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Eestlaste oma Linuxi mugandus – Estobuntu – on vinge asi oma Kõu, ID-kaardi ja eestikeele toega, kuid seal on Firefox 2.0 ja muu vanem tarkvara. Samas on asi eesti keelne ja töötab.

Kuid tahaksin siiski kasutada igatsugu tarkvaradest viimast versiooni, mistõttu otsustasin upgradeda asja Ubuntu Hardy Heroni repode tasemele, kus on Firefox 3.0, KDE4 pakid jms. See käib õnneks suht lihtsalt. Nimelt /etc/apt/sources.lists failis vaja asendada “gutsy” stringiga “hardy” (välja arvatud Estobuntu repositoorium, millel on vaid gutsy kataloog praegu).

Uuendamise protseduur

Uuendamise käigus näitab ta et oma 800+ pakki on uuendada vaja ja asub kraami alla tirima isukalt.

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.lists /etc/apt/sources.lists.backup
kdesudo kate /etc/apt/sources.lists
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
shutdown -r now

Distro upgrade ajal tekkis minul probleem “locales”, “language-support-writing-et” ja “language-support-translations-en” pakkidega, mille puhul jäi dpkg ootama mingi tegevuse taha, mis lõppeda ei tahtnud.

Hädast aitas välja see, kui ma hakkasin tapma maha neid protsesse, mis tegelesid nende pakkide paigale sättimisega. Peale seda sai dist-upgrade-ga tehtav tegevuste jada edasi minna:

ps -ef | grep dpkg

Sealt siis protsessi ID ja

kill -6 <PID>

Üks võimalus on ka teha

sudo dpkg -r locales

ja siis pärast rebooti “locales” pakk paika installida. Ei ole vaja karta, et Estobuntu ilma selleta üles ei boodi. Tuleb üles ja seejärel on võimalus locales pakk uuesti installida.

sudo apt-get install locales
sudo apt-get autoremove

Pärast uuendust

• Töötab Kõu.

• Firefox ei ole enam tõlgitud, kuna vastavad pluginad ei ühildu tulirebase kolmanda versiooniga.

• ID-kaardi autentimine (PIN1) töötab veatult – proovisin Omnikey 1021 lugejaga. Sisenesin hansa.ee-sse ja emta.ee-sse probleemideta.

• ID-kaardi allkirjastamist (PIN2) tahtsin proovida https://digidoc.sk.ee -s, kuid sain dokumendi allkirjastamise peale teate “Teie arvutisse in vaja installeerida PKCS#11 ohjurprogramm!”, millepeale loobusin

Tegelikult ma ID-kaarti elektroonselt üldse ei kasuta enam, kuna mulle meeldib palju rohkem mobiili-ID, kuid huvi pärast proovisin ära. Pmst on minu jaoks olulisim omadus Kõu, mis võiks kõmada probleemivabalt. See, et eesti keel Tulirebasest ära kadus on ka nohu minu jaoks. Samas on selge, et Estobuntut ei saa sellisel kujul Hardy (8.04) repode peale viia, sest eesmärk on ju eestikeelne distro.

Digiallkirjastamist ma võibolla lihtsalt ei osanud testida korralikult ja see Digidoci veebirakendus ongi pisut vigane. Samas mulle meenub Sertifitseerimiskeskuse digitaalse identiteedi konverentsil kuuldu, et käimas olla miski riigihange, mis pidada Linuxi ja Maci tuge parandama. Räägiti Digidoci uuest formaadist ja Linuxi kliendist, seega “kui asi ei peagi nii töötama”, on vast ainus võimalus lihtsalt oodata.

Nagu Selver ees, nii Prisma järel. Huvitav, mille baasil Selver oma kilekotte teeb, sest mais on ju põllukultuuridest üks maad kurnavamaid.

Found a fun post about estonians from Kaur’s web (he found it from another site which he also links, but the link isn’t working anymore):

1. You use the word ‘normal’ if something is ok.
2. When visiting friends abroad you bring along a box of Kalev chocolate.
3. You attended a song festival at least once either as a performer or as a spectator.
4. You know that going to the sauna is 80% about networking and 20% about washing

5. You are nationalistic about Skype (it is actually an Estonian company)

6. ‘Kohuke’ belongs to your menu

7. You declare your taxes on the internet like all modern people
8. You actually believed for a while that Latvians had 6 toes per foot when you heard that as a child

9. You are convinced that Estonia is very strategically located
10. You spent at least one midsummer in Saaremaa, Hiiumaa or one of the smaller islands

11. You can quote films like “Viimne reliikvia” and “Siin me oleme”
12. You spit three times around your left shoulder for good luck
13. Words like “veoauto”, “täieõiguslik” or “jää-äär” sound perfectly pronouncable to you
14. You like bold statements, such as this one…

