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- <title>Lets make hardware dongles easier to use in Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_hardware_dongles_easier_to_use_in_Debian.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
-general, is that there is a great package management system with the
-ability to automatically install software packages by downloading them
-from the distribution mirrors, but no way to get it to automatically
-install the packages I need to use the hardware I plug into my
-machine. Even if the package to use it is easily available from the
-Linux distribution. When I plug in a LEGO Mindstorms NXT, it could
-suggest to automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages
-I need to talk to it. When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
-yubikey-personalization package. The information required to do this
-is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.</p>
-
-<p>Many years ago, I proposed to
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg01206.html">use
-the discover subsystem to implement this</a>. The idea is fairly
-simple:
+ <title>Åpent møte på onsdag om bruken av Microsoft Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg jobber til daglig ved <a href="http://www.uio.no/">Universitetet
+i Oslo</a>, en institusjon som lenge har vektlagt verdien av åpne
+standarder og fri programvare. Men noe har endret seg, og for en
+liten stund tilbake annonserte USIT at dagens fungerende e-postsystemet
+basert på fri programvare skulle byttes ut med Microsoft Exchange og
+at Microsoft Outlook skulle bli den best fungerende men antagelig ikke
+eneste støttede e-postklienten. Annonseringen har ført til flere
+protester og <a href="http://folk.uio.no/dssantos/nooutlookatuio/">en
+underskriftskampanje</a>, initiert av Diana Santos, der så langt 253
+personer har signert. Prosjektet
+<a href="http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike/">NIKE (Ny integrert
+kalender/e-post)</a> ble initiert for å se på mulige løsninger med
+utgangspunkt i at en kombinert epost/kalenderløsning var påkrevd, og
+prosjektet
+<a href="http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike-implementasjon/">NIKE-implementasjon</a>
+er igang med å rulle ut MS Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo.</p>
+
+<p>For kun kort tid siden ble det annonsert at det blir et åpent møte
+med ledelsen hos universitetet i Oslo med disse planene som tema:</p>
+
+<p>Tid: <strong>Onsdag 2013-06-05 kl. 10:00</strong>
+<br>Sted: <strong>9. etasje i Lucy Smiths hus (admin-bygget)</strong></p>
+
+<p> Det kan være en god plass å stille opp hvis en som meg ikke tror
+valget av Microsoft Exchange som sentral epostinfrastruktur er et
+heldig valg for Norges ledende forskningsuniversitet, men at en er mer
+tjent med å selv
+<a href="http://nuug.no/dokumenter/kronikk-friprog-itsikkerhet.shtml">beholde
+kontrollen over egen infrastruktur</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Saken har ført til endel presseoppslag så langt. Her er de jeg har
+fått med meg:</p>
<ul>
-<li>Add a desktop entry in /usr/share/autostart/ pointing to a program
- starting when a user log in.</li>
+<li>2013-05-29
+ <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system">Forsvarer
+ nytt IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
-<li>Set this program up to listen for kernel events emitted when new
- hardware is inserted into the computer.</li>
+<li>2013-05-23
+ <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html">UiO
+ innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy</a> - Uniforum</li>
-<li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware ID in a
- database mapping to packages, and take note of any non-installed
- packages.</li>
-<li>Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
- package, and make it easy to install it.</li>
+<li>2013-05-22
+ <a href="http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system">Protestgruppe
+ vil stanse IT-system</a> - Universitas</li>
+
+
+<li>2013-05-15
+ <a href="http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html">UiO
+ må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem</a> - Uniforum</li>
</ul>
-<p>I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my
-initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the
-discover database to find packages and
-<a href="http://www.packagekit.org/">PackageKit</a> to install
-packages.</p>
-
-<p>Yesterday, I found time to try to implement this idea, and the
-draft package is now checked into
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/">the
-Debian Edu subversion repository</a>. In the process, I updated the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html">discover-data</a>
-package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to
-the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version
-2.2013.01.09 to unstable. I also discovered that the current
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html">discover</a>
-package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because
-/proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present. I ported it to use
-libusb as a fall back option to get it working. The fixed package
-version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental (didn't upload it to unstable
-because of the freeze).</p>
-
-<p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
-desktop notification to show up (only once, the first time it is
-inserted):</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png"></p>
-
-<p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
-install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install
-program(s)" button should to be implemented.</p>
-
-<p>If this idea seem useful to you, and you want to help make it
-happen, please help me update the discover-data database with mappings
-from hardware to Debian packages. Check if 'discover-pkginstall -l'
-list the package you would like to have installed when a given
-hardware device is inserted into your computer, and report bugs using
-reportbug if it isn't. Or, if you know of a better way to provide
-such mapping, please let me know.</p>
-
-<p>This prototype need more work, and there are several questions that
-should be considered before it is ready for production use. Is dbus
-the correct way to detect new hardware? At the moment I look for HAL
-dbus events on the system bus, because that is the events I could see
-on my Debian Squeeze KDE desktop. Are there better events to use?
-How should the user be notified? Is the desktop notification
-mechanism the best option, or should the background daemon raise a
-popup instead? How should packages be installed? When should they
-not be installed?</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help getting such feature implemented in Debian,
-please send me an email. :)</p>
+
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- <title>New IRC channel for LEGO designers using Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 2 Jan 2013 15:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>During Christmas, I have worked a bit on the Debian support for
-<a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx">LEGO Mindstorm
-NXT</a>. My son and I have played a bit with my NXT set, and I
-discovered I had to build all the tools myself because none were
-already in Debian Squeeze. If Debian support for LEGO is something
-you care about, please join me on the IRC channel
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">#debian-lego</a> (server
-irc.debian.org). There is a lot that could be done to improve the
-Debian support for LEGO designers. For example both CAD software
-and Mindstorm compilers are missing. :)</p>
-
-<p>Update 2012-01-03: A
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">project page</a>
-including links to Lego related packages is now available.</p>
+ <title>Educational applications included in Debian Edu / Skolelinux (the screenshot collection :-)</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jun 2013 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Included in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a>, there are quite a lot of educational software.
