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+ <title>Song book for Computer Scientists</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Song_book_for_Computer_Scientists.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Song_book_for_Computer_Scientists.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Many years ago, while studying Computer Science at the
+<a href="http://www.uit.no/">University of Tromsø</a>, I started
+collecting computer related songs for use at parties. The original
+version was written in LaTeX, but a few years ago I got help from
+Håkon W. Lie, one of the inventors of W3C CSS, to convert it to HTML
+while keeping the ability to create a nice book in PDF format. I have
+not had time to maintain the book for a while now, and guess I should
+put it up on some public version control repository where others can
+help me extend and update the book. If anyone is volunteering to help
+me with this, send me an email. Also let me know if there are songs
+missing in my book.</p>
+
+<p>I have not mentioned the book on my blog so far, and it occured to
+me today that I really should let all my readers share the joys of
+singing out load about programming, computers and computer networks.
+Especially now that <a href="http://debconf12.debconf.org/">Debconf
+12</a> is about to start (and I am not going). Want to sing? Check
+out <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/cs-songbook/">Petter's
+Computer Science Songbook</a>.
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Lovlig piratkopiering av den Østeriske landsbyen Hallstatt</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lovlig_piratkopiering_av_den__steriske_landsbyen_Hallstatt.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lovlig_piratkopiering_av_den__steriske_landsbyen_Hallstatt.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Det er gledelig å se at store norske redaksjoner nå omtaler lovlig
+virksomhet som piratkopiering, og slik bidrar til å ufarliggjøre
+uttrykket. Det kan bidra til at de som omtaler kundene sine som
+pirater og presser penger ut av dem får mindre støtte i befolkningen.
+De siste dagene har
+<a href="http://www.vg.no/reise/artikkel.php?artid=10050744">VG</a>
+(16. juni),
+<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Kina-kopierte-en-hel-osteriksk-alpelandsby-6847771.html#xtor=RSS-3">Aftenposten
+Utenriks</a> (11. juni),
+<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/reise/article4281102.ece">Aftenposten
+Reise</a> (22. juni),
+<a href="http://reise.adressa.no/reise/article4281102.ece">Adressseavisa</a>
+(22. juni) og
+<a href="http://reise.bt.no/reise/article4281102.ece">Bergens
+Tidene</a> (22. juni) fortalt om hvordan en utbygger i Kina har bygget
+en kopi av den Østeriske
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt">landsbyen
+Hallstatt</a> i Guangdong-provinsen rundt 60 kilometer nordøst for
+Hong Kong (i følge VG). Til og med
+<a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/06/22/0022251/china-pirates-austrian-village">Slashdot</a>
+har hatt en sak i dag i tillegg til en
+<a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/2332224/china-secretly-clones-austrian-village">for
+to uker siden</a> der de ikke brukte ordet piratkopiering.</p>
+
+<p>Jeg kjenner ikke opphavsrettslovene i Østerike og Kina, men for
+Norges del er hus i en by beskyttet i
+<a href="http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19610512-002.html">åndsverkloven</a>
+som "bygningskunst, så vel tegninger og modeller som selve byggverket"
+(§ 1 punkt 9). Vernetiden er hele opphavsmannens (dvs. arkitektens)
+levetid og 70 år etter utløpet av hans dødsår. Det betyr at kun hus
+tegnet av arkitekter som døde etter 1942 er vernet av
+åndsverkloven.</p>
+
+<p>Hallstatt står på
+<a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/806/">UNESCOs
+verdensarvliste</a> pga. gamle hus og lang historie. Jeg har ikke
+klart å finne kilde til hvem som har tegnet husene, men gitt at de ble
+bygget før midten av 1800-tallet, er de ikke lenger beskyttet av
+åndsverkloven og enhver kan lovlig lage kopier av husene hvor de
+vil.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
<item>
<title>Trenger en avtale med MPEG-LA for å publisere og kringkaste H.264-video?</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trenger_en_avtale_med_MPEG_LA_for___publisere_og_kringkaste_H_264_video_.html</link>
problemstilling. Men jeg tenkte her om dagen som så, at hvis det er
nødvendig, så har store aktører som
<a href="http://www.nrk.no/">NRK</a> og
-<a href="http://www.regjerningen.no/">regjeringen</a> skaffet seg en
+<a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/">regjeringen</a> skaffet seg en
slik avtale. Jeg har derfor sendt forespørsel til begge (for
regjeringen sin del er det Departementenes Servicesenter som gjør
jobben), og bedt om kopi av eventuelle avtaler de har om bruk av MPEG
</description>
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- <item>
- <title>Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
-mailing list. He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
-thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
-Squeeze</a> version.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
-Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
-(Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
-by Angela).</p>
-
-<p>During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
-and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
-touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
-the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
-becoming an osteopath.</p>
-
-<p>Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
-have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
-introducing free software into schools. The project's name is
-"IT-Zukunft Schule" (IT future for schools). The project links IT
-skills with communication skills.</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
-"IT-Zukunft Schule" we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
-reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
-people said. From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
-distributions that target being used for school networks.</p>
-
-<p>At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
-commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
-Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
-went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
-and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
-got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
-attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
-the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.</p>
-
-<p>In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
-people. People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
-protection experts, other IT professionals.</p>
-
-<p>We came to two conclusions:</p>
-
-<p>First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
-bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
-by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
