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- <title>A Debian package for SMTP via Tor (aka SMTorP) using exim4</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Debian_package_for_SMTP_via_Tor__aka_SMTorP__using_exim4.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Debian_package_for_SMTP_via_Tor__aka_SMTorP__using_exim4.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The right to communicate with your friends and family in private,
-without anyone snooping, is a right every citicen have in a liberal
-democracy. But this right is under serious attack these days.</p>
-
-<p>A while back it occurred to me that one way to make the dragnet
-surveillance conducted by NSA, GCHQ, FRA and others (and confirmed by
-the whisleblower Snowden) more expensive for Internet email,
-is to deliver all email using SMTP via Tor. Such SMTP option would be
-a nice addition to the FreedomBox project if we could send email
-between FreedomBox machines without leaking metadata about the emails
-to the people peeking on the wire. I
-<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2014-October/006493.html">proposed
-this on the FreedomBox project mailing list in October</a> and got a
-lot of useful feedback and suggestions. It also became obvious to me
-that this was not a novel idea, as the same idea was tested and
-documented by Johannes Berg as early as 2006, and both
-<a href="https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/wiki/SMTorP">the
-Mailpile</a> and <a href="http://dee.su/cables">the Cables</a> systems
-propose a similar method / protocol to pass emails between users.</p>
-
-<p>To implement such system one need to set up a Tor hidden service
-providing the SMTP protocol on port 25, and use email addresses
-looking like username@hidden-service-name.onion. With such addresses
-the connections to port 25 on hidden-service-name.onion using Tor will
-go to the correct SMTP server. To do this, one need to configure the
-Tor daemon to provide the hidden service and the mail server to accept
-emails for this .onion domain. To learn more about Exim configuration
-in Debian and test the design provided by Johannes Berg in his FAQ, I
-set out yesterday to create a Debian package for making it trivial to
-set up such SMTP over Tor service based on Debian. Getting it to work
-were fairly easy, and
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/exim4-smtorp">the
-source code for the Debian package</a> is available from github. I
-plan to move it into Debian if further testing prove this to be a
-useful approach.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to test this, set up a blank Debian machine without any
-mail system installed (or run <tt>apt-get purge exim4-config</tt> to
-get rid of exim4). Install tor, clone the git repository mentioned
-above, build the deb and install it on the machine. Next, run
-<tt>/usr/lib/exim4-smtorp/setup-exim-hidden-service</tt> and follow
-the instructions to get the service up and running. Restart tor and
-exim when it is done, and test mail delivery using swaks like
-this:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-torsocks swaks --server dutlqrrmjhtfa3vp.onion \
- --to fbx@dutlqrrmjhtfa3vp.onion
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>This will test the SMTP delivery using tor. Replace the email
-address with your own address to test your server. :)</p>
-
-<p>The setup procedure is still to complex, and I hope it can be made
-easier and more automatic. Especially the tor setup need more work.
-Also, the package include a tor-smtp tool written in C, but its task
-should probably be rewritten in some script language to make the deb
-architecture independent. It would probably also make the code easier
-to review. The tor-smtp tool currently need to listen on a socket for
-exim to talk to it and is started using xinetd. It would be better if
-no daemon and no socket is needed. I suspect it is possible to get
-exim to run a command line tool for delivery instead of talking to a
-socket, and hope to figure out how in a future version of this
-system.</p>
-
-<p>Until I wipe my test machine, I can be reached using the
-<tt>fbx@dutlqrrmjhtfa3vp.onion</tt> mail address, deliverable over
-SMTorP. :)</p>
+ <title>French edition of Lawrence Lessigs book Cultura Libre on Amazon and Barnes & Noble</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_edition_of_Lawrence_Lessigs_book_Cultura_Libre_on_Amazon_and_Barnes___Noble.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2016 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>A few weeks ago the French paperback edition of Lawrence Lessigs
+2004 book Cultura Libre was published. Today I noticed that the book
+is now available from book stores. You can now buy it from
+<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Libre-French-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018260">Amazon</a>
+($19.99),
+<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/culture-libre-lawrence-lessig/1123776705">Barnes
+& Noble</a> ($?) and as always from
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">Lulu.com</a>
+($19.99). The revenue is donated to the Creative Commons project. If
+you buy from Lulu.com, they currently get $10.59, while if you buy
+from one of the book stores most of the revenue go to the book store
+and the Creative Commons project get much (not sure how much
+less).</p>
+
+<p>I was a bit surprised to discover that there is a kindle edition
+sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC on Amazon. Not quite sure how
+that edition was created, but if you want to download a electronic
+edition (PDF, EPUB, Mobi) generated from the same files used to create
+the paperback edition, they are
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">available
+from github</a>.</p>
</description>
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- <title>First Jessie based Debian Edu released (alpha0)</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_released__alpha0_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_released__alpha0_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>I am happy to report that I on behalf of the Debian Edu team just
-sent out
-<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2014/10/msg00000.html">this
-announcement</a>:</p>
-
-<pre>
-The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu
-Jessie 8.0+edu0~alpha0
-
-Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its
-various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations
-and laptops which will work together on the school network. With
-Debian Edu, the teachers themselves or their technical support can
-roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within
-hours or a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications
-pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from Debian.
-
-For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and
-installation instructions are available, including detailed
-instructions in the manual[1] explaining the first steps, such as
-setting up a network or adding users. Please note that the password
-for the user your prompted for during installation must have a length
-of at least 5 characters!
-
- [1] &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie</a> &gt;
-
-Would you like to give your school's computer a longer life? Are you
-tired of sneaker administration, running from computer to computer
-reinstalling the operating system? Would you like to administrate all
-the computers in your school using only a couple of hours every week?
-Check out Debian Edu Jessie!
-
-Skolelinux is used by at least two hundred schools all over the world,
-mostly in Germany and Norway.
-
-About Debian Edu and Skolelinux
-===============================
-
-Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux[2], is a Linux distribution based
-on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
-configured school network. Immediately 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 or USB stick all other
-machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
-provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
-centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
-services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
-packages[3] and more are available from the Debian archive, and
-schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop
-environment.
