+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html">TV with face recognition, for improved viewer experience</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 9th June 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Slashdot got a story about Intel planning a
+<a href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/06/09/0012247/intel-to-launch-tv-service-with-facial-recognition-by-end-of-the-year">TV
+with face recognition</a> to recognise the viewer, and it occurred to
+me that it would be more interesting to turn it around, and do face
+recognition on the TV image itself. It could let the viewer know who
+is present on the screen, and perhaps look up their credibility,
+company affiliation, previous appearances etc for the viewer to better
+evaluate what is being said and done. That would be a feature I would
+be willing to pay for.</p>
+
+<p>I would not be willing to pay for a TV that point a camera on my
+household, like the big brother feature apparently proposed by Intel.
+It is an idea fetched straight out of the book 1984 by George
+Orwell.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html">Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</a></div>
<div class="date"> 6th June 2012</div>
<p>It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
support for other vendors. The python source is available on
-Scraperwiki and I welcome help in adding more features.</p>
+Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html">Debian Edu interview: Ralf Gesellensetter</a></div>
- <div class="date">27th May 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>In 2003, a German teacher showed up on the
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
-mailing list with interesting problems and reports proving he setting
-up Linux for a (for us at the time) lot of pupils. His name was Ralf
-Gesellensetter, and he has been an important tester and contributor
-since then, helping to make sure the
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
-Squeeze</a> release became as good as it is..</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I am a teacher from Germany, and my subjects are Geography,
-Mathematics, and Computer Science ("Informatik"). During the past 12
-years (since 2000), I have been working for a comprehensive (and soon,
-also inclusive) school leading to all kind of general levels, such as
-O- or A-level ("Abitur"). For quite as long, I've been taking care of
-our computer network.</p>
-
-<p>Now, in my early 40s, I enjoy the privilege of spending a lot of my
-spare time together with my wife, our son (3 years) and our daughter
-(4 months).</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>We had tried different Linux based school servers, when members of
-my local Linux User Group (LUG OWL) detected Skolelinux. I remember
-very well, being part of a party celebrating the Linux New Media Award
-("Best Newcomer Distribution", also nominated: Ubuntu) that was given
-to Skolelinux at Linux World Exposition in Frankfurt, 2005 (IIRC). Few
-months later, I had the chance to join a developer meeting in Ulsrud
-(Oslo) and to hand out the award to Knut Yrvin and others. For more
-than 7 years, Skolelinux is part of our schools infrastructure, namely
-our main server (tjener), one LTSP (today without thin clients), and
-approximately 50 work stations. Most of these have the option to boot a
-locally installed Skolelinux image. As a consequence, I joined quite
-a few events dealing with free software or Linux, and met many Debian
-(Edu) developers. All of them seemed quite nice and competent to me,
-one more reason to stick to Skolelinux.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Debian driven, you are given all the advantages of a community
-project including well maintained updates. Once, you are familiar with
-the network layout, you can easily roll out an entire educational
-computer infrastructure, from just one installation media. As only
-free software (FOSS) is used, that supports even elderly hardware,
-up-sizing your IT equipment is only limited by space (i.e. available
-labs). Especially if you run a LTSP thin client server, your
-administration costs tend towards zero.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>While Debian's stability has loads of advantages for servers, this
-might be different in some cases for clients: Schools with unlimited
-budget might buy new hardware with components that are not yet
-supported by Debian stable, or wish to use more recent versions of
-office packages or desktop environments. These schools have the
-option to run Debian testing or other distributions - if they have the
-capacity to do so. Another issue is that Debian release cycles
-include a wide range of changes; therefor a high percentage of human
-power seems to be absorbed by just keeping the features of Skolelinux
-within the new setting of the version to come. During this process,
-the cogs of Debian Edu are getting more and more professional,
-i.e. harder to understand for novices.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>LibreOffice, Wikipedia, Openstreetmap, Iceweasel (Mozilla Firefox),
-KMail, Gimp, Inkscape - and of course the Linux Kernel (not only on
-PC, Laptop, Mobile, but also our SAT receiver)</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p><ol>
-
-<li>Support computer science as regular subject in schools to make
-people really "own" their hardware, to make them understand the
-difference between proprietary software products, and free software
-developing.</li>
-
-<li>Make budget baskets corresponding: In Germany's public schools
-there are more or less fixed budgets for IT equipment (including
-licenses), so schools won't benefit from any savings here. This
-privilege is left to private schools which have consequently a large
-share among German Skolelinux schools.</li>
-
-<li>Get free software in the seminars where would-be teachers are
-trained. In many cases, teachers' software customs are respected by
-decision makers rather than the expertise of any IT experts.</li>
-
-<li>Don't limit ourself to free software run natively. Everybody uses
-free software or free licenses (for instance Wikipedia), and this
-general concept should get expanded to free educational content to be
-shared world wide (school books e.g.).</li>
-
-<li>Make clear where ever you can that the market share of free (libre)
-office suites is much above 20 p.c. today, and that you pupils don't
-need to know the "ribbon menu" in order to get employed.</li>
-
-<li>Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.</li>
-
-<li>Spread free software, or even collections of portable free apps
-for USB pen drives. Endorse students to get a legal copy of
-Libreoffice rather than accepting them to use illegal serials. And
-keep sending documents in ODF formats.</li>
-
-</ol></p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- 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/intervju">intervju</a>.
-
-
- </div>
- </div>
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