-whereas most of each school's requirements could mapped by a standard
-IT solution. The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
-customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
-possible. In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
-standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
-degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
-locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
-point.</p>
-
-<p>Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
-all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
-for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
-has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
-of people into using IT and teaching with IT. "IT-Zukunft Schule"
-tries to provide an approach for this.</p>
-
-<p>Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
-defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
-Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school's IT
-equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
-teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
-spare time.</p>
-
-<p>We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
-networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
-here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
-teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
-non-existent until 2010/2011.</p>
-
-<p>Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
-class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
-avoidance do exist.</p>
-
-<p>We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
-social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
-for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
-several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
-they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
-at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
-and probably a gain for all.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
-any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
-the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
-workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
-project communication, honest communication within the group of
-developers, etc.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Every coin has two sides:</p>
-
-<p>Technically: <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/311188">BTS issue
-#311188</a>, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
-client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
-should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
-about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
-several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
-contribute).</p>
-
-<p>Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
-find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
-Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
-promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
-there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
-these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
-all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
-meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
-there being rather disconnected from the development department of
-Debian Edu / Skolelinux.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.</p>
-
-<p>For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
-serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
-more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.</p>
-
-<p>I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
-development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
-PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
-is being integrated in Ubuntu's software center.</p>
-
-<p>For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
-as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
-I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
-the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
-whiteboard.</p>
-
-<p>My favourite terminal emulator is KDE's Yakuake.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
-enrol people.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>SOAP based webservice from Dell to check server support status</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>A few years ago I wrote
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html">how
-to extract support status</a> for your Dell and HP servers. Recently
-I have learned from colleges here at the
-<a href="http://www.uio.no/">University of Oslo</a> that Dell have
-made this even easier, by providing a SOAP based web service. Given
-the service tag, one can now query the Dell servers and get machine
-readable information about the support status. This perl code
-demonstrate how to do it:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-use strict;
-use warnings;
-use SOAP::Lite;
-use Data::Dumper;
-my $GUID = '11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111';
-my $App = 'test';
-my $servicetag = $ARGV[0] or die "Please supply a servicetag. $!\n";
-my ($deal, $latest, @dates);
-my $s = SOAP::Lite
- -> uri('http://support.dell.com/WebServices/')
- -> on_action( sub { join '', @_ } )
- -> proxy('http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx')
- ;
-my $a = $s->GetAssetInformation(
- SOAP::Data->name('guid')->value($GUID)->type(''),
- SOAP::Data->name('applicationName')->value($App)->type(''),
- SOAP::Data->name('serviceTags')->value($servicetag)->type(''),
-);
-print Dumper($a -> result) ;
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>The output can look like this:</p>
-
-<p><pre>
-$VAR1 = {
- 'Asset' => {
- 'Entitlements' => {
- 'EntitlementData' => [
- {
- 'EntitlementType' => 'Expired',
- 'EndDate' => '2009-07-29T00:00:00',
- 'Provider' => '',
- 'StartDate' => '2006-07-29T00:00:00',
- 'DaysLeft' => '0'
- },
- {
- 'EntitlementType' => 'Expired',
- 'EndDate' => '2009-07-29T00:00:00',
- 'Provider' => '',
- 'StartDate' => '2006-07-29T00:00:00',
- 'DaysLeft' => '0'
- },
- {
- 'EntitlementType' => 'Expired',
- 'EndDate' => '2007-07-29T00:00:00',
- 'Provider' => '',
- 'StartDate' => '2006-07-29T00:00:00',
- 'DaysLeft' => '0'
- }
- ]
- },
- 'AssetHeaderData' => {
- 'SystemModel' => 'GX620',
- 'ServiceTag' => '8DSGD2J',
- 'SystemShipDate' => '2006-07-29T19:00:00-05:00',
- 'Buid' => '2323',
- 'Region' => 'Europe',
- 'SystemID' => 'PLX_GX620',
- 'SystemType' => 'OptiPlex'
- }
- }
- };
-</pre></p>
-
-<p>I have not been able to find any documentation from Dell about this
-service outside the
-<a href="http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx?op=GetAssetInformation">inline
-documentation</a>, and according to
-<a href="http://iboyd.net/index.php/2012/02/14/updated-dell-warranty-information-script/">one
-comment</a> it can have stability issues, but it is a lot better than
-scraping HTML pages. :)</p>
-
-<p>Wonder if HP and other server vendors have a similar service. If
-you know of one, drop me an email. :)</p>
-</description>
- </item>
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