-
- [2] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">http://www.skolelinux.org/</a> &gt;
- [3] &lt;URL: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html</a> &gt;
-
-Full release notes and manual
-=============================
-
-Below the download URLs there is a list of some of the new features
-and bugfixes of Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie. The full
-list is part of the manual. (See the feature list in the manual[4] for
-the English version.) For some languages manual translations are
-available, see the manual translation overview[5].
-
- [4] &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features</a> &gt;
- [5] &lt;URL: <a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/">http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/</a> &gt;
-
-Where to get it
----------------
-
-To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (624 MiB) you can use
-
- * <a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso</a>
- * <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso</a>
- * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso .
-
-The SHA1SUM of this image is: 361188818e036ce67280a572f757de82ebfeb095
-
-New features for Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie released 2014-10-27
-===============================================================================
-
-
-Installation changes
---------------------
-
- * PXE installation now installs firmware automatically for the hardware present.
-
-Software updates
-----------------
-
-Everything which is new in Debian Jessie 8.0, eg:
-
- * Linux kernel 3.16.x
- * Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.11.12, GNOME 3.14, Xfce 4.10,
- LXDE 0.5.6 and MATE 1.8 (KDE "Plasma" is installed by default; to
- choose one of the others see manual.)
- * the browsers Iceweasel 31 ESR and Chromium 38
- * !LibreOffice 4.3.3
- * GOsa 2.7.4
- * LTSP 5.5.4
- * CUPS print system 1.7.5
- * new boot framework: systemd
- * Educational toolbox GCompris 14.07
- * Music creator Rosegarden 14.02
- * Image editor Gimp 2.8.14
- * Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.13.0
- * golearn 0.9
- * tuxpaint 0.9.22
- * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie.
- * Debian Jessie includes about 42000 packages available for
- installation.
- * More information about Debian Jessie 8.0 is provided in the release
- notes[6] and the installation manual[7].
-
- [6] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes">http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes</a> &gt;
- [7] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual">http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual</a> &gt;
-
-Fixed bugs
-----------
-
- * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break
- DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect
- information is corrected (Debian bug #710362)
- * and many others.
-
-Documentation and translation updates
--------------------------------------
-
- * The Debian Edu Jessie Manual is fully translated to German, French,
- Italian, Danish and Dutch. Partly translated versions exist for
- Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.
-
-Other changes
--------------
-
- * Due to new Squid settings, powering off or rebooting the main
- server takes more time.
- * To manage printers localhost:631 has to be used, currently www:631
- doesn't work.
-
-Regressions / known problems
-----------------------------
-
- * Installing LTSP chroot fails with a bug related to eatmydata about
- exim4-config failing to run its postinst (see Debian bug #765694
- and Debian bug #762103).
- * Munin collection is not properly configured on clients (Debian bug
- #764594). The fix is available in a newer version of munin-node.
- * PXE setup for Main Server and Thin Client Server setup does not
- work when installing on a machine without direct Internet access.
- Will be fixed when Debian bug #766960 is fixed in Jessie.
-
-See the status page[8] for the complete list.
-
- [8] &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie</a> &gt;
-
-How to report bugs
-------------------
-
-&lt;URL: <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a> &gt;
-
-About Debian
-============
-
-The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
-free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
-the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
-volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
-maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a
-huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal
-operating system.
-
-Contact Information
-For further information, please visit the Debian web pages[9] or send
-mail to press@debian.org.
-
- [9] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.debian.org/">http://www.debian.org/</a> &gt;
-</pre>
+ <title>I want the courts to be involved before the police can hijack a news site DNS domain (#domstolkontroll)</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_want_the_courts_to_be_involved_before_the_police_can_hijack_a_news_site_DNS_domain___domstolkontroll_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2016 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I just donated to the
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">NUUG defence
+"fond"</a> to fund the effort in Norway to get the seizure of the news
+site popcorn-time.no tested in court. I hope everyone that agree with
+me will do the same.</p>
+
+<p>Would you be worried if you knew the police in your country could
+hijack DNS domains of news sites covering free software system without
+talking to a judge first? I am. What if the free software system
+combined search engine lookups, bittorrent downloads and video playout
+and was called Popcorn Time? Would that affect your view? It still
+make me worried.</p>
+
+<p>In March 2016, the Norwegian police seized (as in forced NORID to
+change the IP address pointed to by it to one controlled by the
+police) the DNS domain popcorn-time.no, without any supervision from
+the courts. I did not know about the web site back then, and assumed
+the courts had been involved, and was very surprised when I discovered
+that the police had hijacked the DNS domain without asking a judge for
+permission first. I was even more surprised when I had a look at
+<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://popcorn-time.no">the web
+site content on the Internet Archive</A>, and only found news coverage
+about Popcorn Time, not any material published without the right
+holders permissions.</p>
+
+<p>The seizure was widely covered in the Norwegian press (see for
+example <a href="http://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Naeringsliv/2016/03/Popcorn-time.no-beslaglagt-av-OEkokrim">Hegnar Online</a> and
+<a href="http://itavisen.no/2016/03/08/okokrim-har-beslaglagt-popcorn-time-no/">ITavisen<a/>
+and
+<a href="http://www.nrk.no/kultur/okokrim-gar-til-aksjon-mot-popcorn-time-1.12842452">NRK</a>),
+at first due to the press release sent out by Økokrim, but then based
+on
+<a href="http://blogg.torvund.net/2016/03/09/okokrims-beslag-i-domenet-popcorn-time-no/">protests
+from the law professor Olav Torvund</a> and
+<a href="http://www.klassekampen.no/article/20160311/ARTICLE/160319995">lawyer
+Jon Wessel-Aas</a>. It even got some
+<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-authorities-sued-over-popcorn-time-domain-seizure-160418/">coverage
+on TorrentFreak</a>.</p>
+
+<p>I
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html">
+wrote about the case a month ago</a>, when the
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> (NUUG),
+where I am an active member, decided to ask the courts to test this seizure.