+Created to help teachers teach, and pupils learn. We have tried to
+tag them all using debtags use::learning and role::program, and using
+the debtags I was happy to be able to create a collage of the
+educational software packages installed by default, sorted by the
+debtag field. Here it is. Click on a image to learn more about the
+program.</p>
+
+<!-- for f in $(debtags tagcat|grep field::|awk '{print $2}'); do echo; echo "<p><strong>$f</strong></p>"; echo "<p>"; ( for p in $(debtags search --names "use::learning && interface::x11 && role::program && $f"); do img="<img src='http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/$p' alt='$p'>"; if dpkg -s $p > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "<a href='http://packages.qa.debian.org/$p'>$img</a>"; fi; done; ) | LANG=C sort; echo "</p>"; done -->
+
+<p><strong>field::arts</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=audacity'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/audacity.png' alt='audacity'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=childsplay'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/childsplay.png' alt='childsplay'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=denemo'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/denemo.png' alt='denemo'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=freebirth'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/freebirth.png' alt='freebirth'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gcompris'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png' alt='gcompris'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gimp'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gimp.png' alt='gimp'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=hydrogen'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/hydrogen.png' alt='hydrogen'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=lilypond'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/lilypond.png' alt='lilypond'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=lmms'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/lmms.png' alt='lmms'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=rosegarden'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/rosegarden.png' alt='rosegarden'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=scribus'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/scribus.png' alt='scribus'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=solfege'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/solfege.png' alt='solfege'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=stopmotion'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/stopmotion.png' alt='stopmotion'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=tuxpaint'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/tuxpaint.png' alt='tuxpaint'></a>
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>field::astronomy</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=celestia-gnome'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/celestia-gnome.png' alt='celestia-gnome'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gpredict'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gpredict.png' alt='gpredict'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=kstars'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kstars.png' alt='kstars'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=planets'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/planets.png' alt='planets'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=stellarium'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/stellarium.png' alt='stellarium'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=xplanet'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/xplanet.png' alt='xplanet'></a>
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>field::biology:structural</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=pymol'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/pymol.png' alt='pymol'></a>
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>field::chemistry</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=atomix'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/atomix.png' alt='atomix'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=chemtool'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/chemtool.png' alt='chemtool'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=easychem'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/easychem.png' alt='easychem'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gchempaint'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gchempaint.png' alt='gchempaint'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gdis'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gdis.png' alt='gdis'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=ghemical'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/ghemical.png' alt='ghemical'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gperiodic'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gperiodic.png' alt='gperiodic'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=kalzium'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kalzium.png' alt='kalzium'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=pymol'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/pymol.png' alt='pymol'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=viewmol'>[viewmol]</a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=xdrawchem'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/xdrawchem.png' alt='xdrawchem'></a>
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>field::electronics</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gcompris'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png' alt='gcompris'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gpsim'>[gpsim]</a>
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>field::geography</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=kgeography'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kgeography.png' alt='kgeography'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=marble'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/marble.png' alt='marble'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=xplanet'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/xplanet.png' alt='xplanet'></a>
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>field::linguistics</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gcompris'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png' alt='gcompris'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=kanagram'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kanagram.png' alt='kanagram'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=khangman'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/khangman.png' alt='khangman'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=klettres'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/klettres.png' alt='klettres'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=parley'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/parley.png' alt='parley'></a>
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>field::mathematics</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=childsplay'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/childsplay.png' alt='childsplay'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=drgeo'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/drgeo.png' alt='drgeo'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gcompris'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png' alt='gcompris'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=geogebra'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/geogebra.png' alt='geogebra'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=geomview'>[geomview]</a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=grace'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/grace.png' alt='grace'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=graphmonkey'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/graphmonkey.png' alt='graphmonkey'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=graphthing'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/graphthing.png' alt='graphthing'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=kalgebra'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kalgebra.png' alt='kalgebra'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=kbruch'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kbruch.png' alt='kbruch'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=kig'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kig.png' alt='kig'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=kmplot'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/kmplot.png' alt='kmplot'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=mathwar'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/mathwar.png' alt='mathwar'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=rocs'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/rocs.png' alt='rocs'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=scratch'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/scratch.png' alt='scratch'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=tuxmath'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/tuxmath.png' alt='tuxmath'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=xabacus'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/xabacus.png' alt='xabacus'></a>
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>field::physics</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gcompris'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png' alt='gcompris'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=step'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/step.png' alt='step'></a>
+</p>
+
+<p><strong>field::TODO</strong></p>
+<p>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=blinken'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/blinken.png' alt='blinken'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=cgoban'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/cgoban.png' alt='cgoban'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=childsplay'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/childsplay.png' alt='childsplay'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gcompris'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gcompris.png' alt='gcompris'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gnuchess'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gnuchess.png' alt='gnuchess'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gnugo'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gnugo.png' alt='gnugo'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=gtans'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/gtans.png' alt='gtans'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=ktouch'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/ktouch.png' alt='ktouch'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=librecad'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/librecad.png' alt='librecad'></a>
+<a href='http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all&section=all&keywords=scratch'><img src='http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-06-01-debian-edu-apps/scratch.png' alt='scratch'></a>
+</p>
+
+<p>In total, 61 applications. 3 of them lacked screen shots on
+<a href="http://screenshot.debian.net">screenshot.debian.net</a>. If
+you know of some packages we should install by default, please let us
+know on <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu">IRC, #debian-edu
+on irc.debian.org</a>, or our
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/">mailing list
+debian-edu@</a>.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Lenker for 2013-01-01</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2013 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese den
-siste måneden.</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>2012-12-07
- <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article262047.ece">Myter og
- FUD om fri programvare</a> av min venn Christer Gundersen som
- kommenterer noen av de påstandene som er spredt via Computerworld
- Norge de siste månedene.</li>
-
-<li>BankID er et opplegg der utsteder (dvs. banken eller dens
- leverandør) sitter på alt som trengs for å bruke BankID, men har
- lovet å ikke bruke den unntatt på oppdrag fra deg. Det er greit nok
- for banktjenester, der banken allerede har full kontroll over
- resultatet, men problematisk når det gjelder tilgang til
- helseopplysninger og avtaleinngåelse med andre enn banken. Jeg
- håper protestene brer om seg.