15. There can never be too much sarcasm
16. You can at times drink hot tea to hot food
17. You are disappointed that Jaan Kross never got the Nobel prize in literature
18. It would not be suprising for English-speakers to find your name
naughty (Peep, Tiit, Andres [sounds like undress]) or hippy (Rein, Rain)
19. You have been to Finland
20. You say ‘Noh’ (sounds like NO) even when you speak English, just to confuse people
21. You know the lyrics to “Mutionu” and “Rongisõit”
22. You would never mistaken Kreisiraadio for a radio station
23. You would agree that wife-carrying is a real sport (at least as long as Estonians are winning)
24. Your best friend’s girlfriend is your English teacher’s daughter
and they live next door to your grandparents, who were colleagues with
your advisor, who is friends with your…

25. You think that any beverage below 20% is non-alcoholic
26. You check the thermometer before going out

27. You look in both directions before crossing the road, even if it’s a one-way street
28. You grin very mysteriously when people ask about your national food

29. You teach a non-Estonian speaker the word “Tänan” before “Aitäh”
30. You put ketchup inside your pasta (french-cooked gourmet faire la
fine manger pasta) in order to not to get the ketchup-bowl dirty
31. You cheated on your wife/husband at least ten times but you still think you’re in a good marriage.

32. When someone asks you “where is Estonia?” you quickly reply that it’s located in Northern Europe close to Finland…
33. Your grandmother’s “purse” is an old plastic bag that has been reused several times
34. Sour cream tastes good with everything

35. A foreigner speaks to you in broken horrible Estonian and you go on
and on about how wonderful their Estonian is compared to “the Russians’”
36. You have ever worn or seen anyone wear “karupüksid”
37. You have heard the phrase “Estonians are slow” at least once
38. Kui sa saad aru, mis siia kirjutatud on

39. You find yourself continually ignoring the gender in other languages
40. You say ‘kurat’ as at least every second word
41. You consider running to the shop at 19.50 on Friday evening to buy some booze, a sport
42. You are a true Estonian when you come from Tallinn, because if you
are from Tallinn you think Tallinn IS Estonia and that’s true of course
that Tallinn is Estonia
43. When someone says “Estonians are so beautiful” you answer almost without emotions “I know”
44. You have tried to explain people that “kauboi” is actually a word in Estonian

45. You don’t think that terviSEKS is a funny word
46. You don’t find the Estonian equivalent to the expressions “twelve months”, “1002″ and “12 buses” remotely funny
47. Even though you never met Toots, Teele and Kiir you know exact what they are like

48. You grin when someone you know says that they bought a BMW
49. You know how to end the sentence “Kui Arno isaga koolimajja jõudis…”

A really innovative game on a tablet pc. The name’s Crayon Physics Deluxe. It’s a puzzle game in development. Looks cool, but I don’t think I’m going out to buy a tablet just for that. Fortunately, there are plenty of puzzle games for us non-stylus people. So I think it goes under the category “cool but otherwise useless stuff”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI

Cool article about the Matrix Trilogy, some speculation, some hypothesis, some explanation. The basic point I guess is that the writers can always write around little problems such as the death of main character (or in plural “characters”, as I discovered reading the article from the recap of Matrix Online). One way to go is to “deny everything” – never happened, why would you think of something like that?
http://www.the-trukstop.com/articles/2008/matrix.html

Little glitch in the Belgium’s Tax Office
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_%E2%82%AC883_Million_Overestimate.aspx

CeBIT started and one of the news from Endgadget is the Asus Eee PC 900. It has 8.9 inch screen (larger compared to current 7 inch screen) and of course all the “usual” Eee PC goodies – Solid State Drive and Xandros Linux preinstalled. I have to say, it looks like a cool gadget, but I’d perfer it with a bigger harddrive. I guess I’ll have to wait for a year or so. Moving parts in HDD are so 1950s – SSD is the future!
The idea comes from dukelupus (in Estonian)
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/hands-on-with-the-9-inch-eee-pc/

BBC World has a little video from Estonia. It’s not that cold outside, at least not always and not everyday, but it seems that they captured one of the cold days nicely
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7250000/newsid_7258200/7258220.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=54&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2#

It appears Finland is once again having their Eurovision a’la heavy metal. “Missä miehet ratsastaa”? One could translate it as “where the men ride their horses”? A stupid question, but a little suggestion – listen and wipe off that smirk from your face, it isn’t like english sounds much better with classic heavy metal vocals. One must give them credit as they at least try something different from the usual BS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0BiRGxCMMU

Kodak moment. Amazing footage straight from the land with no speedlimit – Germany, Frankfurt. Clearly they didn’t think it through as an Airbus almost crashes during the landing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J284VO_md_c

US scientists are wondering why US kids are so stupid. The main paragraph:
The Finns won attention with their performances in triennial tests sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group funded by 30 countries that monitors social and economic trends. In the most recent test, which focused on science, Finland’s students placed first in science and near the top in math and reading, according to results released late last year.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120425355065601997-7Bp8YFw7Yy1n9bdKtVyP7KBAcJA_20080330.html

Naelad ahju!
http://www.etv24.ee/index.php?06109203