+The request was denied, but NUUG and its co-requestor EFN have not
+given up, and now they are rallying for support to get the seizure
+legally challenged. They accept both bank and Bitcoin transfer for
+those that want to support the request.</p>
+
+<p>If you as me believe news sites about free software should not be
+censored, even if the free software have both legal and illegal
+applications, and that DNS hijacking should be tested by the courts, I
+suggest you <a href="http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml">show
+your support by donating to NUUG</a>.</a>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>I spent last weekend recording MakerCon Nordic</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_spent_last_weekend_recording_MakerCon_Nordic.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_spent_last_weekend_recording_MakerCon_Nordic.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I spent last weekend at <a href="http://www.makercon.no/">Makercon
-Nordic</a>, a great conference and workshop for makers in Norway and
-the surrounding countries. I had volunteered on behalf of the
-Norwegian Unix Users Group (NUUG) to video record the talks, and we
-had a great and exhausting time recording the entire day, two days in
-a row. There were only two of us, Hans-Petter and me, and we used the
-regular video equipment for NUUG, with a
-<a href="http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/wiki/">dvswitch</a>, a
-camera and a VGA to DV convert box, and mixed video and slides
-live.</p>
-
-<p>Hans-Petter did the post-processing, consisting of uploading the
-around 180 GiB of raw video to Youtube, and the result is
-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/">now becoming
-public</a> on the MakerConNordic account. The videos have the license
-NUUG always use on our recordings, which is
-<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/">Creative
-Commons Navngivelse-Del på samme vilkår 3.0 Norge</a>. Many great
-talks available. Check it out! :)</p>
+ <title>Debian now with ZFS on Linux included</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_now_with_ZFS_on_Linux_included.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2016 07:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Today, after many years of hard work from many people,
+<a href="http://zfsonlinux.org/">ZFS for Linux</a> finally entered
+Debian. The package status can be seen on
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux">the package tracker
+for zfs-linux</a>. and
+<a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
+team status page</a>. If you want to help out, please join us.
+<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git">The
+source code</a> is available via git on Alioth. It would also be
+great if you could help out with
+<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dkms">the dkms package</a>, as
+it is an important piece of the puzzle to get ZFS working.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>listadmin, the quick way to moderate mailman lists - nice free software</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/listadmin__the_quick_way_to_moderate_mailman_lists___nice_free_software.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/listadmin__the_quick_way_to_moderate_mailman_lists___nice_free_software.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>If you ever had to moderate a mailman list, like the ones on
-alioth.debian.org, you know the web interface is fairly slow to
-operate. First you visit one web page, enter the moderation password
-and get a new page shown with a list of all the messages to moderate
-and various options for each email address. This take a while for
-every list you moderate, and you need to do it regularly to do a good
-job as a list moderator. But there is a quick alternative,
-<a href="http://heim.ifi.uio.no/kjetilho/hacks/#listadmin">the
-listadmin program</a>. It allow you to check lists for new messages
-to moderate in a fraction of a second. Here is a test run on two
-lists I recently took over:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-% time listadmin xiph
-fetching data for pkg-xiph-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org ... nothing in queue
-fetching data for pkg-xiph-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org ... nothing in queue
-
-real 0m1.709s
-user 0m0.232s
-sys 0m0.012s
-%
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>In 1.7 seconds I had checked two mailing lists and confirmed that
-there are no message in the moderation queue. Every morning I
-currently moderate 68 mailman lists, and it normally take around two
-minutes. When I took over the two pkg-xiph lists above a few days
-ago, there were 400 emails waiting in the moderator queue. It took me
-less than 15 minutes to process them all using the listadmin
-program.</p>
-
-<p>If you install
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/listadmin">the listadmin
-package</a> from Debian and create a file <tt>~/.listadmin.ini</tt>
-with content like this, the moderation task is a breeze:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-username username@example.org
-spamlevel 23
-default discard
-discard_if_reason "Posting restricted to members only. Remove us from your mail list."
-
-password secret
-adminurl https://{domain}/mailman/admindb/{list}
-mailman-list@lists.example.com
-
-password hidden
-other-list@otherserver.example.org
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>There are other options to set as well. Check the manual page to
-learn the details.</p>
-
-<p>If you are forced to moderate lists on a mailman installation where
-the SSL certificate is self signed or not properly signed by a
-generally accepted signing authority, you can set a environment
-variable when calling listadmin to disable SSL verification:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 listadmin
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>If you want to moderate a subset of the lists you take care of, you
-can provide an argument to the listadmin script like I do in the
-initial screen dump (the xiph argument). Using an argument, only
-lists matching the argument string will be processed. This make it
-quick to accept messages if you notice the moderation request in your
-email.</p>
-
-<p>Without the listadmin program, I would never be the moderator of 68
-mailing lists, as I simply do not have time to spend on that if the
-process was any slower. The listadmin program have saved me hours of
-time I could spend elsewhere over the years. It truly is nice free
-software.</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>
-
-<p>Update 2014-10-27: Added missing 'username' statement in
-configuration example. Also, I've been told that the
-PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 setting do not work for everyone. Not
-sure why.</p>
+ <title>What is the best multimedia player in Debian?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_is_the_best_multimedia_player_in_Debian_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2016 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p><strong>Where I set out to figure out which multimedia player in
+Debian claim support for most file formats.</strong></p>
+
+<p>A few years ago, I had a look at the media support for Browser
+plugins in Debian, to get an idea which plugins to include in Debian
+Edu. I created a script to extract the set of supported MIME types
+for each plugin, and used this to find out which multimedia browser
+plugin supported most file formats / media types.