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>2012-12-11 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/BankID-blottlegger-helseopplysninger-7067148.html">BankID
- blottlegger helseopplysninger</a></li>
-
- <li>2012-12-07 <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.9695027">-
- Helseopplysningene ikke sikre med Bank-ID</a></li>
-
- <li>2012-12-07
- <a href="https://www.bankid.no/Presse-og-nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/2012/Papeker-alvorlige-men-kjente-utfordringer/">Påpeker
- alvorlige, men kjente utfordringer</a> er den offisielle
- holdningen til de som lager BankID.</li>
-
- <li>2012-12-08
- <a href="http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3419-ntnu-researcher-warns-against-security-of-bank-id-password">NTNU
- Researcher Warns against Security of Bank ID Password</a>
-
- </ul>
-
-<li>2012-12-11 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Norske-elever-er-darligst-i-Europa-pa-algebra-7066752.html">Norske elever er dårligst i Europa på algebra</a>
-
-<li>2012-12-11
- <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Realfagsdodaren-7067173.html">Realfagsdødaren</a>
-
-<li>2012-12-21
- <a href="http://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/112/--Forventningene-er-for-hoye-2816450.html">-
- Noen må bli skuffet</a> - Politiet i Bergen forteller hvor lavt de
- prioriterer hverdagskriminalitet.</li>
-
-<li>2012-05-03
- <a href="http://e24.no/jobb/kripos-ansatt-doemt-for-snoking-for-venn/20208585">
- Kripos-ansatt dømt for snoking for venn</A> - viser hvor svak
- reaksjonen blir når politiet misbruker innsamlet informasjon. En
- forvarsel på konsekvensene av nasjonal brev- og besøkskontroll -
- ofte kalt Datalagringsdirektivet.</li>
-
-<li>2012-12-14
- <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/12/14/kultur/debatt/kronikk/jul/ensomhet/24838541/">Å
- smøre en forskjell</a> - om ensomhet og jul.</li>
-
-<li>2012-12-18
- <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/n-krise-av-gangen_-takk-7072452.html">Én
- krise av gangen, takk!</a>
-
-
-<li>2012-12-17
- <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/NAV-Et-mangehodet-monster--7072165.html">NAV:
- Et mangehodet monster</a></li>
-
-<li>2011-01-12
- <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/01/12/kultur/debatt/kronikk/personvern/15027203/">Pasienter
- uten vern</a> - forteller litt om hvordan Norsk Pasientregister og
- andre helseregister raderer bort pasienters privatsfære.</li>
-
-
-<li>2012-12-19
- <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/Hvorfor-er-barnefamilier-fattige-7073951.html">Hvorfor
- er barnefamilier fattige?</a></li>
-
-<li>2012-12-25
- <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/spaltister/Den-skjulte-minoriteten--konservative-kristne-i-Norge-7075518.html">Den
- skjulte minoriteten – konservative kristne i Norge</a> - kronikk av
- Bjørn Stærk fra aftenposten</li>
-
-<li>2009-05-04
- <a href="http://deltemeninger.no/-/bulletin/show/303429_folkebiblioteket-2-0?ref=checkpoint">Folkebiblioteket
- 2.0</a> - Min venn Sturle om opphavsrett og Internett, i debatt med
- Olav Torvund.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>Og et godt nytt år til dere alle!</p>
+ <title>How to install Linux on a Packard Bell Easynote LV preinstalled with Windows 8</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Two days ago, I asked
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_can_I_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8_.html">how
+I could install Linux on a Packard Bell EasyNote LV computer
+preinstalled with Windows 8</a>. I found a solution, but am horrified
+with the obstacles put in the way of Linux users on a laptop with UEFI
+and Windows 8.</p>
+
+<p>I never found out if the cause of my problems were the use of UEFI
+secure booting or fast boot. I suspect fast boot was the problem,
+causing the firmware to boot directly from HD without considering any
+key presses and alternative devices, but do not know UEFI settings
+enough to tell.</p>
+
+<p>There is no way to install Linux on the machine in question without
+opening the box and disconnecting the hard drive! This is as far as I
+can tell, the only way to get access to the firmware setup menu
+without accepting the Windows 8 license agreement. I am told (and
+found description on how to) that it is possible to configure the
+firmware setup once booted into Windows 8. But as I believe the terms
+of that agreement are completely unacceptable, accepting the license
+was never an alternative. I do not enter agreements I do not intend
+to follow.</p>
+
+<p>I feared I had to return the laptops and ask for a refund, and
+waste many hours on this, but luckily there was a way to get it to
+work. But I would not recommend it to anyone planning to run Linux on
+it, and I have become sceptical to Windows 8 certified laptops. Is
+this the way Linux will be forced out of the market place, by making
+it close to impossible for "normal" users to install Linux without
+accepting the Microsoft Windows license terms? Or at least not
+without risking to loose the warranty?</p>
+
+<p>I've updated the
+<a href="http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv">Linux Laptop
+wiki page for Packard Bell EasyNote LV</a>, to ensure the next person
+do not have to struggle as much as I did to get Linux into the
+machine.</p>
+
+<p>Thanks to Bob Rosbag, Florian Weimer, Philipp Kern, Ben Hutching,
+Michael Tokarev and others for feedback and ideas.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I was happy to discover a few days ago that the
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a>
-project also this year received a Christmas present from Another
-Agency in Trondheim. NOK 1000,- showed up on our donation account
-December 24th. I want to express our thanks for this very welcome
-present. As the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is very short on
-funding these days, and thus lack the money to do regular developer
-gatherings, this donation was most welcome. One developer gathering
-cost around NOK 15&nbsp;000,-, so we need quite a lot more to keep the
-development pace we want. Thus, I hope their example this year is
-followed by many others. :)</p>
-
-<p>The public list of donors can be found on
-<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">the
-donation page</a> for the project, which also contain instructions if
-you want to donate to the project.</p>
+ <title>How can I install Linux on a Packard Bell Easynote LV preinstalled with Windows 8?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_can_I_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_can_I_install_Linux_on_a_Packard_Bell_Easynote_LV_preinstalled_with_Windows_8_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I've run into quite a problem the last few days. I bought three
+new laptops for my parents and a few others. I bought Packard Bell
+Easynote LV to run Kubuntu on and use as their home computer. But I
+am completely unable to figure out how to install Linux on it. The
+computer is preinstalled with Windows 8, and I suspect it uses UEFI
+instead of a BIOS to boot.</p>
+
+<p>The problem is that I am unable to get it to PXE boot, and unable
+to get it to boot the Linux installer from my USB stick. I have yet
+to try the DVD install, and still hope it will work. when I turn on
+the computer, there is no information on what buttons to press to get
+the normal boot menu. I expect to get some boot menu to select PXE or
+USB stick booting. When booting, it first ask for the language to
+use, then for some regional settings, and finally if I will accept the
+Windows 8 terms of use. As these terms are completely unacceptable to
+me, I have no other choice but to turn off the computer and try again
+to get it to boot the Linux installer.</p>
+
+<p>I have gathered my findings so far on a Linlap page about the
+<a href="http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv">Packard Bell
+EasyNote LV</a> model. If you have any idea how to get Linux
+installed on this machine, please get in touch or update that wiki
+page. If I can't find a way to install Linux, I will have to return
+the laptop to the seller and find another machine for my parents.</p>
+
+<p>I wonder, is this the way Linux will be forced out of the market
+using UEFI and "secure boot" by making it impossible to install Linux
+on new Laptops?</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 20:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Let me start by wishing you all marry Christmas and a happy new
-year! I hope next year will prove to be a good year.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a>, the digital
-decentralised "currency" that allow people to transfer bitcoins
-between each other with minimal overhead, is a very interesting
-experiment. And as I wrote a few days ago, the bitcoin situation in
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> is about to improve a bit.
