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23 <div class=
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</a></div>
24 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
11 15:
10</div>
26 <p>As I continue to explore
27 <a href=
"http://www.bitcoin.org/">BitCoin
</a>, I've starting to wonder
28 what properties the system have, and how it will be affected by laws
29 and regulations here in Norway. Here are some random notes.
</p>
31 <p>One interesting thing to note is that since the transactions are
32 verified using a peer to peer network, all details about a transaction
33 is known to everyone. This means that if a BitCoin address has been
34 published like I did with mine in my initial post about BitCoin, it is
35 possible for everyone to see how many BitCoins have been transfered to
36 that address. There is even a web service to look at the details for
37 all transactions. There I can see that my address
38 <a href=
"http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
</a>
39 have received
16.06 Bitcoin, the
40 <a href=
"http://blockexplorer.com/address/1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv8MHqvwst3">1LfdGnGuWkpSJgbQySxxCWhv
8MHqvwst
3</a>
41 address of Simon Phipps have received
181.97 BitCoin and the address
42 <a href=
"http://blockexplorer.com/address/1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt">1MCwBbhNGp5hRm5rC1Aims2YFRe2SXPYKt
</A>
43 of EFF have received
2447.38 BitCoins so far. Thank you to each and
44 every one of you that donated bitcoins to support my activity. The
45 fact that anyone can see how much money was transfered to a given
46 address make it more obvious why the BitCoin community recommend to
47 generate and hand out a new address for each transaction. I'm told
48 there is no way to track which addresses belong to a given person or
49 organisation without the person or organisation revealing it
50 themselves, as Simon, EFF and I have done.
</p>
52 <p>In Norway, and in most other countries, there are laws and
53 regulations limiting how much money one can transfer across the border
54 without declaring it. There are money laundering, tax and accounting
55 laws and regulations I would expect to apply to the use of BitCoin.
56 If the Skolelinux foundation
57 (
<a href=
"http://linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">SLX
58 Debian Labs
</a>) were to accept donations in BitCoin in addition to
59 normal bank transfers like EFF is doing, how should this be accounted?
60 Given that it is impossible to know if money can across the border or
61 not, should everything or nothing be declared? What exchange rate
62 should be used when calculating taxes? Would receivers have to pay
63 income tax if the foundation were to pay Skolelinux contributors in
64 BitCoin? I have no idea, but it would be interesting to know.
</p>
66 <p>For a currency to be useful and successful, it must be trusted and
67 accepted by a lot of users. It must be possible to get easy access to
68 the currency (as a wage or using currency exchanges), and it must be
69 easy to spend it. At the moment BitCoin seem fairly easy to get
70 access to, but there are very few places to spend it. I am not really
71 a regular user of any of the vendor types currently accepting BitCoin,
72 so I wonder when my kind of shop would start accepting BitCoins. I
73 would like to buy electronics, travels and subway tickets, not herbs
74 and books. :) The currency is young, and this will improve over time
75 if it become popular, but I suspect regular banks will start to lobby
76 to get BitCoin declared illegal if it become popular. I'm sure they
77 will claim it is helping fund terrorism and money laundering (which
78 probably would be true, as is any currency in existence), but I
79 believe the problems should be solved elsewhere and not by blaming
82 <p>The process of creating new BitCoins is called mining, and it is
83 CPU intensive process that depend on a bit of luck as well (as one is
84 competing against all the other miners currently spending CPU cycles
85 to see which one get the next lump of cash). The "winner" get
50
86 BitCoin when this happen. Yesterday I came across the obvious way to
87 join forces to increase ones changes of getting at least some coins,
88 by coordinating the work on mining BitCoins across several machines
89 and people, and sharing the result if one is lucky and get the
50
91 <a href=
"http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/bitcoin-pool/">BitCoin Pool
</a>
92 if this sounds interesting. I have not had time to try to set up a
93 machine to participate there yet, but have seen that running on ones
94 own for a few days have not yield any BitCoins througth mining
101 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>.
