very nice when playing short videos from the
471 web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
472 what is going on.
</p>
478 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web
</a>.
482 <div class=
"padding"></div>
485 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DND_hedrer_overv__kning_av_barn_med_Rosingsprisen.html">DND hedrer overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen
</a></div>
486 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
23 14:
15</div>
488 <p>Jeg registrerer med vond smak i munnen at Den Norske Dataforening
490 href=
"http://www.dataforeningen.no/hedret-med-rosingprisen.4849070-133913.html">hedrer
491 overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen for kreativitet i år
</a>. Jeg
492 er glad jeg nå er meldt ut av DND.
</p>
494 <p>Å elektronisk overvåke sine barn er ikke å gjøre dem en tjeneste,
495 men et overgrep mot individer i utvikling som bør læres opp til å ta
498 <p>For å sitere Datatilsynets nye leder, Bjørn Erik Thon, i
499 <a href=
"http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article174262.ece">et intervju
500 med Computerworld Norge
</A>:
</p>
503 - For alle som har barn, meg selv inkludert, er førstetanken at det
504 hadde vært fint å vite hvor barnet sitt er til enhver tid. Men ungene
505 har ikke godt av det. De er små individer som skal søke rundt og finne
506 sine små gjemmesteder og utvide horisonten, uten at foreldrene ser dem
507 i kortene. Det kan være fristende, men jeg ville ikke gått inn i
511 <p>Det er skremmende å se at DND mener en tjeneste som legger opp til
512 slike overgrep bør hedres. Å flytte oppveksten for barn inn i en
514 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon">Panopticon
</a> er et
515 grovt overgrep og vil gjøre skade på barnenes utvikling, og foreldre
516 burde tenke seg godt om før de gir etter for sine instinkter her.
</p>
518 <p>Blipper-tjenesten får meg til å tenke på bøkene til
519 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Twelve_Hawks">John Twelve
520 Hawks
</a>, som forbilledlig beskriver hvordan et totalitært
521 overvåkningssamfunn bygges sakte men sikkert rundt oss, satt sammen av
522 gode intensjoner og manglende bevissthet om hvilke prinsipper et
523 liberalt demokrati er fundamentert på. Jeg har hatt stor glede av å
524 lese alle de tre bøkene.
</p>
530 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet
</a>.
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537 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades_of_the_Gnome_and_KDE_desktop__now_with_apt_get_autoremove.html">Lenny-
>Squeeze upgrades of the Gnome and KDE desktop, now with apt-get autoremove
</a></div>
538 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
22 14:
15</div>
540 <p>Michael Biebl suggested to me on IRC, that I changed my automated
541 upgrade testing of the
542 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/">Lenny
543 Gnome and KDE Desktop
</a> to do
<tt>apt-get autoremove
</tt> when using apt-get.
544 This seem like a very good idea, so I adjusted by test scripts and
545 can now present the updated result from today:
</p>
547 <p>This is for Gnome:
</p>
549 <p>Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude
</p>
563 freedesktop-sound-theme
565 gconf-defaults-service
580 gnome-desktop-environment
584 gnome-session-canberra
589 gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
598 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
601 libboost-date-time1.42
.0
602 libboost-python1.42
.0
603 libboost-thread1.42
.0
605 libchamplain-gtk-
0.4-
0
607 libclutter-gtk-
0.10-
0
614 libfreerdp-plugins-standard
629 libgnomepanel2.24-cil
634 libgtksourceview2.0-common
635 libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
636 libmono-addins0.2-cil
638 libmono-corlib2.0-cil
639 libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil
641 libmono-security2.0-cil
642 libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil
643 libmono-system2.0-cil
646 libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil
657 libtelepathy-farsight0
666 nautilus-sendto-empathy
687 python-gtksourceview2
711 python-zope.interface
716 rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
723 system-config-printer-udev
725 telepathy-mission-control-
5
738 <p>Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude
</p>
746 fast-user-switch-applet
765 libgtksourceview2.0-
0
773 system-config-printer
780 <p>Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get
</p>
783 gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
786 <p>Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get
</p>
792 <p>This is for KDE:
</p>
794 <p>Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude
</p>
800 <p>Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude
</p>
807 <p>Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get
</p>
825 kdeartwork-theme-icon
829 kdebase-workspace-bin
830 kdebase-workspace-data
859 plasma-dataengines-workspace
861 plasma-desktopthemes-artwork
862 plasma-runners-addons
863 plasma-scriptengine-googlegadgets
864 plasma-scriptengine-python
865 plasma-scriptengine-qedje
866 plasma-scriptengine-ruby
867 plasma-scriptengine-webkit
869 plasma-wallpapers-addons
870 plasma-widget-folderview
871 plasma-widget-networkmanagement
875 xscreensaver-data-extra
877 xscreensaver-gl-extra
878 xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
881 <p>Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get
</p>
885 google-gadgets-common
908 libkonqsidebarplugin4a
917 libplasma-geolocation-interface4
919 libplasmagenericshell4
962 plasma-dataengines-addons
963 plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba
964 plasma-widget-lancelot
965 plasma-widgets-addons
966 plasma-widgets-workspace
970 update-notifier-common
973 <p>Running apt-get autoremove made the results using apt-get and
974 aptitude a bit more similar, but there are still quite a lott of
975 differences. I have no idea what packages should be installed after
976 the upgrade, but hope those that do can have a look.
</p>
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</a>,
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