-The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">new debian source
-package</a> (version 0.7.2-2) was uploaded yesterday, and is waiting
-in <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW queue</A>
-for one of the ftpmasters to approve the new bitcoin-qt package
-name.</p>
-
-<p>And thanks to the great work of Jonas and the rest of the bitcoin
-team in Debian, you can easily test the package in Debian Squeeze
-using the following steps to get a set of working packages:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
-cd bitcoin
-DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp fakeroot debian/rules clean
-DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>You might have to install some build dependencies as well. The
-list of commands should give you two packages, bitcoind and
-bitcoin-qt, ready for use in a Squeeze environment. Note that the
-client will download the complete set of bitcoin "blocks", which need
-around 5.6 GiB of data on my machine at the moment. Make sure your
-~/.bitcoin/ directory have lots of spare room if you want to download
-all the blocks. The client will warn if the disk is getting full, so
-there is not really a problem if you got too little room, but you will
-not be able to get all the features out of the client.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+ <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Nirosan Thiyagalingam</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Nirosan_Thiyagalingam.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>En ting
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux-prosjektet</a> har
+hatt mye glede av er studentprosjekter. F.eks. er
+<a href="http://linuxstopmotion.org/">stillbildeanimasjonssystemet
+Stopmotion</a> resultat av et studentprosjekt i Skolelinux. De siste
+månedene har en ivrig student veiledet av Marius Kotsbak i
+<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">FRiSK</a> testet hva en
+kan få til med en datamaskin til NOK 400,- (antagelig 1700,- med
+skjerm, tastatur og mus) når det brukes i Skolelinux. Jeg spurte han
+om et intervju.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Jeg heter Nirosan Thiyagalingam. Jeg er 24 år og studerer
+dataingeniør studiet ved Høgskolen i Sør Trøndelag. Interessen for
+data har siden ung alder vært tilstede og jeg har i tillegg alltid
+vært glad i å lære nye ting. Med teknologi som endres svært hurtig er
+det alltid noe nytt å lære. Noe som igjen har gjort det svært
+interessant å følge med på utviklingen. Jeg valgte dataingeniør
+studiet grunnet ønske om å lære enda mer om programmering og utvikling
+av store systemer.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Skolelinux prosjektet hørte jeg først om i media. Men det var først
+når jeg skulle velge bacheloroppgave at jeg fattet mer interesse for
+prosjektet. Et enkelt søk på nettet førte meg til skolelinux sine
+hjemmesider. Informasjonen jeg fant der gjorde meg enda nysgjerrig og
+jeg valgte derfor en oppgave som gikk ut på å få en
+<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org">Raspberry PI</a>. Altså en
+ultra-billig datamaskin til å kjøre Debian Edu på lik linje med
+vanlige datamaskiner. I løpet av prosjektet ble det gjort mye
+forskning på nettet. Det var mye jeg måtte forstå rundt hvordan
+operativsystemet Linux fungerte før jeg kunne angripe
+problemet. Prøvde først å finne ut hvordan man kunne transformere en
+vanlig installasjon av Skolelinux til Raspberry PI, men dette var
+altfor vanskelig å jeg endte opp med mer spørsmål enn svar. Det ble
+videre opprettet kontakt med Skolelinux utviklere på IRC der jeg fikk
+diskutert hvilken retning jeg burde gå for å få til en fullverdig
+løsning. Det ble bestemt at jeg skulle gå for å først installere
+<a href="http://www.raspbian.org/">Raspian</a>. Dette er et
+operativsystem basert på Debian spesiallaget for Raspberry Pi sin
+maskinvare. Nå som Debian var installert på datamaskinen gjenstod det
+å installere de nødvendige Skolelinux pakkene for å få til et
+fullverdig system. Disse pakkene ble installert manuelt i første
+omgang, men ble senere installert automatisk via et script som Petter
+Reinholdtsen laget. Dette scriptet er så enkel å bruke at man er i
+gang med installasjonen i løpet av bare 5 minutter. Ikke nok med det,
+alt skjer helt automatisk. Alt i alt er jeg veldig fornøyd med
+resultatet av installasjonsprosessen. Raspberry Pi er en veldig svak
+maskin og det merkes godt når man har installert Skolelinux på
+den. Video og 3D-rendering fungerer utrolig dårlig, men nettsurfing og
+kontorprogrammer fungerer godt. Det kan derfor konkluderes med at
+datamaskinen er egnet for enkle oppgaver.