105 <div class=
"padding"></div>
108 <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>
109 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
11 10:
45</div>
111 <p>Via
<a href=
"http://webmink.com/2010/12/10/links-for-2010-12-10/">en
112 blogpost fra Simon Phipps i går
</a>, fant jeg en referanse til
113 <a href=
"http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/9/exposed-tsas-x-rated-scanner-fraud/">en
114 artikkel i Washington Times
</a> som igjen refererer til en artikkel i
115 det fagfellevurderte tidsskriftet Journal of Transportation Security
117 "
<a href=
"http://springerlink.com/content/g6620thk08679160/fulltext.html">An
118 evaluation of airport x-ray backscatter units based on image
119 characteristics
</a>" som enkelt konstaterer at
120 <a href="http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?a=
2389&c=
124">pornoscannerne</a>
121 som kler av reisende på flyplasser ikke er i stand til å avsløre det
122 produsenten og amerikanske myndigheter sier de skal avsløre. Kort
123 sagt, de bedrer ikke sikkerheten. Reisende må altså la ansatte på
124 flyplasser <a href="http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/
">se dem
125 nakne eller la seg beføle i skrittet</a> uten grunn. Jeg vil
126 fortsette å nekte å bruke disse pornoskannerne, unngå flyplasser der
127 de er tatt i bruk, og reise med andre transportmidler enn fly hvis jeg
134 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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141 <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>
142 <div class="date
">2010-12-10 08:20</div>
144 <p>With this weeks lawless
145 <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
2010/
12/
06/wikileaks/index.html
">governmental
146 attacks</a> on Wikileak and
147 <a href="http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_gillmor/
2010/
12/
06/war_on_speech
">free
148 speech</a>, it has become obvious that PayPal, visa and mastercard can
149 not be trusted to handle money transactions.
151 <a href="http://webmink.com/
2010/
12/
06/now-accepting-bitcoin/
">Simon
152 Phipps on bitcoin</a> reminded me about a project that a friend of
153 mine mentioned earlier. I decided to follow Simon's example, and get
154 involved with <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/
">BitCoin</a>. I got
155 some help from my friend to get it all running, and he even handed me
156 some bitcoins to get started. I even donated a few bitcoins to Simon
157 for helping me remember BitCoin.</p>
159 <p>So, what is bitcoins, you probably wonder? It is a digital
160 crypto-currency, decentralised and handled using peer-to-peer
161 networks. It allows anonymous transactions and prohibits central
162 control over the transactions, making it impossible for governments
163 and companies alike to block donations and other transactions. The
164 source is free software, and while the key dependency wxWidgets 2.9
165 for the graphical user interface is missing in Debian, the command
166 line client builds just fine. Hopefully Jonas
167 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/
578157">will get the package into
170 <p>Bitcoins can be converted to other currencies, like USD and EUR.
171 There are <a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/trade
">companies accepting
172 bitcoins</a> when selling services and goods, and there are even
173 currency "stock" markets where the exchange rate is decided. There
174 are not many users so far, but the concept seems promising. If you
175 want to get started and lack a friend with any bitcoins to spare,
177 <a href=
"https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/">some for free
</a> (
0.05
178 bitcoin at the time of writing). Use
179 <a href=
"http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/">BitcoinWatch
</a> to keep an eye
180 on the current exchange rates.
</p>
182 <p>As an experiment, I have decided to set up bitcoind on one of my
183 machines. If you want to support my activity, please send Bitcoin
184 donations to the address
185 <b>15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b
</b>. Thank you!
</p>
191 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>.
195 <div class=
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198 <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>
199 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
09 21:
25</div>
201 <p><a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/">Martin Bekkelund
</a> ved
202 <a href=
"http://www.friprog.no/">friprog-senteret
</a> har skrevet
204 <a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/12/09/en-stille-bonn/">korte
205 oppsummering
</a> rundt datalagringsdirektivet, som jeg videreformidler
208 <p><blockquote><strong>Det pågår i disse dager en intens diskusjon om
209 innføring av Datalagringsdirektivet (
<acronym
210 title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym>) i norsk rett. Kanskje
211 har du gjort deg opp en mening, kanskje er du usikker. I begge
212 tilfeller ber jeg deg lese videre.
</strong></p>
214 <p>Samtlige fagmiljøer, både i Norge og EU, har konkludert med at
215 <acronym title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym> ikke bør
216 innføres på nåværende tidspunkt. Den tekniske kvaliteten på direktivet
217 er dårlig, det griper uforholdsmessig inn i personvernet, det har
218 store mangler og viktige spørsmål som hvem som skal ha tilgang og
219 hvordan data skal lagres er fortsatt uavklart.