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">The
+result</a> can still be seen on the Debian wiki, even though it have
+not been updated for a while. But browser plugins are less relevant
+these days, so I thought it was time to look at standalone
+players.</p>
+
+<p>A few days ago I was tired of VLC not being listed as a viable
+player when I wanted to play videos from the Norwegian National
+Broadcasting Company, and decided to investigate why. The cause is a
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/822245">missing MIME type in the VLC
+desktop file</a>. In the process I wrote a script to compare the set
+of MIME types announced in the desktop file and the browser plugin,
+only to discover that there is quite a large difference between the
+two for VLC. This discovery made me dig up the script I used to
+compare browser plugins, and adjust it to compare desktop files
+instead, to try to figure out which multimedia player in Debian
+support most file formats.</p>
+
+<p>The result can be seen on the Debian Wiki, as
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/PlayerSupport">a
+table listing all MIME types supported by one of the packages included
+in the table</a>, with the package supporting most MIME types being
+listed first in the table.</p>
+
+</p>The best multimedia player in Debian? It is totem, followed by
+parole, kplayer, mpv, vlc, smplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mpv and
+kmplayer. Time for the other players to update their announced MIME
+support?</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Debian Jessie, PXE and automatic firmware installation</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Jessie__PXE_and_automatic_firmware_installation.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Jessie__PXE_and_automatic_firmware_installation.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>When PXE installing laptops with Debian, I often run into the
-problem that the WiFi card require some firmware to work properly.
-And it has been a pain to fix this using preseeding in Debian.
-Normally something more is needed. But thanks to
-<a href="https://packages.qa.debian.org/i/isenkram.html">my isenkram
-package</a> and its recent tasksel extension, it has now become easy
-to do this using simple preseeding.</p>
-
-<p>The isenkram-cli package provide tasksel tasks which will install
-firmware for the hardware found in the machine (actually, requested by
-the kernel modules for the hardware). (It can also install user space
-programs supporting the hardware detected, but that is not the focus
-of this story.)</p>
-
-<p>To get this working in the default installation, two preeseding
-values are needed. First, the isenkram-cli package must be installed
-into the target chroot (aka the hard drive) before tasksel is executed
-in the pkgsel step of the debian-installer system. This is done by
-preseeding the base-installer/includes debconf value to include the
-isenkram-cli package. The package name is next passed to debootstrap
-for installation. With the isenkram-cli package in place, tasksel
-will automatically use the isenkram tasks to detect hardware specific
-packages for the machine being installed and install them, because
-isenkram-cli contain tasksel tasks.</p>
-
-<p>Second, one need to enable the non-free APT repository, because
-most firmware unfortunately is non-free. This is done by preseeding
-the apt-mirror-setup step. This is unfortunate, but for a lot of
-hardware it is the only option in Debian.</p>
-
-<p>The end result is two lines needed in your preseeding file to get
-firmware installed automatically by the installer:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-base-installer base-installer/includes string isenkram-cli
-apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/non-free boolean true
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The current version of isenkram-cli in testing/jessie will install
-both firmware and user space packages when using this method. It also
-do not work well, so use version 0.15 or later. Installing both
-firmware and user space packages might give you a bit more than you
-want, so I decided to split the tasksel task in two, one for firmware
-and one for user space programs. The firmware task is enabled by
-default, while the one for user space programs is not. This split is
-implemented in the package currently in unstable.</p>
-
-<p>If you decide to give this a go, please let me know (via email) how
-this recipe work for you. :)</p>
-
-<p>So, I bet you are wondering, how can this work. First and
-foremost, it work because tasksel is modular, and driven by whatever
-files it find in /usr/lib/tasksel/ and /usr/share/tasksel/. So the
-isenkram-cli package place two files for tasksel to find. First there
-is the task description file (/usr/share/tasksel/descs/isenkram.desc):</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-Task: isenkram-packages
-Section: hardware
-Description: Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram)
- Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific packages are
- proposed.
-Test-new-install: show show
-Relevance: 8
-Packages: for-current-hardware
-
-Task: isenkram-firmware
-Section: hardware
-Description: Hardware specific firmware packages (autodetected by isenkram)
- Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific firmware
- packages are proposed.
-Test-new-install: mark show
-Relevance: 8
-Packages: for-current-hardware-firmware
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>The key parts are Test-new-install which indicate how the task
-should be handled and the Packages line referencing to a script in
-/usr/lib/tasksel/packages/. The scripts use other scripts to get a
-list of packages to install. The for-current-hardware-firmware script
-look like this to list relevant firmware for the machine:
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH
-export PATH
-isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>With those two pieces in place, the firmware is installed by
-tasksel during the normal d-i run. :)</p>
-
-<p>If you want to test what tasksel will install when isenkram-cli is
-installed, run <tt>DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical tasksel --test
---new-install</tt> to get the list of packages that tasksel would
-install.</p>
-
-<p><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/">Debian Edu</a> will be
-pilots in testing this feature, as isenkram is used there now to
-install firmware, replacing the earlier scripts.</p>
+ <title>The Pyra - handheld computer with Debian preinstalled</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Pyra___handheld_computer_with_Debian_preinstalled.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description>A friend of mine made me aware of
+<a href="https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/">The Pyra</a>, a
+handheld computer which will be delivered with Debian preinstalled. I
+would love to get one of those for my birthday. :)</p>
+
+<p>The machine is a complete ARM-based PC with micro HDMI, SATA, USB
+plugs and many others connectors, and include a full keyboard and a 5"
+LCD touch screen. The 6000mAh battery is claimed to provide a whole
+day of battery life time, but I have not seen any independent tests
+confirming this. The vendor is still collecting preorders, and the
+last I heard last night was that 22 more orders were needed before
+production started.</p>
+
+<p>As far as I know, this is the first handheld preinstalled with
+Debian. Please let me know if you know of any others. Is it the
+first computer being sold with Debian preinstalled?</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Ubuntu used to show the bread prizes at ICA Storo</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ubuntu_used_to_show_the_bread_prizes_at_ICA_Storo.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ubuntu_used_to_show_the_bread_prizes_at_ICA_Storo.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Today I came across an unexpected Ubuntu boot screen. Above the
-bread shelf on the ICA shop at Storo in Oslo, the grub menu of Ubuntu
-with Linux kernel 3.2.0-23 (ie probably version 12.04 LTS) was stuck
-on a screen normally showing the bread types and prizes:</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2014-10-04-ubuntu-ica-storo-crop.jpeg"></p>
-
-<p>If it had booted as it was supposed to, I would never had known
-about this hidden Linux installation. It is interesting what
-<a href="http://revealingerrors.com/">errors can reveal</a>.</p>
+ <title>NUUG contests Norwegian police DNS seizure of popcorn-time.no</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_contests_Norwegian_police_DNS_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>It is days like today I am really happy to be a member of
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">the Norwegian Unix User group</a>, a
+member association for those of us believing in free software, open
+standards and unix-like operating systems. NUUG announced today it
+will
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Pressemelding__NUUG_og_EFN_begj_rer_rettslig_pr_ving_for_DNS_domenebeslag_av_popcorn_time_no.shtml">try
+to bring the seizure of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no as
+unlawful</a>, to stand up for the principle that writing about a
+controversial topic is not infringing copyrights, and censuring web
+pages by hijacking DNS domain should be decided by the courts, not the
+police. The DNS domain was seized by the Norwegian National Authority
+for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime
+a month ago. I hope this bring more paying members to NUUG to give
+the association the financial muscle needed to bring this case as far
+as it must go to stop this kind of DNS hijacking.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>New lsdvd release version 0.17 is ready</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_lsdvd_release_version_0_17_is_ready.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_lsdvd_release_version_0_17_is_ready.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 4 Oct 2014 08:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/">lsdvd project</a>
-got a new set of developers a few weeks ago, after the original
-developer decided to step down and pass the project to fresh blood.