+
+<p>Jeg syns det er viktig påpeke at dette kun er startfasen av en slik
+løsning. På markedet finnes det nå maskiner som har bedre hardware enn
+Raspberry Pi. Det er store muligheter for at man kan klare å
+installere Skolelinux på disse også, og da forsvinner nok mest
+sannsynlig ytelsesproblemene med Video og 3D rendering også.</p>
+
+<p>Det ble også prøvd med en løsning som gjorde at Raspberry Pi
+fungerte som en tynnklient. Denne løsningen hadde langt bedre ytelse
+med tanke på hastighet og brukeropplevelse. Men også her var video og
+3D rendering dårlig. Det ble brukt en liten Linux distribusjon kalt
+<a href="http://www.berryterminal.com/">BerryTerminal</a> for å få til
+dette.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Fordelen med Skolelinux er mange. At det er gratis er en stor
+fordel, men at det er så mange som er med på å utvikle det og
+vedlikeholde det er en enda større fordel. Allerede før jeg startet
+med prosjektet så jeg mange fordeler, og når jeg nærmet meg sluttfasen
+så jeg langt flere. At prosjektet skulle inneha en så høy kvalitet
+hadde jeg aldri trodd. En vanlig Skolelinux installasjon har de
+nødvendige programmene og funksjonen som både små og store skoler i
+tillegg til organisasjoner kan klare seg med. At prosjektet tilbyr en
+så komplett løsning er en kjempefordel. Installasjonen er knirkefri
+og det er svært enkelt å installere og komme i gang.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Ulempene jeg ser med prosjektet er ryddigheten av websidene. Selv
+om websidene er enkle og konsise er det allikevel ikke appellerende i
+like stor grad som for eksempel
+<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> sine sider. Deres side
+tilbyr, i tillegg til godt design og presentasjon, en nettbasert
+emulator av deres operativsystem. Dette er en stor fordel slik jeg ser
+det. Bortsett fra dette ser jeg absolutt ingen ulemper med
+Skolelinux-prosjektet.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Til daglig er jeg en flittig bruker av det åpne media
+sentersystemet <a href="http://xbmc.org/">XBMC</a>. Det enorme
+samfunnet rundt dette prosjektet har gjort dette til et program som
+dekker alles behov. Man kan tilpasse det akkurat slik man vil både med
+tanke på utseende og funksjoner ved installere plug-ins eller
+scripts.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
+skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Strategien som burde brukes sett fra mine øyne er
+markedsføring. Jeg er sikker på at om flere skoler fikk et lite innsyn
+i hvor bra Skolelinux er så ville de ikke nølt med å gå over fra noe
+annet som koster de store summer. At skolelinux til de grader tilbyr
+en så komplett løsning bure komme frem. Enten via reklamekampanjer
+eller ved å sende ut folk til skoler for så å la skolenettverk
+ansvarlige få teste ut hvordan Skolelinux fungerer i praksis. Om det
+i tillegg ble utviklet gode websider og en emulator for å la brukere
+prøve operativsystemet ville nok dette ha styrket inntrykket
+betraktelig.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>A word on bitcoin support in Debian</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>It has been a while since I wrote about
-<a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">bitcoin</a>, the decentralised
-peer-to-peer based crypto-currency, and the reason is simply that I
-have been busy elsewhere. But two days ago, I started looking at the
-state of <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">bitcoin in
-Debian</a> again to try to recover my old bitcoin wallet. The package
-is now maintained by a
-<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-bitcoin/">team of
-people</a>, and the grunt work had already been done by this team. We
-owe a huge thank you to all these team members. :)
-But I was sad to discover that the bitcoin client is missing in
-Wheezy. It is only available in Sid (and an outdated client from
-backports). The client had several RC bugs registered in BTS blocking
-it from entering testing. To try to help the team and improve the
-situation, I spent some time providing patches and triaging the bug
-reports. I also had a look at the bitcoin package available from Matt
-Corallo in a
-<a href="https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin">PPA for
-Ubuntu</a>, and moved the useful pieces from that version into the
-Debian package.</p>
-
-<p>After checking with the main package maintainer Jonas Smedegaard on
-IRC, I pushed several patches into the collab-maint git repository to
-improve the package. It now contains fixes for the RC issues (not from
-me, but fixed by Scott Howard), build rules for a Qt GUI client
-package, konqueror support for the bitcoin: URI and bash completion
-setup. As I work on Debian Squeeze, I also created
-<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bitcoin-devel/Week-of-Mon-20121217/000041.html">a
-patch to backport</a> the latest version. Jonas is going to look at
-it and try to integrate it into the git repository before uploading a
-new version to unstable.
-
-<p>I would very much like bitcoin to succeed, to get rid of the
-centralized control currently exercised in the monetary system. I
-find it completely unacceptable that the USA government is collecting
-transaction data for almost all international money transfers (most are done in USD and transaction logs shipped to the spooks), and
-that the major credit card companies can block legal money
-transactions to Wikileaks. But for bitcoin to succeed, more people
-need to use bitcoins, and more people need to accept bitcoins when
-they sell products and services. Improving the bitcoin support in
-Debian is a small step in the right direction, but not enough.
-Unfortunately the user experience when browsing the web and wanting to
-pay with bitcoin is still not very good. The bitcoin: URI is a step
-in the right direction, but need to work in most or every browser in
-use. Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire up to do a
-quick transaction. I believe there are other clients available, but
-have not tested them.</p>
-
-<p>My
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Now_accepting_bitcoins___anonymous_and_distributed_p2p_crypto_money.html">experiment
-with bitcoins</a> showed that at least some of my readers use bitcoin.
-I received 20.15 BTC so far on the address I provided in my blog two
-years ago, as can be
-<a href="http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">seen
-on the blockexplorer service</a>. Thank you everyone for your
-donation. The blockexplorer service demonstrates quite well that
-bitcoin is not quite anonymous and untracked. :) I wonder if the
-number of users have gone up since then. If you use bitcoin and want
-to show your support of my activity, please send Bitcoin donations to
-the same address as last time,
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+ <title>How to transform a Debian based system to a Debian Edu installation</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_transform_a_Debian_based_system_to_a_Debian_Edu_installation.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a> is
+an operating system based on Debian intended for use in schools. It
+contain a turn-key solution for the computer network provided to
+pupils in the primary schools. It provide both the central server,
+network boot servers and desktop environments with heaps of
+educational software. The project was founded almost 12 years ago,
+2001-07-02. If you want to support the project, which is in need for
+cash to fund developer gatherings and other project related activity,
+<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/donations.html">please
+donate some money</a>.
