<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Cutting_it_short___and_picking_the_right_tool_for_the_job.html">Cutting it short - and picking the right tool for the job</a></div>
- <div class="date">30th April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p><!-- IMG_5869.JPG -->
-<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/panasonic-er-1611.jpeg"></p>
-
-<p>I normally cut my hair short, and my tool of choice has been a
-common hair/beard cutter, bought in a electrical shop here in Norway.
-But the last ones have not really been up to the task. My last
-cutter, some model from Braun, could only cut a few of my hairs at the
-time, and cutting my head took forever. And the one before that did
-not work very well either. We have looked for something better for a
-while, but it was not until I ended up visiting a hairdresser that we
-discovered that there are indeed better tools available. But these
-are not marketed and sold to "regular consumers". The hair saloons
-can get them through their suppliers, but their suppliers only sell
-companies. The models they sell, are very different from the ones
-available from Elkjøp and Lefdal. The main difference is their
-efficiency. It would cut my hair in 5 minutes, instead of the 30-40
-minutes required by my impotent Braun. The hairdresser I visited had
-a Panasonic ER160, which unfortunately is no longer available from the
-producer. But I found it had a successor, the Panasonic ER1611.</p>
-
-<p>The next step was to find somewhere to buy it. This was not
-straight forward. The list of suppliers I got from the hairdresser
-did not want to sell anything to me. But searching for the model on
-the web we found a supplier in Norway willing to sell it to us for
-around NOK 4000,-. This was a bit much. We kept searching and
-finally found a Danish supplier
-<a href="http://nicehair.dk/panasonic-er-1611-professionel-hartrimmer.html">selling
-it for around NOK 1800,-</a>. We ordered one, and it arrived a few
-days ago.</p>
-
-<p>The instructions said it had to charge for 8 hours when we started
-to use it, so we left it charging over night. Normally it will only
-need one hour to charge. The following evening we successfully tested
-it, and I can warmly recommend it to anyone looking for a real hair
-cutter. The ones we have used until now have been hair cutter
-toys.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">New IRC channel for LEGO designers using Debian</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 2nd January 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><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
+situation. :)</p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_leverer_h_ringsuttalelse_om_v3_1_av_statens_referansekatalog.html">NUUGs leverer høringsuttalelse om v3.1 av statens referansekatalog</a></div>
- <div class="date">27th April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>NUUG-styremedlem Hans-Petter Fjeld
-<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110394259537201279374/posts/AGzRmAuFdW1">meldte
-nettopp</a> at han har sendt inn <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>s
-høringsuttalelse angående Difi sin standardkatalog v3.1. Jeg er veldig
-glad for at så mange bidro og sikret at vår stemme blir hørt i denne
-høringen. Anbefaler alle å lese våre
-<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201204-standardkatalog-v3.1">to
-sider med innspill</a>.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2013_01_01.html">Lenker for 2013-01-01</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 1st January 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><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>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bankid">bankid</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html">HTC One X - Your video? What do you mean?</a></div>
- <div class="date">26th April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>In <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece">an
-article today</a> published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer
-<a href="http://www.urke.com/eirik/">Eirik Helland Urke</a> reports
-that the video editor application included with
-<a href="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs">HTC One
-X</a> have some quite surprising terms of use. The article is mostly
-based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:
-
-<p><blockquote>
-"<a href="http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280">Drøy
-brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv
-kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat.</a>"
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>I quickly translated it to this English message:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-"Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos
-commercially. Although I can ONLY use them privately."
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but
-suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">discovered
-with my Canon IXUS 130</a>. The HTC One X specification specifies that
-the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for
-video. AMR is
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues">Adaptive
-Multi-Rate audio codec</a> with patents which according to the
-Wikipedia article require an license agreement with
-<a href="http://www.voiceage.com/">VoiceAge</a>. MP4 is
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing">MPEG4 with
-H.264</a>, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement
-with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com/">MPEG-LA</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I know why I prefer
-<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and open
-standards</a> also for video.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Christmas_present_for_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu.html">A Christmas present for Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a></div>
+ <div class="date">28th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><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 15 000,-, 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>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html">Holder de ord og NUUG lanserer testtjeneste med stortingsinformasjon</a></div>
- <div class="date">22nd April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_har_mine_representanter_stemt_i_Storinget_.html">januar
-i fjor</a> startet vi i NUUG arbeid med å gjøre informasjon om hvem
-som har stemt hva på <a href="http://www.stortinget.no/">Stortinget</a>
-enklere tilgjengelig. I løpet av få måneder fant vi sammen med
-organisasjonen <a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/">Holder de ord</a>
-som arbeidet mot et lignende mål.</p>
-
-<p>Siden den gang har vi fått tak i maskinelt lesbart informasjon om
-hvem som stemte hva mellom 1990 og våren 2010, og tilgang til
-stortingets nye datatjeneste som har informasjon fra høsten 2011 til i
-dag. Det gjenstår litt arbeid med det første datasettet, men
-datasettet fra høsten 2011 er klart til bruk. Begge datasettene er
-tilgjengelig <a href="https://gitorious.org/nuug/folketingparser">via
-git</a>.</p>
-
-<p>På
-<a href="http://www.goopen.no/holder-de-ord-datadrevet-oppfolging-av-politiske-lofter/">Go Open</a> i morgen lanserer
-NUUG sammen med Holder de ord <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/">en
-test-tjeneste</a> som viser hva som er og blir behandlet på Stortinget og
-hvem som har stemt hva siden oktober i fjor. Du får herved mulighet
-til å ta en sniktitt.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html">How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze</a></div>
+ <div class="date">25th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><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>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html">RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</a></div>