-This project is now maintained by Petter Reinholdtsen and Steve
-Dibb.</p>
-
-<p>I just wrapped up
-<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/mailman/message/32896061/">a
-new lsdvd release</a>, available in git or from
-<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/files/lsdvd/">the
-download page</a>. This is the changelog dated 2014-10-03 for version
-0.17.</p>
+ <title>Ny utgave (v2.2) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_2__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I dag tok jeg mot til meg og pakket sammen en ny versjon av den
+frie norske stavekontrollen, ca. tre og et halvt år etter forrige
+gang. Resultatet kan lastes ned fra
+<a href="http://no.speling.org/">no.speling.org-prosjeksiden</a>, både
+som kildekodepakke og som "pack"-fil som kanskje fortsatt kan brukes
+av OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice. Byggesystemet trenger oppussing, men i
+denne omgang hadde jeg bare tid til å fikse byggefeil forårsaket av
+endringer i GNU grep. De øvrige endringene var gjort tidligere i
+påvente av en ny utgave.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Her er det som er nytt (fra NEWS-fila i
+kildekodepakken):</strong></p>
+
+<p>Release 2.2 (2016-04-15)</p>
<ul>
- <li>Ignore 'phantom' audio, subtitle tracks</li>
- <li>Check for garbage in the program chains, which indicate that a track is
- non-existant, to work around additional copy protection</li>
- <li>Fix displaying content type for audio tracks, subtitles</li>
- <li>Fix pallete display of first entry</li>
- <li>Fix include orders</li>
- <li>Ignore read errors in titles that would not be displayed anyway</li>
- <li>Fix the chapter count</li>
- <li>Make sure the array size and the array limit used when initialising
- the palette size is the same.</li>
- <li>Fix array printing.</li>
- <li>Correct subsecond calculations.</li>
- <li>Add sector information to the output format.</li>
- <li>Clean up code to be closer to ANSI C and compile without warnings
- with more GCC compiler warnings.</li>
+ <li>Rewrite how scripts/speling2words handle tripple consonants, to
+ avoid importing duplicate words from no.speling.org, and getting
+ rid of the existing duplicates in norsk.words.</li>
+ <li>Remove duplicate entries with tripple consonants from norsk.words.</li>
+ <li>Update frequency for entries in norsk.words based on
+ <URL:http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/nta/ordlistf.zip> (ran 'make
+ freq-update').</li>
+ <li>Correct nn ispell build, avoid crash in munchlist causing lots of
+ words to fall out of the database.</li>
+ <li>Use grep -a to convince grep it is working on text files, to work
+ with newer grep versions.</li>
+
+ <li>Remove some words disputed in the no.speling.org review process:
+ <ul>
+ <li>apparent (nb)</li>
+ <li>likke (nb)</li>
+ <li>ugjest, ugjesten, ugjestens (nb)</li>
+ </ul></li>
</ul>
-
-<p>This change bring together patches for lsdvd in use in various
-Linux and Unix distributions, as well as patches submitted to the
-project the last nine years. Please check it out. :)</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>How to test Debian Edu Jessie despite some fatal problems with the installer</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_Debian_Edu_Jessie_despite_some_fatal_problems_with_the_installer.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_test_Debian_Edu_Jessie_despite_some_fatal_problems_with_the_installer.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-project</a> provide a Linux solution for schools, including a
-powerful desktop with education software, a central server providing
-web pages, user database, user home directories, central login and PXE
-boot of both clients without disk and the installation to install Debian
-Edu on machines with disk (and a few other services perhaps to small
-to mention here). We in the Debian Edu team are currently working on
-the Jessie based version, trying to get everything in shape before the
-freeze, to avoid having to maintain our own package repository in the
-future. The
-<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie">current
-status</a> can be seen on the Debian wiki, and there is still heaps of
-work left. Some fatal problems block testing, breaking the installer,
-but it is possible to work around these to get anyway. Here is a
-recipe on how to get the installation limping along.</p>
-
-<p>First, download the test ISO via
-<a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso">ftp</a>,
-<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.no/cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso">http</a>
-or rsync (use
-ftp.skolelinux.org::cd-edu-testing-nolocal-netinst/debian-edu-amd64-i386-NETINST-1.iso).