+
+<p>A topic that come up again and again on the Debian Edu mailing
+lists and elsewhere, is the question on how to transform a Debian or
+Ubuntu installation into a Debian Edu installation. It isn't very
+hard, and last week I wrote a script to replicate the steps done by
+the Debian Edu installer.</p>
+
+<p>The script,
+<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/branches/wheezy/debian-edu-config/share/debian-edu-config/tools/debian-edu-bless?view=markup">debian-edu-bless<a/>
+in the debian-edu-config package, will go through these six steps and
+transform an existing Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu (untested) installation
+into a Debian Edu Workstation:</p>
+
+<ol>
+
+<li>Add skolelinux related APT sources.</li>
+<li>Create /etc/debian-edu/config with the wanted configuration.</li>
+<li>Install debian-edu-install to load preseeding values and pull in
+ our configuration.</li>
+<li>Preseed debconf database with profile setup in
+ /etc/debian-edu/config, and run tasksel to install packages
+ according to the profile specified in the config above,
+ overriding some of the Debian automation machinery.</li>
+<li>Run debian-edu-cfengine-D installation to configure everything
+ that could not be done using preseeding.</li>
+<li>Ask for a reboot to enable all the configuration changes.</li>
+
+</ol>
+
+<p>There are some steps in the Debian Edu installation that can not be
+replicated like this. Disk partitioning and LVM setup, for example.
+So this script just assume there is enough disk space to install all
+the needed packages.</p>
+
+<p>The script was created to help a Debian Edu student working on
+setting up <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org">Raspberry Pi</a> as a
+Debian Edu client, and using it he can take the existing
+<a href="http://www.raspbian.org/FrontPage">Raspbian</a> installation and
+transform it into a fully functioning Debian Edu Workstation (or
+Roaming Workstation, or whatever :).</p>
+
+<p>The default setting in the script is to create a KDE Workstation.
+If a LXDE based Roaming workstation is wanted instead, modify the
+PROFILE and DESKTOP values at the top to look like this instead:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+PROFILE="Roaming-Workstation"
+DESKTOP="lxde"
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>The script could even become useful to set up Debian Edu servers in
+the cloud, by starting with a virtual Debian installation at some
+virtual hosting service and setting up all the services on first
+boot.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Piratpartiet på opphavs-retrett?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Piratpartiet_p__opphavs_retrett_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Piratpartiet_p__opphavs_retrett_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Jeg ble overrasket over å se at Piratpartiet i
-<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Piratpartiet-stiller-til-Stortingsvalget-7073298.html">Aftenposten</a>
-er referert på følgende:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Når det gjelder retten til opphavsrett for kulturproduktene, mener
-Piratpartiet av levetid + 14 år er tilfredsstillende.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Det betyr en vernetid langt ut over det kommersielle livet til de
-aller fleste opphavsrettsbeskyttede verker, og er i strid med slik i
-hvert fall jeg har tolket punkt 5 i
-<a href="http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/kjerneprogram.html">kjerneprogrammet
-til Piratpartiet</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p><strong>5: Åndsverk og patenter: tilbake til start</strong></p>
-
-<table border="1">
-<tr><th>forslag:</th><td>14 års opphavsrett og ingen
-programvarepatenter</td></tr>
-
-<tr><th>grunn:</th><td>Den første loven om opphavsrett spesifiserte 14
-års vernetid. Senere har mediabransjens lobbyister stadig presset
-loven mot lengre vern, nå er det 70 år etter forfatters død. Dette
-gjør at mange verk glemmes og går tapt, noe som er skadelig for norsk
-språk og kultur. Vi til tilbake til start: 14 års
-vernetid. Patentloven sier klart at dataprogrammer ikke kan
-patenteres. Likevel klarer patentadvokater å lure gjennom
-programvarepatenter. Slike patenter gjør dingsene våre dyrere og kan i
-enkelte tilfelle stoppe dem helt.</th></tr>
-</table>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Den opprinnelige opphavsretten var på 14 år totalt, ikke 14 år
-etter opphavspersonens død. Jeg tenkte først dette kanskje var
-feilsitering fra Aftenposten, men jeg finner samme påstand i en <a
-href="http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/">bloggpost
-fra Geir Aaslid</a> på Piratpartietes offisielle nettsider. Der
-skriver han følgende:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
-mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
-det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett på levetid + 14 år er
-fullt ut tilfredstillende for musikk, film, litteratur og spill.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Det virker dermed på meg som om Piratpartiet allerede har gjort
-retrett fra sin beundringsverdige holdning om at det holdt med 14 års
-total vernetid, til sin nye som tar utgangspunkt i levetiden til
-opphavspersonen. Jeg håper det baserer seg på en misforståelse hos
-piratlederen som blir korrigert tilbake til 14 års total vernetid før
-partiet stiller til valg.</p>
-
-<p>Hvis du lurer på hvilke problemer lang vernetid bringer med seg,
-anbefaler jeg å lese boken <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free
-Culture</a> av Lawrence Lessig. Jeg og en liten gruppe andre er igang
-med å
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">oversette
-boken til bokmål</a> og tar gjerne imot hjelp med oversettelse og
-korrekturlesing.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Oppdatering 2012-12-20</strong>: Oppdaget at
-<a href="http://piratpartietnorge.org/om-gramo-og-piratpolitikken/">bloggposten
-til Geir Aaslid</a> er endret siden i går, og nå inneholder følgende
-avsnitt i stedet for det jeg siterte over:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Hva vi gjør med opphavsretten er mer komplisert fordi den omfavner så
-mange bransjer, med ulike behov. Enhver reform er en forbedring men
-det er nærliggende å anta at en opphavsrett lik levetiden, evt + 14 år
-er fullt ut tilfredstillende for mange skapere av musikk, film,
-litteratur og spill. Det er for det meste de store forlagene som er
-imot enhver reform.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I tillegg har det dukket opp en setning nederst "Dette dokumentet
-er et utkast til svar på et angrep på Piratpartiet fra Gramo. Det
-endrer seg derfor over tid og den endelige versjonen er det som blir
-publisert på Hardware.no", som tyder på at originalformuleringen ikke
-var veloverveid og sitatet i Aftenposten kanskje var basert på en
-misforståelse.</p>
+ <title>Second alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project</a> is making great progress and made its second Wheezy based
+release today. This is the release announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released
+2013-05-14</strong></p>
+
+<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
+alpha1, based on <ahref="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> with
+codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
+on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
+configured school network. Immediatly after installation a school
+server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
+waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
+Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
+initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all
+other machines can be installed via the network.</p>
+
+<p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
+not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