- <div class="date">19th April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Here in Norway, the
-<a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad.html?id=339"> Ministry of
-Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs</a> is behind
-a <a href="http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder">directory of
-standards</a> that are recommended or mandatory for use by the
-government. When the directory was created, the people behind it made
-an effort to ensure that everyone would be able to implement the
-standards and compete on equal terms to supply software and solutions
-to the government. Free software and non-free software could compete
-on the same level.</p>
-
-<p>But recently, some standards with RAND
-(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing">Reasonable
-And Non-Discriminatory</a>) terms have made their way into the
-directory. And while this might not sound too bad, the fact is that
-standard specifications with RAND terms often block free software from
-implementing them. The reasonable part of RAND mean that the cost per
-user/unit is low,and the non-discriminatory part mean that everyone
-willing to pay will get a license. Both sound great in theory. In
-practice, to get such license one need to be able to count users, and
-be able to pay a small amount of money per unit or user. By
-definition, users of free software do not need to register their use.
-So counting users or units is not possible for free software projects.
-And given that people will use the software without handing any money
-to the author, it is not really economically possible for a free
-software author to pay a small amount of money to license the rights
-to implement a standard when the income available is zero. The result
-in these situations is that free software are locked out from
-implementing standards with RAND terms.</p>
-
-<p>Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a
-standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is
-how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory. Because free
-software developers are working in a global market, it does not really
-help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable
-in Norway. The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here.
-I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more
-attention to these issues in the future.</p>
-
-<p>You can find more on the issues with RAND, FRAND and RAND-Z terms
-from Simon Phipps
-(<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/11/rand-not-so-reasonable/">RAND:
-Not So Reasonable?</a>).</p>
-
-<p>Update 2012-04-21: Just came across a
-<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/of-microsoft-netscape-patents-and-open-standards/index.htm">blog
-post from Glyn Moody</a> over at Computer World UK warning about the
-same issue, and urging people to speak out to the UK government. I
-can only urge Norwegian users to do the same for
-<a href="http://www.standard.difi.no/hoyring/hoyring-om-nye-anbefalte-it-standarder">the
-hearing taking place at the moment</a> (respond before 2012-04-27).
-It proposes to require video conferencing standards including
-specifications with RAND terms.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_word_on_bitcoin_support_in_Debian.html">A word on bitcoin support in Debian</a></div>
+ <div class="date">21st December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><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>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html">Forskning: "GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker"</a></div>
- <div class="date">15th April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
-<a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309">en
-hovedfagsoppgave</a> ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
-av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer. Jeg ble fascinert
-over det som presenteres der. Her er sammendraget:</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
-<p>Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
-over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
-økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
-for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
-fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
-økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
-programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.</p>
-
-<p>Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
-programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
-programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
-disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
-manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
-er:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?</li>
-<li>Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? </li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
-modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
-kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
-frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
-dialog med informantene.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
-ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
-for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
-fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
-delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
-operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
-OpenOffice.org.</p>
-
-<p>Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
-av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
-begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
-vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
-økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
-stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
-omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
-til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
-eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
-inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
-formater.</p>
-
-<p>Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
-laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
-OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
-skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
-symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
-Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
-mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
-friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
-slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».</p>
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
-komplett oppgave tilgjengelig. På tide å holde et øye med
-<a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux">Skolelinux-søket</a>
-til DUO...</p>
-
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Piratpartiet_p__opphavs_retrett_.html">Piratpartiet på opphavs-retrett?</a></div>
+ <div class="date">19th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><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>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html">Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</a></div>
- <div class="date">15th April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Behind <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
-Skolelinux</a> there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
-setting together all the pieces. This time I present to you Andreas
-Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
-years. He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
-up in the recently released
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
-Edu Squeeze</a> version.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany. After
-studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
-Quantum Optics. After that I worked some years in an optics company.
-Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
-teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school. I teach math, physics,
-information technology and science/technology.</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
-project because of my interest in education and Debian. Within the
-qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
-contributing.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
-out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
-Debian Project!</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
-downside, too. In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
-setup, if you need or want that. Further more, it is not easily
-possible to upgrade the system to a new release. It takes much too
-long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
-because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
-rather small and often busy elsewhere.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN">Debian LAN</a>
-project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
-on all my machines. For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
-mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing. At school I
-have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p>One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
-Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
-politicians, this works out great for the "market-leader". The school
-administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
-Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats. Even
-free browsers do not work for the school administration. Publishers
-of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.</p>
-
-<p>To change this, political work is very important. Parts of the
-political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
-However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to 'free'
-the system. There is currently some discussion about "Open Data" and
-"Free/Open Standards". I am not sure if all the involved parties have
-a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
-fraction takes them seriously. However it might slowly make free
-software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ledger___double_entry_accounting_using_text_based_storage_format.html">Ledger - double-entry accounting using text based storage format</a></div>
+ <div class="date">18th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><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>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html">Jeg skal på konferansen Go Open 2012</a></div>
- <div class="date">13th April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Jeg har tenkt meg på konferansen <a href="http://www.goopen.no/">Go
-Open 2012</a> i Oslo 23. april.
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Medlemsforeningen NUUG</a> deler ut
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/prisen/">prisen for fremme av fri
-programvare i Norge</a> der i år. Kommer du?</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/61_kommuner_lenker_n__til_FiksGataMi_fra_sine_nettsider.html">61 kommuner lenker nå til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider</a></div>
+ <div class="date">11th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><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>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html">Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 8th April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
-like <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>,
-and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
-contributor to the
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
-Edu Squeeze release manual</a>.
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I'm a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
-occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I'm neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user! The only
-reason my name's in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
-around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
-they'd like a native English speaker to proofread... So I did a sweep
-through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
-"localisation".</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>These questions are too hard for me - I don't use it! In fact I
-had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I'd got out of the
-education system.</p>
-
-<p>I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
-as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
-everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
-money on the latest hardware.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I've been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
-software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
-words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Well, I don't know. I suppose I'd be inclined to try reasoning
-with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
-you would hardly need a strategy.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Scripting_the_Cerebrum_bofhd_user_administration_system_using_XML_RPC.html">Scripting the Cerebrum/bofhd user administration system using XML-RPC</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 6th December 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><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>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin</a>.
</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
<div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html">Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 6th April 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>Recently I have spent time with
-<a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a> on speeding
-up a <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
-Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the
-process I discovered something very surprising. The reason the KDE
-menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly
-due to the way KDE find application icons. I discovered that showing
-the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be
-passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server. Most of these were
-
-NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response. Because the
-ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20
-ms, the menus would be very slow. Looking at the strace of kicker in
-Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that
-the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for
-non-existing files. KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find
-one icon file. In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required
-around 230 access(2) calls.</p>
-
-<p>The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon
-directories, and the list of possible directories is large. In
-(almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg
-and .xpm. The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS
-mounted. Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS
-requests. I am not the first one to discover this. I found a
-<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416">KDE bug report
-from 2009</a> about this problem, and it is still unsolved.</p>
-
-<p>My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package
-kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files
-used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths
-for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the
-icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/. Finally, I add symlinks to
-these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look
-for them. This cut down the number of file accesses required to find
-one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu
-almost instantaneous. I'm not quite sure where to make the package
-publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.</p>
-
-<p>The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu
-and icon handling, but also the login process. Not quite sure how to
-speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and
-that is not really an option at the moment.</p>
-
-<p>If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
-(at) lists.debian.org.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2012_11_28.html">Lenker for 2012-11-28</a></div>
+ <div class="date">28th November 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Mye interessant har skjedd de siste ukene. Her er noen dokumenter
+jeg har hatt glede av å lese.</p>
+
+<p><ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.digi.no/906843/kan-du-hjelpe-piratpartiet">-
+Kan du hjelpe Piratpartiet?</a> - Piratpartiet mangler 600
+borgersignaturer for å kunne stille til stortingsvalg neste år. Jeg
+har samlet 20 signaturer. Har du gjort ditt?</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Real_Names%22_policy%3F">Who
+is harmed by a "Real Names" policy?</a> - en fin oversikt over hvem
+som blir skadelidende når nett-tjenester og aviser innfører krav om
+"ekte navn" for å delta.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Kan-vi-stole-pa-alle-i-politiet-7056453.html">Kan
+vi stole på alle i politiet?</a> - Advokat Sigurd J. Klomsæt skriver
+litt om hvor merkelig det er å bli anklaget for å ha lekket
+informasjon fra et politi som åpenbart lekker selv.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.digi.no/906576/opphavsretten-maa-vekk">-
+Opphavsretten må vekk</a> - En av stifterne til
+<a href="http://www.eff.org/">EFF</a> besøkte Oslo i forrige uke, og
+ble i den forbindelsen intervjuet av Digi.
+
+<li><a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article261391.ece">Sparer
+100 millioner kroner med Linux</a> - München har beregnet hvor mye de
+har spart på sin overgang til Linux.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article259803.ece">Oslo
+Børs kjøres nå på Linux</a> - Børsen gikk nylig over fra .NET-basert
+løsning til Linux-basert løsning, for å få et system med akseptabel
+kvalitet.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article261219.ece">It-milliardær
+vil bygge Mars-koloni</a> - inspirerende for oss som savner en
+selvforsynt koloni på Mars.</li>
+
+</ul></p>
</div>
<div class="tags">
- Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
</div>
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