-The ISO build was broken on Tuesday, so we do not get a new ISO every
-12 hours or so, but thankfully the ISO we already got we are able to
-install with some tweaking.</p>
-
-<p>When you get to the Debian Edu profile question, go to tty2
-(use Alt-Ctrl-F2), run</p>
-
-<p><blockquote><pre>
-nano /usr/bin/edu-eatmydata-install
-</pre></blockquote></p>
-
-<p>and add 'exit 0' as the second line, disabling the eatmydata
-optimization. Return to the installation, select the profile you want
-and continue. Without this change, exim4-config will fail to install
-due to a known bug in eatmydata.</p>
-
-<p>When you get the grub question at the end, answer /dev/sda (or if
-this do not work, figure out what your correct value would be. All my
-test machines need /dev/sda, so I have no advice if it do not fit
-your need.</p>
-
-<p>If you installed a profile including a graphical desktop, log in as
-root after the initial boot from hard drive, and install the
-education-desktop-XXX metapackage. XXX can be kde, gnome, lxde, xfce
-or mate. If you want several desktop options, install more than one
-metapackage. Once this is done, reboot and you should have a working
-graphical login screen. This workaround should no longer be needed
-once the education-tasks package version 1.801 enter testing in two
-days.</p>
-
-<p>I believe the ISO build will start working on two days when the new
-tasksel package enter testing and Steve McIntyre get a chance to
-update the debian-cd git repository. The eatmydata, grub and desktop
-issues are already fixed in unstable and testing, and should show up
-on the ISO as soon as the ISO build start working again. Well the
-eatmydata optimization is really just disabled. The proper fix
-require an upload by the eatmydata maintainer applying the patch
-provided in bug <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/702711">#702711</a>.
-The rest have proper fixes in unstable.</p>
-
-<p>I hope this get you going with the installation testing, as we are
-quickly running out of time trying to get our Jessie based
-installation ready before the distribution freeze in a month.</p>
+ <title>I.F. Stone - an inspiration for us all</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_F__Stone___an_inspiration_for_us_all.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I first got to know I.F. Stone when I came across an article by Jon
+Schwarz on The Intercept
+<a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/05/07/new-documentary-legacy-f-stone/">about
+his extraordinary contribution to investigative journalism in
+USA</a>. The article is about a new documentary in two parts
+(<a href="https://vimeo.com/123974841">part one is 12 minutes</a> and
+<a href="https://vimeo.com/123974842">part two is 30 minutes</a>), and
+I found both truly fascinating. It is amazing what he was able to
+find by digging up public sources and government papers. He
+documented lots of government abuse and cover ups, and I find
+<a href="http://www.ifstone.org/weekly.php">his weekly news letters</a>
+inspiring to read even today.</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
+<br>- I. F. Stone
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>His starting point was that reporters should not assume governments
+and corporations are telling the truth, but verify all their claims as
+much as possible. I wonder how many Norwegian reporters can be said
+to follow the principles of I. F. Stone. They are definitely in short
+supply. If you, like me half a year ago, have never heard of him,
+check him out.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Suddenly I am the new upstream of the lsdvd command line tool</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Suddenly_I_am_the_new_upstream_of_the_lsdvd_command_line_tool.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Suddenly_I_am_the_new_upstream_of_the_lsdvd_command_line_tool.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I use the <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/">lsdvd tool</a>
-to handle my fairly large DVD collection. It is a nice command line
-tool to get details about a DVD, like title, tracks, track length,
-etc, in XML, Perl or human readable format. But lsdvd have not seen
-any new development since 2006 and had a few irritating bugs affecting
-its use with some DVDs. Upstream seemed to be dead, and in January I
-sent a small probe asking for a version control repository for the
-project, without any reply. But I use it regularly and would like to
-get <a href="https://packages.qa.debian.org/lsdvd">an updated version
-into Debian</a>. So two weeks ago I tried harder to get in touch with
-the project admin, and after getting a reply from him explaining that
-he was no longer interested in the project, I asked if I could take
-over. And yesterday, I became project admin.</p>
-
-<p>I've been in touch with a Gentoo developer and the Debian
-maintainer interested in joining forces to maintain the upstream
-project, and I hope we can get a new release out fairly quickly,
-collecting the patches spread around on the internet into on place.
-I've added the relevant Debian patches to the freshly created git
-repository, and expect the Gentoo patches to make it too. If you got
-a DVD collection and care about command line tools, check out
-<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/git/ci/master/tree/">the git source</a> and join
-<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/mailman/">the project mailing
-list</a>. :)</p>
+ <title>A French paperback edition of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig is now available</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_French_paperback_edition_of_the_book_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig_is_now_available.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I'm happy to report that
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html">the
+French paperback edition</a> of
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
+project to translate</a> the <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free
+Culture</a> book by Lawrence Lessig is now available for sale on
+Lulu.com. Once I have formally verified my proof reading copy, which
+should be in the mail, the paperback edition should be available in
+book stores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble too.</p>
+
+<p>This French edition, Culture Libre, is the work of the
+<a href="http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex</a> developer Benoît
+Guillon, who created the PO file from the initial translation
+available from
+<a href="http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre">the Wikilivres
+wiki pages</a> and completed and corrected the translation to match
+the original docbook edition my project is using, as well as
+coordinated the proof reading of the final result. I believe the end
+result look great, but I am biased and do not read French. In
+addition to the paperback edition, the book is available in PDF, EPUB
+and Mobi format from the github project page linked to above.</p>
+
+<p>When enabling book store distribution on Lulu.com, I had to nearly
+triple the price to allow the book stores some profit. I also had to
+accept that I will get some revenue when a book is sold via Lulu.com.
+But because of the non-commercial clause in the book license
+(CC-BY-NC), this might be a problem. To bypass the problem I
+discussed how to handle the revenue with the author, and we agreed
+that the revenue for these editions go to the
+<a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons non-profit
+Corporation</a> who handle donations to the Creative Commons project.
+So far they have earned around USD 70 on sales of the
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html">English</a>
+and
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html">Norwegian
+Bokmål</a> editions, according to Lulu.com. They will get the revenue
+for the French edition too. Their revenue is higher if you buy the
+book directly from Lulu.com instead of via a book store, so I
+recommend you buy directly from Lulu.com.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps you would like to get the book published in your language?