+version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by
+ default.</li>
+ <li>Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.</li>
+ <li>Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.</li>
+ <li>Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on
+ ibus-anthy.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+
+ <li>Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and
+ reliability improvements.</li>
+ <li>Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because
+ of <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706434">706434</a>.</li>
+ <li>Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible
+ problems.</li>
+ <li>Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus
+ direct:// URL.</li>
+ <li>Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.</li>
+ <li>Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.</li>
+ <li>Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.</li>
+ <li>Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client
+ servers, to make room for all the software installed.</li>
+ <li>Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to
+ log in (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706753">706753</a>).</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+<ul>
+
+ <li>IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address
+ (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/705900">705900</a>). Only install
+ libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations until it is fixed.</li>
+ <li>DVD images are not yet ready.</li>
+ <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+ available yet (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/698840">698840</a>).</li>
+ <li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).</li>
+ <li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.</li>
+ <li>LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password
+ (website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.</li>
+ <li>Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to
+ password submission problem
+ (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/700257">700257</a>).</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+
+<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
+<ul>
+
+ <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
+ <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b</p>
+
+<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c</p>
+
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Ledger - double-entry accounting using text based storage format</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>A few days ago I came across
-<a href="http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hledger/">a blog post from Joey
-Hess</a> describing <a href="http://ledger-cli.org/">ledger</a> and
-hledger, a text based system for double-entry accounting. I found it
-interesting, as I am involved with several organizations where
-accounting is an issue, and I have not really become too friendly with
-the different web based systems we use. I find it hard to find what I
-look for in the menus and even harder try to get sensible data out of
-the systems. Ledger seem different. The accounting data is kept in
-text files that can be stored in a version control system, and there
-
-are at least <a href="https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki/Ports">five
-different implementations</a> able to read the format. An example
-entry look like this, and is simple enough that it will be trivial to
-generate entries based on CVS files fetched from the bank:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-2004-05-27 Book Store
- Expenses:Books $20.00
- Liabilities:Visa
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>The concept seemed interesting enough for me to check it out and
-look for others using it. I found blog posts from
-<a href="http://blog.spang.cc/posts/hledger_rocks_my_world/">Christine
-Spang</a>,
-<a href="http://bugsplat.info/2010-05-23-keeping-finances-with-ledger.html">Pete
-Keen</a>,
-<a href="http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2010/11/06/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/">Andrew
-Cantino</a> and
-<a href="http://blog.iphoting.com/blog/2012/11/29/command-line-double-entry-accounting/">Ronald
-Ip</a> describing how they use it, as well as a post from
-<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ledger-cli/r0oWjwbQ9Bo">Bradley
-M. Kuhn</a> at the Software Freedom Conservancy. All seemed like good
-recommendations fitting my need.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/ledger.html">ledger</a>
-package is available in Debian Squeeze, while the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-hledger.html">hledger</a>
-package only is available in Debian Sid. As I use Squeeze, ledger
-seemed the best choice to get started.</p>
-
-<p>To get some real data to test on, I wrote a
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/tools/lodo2ledger">web scraper</a> for
-<a href="http://www.lodo.no/">LODO</a>, the accounting system used by
-the <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a> association, and started to
-play with the data set. I'm not really deeply into accounting, but I
-am able to get a simple balance and accounting status for example
-using the "<tt>ledger balance</tt>" command. But I will have to
-gather more experience before I know if the ledger way is a good fit
-for the organisations I am involved in.</p>
+ <title>Debian, the Linux distribution of choice for LEGO designers?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian__the_Linux_distribution_of_choice_for_LEGO_designers_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian__the_Linux_distribution_of_choice_for_LEGO_designers_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><P>In January,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">I
+announced a</a> new <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">IRC
+channel #debian-lego</a>, for those of us in the Debian and Linux
+community interested in <a href="http://www.lego.com/">LEGO</a>, the
+marvellous construction system from Denmark. We also created
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">a wiki page</a> to have
+a place to take notes and write down our plans and hopes. And several
+people showed up to help. I was very happy to see the effect of my
+call. Since the small start, we have a debtags tag
+<a href="http://debtags.debian.net/search/bytag?wl=hardware::hobby:lego">hardware::hobby:lego</a>
+tag for LEGO related packages, and now count 10 packages related to
+LEGO and <a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/">Mindstorms</a>:</p>
+
+<p><table>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/brickos">brickos</a></td><td>alternative OS for LEGO Mindstorms RCX. Supports development in C/C++</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/leocad">leocad</a></td><td>virtual brick CAD software</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/libnxt">libnxt</a></td><td>utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NX</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/lnpd">lnpd</a></td><td>daemon for LNP communication with BrickOS</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nbc">nbc</a></td><td>compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nqc">nqc</a></td><td>Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt">python-nxt</a></td><td>python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt-filer">python-nxt-filer</a></td><td>simple GUI to manage files on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/scratch">scratch</a></td><td>easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t2n">t2n</a></td><td>simple command-line tool for Lego NXT</td></tr>
+</table></p>
+
+<p>Some of these are available in Wheezy, and all but one are
+currently available in Jessie/testing. leocad is so far only