</p>
222 <li><a href=
"http://ikt-norge.no/norge-kan-slippe-datalagringsdirektivet/">EU-ekspertene sier
</a> at konsekvensene av å benytte vetoretten er minimale
</li>
223 <li><a href=
"http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/Deninternasjonalejuristkommisjon.pdf">Juristene påpeker
</a> at direktivet er i strid med EMK
</li>
224 <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>
225 <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>
226 <li><a href=
"http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/NJ_247460_1_P.pdf">Pressen sier
</a> nei av hensyn til kildevernet
</li>
227 <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>
228 <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>
231 <p>Jeg liker å tro at jeg er en hyggelig fyr. Jeg har et rent
232 rulleblad, og med unntak av to fartsbøter har jeg aldri vært en byrde
233 for samfunnet. Det akter jeg å fortsette med. Det er mange som meg,
234 lovlydige, pliktoppfyllende borgere som aldri vil utgjøre en trussel
235 mot noe som helst. Vi synes derfor det er trist og sårende at all vår
236 atferd skal overvåkes døgnkontinuerlig.
</p>
238 <p><strong>Understøttet av faglige vurderinger kan du trygt si nei til
239 <acronym title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym>.
</strong></p>
241 <p><a href=
"http://www.bekkelund.net/kontakt/">Ta kontakt med meg
</a>
242 hvis du har spørsmål om
<acronym
243 title=
"Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD
</acronym>, uansett hva det måtte
246 <p class=
"info">Denne teksten er å anse som
<a
247 href=
"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/"><em>Public
248 Domain
</em></a>. Spre den videre til alle som kan ha nytte av
252 <p>Siste
<a href=
"http://www.nettavisen.no/it/article3043918.ece">melding
253 fra Nettavisen
</a> er at regjeringen planlegger å fremme sitt forslag
254 til implementering av datalagringsdirektivet i morgen, i ly av
255 fredprisutdelingen for å få minst mulig pressedekning om saken. Vi
256 får snart se om det stemmer.
</p>
262 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>.
266 <div class=
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269 <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>
270 <div class=
"date">2010-
12-
09 19:
30</div>
272 <p>A few days ago, I was introduces to some students in the robot
273 student assosiation
<a href=
"http://www.robotica.no/">Robotica
274 Osloensis
</a> at the University of Oslo where I work, who planned to
275 get their own
3D printer. They wanted to learn from me based on my
276 work in the area. After having a short lunch meeting with them, I
277 offered them to borrow my reprap kit, as I never had time to complete
278 the build and this seem unlike to change any time soon. I look
279 forward to see how this goes. This monday their volunteer driver
280 picked up my kit and drove it to their lab, and tomorrow I am told the
281 last exam is over so they can start work on getting the
3D printer
284 <p>The robotic group have already build several robots on their own,
285 and seem capable of getting the reprap operational. I really look
286 forward to being able to print all the cool
3D designs published on
287 <a href=
"http://www.thingiverse.com/">Thingiverse
</a>. I even got
288 some
3D scans I got made during Dagen@IFI when one of the groups at
289 the computer science department at the university demonstrated their
290 very cool
3D scanner.
</p>
296 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>.
300 <div class=
"padding"></div>
303 <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>
304 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
29 18:
40</div>
306 <p>On friday, the first Debian Edu / Skolelinux
307 <a href=
"http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2010-12-03-05-Oslo">development
308 gathering
</a> in a long time take place here in Oslo, Norway. I
309 really look forward to seeing all the good people working on the
310 Squeeze release. The gathering is open for everyone interested in
311 learning more about Debian Edu / Skolelinux.
</p>
313 <p>On Saturday, the Norwegian member organization taking care of
314 organizing these development gatherings, Fri Programvare i Skolen,
316 <a href=
"http://friprogramvareiskolen.no/Genfors/2010">General Assembly
317 for
2010</a>. Membership is open for all, and currently there are
388
318 people registered as members. Last year
32 members cast their vote in
319 the memberdb based election system. I hope more people find time to
326 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>.
330 <div class=
"padding"></div>
333 <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>
334 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
27 11:
30</div>
336 <p>In the latest issue of Linux Journal, the readers choices were
337 presented, and the winner among the multimedia player were VLC.
338 Personally, I like VLC, and it is my player of choice when I first try
339 to play a video file or stream. Only if VLC fail will I drag out
340 gmplayer to see if it can do better. The reason is mostly the failure
341 model and trust. When VLC fail, it normally pop up a error message
342 reporting the problem. When mplayer fail, it normally segfault or
343 just hangs. The latter failure mode drain my trust in the program.
<p>
345 <p>But even if VLC is my player of choice, we have choosen to use
346 mplayer in
<a href=
"http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
347 Edu/Skolelinux
</a>. The reason is simple. We need a good browser
348 plugin to play web videos seamlessly, and the VLC browser plugin is
349 not very good. For example, it lack in-line control buttons, so there
350 is no way for the user to pause the video. Also, when I
351 <a href=
"http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">last
352 tested the browser plugins
</a> available in Debian, the VLC plugin
353 failed on several video pages where mplayer based plugins worked. If
354 the browser plugin for VLC was as good as the gecko-mediaplayer
355 package (which uses mplayer), we would switch.