+The translation is done using a web based translator service, so the
+technical bar to enter is fairly low. Get in touch if you would like
+to make this happen.</p>
</description>
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- <title>Hva henger under skibrua over E16 på Sollihøgda?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_henger_under_skibrua_over_E16_p__Sollih_gda_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_henger_under_skibrua_over_E16_p__Sollih_gda_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2014 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Rundt omkring i Oslo og Østlandsområdet henger det bokser over
-veiene som jeg har lurt på hva gjør. De har ut fra plassering og
-vinkling sett ut som bokser som sniffer ut et eller annet fra
-forbipasserende trafikk, men det har vært uklart for meg hva det er de
-leser av. Her om dagen tok jeg bilde av en slik boks som henger under
-<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.no/?zoom=19&mlat=59.96396&mlon=10.34443&layers=B00000">ei
-skibru på Sollihøgda</a>:</p>
-
-<p align="center"><img width="60%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2014-09-13-kapsch-sollihogda-crop.jpeg"></p>
-
-<p>Boksen er tydelig merket «Kapsch >>>», logoen til
-<a href="http://www.kapsch.net/">det sveitsiske selskapet Kapsch</a> som
-blant annet lager sensorsystemer for veitrafikk. Men de lager mye
-forskjellig, og jeg kjente ikke igjen boksen på utseendet etter en
-kjapp titt på produktlista til selskapet.</p>
-
-<p>I og med at boksen henger over veien E16, en riksvei vedlikeholdt
-av Statens Vegvesen, så antok jeg at det burde være mulig å bruke
-REST-API-et som gir tilgang til vegvesenets database over veier,
-skilter og annet veirelatert til å finne ut hva i alle dager dette
-kunne være. De har både
-<a href="https://www.vegvesen.no/nvdb/api/dokumentasjon/datakatalog">en
-datakatalog</a> og
-<a href="https://www.vegvesen.no/nvdb/api/dokumentasjon/sok">et
-søk</a>, der en kan søke etter ulike typer oppføringer innen for et
-gitt geografisk område. Jeg laget et enkelt shell-script for å hente
-ut antall av en gitt type innenfor området skibrua dekker, og listet
-opp navnet på typene som ble funnet. Orket ikke slå opp hvordan
-URL-koding av aktuelle strenger kunne gjøres mer generisk, og brukte
-en stygg sed-linje i stedet.</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-#!/bin/sh
-urlmap() {
- sed \
- -e 's/ / /g' -e 's/{/%7B/g' \
- -e 's/}/%7D/g' -e 's/\[/%5B/g' \
- -e 's/\]/%5D/g' -e 's/ /%20/g' \
- -e 's/,/%2C/g' -e 's/\"/%22/g' \
- -e 's/:/%3A/g'
-}
-
-lookup() {
- url="$1"
- curl -s -H 'Accept: application/vnd.vegvesen.nvdb-v1+xml' \
- "https://www.vegvesen.no/nvdb/api$url" | xmllint --format -
-}
-
-for id in $(seq 1 874) ; do
- search="{
- lokasjon: {
- bbox: \"10.34425,59.96386,10.34458,59.96409\",
- srid: \"WGS84\"
- },
- objektTyper: [{
- id: $id, antall: 10
- }]
-}"
-
- query=/sok?kriterie=$(echo $search | urlmap)
- if lookup "$query" |
- grep -q '&lt;totaltAntallReturnert>0&lt;'
- then
- :
- else
- echo $id
- lookup "/datakatalog/objekttyper/$id" |grep '^ &lt;navn>'
- fi
-done
-
-exit 0
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-Aktuelt ID-område 1-874 var riktig i datakatalogen da jeg laget
-scriptet. Det vil endre seg over tid. Skriptet listet så opp
-aktuelle typer i og rundt skibrua:
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-5
- &lt;navn>Rekkverk&lt;/navn>
-14
- &lt;navn>Rekkverksende&lt;/navn>
-47
- &lt;navn>Trafikklomme&lt;/navn>
-49
- &lt;navn>Trafikkøy&lt;/navn>
-60
- &lt;navn>Bru&lt;/navn>
-79
- &lt;navn>Stikkrenne/Kulvert&lt;/navn>
-80
- &lt;navn>Grøft, åpen&lt;/navn>
-86
- &lt;navn>Belysningsstrekning&lt;/navn>
-95
- &lt;navn>Skiltpunkt&lt;/navn>
-96
- &lt;navn>Skiltplate&lt;/navn>
-98
- &lt;navn>Referansestolpe&lt;/navn>
-99
- &lt;navn>Vegoppmerking, langsgående&lt;/navn>
-105
- &lt;navn>Fartsgrense&lt;/navn>
-106
- &lt;navn>Vinterdriftsstrategi&lt;/navn>
-172
- &lt;navn>Trafikkdeler&lt;/navn>
-241
- &lt;navn>Vegdekke&lt;/navn>
-293
- &lt;navn>Breddemåling&lt;/navn>
-301
- &lt;navn>Kantklippareal&lt;/navn>
-318
- &lt;navn>Snø-/isrydding&lt;/navn>
-445
- &lt;navn>Skred&lt;/navn>
-446
- &lt;navn>Dokumentasjon&lt;/navn>
-452
- &lt;navn>Undergang&lt;/navn>
-528
- &lt;navn>Tverrprofil&lt;/navn>
-532
- &lt;navn>Vegreferanse&lt;/navn>
-534
- &lt;navn>Region&lt;/navn>
-535
- &lt;navn>Fylke&lt;/navn>
-536
- &lt;navn>Kommune&lt;/navn>
-538
- &lt;navn>Gate&lt;/navn>
-539
- &lt;navn>Transportlenke&lt;/navn>
-540
- &lt;navn>Trafikkmengde&lt;/navn>
-570
- &lt;navn>Trafikkulykke&lt;/navn>
-571
- &lt;navn>Ulykkesinvolvert enhet&lt;/navn>
-572
- &lt;navn>Ulykkesinvolvert person&lt;/navn>
-579
- &lt;navn>Politidistrikt&lt;/navn>
-583
- &lt;navn>Vegbredde&lt;/navn>
-591
- &lt;navn>Høydebegrensning&lt;/navn>
-592
- &lt;navn>Nedbøyningsmåling&lt;/navn>
-597
- &lt;navn>Støy-luft, Strekningsdata&lt;/navn>
-601
- &lt;navn>Oppgravingsdata&lt;/navn>
-602
- &lt;navn>Oppgravingslag&lt;/navn>
-603
- &lt;navn>PMS-parsell&lt;/navn>
-604
- &lt;navn>Vegnormalstrekning&lt;/navn>
-605
- &lt;navn>Værrelatert strekning&lt;/navn>