+available in experimental.</p>
+
+<p>If you care about LEGO in Debian, please join us on IRC and help
+adding the rest of the great free software tools available on Linux
+for LEGO designers.</p>
</description>
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- <title>61 kommuner lenker nå til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/61_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/61_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>For noen dager siden omfavnet nok en kommune NUUGs
-<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a>. Med 61 kommuner
-som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er «markedsandelen» 14%
-(av 429 kommuner). Siden
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/59_kommuner_omfavner_n__FiksGataMi.html">siste
-oppdatering i november</a> har kommunene Re og Vågsøy kommet til og
-slår følge med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Balestrand,
-Bærum, Eide, Farsund, Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel,
-Halden, Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl, Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger,
-Kongsberg, Kristiansund, Kvinesdal, Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes,
-Luster, Lyngdal, Løten, Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal,
-Nordreisa, Randaberg, Rindal, Sel, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland,
-Spydeberg, Stange, Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne, Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil,
-Tynset, Tysvær, Ullensvang Herad, Utsira, Vennesla, Verdal, Vågan,
-Vågå, Våler og Åseral. Oppdatert liste er tilgjengelig fra
-<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/fiksgatami/positivemottakere">NUUGs
-wiki</a>. Kartet er dog ikke oppdatert med de siste kommunene.</p>
-
-<p>Kanskje du bør høre med din kommune om de vil bli mer aktive
-brukere av FiksGataMi? Se
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/40_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider___gj_r_din_.html">en
-tidligere bloggpost</a> med tips om hvordan det kan gjøres.</p>
-
-<p>I snitt rapporteres det nå via FiksGataMi ca. 60 meldinger fra
-innbyggerne i uka om feil på offentlig infrastruktur.</p>
+ <title>Narvik sparer minst 9 millioner på å bruke Skolelinux</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Narvik_sparer_minst_9_millioner_p____bruke_Skolelinux.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I fjor sommer ble jeg
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html">gledelig
+overrasket</a> over et oppslag i avisen Fremover om Narvik kommunes
+bruk av <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>. Oppslaget
+var basert på et notat som besvarte spørsmål fra ordfører Tor Nysæter
+og rådgiver for skolesektoren, Petter Falkbu, om bruken av Skolelinux
+i Narvikskolene og konstnaden ved å gå over til Windows. For litt
+over en uke siden siden fikk jeg endelig bedt kommunen om å få innsyn
+i dette notatet, og det ble oversendt på epost tirsdag. Jeg fikk
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Narvik-kommune/2013-04-29-09:12-skolelinux-notat/PetterFalkbuogwindowsfornarvikskolen%20(L)351310.pdf">lagt
+ut notatet</a> samme dag, og fikk i dag sjekket postlista til Narvik,
+der jeg fant notatet som
+<a href="https://www.narvik.kommune.no/innsyn.aspx?response=arkivsak_detaljer&arkivsakid=2013001023&scripturi=/innsyn.aspx&skin=infolink&Mid1=301&">sak
+2013/1023</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Notatet forteller at Narvik ville måtte betalt minst 9 millioner
+for å gå over til Windows på skolene. I tillegg dokumenterer notatet
+at læreplanens krav oppfylles uten problemer ved bruk av Skolelinux.
+Jeg anbefaler alle å lese de 10 sidene med gode argumenter for å kutte
+unødige utgifter på IT i skoleverket. :)</p>
</description>
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- <title>Scripting the Cerebrum/bofhd user administration system using XML-RPC</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Scripting_the_Cerebrum_bofhd_user_administration_system_using_XML_RPC.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Scripting_the_Cerebrum_bofhd_user_administration_system_using_XML_RPC.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 6 Dec 2012 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Where I work at the <a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of
-Oslo</a>, we use the
-<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cerebrum/">Cerebrum user
-administration system</a> to maintain users, groups, DNS, DHCP, etc.
-I've known since the system was written that the server is providing
-an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC">XML-RPC</a> API, but
-I have never spent time to try to figure out how to use it, as we
-always use the bofh command line client at work. Until today. I want
-to script the updating of DNS and DHCP to make it easier to set up
-virtual machines. Here are a few notes on how to use it with
-Python.</p>
-
-<p>I started by looking at the source of the Java
-<a href="http://cerebrum.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cerebrum/trunk/cerebrum/clients/jbofh/">bofh
-client</a>, to figure out how it connected to the API server. I also
-googled for python examples on how to use XML-RPC, and found
-<a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XML-RPC-HOWTO/xmlrpc-howto-python.html">a
-simple example in</a> the XML-RPC howto.</p>
-
-<p>This simple example code show how to connect, get the list of
-commands (as a JSON dump), and how to get the information about the
-user currently logged in:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-import getpass
-import xmlrpclib
-server_url = 'https://cerebrum-uio.uio.no:8000';
-username = getpass.getuser()
-password = getpass.getpass()
-server = xmlrpclib.Server(server_url);
-#print server.get_commands(sessionid)
-sessionid = server.login(username, password)
-print server.run_command(sessionid, "user_info", username)
-result = server.logout(sessionid)
-print result
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>Armed with this knowledge I can now move forward and script the DNS
-and DHCP updates I wanted to do.</p>
+ <title>Debian Wheezy is out - and Debian Edu / Skolelinux should soon follow! #newinwheezy</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Wheezy_is_out___and_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_should_soon_follow___newinwheezy.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 5 May 2013 07:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>When I woke up this morning, I was very happy to see that the
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504">release announcement
+for Debian Wheezy</a> was waiting in my mail box. This is a great
+Debian release, and I expect to move my machines at home over to it fairly
+soon.</p>
+
+<p>The new debian release contain heaps of new stuff, and one program
+in particular make me very happy to see included. The
+<a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/">Scratch</a> program, made famous by
+the <a href="http://www.code.org/">Teach kids code</a> movement, is
+included for the first time. Alongside similar programs like
+<a href="http://edu.kde.org/kturtle/">kturtle</a> and
+<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art">turtleart</a>,
+it allow for visual programming where syntax errors can not happen,
+and a friendly programming environment for learning to control the
+computer. Scratch will also be included in the next release of Debian
+Edu.</a>
+
+<p>And now that Wheezy is wrapped up, we can wrap up the next Debian
+Edu/Skolelinux release too. The
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2013/04/msg00132.html">first
+alpha release</a> went out last week, and the next should soon
+follow.<p>
</description>
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