</P>
357 <p>While VLC is a good player, its user interface is slightly
358 annoying. The most annoying feature is its inconsistent use of
359 keyboard shortcuts. When the player is in full screen mode, its
360 shortcuts are different from when it is playing the video in a window.
361 For example, space only work as pause when in full screen mode. I
362 wish it had consisten shortcuts and that space also would work when in
363 window mode. Another nice shortcut in gmplayer is [enter] to restart
364 the current video. It is very nice when playing short videos from the
365 web and want to restart it when new people arrive to have a look at
366 what is going on.
</p>
372 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>.
376 <div class=
"padding"></div>
379 <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>
380 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
23 14:
15</div>
382 <p>Jeg registrerer med vond smak i munnen at Den Norske Dataforening
384 href=
"http://www.dataforeningen.no/hedret-med-rosingprisen.4849070-133913.html">hedrer
385 overvåkning av barn med Rosingsprisen for kreativitet i år
</a>. Jeg
386 er glad jeg nå er meldt ut av DND.
</p>
388 <p>Å elektronisk overvåke sine barn er ikke å gjøre dem en tjeneste,
389 men et overgrep mot individer i utvikling som bør læres opp til å ta
392 <p>For å sitere Datatilsynets nye leder, Bjørn Erik Thon, i
393 <a href=
"http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article174262.ece">et intervju
394 med Computerworld Norge
</A>:
</p>
397 - For alle som har barn, meg selv inkludert, er førstetanken at det
398 hadde vært fint å vite hvor barnet sitt er til enhver tid. Men ungene
399 har ikke godt av det. De er små individer som skal søke rundt og finne
400 sine små gjemmesteder og utvide horisonten, uten at foreldrene ser dem
401 i kortene. Det kan være fristende, men jeg ville ikke gått inn i
405 <p>Det er skremmende å se at DND mener en tjeneste som legger opp til
406 slike overgrep bør hedres. Å flytte oppveksten for barn inn i en
408 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon">Panopticon
</a> er et
409 grovt overgrep og vil gjøre skade på barnenes utvikling, og foreldre
410 burde tenke seg godt om før de gir etter for sine instinkter her.
</p>
412 <p>Blipper-tjenesten får meg til å tenke på bøkene til
413 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Twelve_Hawks">John Twelve
414 Hawks
</a>, som forbilledlig beskriver hvordan et totalitært
415 overvåkningssamfunn bygges sakte men sikkert rundt oss, satt sammen av
416 gode intensjoner og manglende bevissthet om hvilke prinsipper et
417 liberalt demokrati er fundamentert på. Jeg har hatt stor glede av å
418 lese alle de tre bøkene.
</p>
424 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk
</a>,
<a href=
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<a href=
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428 <div class=
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431 <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>
432 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
22 14:
15</div>
434 <p>Michael Biebl suggested to me on IRC, that I changed my automated
435 upgrade testing of the
436 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian-upgrade-testing/">Lenny
437 Gnome and KDE Desktop
</a> to do
<tt>apt-get autoremove
</tt> when using apt-get.