-616
- &lt;navn>Feltstrekning&lt;/navn>
-617
- &lt;navn>Adressepunkt&lt;/navn>
-626
- &lt;navn>Friksjonsmåleserie&lt;/navn>
-629
- &lt;navn>Vegdekke, flatelapping&lt;/navn>
-639
- &lt;navn>Kurvatur, horisontalelement&lt;/navn>
-640
- &lt;navn>Kurvatur, vertikalelement&lt;/navn>
-642
- &lt;navn>Kurvatur, vertikalpunkt&lt;/navn>
-643
- &lt;navn>Statistikk, trafikkmengde&lt;/navn>
-647
- &lt;navn>Statistikk, vegbredde&lt;/navn>
-774
- &lt;navn>Nedbøyningsmåleserie&lt;/navn>
-775
- &lt;navn>ATK, influensstrekning&lt;/navn>
-794
- &lt;navn>Systemobjekt&lt;/navn>
-810
- &lt;navn>Vinterdriftsklasse&lt;/navn>
-821
- &lt;navn>Funksjonell vegklasse&lt;/navn>
-825
- &lt;navn>Kurvatur, stigning&lt;/navn>
-838
- &lt;navn>Vegbredde, beregnet&lt;/navn>
-862
- &lt;navn>Reisetidsregistreringspunkt&lt;/navn>
-871
- &lt;navn>Bruksklasse&lt;/navn>
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>Av disse ser ID 775 og 862 mest relevant ut. ID 775 antar jeg
-refererer til fotoboksen som står like ved brua, mens
-«Reisetidsregistreringspunkt» kanskje kan være boksen som henger der.
-Hvordan finner jeg så ut hva dette kan være for noe. En titt på
-<a href="http://labs.vegdata.no/nvdb-datakatalog/862-Reisetidsregistreringspunkt/">datakatalogsiden
-for ID 862/Reisetidsregistreringspunkt</a> viser at det er finnes 53
-slike målere i Norge, og hvor de er plassert, men gir ellers få
-detaljer. Det er plassert 40 på østlandet og 13 i Trondheimsregionen.
-Men siden nevner «AutoPASS», og hvis en slår opp oppføringen på
-Sollihøgda nevner den «Ciber AS» som ID for eksternt system. (Kan det
-være snakk om
-<a href="http://www.proff.no/selskap/ciber-norge-as/oslo/internettdesign-og-programmering/Z0I3KMF4/">Ciber
-Norge AS</a>, et selskap eid av Ciber Europe Bv?) Et nettsøk på
- «Ciber AS autopass» fører meg til en artikkel fra NRK Trøndelag i
- 2013 med tittel
-«<a href="http://www.nrk.no/trondelag/sjekk-dette-hvis-du-vil-unnga-ko-1.11327947">Sjekk
-dette hvis du vil unngå kø</a>». Artikkelen henviser til vegvesenets
-nettside
-<a href="http://www.reisetider.no/reisetid/forside.html">reisetider.no</a>
-som har en
-<a href="http://www.reisetider.no/reisetid/omrade.html?omrade=5">kartside
-for Østlandet</a> som viser at det måles mellom Sandvika og Sollihøgda.
-Det kan dermed se ut til at jeg har funnet ut hva boksene gjør.</p>
-
-<p>Hvis det stemmer, så er dette bokser som leser av AutoPASS-ID-en
-til alle passerende biler med AutoPASS-brikke, og dermed gjør det mulig
-for de som kontrollerer boksene å holde rede på hvor en gitt bil er
-når den passerte et slikt målepunkt. NRK-artikkelen forteller at
-denne informasjonen i dag kun brukes til å koble to
-AutoPASS-brikkepasseringer passeringer sammen for å beregne
-reisetiden, og at bruken er godkjent av Datatilsynet. Det er desverre
-ikke mulig for en sjåfør som passerer under en slik boks å kontrollere
-at AutoPASS-ID-en kun brukes til dette i dag og i fremtiden.</p>
-
-<p>I tillegg til denne type AutoPASS-sniffere vet jeg at det også
-finnes mange automatiske stasjoner som tar betalt pr. passering (aka
-bomstasjoner), og der lagres informasjon om tid, sted og bilnummer i
-10 år. Finnes det andre slike sniffere plassert ut på veiene?</p>
-
-<p>Personlig har jeg valgt å ikke bruke AutoPASS-brikke, for å gjøre
-det vanskeligere og mer kostbart for de som vil invadere privatsfæren
-og holde rede på hvor bilen min beveger seg til enhver tid. Jeg håper
-flere vil gjøre det samme, selv om det gir litt høyere private
-utgifter (dyrere bompassering). Vern om privatsfæren koster i disse
-dager.</p>
-
-<p>Takk til Jan Kristian Jensen i Statens Vegvesen for tips om
-dokumentasjon på vegvesenets REST-API.</p>
+ <title>Lets make a Norwegian Bokmål edition of The Debian Administrator's Handbook</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_edition_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>During this weekends
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Oslo__Takk_for_feilfiksingsfesten.shtml">bug
+squashing party and developer gathering</a>, we decided to do our part
+to make sure there are good books about Debian available in Norwegian
+Bokmål, and got in touch with the people behind the
+<a href="http://debian-handbook.info/">Debian Administrator's Handbook
+project</a> to get started. If you want to help out, please start
+contributing using
+<a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/">the
+hosted weblate project page</a>, and get in touch using
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-handbook-translators">the
+translators mailing list</a>. Please also check out
+<a href="https://debian-handbook.info/contribute/">the instructions for
+contributors</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The book is already available on paper in English, French and
+Japanese, and our goal is to get it available on paper in Norwegian
+Bokmål too. In addition to the paper edition, there are also EPUB and
+Mobi versions available. And there are incomplete translations
+available for many more languages.</p>
</description>
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