438 This seem like a very good idea, so I adjusted by test scripts and
439 can now present the updated result from today:
</p>
441 <p>This is for Gnome:
</p>
443 <p>Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude
</p>
457 freedesktop-sound-theme
459 gconf-defaults-service
474 gnome-desktop-environment
478 gnome-session-canberra
483 gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
492 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
495 libboost-date-time1.42
.0
496 libboost-python1.42
.0
497 libboost-thread1.42
.0
499 libchamplain-gtk-
0.4-
0
501 libclutter-gtk-
0.10-
0
508 libfreerdp-plugins-standard
523 libgnomepanel2.24-cil
528 libgtksourceview2.0-common
529 libmono-addins-gui0.2-cil
530 libmono-addins0.2-cil
532 libmono-corlib2.0-cil
533 libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil
535 libmono-security2.0-cil
536 libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil
537 libmono-system2.0-cil
540 libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil
551 libtelepathy-farsight0
560 nautilus-sendto-empathy
581 python-gtksourceview2
605 python-zope.interface
610 rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
617 system-config-printer-udev
619 telepathy-mission-control-
5
632 <p>Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude
</p>
640 fast-user-switch-applet
659 libgtksourceview2.0-
0
667 system-config-printer
674 <p>Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get
</p>
677 gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
680 <p>Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get
</p>
686 <p>This is for KDE:
</p>
688 <p>Installed using apt-get, missing with aptitude
</p>
694 <p>Installed using apt-get, removed with aptitude
</p>
701 <p>Installed using aptitude, missing with apt-get
</p>
719 kdeartwork-theme-icon
723 kdebase-workspace-bin
724 kdebase-workspace-data
753 plasma-dataengines-workspace
755 plasma-desktopthemes-artwork
756 plasma-runners-addons
757 plasma-scriptengine-googlegadgets
758 plasma-scriptengine-python
759 plasma-scriptengine-qedje
760 plasma-scriptengine-ruby
761 plasma-scriptengine-webkit
763 plasma-wallpapers-addons
764 plasma-widget-folderview
765 plasma-widget-networkmanagement
769 xscreensaver-data-extra
771 xscreensaver-gl-extra
772 xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod
775 <p>Installed using aptitude, removed with apt-get
</p>
779 google-gadgets-common
802 libkonqsidebarplugin4a
811 libplasma-geolocation-interface4
813 libplasmagenericshell4
856 plasma-dataengines-addons
857 plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba
858 plasma-widget-lancelot
859 plasma-widgets-addons
860 plasma-widgets-workspace
864 update-notifier-common
867 <p>Running apt-get autoremove made the results using apt-get and
868 aptitude a bit more similar, but there are still quite a lott of
869 differences. I have no idea what packages should be installed after
870 the upgrade, but hope those that do can have a look.
</p>
876 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>.
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883 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Migrating_Xen_virtual_machines_using_LVM_to_KVM_using_disk_images.html">Migrating Xen virtual machines using LVM to KVM using disk images
</a></div>
884 <div class=
"date">2010-
11-
22 11:
20</div>
886 <p>Most of the computers in use by the
887 <a href=
"http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu/Skolelinux project
</a>
888 are virtual machines. And they have been Xen machines running on a
889 fairly old IBM eserver xseries
345 machine, and we wanted to migrate
890 them to KVM on a newer Dell PowerEdge
2950 host machine. This was a
891 bit harder that it could have been, because we set up the Xen virtual
892 machines to get the virtual partitions from LVM, which as far as I
893 know is not supported by KVM. So to migrate, we had to convert
894 several LVM logical volumes to partitions on a virtual disk file.
</p>
897 <a href=
"http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/35011-Six-steps-for-migrating-Xen-virtual-machines-to-KVM">a
898 nice recipe
</a> to do this, and wrote the following script to do the
899 migration. It uses qemu-img from the qemu package to make the disk
900 image, parted to partition it, losetup and kpartx to present the disk
901 image partions as devices, and dd to copy the data. I NFS mounted the
902 new servers storage area on the old server to do the migration.
</p>
908 # http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/
35011-Six-steps-for-migrating-Xen-virtual-machines-to-KVM
913 if [ -z "$
1" ] ; then
914 echo "Usage: $
0 <hostname
>"
920 if [ ! -e /dev/vg_data/$host-disk ] ; then
921 echo "error: unable to find LVM volume for $host"
925 # Partitions need to be a bit bigger than the LVM LVs. not sure why.
926 disksize=$( lvs --units m | grep $host-disk | awk '{sum = sum + $
4} END { print int(sum *
1.05) }')
927 swapsize=$( lvs --units m | grep $host-swap | awk '{sum = sum + $
4} END { print int(sum *
1.05) }')
928 totalsize=$(( ( $disksize + $swapsize ) ))
931 #dd if=/dev/zero of=$img bs=
1M count=$(( $disksize + $swapsize ))
932 qemu-img create $img ${totalsize}MMaking room on the Debian Edu/Sqeeze DVD
934 parted $img mklabel msdos
935 parted $img mkpart primary linux-swap
0 $disksize
936 parted $img mkpart primary ext2 $disksize $totalsize
937 parted $img set
1 boot on
940 losetup /dev/loop0 $img
943 dd if=/dev/vg_data/$host-disk of=/dev/mapper/loop0p1 bs=
1M
944 fsck.ext3 -f /dev/mapper/loop0p1 || true
945 mkswap /dev/mapper/loop0p2
948 losetup -d /dev/loop0
951 <p>The script is perhaps so simple that it is not copyrightable, but
952 if it is, it is licenced using GPL v2 or later at your discretion.
</p>
954 <p>After doing this, I booted a Debian CD in rescue mode in KVM with
955 the new disk image attached, installed grub-pc and linux-image-
686 and
956 set up grub to boot from the disk image. After this, the KVM machines
957 seem to work just fine.
</p>
963 Tags:
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"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=
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